Lessons from Wildlife on Abundance (Part 1) with Julie Steelman

Say YES to Your Soul

Join host Tessa Lynne Alburn and financial freedom trailblazer Julie Steelman as they discuss the importance of tuning-in to intuition and connecting with the wild instinct within. Julie shares experiences from her encounters with wildlife, emphasizing the role of instinct in guiding her decisions. They explore the idea of expanding beyond the limitations of conditioned thinking and societal norms to embrace one's unique path.

The conversation delves into the concept of feminine prosperity and the need for women to recognize their worth, value, and the multifaceted nature of their talents. Julie highlights the importance of owning one's uniqueness and embracing the full spectrum of who they are.

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• One Woman’s Soul Work: Julie reflects on her childhood fascination with wildlife and the profound knowing that she needed to go to Africa before she died, emphasizing the inner experience of soul work.
• Julie shares her journey of breaking free from societal expectations, including overcoming challenges as a woman in corporate America.
• Maintaining one’s personal sovereignty and making choices aligned with one's soul is of the utmost importance.
• Julie talks about her mindset shift during her corporate career, realizing her worth and the archetype of the “Prosperous Feminine,” and the importance of owning one's uniqueness and value.
• Julie and Tessa discuss the significance of tuning into instincts, understanding subtle sensations and expanding or contracting feelings as indicators of soul guidance. Julie shares personal experiences of instinctual knowing, drawing parallels with her encounters with wildlife.

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Julie is a financial freedom trailblazer who ditched corporate life to become a wildlife photographer and start a business called the Prosperous Feminine for midlife entrepreneurs who want income and financial stability so they can live life on their own terms.

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Tessa Lynne Alburn believes that every woman has the ability to learn to express their true voice, be heard, and fulfill their dreams.

Tessa is a soul connection business coach, author, podcast host and explorer.

Her mission is to help women entrepreneurs bring their ideas and authentic feminine voices into the world, so they make a real difference and receive compensation that reflects their brilliance!

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Transcript

Tessa (00:37):

Hello. Hello. Hello. I am beyond delighted to introduce this amazing woman to you today. She has been one of my mentors over the years. I was very fortunate to meet her years ago, and we've, we've had some common interests, but her mentorship really helped propel me into becoming more confident and running a prosperous business. So I'm just super excited to have her here. And I also love our spiritual connection. So she is Julie Steelman. She's a financial freedom trailblazer who ditched corporate life to become a wildlife photographer and start a business called the prosperous feminine for midlife entrepreneurs who want income and financial stability so they can live life on their own terms. Julie, welcome to Say Yes to Your Soul.

Julie (01:30):

Hi, Tessa. I'm so excited to do this with you, .

Tessa (01:34):

Yay. I know we've been talking about this for a while and it's just like, okay, now's the right time. Yeah. So, great. So Julie, I know you've just had such a rich and diverse life and you've got so much you could be sharing. I think the question that I wanna begin with today for you is what does soul work look like for you?

Julie (01:57):

Ooh, no small question there, . You know, I think when people hear that, they think about the output, right? Like, what's the form doing what? And when I think about soul work, to me anyway, I think about the five-year old that was watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom that got completely catalyzed by videos of lions and elephants and zebras and giraffes. And this message dropped in, you need to go to Africa before you die. And somehow being a little girl looking around the room at my mom and dad and my three older brothers and they went, yeah, they ain't gonna make this happen. I have to

Tessa (02:46):

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Julie (02:46):

Right? It was like, really about I need to make my own money so no one can tell me no and no one can stop me and I don't have to rely on anybody else to pay for it. Literally, that's what happened.

Tessa (03:00):

Oh my gosh. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. How old were you around that time?

Julie (03:03):

I was five.

Tessa (03:04):

Oh my word. That's amazing. Okay. I'm excited.

Julie (03:08):

I remember it distinctly because every Sunday night was popcorn and apples, and my mom was like a rigorous heck no. That Sunday night she's not making dinner. Someone else is popping the popcorn and someone else is watching the apples. And she sat herself down in front of the TV and it was like her only hall pass of the week. And as a family, we would watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. And because I was the youngest, I was the one who always had to get up and change the channel. So any of our younger people that we're speaking to don't know the days of non-voice remotes. Right.

