117. Julie Brazitis, Google Brand & Creative Lead
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
"Stay true to yourself. It gets really good on the other side, when you’re a good person and you follow your gut on who you want to be around and what you want to do with your life." —Julie Brazitis
Julie Brazitis just might be the loveliest, kindest, most positive person you'll ever meet. She's a brand and creative lead at Google, a yoga instructor, a top-honors-earning graduate of Syracuse University, and a recovering perfectionist. On this episode, Julie talks about what it's like when you realize you're living the dream — but that it's someone else's dream. She talks about what it was like growing up as a competitive gymnast, and what happened when a severe spinal cord injury derailed her high-flying aspirations. She opens up about battling alopecia in high school and ulcerative colitis in college — and the mean girls she encountered along the way. Plus, she shares her running story: how she found running, why she loved running, and how she ultimately developed an unhealthy relationship with running.
Julie has had a lovely life — something she's happy to acknowledge — but that doesn't mean it's been easy. This is a thought-provoking episode that'll get you thinking about why we make certain choices, what to do about internal conflicts, and how to embrace or combat the ever-present hustle culture in today's Instagram-inspired society.
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- Julie recounts her early days as a competitive gymnast, and the back-breaking injury that ended it all (2:45)
- Dealing with alopecia — and mean girls — during high school (6:30)
- Julie opens up about her high aspirations, the “inner conflict” she struggled with in her twenties, and choosing between her dream job and the safe route (13:30)
- How Julie started running — and how her relationship with running quickly turned problematic (29:30)
- Julie’s battle with ulcerative colitis, and what it was like getting diagnosed in college (32:40)
- On being our own worst critic (44:45)
- What it’s actually like working at Google (47:30)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Allie Feller and every Thursday I talk with inspiring men and women who lead interesting lives on the run and beyond. |
| 0:18.0 | And while running is what brings us all together on these episodes, I'm looking for a little more. |
| 0:22.9 | So join me every week to learn about the decisions people have made to get exactly where they are today, both the good ones and the bad ones, and how running has factored in. |
| 0:32.9 | Today, my guest is Julie Brasinus, a good friend of mine. |
| 0:36.4 | Julie's a video and creative lead at Google. She's a yoga instructor and she's a top honors graduate from Syracuse University. |
| 0:44.4 | I wanted to bring Julie on the show today because she is perhaps the kindest person I've ever met and I want to be more like her in that way. |
| 0:50.9 | But also because she's someone that I think many women can relate to myself included. |
| 0:55.7 | That's because Julie has struggled with perfectionism her entire life. |
| 1:00.0 | She was a competitive gymnast growing up but a spinal injury took that from her out. |
| 1:04.8 | She's battled eating disorders, alopecia ulcerative colitis, and an unhealthy relationship with running. |
| 1:11.0 | Julie shares what it's like to have a really lovely, very privileged life, but to be deeply unhappy. |
| 1:16.8 | She talks about what it felt like when she realized that on paper she had it all but that she was living someone else's dream. |
| 1:22.4 | And she talks about getting offered her dream job as an NBC page out of college and shares why she turned it down. |
| 1:28.4 | There's a lot in here that I think will have many of you nodding along myself included. |
| 1:32.4 | So without further ado, let's welcome Julie Brasinus. |
| 1:40.6 | All right, Julie Brasinus. Welcome to the alley on the run show. |
| 1:43.6 | I am so excited to be sitting here with you today. |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah, thank you so much for having me out. It's so good to see you. |
| 1:49.0 | All right, we're going to get into so much good stuff. |
| 1:50.7 | You let me know that nothing is off limits today. |
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