The Ambition Code

About The Ambition Code

The Ambition Code is a premium podcast and conversation series about ambition, identity, career, reinvention, leadership, and the defining moments that shape who we become. Hosted by Julie Kellman Reading, the series features deeply human conversations with remarkable people who have built extraordinary lives across business, culture, creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal evolution. At its core, The Ambition Code explores ambition as a force that moves through every part of life - how we start, how we rise, how we navigate the unexpected, and how we break through into what comes next. Through honest and powerful conversations filled with humanity, humor, hard-earned experience, and real-world advice, the podcast gives listeners the knowledge and clarity to build momentum and move forward with confidence through every pivot, transition, risk, reinvention, and defining moment in their lives. Built for those entering the workforce, entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, and anyone standing at the edge of a new chapter, The Ambition Code asks the bigger questions: What would you tell the younger version of yourself? How do you keep moving when the path is unclear? What does your journey teach you about purpose, resilience, legacy, and becoming who you are meant to be? The Ambition Code is a guide to running through open doors, and a bold reminder that your life is waiting for you.

Publisher

Julie Kellman Reading

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jul 2026

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

17 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   WEEK TWO! Vote For The Ambition Code in Top Host!

   You guys are AMAZING! 💜 Thank you SO much for all the love, support, and VOTES! We're officially in WEEK TWO of the TOP HOST competition with Ryan Seacrest and iHeartRadio, and I'm bouncing between 1st and 3rd place in my group! 🏆 🔥 TODAY IS A BIG ONE! Votes count DOUBLE until 9 PM! 🔥 So even if you've already voted, PLEASE VOTE AGAIN! Every vote makes a difference, and I would LOVE to get back to that #1 spot and STAY THERE! Thank you for helping me take *The Ambition Code* to the next level! I appreciate you all more than you know! ❤️ 👇 VOTE NOW! LINK BELOW! 👇 #TopHost #TheAmbitionCode #iHeartRadio #RyanSeacrest #WomenWhoPodcast

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   8 Oct 2026

   Say Yes to Uganda: And Other Truths About Navigating Change

   Say Yes to Uganda: And Other Truths About Navigating Change Want to know a secret about me? I really don't like change. But there are different kinds of change. Good change? New opportunities? LOVE those. The kind that comes out of nowhere and changes everything in your life? No thank you. But as we all know, change happens. We don't always get to control it, and we definitely don't always know how it's going to turn out. Sometimes, what feels completely disruptive in the moment can eventually open the door to something we never could have seen coming. And that's really what this episode is about: the change you choose, the change you don't - and what you do with both. A few years ago, when I was newly separated and my life felt like it had been turned completely upside down, a woman gave me a piece of advice I have never forgotten: Say yes to Uganda. She told me that when her own marriage ended, she decided to start saying yes to things she might previously have talked herself out of. A dance class? Yes. A party? Yes. An invitation? Yes. Something new and healthy that pushed her outside the life she already knew? Yes. Eventually, one of those yeses took her all the way to Uganda. I didn't literally go to Uganda. But I took the lesson. And soon enough, invitations started showing up in my own life. I said yes to as many as I could. One of those yeses became a gift I never could have planned for - something that entered my life only because life had changed enough to make room for it. And that's what Say Yes to Uganda came to mean to me. Its a mantra I use to this day. It doesn't mean running away, reinventing yourself every five minutes, or convincing yourself that everything happens for a reason. It means remembering that even when you cannot control what has happened, you can still participate in what happens next. In this solo episode of The Ambition Code, I'm looking at the psychology of change - why we cling to what's familiar, why a fresh start can feel so powerful, and why fear can make us stay when we should go or run when we should stay. We're talking about the difference between commitment and fear, courage and escape, voluntary and involuntary change - and one of my favorite truths from this entire episode: Problems are portable. You can change the relationship, the job, the city, the house, the friends - maybe even buy some excellent new throw pillows - but wherever you go, you still bring yourself with you. So maybe navigating change isn't about constantly searching for a completely new life. Maybe it's about asking better questions. What am I moving toward, or running from? What is this change showing me, and what is mine to decide? And most importantly: What do I want from this change? Because we don't always get to choose the beginning of a new chapter. But we do get a say in how we write what comes next. Sometimes that starts with a huge decision. And sometimes it starts with one tiny yes. Say yes to Uganda. THE AMBITION CODE The Ambition Code is about ambition, identity, reinvention, career, relationships and the choices — expected and unexpected — that shape our lives. Created, Hosted & Executive Produced by Julie Kellman Reading Produced by Love + Daydreams Music by Moby Gratis A Love + Daydreams Production Listen to The Ambition Code on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and everywhere you get your podcasts. FOLLOW THE SHOW Instagram: @TheAmbitionCodePod YouTube: @TheAmbitionCodePod CONNECT WITH JULIE LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/juliekellmanreading LOVE + DAYDREAMS Website: LoveAndDaydreams.com Instagram: @loveanddaydreams For guest inquiries, creative partnerships, production inquiries and more, visit LoveAndDaydreams.com. If this episode spoke to you, follow The Ambition Code, rate and review the show, and send this episode to someone navigating a change of their own. Your Life Is Waiting For You.

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Vote for The Ambition Code on TOP HOST! With, Ryan Seacrest + iHeartRadio! ❤️

   VOTING IS OPEN! 🎙️❤️ I'm so excited to be in compeition for Top Host with Ryan Seacrest and iHeartRadio - for The Ambition Code! Your vote could help give me the incredible opportunity to host six episodes of an iHeartRadio podcast. If you love The Ambition Code, I would be so grateful for your support. Vote now  and please share the link with your friends, family, group chats, coworkers, yoga classes… everyone! Thank you! Every vote matters. ❤️ VOTE FOR THE AMBITION CODE NOW - LINK : https://tophost.org/2026/julie-kellman-reading (https://tophost.org/2026/julie-kellman-reading) Thank you!

4. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Michael Levitt + Building a Legacy: Purpose, Persistence & Baylen Out Loud

   Michael Levitt + Building a Legacy: Purpose, Persistence & Baylen Out Loud Some people spend their careers waiting for the right opportunity to find them. Michael Levitt has spent his life creating the opportunity, asking the question, finding the way in—and then making something unforgettable once he gets there. He started early. Long before he became an acclaimed executive producer, Michael was already bringing people together, following his curiosity and figuring out how to turn an idea into something real. That instinct would eventually become an extraordinary career spanning live events, awards shows, game shows, unscripted television and some of the most memorable moments in entertainment. His credits include the Billboard Music Awards, TV Land Awards, Scream Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, Hollywood Squares, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Skin Wars, the Michael Jackson Memorial, and many more. But even a body of work this deep and accomplished doesn't fully explain Michael - or the tenacity, heart and sheer force of will behind it. I've known him for close to two decades - we produced Bravo's first A-List Awards together with Kathy Griffin - and what has always struck me is the way he moves through a room and through his life. Michael lights up a room, and then somehow makes sure the spotlight lands on everyone else. He is warm, funny, relentlessly creative and genuinely interested in people. He has the rare ability to make something feel possible before anyone has figured out exactly how to do it. And underneath that bright energy is enormous tenacity. When Michael believes in an idea, he stays with it. When one route closes, he looks for another. And when something becomes important to him personally, he has found a way to give it a much larger purpose. That combination of instinct, persistence and heart has led to some of the most meaningful work of his career. His passion for dog rescue grew into nationally televised programming including Fox's Cause for Paws, All-Star Dog Rescue Celebration, American Rescue Dog Show and Stanley Pup (with the NHL) taking the skills and relationships he had built over decades in entertainment and using them to help animals find homes. And then there is Baylen Out Loud. Michael discovered Baylen Dupree on TikTok and saw far beyond a viral video. What followed became an award-winning TLC series filled with humor, family, vulnerability and enormous heart - a show that allows audiences to know Baylen as a young woman building a life, rather than allowing Tourette syndrome to define her. Michael describes that shift beautifully in our conversation, you won't want to miss this. And maybe that says something important about Michael's work as a whole. He sees people. He sees possibility. And after decades of making television, he is increasingly interested not simply in whether something will entertain an audience, but in what it can leave behind. This conversation is about much more than producing. It is about knowing your value before someone else validates it. Having the courage to ask for what you want. Understanding when a "no" actually means not this way, not yet. Learning to pivot without abandoning the thing you believe in. Staying relevant by continuing to learn. Following the things that matter to you - and eventually asking whether the skills you spent your life building might be useful for something bigger than yourself. Michael talks about work ethic, rejection, reinvention, kindness, risk, purpose and the responsibility that can come with success. He also speaks candidly about an entertainment business in profound transition and why creativity now requires more resourcefulness than ever. And through it all is one of my favorite things about Michael: he has never confused ambition with taking up all the oxygen in the room. His version of ambition has room for other people. It has room for kindness. It has room for joy. And increasingly, it has room for impact. As Michael reflects near the end of our conversation, the work he is proudest of has given him something greater than another credit: the knowledge that what he created mattered to someone. He hopes the life he is building will leave behind "a legacy that matters." In this episode The courage to ask for what you want Knowing your value before anyone gives you permission to claim it Why rejection doesn't always mean the idea is wrong Turning persistence into possibility Building a career across multiple lanes without allowing yourself to be pigeonholed Creating the moments audiences remember How to pivot when the original plan stops working Navigating massive industry change Finding purpose inside the skills you already have Using success and influence in service of something you care about The instinct that led Michael to Baylen Out Loud What Baylen and her family have taught us about humanity, compassion and difference How dog rescue became both a calling and a creative mission Why kindness and ambition are not opposites Building work - and a life - that leaves something meaningful behind The Ambition Code takeaway You do not have to know exactly how the dream is going to happen before you begin moving toward it. Ask. Follow the instinct. Believe in the idea. Learn the workaround. And when your experience finally meets something you care deeply about, pay attention. That may be where ambition becomes purpose - and where a career begins to become a legacy. ABOUT MICHAEL LEVITT Michael Levitt is the President and Executive Producer of Michael Levitt Productions, an Emmy-nominated producer specializing in live event and unscripted programming. His extensive body of work includes Baylen Out Loud, Stanley Pup, American Rescue Dog Show, Skin Wars, Hollywood Squares, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Scream Awards, TV Land Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, Billboard Music Awards, the Michael Jackson Memorial and many more. Michael is also a longtime animal rescue advocate whose passion for rescue has inspired multiple national television franchises. CONNECT WITH MICHAEL Michael Levitt Productions Website: michaellevittproductions.com IG: michaellevitt_1 THE AMBITION CODE The Ambition Code is a podcast about ambition, identity, reinvention and what happens when the life or career you imagined begins to change. Through honest conversations with extraordinary people—and solo episodes exploring the questions many of us are asking privately—Julie Kellman Reading looks at how we move through change, take risks, trust ourselves and keep building lives that feel meaningful. Your Life Is Waiting For You. CREDITS Creator, Host + Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Guest: Michael Levitt Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music: Moby Gratis / @moby.gratis A Love + Daydreams Production LISTEN, WATCH + FOLLOW The Ambition Code Instagram: @TheAmbitionCodePod YouTube: @TheAmbitionCodePod Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere you get podcasts. CONNECT WITH JULIE + LOVE + DAYDREAMS Julie Kellman Reading / Love + Daydreams Email: podcast@loveanddaydreams.com Website: LoveAndDaydreams.com Instagram: @loveanddaydreams LinkedIn: @juliekellmanreading For podcast, production, creative partnership and business inquiries: LoveAndDaydreams.com.

5. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Dermot McCormack - The Art of Being Human

   The Art of Being Human How to Navigate AI, Change & the Future Without Losing Yourself Guest: Dermot McCormack - CEO, Investor, Media Futurist & Technology Advisor There is so much noise right now about AI, jobs, technology and what the future is going to look like. Dermot McCormack brings something we could all use in the middle of it: clarity. Dermot has spent his career at the leading edge of media and technology, navigating enormous periods of disruption and helping companies understand what may be coming next. But what makes his perspective so compelling isn't simply how much he knows about technology. It's how deeply grounded he is in humanity. In this episode of The Ambition Code, Julie and Dermot step back from the headlines to ask a much bigger question: As technology becomes more powerful, how do we make sure we don't lose the things that make us human? This is a conversation about AI and the future of work - but it's also about instinct, fear, risk, reinvention, resilience, human connection, critical thinking, purpose and learning how to move forward when you don't know exactly where you're going. Dermot shares why he believes our human-anchored skills may become more valuable, not less, in the years ahead - and why the people who learn how to combine the extraordinary capabilities of technology with judgment, creativity, empathy, experience and independent thought may be uniquely positioned for the future. It's also a reminder that when the world around you changes, the answer isn't always to hold tighter to the life you already built. Sometimes you have to redefine the problem, reboot the dream, and simply start to move before you know exactly where the road is going. ABOUT DERMOT McCORMACK Dermot McCormack is a CEO, investor, media futurist and technology advisor who has spent decades working at the intersection of media, technology, innovation and business. Throughout his career, he has helped build, lead, advise and invest in companies navigating major periods of technological change. His perspective on the future is informed not only by where technology may be headed, but by a deep interest in people, culture, human behavior and the forces that shape how we live and work. Connect with Dermot: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dermot100/ THE AMBITION CODE The Ambition Code is about ambition, identity, reinvention and what happens when the life or career you imagined begins to change. Through honest conversations with extraordinary people - and solo episodes exploring the questions many of us are asking privately - host Julie Kellman Reading looks at how we move through change, take risks, trust ourselves and keep building lives that feel meaningful. Your Life Is Waiting For You. CREDITS Created, Hosted & Executive Produced by: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music by: Moby Gratis / @moby.gratis A Love + Daydreams Production CONNECT The Ambition Code Instagram: @TheAmbitionCodePod YouTube: @TheAmbitionCodePod Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts. Julie Kellman Reading / Love + Daydreams LinkedIn: @juliekellmanreading Website: LoveAndDaydreams.com For podcast, production, partnership and business inquiries: Love + Daydreams | LoveAndDaydreams.com

6. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Susette Hsiung + The Making of a Remarkable Leader

   Susette Hsiung + The Making of a Remarkable Leader Leadership, Curiosity, and the Courage to Do Things Your Own Way There are careers defined by achievement. And then there are careers that become legacies. For more than four decades, Susette Hsiung built one of the most remarkable careers in modern entertainment. She began in the defining early years of MTV, helped launch the comedy channel that would become Comedy Central, moved to Singapore at just 30 years old to help launch MTV Asia and two 24-hour networks, and ultimately spent nearly three decades at Disney, rising to Executive Vice President of Network Production Management and Operations for Disney Channels Worldwide. Along the way, Susette and her teams oversaw thousands of hours of programming and more than 100 Disney Channel Original Movies, with work spanning many of the shows and franchises generations of families grew up with - including Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Descendants, Zombies, Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible, Raven's Home, The Proud Family, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and many more. But this episode isn't really about the credits. It's about what Susette learned while earning them. Again and again, she stepped into opportunities before she had a roadmap for exactly how they would unfold. She took on new industries, new formats, new countries and increasingly bigger responsibilities - driven not by certainty, but by curiosity, a willingness to learn, and the confidence to keep moving toward the next challenge. And then, as she rose to the highest levels of the business, something equally important happened: Susette turned what she had learned into an investment in other people. She became known not only for what she accomplished, but for how she led - building exceptional teams, developing talent, creating opportunities, mentoring emerging executives and helping people see possibilities in themselves that they may not yet have seen. I know that personally. I am incredibly fortunate to call Susette one of my own mentors. Her guidance has influenced my career and the way I think about leadership, opportunity, growth and what it means to bring people with you along the way. That is what makes this conversation such a gift. Whether you are just beginning your career, stepping into leadership, wondering whether it is time to take a risk, navigating an industry in transition, or thinking about what you want the next chapter of your life to look like, Susette offers the perspective of someone who has been through all of it - and is willing to share the experiences and lessons that she has learned. We talk about the courage to take on something you have never done before. How to keep investing in yourself throughout a long career. Why curiosity can be more useful than having all the answers. How great teams are built. What meaningful mentorship looks like. How leadership evolves as responsibility grows. And why success ultimately has to be defined by something deeper than a title. Now retired from Disney, Susette is turning her attention toward family, herself, and the work that matters most to her - including a deep commitment to Autism in Entertainment, an organization helping people on the autism spectrum explore their creative passions, build community, develop their skills and pursue careers in entertainment. Learn more at AutisminEntertainment.org/Ambition. There is decades' worth of wisdom in this conversation, but perhaps the most powerful lesson is also the simplest: You can build an extraordinary career without following someone else's blueprint. You can remain curious. Keep learning. Take the opportunity. Build the team. Invest in people. Change direction when you need to. And you can do it your own way. In This Episode A conversation about leadership, ambition, mentorship, risk, curiosity, reinvention, building exceptional teams, investing in yourself, navigating change, and creating a career - and ultimately a life that reflects what matters most to you. About The Ambition Code The Ambition Code is a podcast about ambition, identity, reinvention and the choices that shape a life - through intimate conversations with people who have built extraordinary careers and lives on their own terms. ✨Your Life Is Waiting For You.✨ Credits Created, Hosted & Executive Produced by: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music: @MobyGratis ✨A Love + Daydreams Production✨ Connect The Ambition Code Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and everywhere you get podcasts. Love + Daydreams Creative studio developing and producing podcasts, series, branded content and storytelling for every platform. loveanddaydreams.com For podcast, production, partnership and business inquiries: Love + Daydreams | loveanddaydreams.com

