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Ask most people what they want out of life, and you'll get silence — or a vague answer borrowed from someone else's script. Ask them what they don't want, and they can usually answer in seconds. In Day 2 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins makes the case that your "no" list is actually the fastest path to your "yes."
Julie walks through a practical exercise for identifying specific, concrete things you don't want across the key areas of your life, and introduces two additional clarity tools: tracking envy as real data about your desires, and running an honest energy audit to see what actually drains versus fuels you. This episode offers a grounded, actionable process for anyone stuck on the overwhelming question of "what do I actually want."
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
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"What do you want to do with your life?" is one of the biggest questions we ask ourselves - and one of the hardest to actually answer, because most of us try to answer it as if life is one single thing instead of several areas running in parallel. In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins kicks off a week-long series by mapping out the core areas of life worth examining: career and work, health and body, relationships, money and finances, personal growth, fun and recreation, spirituality or meaning, and environment.
Julie explains why dissatisfaction in one area - like career - is often actually a symptom of an unmet need in a completely different area, and why you can't diagnose what's missing in your life until you've separated these categories out. This is the foundational episode for the week, setting up a deeper dive into each life area in the days ahead.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and weeks later, there's a tornado in Texas. In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins takes the butterfly effect out of chaos theory and into everyday life, making the case that small, seemingly insignificant actions can create an outsized impact over time.
Julie explores why we underestimate small moves — sending the email, making the introduction, saying yes to the coffee chat — because they never feel like the beginning of something big in the moment. She unpacks why real change is usually compounding rather than dramatic, and why the small habit or brave post you dismiss as "too small to matter" might be exactly the one that changes everything.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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What if the things you surround yourself with are either supporting the life you want to build or quietly taking up space in it?
In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie shares an unexpected lesson she learned from her father, a man who grew up in the projects of New York City but believed deeply in investing in quality.
He owned custom suits, designer shirts, great golf clubs, and carefully chosen pieces that made him feel confident and put together. His philosophy was simple: you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
But this episode is not about buying expensive clothes or filling your closet with designer labels.
It is about quality over quantity, intentional living, and choosing what deserves space in your life.
Julie reflects on how her father's approach influenced her own confidence, including the memorable red suit she bought early in her career that made her feel like she belonged in the room before she completely believed it herself.
Sometimes what we wear, use, and surround ourselves with can help us step into the person we are becoming.
But there is another side to the story.
Over time, it is easy to accumulate things simply because they were on sale, came home as swag, represented a memory, or seemed like something we were supposed to want. Suddenly our closets, cabinets, homes, and lives become filled with things that are not actually adding anything.
And clutter does not only take up physical space.
It can take up mental and emotional space too.
In This Episode, You'll Discover:
It's Not About Looking Rich
Investing in quality does not mean going into debt to look successful.
It does not mean covering yourself in luxury brands or believing expensive possessions make someone more valuable.
It means becoming intentional about what you buy, what you keep, and what you allow to occupy your space.
Sometimes one great jacket that makes you feel confident serves you better than ten things you bought because they were a bargain.
Sometimes letting go is just as powerful as acquiring something new.
And this lesson goes far beyond the closet.
Because the same question applies to our calendars, commitments, relationships, and how we spend our time.
Is this adding to the life I'm building, or is it simply taking up space?
Your Brave Move
Choose one category today.
Maybe it is your closet, shoes, handbags, kitchen cabinets, books, or that collection of water bottles that somehow keeps reproducing when you are not looking.
Ask yourself:
What is genuinely adding value to my life, and what is simply taking up space?
Then make one intentional decision.
Invest in something that supports who you are becoming, or release something that no longer does.
Not for appearances.
Not because someone else says you should.
Do it for the life you are actually building.
Sometimes living more confidently is not about adding another thing.
Sometimes your next brave move is creating room for what matters
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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Melinda French Gates has spoken candidly about losing her own voice while working alongside a strong, dominant partner, and the panic attacks and unsettling dreams that eventually forced her to listen to herself again. In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins explores Melinda's journey: the dream of her house crumbling, her need for solitude to hear her own truth, her belief that we heal by talking to one another, and her deep-rooted spiritual practice of silence and faith in action.
