Sink and Swim

You built the 6-figure business. So why do you now want out?

You did everything right. The credentials, the business, the team, the referrals. And now you're sitting in the parking lot before work, not tired, not late — just unable to make yourself go in. In this solo episode, Julie tells the story of Marjorie — a composite of the clients she's walked alongside who hit this exact wall. PT, business owner, fully booked, deeply respected. And quietly falling apart on the inside. What unfolds isn't a roadmap or a pep talk. It's an honest look at what it actually costs to keep following a map someone else designed for you — and what's really missing for the high-achieving women who can't seem to move from the life they've outgrown into the one that's pulling them.  Spoiler: it's not a new certification. It's not better boundaries. And it's definitely not more progesterone. 00:01 — Meet Marjorie (why Julie tells composite stories — and who this one is really about) 02:21 — She Had It All and Still Sat in the Parking Lot (the voice that started quietly and got impossible to ignore) 06:22 — Everything She Tried to Make It Stop (supplements, sabbaticals, yoga, dog walks — and why none of it touched the voice) 08:17 — When Resentment Moves In (watching the clock, dreading sick calls, and the guilt that comes with both) 27:26 — What She Finally Said Out Loud (the Soul Story Mapping session, and the thing Julie didn't see coming) 34:40 — Surrounded by People and Completely Alone (the relational reckoning, and the co-regulatory nutrient nobody talks about) 51:34 — The Three Things Actually Keeping Her Stuck (co-regulation, financial safety, and learning to follow your own compass) If this episode speaks to you, hit subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend 👉Looking for more of where this came from?  Sink deeper with coaching support from Julie and Book a Soul Story Mapping Session [https://www.illuminatefreedomcoaching.com/soul-story-mapping] Keep up with what's going on by joining the Notes from a Fart Walk Newsletter [https://illuminate-freedom-coaching.myflodesk.com/email-club] and don't miss an episode or update Watch full video episodes and clips on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5pnvs17ub-2d2B7NedN_ShnUz6sGKHej] Social Media: Follow Julie for clips, bonus content, and updates throughout the week. You can also shoot her a DM to connect! Instagram @drjuliegranger [https://www.instagram.com/drjuliegranger/], Substack @drjuliegranger [https://substack.com/@drjuliegranger] LinkedIn  juliegrangerdpt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegrangerdpt/]

Tell Me More with Dr. Ashley Martinez: On getting broken open, the body that never lies...and how both become your greatest practitioner tool

Ashley Martinez is a women's health pelvic floor PT, integrative nutrition health coach, single mom, and highly sensitive person who spent years leading with her credentials — until life made that impossible. In this episode, Ashley shares her story publicly for the first time: the deployment, the divorce, the infidelities on both sides, the church that excommunicated her, the family that demanded achievement in exchange for love, and the body that quietly kept score through it all. What emerged on the other side wasn't a redemption arc with a bow on it. It was something messier and more honest — a woman who stopped trying to be righteous and started getting curious. We talk about what it really means to create healing space for patients (hint: it starts way before the intake form), why your symptoms are your body speaking and not your identity, the difference between a groove and actual health, and what happens when you finally stop running from the uncomfortable thing and just... sit in it. This one went beautiful places. Come ready to feel something. 00:00 — The Ick Factor of Polished People 16:50 — Floor to Flourishing: The First Three Years of Single Motherhood 29:14 — There Are No Villains Here 34:02 — Boundaries Are Between Me and Me 47:06 — Your Body Was Always Speaking 58:46 — Stop Making Your Diagnosis Your Identity 01:00:39 — What She'd Whisper to Her Younger Self If this episode speaks to you, hit subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend 👉Looking for more of where this came from?  Sink deeper with coaching support from Julie and Book a Soul Story Mapping Session [https://www.illuminatefreedomcoaching.com/soul-story-mapping] Keep up with what's going on by joining the Notes from a Fart Walk Newsletter [https://illuminate-freedom-coaching.myflodesk.com/email-club] and don't miss an episode or update Watch full video episodes and clips on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5pnvs17ub-2d2B7NedN_ShnUz6sGKHej] Social Media: Follow Julie for clips, bonus content, and updates throughout the week. You can also shoot her a DM to connect! Instagram @drjuliegranger [https://www.instagram.com/drjuliegranger/], Substack @drjuliegranger [https://substack.com/@drjuliegranger] LinkedIn  juliegrangerdpt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegrangerdpt/]

