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Women Like Me Stories & Business
🎧 Introducing "Women Like Me Stories & Business" - The Inspiring Business and Story Podcast by Julie Fairhurst! 🎙️
Julie Fairhurst is a speaker, movement leader, and the force behind Women Like Me. She doesn’t just host conversations, she pulls truth out of the places most people hide it.
As the founder of Women Like Me, she has helped hundreds of women tell the stories they thought they’d take to their grave, and turn them into something powerful. This isn’t about writing. It’s about being seen.
Episodes
206 episodes
Zeenat Saloojee | Childhood Trauma, Apartheid & Healing Through Writing
In this powerful interview, author Zee shares the deeply personal story behind her contribution to the Women Like Me book The Space Between Before and After. This is an honest conversation about childhood survival, family secrecy, genera...
She Was Told Woodworking Wasn’t for Girls | Tracy Emanuele on Women in Trades
Tracy Emanuele loved woodworking as a child, but, like so many girls, she was told that working with tools and building with her hands was not meant for her. In this episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Tracy shares ho...
Emotional Abuse and Coercive Control: Christina Ditchkofsky on Losing and Rebuilding Self-Trust
What happens when control is disguised as care, concern, or good manners? In this episode, Christina Ditchkofsky joins Julie Fairhurst for a powerful conversation about emotional abuse, coercive control, love bombing, childho...
She Was Told She Had 1 Year to Become a Mother | Kelly-Erin Ketchen’s Fertility Journey
A doctor tells you that you have one year left to become a mother… and you hear it while your marriage is ending.That’s the reality Kelly-Erin Ketchen faced at just 27. In this deeply personal conversation, we explore what it means to st...
Domestic Violence Survivors & The 90-Day Cliff | Kay Bohemier on Homelessness After Abuse
A lot of people think the hardest part of domestic violence is leaving. What if leaving is only the first step… and the next step is a cliff?In this powerful conversation, Kay Bohemier returns to share the reality behind the “90-day clif...
How She Turned Childhood Trauma into Creative Healing | Jenny Siddall
A single moment can shape a lifetime… but it doesn’t have to define it.In this deeply human conversation, I sit down with Jenny Siddall, mom, creative, and performer from Nova Scotia, whose story moves from childhood trauma to a grounded...
Amanda Meggait: 15 Years of Pain to Peace: The Moment She Stopped Fighting Her Body
Your body isn’t broken. It’s speaking. The question is, are you listening?Fifteen years of daily pain changes a person, but what if the turning point isn’t another treatment… It's a new relationship with your body?In this powerful...
Colinda Laviolette - From Survival to Peace: Healing Trauma, Addiction & Breaking Generational Cycles
Peace can feel uncomfortable… even unsafe… when your life has been built in survival mode.In this powerful episode, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Colinda Laviolette, who shares her journey of healing as an Indigenous woman reconnecting ...
Burnout, Anxiety & Starting Over: What Really Matters in Life | Darlena Swan
Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right”… but something still feels off?In this powerful conversation, educator, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker Darlena Swan shares what happens when you stop chasing success and start asking...
The Truth About AI in Business: Why Most Get It Wrong - Michelle Hamilton
What if getting laid off… was the exact moment your next level began? And what if AI isn’t as complicated as you’ve been told? A layoff can feel like the floor disappears. For Michelle Hamilton, it bec...
What Is Prana? Trauma Healing, Nervous System & Breaking Bad Habits | Anya Lewis
What if the patterns you can’t break… aren’t about willpower at all?What if your body is protecting you in ways you don’t even realize?Some conversations don’t just inform you… They slow you down long enough to feel what you’ve been...
“It’s Not Just a Headache” – The Reality of Migraine Disease | Arleen Davis
Migraine disease is not “just a headache.” It can take your vision, your balance, your words, and leave you trying to explain something invisible while the world minimizes what you’re going through.In this powerful and unfiltered convers...