Julie unpacks Melinda's now-famous advice — that in moments of fear, the real move isn't to lean back into safety, but to lean forward into courage — and offers one brave move to help you apply that same wisdom in your own life today.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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What do you do when the experts tell you one thing, but everything inside you is telling you something else?
Do you trust their experience?
Or do you trust yourself?
In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie shares the powerful story of IT Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima and the high-stakes decision that helped change the future of her company.
Jamie had spent years building a beauty brand based on something she deeply believed was missing from the industry: real women, real skin, real challenges, and products that actually worked for them.
Then came an opportunity that could make or break the business.
Jamie was given approximately ten minutes on QVC and needed thousands of units of inventory to make it happen. She has shared that 22 banks rejected their financing requests before the 23rd, when the SBA approved the loan they needed. If those products didn't sell, Jamie and her husband would be responsible for the inventory.
And then the experts told her how she should present the product.
Their advice ran counter to the very thing Jamie believed made her brand different.
Sitting in a rental car outside QVC, with her company's future on the line, Jamie made a decision:
She would trust herself.
Instead of presenting a polished version of beauty, she showed viewers her real skin and demonstrated the product on air. Her first QVC appearance became the breakthrough IT Cosmetics desperately needed, with the product selling out in roughly ten minutes.
But this episode isn't really about makeup.
It's about self-trust.
It's about what happens when someone with more experience, more credentials, or more authority gives you advice that doesn't align with what you know about your vision, your customers, or yourself.
Expert advice can be incredibly valuable.
But expertise is often built on what has worked before.
Your idea might be about what comes next.
In This Episode:
Your Brave Move
Think about one decision you're facing right now.
Maybe someone has told you what you should do.
Maybe you've gotten advice from a mentor, consultant, colleague, family member, or industry expert.
And maybe something about that advice doesn't feel right.
Don't immediately dismiss the advice.
But don't immediately dismiss yourself either.
Ask:
Is this advice based on what is right for my vision, or is it based on what has worked for someone else?
Then give your own experience, intuition, and understanding of the people you serve a seat at the table.
You don't need to have all the answers to trust yourself enough to ask another question.
And sometimes the bravest move is deciding that the expert in the room isn't the only expert in the room.
You know something too.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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We all carry labels we never chose. "The quiet one." "The shy one." "The one who isn't good at this." In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins explores a phrase from her friend, weight loss coach Corinne Crabtree, that changed how she thinks about her own history: "Your past is your teacher, not a fortune teller."
Julie breaks down the difference between learning from your past and letting it predict your future, why old stories always come back but don't have to define you, and why reinvention is possible at any age, not just in your twenties. This episode is a reminder that the labels handed to you as a child were never a life sentence.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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Ever leave a conversation thinking "I should have said that"? Julie DeLucca-Collins breaks down why women default to silence, why confidence is the outcome of assertiveness rather than a prerequisite, and the exact language shift, starting with banning "I'm sorry," that can change how you show up in every conversation.
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Confidence and assertiveness are deeply connected, but not in the order most people think. In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins explains why we don't wait to feel confident before speaking up — confidence is actually the result of taking assertive action, not the thing that comes first.
Julie unpacks why so many women default to people-pleasing and silence in the moment, then find the perfect words hours later, and shares a personal story about asking for a promotion and raise that changed her own default mode. She also breaks down practical language shifts inspired in part by Jefferson Fisher's book The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More, including her client rule against defaulting to "I'm sorry," swapping apology for gratitude, and cutting unnecessary filler words that dilute your message.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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What if one hormone was quietly influencing your sleep, blood sugar, mood, immune system, and even where your body stores fat?
That hormone is cortisol, often called the body's primary stress hormone.
Cortisol isn't bad. In fact, we need it. It helps us respond quickly when something demands our attention, whether that's slamming on the brakes or powering through a deadline.
The problem comes when our stress response doesn't seem to shut off.
In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie explores what she learned about cortisol, chronic stress, and the ways prolonged stress can affect how we feel physically and emotionally.
From disrupted sleep and brain fog to blood sugar changes, belly fat, and mood, cortisol touches far more systems in the body than many of us realize.
And if you've ever snapped at someone over something ridiculously small when you're already overwhelmed, Julie has been there too.
The good news? You don't need an elaborate wellness protocol or a cabinet full of expensive supplements to begin supporting your body's stress response.
