The Art of Storytelling and Connection: Alex and Julie Join Jules Nestico on The Telling of a Story

On this episode, we meet with Alex and Julie from the We Share Podcast as they join Jules Nestico on his show, The Telling of a Story.

Together, they delve into the importance of storytelling, communication, and the art of listening. Alex and Julie share their experiences in marketing, journalism, podcasting, and entrepreneurship, emphasizing the deep connections that can form through meaningful conversations. They reflect on the lost art of storytelling, encouraging listeners to develop a "bank" of personal stories to inspire others and foster connection.

They discuss how listening intently and pausing can uncover unspoken emotions, making interactions more impactful. Jules, Alex, and Julie also highlight the challenges of keeping audiences engaged in a digital world dominated by texting and messaging.

The hosts explore how storytelling and listening transcend industries, helping business owners and clients alike to connect on a deeper level. Julie shares insights on overcoming fears—like speaking behind a microphone—and Alex reflects on how storytelling can transform relationships and build understanding across diverse perspectives.

Ultimately, the conversation celebrates the shared human experience and the power of stories to inspire, teach, and create lasting impact.

Transcript

One of the things that we approach that avenue with is that we always say, you're just sitting down and having lunch with us. Don't let the microphone be a barrier in any way. What we're actually doing is chatting, and I approach the radio show exactly the same way. Chat about common ground that we have. Chat about intriguing ideas when you can approach that way instead of each other.

Enemies, or that we come from different backgrounds will have nothing to share with each other. That's just not true. There's always an ability to share and connect, because at the core, where humans.

Today on the We Share podcast, Alex and Julie joined Jules Nestico on his podcast The Telling of a story. Welcome to the We Share podcast. I'm Julie. I'm Alex. We share ourselves and we provide a platform for others to share. We believe everyone has a purpose and a story to tell.

Welcome to the telling of the Story podcast. I'm your host storyteller, Jules, and along with my guests, it's my endeavor to explore the art and science of storytelling to attract, engage, and retain a business audience, and to unpack why it works for some and not for the many that try.

Listening. As Julie talks about making any story interesting.

And you mentioned speech class in high school. We had to give an instructive speech and people were choosing crazy topics. And I thought everyone in the room kind of fingernails. And my speech instructor said, I had no idea that that could be interesting, but you made it interesting. I think we over analyze on is my story interesting enough?

If you become a good storyteller, even fingernail polish is interesting. And so just tell a story and throw it out there. You're going to get better just by trying.

In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with two very special guests. A first double for me and I'm super looking forward to it. I have a little bit of a feeling I might not get a word in edgewise, so this may be my very last time you hear my voice during the show, but normally I would read out the guest bio.

However, because there's two involved. I'm going to hand the baton over to the lovely guests. I'll read out the first line of what I have is the bar, and then ask you to take it from there. Sir Alex Caps and Julie Mason all the way from Idaho Falls in the US. Welcome to the show. Yes, welcome. Thank you for having us.

Yeah. Thank you for inviting us on. Alex, you're ready to quit talking. You want us to go from here? Here we go. 30 minutes. Sorry, I almost I'll hold. Say 1 or 2 more things. So, Alex, starting with you. Alex is a single mother of four and a fur mama to her golden doodle. Truman, take me wherever you want from there.

So I was actually when you said we were going to read our bios. The of goodness. I looked at my bio and while colonies updating. So I actually look for mama to another dog to now have two dogs. Excellent. So I have I have a grandchild, George Javonte. And we just call Angie. So yeah, but I mean, you should ask me to get my bio because just today, listening to another podcast while walking in the river, a gentleman expressed that he.

Now when someone asks him, you know, for his biology, tell who he is. Are you are you? He professed, I'm not. What I do are the titles I have. But I'm a father, you know. I'm your brother and I'm like a worker, right? So in that spirit is how I want to answer for me. My bio, like my license plate on my car, is so funny.

So I get a lot of people ask me what that means, and it means I am that I am sorry, I'm a Yogi, I am a mom. I'm a dog mom. I am a fitness right lover. I love nature, I am a skier and adventure and also super. And I'm not sure if that's a word there. So I love to share, which is why we launched this podcast during a very busy women.

But we wanted some way to give back and to highlight the stories of people out there, because surely we're better together and we can learn from each other. So that being said, that was the birth that we share. That is the work that we share, and we came together and it's been awesome. Like, I don't even know, probably just under under or not.

