Casa De Confidence Podcast | Grow Your Business, Life and Confidence | with Julie DeLucca-Collins

What happens when the career you've built for decades is no longer the life you want?

For years, Marianne DeMello-Smith poured herself into her corporate career. She built relationships, developed leadership skills and created an identity around the work she did. But after organizational changes and a growing disconnect between her career and her personal priorities, she found herself facing a question she hadn't expected.

Who am I w...

Have you looked at the calendar lately and thought, "Well, I guess this year didn't go the way I planned"?

Maybe you haven't reached your business goals. Maybe you haven't signed the clients you hoped for, launched that offer or made the progress you expected.

Before you decide the year is a wash, I want you to consider something.

What if the final months of the year aren't too late? What if they're your head start?

In this episode of ...

What happens when you've spent years becoming successful, only to realize there are parts of yourself you left behind along the way?

Sara Byers has led businesses, chaired boards and built the kind of professional life that looks impressive on paper. She's also a poet, writer, speaker and deeply intuitive woman whose life began changing dramatically in 2020 when she could no longer ignore the part of herself that didn't fit neatly i...

What if working harder isn't the answer?

Morgan Hamer knows what it feels like to do everything you're “supposed” to do and still know something isn't right.

She built a successful career in commercial real estate, but eventually found herself burned out and disconnected from the life she actually wanted. Instead of walking away from everything she'd built, Morgan started paying attention to what energized her, what felt ...

How often do we see something, fill in the missing pieces ourselves and then react to the story we've created?

Probably more often than we'd like to admit.

Julie and Dan are back together at Casa De Collins for one of those conversations that starts in one place, takes several unexpected turns, and somehow lands on a lesson we probably all need.

Julie shares the story of a small business owner who spent years growing an independent ba...

What can ballroom dancing teach us about marriage, leadership, confidence, business and learning to let go of control?

Turns out, quite a lot.

Kenneth and Caroline Kollasch met through ballroom dancing, eventually became competitive dance partners, fell in love, got married and built a life together. But their partnership didn't work because they naturally approached life the same way.

Quite the opposite.

Kenneth describes himself as d...

What happens when Julie comes home from New York after Podcast Movement with scraped-up knees, a head full of podcast statistics, strong opinions, and approximately 47 things she needs to tell Dan?

You get this episode.

Dan is back behind the mic, Julie is finally home, Yogi has an injured paw, and before they can get anywhere near the actual topic, there is monkey business, a Times Square wipeout and a brief disagreement over what c...

What if the thing standing between you and sustainable change isn't knowing what to eat?

What if it's how you talk to yourself when things don't go according to plan?

Amy Scott spent years riding the weight-loss roller coaster. She had struggled with her weight for much of her life, experienced some success with Weight Watchers, regained weight, and eventually reached a point where she wondered if there might be another way.

Then, at ...

 Julie and Dan are both members of Generation X, but their childhood experiences were worlds apart.

Dan grew up in rural Connecticut, where children rode bikes for miles, wandered through multiple towns, and were expected to entertain themselves. Julie grew up in El Salvador and several major American cities, where outside play, community, independence, and even the meaning of “home” looked very different.

Their conv...

You've picked the colors.

You've built the website.

You've created the offer.

Maybe you've even started making money.

But have you actually protected the business you're working so hard to build?

In this episode of Casa De Confidence, Julie sits down with business and trademark attorney Samantha Bradshaw for a practical conversation about the legal and financial foundations entrepreneurs often push to the bottom of the list.

Because let'...

What happens when Julie goes to Key West for Jimmy Buffett weekend and Dan stays home in Connecticut?

Apparently, a long-distance Casa De Confidence quickie.

Julie joins Dan from the La Concha in Key West, where she's grabbing breakfast with friends Melissa and Dawn before heading out on a boat during the Just a Few Friends celebration honoring the life and legacy of Jimmy Buffett.

What starts as a quick check-in turns into a conversa...

What changes as we get older? Maybe it’s less about becoming a completely different person and more about getting clearer on what actually deserves our time.

In this Sunday episode of Casa DeConfidence, Julie and Dan are back at the microphones for one of their candid conversations about marriage, midlife, getting older, changing priorities, and creating a life you actually enjoy.

It starts, as many Casa conversations do, somew...

Everybody seems to be telling entrepreneurs to write a book.

Write it in a weekend. Use AI. Upload it to Amazon. Become a bestselling author. Watch the clients roll in.

Except…that’s not quite how it works.

This week on Casa De Confidence, Julie sits down with publishing expert Ally Machate, founder of The Writer’s Ally, to pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to write and publish a book that supports you...

You asked.

You waited.

And yes... Handsome Hot Husband is finally back.

After a little hiatus from the microphone, Dan returns to Casa De Confidence for the kind of episode longtime listeners know and love: part catching up, part behind-the-scenes conversation, part podcast recommendations—and plenty of completely unplanned Julie-and-Dan detours.

Julie and Dan catch up on life at Casa De Collins, including the bathroom remodel th...

What if making the world a little better didn't require a grand gesture?

What if it started with noticing the person standing beside you?

In this episode of Casa De Confidence, Julie DeLucca-Collins sits down with author, podcaster, storyteller, and Master of Divinity Kirsten Rudberg for a conversation about spirituality, human connection, storytelling, healing, and finding meaning in the seemingly ordinary moments of life.

Kirsten de...

What happens when the life that looks successful from the outside no longer feels like yours?

For Lisa Pulliam, that realization came while standing on a beach in South Texas.

She had built a successful business, led a team of more than 2,000 consultants and customers, spoken on major stages, and checked many of the boxes we're told represent success.

But behind the accomplishments, Lisa was burned out.

Her health was suffering. Her ma...

You Don't Get Paid What You're Worth. You Get Paid What You Negotiate.

What if one conversation could completely change your financial future?

In this episode of Casa De Confidence, Julie DeLucca-Collins sits down with executive career strategist, former Chief People Officer, and founder of The Salary Bump, Keri-Lynne (KL) Shaw, for one of the most practical conversations we've ever had about confidence, networking, salary negoti...

Confidence Isn't Something You Find. It's Something You Practice.

What if confidence wasn't about being fearless?

What if it was about trusting yourself?

In this powerful episode of Casa De Confidence, Julie DeLucca-Collins welcomes international media personality, actress, producer, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of The Self-Esteem Regime, Dame Clarissa Burt.

From modeling throughout Europe to acting in films like The N...

Building Confidence One Small Step at a Time

What if your greatest limitations became the foundation for your greatest strengths?

In this heartfelt episode of Casa De Confidence, Julie sits down with artist, graphic designer, entrepreneur, and advocate Katherine Klimitas, who lives with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, commonly known as Brittle Bone Disease.

By the age of ten, Katherine had experienced more than 500 broken bones, yet she neve...