A Live Experience · Dr. Julia Garcia
Dr.J.LIVE
A pause. A process. A room where you finally get to say the thing you've been carrying.
A Live Experience · Dr. Julia Garcia
A pause. A process. A room where you finally get to say the thing you've been carrying.
The Starting Point
Downloaded the frameworks. Done the journaling. Taken the breaks you were told to take.
And still — there is something inside that has never been given a space to say out loud. Something you keep moving past. Something you carry into every room but never put down.
That room is Dr.J.LIVE.
"I walked in carrying something I'd been holding for two years. I left lighter."
Dr.J.LIVE Attendee · Los Angeles
"Not a lecture. Not a seminar.
A space to breathe — and then move."
A live experience where people come together — to be honest, to be held, and to finally say the thing they've been carrying.
We need that now more than ever.
The Experience
Dr.J.LIVE is not a conference. It is an intimate gathering structured around four pillars — each designed to take you somewhere you haven't been able to go alone.
Every Dr.J.LIVE begins with Dr. Julia on stage — performing, not presenting. Her spoken word sets the emotional tone, names the things we all feel but rarely say. By the time she finishes, the walls have already come down.
Dr. Julia shares her story — not the polished version, but the real one. The grief. The loss. The years of building something from rubble. Not to inspire you to be like her — to remind you that you are not the only one who has been here.
"She told the story of losing her friend and I couldn't breathe. I've been carrying something similar for three years."
Attendee · DallasWoven through the night — not as a lecture, but as lived experience — are the Five Habits of Hope. Science meets story. What you felt in the first hour gets a name, a structure, a process you can actually use.
"I came for the story. I left with something I've been using every week since."
Attendee · ChicagoDr.J.LIVE ends with connection — small-group conversation, shared reflection. The kind that only happens when a room full of people has been through something real together. By the end, it doesn't feel like strangers.
"I wasn't expecting to cry. I wasn't expecting to laugh. I wasn't expecting to leave feeling like I finally understood something about myself that I'd been trying to figure out for years. Dr.J.LIVE did all three."
Event Attendee
Atlanta · Dr.J.LIVE 2024
Who This Is For
Dr.J.LIVE is for the person who is functional — maybe even thriving by every external measure — but who knows that something underneath isn't okay. Who has been moving so fast that they haven't had time to feel what the last few years actually cost them.
The creative who has poured everything into their work and quietly lost themselves in the process. The parent who keeps showing up for everyone else. The leader who carries their team through hard seasons and goes home and holds it alone.
Dr.J.LIVE is where the real conversation begins.
Creatives
Artists, makers, designers
Leaders
Founders, educators, execs
Healers
Therapists, coaches, caregivers
Anyone
If something brought you here
The Host
Psychologist. HarperCollins author. TEDx speaker. Spoken word artist.
Dr. Julia Garcia has spent 20+ years in the rooms where people fall apart — and learned how to help them find their way back. Dr.J.LIVE is her most personal work. Not a talk she gives. A space she builds — every night, in every city — from everything she has learned about what human beings need most.
Voices from the Room
"I have done a lot of work on myself. Therapy, retreats, all of it. Dr.J.LIVE is the first time someone gave me a room that didn't ask me to have the answer. Just to be honest about the question. That room changed something I had stopped believing could change."
Creative Director · Dr.J.LIVE New York
"What happened in that room in two hours was more than what some teams accomplish in years of retreat. People opened up. Something shifted."
VP, People & Culture · Corporate Event
"Dr. Julia holds the room with a clinical precision wrapped in warmth I've rarely seen. She gives people language for what they're feeling — and that is the beginning of everything."
Licensed Therapist · Dr.J.LIVE Austin
"Students were crying, laughing, talking to each other after in ways they never had. The faculty were too. This is what education is supposed to feel like."
Dean of Students · Campus Event
"There are nights that divide your life into before and after. This was one of them. Not because it solved everything — but because it gave me a way to start."
Attendee · Dr.J.LIVE Miami
Live Dates
Spring 2026 Tour
Multiple Cities · Dates Announced Monthly
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Every room Dr. Julia walks into changes.
Come find out what happens when she builds one for you.