So so like we're thriving and yeah, loving it. Our junior church. Well go ahead Jules. So Julie, the first line for you is Julie's life's motto is don't live the same year 72 times and call it a loss. Yeah, I believe in changing and finding new things, I embrace change, I love it, I know that's way different for a lot of people.

Some people are very nervous about that. I love change, which means I've done a few different careers and I'm still doing it two different careers. I have a morning talk show that I co-host and produce is a political talk show, and it's four hours of talk radio on weekdays. And then I also do the podcast with Alex. I also have another podcast.

It's a crime podcast called Rise and Crime. It's news based crime stories. So I do that twice a week. And joy, that's super fun. I also own my own business. That is beauty for women. I do a lot of lashes and brows and skincare for women, which means I am an incredibly busy person. I have three adult children.

They all live outside of the state of Idaho, so I make sure I tailor my life to go visit them as much as possible. I have one very cute grandson named Asher, another grandson on the way and then also a fun little four and a half pound dog named cute. Whereas warehouses. You both sound incredibly busy and I love down all my career I've seldom had any kind.

I think we're very busy women. I do want to, like, overwhelm anybody. I mean, I can quickly say I'm a real estate agent, an account executive, marketing professional, all kind and especially for over 30 years. And yeah, we like to not leave a whole lot, but we're very fun and very. And you both doing it with a fabulous smile too, which is beautiful to say.

And I did stalk you, both of you, a little bit on social media as well. And you just have this beautiful energy about both of you. You both have a constant smile or you're both smiling right now and but it comes out in your socials. It comes out in the way you speak. Tell me a little bit about communication and why this is important.

Or why do you feel like this energy emanates from you, and what does that do for the people around you? I'm so excited about being 51, which that's something to smile about. I, we, I mean, we met later in my so I'm just always now and I'm still doing the same. Yeah. Maybe sometimes out of nervousness. But usually like you said, it's in my aura.

I, I'm generally just a happy person. I love to give energy. And I believe there's a lot of power in the smile. And I truly believe God blessed me with an amazing smile. My dad always said that, so it makes it easy to smile when you're confident. I never had braces, so I never had that. I just can't love you literally until my kids got like me into.

I had to spend a lot of money on so, which I would always do because I truly believe the South I'm part. I raised money for Operation Smile before and races back in my cubby days, and that was important to me, where those doctors would go and help people smile across the world. So yeah, that was kind of roundabout.

So that really that's it. Like, I think I got it from my parents and they nurtured and developed this confidence in me and love and ability to chase whatever I set in my heart. And I think that smiling is a universal language. I sent a daughter on a church oriented mission to a Spanish speaking community. She did struggle with the language, even though she's a very intelligent girl.

But it didn't come easy for her, and I used to mentioned to her that the best thing that you can do is smile, because there's always a connection in the heart if you smile, and that's the best way to communicate. And that will open up the channels and the language will come later. And I truly believe that. I love communication.

That's what I graduated from college in. And every job I've ever had has always been people oriented. And it still is. Yeah. And my communications. Yeah. Advertising. So I think communication is in the year of 2024, a lost art. And I love it when we can actually touch each other's heart with communication, because I don't think it happens as often as I should.

Now, I could even expound on that real quick. John's just on the radio side. The marketing side is there has been this trend back towards radio, and podcasting has grown a ton over the years. And it's because we crave after Covid, especially hearing voices. And so many people are just texting. And I know it's probably age related to me, but I'm much more personal.

The phone calling and texting because I'm staring at screens all day, and I just love the power of voice that invokes and you just can relate so much more. And your communication, the intent of love, it's just all wrapped up better, I think. Tell me a little bit more about that because you're both heavily involved in communication. We've got marketing, we've got journalism backgrounds, we have podcasts, talk show radio, lots of voice oriented stuff, which is fabulous.

And we were talking just before the show started, how, you know, you can spend 4 to 6 hours a day talking at a microphone, which is not easy to do. I mean, I spend about half an hour doing this and I'm exhausted by the end of it. So 4 to 5 to six hours a day talking is quite an odd and quite difficult in a way, or in lots of ways to keep people engaged.

