welcome to daring to dream our guest today is julie because mary you julie is me to me your shift in her life when simply and she's gone from a business background to following her heart and helping others do the same working as an intuitive consultant julie you're such an inspiration and in following your dreams and making them happen so welcome and thank you for sharing with us today thank you so glad to be here yeah so before we can launch and to what you're doing now you know what your dream is if you could give us a little bit of your background and let people know kind of where you came from and the choices that you know you've made up until this point ok well i do have a business background so i have a business degree and following my business degree i went to work in the business world in sales management and marketing and i did some traveling in addition to eleven so to make a long story short i spent two years studying health sciences and why what led you to do that i have always been into athletics and wellness because since a young age  love physical activity and feeling good and so i thought i want to keep my doors open and thought maybe i would eventually go into sports medicine or thought of therapy or somehow so i wasn't really sure i was just keeping my doors over yeah stability yeah and so then what led you to pursue the business degree i guess of various things maybe some outside influence some uncertainty you know that it's practical that would help me great to have that you know business activity when you're going on there going out in the world so i just felt like the right thing at the moment though i didn't feel my heart was in it totally it just felt like that why not i did the same thing i had a dream of being in fashion merchandising and i allowed a boyfriend and my family at the time to convince me to switch to business it's much more practical you have any problems getting a job a great business degree that practical i know exactly exactly so you know and it did serve me most certainly you know i and i wouldn't be here today if i didn't go on the journey that i went on but or maybe i would have i don't know but you know  it served its purpose ok so you're working in sales management and marketing and what's what's happening are you beginning to feel like i'm freaking out that's ok you know if there was a nice sequence of events you know i was working for some companies in sales and then i ended up working for a company who's outside of montreal they're in another province there and outside of toronto and ontario  and i started working for them and so my i worked out of my home office i was the satellite office for montreal and i was the monorail sales manager for what's called the national women's show it's the largest consumer show for women in canada first year and i saw thought to myself ok now what that really is what i really want to be doing yeah i met some great people and you know i like to have change because i can get bored easily or so i thought so eventually after the second year i realized i need to make some changes here you know in the meantime i was able to pay for my studies in the intuitive world in life coaching so if it serves so many purposes you started at some point you started pursuing mag zac lee and what led you to pursue that i started pursuing you know i was studying vibrational medicine and spiritual work with therapy energy healing i would say about seven or eight years ago ok and then when i was more serious about the dream and realizing i can live this life like i can make money doing this i can sustain myself and i can feel good at the same time i started pursuing certifications what is it what point did you did you did your dream kind of develop and form and i you know i actually hired and after i spoke with him forty five minutes i thought to myself well if i can feel this good after forty five minutes then i need to speak to her every week over there and i was intrigued by the whole life coaching me right so i was just open i was constantly reading constantly learning i studied with sonia shook and that was she's a spiritual teacher and author and then a psychic and that where really world famous  so the dream started unfolding you know pursued example i stab you know and as i built the confidence and i saw that it could be a reality and then realize that ok i do have these natural talents or inclination for this and my business job i because so many people would just sat a while would that be great but they'll never go for that oh they'll never let me do that so how did you how did you get the courage to step up and just ask for that well that's a great question and i was so excited about the idea thinking if he's going to say no then i'm leaving you know it's just it means that much to me right i need that extra day so i can start seeing clients so i can devote myself to my passion because other than otherwise i'm not going to be there for the clients that i'm serving in the business world right so i have to give to myself what i need and then i'll be able to show up everywhere else that's such an important point for people to hear from you now is that so many people all i think it's  standing number i think it's actually eighty four percent is the most recent data that's been collected on how many people are unhappy with the current job eighty four huge it's huge you know i could be wrong but it's it's really a huge number and i think that's so important for people to to get ahead is that if you're not pursuing your passion and it doesn't necessarily mean you have to change careers or change jobs but you need can you know give myself that energy when i was on a you know in the sales world right so sorry i got you off track of your courage to go right for that yeah yes so i i just knew that it was either he would say yes or i would leave right and i wasn't even thinking about the consequences i just knew that this is what i needed to have yeah because it just every cell in my body was responding to you for days or nights a week and it was actually it was a great experience i mean he had never it didn't happen so willingly initially but it ended up happening and that's good thank god yeah yeah it allowed me to keep going for another year at the job and right yes so so what were some of your doubts and fears you know making this transition because this is a pretty huge leap from sales management to intuitive consulting yeah well you know the pain of not fulfilling my passion was so much heavier than what if i did it you know what if i did nothing worked out you know i think to myself i was even thinking about the after effects you know i go what am i going to do i clients or how are people and frankly i was just so intent on getting out of the you know this way of being that wasn't me you know and it wasn't coming naturally for me so you didn't feel like you're being your authentic self i felt like i was being my thing to excel but not at my job right you know yeah because i knew there was a greater purpose for me and i wanted to be of service in another way and so the fears and doubts i mean it definitely comes with the territory but when there's there is such a strong impulse to move forward and to not hold back and to take that leap that there were no fears to do it that's great y more about your business now and what you're doing thank you for asking what am i doing i am and so i'm an intuitive consultant i'm also a life coach and i speak in front of and businesses and with private groups and i also write articles on intuition and finding your inspiration in life and i work one on one with individuals so i do intuitive readings so really it's like dialoging with your soul right and bringing the inconscious to the conscious and what i mean how did you develop that skill in yourself do you think it was i mean i know it's a natural born gift for all of us had been and some of us are more aware than others  yeah i definitely you know i don't think intuition is a gift i think we all have it i mean i think it's a beautiful thing it's like it's an extra sense that we don't necessarily are so tuned into bed right i chose to attune myself and i you know we can all play the piano but who really wants to study it and master it not everyone so i've chosen to develop it and and listen to it and work with it and so i teach people how to access the bank and follow through on it or maybe are not sure what their dream is but they know that they need to be doing something else and what advice do you have i would ask them to ask themselves it's really get intimate with yourself you know what's holding me back when i'm just of what's holding you back right and what do i need to make this dream a reality you know it's a lot of times most of all is it's about what do i need to give to me to make this a possibility because this if you step into making things possibility for you and making yourself a priority then you can show up for everyone else and how particularly women how many women put themselves last right they don't realize that they need to be we've been sort of we've heard right that it's selfish you need to give to everyone else right and then it's it's those of us in that being run down exactly so you know to just if you have that dream if you're aware of it  me it took some time to get in touch with what my dream was sure or one touch with my purpose or my you know what my heart was saying so soon as i found out what it was like oh right back there yeah so congratulations to those who know what the dream is right and i think that's a gift in itself to know that it is absolutely go for it the world needs you currently my advice and that's wonderful advice so if people are interested in finding out more about your services how can they how can they contact you they can contact me on my website it's using your intuition dot com using your intuition doc and i live in montreal but i work with clients as far as shanghai who old thank you so much first joining to share your story with eyes thank you for sharing your dream with all of us absolutely it's very exciting and so we've had some wonderful advice today from julie listen to your heart ask yourself questions ask yourself what's holding you back if you're not moving forward on your dreams and continue to dream big if you or anyone you know has a story that can inspire others please let us now with love to hear from you you can contact me at suzy at suzy spicey dot com or contact the belmont media center thanks for joining us to mlle c and x timeline daring to dream