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

Facebook (Personal): facebook.com/diana.d.devi

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dianadevi/

Instagram: instagram.com/anagelesslife/

Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UC9RMEbTnK8ZltLQvhUpEsNQ

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@anagelesslife

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.

Connect with the...

In this heartfelt conversation, Julie Ann sits down with Jennifer Nagel, counsellor, international facilitator, and host of Magic in the Muck: A Soul’s Compass for Change. Together they explore how life’s unexpected storms — both literal and metaphorical — can dismantle carefully laid plans and, at the same time, open portals to deeper wisdom, resilience, and new beginnings. From a tropical storm that shifted the foundation of her retreat space in Mexico to the greater theme of navigating chaos and transformation, Julie and Jennifer share how we can find meaning, healing, and even magic when life feels most uncertain.

Key Takeaways

• How sudden upheavals — like a storm or a collapsed retreat plan — can serve as “foreign elements” that initiate transformation.
• Why chaos, though uncomfortable, is an essential stage on the path of change and growth.
• The role of inner resources and soul-aligned practices in helping us find stability when the ground feels like it’s shifting beneath us.
• The importance of flexibility, creativity, and trust when vision meets disruption.
• How our personal stories, even the messy ones, can become portals to healing, connection, and collective wisdom.

About the Guest: Jennifer Nagel

Jennifer Nagel is a soul-centered counsellor, international facilitator, and best-selling author who has spent over two decades helping people navigate chaos, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and create meaningful, authentic lives. Deeply rooted in the Satir Model and experiential approaches to transformation, Jennifer brings a grounded presence, sharp insight, and a deep trust in the resources of the human spirit.

Her work spans continents and cultures — she has led programs and trainings in Canada, China, Kenya, Thailand, and Mexico, and currently serves as Director of Trainer Development with the Satir Institute of the Pacific. She is also senior faculty with the Banmen Satir China Management Centre.

Jennifer is the author of Magic in the Muck: Finding Grace in Chaos, co-author of Virginia Satir’s Evolving Legacy, and founder and co-author of the collaborative books Therapists Are Human Too and The Healing Journey to Authenticity, created through book-writing retreats she co-facilitated in Mexico.

Through her podcast, Magic in the Muck: A Soul’s Compass for Change, Jennifer offers honest, embodied conversations on healing, growth, and the soul’s journey — inviting you to navigate uncertainty with strength, purpose, and presence.

Learn more: http://www.jennifernagelcounselling.com

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...

What if your diagnosis wasn’t the end of your story, but the beginning of a new one? In this solo episode, Julie Ann reveals how she refused a life-altering surgery, chose a different path of healing, and discovered the power we each hold to rewrite our story.

What You’ll Hear:

• How a devastating spinal diagnosis became a turning point, not a life sentence
• The exact moment Julie Ann decided to change her story instead of surrendering to fear
• Healing practices and mindset shifts that guided her recovery without surgery
• Why your story is never fixed — and how you can choose a new narrative anytime
• A powerful reminder that your voice and choices shape the life you live

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.

Connect with the Host:

Website: www.influencepublishing.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/InfluencePublishing

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julieannpv

Instagram: instagram.com/julieinspires

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In this soul-stirring episode, Julie Ann sits down with Megan, a seasoned ICU nurse turned transformational storyteller, to explore her powerful journey from medical burnout to reclaiming her voice through story. After 20 years in a system that no longer aligned with her integrity, Megan asked the question that changed everything:

"What else is there?"

What unfolded was a radical healing journey, an empowering book-in-the-making, and the birth of her true purpose as a health concierge and advocate for informed, soul-aligned care.

This episode is a portal—into remembering your power, your options, and the truth that your story might just save someone else's life.

What You’ll Hear:

• Your Story is Your Portal to Purpose - Megan’s journey from burnout in the medical field to writing a transformational book reveals how personal stories hold the map to deeper meaning and aligned mission.
• Disillusionment is a Catalyst, Not a Curse - Realizing she could no longer morally participate in a broken system, Megan’s inner conflict became the ignition for seeking truth, integrity, and new ways to serve.
• There Are Other Options - When offered an immune-suppressing drug, Megan's refusal led her to natural healing through nutrition and supplementation—a decision that changed her body and her beliefs.
• The Power of Asking the Right Questions - Whether using Google or AI, the quality of your question determines the scope of your answers. This episode uncovers how language shapes access to healing knowledge.
• Healing Happens When the Soul Leads - Megan’s retreat experience reveals how writing your story from the soul isn’t just therapy—it’s legacy. Her book is becoming a blueprint for others to reclaim agency in their healing.
• Your Brain is Your First Healer - From visualizing a pain-free life to inspiring patients with mental imagery, Megan demonstrates how belief, mindset, and narrative influence physical outcomes.

