The Undercover Intuitive in Washington DC -- with Julie Jakopic
Release Date: 12/18/2025
Soft Genius Makes You AI Proof in a Machine-Led World
Channel Your Genius Podcast
AI is accelerating how information is shared, learned, and applied. What used to signal authority no longer carries the same weight, and many experts are feeling that shift in real time. In this episode, Mellissa Seaman explores how value is evolving and introduces the concept of “soft genius” as a grounded, human form of intelligence that cannot be automated. She speaks to the role of presence, lived experience, and relational awareness in building trust and creating meaningful client connections. This conversation offers a clear lens on how to position your work in a way that holds in a...
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Sovereign Archetype in Leadership: Wielding Power over the Inner Saboteurs
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AI is shifting how value is perceived in business, and leadership is being redefined alongside it. In this episode, Mellissa Seaman speaks to sovereignty, internal authority, and the quiet power of leading from within. She unpacks why traditional leadership language feels misaligned for many women and what it means to hold your own centre in a landscape that rewards noise and control. This conversation grounds leadership in thought mastery, presence, and self-trust. It brings attention back to the one place real authority lives and changes how decisions, visibility, and client relationships...
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How Your Energy Actually Works: Human Design for High-Achievers
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What happens when high-level leadership strategy meets intuitive intelligence, emotional wisdom, and energetic alignment? In this powerful episode of the Channel Your Genius Podcast, Mellissa Seaman sits down with executive coach, Human Design specialist, and leadership advisor Mary Clavieres to explore how senior leaders can make clearer decisions, lead with confidence, and expand into their next evolution without burning out or losing themselves. Mary shares her journey from a 15-year corporate career in pharmaceutical manufacturing and lean transformation into entrepreneurship, executive...
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The 5 Soul Gifts: How You’re Meant to Communicate, Market, and Sell
Channel Your Genius Podcast
What if the way you’re meant to build your business is already written into your soul’s design? In this special reposted interview from Christina Solstad’s Message Mastery podcast, Mellissa Seaman shares the deeper meaning behind the Soul Gift framework and how understanding your energetic gifts can transform the way you market, sell, communicate, and lead. Mellissa and Christina explore how intuitive and spiritually attuned entrepreneurs can translate their natural gifts into clear, resonant messaging that attracts aligned clients. Mellissa reveals the five Soul Gift archetypes and...
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The Creature Archetype: When Your Body Leads, Money Follows
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What if the key to feeling more alive, creative, and magnetic at work isn’t another productivity strategy, but reconnecting with your body? In this episode, Mellissa Seaman explores embodied leadership through the often-overlooked archetype of the creature: the instinctual, intuitive part of you that communicates through sensation, emotion, and subtle physical signals. She shares how tuning into your body’s wisdom can unlock better decision-making, deepen trust, and bring more vitality into your work and leadership. In This Episode, Mellissa Talks About: Why many people feel shut down at...
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The Adventurer Archetype: Why Leaders Lose Passion and How to Get It Back
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Mellissa explores why boredom and stagnation at work are not signs of failure, but signals that an essential part of you has been left behind. She introduces the Adventurer archetype, the first archetype in the Wheel of Wisdom, and shows how reclaiming curiosity, risk, playfulness, and experimentation can re-ignite passion, creativity, and leadership. This conversation is an invitation to bring more of you back into your work and to remember that inspired leadership begins with engagement. In This Episode, Mellissa Talks About: Why boredom and disengagement at work are not normal or...
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Grounded Truth about Mary Magdalene with Kathleen McGowan
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Many of the most powerful teachers of the mysteries are also fierce protectors of truth, and in this conversation, Mellissa Seaman sits down with one of the clearest voices in the modern Magdalene field: Kathleen McGowan. Kathleen is the New York Times bestselling author of the Magdalene series, a lifelong investigative researcher, and a living steward of the lands and lineages connected to Mary Magdalene. Together, they explore what it means to actually study the Magdalene, historically, spiritually, culturally, and somatically, especially in an age where AI-generated “expertise,”...
