Let’s Get Curious

What do you do when you are?

In this solo episode, Julie  makes a case for curiosity as the most reliable way through. Not pushing harder, not forcing clarity — but asking yourself better questions. The kind of questions that open doors instead of closing them.

Drawing on Barbara Fredrickson’s Broaden-and-Build theory and her own coaching practice, Julie walks you through 18 self-coaching questions organized around three different flavors of stuck: not knowing what you want, knowing what you want but not being able to move, and the kind of stuck that’s really exhaustion in disguise.

Think of this episode as a self-coaching session you can return to anytime you need it.

In This Episode

Why curiosity works (the science)

Fredrickson’s Broaden-and-Build theory explains why stress narrows our thinking — and why curiosity opens it back up. Julie also explores the shift from self-judgment to self-inquiry, and why that shift alone can be transformative.

There are 18 self-coaching questions in this episode, organized into three categories - here is a sample from each -

When you don’t know what you want

❮❯  What would I do if I knew I couldn’t fail? And what would I do if I knew I might?

❮❯  What lights me up — and when did I last actually let myself do it?

❮❯  What’s something I keep returning to that I keep talking myself out of as “not realistic”?