What if your diagnosis wasn’t the end of your story, but the beginning of a new one? In this solo episode, Julie Ann reveals how she refused a life-altering surgery, chose a different path of healing, and discovered the power we each hold to rewrite our story.

What You’ll Hear:

• How a devastating spinal diagnosis became a turning point, not a life sentence
• The exact moment Julie Ann decided to change her story instead of surrendering to fear
• Healing practices and mindset shifts that guided her recovery without surgery
• Why your story is never fixed — and how you can choose a new narrative anytime
• A powerful reminder that your voice and choices shape the life you live

Meet the Host: Julie Ann

Julie Ann is a publishing oracle and storytelling midwife who helps soul-led leaders birth books that awaken, heal, and transform.

With over 17 years in the publishing industry, she has guided more than 300 authors to write and publish nonfiction works that shift paradigms and reclaim truth. She is the founder of Influence Publishing, now evolved into The House of Story Medicine — Her gift is sacred listening — not just to words, but to what lives beneath them. She perceives the deeper current beneath your story, attuned to the moments where your voice trembles with truth. She is the eye of soul — the one who sees the unseen, holds the unspoken, and midwifes your message into clarity

Julie Ann is the host of the podcast Your Story is Your Portal, a sacred container for storytellers, seekers, and soul-led leaders ready to speak the story they were born to tell.

These are not interviews. These are activations.

Each episode is a portal — a moment of recognition, a mirror of becoming, a reclamation of voice and Soul Purpose.

Her TEDx talk has reached over 100,000 viewers, and she’s been featured on international television, radio, and in major press for her visionary work in authorship, voice activation, and transformational publishing.

She is also the author of Around the World in Seven Years, a bestselling memoir chronicling her global pilgrimage of personal awakening and soul-led leadership.

Connect with the Host:

Website: www.influencepublishing.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/InfluencePublishing

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julieannpv

Instagram: instagram.com/julieinspires

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In this soul-stirring episode, Julie Ann sits down with Megan, a seasoned ICU nurse turned transformational storyteller, to explore her powerful journey from medical burnout to reclaiming her voice through story. After 20 years in a system that no longer aligned with her integrity, Megan asked the question that changed everything:

"What else is there?"

What unfolded was a radical healing journey, an empowering book-in-the-making, and the birth of her true purpose as a health concierge and advocate for informed, soul-aligned care.

This episode is a portal—into remembering your power, your options, and the truth that your story might just save someone else's life.

What You’ll Hear:

• Your Story is Your Portal to Purpose - Megan’s journey from burnout in the medical field to writing a transformational book reveals how personal stories hold the map to deeper meaning and aligned mission.
• Disillusionment is a Catalyst, Not a Curse - Realizing she could no longer morally participate in a broken system, Megan’s inner conflict became the ignition for seeking truth, integrity, and new ways to serve.
• There Are Other Options - When offered an immune-suppressing drug, Megan's refusal led her to natural healing through nutrition and supplementation—a decision that changed her body and her beliefs.
• The Power of Asking the Right Questions - Whether using Google or AI, the quality of your question determines the scope of your answers. This episode uncovers how language shapes access to healing knowledge.
• Healing Happens When the Soul Leads - Megan’s retreat experience reveals how writing your story from the soul isn’t just therapy—it’s legacy. Her book is becoming a blueprint for others to reclaim agency in their healing.
• Your Brain is Your First Healer - From visualizing a pain-free life to inspiring patients with mental imagery, Megan demonstrates how belief, mindset, and narrative influence physical outcomes.

Featured Guest: Megan Timmins

Megan Timmins is a former ICU nurse turned soul-led storyteller, health concierge, and advocate for conscious, holistic healing. After two decades inside the walls of Western medicine, Megan experienced a profound awakening that changed everything. Realizing that the system she served was keeping people sick—not helping them heal—she made the courageous decision to walk a new path.

Through her own health crisis, she discovered the power of natural remedies, mindset medicine, and the body’s innate intelligence. Her story—once buried under burnout—is now a beacon for others seeking “the what else”: the other options, the deeper questions, the truth behind true healing.

Megan is currently writing her first book, birthed during a transformative Book in a Week retreat in Mexico, where she reclaimed her voice and purpose. She now supports others in becoming empowered stewards of their health—offering guidance, insight, and a compassionate presence to those ready to explore a more aligned way of healing.

Whether through her writing, speaking, or sacred listening, Megan’s mission is simple but powerful: To help others remember that they have a choice—and that their story holds the key.

Follow Megan:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megan_timmins1985?

Meet the Host: Julie Ann

Julie Ann is a publishing oracle and storytelling midwife who helps soul-led leaders birth books that awaken, heal, and transform.

With over 17 years in the publishing industry, she has guided more than 300 authors to write...

In this episode of Your Story is Your Portal, Julie Ann reflects on the power of stillness, environment, and story as pathways to discovering your soul’s true purpose. Sharing stories of women on the move, lessons from nature in Mexico, and her own experiences of grief and healing, she explores why creating quiet time is not a luxury but a necessity. This is an invitation to stop running, step away from chaos, and listen to the whispers of your soul — because every life event, even the painful ones, is a portal leading you toward your higher calling.

6 Key Takeaways:

1. Quiet Time is Essential: In our busy, multitasking lives, the soul can’t be heard without intentional stillness. Creating space for reflection opens the doorway to clarity.
2. Your Environment Shapes Your Soul Voice: Changing your environment — whether walking on a beach, listening to the jungle, or journaling in stillness — makes it possible to hear the whispers of your soul.
3. Life is Not Random: Every experience, including grief and challenges, carries wisdom. They are portals guiding you toward your soul purpose.
4. From Chaos to Compass: Without slowing down, we repeat cycles and remain stuck. Retreats, ritual, and conscious pauses become compasses pointing you to your “true north.”
5. Your Story Holds Your Wisdom: Life lessons, both joyful and painful, are not meant to be hidden — they are tools to empower others. Writing, storytelling, or retreats help reveal those patterns.
6. Stop Waiting, Start Listening: Procrastination keeps you from your soul path. The whispers of your soul grow louder until you finally act. Your story is waiting to become your portal.

Meet the Host: Julie Ann

Julie Ann is a publishing oracle and storytelling midwife who helps soul-led leaders birth books that awaken, heal, and transform.

With over 17 years in the publishing industry, she has guided more than 300 authors to write and publish nonfiction works that shift paradigms and reclaim truth. She is the founder of Influence Publishing, now evolved into The House of Story Medicine — Her gift is sacred listening — not just to words, but to what lives beneath them. She perceives the deeper current beneath your story, attuned to the moments where your voice trembles with truth. She is the eye of soul — the one who sees the unseen, holds the unspoken, and midwifes your message into clarity

Julie Ann is the host of the podcast Your Story is Your Portal, a sacred container for storytellers, seekers, and soul-led leaders ready to speak the story they were born to tell.

These are not interviews. These are activations.

Each episode is a portal — a moment of recognition, a mirror of becoming, a reclamation of voice and Soul Purpose.

Her TEDx talk has reached over 100,000 viewers, and she’s been featured on international television, radio, and in major press for her visionary work in authorship, voice activation, and transformational publishing.

She is also the author of Around the World in Seven Years, a bestselling memoir chronicling her global pilgrimage of personal awakening and soul-led leadership.

Connect with the Host:

Website: www.influencepublishing.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/InfluencePublishing

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julieannpv

Instagram: