Lessons from Wildlife on Abundance (Part 2) with Julie Steelman

Say YES to Your Soul

Rejoin Julie Steelman and your host Tessa Lynne Alburn, as they continue to discuss connecting with the wild instinct within. In this insightful podcast, financial freedom trailblazer Julie recounts her journey from corporate life to wildlife photography, delving into the profound lessons gleaned from nature. Together with host Tessa, they explore the essence of instinct, choice, and personal power. Julie vividly illustrates how immersing oneself in activities that evoke joy and oneness—whether wildlife photography or deep-sea diving—can lead to heightened awareness and inner guidance. They discuss the importance of prioritizing soul-driven decisions over fear and external expectations, advocating for personal sovereignty as a pathway to prosperity. Through empowering anecdotes and practical wisdom, Julie inspires listeners to embrace their innate instincts, commit to soulful living, and co-create a world anchored in compassion and authenticity.

The hosts explore the fear of facing certain feelings or appearing a certain way as obstacles to women embracing their sovereignty.

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• The value of listening and nurturing intuitive signals in business
• The importance of practicing activities that help transcend the "monkey mind" and connect with instinctual awareness
• Julie and Tessa touch on the experience of oneness in nature
• Challenges the assumption that individuals are the ones initiating action in the universe, suggesting instead that they are often being influenced
• The importance of making choices aligned with one's soul and standing by those decisions confidently

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Julie is a financial freedom trailblazer who ditched corporate life to become a wildlife photographer and start a business called the Prosperous Feminine for midlife entrepreneurs who want income and financial stability so they can live life on their own terms.

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Tessa Lynne Alburn believes that every woman has the ability to learn to express their true voice, be heard, and fulfill their dreams.

Tessa is a soul connection business coach, author, podcast host and explorer.

Her mission is to help women entrepreneurs bring their ideas and authentic feminine voices into the world, so they make a real difference and receive compensation that reflects their brilliance!

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Transcript

Julie (31:40):

for anyone listening, what's the thing that brings you the greatest joy or puts you in a place of the highest nourishment that will be your thing? Mine is wildlife. And I transcend domains when I'm with them.

If when you go on safari with me, I will tell you, when we're in a lion pride, I'm not gonna be talking to you. And it's not me being rude. I am fully in their energy field. And it's a oneness that happens.

Tessa (32:16):

Yes.

Julie (32:17):

And it could be with a garden, it could be with painting, it could be with singing, it could be with that thing where you feel most alive and more you practice that and pay attention to the way that resonates with you, the way you can get beyond monkey mind, the way you stop thinking about everything and assessing everything and judging everything and analyzing everything. It's like, you know me, Tessa, I'm in the ocean with sharks and big marine mammals and I'm on heavy task load. Right. Because

Tessa (32:48):

Mm-Hmm. ,

Julie (32:48):

I'm holding my breath. I'm on, I'm free diving and I've got a camera and I'm watching animals and I'm in a habitat where humans don't really work very well. So it's a heavy task load. It requires my entire full body awareness and instinct to be in that situation.

Tessa (33:09):

Absolutely. And of course, you know, being in the ocean is one of the places where I...

Julie (33:14):

Yeah.

Tessa (33:15):

Have that experience of oneness. And somebody had asked me to describe it to them a few weeks ago, and it just gave me such pleasure just to attempt to do that. Right. But there, we, it's not limited to these extreme things.

Julie (33:32):

No.

Tessa (33:32):

We can have that experience anywhere in our lives, should we have the commitment and the intention to do so. And the skills like having practiced it.

Julie (33:44):

Yeah, I agree with that. And I, everything I've learned from the wildlife has everything to do with my success. And you know, when a leopard comes out and she's hunting, the first thing she does is sit and listen for about 30 minutes before she makes a move.

Tessa (34:01):

Mm-Hmm. .

Julie (34:02):

And I'll do that with my business. I'll be like, Ooh, I'm feeling something in the field. And I'll, I'll like, notice something's trying to get my attention and I'll like move away from distractions and othering and like go pay attention and nurture and tease that energy forward. What are you trying to tell me? What do you want me to know? To me, we have this mad assumption that we are pinging the universe and I think it's so wrong, wrong. I think we're being pinged . And so like I'll sit and use the skillset of a leopardes who's sitting and listening and go, people on my list want something I haven't yet given them. And I like start to tease that and entertain that and flirt with that. What is that? What is that? You don't think we do enough of our own instinct thing and following our own guidance? And it's why we're in this big sovereignty mess as women and we're rising yet we still are under not financially influencing economics and you know, why we're not fully living life on our own terms.

Tessa (35:23):

I hear you and it seems like one of the things that gets in the way of women being in their sovereignty and owning that is like the fear of what might come up on their way there. You know, the fear of a feeling that they aren't wanting to have or the fear of appearing a certain way. Do you have any specific guidance or tips for our listeners today? It could be around that or something else.

Julie (36:11):

Yeah, I think the body doesn't know the difference between fear and enthusiasm. So I think we need to challenge what we say we're experiencing as fear. And I think before any and all of this, you have to make a choice in a commitment to following the call of your soul. Like to me, that's the soul work to do.

Tessa (36:41):

Yes.

Julie (36:42):

And that, that you revere your own knowing over anything and anyone else. It doesn't mean you go blow up relationships, it just means that you go, I need to take that in, or I need a minute, or, let me think about that, or I need to process that and like buy time.

Tessa (36:58):

Exactly.

Julie (36:59):

And for me, my reset, I come back to the quote of my life, which is marry Oliver, which is let the soft animal of your body love what it loves to make it okay. To love what you love in the way you love it.

Tessa (37:26):

Ooh, yes. Beautiful. You know, I'm gonna suggest there's also, I love the things that you just stated around the choice and the commitment and then and the power of that. Right. And I think one of the other things that, that gives us when we do that, when we're listening to our soul, and I know you know this inside now, but it's that we also get to just stand by a decision.

Julie (38:00):

Yeah.

Tessa (38:01):

Right? And so as leaders as whether we're a leader of a household or a community or whatever it is, a department, a class making decisions or just the leader of your life, right. Rather than feeling like there's a being a defended animal backed into a corner. Ugh. Right?

Julie (38:25):

Yeah.

Tessa (38:25):

To be just in your no or your yes or your need. This is what I need right now. That's not right for me. I I'm getting my clear guidance. Boom. There's no argument.

Julie (38:39):

No, there's no argument. And it will require you to break up with people pleasing .

Tessa (38:48):

You know, it'll really, you weren't supposed to say that .

Julie (38:52):

No, I'm gonna say it because

Tessa (38:54):

I'm teasing. Yes.

Julie (38:55):

What's affecting, like, we're not doing that right ,

Tessa (38:57):

Right? No, we, it, it, it has to be be part of it. Absolutely.

Julie (39:01):

We're bartering right for inclusion or bartering for bonding, you know, which I've just seen myself at a whole new level in the last couple month in a particular circumstance that went a certain direction. [AUDIOGRAM FOR EPISODE 33] And it was just like, whoa. Like where are you abdicating? Where are you Acquiescing is the places that you're not listening. And I get that it can be scary and it will take audacity. It will take moxie. It won't be easy, but it'll be the most fulfilling thing you ever do. And we are living in a time that is so chaotic that it's also catalyzing if you're willing to look at it like that. And we're in triage. We are in a sense of urgency. And if you're not gonna go for your...