Year-End Reflections – What 2025 Taught Us and What We’re Creating in 2026 | Entrepreneur Year-in-Review EP 87

Happy New Year. We're not quite there yet, but we're winding down the holiday season. I'm so sad the Christmas music ends on the 26th that I want to keep listening all year long, or all season long, all the way through the holidays. But we thought today would be a great day to reflect and take some time on how 2025 went, what we are grateful for, reflecting on the highlights for 2025, what we learned, and what intentions and what we're excited about for 2026. So that's what we're going to talk about today. hey you leader entrepreneur business owner solopreneur whatever you call yourself we know you're a visionary business builder wealth seeker looking to combine a passion for doing good with leading consciously it's time to shift from a traditional focus of pure wealth accumulation to one that integrates well-being and fulfillment you're here for a purpose and it's time to shine your life. So here we go. Welcome back to the Conscious Edge podcast. I'm your host, Alicia St. Germain, here with my regular co-host who has not been so regular lately, Jonathan Duggar. You got to keep the suspense. So I can't be here all the time. Hop in and out. People never know when you're going to be here. But at the time that you're Are you in Italy? I leave tomorrow morning. Oh, okay. So as we're recording this, I got it. So not a bad way to spend the holidays. Exactly. That's a very, very looking forward to it. So there's one of the things I'm still looking forward to in 2025. Yeah. That hopefully will carry over into 2026. 2026. Yeah. Yeah. So if you are new here, we want to say welcome. We put these podcasts out every single week. We are on episode number 87. Wow. You say that every time I say it, but I can't believe we're... I still can't believe it. I know. I know. And it's been a really fun experience and great journey. And we've covered every kind of aspect of being a human, building a business. And there's still more, right? Every time I keep coming up and digging for something else, our producer talks about saying sometimes the same thing a hundred different ways, just because you can't say it enough, whatever it is, whatever our experiences that we're going through. And so if you are a human building a business and you would like to do it in a holistic way where you are not grinding and burning yourself out and it's fun and enjoyable and it stretches you and helps you grow into a better person, then you have found a home here. So make sure you hit the follow or subscribe button wherever you are listening. But we thought today, we just wanted to really reflect and have this conversation. We haven't had it yet behind closed doors. we're having it live now. So we don't know what the other person is going to say. And we thought it would be really fun to take you through the questions that we are asking ourselves about 2025 and what we want to create going forward into 2026. So let's start with what are your highlights, Jonathan for 2025 and what brought you joy? And a lot of ways 2025 has been an incredibly challenging year for a lot of people and for myself included. And the way I'm framing that now, as I reflect back though, is a lot of those challenges have been very necessary for me personally in order to help really define and provide clarity on the things that truly do bring me joy and to move up my priority list in terms of emphasis. And, you know, it's not to sound morbid or overly, I don't know, morose. I'm a little bit older than you and I'm past the halfway point in my life, maybe by a substantial amount, who knows? So I'm really in that place of if not now, when? so it's been very interesting to look back and to see some of those things that I really took as negative an aspect when they happened and reframing them to this was needed this was necessary it was important for me to experience this to live through this to feel through this and to learn from it so as to the joy part man that list is so long and part of that comes from the reframing of what really does bring me joy and making it my own definition and not societies or upbringing or anything else. And I'll have to tell you, we started the year in a great way with our retreat that was a true highlight for the year for me. Me too. In so many ways. Yeah, it was the first thing on my list was running retreats with both you and also So co-leading and supporting my friend Shannon and her retreat down in Destin recently to just the retreat aspect in being in the space with other people who are bettering themselves and nurturing themselves and getting to pour into people is like so fulfilling, right? It really is. And I hadn't thought, because I've been involved in retreat work and workshop work for many years, but this was the very first time I've ever been able to do one with somebody that I'm so close to and that is such like-minded and like-hearted. And bringing a group together that had that same kind of compatibility, where there's some lifelong friendships and relationships that came out of that that I was not expecting at all. So a lot of very happy surprises out of that that I think were great springboards into other elements throughout the year that have helped me continue to learn and continue to grow, but have really brought me joy. Just conversations with people that may have not have lasted more than 15 or 20 minutes, but that were a bright spot that I have tracked back to throughout the remainder of the