We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Julie Paige a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Julie, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
Resilience isn’t just something we “have” or “don’t have.” It’s a way of moving through life that we can all learn—especially when we’re invited (or forced) to meet the hardest parts of being human.
For me, resilience means allowing the pain, grief, and confusion of loss to move through us without becoming those things. It’s about listening inwardly with compassion, and looking outwardly with curiosity—even when we feel broken. Especially then.
When life shatters, we tend to ask, “Why is this happening to me?”
But there’s a quieter question that can carry us forward: “What is life offering me through this moment?” There is ALWAYS a magical gift for us.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
What I do: I’m going to make this short, as I believe I may have more to offer your readers by sharing my most recent challenge with resilience, than my professional resume, though I’m blessed to love what I do in the world!
I’m a multifaceted entrepreneur running 3 heart-based businesses in a 4 day work week, living my most inspired life! I’m Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with ontological, entrepreneurial, executive, and relationship coaching skillsets, along with TICC & CMC certifications. I have a strong history of partnering with clients in identifying personal and professional goals and developing strategies to achieve long term and wholehearted success. My mission in all of my career endeavors is to support people to step into the deepest expression of their soul’s desire, claim their power and transform their lives.
My Most Recent Story With Resilience:
On the evening of January 7, 2025, I fled my home in Altadena, CA with my 3 year old daughter, our dog and the few items I could think to fit in our car. That night the Eaton Canyon Fire took everything: our house, our entire community, and a lifetime of cherished memories were just a pile of ash the next morning. Since then, I’ve battled a broken insurance system, a government that’s abandoned us, parenting a young child through her grief, all while enduring nightly hives triggered by trauma, that no matter how healed my mind and heart feel, my body can’t seem to catch up.
And still, something sacred was beginning to emerge.
By what I can only describe as divine placement, I found myself living in a temporary rental surrounded by horses—28 of them. Several were once wild mustangs, born free, captured, and then rescued. Watching them, being with them, something clicked.
We, too, are born wild. Then we’re captured—by conditioning, by expectations, by grief. And yet, like these horses, we can honor the imprint of trauma while returning to our wilder roots. We can come back to ourselves. We can rewild from within.
When I’m with them, I enter into an energy field that is timeless and ancient. Cantering through the untouched forests, fields and streams, together we are free. And I remember a deeper truth: resilience requires presence. When we allow the moment to be what it is, when we listen for what’s underneath the chaos, we find our footing again—not the old version, but something new, stronger, and more fulfilling.
The beauty of resilience is that it isn’t about avoiding the storm—it’s learning to walk through it with curiosity and courage. And over time, we start to recognize that the storm isn’t just destruction. It’s an invitation.
We don’t grow from an easy life. We grow from the gifts wrapped in awful presents.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Resilience is threefold:
1. Resilience is a Practice of not letting the circumstances dictate the outcome, but rather our choices about who we’re being and from where we are choosing (and there is always a choice). These are skillsets I’ve developed and support my clients in developing as a PCC Coach. They give structure to tangibly shape our futures. We are all more capable and creative than we know ourselves to be when we give ourselves the opportunity to find out.
2. Resilience is a Perspective. Life happens FOR us, not TO us. That doesn’t erase the pain—but it shifts the story. It opens us up to the possibility that even now—especially now—something sacred is unfolding.
3. Resilience is a Magical Invitation. There’s something bigger than us at work: a whisper from the Universe, God, our own Soul’s Eternal Wisdom—reminding us that life is cyclical not linear and that we are so much more than this moment.
Resilience is not the absence of pain. It is the decision to keep becoming.
So I invite your readers who are going through tough times to ask themselves:
What is life offering me through this moment?
And what wild part of me is ready to return?
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I love partnering with clients who are ready to transform their lives, careers, and relationships in lasting, meaningful ways—whether through remote private coaching, group retreats, or mentor coaching for fellow coaches seeking higher level certification through the International Coaching Federation.
My clients span the globe and every stage of life: from senior executives and Hollywood creatives to college students, stay-at-home parents, and retirees reinventing their next chapter.
What they share is a readiness to shift from burnout, overwhelm, or “just getting by” into a life that feels fully aligned, alive, and inspired. If that’s someone who’s reading this, I offer you a complimentary Coaching Discovery Session to explore what’s possible.
I’m also open to collaboration—especially with certified Equine Therapy practitioners—to co-create one-day or weekend retreats that merge transformational coaching with profound healing through the energy of horses.
Website: www.MostInspiredLife.com
Instagram: MostInspiredLife.JuliePaige
Contact Info:
- Website: www.MostInspiredLife.com
- Instagram: MostInspiredLife.JuliePaige
Image Credits
Only the two professional “work photos” (with the computer) would have photo credit of Rachel Burns. Also, if you prefer to use that one (or any other) instead of the family photo as the main photo, I’m fine with that.
