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13: How to embrace midlife changes at work, at home, and beyond

In this special episode of "Her Leading Story," host Julie Artis shares an engaging conversation from her appearance on the "Pause to Go" podcast. Joined by Bree Luck, they delve into a range of topics relevant to women in midlife, including overcoming the fear of change, the power of mindset, and strategies for managing anxiety. 
Julie’s Links: 
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Julie’s Career Catalyst website  
 
SCHEDULE A FREE CALL WITH JULIE:  Voice Your Value Call  - Grab a spot on my calendar! 
 
FREE TOOLS 
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below. 
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change? 
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members. 
 
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you! 
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com 
 
 
Connect with Bree Luck  
IG: https://www.instagram.com/awkwardsagemedia/ 
Website: awkwardsage.com 
 
Production Credits: Produced by Awkward Sage Media 
 
 
 
 
Timestamps & Topics Discussed: 
[00:00:00] Introduction: Julie Artis introduces the episode and the context of the interview. 
[00:00:36] Special Replay: Announcement of replaying the interview from "Pause to Go" podcast. 
[00:01:05] Overcoming Fear of Change: Discussion on the challenges and strategies. 
[00:01:30] Mindset and Anxiety: Exploration of mindset in professional and personal life. 
[00:02:04] Julie's Trip to France: Personal anecdotes and reflections on language skills and travel. 
[00:03:10] Family and Parenting: Insights into parenting teens and personal growth. 
[00:04:36] Midlife and Career Transitions: Julie discusses the shifts in career and personal life during midlife. 
[00:07:09] Menopause and Mental Health: Conversation about the interplay of menopause and mental health challenges. 
[00:10:18] Career Changes and Personal Development: Strategies for navigating career changes. 
[00:13:09] Healthcare and Understanding the Body: Discussing the complexity of healthcare in relation to women's health. 
[00:16:18] Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs: Julie talks about overcoming social and personal barriers. 
[00:19:02] Parenting and Imperfection: Sharing a personal story about parenting challenges. 
[00:22:17] Starting a Coaching Business: Julie's journey into starting her coaching practice. 
[00:25:00] Advice for Midlife Career Changes: Practical advice for women considering a career shift. 
[00:30:22] Tools and Techniques for Change: Julie shares specific tools for managing change and anxiety. 
[00:35:23] Finding Love in Midlife: Julie shares her personal experience of finding love and support in midlife. 
[00:37:28] Key Takeaways: Recap of the main points discussed in the episode. 
[00:38:40] Closing Remarks: Information on how to connect with Julie and Bree for coaching and further discussion. 
 
Key Quotes: 
"It's never too late to make a change." – Julie Artis 
"We're socialized to worry about how we are perceived." – Bree Luck 
"Dating in midlife is not unlike starting a business." – Julie Artis 
Next Episode Teaser: 
Tune in next week for a solo episode about Understanding When and Why to Hire a Career Coach 
 
Disclaimer: This episode contains personal experiences and should not be taken as professional advice. Always consult with a professional for specific concerns. 
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12: Live Coaching Session! What You Need To Know To Navigate The Transition To Leadership

In this episode of Her Leading Story, host Julie Artis takes you behind-the-scenes on a coaching call with one of her clients who is starting a new job - and will be managing people for the very first time.  The conversation revolves around building confidence, understanding team dynamics, and preparing for success beginning on the first day.
Julie and her client discuss a variety of topics, including: -Being curious and asking questions beginning on the very first day. 
-How to show up with confidence and seriousness.
-Leading a team with different motivations and personalities
-Managing a calendar as a manager - especially leaving time for interruptions.
CONNECT WITH JULIE:
Julie’s Instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
SCHEDULE A FREE CALL WITH JULIE:Voice Your Value Call  - Grab a spot on my calendar!
FREE TOOLS
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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11: Creating Self-trust and Following your Passion with Elizabeth Duvivier