Julie shares five practical habits that research suggests may help us better manage stress and cortisol.
In This Episode:
Your Brave Move
Don't try to do all five things today.
Pick one.
Maybe tonight you stop scrolling a little earlier and create a bedtime routine.
Maybe you take a walk.
Maybe you practice a few rounds of slow breathing.
Maybe you call someone you love.
Or maybe you make yourself a nourishing meal instead of skipping it because you're busy.
Then celebrate the fact that you did it.
Because small actions repeated consistently are what start changing our lives.
You don't need a perfect protocol.
You need a place to begin.
Consistency creates traction.
And one small brave move today can make it easier to make another one tomorrow.
This episode is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. If you're concerned about your cortisol levels, chronic stress, depression, or other health symptoms, speak with a qualified healthcare professional.
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Brave Moves is a daily confidence and personal growth podcast for ambitious women, women entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to overcome self-doubt, build resilience, and take bold action in business and life. Each short, practical episode blends mindset science, decision-making psychology, and real-life stories to help you strengthen your confidence, rewire negative thought patterns, and create meaningful forward momentum.
If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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What happens when someone believes in you before the rest of the world can see what is possible?
In 1977, Dick Hoyt wasn't a runner. But when his son Rick, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair, wanted to participate in a five-mile benefit race, Dick agreed to push him.
They finished next to last.
That night, Rick typed a sentence that changed everything:
"Dad, when I'm running, it feels like I am not handicapped."
Dick started running.
What followed became one of the most extraordinary father-son stories in endurance sports. Together, Team Hoyt competed in more than 1,000 races and endurance events, including dozens of Boston Marathons, triathlons, Ironman competitions, and even a journey across the United States.
But this episode of Brave Moves isn't really about running.
It's about what happens when someone is willing to become the motor for another person's dream.
Julie shares the remarkable story of Dick and Rick Hoyt, beginning with Rick's childhood, when doctors told his parents he should be institutionalized, through his mother's determination to give him a way to communicate, his education, and the race that ultimately changed both his and his father's lives.
Julie also reflects on the people who become our teammates in life. The ones who help carry us through seasons we could never navigate alone.
For Julie, one of those people is her husband, Dan. Together, they have built a business, supported the dreams and voices of others, and navigated the responsibilities of caring for family.
Because sometimes bravery isn't about doing something entirely on your own.
Sometimes the brave move is letting someone run beside you.
And sometimes it's deciding to become someone else's motor.
In This Episode:
Your Brave Move
Think about one person in your life who is trying to move toward something.
A dream.
A goal.
A new chapter.
A version of themselves they haven't quite been able to reach alone.
What would it look like for you to be their motor for one mile?
You don't have to run an Ironman.
You don't have to solve everything for them.
Sometimes you simply have to show up and push.
And then ask yourself the other question:
Who has been your motor?
Who believed in you, encouraged you, carried something with you, or helped you keep moving when doing it alone felt impossible?
Send Julie a message through the link in the show notes and tell her about the person who has been your motor, or the person whose motor you've had the privilege of being.
Because brave moves don't always happen alone.
Sometimes the most extraordinary things happen when two people decide:
Why not us?
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If you are navigating career pivots, burnout, reinvention, or leadership growth, Brave Moves gives you the tools to think differently, act bravely, and design a future aligned with your values and vision. Because confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build, one brave move at a time.
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Brave Moves is a daily personal growth and confidence podcast for ambitious women, entrepreneurs, and leaders ready to build self-trust, overcome self-doubt, and take bold action in business and…
Confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build through mindset, habits, and small courageous decisions made consistently over time.
Each short, actionable episode delivers practical tools for personal development, leadership growth, mindset mastery, and habit formation. You’ll learn how to quiet negative self-talk, make aligned decisions, build momentum, and develop the confidence to pursue your goals with clarity and courage.
If you’re a woman in business, an aspiring entrepreneur, or someone navigating reinvention, Brave Moves will help you strengthen your mindset, increase resilience, and create real forward progress.
Because brave doesn’t mean fearless. It means choosing growth over comfort and action over hesitation.
Tune in daily for motivation, self-improvement strategies, leadership insights, and the confidence boost you need to make your next brave move.