Reflections & Manifestations of 2025

This week on Branded & Booked, we're reflecting and celebrating the year of 2025.

Since moving to Florida, we’ve stepped into a whole new level of alignment. Finding our people, building community through in-person events, and calling in opportunities that feel more expansive and intentional than ever.

And with the year wrapping up, we’re also sharing some big life updates:
✨ Kailee buying her first home
✨ Tina entering into a new, beautiful relationship

In this episode, we talk about:

• How much can transform when you’re aligned with your environment
• The power of community and showing up locally
• Why celebrating your wins is a business strategy
• How we’re expanding, evolving, and dreaming even bigger for 2026
• Slowing down enough to feel proud of the work you’ve already done

Whether your year felt fast, slow, messy, or magickal — this conversation is your reminder to pause, reflect, and give yourself credit for the growth you’ve lived through.

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Special thanks to my OBM, Andrea: dreamlifeconnection.com

Episode Music: QubeSounds

Transcript

Tina Floersch: 0:00

And this transition into like the end of the year for that slowness has really pushed us to sit back and and look at what we've done and and like the space to daydream and think about like what do we want to do next year? We are already Freddy. I do it every day that I'm here. Hi.

Kailee Nauman: 0:38

Hi.

Tina Floersch: 0:39

Wow. Wow. Full circle.

Kailee Nauman: 0:42

Full circle moment. Um, welcome back to Branded and Bucked. Welcome to the last episode of 2025. Jesus.

Tina Floersch: 0:55

Insane.

Kailee Nauman: 0:56

Tina and I are currently uh hanging out down by the coast. Um, it is the day we're recording, it's small business Saturday. So it feels like we're celebrating ourselves this weekend. I know.

Tina Floersch: 1:11

I know. We were talking about how this particular room that we're in was when we started was it like the first time I was like full-time on here? Something like that.

Kailee Nauman: 1:24

I started having you on more episodes.

Tina Floersch: 1:27

But it was like literally in this room when I first moved down to Florida. It was kind of like when we really got serious about me being on the podcast. And that's gonna be two years in February. How? We're eye twitching a little bit, like, wait a minute. And we're at my parents' house, and I came and stayed with them while I waited for my apartment to be ready up near Orlando. Um, we're down south by Fort Myers. Um, and this is literally the room that I would be on Zoom when we were re recording our podcast episodes.

Kailee Nauman: 2:02

It's so special. It's funny too that we're talking about this because I was kind of cleaning out. I'm doing like a little bit of a clean out of all my digital files, especially like in Canva, because I have so much client stuff in there and Canva files. Canva's a mess. It's a lot of mess. But I found a video of us and we had recorded and just looking at like the energy, even the way we look, it just feels so long ago. You know, I feel like we've had Florida's given us a true glow-up.

Tina Floersch: 2:35

For real. It really has. I was kind of journaling about it today. Her Kaylee and I were talking about like stuff for the net for next year and kind of what Florida has been for us. And it's just been more than I ever could have anticipated. I wrote in my journal uh rebirth and soul alignment. You're gonna love the card I pulled.

Kailee Nauman: 3:00

Yeah. We I brought one deck uh for Tina and I to pull from this weekend, and it's the Muse Tarot deck. And I love so the reason I even grabbed this deck, I was actually with my mom in Colorado at a crystal shop. And I don't usually buy tarot decks for myself unless like they really catch my eye. But I saw this one and for some reason immediately thought of Tina when I saw it. And then when I was reading the back of it, it said like the key theme of it was it being an eclectic card deck. And I was like, okay, this is this is a me and Tina deck. So it's been, yeah, Florida's been amazing, and this weekend has been really nice. It's just Tina and I. And so we're having a we've never done like a girls' weekend like this. Like we're like, what? Um, but totally hang out all the time. It just feels like feels like we're doing girls' weekends all the time. But it just feels good. We've been brainstorming, we've been reflecting, we've been sitting a lot in silence and just like taking it in, I feel like, taking life in. And wow, this year, even though we're like, wow, it's December, how did the year go by so fast? I also feel like so much has happened this year. And it's been life-changing. So exciting. Before we dive into everything, today's episode is going to be just a reflection, a rewind. We're gonna do a little bit of reflecting. We're hoping that this episode also encourages you to do some reflecting within your business and life and where you're at, where you want to go, daydream a little bit. I daydream all the time. It's my favorite. And we're just gonna be wrapping up what happened in 2025 and talking a little bit about 2026, you know, what intentions we want to set. And I think this will be fun for us because then next year we can come back and listen to this episode and then be like, what are the differences? I know, it's gonna be so cool. Um, I'm gonna let Tina go first with her card.

