THE AMBER WEITZER PODCAST SILHOUETTES OF SUCCESS

JULIE HATCH FAIRLEY| EPISODE 64 | SHOW NOTES

FEATURED GUEST

Our VIP Featured Guest is an accomplished public relations professional, Owner of Creative Communications since 1998, she holds more than 30 years of marketing and communications experience, including copywriting, media relations, social media engagement, public speaking, production, special events management and execution, and volunteer and vendor management. She is a 1989 graduate of Texas Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication – Advertising and Public Relations. She is committed to many non-profits both professionally and personally, recently celebrated 25 years of weekly volunteer delivery to Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County, where she met her now husband, Bill. She is passionate about gardening, reading, being Aunt JuJu and yarn!

CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS

Fort Worth: Raised in a military family, they moved a lot as a child which meant she had 17 moves before she graduated from high school, so when she was ready to put down roots…she chose Fort Worth, Texas! Access to culture, the philanthropic community that also is a place you feel grounded yet access to First Class business connections, culture and education-it’s home. Julie talks about setting down roots in where she also founded and runs an established PR firm. An early focus and still to this day have been helping nonprofits with their needs and charging a fair price.

Force of Nature: Julie shares reflections about her Mother’s impact on her and how it helps drive and shape the way she lives and makes her decisions. Julie clearly lives in daily gratitude and gives back to others and her community in abundance. She attributes this and can trace it back to early memories as young as four years old with her Mother deliver meals to those less fortunate. Julie says giving back is in her DNA!

She tells us about her “wonky socks”, her most meaningful project and first ever knitted item. Shortly after her Mother passed outwardly all looked fine, yet she felt flat inside. She shares that mental illness and depression runs in her family, and she isn’t shy about getting help in the forms of medicine, help and therapy to heal. Julie recalls her the therapist at the time asking her what she loved to do as a child-digging in dirt with her Mother, a Master Gardner and playing with yarn as her Grandmother had taught Julie how to knit and crochet…this is where Julie was written a “Prescription to dig in the dirt or play with yarn for one hour a day”. She signed up for a sock knitting class and treasures the wonky socks that are so symbolic to helping calm her soul and truly how it changed her life. She uses the socks to demonstrate the healing powers she found in working with her hands.

Simplify: We have learned to say No, a lot and find the joys of the simplicity of living life. Julie talks about spending the quality time at home, in their home together. Whether it’s reading, watching a show, relaxing on the porch swing, chat, playing with their pandemic puppies Dolly & Joleen (and yes, “there’s a story there!”) or doing puzzles. Julie reflects on how the pandemic showed her that the control isn’t in her hands along with realizing that the fast pace of life wasn’t feeding her soul. Time to pivot. Julie enjoys music but also silence with her yarn, reading or relaxing in her library and Mother’s Prayer Chair. She is drawn to the water, lakes and a nice beach with her husband or family to regroup, unplug and be reminded of her authentic self.

INTENTIONAL INSPIRATION

If you have a dream or idea, don’t wait to pursue it. Do it scared!

Favorite Resources:

Dolly Parton Run, Rose Run with James Patterson

Love Does By Bob Goff

Brene Brown

Jen Hatmaker

CONTACT INFORMATION

Website:JuJu Knits Fort Worth

Facebook:@jujuknitsfw

Instagram: JuJuknitsfw

JuJu Knits-The Yarn Shop: 552 Lipscomb Street Fort Worth, Texas 76104

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