JULIE STAFFORD
"Why do we get all this life if we don’t ever use it?
Why do we have all this life…feelings…and dreams and hopes…if we don’t ever use them." (Shirley Valentine)
INSIGHTS AND EXPRESSIONS
FOR A NEW ERA
JULIE STAFFORD is a multi-dimensional creative, blending writing, photography, painting and her solo woman travel adventures into story-telling and ideas to inspire transformation.
JULIE'S extraordinary insights, captured in her story-telling, through the lens of her camera, and on large canvases will inspire, motivate and ignite lasting change in your own journey.
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After her 30 year partnership with husband Bruce, who beat his first life-threatening cancer diagnosis just two-and-a-half years into their love story, but lost his fight against a second totally unrelated cancer in 2006, Julie found herself alone. To be healed from grief, she began traveling to discover her capacity as a solo woman traveler. Facing many unexpected challenges, Julie discovered just how brave she was and began to reinvent herself in a new chapter prioritizing her love of writing, photography and painting.
JULIE STAFFORD is the well-known Australian author of the healthy-eating cookbook series that changed a generation's eating habits in the 80s and 90s. Her best-selling 'Taste of Life' cookbook series sold over 2.2million copies worldwide.
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What is not so well known about Julie is that she and her husband grew a property development business from one project into 13 successful development projects. Julie conceptualized and delivered in an honorary capacity one of regional Victoria's biggest one day food and music events that ran for more than a decade under Julie's direction. Julie was also instrumental in raising millions of dollars for cancer research in regional Australia and awarded a Governorship for her services to cancer research at the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Laboratory.
Having traveled solo to beautiful and remote destinations, Julie has learned how to observe life at a deeper level, embrace uncertainty, let the least-most-likely characters teach her life's golden wisdom, turn obstacles into opportunities, and grow through life’s most unexpected (often serendipitous) moments, all the while embracing new technologies (especially AI) and teaching others to explore and advance their transformational journeys doing the same.
JULIE STAFFORD'S profound messaging to chase after the life in our lives rather than merely survive life encourages her readers and audiences to step outside their comfort zones to achieve personal and professional success, and taste the true joy of living.
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Profound, purposeful, passionate, Julie Stafford is inspirational in all she touches.
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In the book and movie of the same name, 'Shirley Valentine' Shirley says - "I’ve led such a little life. And even that will be over pretty soon. I've allowed myself to lead this little life when inside me there was so much more. And it’s all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don’t ever use it? Why do we have all this life…feelings…and dreams and hopes…if we don’t ever use them."
"Shirley's words have been my constant inspiration and north star to chase after the life in my life, to find extraordinary moments rather than stagnate in ordinariness. And, with every passing year, reminded how fast this passage of life is, I chase harder to find those moments that put a smile on my face by every day's end."
Julie Stafford
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