Right. So tell me a bit about the art of communication. Using your voice to keep people engaged, particularly for long periods of time. Because I agree with you, it is a bit of a lost art and we do tend to do things like texting and messaging of some description rather than speaking to somebody. What is the art of voice and what does it do for you and what does it do?

Do you think for the audience? I would say both with the podcast and with my radio show, one of the things that we approach that avenue with is that we always say, you're just sitting down and having lunch with us. Don't let the microphone be a barrier in any way. It's just capturing your voice. What we're actually doing is chatting, and I approach the radio show exactly the same way that each morning show up, chat about common ground that we have, chat about intriguing ideas, chat.

I mean, there's always a challenge with politics and there's a lot of politics in the radio show, so just chatting and when you can approach that way instead of the each other enemies or the we come from different backgrounds will have nothing to share with each other. That's just not true. There's always an ability to share and connect because at the core, we're humans, which means we have something to share and connect with.

And so I always just forget the microphone every time, like it's not there. And I just have a conversation, even when it's thousands of listeners that I can't see. I'm just chatting with them. Yeah. But I mean, I tell the same my I don't do four hours at a time. We do this podcast and most of my voice is captured in 30s 62nd commercials.

So I do a lot of commercials, but I feel like I talk to people all day long and so. So I'm constantly talking to clients, whether it's real estate or my radio clients and or girlfriends, I find that I am one that they call for everything. I've had a lot of life experiences and they're listening and they just want some advice, and sometimes they're actually just need to listen and get some comfort.

So let's say that how important do you think the art of listening is in and amongst the talking? It's very oh, it's vital because that's the only way you can have a conversation. Otherwise it's just someone bloviating if you're not taking the moments to listen. And I think that they'll also there's the ability to have gentle pauses in there too.

It's okay if there's no words for brief. I, you know, I accept what I say to that. So I could say he was one, that sometimes people could just calm down, walk away, do whatever it is that they had to do and come right back and make a couple of noises like this. And he would never know they weren't there because he just got involved.

Keep talking. Yeah. So I think there's an art to the pause and so listening and very intently processing what that person is sharing. I think especially when you're in a room with each other, that's a little harder to feel over, like the radio waves and the podcast, sphere. But when you're one on one with people, there's a lot of unspoken emotion that can go between hearts and if you pause and listen and allow that to happen, it will open pathways that you just will never get again.

And that's what communication is about. Yeah, let's bring it back. Truly. You're in journalism and and obviously have done some quite a few interviews as well. I've listened to quite a bit of radio and podcasts and other mediums as well. And, and there seems to be two very distinct camps when it comes to the actual the host normally, or the person asking most of the questions.

And one camp is I've got ten questions that they need to have asked in that 20 minute period, and that would just barrel for question after question. And it doesn't matter if one connects to the other. And then there's the host that seems to ask the first question, and then the second question becomes comes out of the responses.

Which camp do you sit in and why do you think it's important? In a definitely second camp, second camp, 100%. It's a pretty regular week for us to conduct 4 to 5 interviews. There's a lot of just back and forth between the host and the co-host, but 4 to 5 interviews are conducted at least a week and we never script a single question.

And when and Alex and I do a podcast, we don't script questions and we yeah, we started off with that. I think more out of nervousness than anything. Like, what's our agenda? Let's get some things written down. But just the natural process of where to happen. And we also wanted one of our core values is being authentic authenticity.

So we don't want to start something that was naturally occurring and that could help our listeners. And even the guests on the show are sharing that. So we just let it fun. And that's how the radio show is, too. It's not scripted. And when we interview it is often we'll go in a direction we didn't intend. But those are the best interviews.

Fabulous. I want to connect that to. I mean, both of you are entrepreneurs as well, and I want to connect that for our audience a little bit when they're communicating with their clients and potential clients. How does that same art of listening occur with clients when it comes to selling and motivating and keeping people engaged in a client relationship, does it differ, or is it pretty much the same thing?

I think it's I would say it's similar. I would even if were to say that it's a talent we both have. So it's an art we've learned to master, and some days I'm better at it than others. But don't even think about it in terms I don't realize. It's a gift I have. I have friends say you don't realize that the way you just pop up an idea or construct this or that, because that's my normal.

So I would just say, you know, we've had a lot of ups. So if somebody is also have a client that they're working with, my guess is that they have this gift too. And I can just like the more you practice in pause in lesson and you're just going to know what to say. I mean, that just comes concept I love them.

