Julie Rott — known to friends as Julez — is a first-time memoirist writing about the small, quiet thoughts that accumulate to shape a life.

Her debut book, Was It Worth It, traces five decades of career, marriage, motherhood, grief, plant medicine, and the long road back to herself.

She writes from her lake house in northern Michigan, where she also runs a wellness cafe at an international horse show venue and is building the Was It Worth It brand — memoir, apparel, cookbook, and healing resources for women in transition.

Come for the story. Stay because you recognize yourself.