OM DENNE EPISODE
Season 5, Episode 1 (Episode 945)
After 944 episodes and six years of daily content, Julie stepped away from the podcast for a sabbatical. In this reunion episode, she shares what that season of rest actually revealed, why doing and being are not the same thing, and what's ahead for Season 5, including how you can vote on the topics that matter most to you.
What's the difference between a human being and a human doing?
Being human means your worth isn't based on your output. It's based on who you're showing up as, not what you're producing. Doing is still allowed, it's just not what proves you belong.
Julie unpacks this distinction through her own family of origin, where performance and productivity were the measure of worth, and connects it to why stepping away from a daily podcast schedule triggered an identity crisis before it revealed anything else. She uses two picture-clear metaphors, a dahlia seed that can't grow into an oak tree, and a chocolate cake that can't happen if you bake it with chili powder instead of cocoa, to show why what's rooted at the identity level always determines what grows above it.
Is there really a mental health crisis?
Julie doesn't answer this one in the abstract. She shares that 75% of her household has been navigating an ADHD journey this past year, including her son, and that recalibrating 20 to 30 year old assumptions about what ADHD actually is has become one of the most important things she's done recently, personally and as a parent. She's inviting her son onto the podcast to talk about ADHD and teenagers, and bringing Steve back on to talk about what it's like for adults to get diagnosed later in life.
Inside this episode
- Why the sabbatical felt "incredibly foreign," and the identity loss Julie faced the first Monday she didn't sit down to create
- What actually happens when a high achiever's capacity opens up, and the temptation to fill it right back up with something else
- Leaving the 4AM club and what that release revealed about rigor, restriction, and rest
- The root-level work: how success amplifies whatever is already at the identity level, for better or worse
- Julie's own recalibration around alcohol, and how healing at the identity level freed her from needing to prove she belonged
- Doing vs. being, and why this distinction lands differently depending on generation, especially for fellow Gen Xers
- A look at the 15 topics Julie is considering for Season 5, and an invitation to vote on the ones you want covered
- Why Julie joined Rotary this summer, and what it revealed about the kind of community she'd been missing
- The launch of Julie's new community, a lower-commitment space for people between the cohort and 1:1 coaching
- What's ahead: new episodes every Wednesday, with occasional bonus episodes featuring Steve, Julie's son, or her daughter
Vote on Season 5 topics
Julie's opening Season 5 up to you. Topics on the table include AI and your career, breaking generational patterns, life transitions, leadership, the high-performance life, money mindset, success, marriage, faith and spirituality, alcohol and addiction, and mental health and ADHD.
CLICK HERE to take 90 seconds to vote for your top three to five topics.
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