Tessa (03:41):

. That's right. We had to get up off the sofa or the floor.

Julie (03:44):

We had to get up. Yeah. We had to take steps to change the channel .

Tessa (03:49):

That's right.

Julie (03:51):

Yeah. But it was this thing that just dropped in like this epic knowing that was, couldn't be more crystal clear and like this unfathomable truth that it was just okay. And that's so, and somehow, you know, that became very aligned in me. It became my prime directive that I would figure out how to have my own money, how do I have my own life, how to live life on my terms, be fulfilling the things that I felt called by implicated towards and felt really truly of meaning and alignment and like, it was an inner experience. I was too young to be able to articulate any of that. But looking back and unpacking it, it's kind of like, wow, you know,

Tessa (04:50):

It's very Wow, Julie. Like, I didn't even know this about you, because I've heard, you know, so many of your other parts of your life. But not this and to be that young, and I love the whole mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom thing. Of course. , I'm right there with you girlfriend. But I did not get this download

Julie (05:09):

Yeah.

Tessa (05:09):

Around the money, right? You got a clear message and it just filled you. And there, it just sounds like there was such a tremendous resonance for you and your being, your spirit and who you are.

Julie (05:23):

It was absolute resonance. And what I didn't know now being 60 something and looking back is that that alignment, that inner agreement that like audacity to go, I can't unhear that that is truth, led to my choices in college, my choices in corporate, my how do I earn my way out of this because sitting in a cubicle for the rest of my life on someone else's terms was not gonna cut it. And you know, that I had these other passions in me that in the seventies, eighties, nineties and two thousands weren't kind of as acceptable as they are now to be like this radical woman who goes to Africa and walks with cheetahs and hangs out with lions. You know, not your typical safari stuff was like kind of, you know, you were breaking out of the norm. You know, our moms were raised under the guise of if you were doing anything other than white picket fence and kids, you are gonna get a scarlet letter. You are gonna get shamed for it. You are gonna be ostracized from society. And so I'm so grateful that I gave birth and incarnated at the time where we could do this feminine rising soul work where we get to say, now bug off if you don't like it. You know,

Tessa (06:53):

. Exactly.

Julie (06:54):

And to me, the soul work is about listening to that wild instinct inside that is free, that is directly connected to divine knowing. That is the channel to that. That's the work there is to do not the output of the shaping of something into physical world reality where yes, we need to do that and we need to make money and we need to systematize and monetize and all those things. But without that inner leadership of soul knowing what's true, what comes through in a particular type of resonance, we'll always be unsatisfied.

Tessa (07:42):

Hmm. Here, here, to me, you really get that wild instinct inside in everything that you do and all the causes that you uphold, all of this, I know you have a deep appreciation for the environment and so a lot of things like came together for you. Yeah. This isn't just about like making money, it's connected Right. To something much more bigger than that.

Julie (08:17):

You know, what you're speaking to is, you know, I work with entrepreneurs, right. And so, especially those that I identify with the feminine and it's like a, everything is kind of oriented around, productizing or shaping things. And we do need to do that. But one of the things that I see really missing is the conversation around if you are fully realized soul, which has been one of the things I've heard you say before.

Tessa (08:50):

Mm-Hmm. ,

Julie (08:51):

It's a summation of all the things that you are not the one thing that will make you the most money.

Tessa (08:57):

Exactly.

Julie (08:59):

Like it's a multifaceted diamond that, you know, I could do a crystal ball sound bath right now. I could give you an income breakthrough right now. I could take you on a big cat money medicine journey right now. I can take you to the mountain gorillas right now. And so this pain that I've found in the last five years was around this, what's the one thing is such the wrong question because we're everything and we're all that we are. And our soul work is really the task of owning everything that we are and being that and shaping that and owning our uniqueness and our divergentness and our eccentricness and our...