Julie Santiago Coaching | We Are The Women Reviews 

Joining WATW changed the course of my life for the better. It opened my eyes to see a completely different way of living. Julie is an incredible teacher and meets you where you are in your journey. Every encounter I've had with her has brought me more clarity in how I want to live my life. She addresses questions in a kind, clear, direct and practical way that you can take what you hear and apply it directly into your own life.

I have been thoroughly impressed with both the Awake and Rise programs. The variety of ways to interact and learn make it accessible for individuals with different personalities and learning styles. It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach and I appreciate how Julie and the coaches help you go through your own journey at your own pace to transform your life into what you want. Highly recommend!

I am approaching the end of my third program with We are the Women. The first one stopped my downward spiral into burnout. The second helped me see how my choices, thoughts and expectations deeply impact what I experience in life and how I can make changes to level up my life. A the third has helped me refine my thinking and my voice so that I can lead others toward a leveled up version of their lives. Each one helping me get clearer about my goals, desires and ambitions. Each one has also helped me find and connect with other brilliant, beautiful women on their own journeys who make me feel seen, valued and supported. I am happier and more confident walking through both my personal and professional paths thanks to Julie, her coaches and this program.

I couldn’t imagine my life without having entered the We Are The Women world. I am leading from a place of authenticity and compassion across all areas of my life. I’m so thankful for Julie and her team of amazing women. I have completed Awaken, Rise, and about to finish Lead and it’s been the most life-changing experience.

After 50 years of holding it all together, my body started falling apart. It was subtle for years, then started to get louder. I'm finally investing the time to learn to listen to my heart, my intuition. And connecting with other women who are moving through this is a real help.

I didn’t find We Are the Women. We Are the Women found me. It found me in one of the deepest seasons of burnout in my life. I was exhausted. I was pouring from an empty cup, trying to hold everything and everyone together, while somewhere along the way, I had lost pieces of myself.
Then came Awaken.
Then Rise.
And now, just weeks away from graduating from Lead, I can honestly say I am not the same woman I was when I said Yes to this journey. This journey has asked me to look at myself honestly. To face the parts of me I had avoided. To understand my patterns, reclaim my voice, honor my worth, and learn that true leadership begins with leading myself.
There have been tears. There have been hard truths. There have been moments of profound clarity. And there has been so much growth.
WATW didn’t just teach me...it changed me.
It has been the most meaningful, powerful, and life-changing investment I have ever made in myself. And perhaps the greatest gift has been realizing that the woman I was searching for was never missing… she was waiting for me to come back to her.
Forever grateful that WATW found me.
If you are standing in a season of burnout, questioning what’s next, or feeling that quiet whisper that there has to be more...listen to it. It might just lead you home to yourself. Thank you Julie and everyone at WATW! Love you all!!!

WATW is life changing it has changed mine and so many of sisters on this journey with me. I started awaken in April of 2025 and now Rise. Julie and her team have given me the tools to recover from burnout, and the healing to stay out of burnout. This program isn't just program to help you break the cycle that got your hear with work. It taught me how to self regulate, heal and accelerate my relationships with colleagues or accelerate my leadership. It did this in all aspect of my life. Friends, children, parents, work, and marriage. So many of my peers and I have found the career of our dreams, and make space for ourselves and our families from a calm and clear space. This is the most impactful, life changing commitment to myself I have ever taken.

Julie and her team provide an evidence based framework for personal growth. WATW has been an unparalleled opportunity full of love I didn’t know existed. They have developed the keys to unlock your emergence. A must do!

Julie and her team of coaches are an amazing resource. I have done Awaken and now Rise and my transformation is something I could have never imagined. I went from wanting to burn it all down and escape to finding a way to make my career work for me and am now learning to thrive with my new boundaries. It’s an ongoing process of learning and growth but the potential for realizing your true joy and peace is limitless.

Julie’s coaching program has been one of the most transformative investments I've made in myself. Combined with therapy and a spiritual awakening, it gave me tools and support to show up as my authentic self — for my family, at work, and in the world.

