The Influencer Podcast with Julie Solomon

Episode: From Balance to Rhythms: How I Protect My Energy and Stay Aligned
Date: September 3, 2025

Episode Overview

In this intimate solo Q&A episode, Julie Solomon, branding leader, coach, and best-selling author, candidly explores some of the most asked questions she receives from clients and her audience. Julie focuses on the evolution of identity as a woman, business leader, wife, and mother, sharing practical wisdom on moving beyond the notion of “balance,” protecting energy, and nurturing authentic relationships—both personal and professional. The conversation is steeped in self-reflection, lived experience, and actionable frameworks, making it especially resonant for women navigating seasons of transformation and leadership.

Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. Knowing When to Evolve Your Message and Business Identity

• Julie reflects on how she realized the need to shift her business messaging and identity—not from strategy but lived experience.
  • Experiences a “quiet burnout” where things seemed to be working externally, but internally felt off. (02:05)
• Birth of the Identity Evolution Framework:
  • Created from witnessing herself and her clients outgrowing old versions of themselves but hesitating to evolve.
  • “You don’t need to burn your business down. You need to come back into resonance with your highest self. Not your future, not your former, but who you are now.” (04:05)
• Key signs it's time to evolve: When patterns repeat, the energizing becomes heavy, and your body knows before your brain.

2. Leadership Lessons and Identity

• Julie’s biggest recent leadership lesson: Leadership isn’t about strategy, it’s about identity recalibration.
  • “If your message is still built around the survival version of you... that version cannot carry your next level.” (06:36)
• She emphasizes guiding clients to lead from their “already highest self”—not a future or past projection.
  • “When your content, your offers, and your voice are rooted into who you were, you will always feel behind. But when you realign everything to the woman you are now, that is when you become magnetic.” (07:30)

3. Marriage, Partnership, and Respect for Individual Identity

• Julie shares how she and her entrepreneur husband nurture their marriage while both running businesses.
  • The cornerstone: “Respect for identity—healthy partnership isn’t about merging into each other, it’s about championing each other’s individuality.” (09:15)
• Daily practices: Presence, prayer, shared vision, micro-moments of connection, and the foundational check-in: “Are you living on purpose today?” (09:50)

4. Rejecting Balance—Embracing Individual Rhythms

• Julie firmly rejects the traditional concept of work/life balance, advocating instead for personal rhythms.
  • “I don’t believe in balance... but I do believe in rhythms.” (13:00)
• On motherhood and business:
  • “Being a present loving mother and being a visionary businesswoman are not in conflict... I may not be able to have it all at once, but I can have it all in different seasons if I follow the rhythms.” (14:14)
  • Dismantling mom guilt: It’s a toxic cultural narrative—each season has its own rhythm and priority.

5. Evolving Relationship with Her Body

• Julie is transparent about her history of body image issues, food, and self-worth.
  • “I used to treat my body like some kind of brand extension... I’ve had so many issues with my body image over the years.” (18:00)
• Healing came through motherhood, self-compassion, hormone awareness, and finding what works for her body now (e.g., embracing Pilates over HIIT).
  • “My highest self is no longer afraid to be seen. My highest self is no longer ashamed of feeling good in her body.” (20:10)

6. Spirituality and Relationship with God

• Julie discusses her evolving faith, from a Christian upbringing to a more embodied, personal relationship with God.
  • “I always knew there was something greater holding me... Faith has always been my anchor, even when I didn’t realize it.” (21:05)
• Observes cultural openness to faith and spirituality on social media, appreciating the rising authenticity over performance in how people reference God.

7. Protecting Energy and Staying Open

• Julie shares the challenge of setting boundaries while remaining soft and open.
  • “I have been somebody that has been codependent, over-gave, people pleased... Through healing, I learned to hold my boundaries without hardening and to lead without leaking, and to love deeply, but only when and where that reciprocity can flow both ways.” (23:00)
• She redefines “judgment” in relationships as a form of discernment necessary for healthy boundaries and energetic integrity.
  • “Sometimes a judgment is really just your spirit and your soul allowing for discernment to come in... When I started to let myself off of the hook for those feelings... I was able to not only feel more clean and clear to myself, but also to the people that mattered most in my life.” (23:45)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On evolution and business:
  “You can be conscious in your business and still lack total awareness. Awareness comes from presence, from stillness, from being willing to notice the pattern without rushing to fix it.” (03:36)

• On magnetic messaging:
  “You don’t need another launch plan. You need your message, your offers, the women that you serve to mirror the power you’ve already stepped into.” (07:59)

• On marriage:
  “We stay connected through presence, through prayer, through respect and integrity, and those micro-moments of just checking in.” (10:07)

• On letting go of balance:
  “I may not be able to have it all at once, but I can have it all in different seasons if I follow the rhythms.” (14:14)

• On protecting energy:
  “I’m no longer here to be the source for people who aren’t sourcing themselves first... You’ve got to be self-sourced, you’ve got to be self-led, you’ve got to be self-trusted.” (23:15)

• On judgment and discernment:
  “Sometimes a judgment is really just your spirit and your soul allowing for discernment to come in.” (23:45)

Segment Timestamps

• How to Know When to Pivot – 02:05-06:12
• Biggest Leadership Lesson of the Year – 06:13-08:05
• Staying Connected to a Partner – 09:15-10:55
• Balance vs. Rhythm, Mom Guilt – 13:00-16:03
• Body Image, Self-Worth, and Healing – 18:00-21:05
• Faith and Spiritual Practice – 21:05-22:48
• Protecting Energy, Boundaries, Codependency – 23:00-24:45

Episode Tone & Style

Julie’s delivery is heartfelt, raw, and practical, blending wisdom from personal growth and business with accessible, actionable advice. She speaks with the warmth of a trusted mentor, candidly acknowledging the messiness behind real transformation, leadership, and self-acceptance.

For Listeners Seeking

If you’re craving soulful leadership, magnetic marketing, and grounded wisdom for business and beyond—especially as a woman navigating identity evolution—this episode serves as a powerful, nourishing listen and a call to embrace your next level with clarity and softness.