Tina Floersch: 5:08

Oh, okay. So I pulled the fool. Uh, keywords, a new journey, beginnings, trusting the universe, a time for optimism, not knowing what's coming, naivete, needing to learn new skills, analysis, paralysis, and a leap of faith. Prompt, uncertain beauty. She hums a tune she used to know, and with baited wishes, she leaps into an abyss of stars and possibility, thoughts eager, hearts racing, hopes high. A million bits of colored standards, a million bits of colored stardust. Okay, standards. Standards. Oh. Wow. Anyway, colored stardust is what it says. Rise up to meet her and she greets myth and opportunity as she tumbles forward. She sees her future here in this beautiful swirl of light and potential. What are you searching for? asks the muse. Something brave, she whispers, something new. For the briefest of moments, she feels unprepared, naive, unsure, foolish. She asks herself, she asks herself, Are you ready for this? Can you take this journey? And the muse wants her to remember that she is and she can. She wants her to believe in her magic. As she leaps, she leans deeper into trust and begins to hum once more. A song that sounds different this time around, grander, epic even. The notes vibrate the space around her, and her new path begins to unfold, leaving nothing to do but begin. Fearlessly jump into the sea of the cosmos. The spinning potentials are calling, maybe a little foolish today, yet better done fool-like than stalling. And the car depicts this woman. It looks like it's like part desert, part nebula. And there's a she's like walking, she's like up in elevated in the air, going towards a sun. There's a ladder in the bottom right corner or in the bottom left corner. So it looks like she literally like leaped up off this ladder, is going through a desert into the sun split into a nebula. It's really pretty. Wow.

Kailee Nauman: 7:30

I wish everybody could see the smile on my face. Listening to you read it, I'm like, oh.

Tina Floersch: 7:36

I know. When I pulled it, I started, I only read like the the the like words at the beginning, and I was like, Yep. Yep. This is exactly and per usual, I'll take pictures of these and these will be posted on our Instagram.

Kailee Nauman: 7:49

So I feel like it's a little bit rare that we've been pulling from the same deck. I know, we don't normally pull from the same deck, or it's been a minute. Yeah, talk about some unity. I know. Um, so mine is Seven of Materials, which I'm excited to see what that one is. The card itself is really pretty, and it's interesting. So I'm reading a book right now that uh Tina recommended to me called Heartless, and it's with all of the Alice in Wonderland characters, and the card itself is a woman in like combat boots, but they're untied, and she's like looking down at them, but she's on this striped path. It looks like maybe she was walking towards you, and there's roses all over the place.

Tina Floersch: 8:39

Oh, yeah, it is very like Alice and Wonderland.

Kailee Nauman: 8:41

Yeah, there's roses in the background. She's holding a bouquet. It looks like a wedding bouquet. I'm still engaged. We're not making much plans with the wedding, but we'll say why here soon. Um, but it looks like you know, all the roses are there. She's holding on to the bouquet. She's in what looks like a type of wedding dress. It's very Alice in Wonderland. So I'm very interested as to what this is gonna be. And of course, it's I fell asleep listening to the book last night. So definitely spot on for theming. So it says seven of materials, a pause, assessing your progress, perseverance, the long game, investment, manifesting for the future, gratitude, and diligence. The prom says a sacred plateau. Well in your journey, there are moments meant for rethinking, re-establishing, and redirecting. Stepping onto her timeline, she waits patiently, poised to reap the rewards she sowed in the past. And she knows they are almost ready. Her gut tells her, her hands, weary from toil, tell her. Her heart tells her she knows. In the lucidity of the pause, she realizes that her lace has come undone. She ties it slowly, knowing it would have tripped her in the future had she not taken notice now. She's grateful, graceful, mindful, and she's moving through the reverberations. Reverberations. Yes, thank you, of yesterday's thoughts and actions. While sending out tomorrow's reality with love, energy, and intention. She invites you to step into the liminal space with her. This plateau serves as a beautiful break to breathe and take stock. You've come so far, and your beautiful roses are almost here. When the muse pauses your timeline, relax. When she slows the clock, wait for her. When she disappears from sight, revel in all the creation to come.

