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I am so excited to announce that.
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I am doing my first in person retreat in over two years. If you have been feeling like your message wants to expand, like your voice that you've been using no longer matches the woman that you've become and the leader that you've become, I want to personally invite you to my in person retreats unscripted. It's a two day intimate retreat in Nashville, Tennessee on February 5th and 6th, 2026. For the women who are ready to speak, to write and lead from their highest identity, not from performance or from pressure. No more over explaining, no more shrinking, no more sounding like an older version of yourself. This is where your voice and your message and your identity come back into alignment and pure refinement. Who you really are and who you are meant to serve. Spots are limited and it is application only as we want to make sure that that room is just so primed and ready for the work that we're going to be doing. So you can learn all about it and apply by going to juliesolomon.netunscripted. and if you felt this, you already know my friend. I can't wait to meet you and see you in that room with me and these incredible other women again. That's juliesolomon.net unscripted.
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Welcome to Woman of Influence. I'm Julie Solomon and this is where high level women come to recalibrate their message, realign their leadership, and rise into the next era of impact. If you're ready to align your visibility with your true authority, if you're called to speak to women at the level you now lead, if you're ready for your business to feel as elevated as the woman running it, this is your space. Because real influence isn't built in the algorithm, it's embodied in your identity. Let's get started.
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I want to start today with a sentence that has been sitting in my heart for years. Happiness is wanting. What I already have.
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But recently this idea came rushing back to me in a whole new way. A friend of mine shared something recently that was about gratitude and how most of us miss the contentment that we're seeking because we don't practice gratitude. And he said something to me that stopped me. He said, it's not good stewardship to complain about what God has already given you. And that hit me right in the chest because there have been so many moments in my life where I have done exactly that. Moments where I've prayed for something, fought for something, believed for something, and then once I finally received it, I immediately started looking for what was missing. And that's the sneaky part about success. You start to measure your joy by what's next instead of what's now. So today I want to talk about this truth that's been transforming my life lately. That happiness isn't something, something that we chase, it's something we notice. It's something we practice, and it's something we already have. When I heard that line, it's not good stewardship to complain about what God's given you, I immediately thought about all the things in my life that were once prayer requests. Things like my marriage, my family, my business, my home, even the freedom I have to sit here and speak with you like this. At one point in my life, every single one of those things was something I prayed for. And now they're part of my everyday reality. But somewhere along the way, I stopped treating them like miracles, and I started treating them like they were something that needed maintenance. And that's where the gratitude gap begins. Because when we forget that what we have was once what we wanted, we start measuring our lives by what's missing instead of what's present. And I'll tell you what happens when you live that way. You start chasing happiness instead of living it. You start worshiping growth instead of God, and you stop being a steward of your blessings because you're too busy managing your burdens. That's why this message hit me so deeply. Because I realized that for a long time, I wasn't actually practicing gratitude. I was performing it. I had routines, morning prayers, journaling, quiet time. But they were all things that I did, not ways that I lived. And that's what I want to get into today. The difference between a routine and a practice, the difference between ownership and stewardship, and just how gratitude changes not just your energy, but your entire identity. Let me take you back to a season not that long ago. Everything in my life looked good. Business was thriving. My marriage was strong. My kids were healthy. I wasn't in crisis. And that's exactly when it happened. Because when everything else was fine, my focus shifted to the only thing that I thought still needed managing my business. I started pouring every ounce of my energy, my emotion, my worth, into work. And it wasn't intentional. It was gradual. I'd pray when I needed clarity. I thank God when a launch went well. But I wasn't in daily relationship. I didn't have a practice. I had a routine. And that's the thing. Routines are predictable. But practices are what are alive. And when you have a routine you're still in control, but when you have a practice, you surrender control. You make room for God to move into in the details. And that's where everything shifted for me.