When life feels “too much,” is it chaos—or your unconscious trying to get your attention? In this intimate solo episode, Julie Ann shares a raw, real-time season of upheaval—relationship rupture, a retreat venue destroyed by a storm, tech meltdowns—and the wild synchronicity that placed her face-to-face with Daniel at the exact moment she needed support.

Using the “Matrix” metaphor, she explores how unconscious stories quietly direct our choices, relationships, money patterns, and even our “chance” encounters. You’ll learn why awareness is the first key to stop repeating pain-loops and how reflective writing becomes a portal back to purpose.

Julie Ann also unveils a new jungle-kissed writers’ retreat space in Sayulita—six soulful casitas, ocean views, and a quiet that invites your story to speak. If you’ve been sensing it’s time to meet the part of you writing from the shadows, this episode is your nudge: your unconscious is directing the movie… until you pick up the pen.

What You'll Hear:

• Your unconscious is the director. Conscious goals matter—but background stories cue the scenes.
• Synchronicity isn’t random. “Chance” meetings often mirror what your deeper story is trying to resolve.
• Patterns point to purpose. Recurring relationship/money/career loops reveal lesson-lines you’re meant to learn.
• Awareness breaks the spell. Naming the pattern is step one to changing the script.
• Write to rewire. Reflective writing externalizes the story, creates choice, and opens the portal to soul purpose.
• Environment matters. Retreat space, silence, and nature amplify remembrance, clarity, and creative flow.

---- New Retreat Venue (Sayulita): 6 private Mexican casitas set in tropical gardens, ocean-view group space, jungle walk to a secluded beach.

• First Retreat Dates: November 8 (5 weeks away from recording).
• Accommodation: Private casitas; sharing option from $1497 USD

Join “Sayulita Soul Writers”: Explore your soul stories—whether for your own healing, a book chapter, or your full manuscript.

Episode themes: unconscious programming, synchronicity, pattern recognition, writing as medicine, destiny vs. choice.

Ready to explore your stories and stop repeating old loops? Come write with us in Mexico.

Meet the Host: Julie Ann

Julie Ann is a publishing oracle and storytelling midwife who helps soul-led leaders birth books that awaken, heal, and transform.

With over 17 years in the publishing industry, she has guided more than 300 authors to write and publish nonfiction works that shift paradigms and reclaim truth. She is the founder of Influence Publishing, now evolved into The House of Story Medicine — Her gift is sacred listening — not just to words, but to what lives beneath them. She perceives the deeper current beneath your story, attuned to the moments where your voice trembles with truth. She is the eye of soul — the one who sees the unseen, holds the unspoken, and midwifes your message into clarity

Julie Ann is the host of the podcast Your Story is Your Portal, a sacred container for storytellers, seekers, and soul-led leaders ready to speak the story they were born to tell.

These are not interviews. These are activations.

Each episode is a portal — a moment of recognition, a mirror of becoming, a reclamation of voice and Soul Purpose.

Her TEDx talk has reached over 100,000 viewers, and she’s been featured on international television, radio, and in major press for her visionary work in authorship, voice activation, and transformational publishing.

She is also the author of Around the World in Seven Years, a bestselling memoir chronicling her global pilgrimage of personal awakening and soul-led leadership.

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