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   10 Sept 2026

   Raquel Bruno + Music, Motherhood, and a Life Off-Script

   Raquel Bruno + Music, Motherhood, and a Life Off-Script The Lessons of an 8-Year IVF Journey Raquel Bruno is a powerhouse. The thing I've always loved about Raquel is that she understands perseverance. She knows how to keep going, how to find another way, and how to keep believing when the answer in front of her is no. And nowhere was that perseverance tested more profoundly than on her eight-year road to motherhood through IVF, loss, uncertainty, and ultimately, two incredible children. Raquel and I have something in common: neither of us has ever been particularly good at accepting the word "no." In our careers and in our lives, "no" has often meant something else entirely: "So, you're telling me there's a chance". Raquel is an executive producer, talent manager, CEO, DJ and entrepreneur who has spent decades fiercely advocating for the talent she works with while making sure producing teams get what they need to create an excellent project. She understands that great work happens when talent feels protected, heard and supported—and when everyone involved is working toward the same goal. But Raquel has never been just one thing. She grew up surrounded by music. Her mother was a jazz singer. Her father was a songwriter. They rubbed shoulders with Frank Sinatra and Casey Kasam. Music has remained a constant through every version of who she has become, and even now, while running a company and raising two children, she is still behind the turntables. For Raquel, music isn't a hobby. It's a life force. And then there is her road to motherhood. Raquel opens up with extraordinary candor about eight years of trying to become a mother, pregnancy loss, multiple rounds of IVF, the emotional and physical toll of infertility, and reaching a point where she felt financially, emotionally and spiritually depleted. Ultimately, a different path led her to become the mother of two incredible children. It's a conversation about perseverance -but also about learning that not everything can be solved by pushing harder. Sometimes persistence has to make room for patience, surrender, trust and a path you never expected. And after decades of achieving, producing and proving, Raquel's definition of ambition has changed too. Today, success is about alignment, her children, creativity, choosing the right work - and understanding that freedom is a form of payment and time is a commodity. Come for the stories. Stay for the lessons. In this episode, we discuss: Why "no" doesn't always mean no- it can mean not this way Raquel's eight-year IVF journey and road to motherhood Pregnancy loss and the loneliness of infertility How she found the strength to keep going when she felt depleted Becoming a mother later in life Learning when to persist - and when to surrender Why your life doesn't have to follow anyone else's timeline Building Drive Entertainment Group and betting on herself Recognizing the human being behind the celebrity Why kindness and relationships matter so much in entertainment Growing up in a musical family Why DJing has remained essential to who she is Building community through music on Twitch Refusing to abandon your creative identity as your life evolves A different kind of imposter syndrome The danger of shrinking yourself to make other people comfortable Why failure can be one of our greatest teachers How her definition of ambition has changed with age ✨Follow Raquel Bruno✨ Instagram: @RaquelLovesDrive LinkedIn: Raquel Bruno Twitch: DJ Aviva  -  twitch.tv/DJAviva Website: driveentertainmentgroup.com ✨The Ambition Code✨ Creator / Host / Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music by: @Moby.Gratis The Ambition Code: Your Life Is Waiting For You.

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   4 Sept 2026

   The Risk of Wanting More

   The Risk of Wanting More How do you stay open after life changes you? What happens when you survive something that changes you - and then life asks you to believe in possibility again? In this solo episode of The Ambition Code, Julie Kellman Reading explores what it means to want more after heartbreak, disappointment, reinvention, or any experience that fundamentally divides your life into a before and an after. Surviving something difficult doesn't make you smaller. It can introduce you to a version of yourself you had forgotten was there. Julie talks about rebuilding after divorce, meeting herself again after decades, and discovering an unexpected kind of fearlessness on the other side. This episode explores the psychology of staying open when your brain has learned to protect you, the difference between fear and intuition, why our past can begin writing our future, and believing in the future without knowing exactly how it will turn out. Because reinvention isn't only about recovering from what happened. It's about deciding what happens next. In this episode: Why difficult experiences can change the way we approach possibility The instinct to protect ourselves from disappointment How your past can begin making decisions about your future Rediscovering yourself after a major life transition The unexpected fearlessness that can come from survival Choosing curiosity over certainty Learning to stay open without abandoning everything you've learned The Ambition Code is a podcast about ambition, reinvention, creativity, career, and the defining moments that shape our lives  -  and how we keep moving forward when the path doesn't look anything like we expected. Credits Creator, Host + Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music: @Moby.Gratis Connect Email:podcast@loveanddaydreams.com Julie Kellman Reading on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekellmanreading/ Love + Daydreams: https://www.loveanddaydreams.com Listen to The Ambition Code on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 Follow The Ambition Code wherever you listen to podcasts, and please like, subscribe, and share! ✨Because - your life is waiting for you.✨ 🩷✨🔥

9. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Dave Holmes + A Life Written Outside the Lines