The Good Patient is Dead: How the medical system trained me to stop trusting myself — and how I got out

On April 1st, 2026, I opened a patient portal and read the words that officially closed an 11-year chapter of cancer surveillance. No fanfare. No one else in the room. Just me, the screen, and a quiet exhale that had been building for over a decade. But this episode isn't really about a scan result. It's a story I've never told publicly — the plot twist that added an extra year to my surveillance, the six-month stretch of unexpected medical news that cracked me open in ways cancer treatment never did, and the slow, devastating process of wriggling my identity free from both the Good Patient and the Good Provider I'd been trained to perform. From Christmas Eve biopsies to crying through Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour in Paris, to throwing myself a 10-years-cancer-free party before I was technically "done" — I trace how I rebuilt my relationship with my own body, reclaimed sovereignty inside a system designed to strip it away, and learned what true co-regulation in medical care actually feels like. And how rarely I'd experienced it. This one is for the high-achieving women in healthcare who have spent years knowing their patients' bodies better than their own. Who go full provider-mode at their own appointments. Who brush off subpar care because they understand the system. Who have never once been asked — really asked — how they're doing in the middle of it all. I'm asking those questions out loud in this episode. The ones most of us have never let ourselves finish. 00:00 — The Portal Moment: What 11 Years of Waiting Felt Like in Two Seconds 09:17 — Benedict and the Backstory: The Cancer Diagnosis Nobody Saw Coming 13:49 — The Good Patient™: On Surveillance, the Sick Cycle, and Handing Over Dominion 22:14 — The Plot Twist: When the Year-Nine Scan Added a Year You Didn't Have to Give 31:08 — Defiant Joy: How She Held Lung Nodules, Dog Crises, and the Eras Tour in Paris at the Same Time 47:52 — The Beet-Red Breast Specialist and the Nurse Who Reached for Her Hand 01:00:49 — Declaring Yourself Free Before Anyone Else Does If this episode speaks to you, hit subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend 👉Looking for more of where this came from?  Sink deeper with coaching support from Julie and Book a Soul Story Mapping Session [https://www.illuminatefreedomcoaching.com/soul-story-mapping] Keep up with what's going on by joining the Notes from a Fart Walk Newsletter [https://illuminate-freedom-coaching.myflodesk.com/email-club] and don't miss an episode or update Watch full video episodes and clips on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5pnvs17ub-2d2B7NedN_ShnUz6sGKHej] Social Media: Follow Julie for clips, bonus content, and updates throughout the week. You can also shoot her a DM to connect! Instagram @drjuliegranger [https://www.instagram.com/drjuliegranger/], Substack @drjuliegranger [https://substack.com/@drjuliegranger] LinkedIn  juliegrangerdpt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegrangerdpt/]

Beyond the Credential: Dr. Jessica Drummond on What Women in Healthcare Are Finally Allowed to Want

