Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Juliana Lindner. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Hi Juliana, thanks for joining us today. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.
Ever since grade school I remember two things that were always a part of my life: sport and listening to others as they ‘spilled the beans’. When I entered college my gut was telling me that these natural abilities and skills I had already practiced for 15 years would be of great benefit to other people. I studied Exercise Science and the training applications for healthy living and started Personal Training in 2012 at my Student Rec Center. The role felt natural and exhilarating. I was connecting on such a personal level to my clients and I knew that with regular guidance they would be able to see success and take foundational skills with them beyond our professional relationship. Fast forward 8 years and I acquired different hats in the health field including Nutrition Coach, Assistant Director of School Nutrition, Private Assistant Cook, and Restaurant Consultant. Above all those roles was the ultimate leadership role I stepped into in 2018 as a solo parent.
Every pivot I made, all the way through my business in health coaching, was positioning me to step into my soul’s work. The first business I launched was a declaration of ownership, leadership, and freedom. I was tested those first few years, just like every other business owner is, and instead of backing down, I stood up stronger and more proud. Fitness Training and Wellness Coaching was not my calling (anymore). When I spoke about it I felt like I was out of integrity. No matter how much I loved talking about fitness, my body wasn’t on board with selling it as a solution to the problems women were coming to me for. Business strategists kept telling me to niche down my market and I created a five pillar program to help women redefine and repair their relationship with themselves and food after years, even decades, of self depreciation and loathing through dieting cycles. After working with my last two clients I realized that I was capped at my coaching potential to go deeper, speaking directly to their fears and insecurities, and having the potential to rewire the sympathetic nervous system for safety. At that time of professional and personal surrender, I made space for what came next. The Emotional Freedom Technique was brand new to me and yet everything in my body was saying “this is it”. I signed up for a Coaching Certification and tracked 62 hours of Tapping in less than 6 months. Not only did this bring liberation from my own limiting beliefs but I knew I had come across the secret sauce that would help my clients do the same. For the first time in my life I was working with myself rather than against myself and the personal freedom allowed my voice to grow. I was going through the process of unschooling myself from the beliefs I had once accepted about myself, this world, and career development, and with these new beliefs I set the tone for my Coaching, parenting, and relationships to be brought to a new level at rapid speed. I redefined what security felt like in my body and my idea of success. I no longer held onto stress and worry and have since been led by a deep trust in my purpose on this path.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to give our readers some background and context as well as an introduction to you and your work?
No woman should ever be left feeling like she is alone in this world. I remember how alone and isolated I felt when I became a new mother and was navigating the role by myself. My operating system was used to being left alone with thoughts and feelings and for the longest time I kept that tucked away, really deep, resorting to distractions and avoidance that would numb me out. If you could hear what my mind was saying, daily, it would be a screenplay depicting mental warfare. I spun around in vicious cycles of self hatred and despised even looking at myself in the eyes. I was embarrassed of who I was and everything I hadn’t accomplished. I saw the worst of me every day, hoping that it would serve as motivation to wake me the F up! In hindsight I could have continued living this way, holding my breath on life, but when I took my defeat, disappointment, anger, guilt and resentment out on my daughter, I saw my worst nightmare coming true. It was in that moment that I declared a new life for us. I was ready to face myself, heal myself, and support myself, so I could be a better mom for her, and a better leader for us.
There were so many tears to be shed: for all the decades I withheld my feelings, and the love and nourishment for myself; for the years of punishment I inflicted on myself. I cried for my younger self, my teenage self, and my adult self. I cried for my ancestors who held their voice back, too. I continued to release and relieve the pressure to hold back my feelings, because I knew I wasn’t a cry baby who was being shamed for her emotional side anymore. There was so much shame, guilt, disgust, despair and fear of abandonment in my body that talking about it was having me go in (more) circles. The explaining and trying to make sense of myself and my life was keeping me and my body divided and cold. My recognition of this also brought the solution I deliver to my clients today. I brought the heat with my body work. I did the opposite of what I had always done: I allowed and released. I allowed myself to be completely honest, and met myself exactly where I was. I accepted me. The acceptance of more of me paved the path to forgive myself for all the damage I did, the gaslighting to myself, the demoralization and self criticism. The more I listened with gentle curiosity and care, the more I loved.