   Dave Holmes has spent a lifetime being easy to recognize and nearly impossible to categorize. He is a writer, humorist, host, cultural observer, Editor-at-Large at Esquire - and someone with the rare ability to make you laugh very hard while casually saying something devastatingly true about being human. But this conversation isn't really about the things Dave has done. It's about how he became Dave Holmes. He grew up feeling different before he necessarily had the language for why. He loved music, television, writing and pop culture in a world that gave boys a fairly limited menu of ways to be. He tried being practical. He tried fitting in. He tried becoming the person he thought he was supposed to become. Thankfully, none of it entirely took. And somewhere along the way, he learned something bigger: your life rarely arrives in the form you expected it to. Success doesn't have to mean becoming the person everybody knows. It can mean becoming the person you finally recognize. And often, the choice that makes the least sense on paper is the one that opens up your life. Dave talks about the power of boldness and putting your work  - and yourself - into the world, even when it makes you cringe. About the freedom that comes with no longer trying to fit into somebody else's idea of who you should be. About being gay, being visible, being fully seen and eventually taking control of your own narrative. He talks about writing, reinvention, creativity, masculinity, belonging, success, failure and why there is more than one way to make a life in a creative industry. Most of all, Dave makes a compelling case for doing your thing - whatever that may be. Because if you don't, we - aka the world - don't get to experience it. And when I ask what he would tell the younger Dave - the boy who was looking around wondering where exactly he fit - his answer says almost everything: You will not believe it. Because the life ahead of him would be stranger, funnier, freer and far more interesting than anything he could have planned. This is a conversation about what happens when you stop trying to color inside someone else's lines. And begin writing a life that actually feels like your own. The incomparable Dave Holmes on The Ambition Code. IN THIS EPISODE Why not fitting in can eventually become your greatest advantage The difference between being visible and being fully seen Putting yourself out there before confidence arrives Why boldness can take you places good sense never will Learning to stop editing yourself for other people Coming out, identity and taking control of your own narrative Finding your voice as a writer Why creating something that embarrasses you a little might be a very good sign Redefining success when life doesn't follow the original plan Why there is more than one way to build a creative career The freedom of becoming more completely yourself What Dave would tell the younger version of himself about the life waiting for him CONNECT WITH DAVE HOLMES Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daveholmes/ Dave at Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/author/9774/dave-holmes/ Cocksure on Substack: https://cocksure.substack.com/ Dave is an Editor-at-Large at Esquire, hosts on SiriusXM's The Spectrum, and hosts the podcast International Waters with Maximum Fun. THE AMBITION CODE Creator, Host + Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music by: @Moby.Gratis Connect with Julie + The Ambition Code Love + Daydreams on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveanddaydreams/ The Ambition Code on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheAmbitionCodePod The Ambition Code on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmbitionCodePod The Ambition Code on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 The Ambition Code on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033P0xatKPFsBNimqb32rb Love + Daydreams: https://www.LoveAndDaydreams.com Julie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekellmanreading/ Your life is waiting for you.

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    18 Aug 2026

    ONE CONVERSATION, TWO DIFFERNT PATHS - PART TWO | Cary Brothers + The Life He Built by Trusting His Instincts

    ONE CONVERSATION, TWO DIFFERENT PATHS - PART TWO Cary Brothers + The Life He Built by Trusting His Instincts At 19 years old, Julie was a college student spending the summer living in the NYU dorms in New York City when a ten-minute conversation with a complete stranger changed the course of her life. That stranger was Cary Brothers. Cary was a college student from Nashville spending the summer interning at MTV. They barely knew each other, but chatted for just a few minutes before he offered to pass Julie's résumé along to the internship coordinator at MTV. That small act of kindness led to a phone call from MTV. The phone call led to an internship. The internship became eight years on staff at MTV - and the foundation for so much of the career, friendships, opportunities, and life Julie would go on to build. But then, Cary disappeared from her story. For years, Julie wondered what had happened to him. Now, decades later, they finally sit down to talk about where his life went after those ten minutes changed hers. In Part Two of One Conversation, Two Different Paths, acclaimed singer-songwriter Cary Brothers shares the extraordinary story of a life built without a roadmap: walking away from paths that looked successful on paper, starting over when something deeper was calling, trusting his instincts, betting on himself, and ultimately finding his way to a career in music that would take him around the world. From MTV and Hollywood to the Hotel Café, to the Grammy-winning Garden State soundtrack, and musical placements all over the television and film landscape - Cary's journey is about far more than music. It's about trusting yourself and taking the risk before you know how it will turn out, pushing through fear and failure, and understanding that success is rarely a straight line. And from there, Cary has consistently opened doors for other people, shared opportunities, connected friends, and helped others find their moment. And along the way, he discovered that the people and relationships you invest in can become part of what carries you through your own highs, lows, reinventions, and next chapters. This is a conversation about what happens when you realize that the life you are succeeding at may not the life you are meant to live. Cary walked away from a career he had already built because music was the one thing he knew he had to pursue. He started again, built an extraordinary musical career on his own terms, and kept choosing instinct over certainty every time his life asked him to begin again. And woven through both Julie and Cary's stories is the reminder that good things can happen when you least expect them. A ten-minute conversation can open a door. A seemingly small decision can redirect a life. The person you help today can become part of the world that carries you tomorrow. Sometimes the moments that shape us most are the ones we never saw coming. Two young people. One ten-minute conversation. Two very life different paths. And decades later, they finally get to finish the conversation. ✨✨✨ CARY'S MUSIC: FOLLOW + LISTEN (you'll be so glad that you did!) Website: https://www.carybrothers.com Apple Music / iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/cary-brothers/19507907 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/21R50WhyQI5HxWOTr6MyY1 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B000QK9GNG/cary-brothers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZD8eayhN8_4PZLr8fx75g Instagram: @carybrothers THE AMBITION CODE: LISTEN, WATCH + FOLLOW Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/033P0xatKPFsBNimqb32rb YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmbitionCodePod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TheAmbitionCodePod LOVE + DAYDREAMS Website https://www.LoveAndDaydreams.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loveanddaydreams LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekellmanreading For production, creative partnerships, and more from Love + Daydreams, visit LoveAndDaydreams.com. SHOW CREDITS Creator, Host + Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Guest: Cary Brothers Podcast: The Ambition Code Produced by: Love + Daydreams, Inc. Music by: @Moby.Gratis

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    6 Aug 2026

    ONE CONVERSATION, TWO DIFFERENT PATHS | Part One: The Summer in New York City That Changed My Life