Julie Artis welcomes Elizabeth Duvivier, founder of Squam Art Workshops. They discuss the founding of Squam, how it has evolved, and how Elizabeth - somewhat surprisingly - found herself leading creative retreats and a large community of like-minded souls.  
In this interview, you’ll hear about:
The origins of Squam Art Workshops, a creative retreat that began as a one-time event but grew into a global community.
Elizabeth and Julie discuss major life changes, including career shifts and divorce, emphasizing the importance of listening to one's inner voice.
Following your intuition and making decisions that resonate deeply - in life and work - even if they go against conventional wisdom.
How Squam adapted during the pandemic, creating an online community to maintain connections and support.
Elizabeth’s bio:
Elizabeth Duvivier is the author of Stories For My Sister. She is a writer, painter, teacher, dog nut, meadow walker, and someone who has been known to walk out into the garden and forget she has left oatmeal cooking on the stove (read:  oatmeal scorcher).
She loves long lazy hours to write (for days and days), wild pagan dinner parties, the smell of grated ginger, and wandering into the mystic, among other things.
In 2008, she founded Squam Art Workshops and has hosted more than 37 art retreats for the specific purpose of nurturing our hearts with creative play in a beautiful, natural setting.
Links:
SQUAM 2024 Retreats
SQM Community
SQUAM Instagram
Elizabeth’s website
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
SCHEDULE A FREE CALL WITH JULIE:Voice Your Value Call  - Grab a spot on my calendar!
FREE TOOLS
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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Empower and Lead: Unveiling the New Chapter of Her Leading Story

Get ready to be inspired and empowered by the next season of 'Her Leading Story,' hosted by Julie Artis. 
In 2024, we delve deeper into the lives of extraordinary women leaders, from creative visionaires to courageous public servants. Each episode showcases struggles, triumphs, and lessons that redefine leadership.
Plus, get ready for an exciting new feature – career coaching sessions offering practical, actionable advice.
Whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, considering a career pivot, or seeking work/life balance, 'Her Leading Story' will help you consider ways to create a life and career that right for YOU.
Subscribe today and join our community of inspiring women!
Stay Connected with Me and Our Community:
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Julie Artis Coaching Website
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Julie Artis on LinkedIn
Julie Artis on FB
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10: Intuition and Career Choices with Rosanne McTyre

In this episode of Her Leading Story, I interview Rosanne, McTyre, PhD about her “zig-zag” career in epidemiology. Rosanne currently owns her own business that combines her skills in science and communication with her vast network of scientists and doctors. Her path to entrepreneurship was filled with different experiences and opportunities in academia, the federal government, hospitals, and corporations…. and we dig into it all in this interview.
What we talk about…..
Rosanne’s current business and what she loves about it
How Rosanne wanted to major in studio arts (to her parents' dismay) but ended up falling in love with biology and epidemiology
The work-family challenges Rosanne faced as she navigated earning an MA and a PhD while starting a family.
Rosanne’s variety of work experiences, and how she used those experiences to learn what she enjoyed doing…. and what she didn’t
The importance of relying on intuition and knowing what you want when making career and life decisions
How critical Rosanne’s extensive network has been to both her career opportunities as well as staring her own business.
Why Rosanne loves mentoring young scientists about their work.
Learning never stops! At 71, Rosanne just earned her certificate in Spanish - English interpretation and is starting to volunteer at a health clinic in her area.
About Rosanne
Rosanne McTyre is a card-carrying epidemiologist. She is President of Semafore Scientific Strategies LLC, a scientific consulting firm located in Washington, DC. Currently she offers unique and valued expertise identifying and retaining experts on the plaintiff side for litigation involving complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases, and environmental litigation.
You can find Rosanne on LinkedIn and Instagram
She especially would love to hear from any early-career scientists looking for mentoring!
Free resources!
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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09: How to Cope with Anxiety

In this solo episode of Her Leading Story, I talk very personally about emotions at work, and specifically my own experience with anxiety and how I’ve been coping with these feelings.
What I talk about…..
The “Sunday Scaries” and how to prevent them
How we should be talking more about our emotions and especially so at work
I put on my “sociologist hat” for a couple of minutes and explain the false dichotomy between emotions/ home and logic/ work.
How.feeling fearful at this particular moment is TOTALLY NORMAL and why.
I share a bit about my personal experience of anxiety personally and at work
I share some about the habits, tools, and strategies I’m personally using to balance my own nervous system.
Reach out to a mental health professional if at all possible when you feel overwhelmed and out of sorts.
UPCOMING EVENTS!
I’m delivering a live (virtual) workshop in Monday, March 27 about Confident Public Speaking (and how to block that anxiety) that I would LOVE for you to join. Learn more HERE
FREE RESOURCES
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to pivot?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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08: Unconditional Self Worth with Dr. Adia Gooden

