This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 148 with Julie Fry. Show notes for this episode can be found

by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 148. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm

your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.

I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building?

So let's dive in.

Four years ago, Julie Fry was fed up with too much travel and not enough control of her schedule or her family life. She left her corporate sales job

and decided to buy a blog, business amongmoms.com to give herself a little more control over her

life and spend more time with her kids. She quickly learned

that she was way too extroverted for a purely online company and pivoted to serve women

entrepreneurs with community, education, and support for their businesses through networking

and educational events. Since then, business among moms, or BAM, as it's affectionately known,

has grown to 20 chapters across the country and nearly

1,000 members. Along the way, Julie has learned about herself and the power of connecting women.

She has created something she truly loves and that fuels her mind and her soul.

While Julie has been busy growing her dream business and serving women all over the country,

she's also learned how to best serve herself as she lives valiantly with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. I so appreciate Julie coming on the show

to talk about building her dream business and building a life that she loves around a life with cancer.

Listen in to hear Julie share how she decided to buy a business and how anyone can start on this journey.

The joy and connecting women. How to let the mommy guilt go, how she was diagnosed with chronic lymphocetic leukemia,

also known as CLL, and her prognosis today, and how she's learned to slow down and still live big.

It was such a treat to have Julie here.

She's someone I've admired for quite a while.

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