    ONE CONVERSATION, TWO DIFFERENT PATHS Part One: The Summer in New York City That Changed My Life How do you get from college into the career - and life - you dream about? And how do you begin again when you are ready to pivot, pursue something new, and ask for exactly what you want? At 19, Julie went to New York City for an internship at Andy Warhol's iconic Interview Magazine. She had no master plan or professional connections. She simply knew she wanted to be part of the extraordinary world of media and entertainment - and she was willing to follow her instincts, raise her hand, and ask for the opportunity. In this personal episode of The Ambition Code, Julie shares the origin story of her career and the lessons that still guide her today: move toward the environments that inspire you, surround yourself with curiosity and momentum, ask clearly for what you want, and do not automatically accept the first "no" as the end of the story. Sometimes the next step is another thoughtful question. Sometimes it is a different route. Sometimes it is simply having the courage to keep moving before you can see the entire path. Then, on Julie's final day in New York, one magical ten-minute conversation with a stranger from her dorm changed the direction of her life. This episode is for anyone trying to break into a dream career, searching for the courage to make a pivot, or wondering how to move closer to the life they know they want. Life has a way of presenting opportunities, connections, and unexpected possibilities when you become clear about the direction you are pursuing - and brave enough to act on it. In this episode: Why asking for what you want can change what becomes possible How to move forward when the first answer is no Why your environment can expand your vision for your life How one conversation can redirect your future You do not need every answer before you begin. Follow the instinct. Take the next step. Ask the question. Your life is waiting for you. CREDITS The Ambition Code Created and Hosted by Julie Kellman Reading Produced by Love + Daydreams Music by @moby.gratis LISTEN, WATCH + FOLLOW Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/033P0xatKPFsBNimqb32rb YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmbitionCodePod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TheAmbitionCodePod LOVE + DAYDREAMS Website https://www.LoveAndDaydreams.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loveanddaydreams LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekellmanreading For production, creative partnerships, and more from Love + Daydreams, visit LoveAndDaydreams.com.

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    4 Aug 2026

    The Road to The Real Wolf of Wall Street: Amy Palmer on Risk, Reinvention, and Betting on Herself

    The success story is almost never the whole story. Amy Palmer is an Emmy-nominated producer, journalist, host, media executive and entrepreneur whose career has taken her from television production and on-air reporting to building Power Women TV and executive producing the Paramount+ docuseries The Real Wolf of Wall Street. But Amy's path was anything but linear - or easy. Early in Amy's career, she knew that she wanted to become a journalist and host. Pursuing that vision meant walking away from the security of a successful television career, starting over and betting on herself before she had any proof that the bet would pay off. In this honest conversation, Amy opens up about the professional and personal achievements and setbacks behind her success; self-funding Power Women TV for five years; building a media company from her kitchen; and hearing industry executives insist that audiences did not care about content created for women. She also shares how she persuaded early guests including Bethenny Frankel and Arianna Huffington to become part of her vision, why creators can no longer afford to remain silent, and how an unexpected career pivot into gaming forced her to learn, adapt and reinvent herself again. Amy also takes Julie behind the scenes of the relationship and brand-building work that eventually led her to executive produce the Paramount+ docuseries The Real Wolf of Wall Street. This is a conversation about risk, resilience, personal branding, entrepreneurship and what it really means to continue believing in a vision that other people cannot yet see. In this episode: • Walking away from comfort and career security • Why Amy self-funded Power Women TV • Building a media platform without a traditional network behind her • Landing Bethenny Frankel and Arianna Huffington early in the journey • What entrepreneurship reveals about you • Developing a personal brand without becoming an "influencer" • Reinventing yourself when the original plan changes • The difficult reality of women opening doors for other women • The road to executive producing The Real Wolf of Wall Street Connect with Amy Palmer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amypalmertv/ ✨ The Ambition Code ✨ Created and Hosted by Julie Kellman Reading Produced by Love + Daydreams Music by @moby.gratis Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033P0xatKPFsBNimqb32rb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmbitionCodePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheAmbitionCodePod Love + Daydreams: https://www.loveanddaydreams.com Your life is waiting for you. Let's go!

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    28 Jul 2026

    She Started as a Cleaning Lady. Then MTV Changed Everything. This is Johanna Salazar's Story.

    She Started as a Cleaning Lady. Then MTV Changed Everything. This is Johanna Salazar's Story "I don't need anybody to hire me again - because I hire myself." Johanna Salazar's story begins long before she became a media executive, producer, creative technologist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Foodstream Network. It begins in Colombia, with a mother whose courage and sacrifice created a path to opportunity in the United States for her two young daughters - and with a family of determined women who survived by working hard, taking risks, and continually reinventing themselves. Johanna came to America at seven years old. As a teenager, she cleaned beautiful homes alongside her mother in the Hamptons, NY. One of those jobs introduced her to a mentor who encouraged her to think bigger, ask herself difficult questions, and imagine a life beyond the one she could already see. Years later, Johanna was standing outside MTV's Times Square offices before an internship interview - and began to cry. She remembers thinking: "I'm the daughter of a cleaning lady. I'm a cleaning lady. People like me don't do this." But in true young Jo fashion - she wiped her tears and walked into the building anyway, taking the first step into the rest of her life. In this deeply personal conversation, Johanna opens up about becoming one of the first women in her family to attend college; the childhood experiences that shaped her fierce devotion to family; the fear and uncertainty she experienced as a young immigrant; and the responsibility she felt to honor the sacrifices made on her behalf. She also shares how she built a career at the highest levels of media and entertainment, left the security of corporate America, reinvented herself as an entrepreneur, and learned to stop waiting for permission. Johanna and Julie discuss: • The difference between ambition and survival • Cleaning houses while working her way through college • The mentor who taught her to think bigger • The internship that changed the trajectory of her life • Helping another young woman who cleaned offices begin her own media career • Why Johanna would rather make mistakes than live with regret • Overcoming the fear of being judged by friends and colleagues • Why failure can be one of life's greatest teachers • Building Foodstream Network after experiencing food insecurity firsthand • Turning personal experience into purpose and community impact • Giving yourself permission to sit at the table - or build your own This episode is for anyone who has ever believed a room, a career, or an opportunity was meant for someone else - And then realized that "someone else" could be you. Johanna's story is proof that where you begin does not determine where you belong. You can ask the question. Take the risk. Pull up the chair. And when no one gives you permission, you can give it to yourself - and walk through the door on your own. Listen, follow, and share The Ambition Code. Connect with Johanna Salazar Foodstream Network: https://www.foodstreamnetwork.com Johanna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannasalazar/ Foodstream Network on Instagram: @foodstream_network The Media Machine Podcast on Instagram: @themediamachinepodcast The Ambition Code Created and hosted by: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams Music by: @moby.gratis Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033P0xatKPFsBNimqb32rb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmbitionCodePod Instagram: @TheAmbitionCodePod https://www.instagram.com/TheAmbitionCodePod Love + Daydreams: https://www.loveanddaydreams.com The Ambition Code: Your Life Is Waiting for You.

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    23 Jul 2026

    Life After Divorce: Dating, Love, and Finding Yourself Again | With LeAnn Lazar

    Divorce comes with an astonishing amount of paperwork - and remarkably little instruction for how to rebuild your life. So how do you move through the emotional chaos, protect what matters, and begin imagining a future you cannot see yet? In this deeply personal episode of The Ambition Code, Julie Kellman Reading is joined by her dear friend LeAnn Lazar, an Executive Life and Relationship Coach, certified NLP practitioner, and creator of the Realigning with Purpose® approach. LeAnn helps people navigate defining life transitions by combining emotional intelligence with practical strategy. She also helped Julie through the end of her own marriage, making this an especially honest conversation about what it takes to move from chaos to clarity. Julie and LeAnn discuss the abrupt identity shift that can accompany divorce, regulating your nervous system before making major decisions, taking ownership of your financial story, rebuilding daily routines, rediscovering yourself, and focusing on what you can manage today. They also talk candidly about dating and intimacy after divorce, including: • Euphoric recall and idealizing the past • Knowing when you are emotionally ready to date • Why the first relationship after divorce can feel so powerful • Loneliness versus genuine relationship readiness • Love bombing, accountability, and inconsistent behavior • Mistaking chemistry for connection • Learning to trust your judgment again • Dating yourself and building independence • Creating emotional and physical safety • Recognizing the values of a healthy relationship • Blending families, finances, and future plans LeAnn also shares her 3-3-3 Reset, a simple grounding practice for moving out of emotional overwhelm: Take three deep breaths. Name three things you are grateful for. Identify three immediate priorities. The most important thing to know is that you will get through it. Even when you cannot see the way forward, there is another side - and there is a life waiting for you there. Connect with LeAnn Lazar: Instagram: @leannlazarcoaching Website: https://www.leannlazarcoaching.com THE AMBITION CODE SHOW CREDITS Creator, Host + Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams, Inc. Website: https://www.loveanddaydreams.com Love + Daydreams on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveanddaydreams The Ambition Code on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theambitioncode Music by: @moby.gratis ABOUT THE PODCAST The Ambition Code is a premium podcast and conversation series about ambition, identity, career, reinvention, leadership, and the defining moments that shape who we become. Created and hosted by executive producer and Love + Daydreams founder Julie Kellman Reading, the series features deeply human conversations with remarkable people who have built extraordinary lives across entertainment, business, culture, creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal evolution. Through candid and powerful conversations filled with humanity, humor, hard-earned experience, and real-world advice, The Ambition Code gives viewers the knowledge, encouragement, and clarity to build momentum and move confidently through every pivot, transition, risk, reinvention, and new chapter. Your life is waiting for you. Let's go. Like & Subscribe for new episodes of The Ambition Code. #TheAmbitionCode #LeAnnLazarCoaching #LeAnnLazar #TheAmbitionCode #LifeAfterDivorce #DivorceRecovery #DivorceCoach #RelationshipCoach #DatingAfterDivorce #RebuildingYourLife #YourLifeIsWaitingForYou

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    21 Jul 2026

    How to Turn a Childhood Dream Into an Emmy-Winning Career with James Pearse Connelly

    Before the Emmys, the iconic stages, and the spinning red chairs of The Voice, James Pearse Connelly was a wildly imaginative child who already knew what he wanted to do. He could see worlds that did not yet exist. Then he built a career bringing them to life. James is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and one of the defining creative forces in modern television. As the founder, principal creative, and CEO of Studio Connelly, he has designed more than 1,000 productions and earned three Emmy Awards, eighteen Emmy nominations, and nine Art Directors Guild Award nominations. His credits include The Voice, The Masked Singer, Top Chef, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Wheel of Fortune, RuPaul's Drag Race, Red Table Talk, the MTV Video Music Awards, Nailed It!, Craftopia, The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, and many more. But James is so much more than the credits. He is an artist, architect, creative visionary, and truly one-in-a-million human being who has never lost the curiosity, joy, or imagination of the child who first understood what he wanted his life to become. In this episode of The Ambition Code, James takes us through the remarkable journey from being a young designer establishing himself in the business to becoming one of the creative voices that now defines it. James also takes us inside the creative production design world of The Voice. The chairs. The lights. The scale. The anticipation. The moment a singer steps onto the stage and one turn can change the direction of their life. James helped give that moment its visual identity, movement, emotion, and magic. We also talk about what it takes to build an extraordinary creative career: trusting what you see before the rest of the world understands it, sharing powerful insights about following your dream, empowering yourself to move forward, leading with confidence and grace, and trusting that whatever you decide, you are going to be okay. IN THIS CONVERSATION, JAMES PEARSE CONNELLY DISCUSSES • Being deeply creative from childhood • Turning imagination into an Emmy-winning production design career • The design, architecture, emotion, and magic behind The Voice • How production design gives a television show its identity • Creating visual worlds for music, competition, reality, talk, and live television • Building what only you can see • Creating opportunities rather than waiting for permission • Becoming the creative voice that defines your work • Leading enormous creative productions with ease and grace • Following your dream through uncertainty • Why believing you will be okay gives you the courage to move forward CONNECT WITH JAMES PEARSE CONNELLY + STUDIO CONNELLY Studio Connelly: https://studioconnelly.com/ James on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jpconnelly Studio Connelly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/studioconnelly/ WATCH: THE HISTORY OF TOP CHEF PRODUCTION DESIGN James explores the creative evolution and production design history of Top Chef: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4abio1WuKc THE AMBITION CODE SHOW CREDITS Creator + Executive Producer: Julie Kellman Reading Produced by: Love + Daydreams, Inc. Website: https://www.loveanddaydreams.com Love + Daydreams on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveanddaydreams The Ambition Code on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theambitioncode Music by: @moby.gratis ABOUT THE PODCAST The Ambition Code is a premium podcast and conversation series about ambition, identity, career, reinvention, leadership, and the defining moments that shape who we become. Created and hosted by executive producer and Love + Daydreams founder Julie Kellman Reading, the series features deeply human conversations with remarkable people who have built extraordinary lives across entertainment, business, culture, creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal evolution. Through candid and powerful conversations filled with humanity, humor, hard-earned experience, and real-world advice, The Ambition Code gives viewers the knowledge, encouragement, and clarity to build momentum and move confidently through every pivot, transition, risk, reinvention, and new chapter. Your life is waiting for you. Let's go. Subscribe for new episodes of The Ambition Code. #TheAmbitionCode #JamesPearseConnelly #TheVoice #ProductionDesign #EmmyWinner #CreativeCareer #CreativeLeadership #StudioConnelly #TopChef #EntertainmentIndustry #WomenWhoPodcast

