This conversation is a wake-up call for women navigating midlife changes who refuse to be told “you’re just getting old.” Diana shares practical, body-led tools—from movement to daily habits—that help you reconnect with yourself, ease symptoms, and feel powerful again.

What You’ll Hear:

• Why reconnecting to your body’s signals is the fastest path to energy, clarity, and confidence
• Simple movement principles (inspired by Argentine tango) that restore balance, posture, and presence
• How to navigate midlife symptoms without settling for “that’s aging”—and what to try instead
• The footwear and alignment basics that reduce pain and make everyday movement feel good
• A daily rhythm you can actually keep: small, consistent actions that compound into big results
• Diana’s personal turning point—and how getting “angry enough to figure it out” became fuel for healing

Featured Guest: Diana Devi

Diana Devi is a clinical pharmacist with over 35 years of experience and an Argentine tango dancer and instructor. Blending her deep scientific expertise with the art of movement, Diana helps women understand how their bodies evolve with age—and how to support those changes with mindset, lifestyle, and joyful motion. Her unique approach empowers midlife women to stay vibrant, strong, and confidently connected to themselves.

Follow Diana:

Website: http://anagelesslife.com

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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...

In this solo episode, Julie Ann unpacks the industry’s obsession with the “New York Times Bestseller” label and invites authors to re-center on purpose, impact, and discoverability. She explains how bestseller status became an ego-driven proxy for success, contrasts that with a service-driven definition of success, and shares practical guidance on titling, subtitling, and launching so your book is actually found by the people it’s meant to help. You’ll also hear a powerful story from one of Julie Ann’s early authors—and a reminder that changing even one life is real success.

What We Cover

• The difference between validation-seeking and service-driven publishing
• How lists like the NYT are curated (not pure volume-based) and why chasing them can distort your choices
• Why Amazon category strategy and searchability matter for discoverability
• Titling/subtitling that clearly signals your promise to the reader
• A packaging mindset: cover, subtitle, back cover copy, categories, and keywords as “the window in the box”
• A values reset: define success by the lives your book changes

6 Key Takeaways

1. Impact > Labels: Real author success is measured by reader transformation, not a status tag.
2. NYT ≠ Pure Sales: Lists like the New York Times are curated and selective; they’re not a simple scoreboard of total copies sold.
3. Be Findable: Optimize your title, subtitle, description, and categories with the exact terms your ideal reader would search.
4. Amazon Strategy Matters: Hitting relevant Amazon categories (even briefly) boosts visibility so the right readers—and media—can find you.
5. Package the Promise: Treat your cover, subtitle, and back cover like packaging that clearly shows “what’s inside” and who it’s for.
6. Choose Yourself: Don’t contort your voice to win contests or gatekeepers; publish authentically and let your story be medicine for you and your readers

Memorable Story

Julie Ann recalls publishing Dr. Jerry Fewster’s Don’t Let Your Kids Be Normal. His metric for success? If even one parent says the book changed how they’ll raise their child, that ripple is success.

Practical Prompts for Authors

• Who exactly am I helping with this book?
• What would my ideal reader type into Google/Amazon on the hardest day of their journey?
• Do my title and subtitle use those words clearly?
• Which three Amazon categories best match my reader’s search path?
• Does my back cover copy state the problem, promise, and path?

If you’re ready to shape a findable book that serves your reader—and your purpose—join Julie Ann at the Book in a Week retreat in Sayulita, Mexico. Your story is your portal.

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...

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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