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
262 episodes
How to Let Go of Guilt and Regret After Loss | Stephanie Renner
How do you let go of guilt and regret after losing someone you love? And is it possible to move forward without feeling as though you are leaving them behind?In this deeply honest episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie F...
Why Successful Women Still Feel “Not Good Enough” | Amy Lenius
Why can a woman appear confident, capable, and successful, yet privately wonder whether she is good enough?In this powerful episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, host Julie Fairhurst speaks with personal development and succe...
She Survived 9/11—Then Made Lehman Brothers’ Final Margin Call | Jane Buyers
She survived the September 11 attacks in downtown Manhattan. Seven years later, she made Lehman Brothers’ final margin call before its historic bankruptcy. But Jane Buyers’ most difficult reckoning was not with Wall Street—it was with herself.<...
Women’s Rights in Iran: Why Iranian Women Won’t Be Silenced | Zolal Habibi
What is life like for women fighting for freedom, equality, and the right to use their own voices in Iran?In this powerful episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst speaks with Zolal Habibi, an Irania...
How to Plan the Perfect Marriage Proposal | Ash Fox
💍💍How do you plan the perfect marriage proposal, and make sure it reflects the person you truly love?Julie Fairhurst sits down with Ash Fox, one of New York City’s leading marriage proposal planners and photographers. After helping plan...
Why Hardworking Women Don’t Get Promoted | Nicole Johnston
Why do hardworking, highly capable women get overlooked for promotions, even when they consistently overdeliver?Executive leadership coach Nicole Johnston reveals how invisible labor, workplace bias, vague feedback, emotional labo...
Starting Over as a Single Mom: Divorce, Survival & Rebuilding Your Life | Gail Showalter
Starting over after divorce is difficult. Starting over while raising three children alone can feel almost impossible.In this deeply honest episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, host Julie Fairhurst speaks with Gail Cawley Sh...
Why You Self-Sabotage: Fear of Success, Procrastination & EFT Tapping | Carol Look
Carol explains that our behavior often reveals what our conscious mind cannot see. We may say that we want to publish a book, speak on a stage, grow a business, earn more money, or become more visible—but if success feels emotionally unsafe, we...
Healing Happens in Layers: How to Rebuild After Trauma | Lee-Ann O’Brien
Healing after trauma does not happen all at once. It happens in layers, often resurfacing as life, motherhood, relationships, and identity change.In this powerful conversation, Julie Fairhurst speaks with Lee-Ann O’Brien, an author, spe...
How to Handle Rejection and Get More Yeses | Andrea Waltz, Go for No!
Are you allowing the fear of rejection to stop you from asking, selling, following up, or pursuing what you truly want?In this powerful episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Andrea Wa...
Financial Freedom for Women: Money, Debt & Disability Benefits | Tracy Pequin
“We have to create a new story in our subconscious mind.” — Tracy PequinFinancial freedom for women begins with understanding how money, debt, taxes, disability benefits, and long-term savings actually work.Julie Fairhurs...
How to Build Unshakable Confidence & Find Your Voice | Meeka Caissie
How do you build confidence, find your voice, and stop giving away your power?Julie Fairhurst sits down with Meeka Caissie, speaker, entrepreneur, and senior leader with Tony Robbins, for a powerful conversation about women’s conf...
How Historical Fiction Brings Forgotten Women to Life | Cinda Gault
How can historical fiction bring forgotten women back to life—and what can their courage teach women today?In this fascinating episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Canadian author and speaker C...
Money Mindset for Women Entrepreneurs: Break Scarcity & Charge More | Scarlett Stanhope
Why do smart, capable women entrepreneurs struggle with money anxiety, underpricing and the constant fear that there will never be enough?In this powerful conversation, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Scarlett Stanhope, also known as T...
Walk Away Without Regret: Leaving Corporate Success to Find Your True Purpose | Kathy Robinson
What happens when you've achieved everything you were told would make you happy… but something inside keeps whispering, "There's more."In this inspiring episode, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Kathy Robinson, founder of Ath...
One Hour a Week: How Storytelling Helped a Mother and Son Rebuild Their Bond | Kate Markland
One hour a week with your child is a heartbreaking reality — especially when it is court-ordered. For Kate Markland, that painful limitation became the beginning of something unexpectedly beautiful: a mother and son rebuilding their bond...
How 30-Year Fixed Mortgages Help Build Wealth During Inflation | Adiel Gorel
Inflation is hitting hard — at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and even at the movies. But what if one of your highest monthly costs could stay fixed while almost everything else keeps rising?In this episode of Women Like Me Stori...
Too Stressed to Laugh? Laughter Yoga for Burnout, Stress & Healing | Cathy Nesbitt
Laughing on purpose sounds ridiculous — until you feel what it does to your body.In this uplifting conversation, Julie Fairhurst is joined by Cathy Nesbitt, a certified Laughter Yoga Teacher and Laughter Ambassador, ...
Stop Saying Yes: The Boundary Test Every Woman Needs | Paula Mathias
Your calendar can look “full” and still be empty of you.In this powerful conversation, Julie Fairhurst sits down with author and speaker Paula Mathias to unpack the quiet way women disappear inside lives that look fine from...
How to Write Your Life Story Without Reliving the Pain | Memoir Writing for Women
Have you ever wanted to write your life story but stopped because you thought, “What if I’m not interesting enough?” or “What if people judge me?” or “What if writing it brings all the pain back?”In this episode, Julie Fairhurst shares a...
Aaronna Martin: Honest Motherhood, Loneliness & Finding Your People
Loneliness can be one of the strangest parts of motherhood. You can be doing school drop-offs, standing at the park, surrounded by people, and still feel like a real connection is missing.In this episode of Women Like Me Stories &...
Starting Over at 40: From Single Mom Scramble to eBay, Etsy & Author Success | Kira Hartley Klinger
Starting over at 40 is rarely a clean reset. Most of the time, it is a messy rebuild while life keeps moving.In this episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with entrepreneur, author, and speak...
Christine Dillard: Surviving Coercive Control, Gaslighting & Emotional Abuse
You can be the person who commands the boardroom and still feel like you are disappearing at home.In this powerful episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Christine Dillard, author of...
Feminine Wealth for Women Entrepreneurs | Money Mindset, Sales & Intuition with Shakti Sharma
You can have the MBA, the title, the polished life on paper, and still feel a hollow ache you cannot explain.In this episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with Shakti Sharma, founder of ...
Jo Ann Fawcett: Narcissistic Abuse, Codependency & Reclaiming Yourself After Toxic Marriage
Seven marriages can sound like a headline, but Jo Ann Fawcett’s story is really about something quieter and harder: how easy it is to confuse loyalty with losing yourself.In this episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fa...
