{"id":49650,"date":"2026-09-10T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tryinteract.com\/blog\/?p=49650"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:26:48","slug":"how-to-create-authentic-connections-with-your-customers-ft-julie-bjelland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tryinteract.com\/blog\/how-to-create-authentic-connections-with-your-customers-ft-julie-bjelland\/","title":{"rendered":"How Julie Bjelland Uses Quizzes to Help People Feel Understood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The way you show someone you\u2019ve been there is in what questions you ask them, and when you ask questions that are highly relevant and demonstrate a clear understanding of the other person\u2019s life situation, that is how you show \u201cI\u2019ve been there\u201d without talking about yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I spoke to Julie Bjelland, psychotherapist and founder of Sensitive Empowerment, she described hearing that exact kind of recognition from people taking her quizzes, people telling her, \u201cI feel like you were reading my mind. I feel like you just explained me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talked about how she creates that experience, where her questions come from, and how the quiz becomes an introduction to the rest of her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Blog-Covers-22-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Julie alongside a screenshot of her quiz invitation.\" class=\"wp-image-52600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Blog-Covers-22-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Blog-Covers-22-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Blog-Covers-22-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Blog-Covers-22.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-build-your-questions-from-the-patterns-you-keep-hearing\">Build your questions from the patterns you keep hearing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie\u2019s quizzes started with what she was noticing in her work, first with a sensitivity quiz, then later with an autism quiz and a broader discovery quiz. Her goal was to help people begin understanding their experiences and find education they could continue exploring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her client work, she kept hearing similar challenges and finding recurring ways to help, and she wanted to make that information available to more people. Those patterns became the starting point for her questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I asked how she identified them, she brought it back to knowing your audience: Where are they challenged? What are they searching for? What language do they use when they describe what\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those details give you the material for a quiz, because you start hearing the same situation described by different people, noticing where they get stuck, what they have trouble explaining, and what helps them understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie also described continuing to learn through one-on-one sessions and conversations in her private community, so that understanding keeps developing as she hears more about people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what I would pay attention to in your own work, when several people describe a similar experience, there may be a useful quiz question in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Codex-Image-Sep-10-2026-01_22_06-PM-1024x555.png\" alt=\"Conversations reveal recurring challenges and familiar language that can become relevant quiz questions.\" class=\"wp-image-52606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Codex-Image-Sep-10-2026-01_22_06-PM-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Codex-Image-Sep-10-2026-01_22_06-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Codex-Image-Sep-10-2026-01_22_06-PM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Codex-Image-Sep-10-2026-01_22_06-PM-1536x832.png 1536w, https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Codex-Image-Sep-10-2026-01_22_06-PM.png 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-help-someone-recognize-their-own-experience\">Help someone recognize their own experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When I asked Julie what makes someone want to keep learning after taking a quiz, she talked about feeling understood, especially for people in her audience who had spent a long time feeling misunderstood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they encountered questions that described things they recognized in themselves, and that was the moment that made them curious about the person asking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie put it this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI think it has a lot to do with feeling seen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the connection I\u2019m talking about when I say the questions can show \u201cI\u2019ve been there,\u201d because someone can tell that you understand the situation when you know which details to ask about. You\u2019ve given them a way to recognize and explain something they experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie also made an interesting distinction between people who already have a question in mind and people who are still trying to understand what they\u2019re experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of our conversation, she described an autism quiz for people already exploring that subject, alongside a broader discovery quiz for people who might not initially seek out an autism quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those are different starting points, one person has a specific question, while another recognizes an experience but may not yet have language for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For your own quiz, think about where the person is starting: What do they already know? What are they wondering about? What would make them recognize that this quiz is relevant to them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliebjelland.com\/could-i-be-autistic-quiz\">current autism quiz page<\/a> describes it as an educational reflection tool and distinguishes it from a diagnosis or clinical assessment, so the recognition we\u2019re discussing here is the beginning of further exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-keep-changing-the-wording-when-people-misunderstand-it\">Keep changing the wording when people misunderstand it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie said she edited her quizzes over time as she learned more about the people taking them, and sometimes someone would make a comment that showed her they hadn\u2019t understood a question the way she intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That gave her a reason to reword it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is a useful part of the process because you can know your subject well and still ask a question that doesn\u2019t land. You know what you mean, but the person taking the quiz only has the words on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they interpret those words differently, you want to understand what happened: Was a phrase unfamiliar? Did the question leave too much open to interpretation? Did the answer choices miss the way they would describe their situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie came back to this later in our conversation when she talked about listening for repeated feedback, because if you hear something more than once, it\u2019s worth paying attention and considering how the wording could evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s how the quiz gets closer to the people it is meant to help, and someone\u2019s explanation of why a question confused them may contain the words you needed in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-write-the-way-you-would-speak-to-one-person\">Write the way you would speak to one person<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie also talked about the importance of using your own language, because people had told her they\u2019d heard others discuss similar subjects, but something about the way she explained them made things click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She connected that directly to creating a quiz: use the words the way you would normally use them when talking with someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your knowledge comes through in what you notice and how you explain it, including the order of the questions, the details in the answer choices, and the way you describe what someone can do next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, Julie shared a question she uses when helping people who feel nervous about putting their work out into the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cCan you think of one person that you could help?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like that for writing quizzes, too, because trying to write for an entire audience can make the wording feel formal and distant, while thinking about one person gives you something more concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine someone you know how to help sitting across from you. What would you ask them first? What would you want to understand before offering advice? How would you phrase the follow-up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can bring that way of speaking into the quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/tryinteract-blog.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image2-1024x648.png\" alt=\"Editorial quiz-writing exercise asks: Who am I helping? What do I need to understand? 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Julie mentioned people who had listened to her podcast for years before booking a consultation, which was her experience of a relationship developing over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quiz is one part of that relationship, giving someone an early opportunity to experience how she thinks, what she pays attention to, and how she communicates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toward the end of our conversation, she described it as matchmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If someone doesn\u2019t relate to what she\u2019s saying in the quiz, they may decide her other resources aren\u2019t what they\u2019re looking for, and if they do recognize themselves, they have a reason to keep exploring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s a useful way to think about your own quiz: ask questions that show you understand the person\u2019s situation, give them something helpful to take away, and make it clear where they can continue if they want more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can explore Julie\u2019s quizzes, education, and other resources on <a 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