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Your Story is Your Portal

Welcome to Your Story Is Your Portal — where conversations open the doorway to explore your own story as a portal to your true soul purpose. Your host is Julie Ann, founder of Influence Publishing, The House of Story Medicine. In each episode, You’ll meet authors, visionaries, and soul-led leaders as Julie Ann reveals the message from their soul. She is a sacred listener and story midwife uncovering the hidden stories. Because the story you are avoiding is the one that will set you free. Enjoy

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29:52

The A–Z of Healing: 26 Ways Your Story Can Change...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/12/06

In this powerful conversation, Julie Ann and guest co-creator Megan announce their new collaborative book project: The A to Z of Healing—a collection of real-life stories from people who chose a different path with their health.Megan brings 20 years of experience as a nurse inside the Western medical system, and shares how her own arthritis diagnosis during the pandemic became a turning point. Faced with the offer of methotrexate (a chemo-adjacent drug that wipes out the immune system), she drew a

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19:30

Collaborative Books: When Many Stories Become One Voice

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2025/11/22

In this solo episode of Your Story is Your Portal, Julie Ann explores the power and purpose behind collaborative books—projects where multiple authors unite around a shared theme to create a single, powerful collection of human experience.From The Women of Worth and Family Tree series in Canada to the upcoming Sayulita Soul Writers projects in Mexico, Julie Ann shares inspiring examples of how these “books of many voices” become living communities—raising funds for causes, amplifying diverse

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23:24

Soul Mapping: Tracing the Stories That Shape Who You Are

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2025/11/08

In this solo episode, Julie Ann invites you on a journey of soul mapping—a transformative process she has developed over 15 years of guiding authors and visionaries to uncover the deeper meaning behind their life stories. Through reflective storytelling and personal examples from her seven “lifetimes” and travels around the world, Julie Ann explores how our environments, beliefs, and life experiences shape who we become.She explains how to use simple tools—like colored pens and large sheets of

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30:38

Trusting the Voice Within: How Intuition Leads to...

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2025/11/01

This episode is a beautiful reminder that your intuition is not a whisper to ignore—it’s your soul’s navigation system. Cheryl Brewster joins Julie Ann to explore what it really means to live intuitively, release burnout, and open to the synchronicities that guide us toward self-mastery and joy.What You’ll Hear:The ABCs of intuition—awareness, breathing, and connecting to the heartWhy trusting your inner guidance can be the antidote to fear, burnout, and perfectionismHow to shift from “caveman

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24:28

Dancing Through Midlife: Move with Confidence and...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/10/25

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 confidenceSimple movement principles (inspired by Argentine tango) that restore balance, posture, and presenceHow to navigate midlife

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37:41

Rethinking “Bestseller”: Why Impact Beats Validation

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2025/10/18

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

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32:10

When Your Unconscious Writes the Script: How...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/10/04

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”

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21:32

Rewrite Your Story - Magic in the Muck

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/09/28

In this heartfelt conversation, Julie Ann sits down with Jennifer Nagel, counsellor, international facilitator, and host ofMagic 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

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11:56

Your Diagnosis Is Not Your Destiny: Change Your...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/09/13

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 sentenceThe exact moment Julie Ann decided to change her story instead of surrendering to fearHealing practices and mindset shifts that guided her recovery

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32:02

From Pills to Purpose: One Nurse's Journey Beyond the...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/09/06

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

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25:12

The Whisper of Your Soul: Slowing Down to Hear Your...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/08/30

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,

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18:26

Manifestation, Clarity & Infinite Possibilities: Why...

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2025/08/23

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

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29:57

Why Your Story Holds the Map to Your Soul Compass

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/08/16

In this heartfelt episode of Your Story is Your Portal, Julie Ann welcomes back Jennifer Nagel—therapist, author, and co-creator of the Soul Compass Retreats. Together, they explore how our life stories are not random, but instead guiding compasses pointing us toward soul alignment and purpose.Jennifer shares her personal journey of navigating her husband’s cancer diagnosis, her own MS diagnosis, and how these pivotal experiences became beacons for resilience, grace, and transformation. Julie Ann

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25:17

The Road Beyond Fear: How Travel Becomes a Portal to...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/08/09

What happens when you step outside of fear — and into the unknown?In this powerful and soul-stirring episode, Julie Ann is joined by Ellen Whiteside, a courageous storyteller whose journey across Europe — mostly by hitchhiking — became an unexpected path to healing, expansion, and personal sovereignty.Ellen shares how her decision to travel alone as a woman, accepting rides from strangers and navigating foreign lands, helped her overcome depression and reconnect with joy. She speaks about the

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35:48

Women who Share Stories Co-Create Together with...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/08/02

We launch our first interview podcast with the concept that shared stories among like-minded women evolve into friendships rooted in curiosity and shared values. In this interview with Jennifer Nagel we trace a friendship that started with a writing retreat seven years ago and a best selling book, to a collaboration of two anthology books and now the evolution of co-creating transformational Soul Compass retreats. We reflect on the medicine of slowing down, the power of presence, and what becomes

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19:19

When You Tell the Story You were Born to Yell, Your...

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/07/26

In this heartfelt solo episode, Julie Ann peels back the layers on the biggest misconception in the publishing world: the idea that a book is a product.With vulnerability and wisdom, she shares her own journey — from writing letters to her grandmother while sailing around the world, to discovering that those very stories held the key to her soul purpose. Along the way, she reveals how many aspiring authors hold themselves back with doubts like “I’m not a good writer” or “my story isn’t interesting

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27:32

Your Story is Your Portal to Your Soul Contract

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/07/20

In this powerful solo episode, Julie Ann reveals the sacred evolution of her publishing company — from product-based to purpose-aligned. She explores how your story is far more than a series of life events — it’s a portal to your soul contract.For anyone standing at the edge of clarity — Julie Ann helps you to understand that a book is not just a project..it a path.What You’ll Hear:Books are not products — they are sacred contracts : Your book is a portal to your soul purpose, not just something to

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28:36

When Your Story Becomes Your Medicine

Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/07/07

In this deeply vulnerable kickoff episode, Julie shares her own awakening — from a life built on status and external expectations to a journey of sacred disruption, radical self-discovery, and spiritual truth. What does it mean to be a conscious rebel? It's not about shouting the loudest, but listening deeply to your soul’s whispers, challenging inherited beliefs, and choosing a life rooted in love, purpose, and inner alignment. This is your invitation to see your story as medicine and your life as

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Your Story is Your Portal ·

2025/07/05

Welcome to Your Story Is Your Portal — where conversations open the doorway to explore your own story as a portal to your true soul purpose.Your host is Julie Ann, founder of Influence Publishing, The House of Story Medicine.In each episode, You’ll meet authors, visionaries, and soul-led leaders as Julie Ann reveals the message from their soul. She is a sacred listener and story midwife uncovering the hidden stories. Because the story you are avoiding is the one that will set you

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