year. are working on these podcasts together. And every time we get together, I have so much gratitude for this and that you strongly armed me into doing that. I did not strong you armed me into it. You kind of tricked me. You kind of tricked me. You're being dramatic. Yeah, maybe a little, but there also is a little trickery in there. Oh, we could just have a conversation. It's just like we always do. It is. It is just like we always do. It really is. But one of the things that, again, those points of clarity that came to me is this, again, the universe opening up an avenue for you and I to have some dedicated time that really is for us and for everybody else. But it's for because it's conversations that, like you've said many times we've had for years behind closed doors, it makes it even more special to me because it's something like I don't have a good way to describe it. It's just something I really treasure and I have a lot of gratitude for. And it was not something I expected. So, again, a happy surprise that has so many layers to it, so many elements to it that I think hopefully have some far reaching positive effects for us. but for a lot of other people. That's my true hope. So I didn't expect something like a podcast to have so many positive and happy ramifications, so many layers that are there. So I think those are the big ones. And then I have two things that are more sort of personal nature. I've got to see both of my nephews, my oldest nephews married this year. Both of them found the love of their life and were married this year and I got happy that I was able to be in attendance of those. And I've got to witness some changes in other people's lives this year that started in a not so great place and ended up in a much better place. And I think maybe I was a part of that, but the part that really brings me joy and brings me a lot of gratitude is that I got to bear witness. I got to see some transitions and in some really positive ways. And one of those things where loss can lead to joy, can lead to freedom, can lead to insight. So I got to see quite a few of those this year and be part of that process with several people. And that makes me really happy. So I love that. Those are the big ones. Big ones. Interesting. You didn't mention any of your like travel, like your extended travel that you've been doing this year and getting to do that? Those definitely bring me joy, but, and that's something I'm going to maybe talk about when we talk about going into 2026. I'm redefining that in a way where that's my life now. That's my lifestyle. So, and it does, I don't want to diminish how grateful I am for those opportunities because it does bring me a lot of joy. But I'm shifting from looking at it as like a bright spot to that this is my life. I'm living my joy. That's cool. And traveling and adventure and exploring and growing through new experiences in different cultures and things like that. That's cool. I like that shift when something that brings you joy just becomes how you live. that it's not that you don't have gratitude for it, but it maybe wouldn't make the highlight reel because it's your everyday. And that's a great thing. Yeah. That's a really great thing. I think for me, definitely the retreats that I was talking about and being able to pour into some people, it just fills my heart. Getting to cook for people, getting to entertain. Oh, yeah. And it's opened up some things that I will talk about as well in a minute. But being able to speak on stage at InvestorCon in June in a different way and getting to take a lot of breakthroughs that I'll share also in a minute was also really, really awesome. I enjoy it. I don't do it often because I choose to be home with my family. When I do get to speak on stage, it's a lot of fun for me and it does bring me joy. and being with people, I'm an extrovert. So being with people who are high vibe sort of way is really, really fun. The other thing I'd mentioned, this is kind of going back to the retreats is seeing the results that some people have created throughout the year, seeing them open up and transform, come up with new ideas, put those new ideas in action, still seeing that the effects of that are still being unfolded is really really cool So I enjoy that And then hitting a financial goal with ease and being open to that happening in an unexpected way So I up until now up until this recently this year have had a pattern of setting financial goals and coming up just a tiny bit short every time. And it is so frustrating. It's not that I don't create great results in the process. And I'm not ungrateful for those great results. But it's like, I just want to cross the finish line. I don't want to go to 95%. And so my pattern was pushing and trying to find the right strategy and trying to force myself across a financial goal. and I would say like it burned on my family. It burned on my body. It burned on me. Sure. So I had set a while ago, like I want to learn to reach financial goals in a restful way, in a way that doesn't sacrifice anything. And I have been working at it for many years and I did it. And it feels great. And it was so easy. And it happened a month and a half ahead of schedule. and it was the money came in unexpected ways. And what I find really interesting about everything you were mentioning is all of these joyful moments, all of these things that were like the highlights were not things that were forced. They were things that unfolded from a place of what we might call flow or ease or just kind of following where the energy was. And places of balance. And peace. Yeah. Not for saying that we didn't like make things happen. Sure. We were intentional, but we weren't forcing it. And then the last thing I had was I'm really excited about the conscious capacity coaching framework that is coming together. And if you've been listening to the podcast, some of the trainings that I've been doing, I've been also repurposing and releasing them on the podcast as well. So you may have caught a few of those episodes if you've been listening. more recently. But I remember when I got my coaching certification, like, I don't know how long ago that was now. It was maybe 12, 13, 14 years ago. 14 years. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a while. Wow. And I was like, okay, I'm going to go be this. I'm going to go do this coaching. I see this opportunity and I really felt called to it. And I was really struggling with like, how do I run the business? How does one find clients? And then also like not feeling like I was, what's the word I'm looking for? Aligned? It wasn't alignment. It was like, it's along the lines of imposter syndrome, but it's not imposter syndrome. It was like, and maybe it is just flat out imposter syndrome. I was worried. And I remember having a conversation with you about how I didn't feel like what I was putting out or creating was anything original or I don't want to say special. Maybe there's a piece of me that like wants to be special. I remember that conversation. You had talked about wanting to contribute. It's like, am I really creating anything that's uniquely me that I'm giving something special? I think you even use that word special and unique. That's not already been repurposed or repackaged. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah, and it was from a place of maybe a little worry that is there a place for me in the world and feeling like, oh, should I go get this? Is it ICF coaching, like the coaching certification? Like, do I need more certification? And you told me that after a while, these things would not be who I am. they would become the tools that I use and that I would have enough experience and enough things kind of come that I would get my own unique perspective. And I really, truly feel like that happened this year. And I haven't even got started on it, but I literally feel like I'm running. I personally, my human is running to keep up with my soul's creation and what we're creating. And I'm so excited to be able to help more people with it because it's something that's been there all along. I just, there were clues, but I maybe have been picking up the breadcrumbs, but didn't know how to make sense of them. So I remember when you, we were, had the conversation and you had landed on the word capacity. and just talking about that word and what it meant to you and how you wanted to really dig into to exploring that with yourself and with other people just how you lit up like it just it wasn't it felt like a true opening of like you said all these things you've sort of been working toward and then I use the word alignment because I was picturing that conversation of like how everything just lined up and it fit. And it's like, you believed it and you felt it and you knew it to be true. And you spoke it into existence. You know, it's like that, all that sort of amalgamation of synchronicity that happens when that true flow happens. So getting to put that training series together, put it out for free and see people respond and take really powerful things away from it. And even things that they already knew, but seeing it like framed in a different way. And they're like, oh, wow, that really landed for me. That was a highlight for sure. So I'd say this year for me, I feel like my highlights have been more on the business side of things. In other years, they've been more on the personal side of things. But I have some intentions going into the next year as well. So, oh, and then getting the trademark on the conscious edge. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one. Congratulations. I don't know. It's just like staking my claim in the world. Your flag on the moon. This is my flag on the moon. But it's a process. And it was something that was given to me many years ago in a conversation in a 20-minute car ride. and then knowing I really should protect it. And if anything, just for the sake of I get to use it and it gets to be something that I contribute. I don't know why I feel like I need to be, have some legacy or uniquely contribute in some way or be special. It's probably my only childness. But it is what it is. And it comes from a loving place. Okay, biggest lesson. What was your biggest lesson from 2025? Something I'm really trying to own personally. And again, reflected in business. And if we talk about 2026, I'll reflect on this too. But that compassion is one of my superpowers. And it's not a liability. It's never a liability. And it's where my strength comes from. My true strength. I think I can be strong in other ways, but in all aspects of my life, when I'm able to lean on my empathy, my intuition, and my depth of compassion and kindness, it's always a good thing. It always turns out for good, even if it's not apparent in the financial payout on the front end or the way the relationship is going or the business venture is going. If it's not apparent initially, it becomes apparent if I stick with it, if I hold that truth, hold on to that and stay authentic with it. And that's really become evident throughout