What stands out most is the compassionate and supportive community Julie cultivates. There’s no judgment amongst the high performing entrepreneurs, MDs, and corporate leaders drawn to this work - we are all susceptible to burnout because we’ve mastered high performance at the expense of ourselves. Julie helps us cultivate a new way where we define success for ourselves and live according to our own values. This isn’t surface-level work; it pushed me to confront patterns I'd been carrying for years and build a life that’s sustainable. I'm more present with my family, clearer in my professional decisions, and more grounded overall. I am happier today than before I started working with Julie.

I am so grateful for Julie and her program.

I did Awaken and now I'm in Rise. Julie's program helped me find joy and purpose again and come back to myself without giving up on my career. It also helped my relationship and helped me heal some of my wounds though it's a life long journey. I highly recommend this program!!!

I would have quit my job if it weren’t for the coaches and insight from the Awaken course through We are the Women. This program has helped me get my life back on track and enjoy my life again! I highly recommend this program for anyone who is looking to stop overworking and end the burnout.

We Are The Women has truly been life-changing for me. Joining Awaken, then Rise, and now Rise Mastery has been one of the best choices I’ve ever made. It helped me shift from living the life I thought I had to live to creating a life I genuinely want to live. I’ve changed the way I look at myself, my choices, and what’s possible for me.

Julie and the entire team are incredible. The support, coaching, and genuine care I’ve received have been beyond anything I could have asked for.

In a world that can feel so full of noise, WATW has become my place of peace, clarity, connection, and love. I’m incredibly grateful I found this community — and even more grateful for the person I’ve become along the way. I look forward to the next chapter.

I burned out twice in four years.

Apparently, once wasn’t enough. I’m an engineer—I believe in repeatability. 🤣

For years, I knew how to achieve:

Work harder.
Solve everything.
Be competent.
Keep going.

It worked… until it didn’t.

Awaken and Rise helped me find Shinta again.

Not résumé Shinta.
Not high-performing, “I’m fine!” Shinta.
Just… me.

And then came the discovery nobody bothered to tell me for almost 50 years:

PEACE IS A SUPERPOWER.

Excuse me?! Where was this information?! 😂

I thought peace was the reward you got after everything was accomplished.

Instead, I’m learning to live and work from peace.

Plot twist: I didn’t lose my ambition, my edge, or my excellence.

I just changed the fuel.

Less anxiety, proving, and perfectionism.
More peace, curiosity, and joy.

Engineer Shinta is still here.

She still loves complicated problems.
She still has spreadsheets.
Obviously. 🤣

But now she rests. She receives. She laughs more.

And she gives considerably fewer f*ks about things that don’t deserve her nervous system.

Shinta found herself again.

Turns out, she was there all along. ❤️

Thank you, Julie Santiago and We Are The Woman, for creating the space that helped me find my way back to her. ❤️

I first found We Are The Women through AWAKEN at a time when I was incredibly burned out. The experience gave me so much, but eventually I took a break and went back to doing what I had always done. And, perhaps not surprisingly, I found myself burned out all over again.

That was when I realized I needed more than a program. I needed RISE. I needed the continued work, and maybe most importantly, I needed this community of women.

I am a complete introvert. Sharing openly and being vulnerable in a group does not come naturally to me at all. And yet, I find myself sharing things with these women in a way I never have before. There is something incredibly special about being surrounded by women who are willing to be real about their lives, their struggles, their successes, and all the messy parts in between. I feel genuinely blessed to be part of this community.

Julie is an incredible inspiration, but what I appreciate most about her is how real and approachable she is. With all of her knowledge and experience, she could easily feel intimidating or like someone who has everything figured out. She never does. She shows up as a real person, and that makes it so much easier to learn from her and trust the process.

And Coach Heather is wonderful. She is incredibly supportive and caring while also being willing to call me on my crap when I need it, always in a way that feels loving rather than judgmental. That combination is rare, and I am so grateful for her.

