What if you could try on a different version of yourself without pretending to be someone you're not?

A ridiculous argument with my eight-year-old daughter over Halloween costumes got me thinking about something much bigger: why do we give ourselves permission to behave differently when we're wearing a costume, but feel so attached to playing the same familiar roles in everyday life?

In this episode, I'm sharing stories from my years performing on cruise ships, the surprising things I've discovered about myself in the elementary school pickup line, and a concept I've been exploring called Conscious Expression.

It's the idea that authenticity doesn't have to mean showing up as the same version of yourself everywhere you go. You contain multitudes! And you can consciously choose which parts of yourself to turn up, explore, and express.

We'll explore the difference between adapting yourself to be accepted and intentionally choosing how you want to show up, why experimenting with different sides of your personality isn't being fake, and how even the smallest changes can transform your experience of the life you already have.

I don't think you need to find your one true self. Maybe there's a whole lot more of you waiting to come out and play.

This week's invitation: Notice one situation where you always seem to play the same role. What might happen if you turned up the dial on a different part of yourself?

You don't need a costume to find out.

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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.

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How many times can one person arrive at the same simple answer, overthink it to death, and eventually circle right back to it? Apparently, at least three.

I’ve been trying to figure out exactly what my new performance and presence work is before I start doing it. But a lifetime onstage has taught me something my business brain conveniently forgot: performance isn’t only where I demonstrate what I know. It’s one of the ways I come to know.

In this short episode, I’m looking at why we distrust the simple next step, what a live audience can teach us that rehearsing alone never will, and why sometimes the only way to find out what happens in the room is to get in the damn room.

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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

Next month, I will have lived in California longer than I lived in New York City—and I wasn’t prepared for the grief that particular piece of math would bring up.

So this week, I’m telling one of the stories that explains why I love New York so much.

It begins with a borrowed little black dress, a pair of too-big heels, and a last-minute assignment as Bono’s personal waitress at the opening-night party for Spider-Man on Broadway. A few weeks later, the man I had just started dating unknowingly brought me right back to Bono—with 35,000 screaming U2 fans along for the ride.

It’s a story about New York magic, wonderfully specific coincidences, and the moments that only reveal their meaning in retrospect. Because sometimes what we miss most about a place is the person we were while we lived there—and sometimes remembering her is an invitation to become her again.

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