Yeah. That's one of my favorite things about being 51 is that there's a light, there's life experience behind what I've accomplished and which allows me to not feel like I have to fill up the space. I can be quiet and let my client speak. And then as the conversation explores down different pathways, my life experience will allow me to share maybe moments or maybe ask a question that they weren't expecting to have happen, because then maybe they have been talking to someone who hasn't had experience.

And I never regret that I'm 51. I'm so grateful for that, because it means that there's been a lot of heartache, but a lot of happiness and a lot of growth and a lot of pushing myself out of a comfort zone. And all of that makes for a better conversation and better storytelling. And not to leave out the fact that neither was what I was about to say.

Both of your skincare routines are absolutely fabulous, and you must share because you both look at least ten years younger than that. And maybe more. So congrats! My thank you, thank you. I could not say it's the climate here. It's it's it's not it's a very dry climate moisture. But we both really care about our physical health. We don't think we can work at our prime if our physical health isn't good.

Like that's a core value for both of us. I definitely to, but we got you got to carry yourself. You don't take care of yourself. You can't take care of anyone or do that. So yeah, you can't be there for other people. It's diet. Good sleep, good sleep. So important task. Put the mask on yourself first, right? Yeah, yeah.

And you're also teaching your kids that right. So we both have adequate issues there. But they're watching everything you do. And so a good example. But like literally at the end of the day all I can say is that I leave a legacy for them that they're proud. It's one of the things I like to talk to my clients about is the art of storytelling.

And this is this telling of story podcast. And it's actually what I do for a living as well. Storyteller. Jules it's all really about the communication aspect. And coming from that sense of authenticity, you know where it is. As you said, Julie, you have all these life experiences and sometimes you don't think they're necessarily important. But to somebody else, that might be the one thing that they need to hear at that moment in time.

So having all of these little pockets of memories that you're able to bring out and share with whoever needs to hear that story of that time is one of those art forms. I think we've lost a little bit the art of telling a story. And so one of the things I teach my clients is capturing those moments along the way and having this bank set up ready to go so that you can draw from them when you speak and when you spend time on your podcast, when you spend time with your friends, etc..

Are you one of those people that uses those stories, or does that come easy for you? Or is it something you kind of struggle with yourselves? I would say I use them, I would say tip, I use, I don't like plan to use story. But again, it's being so intuitive with myself. I listen to that inside voice that says, okay, this would be I get up to share this story as far as memory banking stories, because I have gotten older and think it's a real thing.

Like brain fog can happen. I use my notes on my phone often to just jot down something, a memory or a trigger word that will help me recall something that I had experience. So, for instance, I'll just go with yesterday. It was just yesterday. I'm at because I went on a 14 mile hike to Upper Palisades Lake by myself with my dog, and normally I go with a huge group of girls and I've missed several of the last hikes because they were turning a week and a half outside this work, and I just decided to throw my dog and just go, I didn't need an excuse, I don't need anyone.

And I had the best time and had the challenge mostly to myself and the lake, to myself at the end. And then to finish one of my books, staying the whole way home down because no one else was on trail. But I do this thing on my phone because like our phone sent to us, but I just, I downloaded songs.

I just love them shuffle. And I kid you not, it's always the first song that comes on. And it might be a song I haven't heard in like literally 5 or 10 years, but it will apply to that hike or that moment and I will have emotions come up. I cried, I laughed, it was valuable. So I can use that story to inspire the female that is feeling like she's stuck in a relationship or a business or something, and she just, there's no way out.

Like there's always a way out. Move forward. Like go on the hike, buy the boots, do the thing, you know, like so I did that and thought, well, I'm kind of scatterbrained that, oh that's good. Yeah. I totally understand what you're saying. To answer part of your question, Jules, I do actually. You know, I remember in college they taught us that when kids are like two and three years old, they're just creating little file folders, like the old school file folders.

You open up the metal cabinet and they're hanging folders, and they have labels, and their experiences are being filed into certain file folders so that then they can draw on them. I think we continue that throughout life. We just start realizing it like a three year old is, because they're trying to bank information for the very first time, but we're banking information off of hundreds of times of experiencing that.

So I don't think I actually go back through that filing cabinet and pull that story out and use it. But I think that's because I have worked so hard at the art of storytelling, and it becomes much more natural the more you do it and the more you work at it. So I think at the very beginning, it might be opening up that file drawer in your mind and looking through the file folders and going, there's that story.

