OH HAIII!!!
I’m Julia Rose
Storyteller, Podcaster, Cultural Translator
Equal parts pop culture brain rot and cosmic curiosity.
I’m here to connect the dots between what we’re obsessed with and what it actually means.
Personality Speed Round:
Cat Mom to Watson & Fig
Pop Culture is my love language
Kindle girlie for life (and reading your favorite booktok book)
built-in soundtrack: I remember every lyric
I drink more coffee than Lorelai Gilmore
AS SEEN AT:
THE ORIGIN STORY
Our story starts with a young girl who spent most of her free time cycling through her entire DVD collection and writing plays in her bedroom. Much to her mother’s dismay, Julia was a devoted lover of musicals and could usually be found memorizing the choreography from Grease or reciting West Side Story line for line. When she wasn’t enthusiastically shouting Titanic quotes (a habit that, unfortunately or fortunately, never quite went away) or attempting to reenact the sword fights from Pirates of the Caribbean, she had her nose in a book. Any book would do, really. Stories weren’t just something Julia enjoyed, they were something she lived inside of.
It didn’t take long for that love to find its way to the stage. In fourth grade, Julia starred as Frenchie in her school’s production of Grease, a role she proudly chose after turning down Sandy because, let’s be honest, Frenchie is simply the cooler character (pink wig included). Something shifted that day. Years of performing for her family had one unexpected benefit: she had absolutely no fear of being seen. She loved being on stage so much that she continued pursuing theater in college, where her world expanded into mythology, Shakespeare, Chekhov (who, by the end of school, she had grown quite tired of), and, more importantly, the realization that stories could be explored from endless angles: philosophically, psychologically, cinematically, emotionally. The deeper she went, the more fascinated she became.
Alongside that love of storytelling, Julia carried a persistent belief that the Universe, life itself, was one great unfolding story. She was endlessly curious about the deeper meaning behind things: why people behave the way they do, why certain patterns repeat, why some experiences stay with us long after they have ended. Those questions eventually led her away from the stage and into the world of spirituality, where she began studying tarot and astrology in 2010 and immediately fell in love.
Years later, that path brought her to some of the most respected wellness spaces in the world. Omega Institute, Canyon Ranch, and Miraval, where she worked closely with people who, just like her, were trying to better understand themselves and the stories of their lives. Instead of analyzing scripts, she was analyzing charts, helping people recognize patterns, possibilities, and meaning within their own experiences. Of course, Julia, being Julia, still approached it like a storyteller, holding court in workshops and classes, sharing perspectives on karma, manifestation, and the strange, beautiful complexity of being human.
What she began to notice, though, was that pop culture kept finding its way into those conversations. Because it turns out that if someone has seen How to Train Your Dragon, it becomes surprisingly easy to explain the Strength card in tarot. Stories, whether ancient myths, personal narratives, or blockbuster films, were all connected, all reflections of something deeper.
Then, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, something crystallized for her. She wanted a place to talk about the stories shaping our culture in real time, to explore them through a feminist lens, and ask bigger questions about what they reveal about us collectively. So she started a podcast. Less than a year later, Femme & Furious had grown into the heart of her work, naturally bringing together everything she had been exploring all along: stories, patterns, perspective, and the belief that what we watch, love, defend, and obsess over says something meaningful about who we are.
Today, Julia is a podcast host and cultural storyteller, exploring the human experience through stories, culture, and cosmic curiosity. Her work lives at the intersection of feminism, emotional insight, and narrative, looking at pop culture not just as entertainment, but as a mirror of the collective consciousness and the moment we’re living in.
When she’s not recording, reading, or thinking a little too deeply about fictional characters, she’s usually spending time with her mom and sisters (her favorite people on the planet), sipping coffee, doing carpool karaoke, traveling somewhere new, or at home with her cats, Watson and Fig…still surrounded by stories, and still asking questions.