Tina Floersch: 10:58

You guys, we do not plan these cards. No. They are chosen at random. They'd be speaking to us. They that holy cow. The like the new beginnings to the like taking a pause is wow. It's just, it's literally everything that we've been talking about, even not even like this weekend, but we have both been in a very transitional phase of pause. There's been, you know, the holidays, and we've had a we had a lot going on in November. And um, and with our birthdays, and it just is like always this time of year. There's just a lot going on between your birthday in September, mine in October, and then November was busy. We had EDC, a lot of changes uh in general on top of the holidays. And her and I like really have been talking about this, like we've both kind of been in an unintentional period of slowness. And it feels like a theme for this year too. It's like it's it's busy and then it's slow, and then it's busy and then it's slow. And this transition into like the end of the year for that slowness has really pushed us to sit back and and look at what we've done and and like the space to daydream and think about like what do we want to do next year, and like appreciating what Florida has been for us and this transition and what the communities we've been involved in. And I was telling her yesterday that like I love Denver. Denver was a very special place. I'm originally from Minnesota, um, and I moved to Denver in 2017, and it was the first time I'd ever moved away from home, and it was like it was such a beautiful like first time away from home. And I loved Denver. I loved being in the mountain, like near the mountains, and it was good. And then being here, it has just been everything and more of what I kind of hoped I I would have found more of in Denver. Like the community and the diversity and the the small businesses and the and the community around the small businesses and the entrepreneurs, like people out here just want to help other people. Yeah. And it's just such a beautiful, like symbiotic world in Orlando specifically. Right.

Kailee Nauman: 13:53

A couple of times when I would visit Florida, I didn't know what to expect living here because you know, Florida's vast, it's such a big state. And there are, you know, some areas where you're like, would I love living here? I don't know. Like there's this, there's the small beach towns, there's the pockets of like suburban cities, and it's really interesting. But the amount of people that we've both met that are from all over the world, I think that's something that has really inspired me being here. And I told Tina, like, I love people. I'm fascinated by them. I love to hear their stories, their life journeys. It motivates me, it inspires me, it allows me to get in touch with empathy and just a lot of who I am as a person. Like, I love human connection. And just people from other countries live here. And my neighbors, I've had ones from the Bahamas, from Ohio, from like all over the place, Puerto Rico. There's a lot of people from Puerto Rico where we live. So it's been exciting and fun and new. Whereas like I feel like Denver, I was telling Tina, like, since I was there the whole time, it's a city, it's a pretty big city. But when you live there the whole time, it becomes pretty small. And you always know somebody that knows somebody, and it gets kind of like clicky in a sense. Everybody kind of either stays within the people they hung out with in high school and they don't really branch out, or if they do branch out, it's it's an interesting energy. And I think with the seasons in Denver, when you were talking, there's this sense of busyness because all the busyness happens with like the end of spring, summer, and end of fall. Yeah, you're working with the warm weather versus the cold. Whereas like here, things feel slower. I feel like I don't need to run a mile. I feel like I can walk a mile and still be okay. Yeah. And that feels really nice. It was very uncomfortable for me. Very uncomfortable. I tell Tina all the time, I feel like I'm just like, I'm itchy. Like I feel itchy in my skin. Like I think this year, coming to the end, I feel again like I'm in a cocoon and I'm like, I'm uncomfortable. I'm like ready. I'm ready to spread my wings. I'm ready to, but I needed to do this work. And it was so abrupt. Like we talked about this when I first moved here. It was scary for me. And it was dark. I was dealing with a lot of shadows when I first moved down here, and that was really hard for me. But now that I I'm on the other side and I feel so aligned with where I'm going and the things that have been happening. I told Tina the other day, I was like, ooh, I manifested hard. And I'm like exactly where I wanted to be. Yeah. And like slow the fuck down. Yeah. Just be here. Just enjoy, like sit and drink your coffee and just stare off into space and again, daydream and be, you know, happy for where you're at. Like we're still so young. I just turned 30 and I'm like, I have so much life to live. I've been looking at people who were twice my age around me. And I'm just like, I have so much of my journey to continue on.

