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Brave Moves: Confidence, Mindset & Business Growth for Women Entrepreneurs
Brave Moves is a daily personal growth and confidence podcast for ambitious women, entrepreneurs, and leaders ready to build self-trust, overcome self-doubt, and take bold action in business and life.
Confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build through mindset, habits, and small courageous decisions made consistently over time.
Each short, actionable episode delivers practical tools for personal development, leadership growth, mindset mastery, and habit formation. You’ll learn how to quiet negative self-talk, make aligned decisions, build momentum, and develop the confidence to pursue your goals with clarity and courage.
If you’re a woman in business, an aspiring entrepreneur, or someone navigating reinvention, Brave Moves will help you strengthen your mindset, increase resilience, and create real forward progress.
Because brave doesn’t mean fearless. It means choosing growth over comfort and action over hesitation.
Tune in daily for motivation, self-improvement strategies, leadership insights, and the confidence boost you need to make your next brave move.
Episodes
286 episodes
Dolly Parton's Business Legacy: The Power of Saying No (Pt. 2)
In Part 2 of this two-part tribute on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins unpacks the business side of Dolly Parton's legacy — starting with the night in 1974 she turned down Elvis Presley's request to record "I Will Always Love You" rather than...
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What Dolly Parton Taught Us About Living On Purpose (Part 1: The Personal)
Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026, at age 80, and in this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins opens up about the grief of losing a public figure you've never met, and what research says about why that grief is real. Julie then unpa...
Day 8: Figuring Out What You Want to Do With Your Life - Fun and Recreation
In Day 8 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins turns to the area most often sacrificed first when life gets full: fun and recreation. She makes the case that fun isn't the reward you get after everything else is hand...
Day 7: Figuring Out What You Want to Do With Your Life - Personal Growth
In Day 7 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins turns the lens toward personal growth itself — and names the trap hiding inside it. She explores how self-improvement can quietly become another category to optimize, an...
Day 6: Money Maps - Rewriting Beliefs and Freedom
In Day 6 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins steps into one of the most emotionally loaded areas of the whole map: money. She makes the case that money isn't just a number — it's a feeling, shaped early in life, an...
Day 5: Relationships -Figuring Out What You Want to Do With Your Life
In Day 5 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins explores the area that quietly shapes almost every other one: relationships. She challenges the idea that relationships just happen to us, and makes the case that most o...
Day 4 Figuring our what you want: Health as Your Invisible Foundation
In Day 4 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins tackles the area most people quietly deprioritize until it forces its way to the front: health and body. She explores why health rarely feels urgent enough to compete wi...
Day 3: Career and Work - Figuring Out What You Want to Do With Your Life
In Day 3 of this life-clarity series on Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins tackles the area most people default to first when figuring out what they want: career and work. She breaks down the three competing voices in every career decision — wh...
Figuring Out What You Want to Do With Your Life| Day 2: What You Want vs. What You Don't
Ask most people what they want out of life, and you'll get silence — or a vague answer borrowed from someone else's script. Ask them what they don't want, and they can usually answer in seconds. In Day 2 of this life-clarity series on Brave Mov...
Figuring Out What You Want to Do With Your Life | Day 1: The Areas That Matter
"What do you want to do with your life?" is one of the biggest questions we ask ourselves - and one of the hardest to actually answer, because most of us try to answer it as if life is one single thing instead of several areas running in parall...
Small Changes, Big Impact: What the Butterfly Effect Teaches Us About Growth
A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and weeks later, there's a tornado in Texas. In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins takes the butterfly effect out of chaos theory and into everyday life, making the case that small, seeming...
Quality Over Quantity: How What You Own Shapes Your Confidence and Your Life
What if the things you surround yourself with are either supporting the life you want to build or quietly taking up space in it?In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie shares an unexpected lesson she learned from her father, a man w...
What her panic attacks and recurring dreams taught her about alignment
Melinda French Gates has spoken candidly about losing her own voice while working alongside a strong, dominant partner, and the panic attacks and unsettling dreams that eventually forced her to listen to herself again. In this episode of Brave ...
How to Trust Your Gut in Business: Stop Second-Guessing Yourself | Jamie Kern Lima
What do you do when the experts tell you one thing, but everything inside you is telling you something else?Do you trust their experience?Or do you trust yourself?In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie shares the powe...
Your Past Is Your Teacher, Not a Fortune Teller
We all carry labels we never chose. "The quiet one." "The shy one." "The one who isn't good at this." In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie DeLucca-Collins explores a phrase from her friend, weight loss coach Corinne Crabtree, that changed how ...
How to Be More Assertive: Speak Up, Stop Apologizing, and Build Confidence
Ever leave a conversation thinking "I should have said that"? Julie DeLucca-Collins breaks down why women default to silence, why confidence is the outcome of assertiveness rather than a prerequisite, and the exact language shift, starting with...
Cortisol and Stress: 5 Simple Ways to Lower Cortisol Naturally
What if one hormone was quietly influencing your sleep, blood sugar, mood, immune system, and even where your body stores fat?That hormone is cortisol, often called the body's primary stress hormone.Cortisol isn't bad. In f...
The Incredible Story of Team Hoyt: A Father, a Son, and the Power of “Why Not Us?”
What happens when someone believes in you before the rest of the world can see what is possible?In 1977, Dick Hoyt wasn't a runner. But when his son Rick, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair, wanted to participate in a five-mile...
Can Reading 30 Minutes a Day Add Years to Your Life?
Can Reading 30 Minutes a Day Add Years to Your Life?What if one of the simplest habits you could build was sitting on your bookshelf?A social media post claimed that reading just 30 minutes a day could add nearly two years to your...
How to Use Social Media Without Letting It Use You
Social media can help you grow a business, build your visibility, connect with potential clients, and share a message that matters.It can also drain your energy, trigger comparison, and make you question whether your voice is good enough...
6 Habits of Happy People: How to Protect Your Peace and Feel Happier
Happiness is not reserved for people with easier lives, better circumstances, or fewer problems.The happiest and most grounded people often face the same challenges as everyone else. What sets them apart is how they choose to live, where...
How to Find Your One Thing: Why Clarity Comes After You Move
What is your “one thing”?In the movie City Slickers, Curly famously holds up one finger and says the secret of life is one thing. When asked what that one thing is, he simply replies, “That’s what you’ve got to find out.”...
Your Body Isn’t Broken: How to Calm Fight-or-Flight in 60 Seconds
A racing heart. Shallow breathing. A clenched jaw. Cold hands. A nervous stomach. Thoughts that will not slow down.These sensations can make you feel as though something is wrong with you. But your body is not broken. It is trying to pro...
Life Is Short: How to Live With Purpose and Create a Ripple Effect
What if the things that come most naturally to you could change someone else’s life?In this episode of Brave Moves, Julie reflects on two deeply moving stories she discovered on TikTok. One is about the loss of a beloved dog who...
You’re Not Too Old to Start Again: How to Keep Going at Any Age
At 70 years old, Julie’s grandmother lost her leg to a rare cancer. After surgery, chemotherapy, and rehabilitation, she faced the difficult task of learning how to walk again with a wooden prosthetic leg that weighed nearly 30 pounds.Sh...