Dr. Jessica Drummond has spent two decades training clinicians and coaches in women's health. She built the only women's health coach certification program in the world. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, she started going to the French bakery just because she felt like it. That tension — between what we've built and what we actually want — is at the heart of this conversation. We talk about what it looks like to stay grounded when your day is anything but linear. The systemic pressure behind personal branding and why it's not just vanity. The analog friendships we've quietly stopped having. Perimenopause as a portal, not a problem. And the historic moment we may be living inside — the first time in history that a meaningful number of women have enough money, power, and autonomy to actually ask what they want. And mean it. This one is for the woman who has built something real and is starting to wonder what she actually built it for. 00:00 — Who Is Dr. Jessica Drummond 08:56 — The High Achiever Who Learned to Stop Overriding 14:16 — Why Everyone Feels Pressure to Have a Personal Brand (It's Not What You Think) 19:29 — Analog Friendship and What We've Quietly Lost 38:50 — The Internet Is Polluted — and the Swing Back to Human 45:24 — AI, Ethics, and the Healthcare Provider's Dilemma 54:05 — The First Generation of Women Who Get to Ask What They Want 01:05:25 — Perimenopause as a Portal: The Veil Lifts 01:13:19 — Outro -- Love what you hear and want to learn more from Jessica? *  Discover more on Instagram: Integrative Women's Health Institute: @integrativewomenshealth [https://www.instagram.com/integrativewomenshealth/] Jessica's instagram: @drjessicadrummond [https://www.instagram.com/drjessicadrummond/] * Tune in to the Integrative Women's Health Podcast [https://integrativewomenshealthinstitute.com/podcast/] If this episode speaks to you, hit subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend 👉Looking for more of where this came from?  Sink deeper with coaching support from Julie and Book a Soul Story Mapping Session [https://www.illuminatefreedomcoaching.com/soul-story-mapping] Keep up with what's going on by joining the Notes from a Fart Walk Newsletter [https://illuminate-freedom-coaching.myflodesk.com/email-club] and don't miss an episode or update Watch full video episodes and clips on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5pnvs17ub-2d2B7NedN_ShnUz6sGKHej] Social Media: Follow Julie for clips, bonus content, and updates throughout the week. You can also shoot her a DM to connect! Instagram @drjuliegranger [https://www.instagram.com/drjuliegranger/], Substack @drjuliegranger [https://substack.com/@drjuliegranger] LinkedIn  juliegrangerdpt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegrangerdpt/]

The Healthcare Career Pivots You Don't See on LinkedIn

You see the LinkedIn announcement from a colleague. You see them celebrate pivoting from Point A to Point B. But you don't don't see what happened in the middle of the pivot for it to actually happen.  In this episode, Julie breaks down the four stages of a healthcare career pivot — and why the messy, invisible middle is actually where the real transformation lives. This isn't a how-to. It's a map. And it's the conversation nobody posts about. Through real stories of clients who went from pelvic PT to somatic coach, from viral Instagram influencer to brick-and-mortar practice, from corporate PT manager to web designer, from neuro clinician to top real estate broker, and from nurse practitioner to hospital chaplain, Julie names what actually happens between who you were and who you're becoming. If you've been circling the same question for months — or years — this episode will help you figure out exactly where you are, why you're not stuck, and what it actually takes to move forward without losing yourself in the process. 03:54 — Why Nobody Talks About the Middle of a Career Pivot 09:02 — The 4 Stages of Career Change (And Why You Can't Skip Them) 18:36 — Stage 1 & 2: Scouting, Seeking, and Running on the Treadmill 29:50 — Stage 3: Emerging — The Birthing Process Nobody Warned You About 38:01 — Subtracting to Add: Why Grief Is the Thing That Actually Moves You Forward 52:17 — Real Clinician Stories: What Pivots Actually Look Like From the Inside If this episode speaks to you, hit subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend 👉Looking for more of where this came from?  Sink deeper with coaching support from Julie and Book a Soul Story Mapping Session [https://www.illuminatefreedomcoaching.com/soul-story-mapping] Keep up with what's going on by joining the Notes from a Fart Walk Newsletter [https://illuminate-freedom-coaching.myflodesk.com/email-club] and don't miss an episode or update Watch full video episodes and clips on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5pnvs17ub-2d2B7NedN_ShnUz6sGKHej] Social Media: Follow Julie for clips, bonus content, and updates throughout the week. You can also shoot her a DM to connect! Instagram @drjuliegranger [https://www.instagram.com/drjuliegranger/], Substack @drjuliegranger [https://substack.com/@drjuliegranger] LinkedIn  juliegrangerdpt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegrangerdpt/]