About this conversation
Dr. Julie Ducharme was 18 when a professor handed back a D and told her she wasn't smart enough to be in school. Her mom told her to go get a tutor. Ten years later, a dean with companies of her own, she ran into him.
"That's Dr. Julie Ducharme and I'm doing just fine. Thank you."
She played basketball and volleyball on a dual-sport scholarship, then walked into tryouts overseas and made the pro teams. Her first company, Julie's Party People, started at 22 or 23 and grew into one of the largest event companies in San Diego. Today she's the founder of Lead and Empower Her SHE Talks, a networking group for women that started there and is now in six countries. It has a magazine, three books, and a stadium event coming April 3.
In this hour: the 101-things-women-do-wrong book she threw out, Leading By My Ponytail and Inc's list, the college she runs for military veterans, the crock pot of apple cider that got a silent office talking, 10,000 Women Rising, and what the woman with a story and no stage should do tomorrow morning.
In this conversation
- 00:00Cold open, the intro, and what happens in a SHE Talks room
- 06:59Three books and the youth who speak (her daughter Abigail wrote hers at 13)
- 12:34The tryouts overseas, and what the court taught her
- 15:29Leading By My Ponytail, and the 101-things-women-do-wrong book she threw out
- 22:06"You're just not smart enough to be in school," and the professor she met ten years later
- 25:19Leaders vs. managers, the crock pot, and Woman of the Year at the Capitol
- 33:29The college for veterans, and Combat Boots to Heels
- 40:53JD Consulting and 10,000 Women Rising (the stadium event is April 3 in San Diego)
- 45:49Julie's Party People, about 99 balloons an hour
- 54:02Tomorrow morning, for the woman with a story and no stage
