ABOUT JULIA

my inspiration 

You are your best part.
-Toni Morrison

To create something big, you have to make space for it.
-Madame Canny

Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule.
-Dita Van Teese

Zest is the secret to all  beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
-Christian Dior

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.
-Napoleon Hill​

My life did not please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel

The personal is political
-feminist slogan circa 1960

favorites

Song: I'm Not Afraid by Eminem
Book: Shoedog by Phil Knight
Candle: Mad et Len Spirituelle
Tea: Mariage Freres Ambootia
Plant: Natives
Rose: Fantin-Latour
Shop: Hermes
Furniture: early American
Color: Orange
Chocolate: Eclat
Coffee Drink: Cortada with two raw sugars
Food: brook trout
Season: late spring
Garden: Chanticleer

if you still want to know more....

More about me:  I went to Harvard, undergrad, and Columbia for grad school.  I speak Russian fluently. I homeschooled. I have homebirthed, water birthed, and hospital birthed fully medicated.  I nursed forever, pumped, tandem nursed, adoptive nursed. I was a professional gardener.  Coco Chanel and St. Rose of Lima are my inspiration. I have gained and lost weight. I read a lot.  I love to dance.  I went to the French Culinary Institute.  I look amazing. I have a lot of kids.  I am a recreational exerciser.  I grow over 300 antique roses.  I have tons of certificates in nutrition, wellness, and women. I have a fabulous eye for decorating and fashion.  I have a great relationship with my kids-they are my cheerleaders as I am theirs.  I take time for me. I love a long bath.  I eat mainly vegetables, fruit, and fish.  I love life.  I am always learning -- there is always more!

Since I can remember health, learning, and creating have been my passion.  Taking different forms throughout my life, but the thread of which has never broken.

Throughout my life I have always wanted to live gracefully and fully.  When having my seven children, I wanted to sink deep into the experience of womanhood.  Gardening and cooking have been gateways to healing - both by bringing me into contact with energies larger than me and through the actual herbs and food I grew and cooked.

My mind, ever curious, has led me to dive deep into the science of longevity, wellness, and health.  Because of this, I have enjoyed abundant health and have not lost the connection with my center despite a the vicissitudes of life.

I created jolie as a mother, teacher, chef, and gardener who wished to create a company to help people live better, live happier, and live in joy.  The food is the cornerstone - artfully done with the highest quality ingredients and technique rooted in French cooking. I am super proud of the farmers who supply us with seasonal, sustainably raised vegetables, chickens, and cows.  I am eternally grateful for the healing powers - locked within the foods - that are so generously shared with us when we nourish ourselves with plants.

I am grateful to be able to work one on one with clients because I am a teacher.  I love to guide others to themselves.  Clients unlock their own lives - to create them as they wish to live them.  We all can do it, but, unfortunately, we are not taught how.  With guidance, support, and encouragement I have seen clients heal aspects of their lives they never thought see wholeness.

Lastly, I am thankful for the privilege to care for women bearing children.  I huge part of my life was spent deep in motherhood.  To assist others in this most powerful time is unspeakable joy.

Welcome to jolie - the beautiful life!