Meet Julie.
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I am a Blended Family Life Coach. I've been in a blended family my entire life and have helped many clients find peace amongst the chaos. I'm so excited for you to live your best life, blended.Â
My Journey to Coaching
What began as a sudden and painful career loss became an unexpected invitation—to invest in myself and pursue a profession rooted in purpose, service, and transformation. I chose to follow that invitation and enrolled at the Health Coach Institute, where I spent two years studying to become a certified Life, Health, and Transformational Mastery Coach.
Through my own personal work as a student, I discovered something foundational: no matter their circumstances, people long to feel empowered in their own lives. I knew early on that this work was not simply a career change—it was a calling. Coaching allows me to walk alongside others as they reconnect with clarity, agency, and forward movement, even in seasons that feel uncertain or disorienting.
My coaching niche emerged naturally through lived experience and years of close connection with family systems, identity shifts, and complex relational dynamics. In 2018, long before I knew what coaching would become for me professionally, I co-created a podcast and online community called Blended Life. The heart behind that work was simple: to help people feel less alone and to normalize growth through shared experience and honest conversation. Looking back, I can see how God was already laying the groundwork. What began as a passion project quietly shaped the foundation of my coaching work today, and I remain deeply grateful for the impact that season had on my professional path.
I hold four coaching certifications from the Health Coach Institute: Life Coach, Health Coach, Transformational Coach, and Mastery Coach. I also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Education matters deeply to me. I consider myself a lifelong student and remain committed to continued learning, growth, and refinement so that I can offer my clients grounded, thoughtful, and high-quality support.
My coaching journey has been marked by grit, growth, and gratitude. I’m thankful for the relationships, experiences, and seasons that have shaped me—and for the opportunity to use what I’ve lived and learned to help others move forward with clarity, integrity, and peace.
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How is Julie different than other coaches?
Coaching isn’t about handing out a “check list”; if check lists alone worked, there’d be one for each area of life and we’d all live by them. Telling clients to “do this not that” is not the approach Julie takes.
Coaching with Julie is about transforming beliefs through habit change so that her clients can experience their lives in a whole new way. It is from such a place that quality of life increases through expanding possibility and leveling up choice. She teaches her clients how to be able to shift their own belief/experience cycle should that be something they desire to do for themselves. Change a habit, change your LIFE; that’s the work!
Why does coaching work? The Ultimate Life Hack!
If you want to set yourself up for success in any area of life, if you want to experience transformation on any level, there's three things you must have in place for yourself: a system (knowledge of what to do and how to do it), support (someone to witness your journey, push you, encourage you, give you a helping hand up, be your cheerleader and remain in your corner), and accountability (the natural level-upper, being accountable to someone will motivate you to not give up or give in when you want to quit of throw in the towel...it's what takes you to the next level or pushes you over the finish line). This is what my coaching programs offer; this is what you get when you work with me.
My Experience in a Blended Family
Blended family life has been part of my story for as long as I can remember. I entered it as a stepchild at just one year old and have lived inside complex family systems for more than four decades—as a child of divorce, a biological parent, a co-parent, a stepparent, and a spouse navigating blended dynamics. That depth of experience isn’t theoretical. It’s lived, felt, and earned.
I’ve been co-parenting with my children’s father for well over a decade and have raised two biological children—a son and a daughter—since 2005. Being a mom is the most meaningful and demanding work I’ve ever done, made even more complex when parenting is shared across households. Stepparenting added another layer entirely: significant responsibility, emotional investment, and expectations—often without authority or control. That reality shapes much of the compassion and clarity I bring into my work.
One of my greatest strengths is my ability to hold care for all children involved. I relate deeply to kids navigating blended families because I’ve lived those roles myself—from multiple perspectives. That lived understanding allows me to support adults with nuance, steadiness, and realism—not judgment or platitudes.
Years ago, I helped create a podcast and online community called Blended Life as an outreach to others living inside blended family dynamics. The heart behind it was simple: to reduce isolation and create a place where people felt seen and understood. Blended family life can be profoundly lonely, and support from friends or extended family—while well-intentioned—is often limited by a lack of lived understanding.
What I know to be true is this: growth happens in community, not isolation. And blended family life desperately needs spaces where people are supported, guided, and not expected to figure it all out alone. While my work continues to evolve, my commitment remains the same—to come alongside others with clarity, compassion, and grounded support so they don’t have to navigate complex family dynamics on their own.
Certified. Qualified. Experienced.
Laura Fremeau
“Julie is extremely easy to talk to and, like the name of her coaching business, she made me feel “heard”.  One of the most important feelings that Julie validated for me is the normalization of my thoughts and feelings about my partner, step kids, our blended dynamic and most of all, myself.  Prior to coaching with Julie, I felt like there was something wrong with me; that I was “bad” for having certain feelings and reactions to blended family situations. I struggled with how I felt I was “supposed” to feel vs. my real reactions and feelings. I was experiencing guilt and shame about my perceived “ugly” thoughts and feelings.  Julie helped me to embrace my power and encouraged me “to do the work” and find my place within my blended family. She provided new perspective and actual tools to use in my day-to-day real life.  The coaching and support that Julie has provided to me is invaluable and an investment that I feel, is priceless.”
