Welcome to the Rise Podcast. I'm Rachel Hollis and I've built a multi-million dollar

media company with a high school diploma and a Google search bar. Each week we'll be

sharing tangible direct advice or inspiring interviews with the same intention. These

are the tools to change your life.

I'm so excited to have you on the podcast today. I'm so excited for listeners to become

familiar with you if they don't know you already or take a deeper dive if they're already

a fan. So will you tell us who you are, what you do, and how you got there?

Yes. So Rachel, I'm so excited to be here. I feel like you and I are kindred spirits

in so many ways, one of which when we have conversations we'd like to take it to church,

as I like to say. So I am so excited to be here and just get down to the nitty gritty with

you today and to serve your incredible community and those that are listening today. So I

am Julie Solomon. I am originally a girl from a teeny tiny town in Tennessee that have

been living in Los Angeles for the last six years. My journey to entrepreneurship has

been rugged as most are. I grew up in Tennessee. I was one of four children. My dad is one

of eight. My mom is one of five. So massively large family, very traditional family. But

with that comes a lot of stuff and a lot of people. So quickly when I was younger I kind

of tried to figure out ways to avoid feeling things. So everything was very outward. Everything

was very external. Everything was very extroverted because I tend to kind of vote my emotions

off the island because having so many siblings, having so many family members, people got

busy and they couldn't really dive into the needs of the individual person at times when

we needed that. So I would kind of vote those things off the island and really try to like

focus down which allowed me to grow on a pretty amazing trajectory. But then also you know causes

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