1235: What Parenting and Team Management Have in Common with Julie Cole
Emotionally Uncomfortable
Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab
4.6 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"Healthy birds leave the nest and strong leaders know when to let go."
In this refreshingly candid episode, Heather sits down with Julie Cole, co-founder of Mabel's Labels and mother of six, for a real-deal conversation on parenting, leadership, and letting go of guilt.
From building a wildly successful company while raising a big family to advocating for psychological safety in the workplace and at home, Julie brings wisdom, warmth, and straight talk about what it really means to lead without losing yourself in the process.
🩶 The difference between advocating and over functioning in parenting and leadership
🩶 How identity, intuition, and guilt intersect for ambitious women
🩶 What Julie's learned about cultural shifts in motherhood after raising six kids over 20+ years
If you're ready to stop carrying everyone's emotions, lead from your values, and model what real alignment looks like, this episode is for you.
About Julie
A dynamic entrepreneur, recovered lawyer, and mom of six who traded in her legal career to co-found Mabel's Labels, the award-winning company that transformed from a basement startup into a multi-million dollar industry leader.
As Senior Director of Mabel's Labels, Julie has helped revolutionize the durable label market while becoming a recognized voice in entrepreneurship, parenting, and women's leadership. She's an award-winning businesswoman, best-selling author, and in-demand speaker and media contributor, having appeared on major media outlets including NBC's The Today Show, HLN's Raising America, The Marilyn Denis Show, CNN, CP-24, and Breakfast Television. Her written work has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, Profit Magazine, Today's Parent, and more.
Julie's achievements have earned her notable recognition, including the RBC Women of Influence Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship, YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Iris Award in Entrepreneurship, to name a few.
Beyond business, Julie is deeply committed to community engagement, mentoring emerging entrepreneurs, and advocating for women's rights. Whether she's keynoting a conference or navigating the chaos of family life, Julie brings authenticity, humour, and heart to everything she does.
Follow Julie for inspiration, real talk, and expert insights into entrepreneurship, parenting, and the power of building something meaningful from the ground up.
https://mabelslabels.com/
https://www.mabelslabels.com/juliecole
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-cole-llb-ma-3794671/
https://instagram.com/mabelslabels
https://instagram.com/juliecoleinc
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Super excited about today's episode with Julie Cole. We're talking all about team management, |
| 0:08.7 | parenting, the crossover, and the duality of going after your big dreams and desires |
| 0:16.9 | while also raising humans and how all of this shit is intertwined and connected. |
| 0:23.2 | What I love about Julie specifically, I've known Julie for a while and she is a pistol. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm going to tell you a little bit about her background and then I'll give commentary on my |
| 0:34.0 | perspective of Julie, what we're going to dive into. |
| 0:36.5 | So Julie Cole holds a law degree. She also |
| 0:39.3 | has a master's in education. She describes herself as a recovered lawyer who pivoted away from |
| 0:46.4 | the traditional legal career and into entrepreneurship. She's a mother of six. You heard that |
| 0:53.0 | correctly. Six children. And in 2003, Julie and three other women, |
| 0:59.5 | including family members, founded Mabel's labels because they saw a gap in the durable labels for kids' market. |
| 1:13.3 | Many children's belongings were getting lost, |
| 1:18.1 | mixed up, or never returned. If you were not familiar with Mabel's labels, you may know other label companies, but Mabel's labels is the shit. I absolutely love these labels. They're |
| 1:24.9 | definitely an investment. The best quality labels, |
| 1:29.2 | like putting your children's name on it or your family's last name on it. I have three boys. |
| 1:35.0 | And I have gotten these labels for just school and camps and things like that. My oldest is 20 years |
| 1:43.2 | old. And I think we got these labels, |
| 1:45.7 | oh gosh, not 10 years ago, maybe five, six, seven years ago. And these labels are still on |
| 1:52.0 | the same items. And so passing down secondhand from kid to kid to kid, those labels stick |
| 1:58.2 | on everything and they do not come off. And so I am a huge, |
| 2:02.3 | huge fan. It's definitely an investment, but I would say premium quality for Mabel's labels. |
| 2:09.4 | Also like a really good gift to give somebody for the holidays, not even just for your kids, |
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