I can help someone with that. But I think as you, you fine tuned the art of storytelling, it just becomes a very natural thing because it's almost like you're vibing with the person. Not that you're actually searching for the story. It's not. Yeah, it's without effort. Yeah. Just happens because you're naturally making a connection with the human, which I think if it was forced, you would feel it and it would not land as well.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's perfect because one of the struggles that people have is starting, right. They're not natural at it. They haven't had, you know, 4 to 6 hours practice a day at it. Right. So for a lot of people, it's brand new for a lot of people it's kind of almost a bit scary to some degree, because, you know, am I exposing myself here a little bit?

You know what if the story's a bit boring, what if I can't engage with that person? Right. So there's this initial inertia that doesn't help them speaking. Yeah, right. There's a fear there. And even if it's one on one, you know, God forbid somebody has to stand in front of a crowd of a thousand people, they would just choke, right?

So most people, that's a massive fear for people. So to start, I encourage people to get those little stories, use those stories and just test it out on smaller audiences, test out those mini stories so that as you develop your storytelling, it does become a lot more natural. You can just on demand, you know, have a long conversation and you will draw from your experiences.

And I would just naturally wave and I will feel a lot more authentic. But at first you've got to start, right? Yeah, you can start. And I would say being a mom, we got a start because I was always reading children's books with kids also. But even to go back prior to that, having myself and I don't know, actually a lot of kids are too taking in high school, public speaking, making myself uncomfortable because that was the thing I wasn't, but I was.

I was nervous to do it, so I pushed for that. Even early on in my career. After college, I joined Toastmasters. I did things to help me get uncomfortable, so now I don't get nervous. Even if I mess up, I'm not nervous and or I give a talk or speak at a funeral. I'm not nervous to get up in front of 10,000 people and talk.

So. And I'll make mistakes. I just plan on making them so that I'm not like wrecked. But I do practice and you can also just practice alone in your bathroom, in your room to no one. Just get there at practice. I think people are. So in the beginning of storytelling, they put too much weight on all my stories.

Not interesting in an argument. Yeah, this isn't an interesting enough story. And you mentioned, speech class. And in high school we had to give an instructive speech and people were choosing these crazy topics. And I taught everyone in the room how to polish fingernails. And my speech instructor said, I had no idea that that could be interesting, but you made it interesting.

I think we over analyze on is my story interesting enough? If you become a good storyteller, even fingernail polish is interesting. And so just tell a story and throw it out there. You're going to get better just by trying. I'm glad you went there. I mean, there's so much evidence on social media of people polishing fingernails, of cutting onions, right?

The most mundane of things for some can be actually really interesting and get a lot of views and likes from. Yeah, because your everyday possibly is something brand new for somebody who's seeing it for the first time or maybe for, for the 50th time. But I actually enjoy seeing people do they craft raw, so don't be afraid to bring in the everyday because I think that makes it relatable.

That makes it something that's achievable. And it doesn't have to be a blockbuster, as you say, because, you know, I don't know about you guys, but you might only have 1 or 2 blockbuster stories for your entire life, right? And if that's the only 1 or 2 stories that you have, then you're going to run out really quickly, whereas you have everyday stories in spades.

And so you can use them over and over again in different ways to inspire people and connect. Yeah, that are relatable. Yeah. Because they're living the same regular everyday life that you're living. Right? So if you want to connect with somebody that's actually an easier way to connect than this big majestic story, right? Although secretly I would love to be a community.

But you think comedian but Jerry Seinfeld, which I'm sure in your country people know who Jerry Seinfeld is. But I mean, all he talks about is the mundane, right? That's the art of his comedy. It's the art of the mundane is about nothing. Yeah, basically it's just. Yeah. Mark and I use comedians as a case in point for storytelling because they are masters at it, but they actually it's not ad hoc.

Right? It is very well planned and it's very well executed. It's very well practiced. So comedian won't do a one hour Netflix story right. They won't have that opportunity until they've done all the hard yards that lead up to that. They've done the open mic nights. They have 3 to 5 minute sessions. They will test the material over and over again.

They will do ten. Eight of them will bomb. Two of them will be great. They'll reuse the two. They'll add, you know, six more. They'll get better and better, and eventually they'll have enough for a longer stint. But they have a great little process of testing out this material. And even if the material bombs, it doesn't mean the whole story gets thrown out.