Tina Floersch: 17:23

100%. And that's the beauty of being down here, too, is like it just my mom always told me that she's like, it just is a slower pace. People operate at a slower pace down here. Like whenever I'd come and visit, because my parents have lived here for a while now. So um it just kind of was always like, I don't know how you people, I don't know how you do it. Like, what do you mean? And now that I'm in it, I'm like, oh no, this works really well for me because everybody else that we've encountered, maybe it's not always like this, but like the people that we've encountered and the communities that we've been in, people are very just like like slow and intentional and not really in a rush, which can kind of drive me nuts sometimes when it comes to like getting client work, but it always ends up working out the way it's supposed to. Right. And it's just a beautiful thing. And like as a reflector with human design, my like my thing is waiting 30 days before making a decision. Oh, and I like yeah, reflectors go by the phase of the moon. And so waiting 30 days, like a full moon, is like one of the ways that I'm supposed to be operating. And when I the more that I do that living out here, the more it pays off. Like it has been, it's been really nice to be in a space that really truly supports that. Wow.

Kailee Nauman: 18:58

Yeah, I didn't know that. And now I'm just like mind-blown because we go to new moon and full moon yoga with Janie and Ignite your flow down here. Wow. That's amazing. So that means every time we go to yoga, you get that moment of reflection.

Tina Floersch: 19:16

That's why I love going to yoga now, like with her and just specifically doing the new moon, full moon, because they're like really great check-ins for me and supporting like my human design.

Kailee Nauman: 19:30

Fascinating.

Tina Floersch: 19:31

Um, what is it? The uh I'm trying to remember. Oh, this is not my chart. You're like, wait a minute. Nailed it. It's like, what is the category? Anyway, I'll I'll find it. Um, the strategy. That's what it's what that's what it's specifically called is my strategy as a reflector is waiting a lunar cycle.

Kailee Nauman: 19:59

Wow.

Tina Floersch: 20:00

Specifically, that's what it says.

Kailee Nauman: 20:02

Well, I know what I'm doing when we get off this podcast. I'm diving into mine. I astrology has been really fun for me over the years, and I've been able to connect with a lot of people that live their life through astrology, which has been so cool. Uh, but with Tina being in my life, I've been learning a little bit more about human design. And I'm a manifesting generator, which 10,000% makes sense. Like when I look back on my entire life, I'm like, oh, yep, manifested that, manifested that. And the life I'm sitting in right now manifested that. Um, I used to have a jar when I was in high school. I was like obsessed with the ocean in high school. Like I'd sit on Tumblr and I would be like reposting all the like inkable ocean stuff. But I had a jar that said, I painted on this glass jar that I thrifted and it said to the ocean. And I would just put coins in it because I was like, I'm saving my money to go visit the ocean. Like I felt so called, which I think a lot of my Pisces was like, girl, you need some ocean in your life. But it's been magical, and I'm so happy. You know, I was so hesitant to move down here when Zach first brought it up. And him and I actually lived apart from each other for three months. He moved down to Florida early just because, like, I um one, I wasn't ready to go. I was like, oh my friends, like resistance. I have so I was so resistant. I was like, I have so many friends here. And I get it. It's your first time moving away from home.

Tina Floersch: 21:31

Yeah, it felt it was a big decision for me, too.

Kailee Nauman: 21:34

Yeah, it felt scary, but I'm glad I had you in my life because you gave me that it's gonna be hard, but you're gonna be okay. And I kept reminding myself, like, worst case scenario, I move back home. I can always move back home if I want to.

Tina Floersch: 21:47

So that's what my parents told me when I first was considering moving to Colorado. They're like, yeah, it's it's it costs money, but like you can always move back. And I'm like, you fucking right.

Kailee Nauman: 21:57

You fucking right. But I'm I'm so glad we moved down here. And I uh tell we're making friends down here, which has been so nice. And I love when it I told Tina the other day, I was like, her and I are like a power couple. Like when we go out together, I'm like, I just feel like very empowered. Like you you make me feel like my higher self. And so when we're around people and we're introducing ourselves and we're like, yeah, Tina and Kaylee, we do the same thing, we do business together. I love seeing people's faces. We're like, oh, what do you do? I'm like the same. They're like, oh yeah, it makes me so happy. And you moving down here was so helpful because our friendship like was still very new when you moved down here. Super new. And it just was this for some reason, like I think it was deep rooted in both of us that we were like we should probably connect more. Like we should build on this relationship. And so Tina moving down here was like such a saving grace for me because Tina is my neighbor, and so the fact that like if I'm having a hard day or just need some girl time or need someone who just gets it, like work-wise, I could just walk on over and then spend some time with you. So I'm so glad you moved down here too, because it is just opening so many doors, and yeah, it's been exciting.

