Podcast Summary: Woman of Influence

Host: Julie Solomon
Episode: 2026 Is the Year of Harvest: You’re Not Late, You’re Ready
Date: January 7, 2026

Episode Overview

In the first episode of 2026, Julie Solomon sets an intentional tone for the year, declaring it the "Year of Harvest." She reflects on the deep internal and external work done through recent years, speaks directly to high-level women leaders feeling misaligned or ready for their next evolution, and details practical ways to work with her over the coming year. Moving beyond business strategies, Julie delivers a blend of mindset reframes, spiritual insights, and actionable next steps, emphasizing that this is a time of collection, alignment, and embodiment—not performing or chasing.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reflection on Past Seasons and the Power of Harvest

• 2025 as a Year of Shedding: Julie describes 2025 as a year "full of shedding and recalibration, and just so much at times hardship, but then yet mostly what was needed in order to gain the clarity to really step into 2026." (04:28)
• 2026 as a Season of Collection: She sets the theme, “This is the year of harvest… not because I’m about to hustle harder, but because the fruit of all of the labor, of all of the shedding, of all of the recalibration is actually ready to mature.” (06:18)
• Harvest Defined: Harvest is about finally gathering the results from seeds planted in prior years — “It’s things that maybe were buried before that start to break through the surface...” (07:56)

2. Harvest in Business and Leadership

• Moving from Anxiety to Inner Truth: "A year of harvest in business is when you truly stop building from anxiety and you start leading from that inner truth that you know is your divine purpose and calling.” (10:00)
• Refining, Not Adding: Julie urges listeners to "stop context-switching and adding things that really aren't meant to be there. Let all the work you've already done mature." (10:35)
• From Noise to Signal: “Stop getting so lost in the noise… really start protecting what that signal is for you.” (11:30)
• Harvest Feels Less Urgent, More Accurate: “Decisions get cleaner, messaging gets simpler, team gets sharper, offers get more obvious to your ideal buyer, energy gets more stable…” (12:10)

3. Navigating Evolution and Permission to Change

• No Longer Tolerating Misalignment: A theme among Julie’s community: “No longer being willing to tolerate their business not completely and totally aligning with who they are today.” (13:35)
• Growth is Personal: “When we build from that place, your business growth is naturally going to follow your personal growth, your spiritual growth... And as you evolve, your business evolves too.” (15:00)
• Guilt in Changing What You’ve Built: “The biggest struggle I have seen so many women go through is this guilt of wanting to change what they’ve created... How ungrateful of me to want to change that.” (18:08)
• Reframe: Bring Business Forward: “What if your business has actually been behind where you are? What if this moment... is actually about bringing the business forward?” (21:52)

4. Redefining Metrics — Less Can Be More

• Old Models Focused on ‘More’: “We’ve been measuring our leadership by this old model. More team, more offers, more content, more complexity… Traditionally, more has always been treated like better and less treated like failure.” (23:40)
• Future of Women-Led Leadership: “What if the future of women-led leadership is more alignment, more precision, more leverage, more truth—with less noise?” (25:05)
• Discomfort as a Sign of Growth: “Sometimes that discomfort, that itchiness, it’s just that growth edge. It’s just you getting ready to leave this level of the base camp and ascend to another one.” (26:10)

5. Permission to Invent & Do Things Differently

• Stop Forcing Yourself Into Old Models: “Stop forcing yourself into models that don’t fit your leadership. Period. Full stop.” (28:12)
• Refinement Until Resonance: “Refine and keep refining until your business actually matches the woman, the identity, the level of leadership that you are meant to walk into.” (28:35)
• Discomfort = Beginning of a New Era: “If something isn’t jiving with you, you’re not broken. You might just be at the beginning of your new invention era, your new harvest era.” (27:40)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Real influence isn’t built in the algorithm, it’s embodied in your identity.” (03:03)
• “Harvest is about gathering what already exists, even if you haven’t seen it yet.” (08:55)
• “A harvest season feels way less urgent and way more accurate.” (12:02)
• “If something is less, it doesn’t mean it’s bad. It just means it’s different.” (22:52)
• “Staying still doesn’t keep you safe, it keeps you stuck.” (52:02)
• “Let 2026 be your year of harvest. Let it be your year of expansion. Let it be your year of cultivating all the fruits of the labor that you have been laboring these last couple of years. And let it be the year that you finally stop outsourcing your leadership to old ideals and identities that just don’t fit you anymore.” (56:00)

Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 04:28 | Reflection: The Shedding of 2025 and Setting the Tone for 2026 | | 06:18 | Declaring 'Harvest' as the Word and Theme for the Year | | 10:00 | What Harvest Means in Business: Inner Truth vs. Anxiety | | 12:10 | How Harvest Feels in Your Business: Simplicity, Precision, Peace | | 15:00 | Growth Follows Personal & Spiritual Evolution | | 18:08 | The Guilt and Normalcy of Wanting Evolution Before the Harvest | | 23:40 | Challenging the ‘More is Better’ Model | | 25:05 | Vision for Women-Led Leadership: More Alignment, Less Noise | | 28:12 | The Call to Stop Forcing Old Models and Embrace New Leadership | | 52:02 | Key Jet Fuel Advice: “Staying still doesn’t keep you safe, it keeps you stuck.” | | 56:00 | Closing Blessing: Harvest, Expansion, and No More Outsourcing Leadership |

Practical Paths to Work With Julie in 2026

Julie offers a transparent and practical breakdown of how to engage with her "world," structured by journey level:

1. The Growth Collective Membership (36:08)

• Who it’s for: Women who want to take the next (or first) step without feeling overwhelmed.
• Format: Four short, success-mapped phases, monthly group coaching call, access to frameworks for messaging, offers, sales.
• Key Value: "Not just to consume, but to actually implement the strategies…in a really easy, tangible, success-driven way." (41:27)
• Cost: $97/month (with a $1 first week special for podcast listeners).
• Membership link/code in show notes

2. The Brand Accelerator (45:38)

• Who it’s for: Women ready to rebuild or refine their messaging and brand positioning.
• Format: Lifetime access self-paced online course with three months of coaching calls.
• Focus: Ideal client psychographics and sales psychology, creation of a buyer-recognized signature framework, unique storytelling frameworks.
• Key Result: "You stop sounding like everybody else. You stop attracting non-buyers. You become recognizable for your unique way..." (48:50)

3. The Revenue Accelerator (50:33)

• Who it’s for: Experienced leaders ready for high-level refinement and alignment; not for beginners.
• Format: Container for next-level recalibration and scale, focuses on entire business identity shift.
• Key Result: "Your brand starts pulling in the right buyers without you having to 'do much at all'... You simplify without shrinking." (53:10)

4. Occasional 1:1 Coaching & In-Person Retreats (54:46)

• Private Clients: VIP days or 6-month partnerships; by inquiry only.
• Unscripted Retreat (Feb 2026):
  • Julie: “I am so protective of my energy and my space and my women, especially in real life containers. This is why this is application only because it is truly an honor to be in this room and to bring you all together.” (55:44)
  • "This is where your voice, your message, and your identity become one." (56:27)
  • Note: No additional retreats planned for 2026.

Actionable Advice for Listeners

• Shift out of Information Mode and Into Decision Mode: “Let this be your invitation to get out of information mode and get into decision mode... All you have to do is just take the first bite.” (52:12)
• Don’t Overthink: “Some of you will want to overthink this because it feels a lot safer to overthink instead of doing.” (51:54)
• Honor the Itchiness: Discomfort and the sense of misalignment are signs a new growth phase is imminent, not failure.
• Refine Until It Resonates: Keep refining your business until it matches the caliber of woman—and leader—you are becoming.

Episode Tone & Style

Julie’s delivery is grounded, warm, reflective, and engaging. She speaks frankly about the vulnerability, discomfort, and growth inherent in high-level women’s leadership, utilizing powerful analogies (“altitude changes,” “planting and harvest,” “signal vs. noise”) and invites listeners to step forward with aligned, intentional action.

Final Blessings & Aspirations

“I believe that buried things will break through the surface no matter how far buried they are. I believe that waiting did have its purpose. But I also believe that what you have planted matters, even if you’ve forgotten that you planted it in the first place.” (56:15)

Julie closes with gratitude and well-wishes for 2026, reinforcing the invitation to evolve, reap, and embody the next level of aligned leadership.

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