Julie grew up on a hardworking farm where the day started before the sun, the animals had opinions, and with nine siblings, the household operated like a small village with questionable leadership. By age ten, she had already mastered conflict negotiation, strategic planning, and sprinting - mostly to beat her siblings to the last pancake.
Armed with grit and determination, she wandered bravely into adulthood, eventually focusing on Business Management and the world of finance. She collected her Series 7, 63 and 66 licenses, along with her insurance licenses like they were merit badges for surviving adulthood. After more than 25 years in the insurance industry, she has helped clients untangle their insurance concerns, decode fine print, and occasionally talk them down from whatever crisis Google convinced them they were having.
A serial entrepreneur, Julie has owned businesses throughout her life, each one adding new skills, new stories, and new reasons to keep an emergency ration of baby carrots that have seen more drama than most reality shows in her desk drawer. Her work ethic is equal parts farm-grown grit and pure curiosity - which is the polite way of saying she has a habit of turning hobbies into side businesses.
Speaking of hobbies... In her spare time (a mythical concept for most people, but apparently not for her), she served as a paid on-call firefighter, became a licensed massage therapist, served as the President and Treasurer (not at the same time) of her Homeowner's Association and once somehow ended up helping with everything from event planning to chicken rescue. She's been a crisis diffuser, a professional "people wrangler," a human lost-and-found system, and the unofficial mayor of "Let me handle that."
Her proudest titles, however, are mom to two children and grandmother to two grandchildren - proof that her multitasking abilities are not only real but genetically transmissible.
