This blog is about wellness – in business and life.
Here you will find my true and authentic self: occupational therapist, MBA, seller of a business, owner of a business, mother of four humans, six pets, tons of plants, and whose passion for the outdoors, health, and fitness drives a life of wellness.
I provide business coaching and consulting to help motivated individuals to achieve results.
Coaching IS: Discovery, NOT Direction
Many people expect coaching to provide step-by-step direction, but true coaching is about discovery. Instead of handing you someone else’s roadmap, coaching helps you uncover your own values, strengths, and solutions. In this post, Julie explores why discovery creates stronger leadership, greater confidence, and more sustainable business success than simply being told what to do.
Boundaries That Work: Protecting Time, Energy, and Profit in Business
Boundaries are not barriers to success, they’re the structure that makes sustainable success possible. If your time feels stretched, your revenue doesn’t match your effort, or your business is starting to feel draining, it may be time to reset how you work, communicate, and lead.
Coaching IS: Partnership, Not Prescription
Coaching is often mistaken for advice-giving, but real coaching works differently. It’s a partnership, not a prescription, one that helps you uncover your own solutions, build confidence, and create strategies that truly fit your business and leadership style.
What “Sustainable” Really Means in Business (And It’s Not Just About the Environment)
Sustainability in business is often framed as an environmental issue. But for many entrepreneurs, especially in service-based businesses, sustainability is about something deeper: building a business that can keep running without burning you out. A truly sustainable business supports your time, finances, energy, and impact.
Coaching IS: Time Captured, NOT Wasted
Many busy professionals worry they don’t have time for coaching. But coaching isn’t time taken away from your work, it’s the process that helps you use your time better. With clearer priorities, stronger decisions, and greater focus, one coaching conversation can save hours of wasted effort.
Coaching IS: An Investment, NOT A Cost
Many leaders hesitate over the cost of coaching. This article reframes coaching as a strategic investment, one that delivers long-term returns through better decisions, stronger leadership, and sustainable growth.
Translating Goals into Action: Why Your Vision Isn’t Gaining Traction
Many business owners know what they want but struggle to make progress. This post looks at why vision alone isn’t enough, and how small, structured actions create traction, confidence, and real momentum over time.
Coaching IS: About You, NOT About Your Problems
Coaching is often mistaken for a process focused on fixing problems. In reality, effective coaching shifts the focus away from what feels broken and toward the person making the decisions. By centering on values, strengths, and leadership, coaching helps problems shrink in importance while clarity, confidence, and sustainable growth take their place.
Coaching IS: Therapeutic, NOT Therapy
Coaching is frequently misunderstood, especially when it’s compared to therapy. While coaching can feel deeply therapeutic, it serves a very different purpose. Understanding where coaching fit, and where it doesn’t, helps leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals choose the right support at the right time, and get better outcomes as a result.
Designing a Business That Fits Your Life (Not the Other Way Around)
You’re allowed to build a business that fits your life—not the other way around. This post explores how to redesign your business so it supports your energy, values, and real-world priorities while staying sustainable and profitable.
The Twelve Gifts of Coaching
Coaching doesn’t offer quick fixes or shiny solutions. It offers something quieter—and far more lasting. In this year-end reflection, Julie Entwistle shares the 12 gifts of coaching, from focus and perspective to courage, connection, and transformation. Each gift reflects what coaching gives us over time: clarity, choice, and the space to keep becoming.
Gratitude, Reflection, and the Art of Ending Well
Pause before the new year. Learn how reflection, gratitude, and calm leadership can help you end the year with meaning — not burnout.
The Gift of Growth: Coaching and Experiences That Create Real Impact
Replace seasonal “stuff” with growth that lasts. Discover how coaching, learning, and experiences make the holidays more meaningful and impactful.
Doing Good Well: Building a Giving Strategy That Lasts Beyond December
Move beyond year-end charity. Learn how to make giving intentional, inclusive, and integrated into your business values and leadership practice all year long.
The Conscious Holiday Season: How to Lead, Give, and Rest with Intention
Rethink December. Learn how conscious leadership helps you plan, give, and rest with intention — creating a season of calm, clarity, and connection.
Rethinking Goal-Setting Season
Before setting goals, design the year you want to live. Align your business with your values, energy, and purpose to create calm, clarity, and sustainable growth.
How to Reduce Business Expenses Without Cutting Corners
Running a business gets expensive—fast. But reducing costs doesn’t have to mean lowering your standards. This post offers six practical ways to cut business expenses while maintaining the quality your clients count on.
Managing Stress for Better Health and a Stronger Business
Stress isn't just a feeling—it’s a key predictor of health. Learn how it affects your body, mind, and business, and get practical ways to manage it.
Smart Financial Habits for Entrepreneurs: Helping You Stay Financially Strong All Year Round
Cashflow is the heartbeat of a healthy business. These 5 smart financial habits help entrepreneurs build stability, reduce stress, and stay ahead—without feeling overwhelmed.
Aligning Values with Business Ownership: The Foundation for Sustainable Success
A values-driven business isn’t just about profit—it’s about purpose, trust, and impact. Discover how aligning your core values with your business can shape culture, guide decisions, and drive sustainable success.