this year. Because like I said, when we first started, there's been a lot of challenges this year. And a lot of things that took me away from compassion, where I was being filled by anger or resentment or just confusion. because so many confusing things have happened to me to a lot of people this year. And so choosing compassion, even when I'm confused too, it's like, where can I find that place to connect? Where can I find the empathy? And understanding that compassion has no, there's no element of compassion that is about weakness because some of the ways I was brought up, and I'm not bad-mouthing my upbringing by any means, but some of the things from a religious perspective, from a cultural perspective, there was some training in there that at least there were places where compassion was a weakness. kindness was a weakness and just really latching on to that compassion is one of my superpowers kindness is a strength empathy is a gift and a talent and a skill as is intuition that's hugely not not only hugely powerful me it's hugely useful it's there's a practical element to it as well. It's not all warm and fluffy rainbows and sunshine at all. In fact, you've got to experience the darkness to really be able to understand and to utilize compassion. So that's a huge one for me. I have a lesson around compassion as well. It's so interesting that you wrote down some things around compassion, as did I. But I want to say this one thing. I think that, did you ever struggle with people pleasing? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's interesting because I find that. I'm the middle child. I find it fascinating because I also like, I think my compassion, kindness, ability to forgive and have empathy is also a superpower. I have always thought it was my superpower. However, there was a time in my life when it came from a place of self-protection. and that's not the case anymore because there is there so there's the dark side i kind of feel like that's the dark side of compassion is people pleasing yep because a lot of times you know i think people pleasers are some of the grittiest people out there because they have had to to to kind of grin and bear it or they have chosen to grin and bear it to survive for lack of better term. And when you can then master yourself, like not that any of us ever master ourselves, but like you can master your emotions, you can learn mindfulness, which I know you're going to, you really lean into and you let go of the people pleasing the part where you're doing it to save face for yourself or to avoid judgment or rejection for yourself, but you're doing it from a place that's really pure and you're speaking your truth and you're not sacrificing yourself for it, then compassion really, that is that you have moved through the dark side of compassion. So I wondered if that was your experience too. Definitely And compassion can also take on a manipulative element where your understanding and feeling of situations and of other people can be for personal gain or self I mean, that's the other element to it, but I've seen it at times in myself, but I've also seen it in other people. And I've seen it this year in other people where there's a posturing of compassion and kindness, but it's not coming from a place of true empathy. it's a facade and so i think that that's the other piece of defining true compassion and working from a place of you remember our episode on when we talked about tough love the aspect of you know that's part of compassion as understanding when you need to end the conversation, step away from a relationship, step out of a bad work environment. That's part of compassion. And it's taken me a while to acknowledge the strong parts of compassion. And that's where some of the usefulness and practicality that I mentioned come from too, is grasping on the full range of what compassion really is and that it comes from a place of strength and comes from a place of hard decisions sometimes. So, well, that was my biggest lesson this year was learning to take my compassion and put it with accountability and learning how to hold people accountable in a way that is compassionate. Yeah. And so I don't know if it will have come out yet or if it will come out like next week. I'm not sure where it is, but the last part of the series, the capacity series was around relational capacity. And the big piece of it is, and it's interesting because I learn it. This is how my life works. I learn something the hard way and then I find words and context to make it make sense. yeah and then i teach it to other people or coach it to other people right yeah so that is an episode that i was really really proud of because we went through like when are you applying rules to people versus expectations what are boundaries versus accountability what is the purpose of these different things and really dissected it and i was just really proud of how that turned out because and there was some really tangible tools that people who are striving to be compassionate leaders could take away from it. And for me, it was just a very personal and powerful like bow that I was putting on this lesson that I got. Yeah. I love that. But the other one for me, as far as biggest lessons was this whole year of just how I feel about running numbers. And I feel like I've really tied up that piece as well of this whole idea that I'm not good at numbers. And I'm like, it's just math. But money holds so much emotion. We make it mean so many different things. But now that I've learned