The Ambition Code
The Ambition Code is a premium podcast and conversation series about ambition, identity, career, reinvention, leadership, and the defining moments that shape who we become. Hosted by Julie Kellman Reading, the series features deeply human conversations with remarkable people who have built extraordinary lives across business, culture, creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal evolution. At its core, The Ambition Code explores ambition as a force that moves through every part of life - how we start, how we rise, how we navigate the unexpected, and how we break through into what comes next. Through honest and powerful conversations filled with humanity, humor, hard-earned experience, and real-world advice, the podcast gives listeners the knowledge and clarity to build momentum and move forward with confidence through every pivot, transition, risk, reinvention, and defining moment in their lives. Built for those entering the workforce, entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, and anyone standing at the edge of a new chapter, The Ambition Code asks the bigger questions: What would you tell the younger version of yourself? How do you keep moving when the path is unclear? What does your journey teach you about purpose, resilience, legacy, and becoming who you are meant to be? The Ambition Code is a guide to running through open doors, and a bold reminder that your life is waiting for you.
Episodes
Raquel Bruno + Music, Motherhood, and a Life Off-Script
The Lessons of an 8-Year IVF Journey
Raquel Bruno is a powerhouse.
The thing I've always loved about Raquel is that she understands perseverance. She knows how to keep going, how to find another way, and how to keep believing when the answer in front of her is no. And nowhere was that perseverance tested more profoundly...
The Risk of Wanting More
How do you stay open after life changes you?
What happens when you survive something that changes you - and then life asks you to believe in possibility again?
In this solo episode of The Ambition Code, Julie Kellman Reading explores what it means to want more after heartbreak, disappointment, reinvention, or any experience that fundamentally divides...
Dave Holmes has spent a lifetime being easy to recognize and nearly impossible to categorize.
He is a writer, humorist, host, cultural observer, Editor-at-Large at Esquire - and someone with the rare ability to make you laugh very hard while casually saying something devastatingly true about being human.
But this conversation isn't really about the things Dave has done.
It's about...
ONE CONVERSATION, TWO DIFFERENT PATHS - PART TWO
Cary Brothers + The Life He Built by Trusting His Instincts
At 19 years old, Julie was a college student spending the summer living in the NYU dorms in New York City when a ten-minute conversation with a complete stranger changed the course of her life.
That stranger was Cary Brothers.
Cary was a college stu...
ONE CONVERSATION, TWO DIFFERENT PATHS
Part One: The Summer in New York City That Changed My Life
How do you get from college into the career - and life - you dream about? And how do you begin again when you are ready to pivot, pursue something new, and ask for exactly what you want?
At 19, Julie went to New York City for an internship at Andy Warhol's iconic Interview Magazine. She had no master plan or professional connec...
The success story is almost never the whole story.
Amy Palmer is an Emmy-nominated producer, journalist, host, media executive and entrepreneur whose career has taken her from television production and on-air reporting to building Power Women TV and executive producing the Paramount+ docuseries The Real Wolf of Wall Street.
But Amy's path was anything but linear - or easy.
Early i...
She Started as a Cleaning Lady. Then MTV Changed Everything. This is Johanna Salazar's Story
"I don't need anybody to hire me again - because I hire myself."
Johanna Salazar's story begins long before she became a media executive, producer, creative technologist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Foodstream Network. It begins in Colombia, with a mother whose courage and sacrifice created a...
Divorce comes with an astonishing amount of paperwork - and remarkably little instruction for how to rebuild your life. So how do you move through the emotional chaos, protect what matters, and begin imagining a future you cannot see yet?
In this deeply personal episode of The Ambition Code, Julie Kellman Reading is joined by her dear friend LeAnn Lazar, an Executive Life and Relationship Coach, certified ...
Before the Emmys, the iconic stages, and the spinning red chairs of The Voice, James Pearse Connelly was a wildly imaginative child who already knew what he wanted to do.
He could see worlds that did not yet exist.
Then he built a career bringing them to life.
James is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and one of the defining creative forces in modern television. As the fo...
Some people walk into a room.
Abby Girvin arrives like sunshine with a business plan. ☀️🔥
She is a force of nature, a professional possibility-maker, and the kind of person who makes you believe you could completely change your life before lunch.
In this episode of The Ambition Code, Julie Kellman Reading sits down with Abby, Owner and Agency Director of DDO Artists Agency, for a joyful, hilarious, and wildly motivating conversati...
What does ambition look like when the career, life, or future you thought you understood suddenly changes?
In the first episode of The Ambition Code, creator and host Julie Kellman Reading shares why she created the podcast - and why ambition is about far more than professional success.
Julie explores the question at the heart of the series: How do you get from seeing the life you want to actu...
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