Meet Julia Wells | Pleasure devotee, community builder, CEO

We had the good fortune of connecting with Julia Wells and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Julia, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?

I remember growing up when anyone would ask me what I wanted to do(once we got past the astronaut and fashion designer moments) I always just answered “I’m not sure, I just know I want to help people”.

It took me a while to figure out what that would and could look like, but once I found the world of coaching, I knew that was my path.

Time freedom, income freedom, location freedom. All while serving others. Sign me up!

It was like finding a way to get paid for doing all the things I loved and was naturally doing anyway.

I loved building online communities and relationships, I loved sharing my life on social media, coaching felt like what I’d been doing successfully in every leadership position I’d held and now I didn’t have to play by anyone else’s rules and limitations.

What should our readers know about your business?

I left my corporate job a little over 9 years ago and at first, I flailed. I honestly had no clue what I was doing jumping into entrepreneurship, but it felt right even with the fear and unknowns.

The first few years were not easy. I struggled to know what I was doing, what I wanted to do, who I wanted to serve and how to work for myself. I honestly underestimated how hard it would be to start from 0 and have to manage my time 100% after being used to school, jobs, etc.

At a certain point it all shifted though. The pieces began to click in and make sense. I oriented to ease. It didn’t mean things automatically became easy, but it meant I oriented to ease. I continuously asked how I could choose, find, or create more ease. How could I simplify my processes, amplify my strengths, and close gaps with as much ease as possible.

My business scaled very quickly from that point which actually brought whole new sets of mostly champagne problems, but they still felt like problems. And again, I found myself asking how I could let it be easy/easier.

I also had such whiplash going from 4 years of struggling to making $5,000,000 in the following 5 years.

All of the sudden I was running a huge community, growing a team, had hundreds of clients and just holding a lot.

What I built my business around was pleasure and ease. The opposite of hustle culture that was being shoved down my throat. Which meant constantly having to assess how I wanted to do things, not how I was taught.

But it made it so fun, so fulfilling and so sustainable to know I could do business this way!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I dont live in LA but when I’m there it’s all about sun, food and nature. I loooove finding a good stretch of beach to walk, a trip up the coast, and endless amounts of fresh delicious food, finding an LA institution, trying a vibey new spot and just enjoying.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?

I honestly have to shoutout my old mentor when I worked my first management training job out of college. She was a powerhouse. And, she said something with me that has undoubtedly shaped how I do things. She told me once in chat “it’s lonely at the top”. And it hit me so hard and everything in my body disagreed. It’s not to say it can’t be, but I chose to always model that it didn’t have to be.

Both my corporate and entrepreneurial success and fulfillment are truly because I chose to never do it alone.

Whether that was in hiring mentors, being in or building community, bringing friends and clients along for the ride, centering sisterhood and connection.

And I can honestly say it’s never been lonely. It’s been hard. I’ve outgrown relationships and communities.

But I’ve continuously oriented to a community model because I never ever wanted to have success and feel lonely.

So I’m forever grateful because it’s probably one of the compliments and pieces of recognition I get the most around the community and sisterhood I model and stand for.

Also thank you to my mom and grandma for showing me this in their own ways with women’s circles, prioritizing female friendships and allowing me to have that blueprint I could bring into how I do business.

Website: Juliacwells.com

Instagram: Instagram.com/juliamothereffingwells

Facebook: Facebook.com/juliaclairew

Image Credits
Wendy Yalom