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    16 Jul 2026

    How to Start Before You Feel Ready, and Build the Life You Want with Abby Girvin

    Some people walk into a room. Abby Girvin arrives like sunshine with a business plan. ☀️🔥 She is a force of nature, a professional possibility-maker, and the kind of person who makes you believe you could completely change your life before lunch. In this episode of The Ambition Code, Julie Kellman Reading sits down with Abby, Owner and Agency Director of DDO Artists Agency, for a joyful, hilarious, and wildly motivating conversation about starting before you feel ready, and trusting yourself enough to figure it out along the way. Abby started her first modeling agency at 21. A few years later, she moved to Los Angeles with $500, one connection, and absolutely no interest in waiting for anyone to give her permission to make her mark. Within days, she began working at DDO Artists Agency as an agent. By 27, she owned it. Today, DDO represents more than 2,500 actors across Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Atlanta - and Abby is still leading with the same magic combination of instinct, optimism, courage, and let's-just-make-it-happen energy. Abby opens up about being underestimated as a young woman in the entertainment industry, purchasing a company before she felt fully prepared, and continuing to experience imposter syndrome even after decades of success. She shares how affirmations and visualization helped change the direction of her life, why intuition remains one of her greatest business tools, and how she built a company culture rooted in trust, autonomy, and giving people room to rise. We also talk about taking imperfect action, finding purpose without having every step mapped out, and why some of the most powerful decisions in life begin with one simple realization: If he, she, or they can do it…so can I. In This Episode Refusing to wait for permission to make your mark Being underestimated as a young woman in business Why success does not automatically eliminate imposter syndrome Using affirmations and visualization to create change Trusting intuition as a business and life strategy Growing DDO into a nationally recognized talent agency Building a team through trust, freedom, and autonomy Navigating uncertainty in the entertainment industry Finding purpose without having the entire plan Taking small, imperfect steps that create real momentum Abby Girvin's personal Ambition Code This episode is for anyone who has been waiting to feel more confident, more qualified, more certain, or more prepared before beginning. Abby's story is proof that you do not have to see the entire road. You simply have to take the next step. Come for the career wisdom. Stay for the sunshine. Leave ready to do the thing you have been overthinking for six months. ☀️✨🔥 Thank you, Abby, for such an excellent conversation! More About Abby Girvin and DDO Artists Agency Website: https://www.ddoagency.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ddartists ✨ The Ambition Code: ✨ Created and Hosted by Julie Kellman Reading Produced by Love + Daydreams Music by @moby.gratis Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ambition-code/id6790585618 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033P0xatKPFsBNimqb32rb YouTube: https://www.YouTube.com/@TheAmbitionCodePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheAmbitionCodePod Love + Daydreams: https://www.LoveAndDaydreams.com Your life is waiting for you. Let's go! #TheAmbitionCode #AbbyGirvin #DDOArtistsAgency #StartBeforeYoureReady #CareerReinvention #LoveAndDaydreams #WomenWhoPodcast

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    13 Jul 2026

    Welcome to The Ambition Code | Your Life is Waiting For You

    What does ambition look like when the career, life, or future you thought you understood suddenly changes? In the first episode of The Ambition Code, creator and host Julie Kellman Reading shares why she created the podcast - and why ambition is about far more than professional success. Julie explores the question at the heart of the series: How do you get from seeing the life you want to actually building it? She reflects on the open doors that shaped her career, the childhood business that first revealed her entrepreneurial instincts, and the moment decades later when enormous changes in both her personal life and the entertainment industry forced her to reconsider what came next. Drawing on everything she had already learned as an executive producer, storyteller, entrepreneur, and creative leader, Julie began building again - launching Love + Daydreams, creating a line of yoga mats, learning new platforms and technologies, joining The Media Machine podcast, and ultimately creating The Ambition Code. This episode is a powerful reminder that starting over does not mean starting from nothing. Every experience, skill, risk, failure, breakthrough, and version of yourself comes with you into your next chapter. In this episode: • How to move from imagining a future to creating one • Recognizing the opportunities that could change your life and making the choices to go for them. • Rebuilding when your career, industry, or personal life changes • Using everything you already know in a completely new direction • Why ambition is not always a straight climb upward • Beginning again - even decades into your life or career • Finding the courage to run through the next open door The Ambition Code is a premium conversation series about ambition, identity, career, reinvention, leadership, and the defining moments that shape who we become. Whether you are entering the workforce, making a career change, rebuilding after a difficult chapter, pursuing an idea, or standing at the edge of something new, this show is designed to give you perspective, clarity, practical wisdom, and momentum. Because your life is waiting for you. The Ambition Code is created and hosted by Julie Kellman Reading Produced by Love + Daydreams. Music by @Moby.Gratis Please follow, like and subscribe to hear deeply human conversations with extraordinary people about how they built their lives, navigated change, and kept moving forward.

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