how to figure things out, I really feel like at this point, it's just trusting that I can figure it out, that I don't have to be reactive. And so what has happened this year, you know, from my CPA suddenly passing away right before taxes were due and not really knowing what was going on, having my bookkeeping company shut down and basically like not do my books for 2024 at all. I mean, all of that came in a span of a couple months, but hiring Jen Boss to really operate as a financial strategist and fractional CFO and work with me through this year. And then there has still been things that have come up, like a random note from the IRS that I'm being sent to collections for something that was due in 2022 that I have never received or my CPA's files show that there's never been any communication around. and I can't get access to see anything online. It just says not available. Like the system is glitched and I can't, every morning I wake up, I get on the phone with the IRS, I go through the process and it says, we cannot take your call at this time. And that's where I'm being left right at this point. And I'm so not, I don't have a feeling about it. I'm like, well, I don't know. I think this is a mistake because this is nothing I know of. And to my records, everything's accurate. unless there's something I don't know about. So I'm like, okay, we'll figure it out. I can't help that you all cannot have an efficient system and I'm not triggered by it. There was a time when I'd be so upset and more than anything, I'm just laughing at like the ridiculousness of it. That's huge right there. Just that shift to find the humor in it and just to, it's like, well, this is somebody's version of a not so funny joke that I've got to work through. It's like letting go of the anchoring or the pulling you down, dragging you down. Well, and my hope is I believe that lessons keep coming to you until you really learn them. And so I have found that once you get that point where you have an experience and you're like, oh, yeah, I don't have any energy around this. It's like, okay, this was the last thing that I was sent to just really drive home. You've got this. So that's awesome. That's a nice little bow. Did you have any other lessons that you wanted to bring up? This year, for whatever reason, it feels like I've stepped into truly believing that I can create a life that I love and businesses to support that. I've talked about working toward that when we talked about the episode where we talked about my travel and trying to create more passive income and things like that. I was doing that, but I don't think I truly believed I was capable of it or that it was even something I was supposed to be doing. Like maybe it's a deservability thing, but it just, when I was reflecting on this, it's like, I don't know how it's all going to flush out. And I know that they're probably going to still be hurdles to jump through. And there's always, you know, you got to be flexible and adaptable when business doesn't work out like you thought it would or whatever that, you know, however that manifests. but I truly believe that it's possible for me and my partner and the lives that we want to live. And I'm okay with the not knowing exactly how it's going to happen. I'm focused on making it happen. So it will, and that's just happened this year and in the past, probably four or five months even. So. That's cool. That's cool. All right. What are you leaving behind in 2025? Toxicity. And what I mean by that, it's, I think you use the language, maybe even when you, you frame the questions or the things that don't serve you. And I really started trying to scrutinize relationships, situations, habits, and behaviors of my own that have a toxic nature to them. And by toxicity, I mean something that gets its grips on you and may seem subtle at first, or maybe not even important at first, but can worm its way into creating negative chains that keep you from doing the best you can growing the ways you should so i've really started i've shifted my perspective into asking that question it was interesting to use that language because that is the question i ask myself when i'm getting into something new or i'm re-evaluating something that's been in place for a while it's like how does this serve me and how does this serve? I call it the bigger or the better. So how does it serve? You could say society, the universe, the world, depending on your faith system, your belief system, it might be the greater good. You might think of it that way. So I've started asking that and even small things and not in a way that I'm over, you know, almost becoming obsessive, although I probably could with that kind of line of questioning, but in a mindful way of what am I learning from this? Where's the positive nature in this? Is this pushing me forward? Is this valuable in some way? So asking those kinds of questions in a way that's really practical and getting more comfortable and severing those ties that don't serve me in a positive way, in a healthy way. So, and that's really come out of this year. Hope I make the list. Oh, absolutely. We talk about when you let a relationship go or you let something go, it's not like you call the person up and you're like, hey, so I've been doing some thinking and reassessing my 2026 and you didn't make the list. It's kind of like you just don't put the effort in and it tends to dissolve on its own. Yeah. And that is exactly that's part of this lesson is I have learned part of that people pleasing thing. I'm often