Juliette Gamble

I think staying humble, and nothing is beneath me. I started out cleaning the beach, cleaning hotel rooms, babysitting. I never expected that anybody's gonna just give me anything or make it easy. I think the secret has just been moving forward and learning to trust myself and taking responsibility for myself, not expecting any shortcuts or any handouts. I continue to learn, continue to grow. I don't have any idea about retirement and then you just stop. I just feel like I'm here for a short time on this earth, and I'm very driven. My faith drives me, mostly. I just align, and I trust that God is inspiring most of what I'm doing. I've said yes. I don't necessarily even have to work. I work because I feel that I'm called to do it. And much of what I do isn't really me, it's kind of literally God working through me. I really have to give the glory to Him. While I was driven into the ground early from burnout, it was because I was trying to do it on my own. And it was through maturity and real-life experience, a lot of service work, and working with people, and just life. Through the pandemic, I taught three years free online with people all over the globe, coming 2 times a week to classes, and just connecting. I just feel that God puts me in this place, gives me the energy, and is running my life, animating me, so to speak.

My dad was kind of my mentor. He was a hard worker, and he used to say, you don't like school? Okay. Well, what's worse than that? He's like, I don't like poverty. You know, I don't like poverty. And he taught me we work. I always worked. You just go, move forward. You don't have to wait for things to be perfect. There's never a perfect time. I believe start before you feel ready, and just stay consistent. There's no perfect moment, there's no clarity that's gonna come. All the clarity that I've ever gotten has been through action. You know, so now I'm better able, because I'm more regulated, to make action from a more active, calm, regulated place. So there is a fine line. I spent many, many years balancing multiple roles, and I just wish I understood that burnout didn't have to be a badge of honor. You know, it was like I was performing because I thought I had to. And I realize now, and what I help other people to realize, is you can build whatever you want purposefully, meaningfully, without running yourself into the ground. If I would have known then how to regulate my own nervous system, to set clear boundaries, and to take care of my own energy, that would be my most important business strategy moving forward.

I would say, trust your path, even if it doesn't look like anybody else's. Your greatest challenges are going to become your greatest qualifications, if you're willing to learn from them, rather than rush past it and rush away. Like, rushing to the finish line, you still have to wait for everybody to catch up. So, trust the process. Trust who you are, that you're a unique individual that no one can compete with. And also, relationships. Really, never underestimate the power of relationships. The work that you do matters, and how you make people feel is what matters the most. So to lead with humility, integrity, continue to be in service outside of your selfish self. And just stay rooted in your why as to why you started the work that you're doing, or at least discover what that why is. And move from that point.

Right now, I feel like I am here exactly where I need to be, because they say necessity is the mother of invention. Unfortunately, we are in the most severe mental health pandemic. We're in a paradigm shift where the opportunity right now is that I want to train clinicians. There's only one of me, so I have a lot of women that I work with through my program, and they're in limbo, they don't know what to do, so I want to bring people into mental health not from a problematic viewpoint, but from a solutions point of view. We are all here walking each other home, and there's abundance right now for everybody to work together and help each other. So that's an opportunity. What seems problematic is really our greatest opportunity as humanity to come into our hearts, to be serviceful, to help one another. The greatest challenge is that I happen to be in it, behind the scenes, with one of my youngest sons, a part of this system, this mental health system that unfortunately is overworked, underpaid, a lot of turnover. Unfortunately, if you don't have discernment as a worker, an employee, or as a client, there's a lot of money-hungry, insurance grabbing, and a lot of keeping people sick in a system that is greedy. I get people come to me after years and years of programs not working, people being put on medication, addicted. My job is to get people off, titrated down from the abuse of the pharmaceutical industry. Right now, the greatest challenge is marijuana, the high potency THC that is bought on the street, at the gas station, on the corner, that is ruining our children. I've never seen so much cannabis-induced psychosis ever in my life. More schizophrenia, schizo-affective bipolar diagnoses, and psychosis that are getting medicated, some forever, when it really is this cannabis and this kratom and all these unregulated things out there. That's the greatest challenge, destroying the young, beautiful minds of our children from born from 2003 on. I'm seeing 18 to 28, a sector of the population that is getting their souls ripped out from them, their mental health destroyed, their sexuality confused. So we really need to fight. I'm part of a group called Every Brain Matters with Aubrey Adams. She's trying to bring this to legislation, and she's trying to change things. Her son is also a victim of this terrible system. We're trying to bring education to these people that think, oh, it's just pot, it's just weed, it's natural, it's an herb. No, it's all synthetic. And the THC potency is like 80-90% as compared to 8 to 15% back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. That's the challenge right now. We have a world that if you don't open your eyes and take responsibility for yourself, we're being duped. We're being fooled, our intuition's being taken from us.