GLOBAL INVESTOR • AUTHOR
SOLO MOTHER • LIFELONG SPIRITUAL SEEKER
About Julie-Ann Tathem
The practical
and the unseen
Julie-Ann Tathem is a global investor, author, solo mother of two daughters and lifelong spiritual seeker. She has sat in boardrooms and in ten-day silent meditation retreats. She has studied financial markets and human behavior.
Her interest in human behavior began with the work she did on herself. It led to an advance diploma in Gestalt psychotherapy, a master’s degree in spiritual psychology and years spent examining the patterns that shape our choices. Always practical, she believes in preparation, sound judgment and looking closely at the numbers. But she also trusts her intuition, having learned that some things can be known before they can be fully explained.
A former Wall Street professional, she now manages a portfolio of commercial and residential properties across several countries. The life she has built gives her the freedom to choose not only how she lives, but where.
New book by Julie-Ann Tathem
What would I want
my daughters to know?
What would I want my daughters to know?
That question became Strong Daughters. After becoming a solo mother at forty-five and forty-nine, Julie-Ann began writing letters she wanted her daughters to have whenever she could not be there to guide them.
Across eighty-six letters, Julie-Ann explores choices that can alter the course of a woman’s life: who to love, how to earn and manage money, whether and how to become a mother, when to stand her ground and when to change direction.
Written first for her daughters, the book speaks to women examining the expectations they inherited and deciding what kind of life to build for themselves. At its heart is a conviction Julie-Ann returns to throughout: beneath the noise, you already know.
EXCERPTS FROM
STRONG DAUGHTERS
“Parenting reveals character. It magnifies existing habits and behaviors. If a partner avoids responsibility before children, it is unlikely they will embrace it afterward.”
Letter: “Choosing An Engaged Co-Parent”
“Motherhood and partnership are two separate decisions. They may intersect beautifully, but one should not depend entirely on the other.”
Letter: “Choosing Solo Motherhood”
“I did not disappear overnight.
I edited myself in increments.
What can look like love is sometimes over-functioning disguised as care, taking on more than is yours to carry in order to keep a relationship stable.”
Letter: “Don’t Shrink For Love”
“The wisdom lies in learning the difference between an obstacle that is shaping you and one that is redirecting you.”
Letter: “Own Your Career”
“Sometimes guidance arrives as no clear direction at all. I have learned that this can be guidance too, a signal to wait rather than force an answer. Just because you cannot yet see the next step does not mean nothing is happening.”
Letter: “Spirit Is Always Guiding”
“Marriage is not a financial plan. Please let go of the belief that financial security comes from marrying the right man.”
Letter: “Your Bankbook Is Your Best Friend”
“What I’ve come to realize is that fear rarely announces itself as fear. Instead, it likes to tell you it is practical, logical, even responsible.”
Letter: “When Fear Sounds Responsible”
“Preparation is rarely glamorous. It is the consistent work done when no one is watching.”
Letter: “Make Your Luck”
“You are not here to become what the world expects of you. You are here to become who you already are.”
Letter: “Your Soul’s Potential”
Advance praise
What readers are saying
“As someone who spends my days talking with women about the books that actually change how they see their own lives, I can say this one belongs on that shelf.”
Strong Daughters reads less like a self-help book and more like sitting across from a wise friend who’s finally decided to tell you everything. Julie-Ann Tathem writes with the kind of honesty you can’t fake—the electric shock she trusted before the electricians would believe her, the acorn that doesn’t force itself into an oak, the daughter of a friend who already knew her own answer and just needed permission to trust it. These aren’t abstract lessons. They’re lived ones, handed down the way the best advice always is: gently, specifically, and without pretending the path was ever straight.
As someone who spends my days talking with women about the books that actually change how they see their own lives, I can say this one belongs on that shelf.
Whether you’re twenty-five and negotiating your first raise or fifty and still working out who you are outside of everyone else’s expectations of you, these letters meet you exactly where you stand—and quietly convince you that you already know more than you think you do.
ERIN WOODWARD
Founder, The Gloss Book Club
Toronto, Canada
“This is the guidebook I wish my own mother had written me.”
This book is page after page of not only sound but sage advice from a mother to her daughters. Strong Daughters is inspired reading filled with solid advice wrapped beautifully in love. I could recognize the wisdom, but it’s how her words landed in my heart that really won me over.
This is the guidebook I wish my own mother had written me.
Not that she didn’t have good advice, she did, but Julie-Ann covers every important area of life we need to know about in order to thrive—relationships, choosing aligned work, investing our money, and taking care of ourselves in the face of whatever life throws our way, because, as we know, life does. I’ll be giving this book to every young person I know, regardless of gender, as these wise words are for all young people.
BARRY ALDEN CLARK
Professional life coach and author of Living Life Now
Los Angeles, USA
“Strong Daughters is one of those rare books that manages to be immensely wise without ever becoming heavy.”
Strong Daughters is one of those rare books that manages to be immensely wise without ever becoming heavy. Julie-Ann is incredibly articulate, frequently very funny, and so enjoyable to read that you can almost miss just how much wisdom she is quietly handing you.
These are the lessons I wish women of my generation had been taught when we were young, particularly about money, relationships, independence, self-trust and the importance of not abandoning yourself in order to build a life with someone else. It also feels extraordinarily timely.
Women are living through a profound period of change in the way we relate to work, money, partnership, motherhood and our own autonomy, yet many of us are still carrying inherited ideas designed for an entirely different world. Strong Daughters feels like a deeply intelligent and compassionate guide to navigating this new one. I found myself repeatedly thinking, ‘God, I wish someone had told me this twenty years ago.’
CAMILLA BRINKWORTH
Naturopath and Family Constellations Practitioner
Los Angeles, USA
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Speaking · Podcasts · Media
Conversations about choosing yourself
Drawing on Strong Daughters: Letters on Choosing Yourself, Julie-Ann explores how women learn to trust their own judgment, stand up for themselves and shape lives on their own terms. She is available for podcast interviews, speaking events, panels and book-club conversations.
You already know
Where compromise costs too much
The partner who shapes your future
Money, love and power
Choosing the shape of your family
Work that fits the life you want
Courage to choose differently
The practical and the unseen
“Whatever life brings—
always return to yourself.”
— Julie-Ann Tathem,
Strong Daughters
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