Star Potential

What does it really mean to believe in yourself — especially when life has brought both loss and beauty to your path?

In this heartfelt conversation, I’m joined by Rachel Gray Safyurtlu, author of Dixy the Pixy, a children’s book that encourages kids (and adults) to embrace self-belief. Together, we explore how grief becomes part of the fabric of our stories, not something to “get over,” but something that shapes the way we show up, trust life’s timing, and share our gifts with the world.

Rachel opens up about her own journey of weaving love, loss, and creativity into her work — and how Dixy the Pixy came to life as a reflection of courage, play, and the reminder that our gifts bloom when we come home to ourselves.

✨ Whether you’re navigating your own grief, reflecting on your creative path, or simply need encouragement to believe in yourself, this episode will leave you feeling seen, inspired, and uplifted.

More about our guest:

Rachel Gray Safyurtlu is a Holistic Grief Coach, Grief Educator, Grief Movement Guide, and bereaved mother. She holds a Masters degree in Counseling and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Her passion lies in supporting individuals and couples through all types of loss. Rachel is also an author. She loves sharing her knowledge and insights on wellness, personal growth, and grief through writing, reaching those of all ages.

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https://www.instagram.com/the.holistic.grief.coach/

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Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
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What if the only thing holding you back isn’t reality itself—but the beliefs you’ve been assuming are true?

This episode explores how our beliefs quietly shape every part of our reality. Drawing on my experience in sales and recruiting, I share how assumptions influence outcomes even more than skill or strategy. We unpack how our “default settings” — the quiet assumptions we make about people, opportunities, and ourselves — become self-fulfilling prophecies. 

You’ll walk away with reflection prompts to uncover where your beliefs might be holding you back — and how shifting them can change your results, your relationships, and your reality.

Book mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom/dp/1878424319

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Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

Your soul is calling, but are you listening? In this episode, we dive into the quiet cues that show you’re in a Soul Shift and explore the subtle ways your soul nudges you toward growth, deeper alignment, and transformation. Tune in if you’re ready to start noticing the signals, trusting the process, and stepping into the next chapter of your life.

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Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

Your body, your emotions, and your energy field are always talking to you. But here’s the twist—they’re all telling the same story, just in different languages. In this episode, I share how to recognize the patterns across these three messengers, and why learning their shared language can bring powerful clarity to your healing and your purpose. Think of it as learning to hear your life in surround sound.

Share your takeaway with me on Instagram @thejuliejo! 

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

This week, I share the full-circle moment of meeting my spiritual teacher, Aaron Abke, whose work first awakened me to the path I’m on today. But the real story isn’t just about meeting him — it’s about how his teaching on reclaiming the parts of ourselves we once abandoned showed up in an unexpected and uncomfortable moment the next day. This episode is about radical responsibility, choosing self-honor over self-abandonment, and learning to walk the talk when it matters most.

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

We’ve been told our purpose is tied to our career — but that belief is too small for the truth of who you are. In this episode, we unpack why purpose isn’t a job description and how your soul reveals your calling through nudges, lessons, and micro-purposes in every season of life. Discover how to expand beyond career identity, embrace your ripple effect, and step into a more fluid, alive understanding of purpose. Includes journaling prompts + guided visualization!

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

What if the very feelings we’ve been taught to avoid are actually the path back to love, safety, and belonging?

In this conversation, I’m joined by creator/facilitator of The Embodied Heart, Bela Crowder, who guides and supports people into intimacy with self, presence, and the courage to feel. Together, we explore the difference between analyzing our emotions and actually being with them, how love is the most transformative force available to us, and what it looks like to live in devotion to the heart.

This episode is an invitation to remember your inherent wholeness and meet life with more authenticity, vitality, and love.

Join Bela at her in-person retreats in California and Kansas, USA, in September 2025!

Connect with Bela and learn more: 

belacrowder.com

instagram.com/belacrowder

More about Bela:

Bela Crowder is a devoted facilitator and guide of The Embodied Heart, a body of work rooted in intimacy, presence, and the courage to feel. After years of numbness and anxiety, she discovered the profound wisdom in learning to truly feel, and now supports others in remembering their inherent wholeness. Through her retreats and programs, Bela invites people into an honest relationship with themselves, opening the way to a life of love, authenticity, and vitality.

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

What if no decision you’ve ever made was truly isolated?
What if every choice, every word, every relationship… was part of a living, breathing web that responds to you?

In this episode, I explore the truth that nothing exists in isolation—every action sends ripples through your body, your relationships, your environment, and even the unseen realms. We’ll look at how positive shifts, like starting a new exercise routine, can transform far more than your physical health… and how unresolved toxicity in one area can quietly echo into every corner of your life.

This is an invitation to zoom out, to witness the hidden patterns, and to begin sending ripples of healing into the whole. Because when you change one thread, the entire tapestry transforms.

Tune in for:
•How to spot the subtle ripple effects in your own life
•Why one small shift can create unexpected breakthroughs
•How to use the “relationship lens” to make more aligned choices
•The simple practice that can turn ripples of disruption into ripples of restoration

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

What if the things you’re putting off—the dreams you say matter, the relationships that feel just out of reach—are actually your soul’s way of pointing you home?

In this heart-expanding episode, my dear friend Desi d'Amani returns for a soulful conversation about managing multiple passions, recalibrating to your home frequency, and navigating life’s seasons with grace. We talk about the power of structure (even for the free-spirited), the invitation within resistance, and why vulnerable, honest relationships are essential for growth.

We explore:
•Why structure isn’t restrictive—it’s supportive
•The deeper reason you might be procrastinating
•What detoxing—physically or emotionally—can teach you
•How to go after multiple passions
•And why “done” really is better than perfect

Whether you’re in a season of expansion or contraction, this conversation is a reminder that your rhythm is sacred, your resistance is wise, and your growth doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s.

Find Desi at:

https://www.instagram.com/dunamisdesi/

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo

What do a massive performance, a honking bus, shouting cops, and my dog’s nervous system have in common? This week, I’m sharing a real-life moment that started with chaos and ended in clarity—just minutes before stepping onstage to sing for 10,000 people.

In this episode, I dive into:
    •    How giving something too much importance can throw us off center
    •    The unexpected wisdom I learned from my dog’s instinct to shake off stress
    •    How nature offers constant clues for emotional regulation
    •    A reminder that the universe often steps in to recalibrate when we cling too tightly

If you’ve ever felt thrown off before a big moment—or needed a spiritual reset in the middle of real-world madness—this one’s for you.

Loved the episode? Share it with a fellow soul traveler or leave a review to help more people find the show.

Send me a text!

Welcome to Star Potential — where we explore what it means to live your evolution in real time.

If something in this episode stirred you, I created a free quiz to help you understand where you are in your personal Soul Shift.

✨ Take the “Are You In a Soul Shift?” quiz here: juliejohughes.com/quiz 

You’ll receive your unique result and a reflection to support your next step.

Work With Me: The Star Power Hour

Do you have something important you’re preparing to communicate, but it doesn’t feel fully alive yet?

Bring me what you’re already working on: a presentation, speech, audition piece, podcast, pitch, social media video, performance, or even an important conversation. During this complimentary one-on-one session, we’ll play with how you’re delivering it, move perfection into the backseat, and uncover the presence, personality, and magnetism underneath it. The people receiving it won’t merely understand you; they feel you.

I’m currently opening a small number of complimentary Star Power Hours while I explore and develop this work. If something immediately came to mind, I’d love to work with you.

Request your complimentary Star Power Hour here: [LET'S PLAY]

Connect:
instagram.com/thejuliejo