the one that nurtures a relationship. I'm often the one that is putting the energy into it and not having an expectation of return necessarily. And I'm trying to shift that. It's like, it's not that I'm not going to try and nurture anymore, but that compassionate place is asking the question, does it serve me? Is there an equality to it? Is there a balance? And often in work and in personal relationships throughout my life, I've had an imbalance of energy and effort. And so I'm really working on that and using some of the lessons from this year to do better, to grow from that. I'm going to leave behind imposter syndrome. I'm not saying it's not going to creep in. But what I have learned is that preparation and commitment and intention, like all the tools that are needed to rise to any occasion are there. I have enough humility to know what I don't know. But I also know that there are resources and people that we can figure it out. and that I also deserve a spot at the table. I'm going to leave behind making myself less than others. It makes me a little emotional with you saying that because it makes me very happy to hear you say it too. Yeah. Yeah, because what I find is that when I shift, and I don't know if you find this with the people who you care about and who are around you and that you coach, when you shift, they shift. And so there's a lot of people around me who struggle with worthiness and not feeling enough and not feeling good enough. And so as I leave and shed that behind, that is my prayer and hope for the people around me too, because we all have a unique gift. We all have things that we contribute. We work together, we collaborate. And I think that's what makes this world a better place. Oh, totally, totally agree. So put an exclamation point at the end of that. Yeah. So intention, what intention are you bringing into 2026? To grow from a place of compassion to continue to focus on what really are the aspect of how we started this year with redefining success at our retreat to continue to focus on redefining and expanding my range of what success is and what it looks like and feels like And really focusing on finding prosperity. so we could even say monetary gain profit finding prosperity and ways to get to prosperity in those things that truly bring me joy so because I feel like if I lay that foundation with anything that I do then I'm going to have more energy for it I'm going to have more focus for it and that will lead to prosperity yep I want to jump on that bandwagon with you for sure all of that, all of that. And I'm also going to add in two things for myself, which is one is presence, like being where my hands are. This year has been really more business focused in some ways. And it has created a bit of an imbalance in my personal life. And like my summer, I wasn't as intentional with my kiddos as the way that I wanted to be. I was trying to balance things in a way that didn't work. So I really want to focus on being present and where my hands are so that I can enjoy this very short time that I get with them. So that's one on the personal side. And then the other thing is impact. Like I'm, you know, if you think about a word, I was at my friend, Shannon Mattern's retreat. She's a business coach for web designers and web designer adjacent individuals. And she had this amazing retreat and we were doing some visioning work. And as I had my eyes closed, the word impact just kept coming to me like impact, impact, impact. And so just thinking about next year, whatever it is that I'm doing, what is the impact that I am making with it and being the most impactful that I can be And that's, I don't know what exactly that looks like, but I have some inklings of what that could look like. But just being really impactful in everything that I'm doing. In a good way, in a positive way, because you can do that in a negative way too. Sure, sure. It's interesting because I wrote down a statement and I was going to read this a while ago and I skipped over it, but I wrote down this statement. Your purpose is bigger than your business, but your business will grow when you honor that. So, and I think that that's a variation of what you're saying too. It's like that impact comes when you're being true to your nature, when you're being true to your beliefs, when you're being true to your values, but you acknowledge that business is a part of your overall purpose. It's not the purpose. And I think I had that priority incorrect for a lot of years. So, but your business will grow if you are staying true to your purpose, if you're staying, if you're focusing on the impact you can have. What are you excited about for 2026? Well, I had a little trouble narrowing down that list, but I want to just focus on one thing because it's very far reaching and it is a venture out in a lot of ways for me. So the idea of starting some new things at this stage of my life and my business life, especially, I am going to be working with Sarah G to create a new web presence that centers around mindfulness. and bringing mindfulness. I can't remember if we've talked about this on the podcast or not, but I've always done this in my coaching and in my consulting work where I've implanted in sometimes a covert way aspects of mindfulness and self-compassion and some of those more holistic approaches to success in business settings. But I've done it covertly because it was just language that wasn't used in, especially around leadership, around team building, but it is now. It's been brought into more common