I truly cannot say enough good things about We Are The Women, AWAKEN, RISE, and the community they have created. This work has changed the way I think about myself, my life, success, and what I actually want from all of it.

I also recognize that being able to invest in programs like these is a privilege, and I don't take that lightly. I wish everyone had access to this kind of support and growth. What I can do is carry what I have learned with me. I can show up differently for the women and men in my life, support others more intentionally, share what I've learned, and hopefully pass some of it forward.

I came here burned out and looking for help. I found tools, perspective, support, and a community I didn't even realize I needed. And I'm incredibly grateful I found my way here.

I joined the Awaken program at a point of extreme (to say the least) burnout. It’s the best thing I could have done for myself. Not only were the weekly lessons amazing fueled with great tools but my absolute favorite part was the community.. a group of hard working women…a group I could finally relate to. I chose to continue onward with the Rise program and am super excited to continue to grow and evolve. We Are The Women has truly changed my life and will continue too for the better. I am so happy I took that first step and scheduled the free one hour call. Best choice I could have ever made!

Julie and her coaching team have made such a difference in my life as a working professional. I was in the midst of burnout and didn’t know where to go next as all of my previous ways of handling things didn’t work. Now I feel more fulfilled in my every day life and have the tools to manage future challenges. Thank you, Julie!

I am wrapping up my time in the Awaken program through We Are The Women. I have been SO impressed by the quality of the program and the integrity of the entire team lead by Julie Santiago. Awaken has a satisfaction guarantee that is very clear and straightforward. If you fully participate in the program and are not satisfied you can get your money back.

Anytime something happens that might be even the smallest bit inconvenient they are quick to offer solutions and ensure you get the full value if not more than what you are expecting. For example, my coach needed to reschedule a 1:1 coaching call at the last minute. No big deal. Not only was I able to reschedule our time easily, but they also added another call to the end of by program. I didn't ask or expect this.

Also, the support team, a wonderfully kind and capable woman named Happy, is so responsive and goes out of her way to make sure any questions or issues you have are resolved quickly.

Now 2+ years into the WATW journey, I have learned a host of new ways to re-center and calm my nervous system, I have re-discovered my heart, and reconnected with my soul. I am part of a sisterhood in which I feel seen, heard, and safe. I’ve moved from spinning, exhausted, and lost to inspired for each day and the future. I feel calmer and more connected to the wisdom that lives inside me, and more at peace knowing my people and the universe have my back.

Are you an achiever, usually stepping up and doing for others, feeling perpetually overextended and overburdened, not knowing quite where to turn, wondering what having a community to lean on and grow with would be like, and longing to feel freer, lighter, more hopeful, more empowered to seek who you were meant to be with this “one wild and precious life”? If this sounds like you, Julie, Michaela, Heather and the WATW community is a path well worth exploring. Awaken (Level 1) can help connect and ground you so you can start to prioritize nurturing yourself, breathing easier, and showing up to life in ways that feel so much better. Rise (Level 2) provides a framework and extended safe space to explore when, how, and why you got off track and catalyze deeper healing. Do it for your loved ones; do it for yourself. Show up with an open mind and be ready to evolve in ways you can't yet imagine.

I found We Are The Women when I googled “I hate my job”. I felt completely ridiculous putting that into a search engine. It was a desperate moment, but was not able to break out of a cycle of not putting myself, not only not first, but forgetting to consider myself at all. WATW came up, I rolled my eyes and then decided that the universe may actually be trying to talk to me and what I was doing wasn’t working. I had a discovery call and I felt weak saying I needed help. From the get go the team recognized my pattern and validated that I am not special, weird or alone. It has been some of the hardest work I have done in my life, but the rewards have been incredible. Getting to know myself is uncomfortable because being yourself is not a widely accepted way of being. I am finding that external validation is becoming less important. I have been able to use the techniques to center myself and there are times I can actually feel decades of emotional weight coming off me. For those of you out there who don’t need anyone and can do it all themselves… take a minute to listen to universe and then to Julie, it could actually change your life.