Your Story is Your Portal

In this powerful conversation, Julie Ann and guest co-creator Megan announce their new collaborative book project: The A to Z of Healing—a collection of real-life stories from people who chose a different path with their health. Megan brings 20 years of experience as a nurse inside the Western medical system, and shares how her own arthritis diagnosis during the pandemic became a turning point. Fa...

In this solo episode of Your Story is Your Portal , Julie Ann explores the power and purpose behind collaborative books—projects where multiple authors unite around a shared theme to create a single, powerful collection of human experience. From The Women of Worth and Family Tree series in Canada to the upcoming Sayulita Soul Writers projects in Mexico, Julie Ann shares inspiring examples of how t...

In this solo episode, Julie Ann invites you on a journey of soul mapping —a transformative process she has developed over 15 years of guiding authors and visionaries to uncover the deeper meaning behind their life stories. Through reflective storytelling and personal examples from her seven “lifetimes” and travels around the world, Julie Ann explores how our environments, beliefs, and life experie...

This episode is a beautiful reminder that your intuition is not a whisper to ignore—it’s your soul’s navigation system. Cheryl Brewster joins Julie Ann to explore what it really means to live intuitively, release burnout, and open to the synchronicities that guide us toward self-mastery and joy. What You’ll Hear: The ABCs of intuition—awareness, breathing, and connecting to the heart Why trusting...

This conversation is a wake-up call for women navigating midlife changes who refuse to be told “you’re just getting old.” Diana shares practical, body-led tools—from movement to daily habits—that help you reconnect with yourself, ease symptoms, and feel powerful again. What You’ll Hear: Why reconnecting to your body’s signals is the fastest path to energy, clarity, and confidence Simple movement p...

In this solo episode, Julie Ann unpacks the industry’s obsession with the “New York Times Bestseller” label and invites authors to re-center on purpose, impact, and discoverability. She explains how bestseller status became an ego-driven proxy for success, contrasts that with a service-driven definition of success, and shares practical guidance on titling, subtitling, and launching so your book is...

When life feels “too much,” is it chaos—or your unconscious trying to get your attention? In this intimate solo episode, Julie Ann shares a raw, real-time season of upheaval—relationship rupture, a retreat venue destroyed by a storm, tech meltdowns—and the wild synchronicity that placed her face-to-face with Daniel at the exact moment she needed support. Using the “Matrix” metaphor, she explores h...

In this heartfelt conversation, Julie Ann sits down with Jennifer Nagel, counsellor, international facilitator, and host of  Magic in the Muck: A Soul’s Compass for Change . Together they explore how life’s unexpected storms — both literal and metaphorical — can dismantle carefully laid plans and, at the same time, open portals to deeper wisdom, resilience, and new beginnings. From a tropical...

What if your diagnosis wasn’t the end of your story, but the beginning of a new one? In this solo episode, Julie Ann reveals how she refused a life-altering surgery, chose a different path of healing, and discovered the power we each hold to rewrite our story. What You’ll Hear: How a devastating spinal diagnosis became a turning point, not a life sentence The exact moment Julie Ann decided to chan...

In this soul-stirring episode, Julie Ann sits down with Megan, a seasoned ICU nurse turned transformational storyteller, to explore her powerful journey from medical burnout to reclaiming her voice through story. After 20 years in a system that no longer aligned with her integrity, Megan asked the question that changed everything: "What else is there?" What unfolded was a radical healing journey,...

In this episode of Your Story is Your Portal , Julie Ann reflects on the power of stillness, environment, and story as pathways to discovering your soul’s true purpose. Sharing stories of women on the move, lessons from nature in Mexico, and her own experiences of grief and healing, she explores why creating quiet time is not a luxury but a necessity. This is an invitation to stop running, step aw...

In this powerful solo episode of Your Story is Your Portal , Julie Ann explores the mystery and paradox of manifesting. Do we need absolute clarity to bring our dreams to life—or is the real magic in surrendering to infinite possibilities? Julie Ann shares her deeply personal journey of manifesting a retreat center in Puerto Vallarta—born from grief, clarity, and surrender—and contrasts it with th...

In this heartfelt episode of Your Story is Your Portal , Julie Ann welcomes back Jennifer Nagel—therapist, author, and co-creator of the Soul Compass Retreats. Together, they explore how our life stories are not random, but instead guiding compasses pointing us toward soul alignment and purpose. Jennifer shares her personal journey of navigating her husband’s cancer diagnosis, her own MS diagnosis...

What happens when you step outside of fear — and into the unknown? In this powerful and soul-stirring episode, Julie Ann is joined by Ellen Whiteside, a courageous storyteller whose journey across Europe — mostly by hitchhiking — became an unexpected path to healing, expansion, and personal sovereignty. Ellen shares how her decision to travel alone as a woman, accepting rides from strangers and na...

We launch our first interview podcast with the concept that shared stories among like-minded women evolve into friendships rooted in curiosity and shared values. In this interview with Jennifer Nagel we trace a friendship that started with a writing retreat seven years ago and a best selling book, to a collaboration of two anthology books and now the evolution of co-creating transformational Soul...

In this heartfelt solo episode, Julie Ann peels back the layers on the biggest misconception in the publishing world: the idea that a book is a product. With vulnerability and wisdom, she shares her own journey — from writing letters to her grandmother while sailing around the world, to discovering that those very stories held the key to her soul purpose. Along the way, she reveals how many aspiri...

In this powerful solo episode, Julie Ann reveals the sacred evolution of her publishing company — from product-based to purpose-aligned. She explores how your story is far more than a series of life events — it’s a portal to your soul contract. For anyone standing at the edge of clarity — Julie Ann helps you to understand that a book is not just a project..it a path. What You’ll Hear: Books are no...

In this deeply vulnerable kickoff episode, Julie shares her own awakening — from a life built on status and external expectations to a journey of sacred disruption, radical self-discovery, and spiritual truth. What does it mean to be a conscious rebel? It's not about shouting the loudest, but listening deeply to your soul’s whispers, challenging inherited beliefs, and choosing a life rooted in lov...

Welcome to Your Story Is Your Portal — where conversations open the doorway to explore your own story as a portal to your true soul purpose. Your host is Julie Ann, founder of Influence Publishing, The House of Story Medicine. In each episode, You’ll meet authors, visionaries, and soul-led leaders as Julie Ann reveals the message from their soul. She is a sacred listener and story midwife uncoveri...