Julie Watson

Created Afterglow Yoga Studio in the Beaches Toronto utilizing 4000 square ft, with 2 studio rooms, a retail shop, offering Teacher Trainings, Workshops, and business collaborations for our local community.

• Train and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
• Enhanced operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts and costs.
• Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
• Align branding initiatives and sales strategies with client goals.
• Created and facilitated a successful 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program for over 5 years
• Instruct yoga classes weekly, including specialized workshops
• Organize and facilitate events for the local community highlighting mental health and women's health.
• Organize and operated FLOW IN THE DARK annual fundraiser for CAMH raising over $40,000
• Established strong customer relationships through excellent communication and attentive service.
• Strengthened company reputation by consistently meeting or exceeding customer expectations in terms of quality products/services offered.

Co-created Every Girl's got a Story, a podcast to share powerful stories from women—stories spark change and offer healing. Our mission is to extract the essence of stories through raw and intimate conversations with the women who inspire us. We dig into the tough stuff, embrace the humor, and keep it real.

*This podcast is for every human who identifies as a girl, whether you are 19 or 95.

• Presented production ideas and determined creative scenarios for production and delivery.
• Developed schedules for production, editing, and duplication for timely delivery.

Creator of The Afterglow Podcast, a podcast for Canadian women to break free of social limits, learn, grow and embrace the second, or third act in life . It's never too late to break the rules and follow one's heart.

Produced, recorded and edited podcast weekly interviewing prominent, inspiring and interesting Canadian women.

• Created the Optimum column for Tonic magazine, from 2009-2011. Writing exciting and informative articles for women in the prenatal and postpartum years.
• Utilize exceptional writing, editing and proofreading skills to produce engaging and error-free content.
• Organize material to research and complete writing tasks with topics on women's health and yoga.
• Completed thorough research into assigned topics.

Operated a Private Personal Training and Group Instructor business for women Prenatal, Postnatal and Beyond throughout Toronto.

• Organized and trained women through nutrition and fitness for optimal health.
• Operated group fitness classes for mother and baby, motivating moms to move their bodies and feel better.
• Created a prenatal preparatory program and taught to studios in Toronto to provide knowledge to women about the physical changes and demands of pregnancy and postpartum.

Created a Women's empowerment program called The Shift. Encouraging women to have a voice, take back their power, and provide tools and introspection to eliminate obstacles.

The Shift offers mindfulness meditation, self-compassion tools, movement therapy, and journaling aspects to provide women with the courage to move forward more independently. This 8 week program can be condensed into 4 weeks of community and collaboration with women participating and sharing their own stories.

-Separate Acting Resume upon request

• Practiced lines and scenes independently and collaboratively to prepare for performances.
• Managed time to arrive on set when required to not delay rehearsals and shows.
• Worked collaboratively with other actors to perform scenes and convey stories.
• Strengthened relationships with casting agents, resulting in numerous audition invitations for film, television, and theater projects.
• Performed alongside various well-known actors and actresses.