Tina Floersch: 23:16

There's always stuff to do. Like we went to this coffee festival. Let me tell you incredible. I I was running into people, like I it was unreal. And one of the other, one of the vendors, he was like, Oh, I was hoping you'd be here. And I'm like, special. That's so, yeah, that's so special. And then there's like one guy that I keep running into who's like Bendy Yoga, and he like just he just like ran up to me, not even knowing he didn't even like uh recognize me at first. I looked at him and I was like, uh hey, and he's like, Oh my god, hey, it's like we what did he say to you? Because we live in the same city or something. He was pretty funny about it, yeah. But it's just little moments like that, and I ended up connecting with him and giving him my business card, and like it is just everybody wants to help everybody around here. Yeah, the events are just just there's so much to do all year round, right?

Kailee Nauman: 24:17

Well, and Tina and I were talking about because you know, we've done episodes on this of like how to market yourself as a business and stuff like that. And Tina and I would just sit together and we look back, especially me. I used to be very, very prominent on social media, and I have always continued to feel this pressure that I need to be on there again, be on there a lot. I love we met on Instagram, you know. Like I make amazing friendships on Instagram. I love it, I thrive over there. But there was something missing, and Tina and I kept talking, I think wasn't it a year ago where we were like, what do we want to do in the new year? Yeah. Yeah. Last year we sat down and we were like, what do we want? And then we both agreed. We were like, we want in-person community. And it has just happened. Like we're sitting here today, like, oh my gosh, we're fine, we found our community. And it's just growing. And the things we're going to, and I think it's really telling when like you and I can go do community things separately too. Because it's so easy to just lean on each other and go everywhere with each other. But to be like, okay, well, I'm gonna go do this tonight. And I'm like, okay, have fun. I wish I was going. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's that's a special thing too, because then it's like we just feel comfortable with all the people that we're bringing in and calling in, and they're all good people, and they're also good, cute little souls. Like it's just so fun.

Tina Floersch: 25:48

Beautiful people, and like us going to separate events, it's just like sometimes it's sometimes it's necessary. Like you bring a different energy than I do, and some events are not meant for me, and some events like I'm doing photography, and so not necessarily something that like I need help with, or like that I even have the time to like be networking, but it's just like this beautiful. It's it's just nice to have yeah, to have this community where both of us feel comfortable enough to like go and do things on our own. Cause I think that was the thing that we both talked about when we first met was like, oh, I want to do more things, but I hate doing them alone. And now it's like, look at us.

Kailee Nauman: 26:28

I know we're oh my gosh, yes, we're thriving. It's very uh it's fulfilling and it's exciting because it's just the beginning. Like all these relationships are very new, but they, you know, they're connecting us with other people, we're connecting with other people, and yeah, it's just so supportive. The communities down here, instead of being like, oh, my competitor, they're like, oh, we're partnering together and it's like the same business, you know? Yeah. And that's I was telling Tina, I think from COVID, a lot of us just got so comfortable because we knew we could operate just sitting from home and being online. But it's time to get out, it's time to get out into your community. It's time to I built up like some nervousness and anxiety around going out to places. And that's strange for me because I'm an extrovert. But I, you know, mine, I was getting so nervous, I was starting to stutter again. That's like a habit I had as a kid. Like when I was so nervous, I would stutter a little bit. And I found myself doing it, but it's like, okay, it's just like anything else. Practice makes perfect. I gotta exercise this. That's why when people say, Oh my gosh, how can you guys just show up on a podcast and talk? It's taking practice. You think the first couple episodes Tina and I did were good?

Tina Floersch: 27:51

God, I was a hot ass mess. The anxiety I would have showing up to one of those. And then, like, I am such an overthinker that like I didn't know how to free flow. Like, even this episode, we had no plan. You were trying to make a plan, and I was like, Kaylee, it's an end of the year episode. We don't need to plan anything, like, let's just free flow. Me? I said that. What do you mean, miss? I couldn't. Oh my god, those first episodes, those first couple of episodes, I was a hot mess. Like, yeah, you could you probably couldn't tell, but like in my brain, and I would try to like write notes beforehand, and it just is yeah, it's taken years of practice now. And now look at me, I'm the one advocating for a free flow app episode. See, what do you mean?

Kailee Nauman: 28:43

This is why Tina and I balance each other because when I'm like, we should play Anna, she's like, simmer down, make another cup of coffee and go go sit. Put the microphone in front of you.

Tina Floersch: 28:56

Oh, so funny.

Kailee Nauman: 28:58

It makes me so happy.