In this episode of Her Leading Story, I interview Dr. Adia Gooden about her journey from grad school in psychology to owning her own coaching and speaking business, and her passion for supporting women to believe in their unconditional worth.
What we talk about…..
Adia’s experience in her PhD program, and how the goals she set for herself led to a ton of unnecessary stress (and, as she reflects, these goals were probably an attempt at the time to prove her self-worth).
How Adia’s “dream job” turned out to be work she really disliked doing, and what she learned from that experience
How Adia discovered her love of public speaking and how she got started - her TedX talk from 2019 has over 1 million views!
Adia’s view on the difference between therapy and coaching
Adia’s forthcoming book, Promoting Black Women’s Mental Health.
Why coaching women about unconditional self-worth is so important to her, her own journey with feeling worthy, and how essential it has been in her life and work.
Adia had a baby last year, and talks about how she’s balanced motherhood and entrepreneurship.
About Adia
Adia Gooden, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist; she received her BA in Psychology from Stanford University and her PhD in Clinical Community Psychology from DePaul University. Dr. Adia served as a Staff Psychologist and the Coordinator for Multicultural Outreach and Support for the Student Counseling Service at The University of Chicago and the Director of the Clinic and Community Programs at The Family Institute at Northwestern before starting her own business. Dr. Adia is a sought-after, dynamic speaker who gives talks and workshops on unconditional self-worth, imposter syndrome, and Black women and mental health. Dr. Adia co-authored a forthcoming book entitled Promoting Black Women’s Mental Health, published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Adia gave a TEDx talk on “Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth” which has over 1 million views. Dr. Adia hosts the Unconditionally Worthy podcast and coaches high achieving professional women to embrace their unconditional self-worth.
You can find Dr. Adia on LinkedIn , Facebook, and Instagram
Check out Adia’s free PDF on understanding and overcoming low self-worth and imposter syndrome
Adia’s website
Free resources!
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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07: Using Neuroscience to Get Unstuck

In this solo episode of Her Leading Story, I talk about the ways I'm learning to coach the unconscious mind - and tools that I give my clients so that they can practice self-directed neuro-plasticity if they want to make a change.
What I talk about…..
How awareness and clarity are KEY, but not always enough to motivate us into action!
Human emotions and how our brain is constantly trying to keep us safe.
Tools that can serve as “pattern interrupts” when you feel yourself activated and going down a habituated path of avoidance, fear, or anxiety.
Other methods I’m learning about how to notice and move through these feelings rather than stuffing them down.
How I will approach coaching women on career and leadership differently moving forward.
LINK to the coaching certification I’m currently completing, in case you are curious :).
Free resources!
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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06: Building High Performing Teams with Laura Spining

In this episode of Her Leading Story, I interview my cousin, Laura Spining, about her career that starts in the office of then Senator Al Gore and includes working on the 1992 Presidential campaign, at a telecommunications trade association, and in the private sector. After taking a couple years off when her kids were little, she joined the Department of Commerce and is now the Deputy Associate Administrator of the National Telecommunications Information Agency.
What we talk about…..
Laura’s commitment to service and the responsibility she feels as a steward of taxpayer money.
Her experience in developing a high performing team, especially how it’s different to do so in a federal agency as compared to the private sector
Laura’s favorite book, that she reads every year, is How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen.
The challenges of hybrid work schedules.
The importance of kindness (versus nice-ness) in the workplace and how that’s related to having difficult conversations with colleagues.
What Laura learned from different mentors throughout her career.
Our grandparents and what we learned from them about life and leadership.
About Laura
Laura Spining serves as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Broadband programs at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Spining leads efforts to engage Tribal leaders, federal agencies, state leaders, non-profits, and other organizations committed to high-speed, affordable, and reliable Internet service for all Americans. Prior to joining NTIA, Ms. Spining served as the Executive Director for the Internet Innovation Alliance, a non-profit promoting digital equity. Ms. Spining has extensive industry experience working at Level 3 Communications for 10 years in network deployment and business development. She is a committed public servant who hopes to change public perception of civil service employees.
You can find Laura on LinkedIn
Free resources!
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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05: Figuring Out What You Want

In this solo episode of Her Leading Story, I share more about my own career path, and especially how I have attempted to move into positions that play to my strengths AND light me up.
What I talk about…..
How I felt socialized to “climb the ladder”…. And then realized along the way that I didn’t really know what I wanted or enjoyed doing.
The “decades” exercise - a way to look back on your life, reflect on your interests, and notice themes
The “energy and flow” exercise - notice what you are doing currently and what makes you feel alive (and vice versa - what drags you down).
Free resources!
Yep, free. Julie’s created a couple of free tools to help as you navigate your own leading role. Click the links below.
Quiz: Is it time to make a career change?
Feedback Scripts for Team Leaders - Five scripts that will help you deliver feedback that is supportive, motivating, AND will improve the performance and productivity of your team members.
Julie’s Links:
Julie’s instagram
Julie’s LinkedIn
Feedback or questions? I’d love to hear from you!
Email: julie@julieartiscoaching.com
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