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Discover your Unique Gifts in These Three Steps
Channel Your Genius Podcast
What would change if you had clear words for who you are and what you’re here to do? In this solo episode, Mellissa walks you through her 3-step system for discovering your unique gifts, your intuitive genius, and your right timing in life and leadership. Drawing on 20+ years of work with thousands of people, she shows you how to move beyond who you were trained to be and come home to who you actually are. You’ll explore the five s, the four types of intuitive genius, and Mellissa’s Wheel of Wisdom map that aligns your growth with the seasons of the year. Whether you’re a...
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Growing Pains: Why it hurts when you get everything you’ve ever wanted.
Channel Your Genius Podcast
What if the very success you’ve been working toward is the thing that hurts the most? In this episode, Mellissa Seaman explores the growing pains of success: those tender, disorienting moments that can arise after you’ve reached the goals you once dreamed of. Inspired by a conversation with a highly successful, world-renowned client, Mellissa shares why big expansion can surface grief, loss, and unexpected emotional challenges. Old relationships may fall away. Long-held identity stories dissolve. Even joy can feel complicated when you outgrow who you once were. This episode is a reminder...
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When Spirit Shows Up Uninvited and Changes Everything -- Venus Castleberg interviewing Mellissa Seaman
Channel Your Genius Podcast
Many of the world’s most impactful healers, mentors, and innovators began life as “the gifted kid”, high-achieving on the outside, deeply sensitive and intuitive on the inside, yet never truly understood the spiritual architecture behind their brilliance. In this special episode, the mic flips. Venus Castleberg, Home Whisperer, healer, and longtime friend and collaborator, interviews Mellissa Seaman about her awakening journey, one that moved her from Stanford-educated attorney and devout Catholic leader into a mystical, multidimensional intuitive strategist serving thousands. Mellissa...
info_outlineMany of the most powerful leaders on the planet are secretly empathic, intuitive, and deeply sensitive, and have no idea that’s what’s really driving them.
In this episode, Mellissa talks with Julie Jakopic, President and CEO of iLead Strategies, who advises policymakers, elected officials, NGO founders, and humanitarian organizations on the political front lines. Julie is highly respected as a strategist and consultant… and she’s also a deep empath, artist, and intuitive.
Julie shares how she used to deny her intuition and pay a huge energetic price, how she finally understood that she was feeling other people’s feelings, and how she now uses her intuitive gifts to support leaders in one of the most tumultuous, conflict-filled cultures in the US right now.
This is a must-listen for any empathic creative or undercover intuitive who wants to stay present, ethical, and effective in a wild and transforming world.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
✅ How intuition shows up long before you have language for it
✅ The hidden cost of pretending to be “all rational” when you’re actually empathic
✅ The simple question Julie gives her clients: “Whose feelings are these?”
✅ Why “woo” is often just science we haven’t built yet
✅ Small, practical practices to discharge energy and stay resilient in chaos
More About Julie Jakopic
Julie is the President and Chief Executive Officer at iLead Strategies. She helps visionary leaders and organizations do work that matters and live lives they love. Whether she is working with Fortune 500 executives, elected officials, nonprofit changemakers, or mission-driven founders, Julie helps clients cut through the chaos, get clear on their goals, and build resilient, people-first organizations that actually deliver results.
Freebies & Events:
🌟 Tame Your To-Do List: https://ileadstrategies.com/tame-your-to-do-list/
🌟 The Women Who Lead event: https://www.TheWomenWhoLead.com
Connect with Julie:
🌍 Website: https://www.ileadstrategies.com
🌍 Personal site: https://www.juliejakopic.com
📎 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliejakopic/
🎨 Art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jjakopic/
More Resources
🌟 Mellissa’s Website: https://www.channelyourgenius.com
🌟 Follow Mellissa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MellissaSea
🌟 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@channelyourgenius
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