It just might mean a bit more practice, a bit more fine tuning. And it's really a lot of it is about timing too. So the more you can test your little stories out there in the real world, the more you can see whether or not it has any impact. And so it's it's definitely an art. You you said earlier, Julie, that, you know, when you've done this for a while, it becomes a lot more natural.

Of course it does, because you're putting in the practice. And storytelling is very much about practice, right? Yeah. I think also it helps to have a friendly audience. Yeah. You know, I can sit and talk to Alex for an hour. I, I knew the first time I met Alex that she wasn't going to judge me, which doesn't always happen amongst a group of women.

Sometimes you walk into a group of women and there's automatically a label placed on you. And I didn't feel that way with Alex the very first time I mentor, which is why I think we made a connection. I knew we could do this podcast and and so I can sit with Alex right now, she's a friendly audience. I can tell her a story.

And then if I was long winded or I didn't get all the details in, or I could have emphasized a different part of the story more appropriately, she's a forgiving audience. The next time I tell it, I can refine that a little bit. Yeah, yeah. No, she's never done that. I the practicing. Speaking of the podcast, it would be remiss not to speak about it a little bit.

So you do have a podcast called We Share. Yes. You mentioned you're getting close to 100 maybe more episodes. So congratulations on that because I know how much effort goes into podcasting and not just the talking, but all the behind the scenes stuff as well. But one of the part of the line in the about is we believe everyone has a purpose and a story to tell.

Tell me a bit more about the podcast itself and why is it you believe everyone deserves, you know, the opportunity to tell this story or just because? That's why I truly believe that's why we're here, to learn and grow from our experiences. And I'm going to be limited in my scope to the experiences I have. You know, because I was born to these parents and this family, and they live in this space.

But, I mean, even if you just like, close your eyes or imagine traveling the world, there's just so much out there, so many people with different experiences and different elements or five challenges that can translate and help me then in a different way. My so I just think we're better together, we're stronger. Learning learn from each other. Also, going through some dark times and hard times, I would be foolish to not help someone else.

That was maybe in those early stages of something like that. If I could help them navigate or shoulder some of that for you, that is always having a process. You. I got through right. You can't sidestep around it and I, I mean it just those I don't know how else to say it just I believe yeah, we're better together.

And I love hearing people's stories. So if it was a selfish endeavor at some point because I just love I love having people share with me. But isn't the best work always got a little selfish portion to it? I mean, we do these things, and if we're passionate about it, that's a little selfish because it's fulfilling a need within us.

But that's also how the best work comes out is when when you have a passion for something, then it usually ends up being a better product. Right? And I couldn't agree more with Alex. I think there's a lot to learn from others. I have failed in my life. I have succeeded in my life, and maybe my failures can help some people, and maybe my success can help some people.

And of course, I can learn from other people's failures and other people's successes. And my road is not done. At 51, I've got a lot left to travel, and I hope to do it with more knowledge and less bumps in the road. Or maybe when that bump is coming, I can go, hey, I had an idea of how to navigate that because I talked to somebody about this before, and sharing those experience just makes for a more enjoyable future and hopefully a more enjoyable future for other people.

Right? Because you only know what you know, right? It's only until you know more than when you know better, do better that moment. So I just I absolutely agree with everything you say because it's pretty much the exact same reasoning that I've come to. It is very much a selfish endeavor. However, I believe with that sharing or that purpose of sharing, then others or two will benefit along the way.

But it's what keeps me going is the fact that I'm still learning. I two I'm in my 50s and I you know, I think I've got a little bit to share. But to be honest, for most of the podcasting or this portion of it is listening and it's really learning, it's a platform for me to learn. Yeah. And lastly, the audience.

Yeah, it is, it's a platform. I mean, that was part of our our mission is to provide a platform for others to come share. And so by providing that we glean from their story and what they share, but so do other people. And I know I've been moved by a podcast that I've listened to and they're not doing that well.

And we got this started. But there's someone for everyone, and there's a tone or a message, and maybe I have an opportunity to deliver something that's going to touch someone in a different way, or someone, a guest is going to come on our show and touch someone that they may have not heard on, like the top podcasting show, but they're going to somehow I believe the universe is going to deliver it to the person that needs it, because I just operate that way.

