An Interview w/ CanvasRebel

The following is an excerpt from an interview I did with CanvasRebel Magazine. You can read the full article here.

Julia , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

I graduated with my BFA in Theater in 2010 from California Institute of the Arts and my talents and skills surrounded theater and performance. I had a true love for developing characters, embodying their stories and living in their human behaviors. I loved discovering their motivations, articulating their feelings and stepping into their experiences.

I soon realized that acting as a profession was not for me and that I wanted to turn the world upside down and try something that brought me purpose, motivation and reason. What did I love so much about acting? Human behavior. What field could I transition to that would bring me that purpose along with a stable financial future? So here comes the risk. I decided to go back to school to get my Master’s in Social Work… [and] So here we are. I have created Julia Stern Maurer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PC, which was established in June 2022.