EP 65: Juliet Hahn | Starting at D, Learning With Dyslexia, Standing Up For Yourself, Interviewing NFL Player Spouses, Just ‘Try Harder’, Turning Passion Into Business, and Taking Life Less Serious

Story of failure: Knocking a backup hard rive off my desk and breaking it. Juliet Hahn grew up in Moorestown, New Jersey, a quaint town just outside of Philadelphia. She had a fulfilling childhood and her parents, Marc and Barbara, showered their five children with love, support, and humor. Juliet enjoyed being active which led to her year-round involvement in sports. She brought her love of athletics to Rowan University where she starred as a two-sport athlete. After graduation, she moved to New York City and began a career in advertising. Juliet embraced New York City’s culture, diversity, and energy and made it her home for fourteen years. It also happens to be where she met her future husband, Dan. Currently, they reside in Remsenburg, New York with their three children: Montgomery (16), Truman (14), and Penelope (12) and two Boxers. Juliet started her coaching career as a virtual health and fitness coach. After gaining 65 lbs with each pregnancy and her body changing after 40, she made a conscious effort to exercise and eat a more balanced diet. The results truly changed her life, and it was her mission to share her formula with others. In 2015, she began a new adventure as a virtual health and fitness coach supporting women to lose weight, become stronger, and regain their confidence. In 2021, Juliet decided to pivot away from health and fitness coaching and into helping people connect to their passions. She offers a workshop called “Your Next Stop” (YNS) that empowers people to find their creative passion and turn it into a business which she believes everyone has the ability to do; they just need the correct tools. In addition to her workshop, she uses her YNS Podcast and YNS Live to highlight people who have turned passions into careers. This platform shares inspiring stories from people all over the world. Through these conversations, Juliet guides people to explore their past in order to connect the dots to their own story. Everyone has a story and it is through sharing, active listening (and sometimes laughing) that people connect and learn from one another. Combining these two paths has led to a partnership with NFL Thread to create a series that explores the lives and stories of NFL spouses and partners. This series chips away at the perception of NFL women and showcases their talents, initiatives and missions. In today's episode Juliet talks about: - meeting at Podfest - stories at what make people go ‘round - third grade story and being one of five - speaking vs. writing with teachers - dealing with dyslexia in school - working with Dr. P and being away from the other kids - Blue Dolphin book - kids playing while she had to read Blue Dolphin - telling herself she wasn’t creative - never being with her group of friends in school - excelling in sports and hating reading out loud - teacher asking her, ‘what are you retarded?’ - remembering how her mom responded and said how proud she was for standing up for herself - calling a teacher a bad word - looking around the room and not understanding what the teacher was talking about - learning how to fake it - having a dyslexic dad in the military - dream of playing sports in college - guidance counselor telling her she couldn’t go to college - playing sports at elite level but doing school at a lower level - being a terrible test taker - having the SAT’s read to her - constantly being short of her goal on the SAT’s - going Division III instead of going to Maryland - struggling in math and science - dysgraphia - her dad making relationship despite being called dumb - adhd processing - having a son that learns in spite of dyslexia - teachers not realizing the power of their words - just sit and try harder - acknowledging and teaching - the more you ask questions, the more you don’t get it–clearly I’m dumb - the public system is broken - Your Next Stop Podcast - storytelling is an art - taking other people out of their crazy life - understanding what she was meant to do - streaming on Fireside app - NFL series with the LinkedIn of NFL Spouses - interviewing NFL player spouses - Pivot Podcast - Leaving the NFL - interviewing Ricky Waters and his wife - society needs to think about the good things - how players are effecting by fans in good and bad ways - her mom being her biggest cheerleader - having two really close friends encouraging her - high school coach that was really hard on her, but it was what she needed - her husband being a big mentor and cheerleader - having to run with an idea in her head - NFL Fashion show and interviewing in Arizona - the NFL Hall of Fame show - “Just keep creating and see what happens.” - “I don’t harp on failures.” - story of failing when putting together a website - wanting to focus on her family trip - starting the website without the meat - getting the fire going - failures as seminars - growing up and doing stupid things - “If you can’t change it, don’t stress on it.” - pray that it’s all going to work out - not dwelling on failure - working with HR on the interview process - loving her kids sporting events - the problem of not hiring the right people - rolling out something new - most nervous about figuring out how she is able to carry out her vision - goal of retiring her husband and giving him a choice - wanting to be there for her kids and not missing big things - setting up for the Super Bowl show - not seeing the ’t’