Podcast Summary: Woman of Influence

Host: Julie Solomon
Episode: From Ownership to Stewardship: The Shift That Changes Everything
Date: December 3, 2025

Main Theme & Purpose

In this solo episode, Julie Solomon shares a profound mindset shift—moving from "ownership" to "stewardship" in business and leadership. She explores how this transition transforms not only the way entrepreneurs run their businesses, but also how they relate to themselves, their clients, and their sense of worth and success. Julie draws from her own recent experiences and client coaching, emphasizing inner alignment, faith, and leadership rooted in service rather than striving.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Season of Receiving and Adjustment

• Julie opens up about achieving many of her goals and experiencing new levels of abundance (clients, money, space) and how this can feel unexpectedly challenging and even scary.
  • Quote: “Know those moments where everything that you prayed for starts happening... And somehow that feels more terrifying than when things weren't working.” —Julie Solomon [02:14]
• She reflects on the emotional adjustment needed when blessings arrive, describing time spent journaling, praying, and resisting the urge to self-sabotage.

2. From Ownership to Stewardship

• Julie outlines the difference between "owning" her business (where all responsibility—and blame—lands on her) vs. "stewarding" it (where she’s a caretaker of something bigger, with God as the true owner).
  • Quote: “Ownership made me the ceiling, and that ceiling was always me. Now, as the steward, the weight just feels different because God is the owner. And I'm just here to take care of what's been entrusted to me.” —Julie Solomon [03:15]
• This steward mindset fosters trust, integrity, and a willingness to carry more, both spiritually and practically.
  • “If I want to hold more, I have to first become someone who can carry more. And that, my friends, is stewardship. That's leadership.” [04:04]

3. Letting Go of the “Busy Badge”

• Julie candidly discusses her past patterns: equating busyness and over-functioning with worthiness.
  • Quote: “Every late night email was this quiet audition for worthiness. But worthiness doesn't live in overdrive. It lives in peace. And peace doesn't prove. It just is when you allow it to come in.” [04:50]
• Real alignment and peace arrived only when she began to lead from her highest self instead of her “working self.”

4. Client Coaching Story: Rebuilding from Stewardship

• Julie recalls a coaching moment with a high-achieving client struggling to rest without guilt, mirroring Julie’s former self.
  • “She would say to me, Julie, I feel like my business only moves if I am pushing it... But pushing is a sign that your working self is in charge, not your highest self.” [05:25]
• Together, they redesigned her business offers to reduce chaos, reward space, and shift from hustle to ease—a process Julie describes as both strategic and deeply spiritual.
  • Quote: “She stopped trying to earn ease and started allowing it. She stopped chasing the alignment and started living from it.” [06:32]
• Julie recognizes the value of clients as mirrors for our own healing.

5. The “Footwork” of Faith and Leadership

• After accepting a new season or blessing, the growth work often looks like “pausing”—moments of prayer, journaling, and being still before acting.
  • Quote: “Faith without the work is dead. And sometimes that work looks like literal stillness.” [08:14]
• Julie values intentional outreach and moving without attachment to outcomes.
  • “Faith is the belief, but footwork is the evidence.” [08:56]
• She stresses discerning action from your highest self, metaphorically likening clarity to changing the “filter” you use to view and build your business.

6. Practices and Guiding Questions

• Before posting or responding: pause, pray, and breathe.
• Weekly self-reflection: “What would my highest self put in that filter?” [09:49]
• Clarity comes not from fixing everything at once, but from being open to the next, most aligned step.
  • “You don’t have to clean the entire house before the clarity arrives. You just have to open the door.” [10:11]

7. Healing, Boundaries, and Worthiness

• Since embracing stewardship, Julie finds her leadership is quieter, more clear, less scattered.
  • “My decisions are quieter. I don't need to reach out to 15,000 people to get some kind of fix. And when the old reflex to prove starts to whisper, I remind myself, you get healed as you go.” [12:36]
• Healing comes in daily practices, not just big breakthroughs.
• When worthiness is the baseline, boundaries become windows for opportunity, not walls for protection.

8. Invitation to “Unscripted” Retreat

• Julie invites listeners feeling disconnected from their current business voice or leadership style to her upcoming in-person retreat “Unscripted” in February 2026. This aligns with the episode’s message of refinement and deep integration of identity, voice, and business.
  • “Unscripted is the place where your voice and your message and your identity become one. And I can't wait to hold that space with you and to see what unlocks.” [14:17]

9. Final Wisdom

• Quote: “Your business isn't a burden to carry. It is your blessing to steward. And when you lead from that truth, you don't chase. You choose.” —Julie Solomon [14:45]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the shift from ownership to stewardship:
  • “Now, as the steward, the weight just feels different because God is the owner. And I'm just here to take care of what's been entrusted to me.” [03:15]
• On letting go of over-functioning:
  • “Worthiness doesn't live in overdrive. It lives in peace. And peace doesn't prove.” [04:50]
• Practical guidance:
  • “If I can pause long enough to pray before I post, to breathe before I fix, to ask, before I assume I will always be guided exactly where I am meant to go.” [09:04]
• On boundaries and worthiness:
  • “When worthiness becomes your baseline, the boundaries, they don't feel like walls. They start to feel like windows.” [13:10]
• On choosing stewardship:
  • “You don't have to earn the ease. You don't have to audition for worthiness. You just have to remember who is steering.” [13:52]

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:14] Receiving blessings and the discomfort it brings
• [03:15] Ownership vs. stewardship explained
• [04:50] “Busy badge” and addiction to striving
• [05:25] Coaching story: pushing vs. leading from your highest self
• [06:32] The spiritual shift from earning to allowing ease
• [08:14] The “footwork” of faith and the practice of pausing
• [09:49] Weekly self-reflection and changing your business “filter”
• [12:36] Leadership changes and healing in the everyday
• [13:10] Boundaries as windows
• [14:17] Retreat invitation: Unscripted
• [14:45] Final wisdom: business as blessing vs. burden

Takeaways for Listeners

• Shifting from “ownership” to “stewardship” changes the energy and outcome of leadership.
• Worthiness and peace come from alignment, not achievement or striving.
• Clarity and healing are daily practices, not one-time events.
• The highest version of you already knows the answer—it’s about listening, pausing, and acting from that place.
• Your business thrives when you treat it as a blessing to steward, not a problem to fix.

For more leadership insights and to recalibrate your business and message, tune in to Woman of Influence with Julie Solomon on your favorite platform.