culture. And so I'm going to leverage that. I'm going to jump on that and do what I've always done, but in a very overt way, you know, be out there and fully present and make that lead, make that the lead. And she's going to help me do that. And I'm super excited about it. I've brought it up to a couple of former clients that I haven't worked with in a few years, just happenstance to have conversations. Every single time I brought it up, they were like, finally, we've been waiting for this. We've been waiting for something like this. And I've even had a few, then I'm not saying this to toot my own horn, but it really makes me proud of the work I've done in the past. I've had a few say, well, we've actually brought in some people to do some training around this and it's never landed. And we've always said, can we get Dr. D back in here to do this? So I'm very excited about that. And I don't know what it's going to look like yet because I'm holding off to the I get back from my Italy adventure to really dive into it. But I'm excited to work with her. She's super creative and just has insights that are really in alignment with the way I like to do things. And I just feel like it's going to be incredibly powerful and a lot of fun. I think it's going to be a lot of fun for coaching clients, new coaching clients and corporate and business clients. I'm already thinking about a line that's going to be helping people that are trying to grow small businesses and do it in a mindful and joyful way. So because if any of you, anybody's ever started a small business, you know that it can be, there's a lot of drudgery that could come into it. Yeah. And on that line, I'm also, I do, I have a new business venture that's on the more practical side of a venture. It's a air quality improvement and mold remediation and prevention, German microbe control company that uses all natural technology. and anyway it's super effective it's super healthy and it falls into the sort of my wellness belief system and i'm really excited about that too helping to grow that as a business from as an owner but nurturing contractors that we work with establishing relationships in health care systems and educational systems where they've had issues that have been making people sick and bringing a solution that's novel and that's affordable and that can have high impact. I'm super excited about that too for the new year. So in 2026, very, very similar in what we're tracking towards as well. I'm so excited to unfold this capacity coaching framework and create what I'd almost say is it's more than just coaching, right? It's an ecosystem of how you approach life and business. And I think that some of the new trainings that I'm creating and the partnership with Jen Boss around helping women increase their financial capacity, going through... Look, I walk it first, right? So I go through everything of learning how to do it the right way. And then having Jen to be able to impart that wisdom on more people and being able to collaborate with her. It's just been such an easy, again, everything has just been such an easy collaboration, easy ideation. And so I'm excited for what that will look like in 2026 and how that unfolds. Well, I'm so excited for you and Jen to work together, to continue to work together, but to grow something. because I see you guys having such compatible strengths and it just feels like a collaboration made in heaven. I mean, it really, really does. I'm so excited for both of you. Yeah. Like, I love the way she takes the shame out of whatever it is you think you don't know about business or whatever you think you're fumbling through. Like, she has such an amazing way of taking the shame out of that business side of things. Like, why would you know better? Instead of, you should know better or I should be better at this. It's like, why would you? And I just love that. So I am really thrilled to share that with more people, connect with more people through 2026. Speaking again at InvestorCon in June, I feel like I've had an upgrade in myself personally and just the way that I go through the world now. And it feels really good. So that's awesome. I'm excited to embody that in 2026. So anything else you would wrap up? Just that there are so many good things ahead for everyone out there. And I know that there's been a lot this year that has made it feel like that's not that our future is bleak and the lights are dimming. We need the darkness to define the light. And we've had a lot of darkness this year. So just encourage everybody to really focus on finding your own light, find it in others, and help other people find their light. Because by helping, you'll find yours, you'll grow yours. So just really just focus on the light and know that hope exists and hope has a practical side to it. And you can build that. You all have the ability to do that. I think that so many of the upgrades and the learning and the lessons come from the dark. And if you don't have them, then you don't grow. So there's so many gifts in the experiences if you take the time to receive them. If you take the time, if you're in, stay in the problem, then you're part of the problem. Yeah, I totally agree. Yeah. Wrapping it up, have a safe New Year's Eve and we'll see you in the new year. Sending you so much love. Be well, everybody. Thanks for listening to the Conscious Edge podcast. Make sure you subscribe and take a moment to be kind and share this episode with someone you care about. 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