Service today entails support and safety. I create intimate and safe spaces, and opportunities, for another woman to be seen, heard and recognized in all aspects of herself. In addition to using the Emotional Freedom Technique to help assist another woman’s body and mind coming into a state of further relaxation, I use my own intuitive guidance to listen, respond, and guide the process of reformulating a woman’s personal narrative. This switch occurs effortlessly when we work with our body and allow the switch from our default mode of beta brain wave state into a more creative, imaginative and intuitive alpha brain wave state. I listen closely to the words and energy that foreshadow potential perspective switches, offering another woman the space to move in a new direction. Her internal voice, the one of Truth, is revealed and repositioned as the creator of her life.
My style is fast and forward, and is made for rebel spirits that want to unleash their free spirit. A rebel that is deeply connected to her heart, and her desires, is an unstoppable force. She carries incredible conviction through her voice and her energy. I refer to this newly uncovered energy as Whole Body Confidence. It moves with her, and has the ability to turn heads in every room she walks into. Her confidence is effortless because she has deeply connected with herself through the work in my Embodied Heart Training. No longer convinced of living a life to appease others, she lives from a place that is rooted in trust and belief. I see my work as a pivotal platform of success. It’s not a pathway, it’s an arrival. Success is embodied through the heart and it immediately soothes the racing mind of everything it hasn’t done or can’t possibly do, and has freedom to create from an abundant internal source that is easily tapped into.
My MindBody work is an accumulation of the mind-body-soul intervention that I have brought myself through and now am privileged to coach other women with–and through. Embodied Heart Training takes mindfulness practices beyond the mat, or pillow, and reaches new depths to which a woman can access and utilize as her most powerful resource for business leadership, and parenting. The biggest deliverable through my coaching programs is releasing the pressure around our performance and getting in sync with our heart’s message that leads to uncapped growth. You don’t have to spend more hours working, taking up valuable quality time away from your family, friends and hobbies, when you follow the EHT protocol. You get to enjoy your free time and keep cash flow consistent, without the stress or worries you’re used to. You get to feel safe with your expansion as you lead yourself through your own wisdom and conviction.
Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?
I attest my ability as a coach, to hold a safe space for big emotions to be felt and released, and the transformation to occur, to the pivots I have been making since I was 16 years old. Each pivot was ignited through my personal power to declare a new path for myself. It has shown me what it takes to be resilient. My resilience was tested when I left my childhood home and lost (most) family contact for almost a decade. My resilience was tested when I fled from abusive relationships and recreated a life of my own after destruction. My resilience was tested when I was a solo parent who was arrested and put into jail multiple times in 2019 and 2020. My resilience was tested when I started my first business while still being on food stamps and government assistance. My resilience was tested when my business saw no growth the first three years and my soul’s determination would not let old programming take me back to what I “should” be doing with my life. My resilience was tested when I went through addiction recovery and relapse on my own for seven years and found strength to face my shadows and liberate myself. My resilience is my superpower.
If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?
I’ve seen this one question asked in different group settings: “If you could tell your younger self one thing what would it be?” The truth is my answer today is different than it was just a few years ago. When I was living from a victim mentality and saw more problems and suffering in my life than gifts and opportunities I might have said something I was trying to embody from the personal development work I was knee deep in, like “You can’t change what people think about you. So don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.” Today, I would say absolutely nothing to my younger self. Because I truly believe I have been guided the whole way and everything that has happened in my life has been for me to arrive right here, right now. Words can be insightful and inspiring, especially when they hold the energy of pure love. The words I speak, and listen to from others, are felt at my core–because of my mindbody work. I connect deeply to the present moment, each experience is processed in some way. Sometimes it needs space to be felt and sometimes it’s being called to be released as quickly as it entered because any attachment will shift my focus and energy in a way that doesn’t support my higher vision and mission (of course I am human and this is not done perfectly. Every day I make a devotion to this practice). I have more skills now of discernment than I ever once imagined and I’ve been able to go beyond the accessible point of self-awareness and bring genuine self acceptance that moves me both gracefully and powerfully. I am ever evolving and I wouldn’t change any aspect of my course, my career, or my specialty because the path I’ve walked, and even ran away from at times, has been a catalyst for me to be delivering exceptional, transformative services I offer today.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.julianalindner.net/about
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_allinharmony
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliana.r.lindner/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-lindner-89326bb4/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@allinharmony5625
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/show/4CvVj3BcIqGsSGBHMjpuAZ?si=47b6fddb29b1494c
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Jeff Mondlock Elyza Dolby