I just am very you get what you get. Yeah. And I just think it just comes full circle. Yeah. And to bounce off what you're doing, Jules, it is so important that I. It is a selfish endeavor for part of the the We Share podcast. But also I in the mission statement, a platform for others to share. We're allowing people to learn how to tell stories too.

We have people come here and they're terrified to sit behind the microphone and to move past that and finally share a story or do something scary, like sit behind a microphone. It just allows them to grow to and become a better storyteller. Yeah. And we've had I mean, business owners get to share things they do that they've always just been that Type-A personality in their office, but they're able to reach more people because we we offer that place for them.

So I just think it's a win win all the way around for everyone. It's our community service that's all. Thank you. Shows you're a now global official if you haven't already been. And now I need to just get down under Google. I believe. Yeah I'm game. Oh let me know. Pick you up at the airport. Away we go.

Yeah okay. This has been an absolute pleasure to chat with you both. Tell me on a couple of parting thoughts. One is what does the next few years hold for you guys together or separately? Where would you like to take the podcast as an example? But in general, where do you see the next few years and then leave us with a parting thought?

And perhaps some way we can all connect with you guys and learn a bit more about you? I would say the podcast is limitless. I have learned that with all of the platforms. I've learned that with the radio show. I've learned that with my other podcast. I've learned that with the We Share podcast. But Alex and I share.

It's amazing to look at demographics and go, I have people in Israel listening to me. I have people in Brazil listening to me, and that's why I say it's limitless. It's it's up to us how far we want it to go. And I know that we don't feel like we have boundaries, so I think it can grow. As long as you keep giving the are we have time?

Yeah, yeah, time and effort and it will always grow. So I think that the I would you agree with that about the podcast. I think that that's how we view this as far as like parting thoughts about what we do, I consider it such a blessing. You started with the my motto is don't live the same life every year and call it don't live the same year, every year 72 years and call it a life.

I don't want to do that because there's so much new and undiscovered territory out there, and I'm excited for the next 30, 40 years to be filled with that. But discovering new things all of the time. Yeah. So I think it's safe to say Groundhog Day is not know. I always wanted it. Yeah. So do you not want to wake up?

Although I do find comfort in meeting. Yeah, I have my little routines and rituals, but yeah. No, I like to cancel dinners as well. I don't know, it's. I don't know how to add to that, but I can try. Help me again with the question. Let's go first. Well, it's very much like what we do and we share.

We always leave with a parting nugget. Well, what would you be my get if it's how I. Yes, then do it by again. If it's a hell no, don't like you are in charge of here on the ship. So sell it and share authentic but good intentions. It's important to be kind. We're not. I think my biggest takeaway on the law is be kind.

There you go. The We podcast is available on all outlets so you can find us on Spotify. On Apple we have Instagram, we share podcasts and then website. Yeah. And our partners.com. Yeah. And then we each have our own individual Instagrams and social media. So explore has we try to look really fun. Yeah we can shout it out.

So we do have the We Share podcast about Instagram and Facebook. But my individual handle is quite fit for life and joy. This she's got to yeah it's mama Jules Jules and still. Yeah because my I consider my greatest one job is an endeavor. Yeah. My greatest thing in life is being a mom. Yeah. So. And offered me the most love and the most sadness and the most growth and the most just everything.

And like, I should explain my handle to after like, what, years and fitness. But it's about life. So life it my life I was an inventor of super fitness. I will not say it was about business because I have skills because of doors, but it's still in my heart. And I loved it. Huge passion for what it stands for and by Sam for first for yourself.

So that not falls in line with other things we talked about today, which is psychology of yourself. Take care of yourself first so you can take care of others. I my approach businesses inside out upside down because it's aerial yoga, but I just don't find that right. But just never gonna stop. I'm. And that's how I started the podcast with saying how much energy and aura you guys protrude and you did not let me down.

You have been absolutely fabulous. Thank you so much for sharing you. It's been an absolute pleasure and thanks again. I did have a parting thought, but now it's completely left me so I will see you soon. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for connecting to okay. Yeah. And yet you just keep saying it because it's important for humans. Love your mission.

Thank you so much.

What an absolute joy it was to talk to both Alex and Julie. I couldn't help but be inspired by their energy and passion. There's an old saying, if you want to get something done, give it to a busy woman. So much love! Chat soon.

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