068: Julie Bergfeld - Finding What Makes Your Heart Sing: A Deep Intrinsic Process
Mindful Money
Growing up in St. Louis and Learning About Investing
The chapter explores the guest's childhood experiences with money, including their introduction to investing in the stock market at a young age and the influence of their grandmother's investments in Eli Lilly. They also discuss the importance of investing in what you understand and aligning one's values with their work.
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Julie Bergfeld is a health, wellness and life coach, specializing in performance, stress management, and healthy habits. She’s worked in academia and technology and is currently a yoga teacher who is dedicated to her own mindfulness practice.
Today, Julie joins the show to engage in a rich discussion on purpose, mindfulness and pursuing what makes your heart sing.
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Key Takeaways
00:57 – Jonathan introduces today’s guest, Julie Bergfeld, who joins the show to talk about early financial lessons she learned, receiving stock as a gift instead of toys, and pursuing work that makes her heart sing
09:51 – How Julie got involved in coaching and yoga
14:36 – Finding her own way, defining success & ultra-Marathoning
18:17 – The correlation between athletic success and financial success
24:24 – How opening a yoga studio changed Julie’s thinking on money and wealth
26:54 – From Shavasana to coaching
30:47 – Discovering mindfulness
33:42 – Julie’s coaching process
36:47 – One thing that we can do to lead to greater personal and financial success and one thing to avoid doing
41:03 – The Puzzle Rules
42:39 – One thing Julie would want others to know about and the one question Julie would want to know the answer to
44:04 – Jonathan thanks Julie for joining the show and lets listeners know where to connect with her
Tweetable Quotes
“I learned - this was more as a teenager - that you really need to do things that yes make money, but that are deeply tied to your values and that make your heart sing.” (09:28) (Julie)
“I really fell in love with technology. I fell in love with the aspect of learning, for one thing, and that plays into coaching and yoga. But I found my way, if you will.” (15:12) (Julie)
“I consider yoga, in a lot of ways, a transitional point in my life. And it provided a lot of healing and affirmation that I was enough.” (20:41) (Julie)
“You take the valuable things you learn from your family: pay off your debt as soon as possible. But, I wanted to move forward with what I loved, instead of being beholden to some other entity where my soul was sucked dry. So, I was able to marry the two, reduce my expenditures, bootstrap everything, and do what made my heart sing at that time.” (24:53) (Julie)
“I consider life coaching and the coaching that I’m doing now as next level yoga coaching or yoga teaching, where it’s coaching the unseen.” (29:00) (Julie)
“How we think affects everything we do in our entire lives.” (36:31) (Julie)
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