Starting Over at 40 & 50: From Self-Doubt to Purpose | Lisa Huppee
Ever feel like you’re living on the sidelines of your own life?In this powerful episode, Lisa Huppee shares her journey from self-doubt and feeling like the “black sheep” to rebuilding her life after divorce, illness, and unexpected setb...
People Pleasing Isn’t Kindness — It’s Trauma | Nicky Yazbeck
People pleasing and codependency are often trauma responses rooted in nervous system dysregulation, not personality traits. If you’ve built your identity around being “the calm one,” “the helpful one,” or “the strong one,” the...
Doctors Said Anxiety — It Was Lyme Disease | The Truth About Chronic Illness / Allie Chandler
What happens when your body suddenly stops working, and no one believes you?After a tick bite during a dream trip overseas, Allie Chandler’s life changed overnight. Her heart rate spiked to 220, her body felt completely unfamiliar...
Before It Becomes a Regret: The Conversation That Might Change Your Life | Kandace Stoneman
What do people regret most when life is ending?In this powerful conversation, Kandace Stoneman shares the life-changing lessons she learned working in hospice and long-term care at just 24 years old. Kandace joins Julie Fairhurst ...
Amelia Earhart’s Three Mysterious Endings | Crash, Castaway, or Capture? with Rachel Hartigan
What if Amelia Earhart’s disappearance isn’t just an unsolved mystery, but a reflection of who we are and what we choose to believe?In this powerful conversation, Julie Fairhurst sits down with author Rachel Hartigan to e...
Monica Reagor - Why PCOS Gets Missed for 7–10 Years & How to Advocate for Yourself
Pain that gets waved off. Periods that stop, then don’t stop. Labs that don’t tell the full story.In this powerful conversation, Monica Reagor joins us to unpack the reality of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) — from delaye...
Melodie Dewsbury - How to Pivot Your Business with Confidence (Without Burnout or Self-Doubt)
When momentum stalls in your business, the instinct is to push harder. Add more platforms. Try new trends. Hustle louder. But what if the real answer isn’t force… it’s alignment?In this powerful conversation, Julie sits down with return...
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The People You Meet: Travel, Growth & Coming Home with Melissa Rodway
What if the most important travel skill isn’t packing light—but knowing when it’s time to come home?In this episode, we sit down with author and traveler Melissa Rodway to explore the deeper side of adventure: travel ego, judgment on the...
Rewilding Faith: Spirituality Beyond Church Walls | Patricia Higgins
What happens when faith no longer fits inside traditional church walls?In this powerful conversation, Irish interfaith minister and spiritual companion Patricia Higgins shares her vision of “rewilding faith” — reclaiming spiritual...
Success Isn’t a Paycheck: Christine Valdes on Money Mindset, Real Estate & Women in Leadership
What if success stopped being about a paycheck and started being about the people you help rise?In this powerful conversation, corporate sales leader and investor Christine Valdez shares how she shifted from survival mode...
Jaclyn Orent: Alive, Not Isolated: Redefining Leadership Through Resonance
What if the real measure of leadership isn’t how much you achieve, but how alive you feel while creating it?In this episode, we sit down with Jaclyn Orent to explore a bold shift in founder identity, from optimization, grind, and quiet b...
Invisible Pain Explained: Movement, Nervous System Regulation & Real Recovery | Dasha Maslennikova
Pain that no one can see can still define every hour of your day.In this episode, we sit down with Dasha Maslennikova, a kinesiologist who spent 13 years navigating her own post-accident chronic pain. Together, we unpack how movem...
Grief After Suicide: Losing a Brother, Finding Sobriety, and Choosing Life Again | Tommi’s Story
Sometimes the hardest stories are the ones we can’t keep inside.In this deeply honest episode, we sit down with Thomasine Snelick—known to friends and family as Tommi, a 27-year-old from rural Pennsylvania, who shares the devastat...
