The numbers tell the story...

• over 300 applications and inquiries
• over 50 sales calls
• 3205 bio link taps on instagram
• 15,000 new followers
• 500 new customers in FG Funnels
• 30 new private clients

I was prepared for your typical summer slog and instead, I had the busiest month of my business - TO DATE.

I'm wrestling with two competing feelings in my body that can't seem to come to an agreement:

Overwhelming gratitude and excitement
​meets​
Terrifying levels of cortisol and adrenaline

As an over functioning, hyper responsible, people pleasing, worry wart Enneagram 6 with an absurd capacity for problem solving, you can imagine the quandary this has created.

• I want to help everyone who's business model I genuinely love.
• I want to make sure every single person (from a private client to a DM inquiry to an email subscriber) feels seen and heard at the level of connection we have.
• I don't want anyone to feel disappointment or overwhelm.
• I want to perform at the highest level 100% of the time.

😂😮‍💨

But if I'm being honest, this level of traffic BROKE every single one of my nicely designed systems and pretty much guaranteed I would hit none of my unrealistic ideals.

My calendar, inbox, pipeline, my social media habits, my working hours, my voxer, my audits... all of it broke in some way.

And over in Funnel Gorgeous, same. My daughter worked 9.5 hours straight the day after our webinar going through 300 new FGF signups, her hands going numb about half the day through.

I've worked from 6am-8pm - Monday through Sunday (with only slight breaks on Saturday). My team has worked overtime in both businesses.

...and still... messages of "I don't know where to start" or "I'm disappointed I can't have a 1 off VIP call with you" or "I really need to start coaching today, not in November" are coming at me from every side.

Underneath all this busyness is a quiet truth pulsing: No high stays. No matter how incredible the win, your business goes through peaks and valleys as sure as the sun rises and sets.

I know because prior to this, I was in a valley for four years after the most insane growth peak from 2017-2022. Five years of growth turned into four years of contraction.

It seems the tide has changed again (with zero warning lol) and I can tell I'm now on a growth curve that- who knows how long or high it'll last.

I'm just riding the wave patching up a new surfboard in the white water. 😂

Problems of success are larger, more intense, and more pressure-filled than problems of failure. I'm up for the challenge, but I got mighty comfortable solving problems of failure and now it's time to solve problems of success again. 💪

If you've not heard from me and you're not a customer yet, it's because my email response to you either arrived as spam, I lost track of your DM, or I haven't gotten to it yet.

If you're a customer or private client, you should hear from me in Voxer or through the support channels in Funnel Gorgeous.

I'm working through another 30+ sales calls between now and the end of the summer.

After that, all applications are going to be pushed to a waitlist and - if accepted - placed in a queue for fall 2026/ winter 2027 start date. I'm accepting deposits for those openings from people submitting apps today.

I think God is winking at me because 2027 is the ten year anniversary of Digital Insiders and I always said I wanted to do something big to celebrate. It looks like that's going to be possible ♥️.

xx Julie

P.S. I dropped a prompt in IG the other day you might want about standing out in a crowded market. Here's the post and here's the prompt.

P.P.S. All emails are hand typed by me without any help from AI. If I ever use AI to write an email, I warn you expressly at the top!