“It’s not about the challenge in front of you, it’s about the direction of the POWER inside you.”

— Julia Nicholson

In her TEDx talk “The Way We Think About Loss and Grief is Dead Wrong” with over 33,500 views, Julia Nicholson challenges the conventional wisdom that leads us to believe loss and grief are a package deal.

Julia presents a straightforward, dynamic framework to process the most unthinkable loss and thrive in the aftermath of it. She is proof that profound loss does not mean you are resigned to a life of grief.

Resilience Expert

POWER SHIFT

Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want

In today’s fiercely demanding world—where even just every day life can leave you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, powerless—the most important resource you have is your inherent power.

But, it’s not about tapping into or unleashing your power—it’s about using what you already have to create the outcomes you want.

In “POWER SHIFT,” Julia challenges conventional wisdom, providing simple proven tools that empower individuals and teams to achieve stronger levels of confidence, courage, and resilience.

We’re all born with the same “human resources” — courage, confidence, determination, perseverance, and resilience.

Each obstacle, challenge, and setback provides an opportunity to strengthen these resources, like mining diamonds out of the rough stuff of life. 

POWER Is Strengthened by Overcoming Challenges

Confidence, courage, and resilience aren't just about getting back up—they are strengthened with each experience, shaped by how you rise and what you do next. Success doesn't happen despite setbacks; it’s achieved when you use what you've learned to face the next challenge.

  • Change starts with an awareness of your auto-pilot assumptions. Tear down the myths about power and replace them with the truth—you're not lacking power, it's just turned in the wrong direction.

  • Julia emphasizes the positive, but only as it relates to the very real and difficult challenges we face every day. No oversimplifying life’s challenges, just powerful tools to process them with strength and purpose, gleaning valuable life-long skills from them.

  • Explore the truth from a proven expert on the subject about what causes some people get stuck, frustrated, when facing challenge and change, and how others use it to their advantage, driving greater personal and professional success.

  • Unwanted things happen daily—it's part of life. But with every challenge, you have a choice: let it defeat you, carry the burden, or find something valuable in the experience!

  • Building a habit of resilient thinking and behavior is proven to be one of the greatest indicators of life and career success.

  • When Julia speaks, people feel motivated and inspired, but she goes beyond those to offer real, research-based tools that lead to life-changing actions long after her speech is over.

In these candid interviews, Julia talks about her journey through trauma, tragedy, and loss. Instead, of letting them define her, she chose to use them to refine her. She shares how she used each one as a springboard to strengthen her determination, perseverance, and resilience to overcome any challenge and you can too.

As a podcast guest, Julia shares valuable insights and practical tools for overcoming challenges, building resilience, and thriving through adversity. Her ability to thrive beyond the setbacks, failures, and loss, will inspire you and leave you believing in the strength of the human spirit.

Julia’s thought-provoking articles challenge conventional wisdom and dispel myths about power. She shares valuable lessons she learned on her way to the C-suite of multi-billion dollar organizations.

In Julia’s TEDx talk, The Way We Think About Loss and Grief is Dead Wrong, and other videos, she shares how to thrive through even the most difficult life situations and use adversity to your advantage.

“I struggled with balancing work and being a new mom, but after hearing Julia speak and reading her book, I found the confidence to take control of my life. Now, I’ve achieved the balance I always dreamed of and feel more empowered than ever.”

— Katherine, 33
Mother, Business Executive