Featured Guest: Megan Timmins

Megan Timmins is a former ICU nurse turned soul-led storyteller, health concierge, and advocate for conscious, holistic healing. After two decades inside the walls of Western medicine, Megan experienced a profound awakening that changed everything. Realizing that the system she served was keeping people sick—not helping them heal—she made the courageous decision to walk a new path.

Through her own health crisis, she discovered the power of natural remedies, mindset medicine, and the body’s innate intelligence. Her story—once buried under burnout—is now a beacon for others seeking “the what else”: the other options, the deeper questions, the truth behind true healing.

Megan is currently writing her first book, birthed during a transformative Book in a Week retreat in Mexico, where she reclaimed her voice and purpose. She now supports others in becoming empowered stewards of their health—offering guidance, insight, and a compassionate presence to those ready to explore a more aligned way of healing.

Whether through her writing, speaking, or sacred listening, Megan’s mission is simple but powerful: To help others remember that they have a choice—and that their story holds the key.

Follow Megan:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megan_timmins1985?

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...

In this episode of Your Story is Your Portal, Julie Ann reflects on the power of stillness, environment, and story as pathways to discovering your soul’s true purpose. Sharing stories of women on the move, lessons from nature in Mexico, and her own experiences of grief and healing, she explores why creating quiet time is not a luxury but a necessity. This is an invitation to stop running, step away from chaos, and listen to the whispers of your soul — because every life event, even the painful ones, is a portal leading you toward your higher calling.

6 Key Takeaways:

1. Quiet Time is Essential: In our busy, multitasking lives, the soul can’t be heard without intentional stillness. Creating space for reflection opens the doorway to clarity.
2. Your Environment Shapes Your Soul Voice: Changing your environment — whether walking on a beach, listening to the jungle, or journaling in stillness — makes it possible to hear the whispers of your soul.
3. Life is Not Random: Every experience, including grief and challenges, carries wisdom. They are portals guiding you toward your soul purpose.
4. From Chaos to Compass: Without slowing down, we repeat cycles and remain stuck. Retreats, ritual, and conscious pauses become compasses pointing you to your “true north.”
5. Your Story Holds Your Wisdom: Life lessons, both joyful and painful, are not meant to be hidden — they are tools to empower others. Writing, storytelling, or retreats help reveal those patterns.
6. Stop Waiting, Start Listening: Procrastination keeps you from your soul path. The whispers of your soul grow louder until you finally act. Your story is waiting to become 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 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.

Connect with the Host:

Website: www.influencepublishing.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/InfluencePublishing

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julieannpv

Instagram:

In this powerful solo episode of Your Story is Your Portal, Julie Ann explores the mystery and paradox of manifesting. Do we need absolute clarity to bring our dreams to life—or is the real magic in surrendering to infinite possibilities?

Julie Ann shares her deeply personal journey of manifesting a retreat center in Puerto Vallarta—born from grief, clarity, and surrender—and contrasts it with the expansive way she has lived most of her life: open to whatever the universe had in store.

This episode leads you straight to the heart of why stepping away from your daily environment is essential. When you immerse yourself in the wild beauty of Mexico—fire ceremonies, ocean breezes, jungle stillness—you begin to access either the clarity or the surrender your soul is calling for.

And that’s exactly what the Soul Compass Retreat in Sayulita, Mexico offers: a space to uncover your true north, stop procrastinating, and finally listen to your soul’s calling.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign, this is it.

🔑 6 Key Takeaways:

• Clarity is power – Manifestation requires absolute clarity, focus, and embodiment of your vision.
• Surrender is magic – Sometimes the deepest manifestation comes from letting go and allowing the universe to reveal infinite possibilities.
• Environment shapes clarity – You cannot gain true clarity while stuck in your daily routine—you need to step out of your comfort zone.
• Manifestation is embodied living – Living “as if” (moving into the dream before it’s real) collapses possibilities into reality.
• The soul speaks in the second half of life – After years of proving ourselves, our soul begins to whisper its true calling—if we pause long enough to listen.
• Retreat is the portal – A Soul Compass Retreat offers both the clarity of manifestation and the surrender to possibility—helping you uncover your life purpose in a supportive, transformational environment.

👉 Ready to answer your soul’s call?

Join Julie Ann and Jennifer in Sayulita, Mexico:

7-Day Immersive Retreat (Sept 13–20)

3-Day Soul Compass Weekend (Sept 20–23)

Your story is your portal. Your soul is waiting.

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...