Julia Espey

Author Julia Espey is a renaissance woman. Her career includes ten years living in a “man’s world” as a prominent aeronautics researcher for NASA, (yes, she is a real life Rocket Scientist!) and was one of the youngest project engineers in the agency; In addition, she is also an acclaimed classical painter and a leader in the network marketing industry who built an organization generating over 1.5 million dollars in sales in less than 16 months.

However credible and diverse her credentials, Julia’s calling to be an author and speaker arose not from her professional pursuits but from the very personal experience of finding herself as being a single mom for the first seven years of her young son’s life. As her son grew, she was struck with the realization that as a single mother she had to be both mother and father and… she had no idea how to be a father!

So Julia turned to what she knew best from her years as a NASA researcher - research. She and began researching fathering by asking dads to share with her their parenting wisdom. Her burning question for each of them was: “What’s the most important lesson—mindset, idea or values—that you taught your children?” Her first book, If I Were Your Daddy, This is What You’d Learn, comprises the answers from thirty-five highly successful men, committed fathers all. Julia’s mentor, Jack Canfield, best known for co-creating the Chicken Soup for the SoulŪ series, contributes the book’s foreword.