Tina Floersch: 29:00

No, it's been just so good. I don't know what I expected. It really was just kind of this like, well, fuck, why not go live where I want a vacation? Like, Denver's been good, but I'm over it. And I like I really miss the water too. Like being from Minnesota, I'm used to like being close to water. And there's a fucking lake, and like being around water, and I just the greenery and the lushness, and Denver is the desert. Don't let the mountains are where the green's at. Yeah, Denver is the desert. Yeah. And it's only green for like maybe a month or two, if you're lucky. And I'm like, I missed it. I was there for like seven years and I missed it. I missed the green, I missed the water. I've always came out here to vacation. And I'm like, why not live where I want a vacation? And now I have a friend out there. Yeah. Like it worked for me in Denver. I moved to Denver when one of my friends that I met in Minnesota moved out there. And I'm like, well, it worked once. Why not do it again? And so I don't know what I expected. I really had no, I'm when it comes to both of my move, well, the first one was very planned out. But this one I was just like, I'm just gonna sell my house. Thankfully, I was like, my parents lived down here and they let me move in for a few months while I waited for my apartment to be ready. So thankfully I had a lot of these, like you had I moved into the same apartment complex, so I didn't even really have to do that much scouting. No, when she was looking, she goes, I might I looked at one other one. Yeah, and I was like, no, this isn't it. I kept telling you too. I was like, I don't know, I really love this place. I know, but just for like my own, I was like, I just gotta see what else is around there. And then I was like, no, I don't wanna I don't wanna do it because it was it was cheaper, but I was like, you know what? I'll just to be steps away in this beautiful apartment complex, like why not? And I just I I would have never anticipated Orlando being as supportive and nurturing as it has been.

Kailee Nauman: 31:06

Yeah, you know, I didn't know what to expect either. And it was really funny because I'm through and through a city girl. I live the city, but I feel like Orlando is that perfect balance between the nature I enjoy. Again, like you said, being close to water and there's still enough like outdoor activities and being next to the city. Orlando is a city, it's pretty small comparatively. It's a very small city. Like I remember driving by, and Zach's like, that's the city downtown. I'm like, what? I know you blink and you miss it. Those four buildings. There's no skyscrapers. Like, what are we talking about here? But I have enjoyed it. You know, it's Florida has been very, very special for me. It has been honestly, I feel like I'm finally starting my life in a way that like I want to live my life. I think living in Colorado, you know, there was the the family aspect, there was the your history, like the history of where I lived in Colorado and what was attached there. Yeah. It was, I was so ready to branch out and I wanted to be this version of myself for so long. And some special things have happened down here, you know. I feel like I have a bigger appreciation for my friendships, and I'm learning more about how to nurture them and how to keep the ones that I love the most even closer and what it means to bring people in that I want to keep in and not feel like I have to keep everyone in my life setting boundaries. I've learned how to set a lot of boundaries down here. It's easier when you're thousands and thousands of miles away from everybody back home. But it's been amazing. Um, I got engaged. I feel like my relationship is thriving. We are about to do something that has been big on our dream list. So by the time this comes out, most likely, I think so, right? I don't know when we're dropping. I don't know. We're dropping. We're free flowing. All right, I don't. Um, Zach and I are getting a house. You'll probably be just about to move in. Yeah, we're just about to close. Yeah, we're getting a house, and it is our dream home. Like we went through hoops and loops and somersaults and with this house. And it was the second house we looked at and we fell in love. And I'll do a whole episode about what that's like, you know, in 2026. But we're anticipating it, we're so excited. I can't wait to have Tina there in my own house, and it's just been special. And I'm just I'm 30 now, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is how I'm starting my 30s.

Tina Floersch: 33:54

Incredible, incredible, yeah. And you're leaning into your little manny gen life, and you're manifesting, and I'm also learning to lean into that, where it's just like, okay, I'm just gonna speak it out loud, and this is gonna bring itself into existence. And I ended up meeting somebody this year that I am obsessed with. I love him so much. He is the sweetest man. And we moved in together. Yeah, you did. As of last week. And I never, you know, it's just it's a beautiful thing. It like there was no, there was no pressure. It just happened naturally. He fits in so well with my life and my friends, and I'm excited that we're close because we lived like two years, two, two years. We lived two hours away from each other. So it was a little bit hard to see each other every weekend, but he's officially moved in and he gets to experience Orlando with me, and he's starting at a he's a barber, and it's just it's really fun. It's all the things that I've wanted and really have been wanting for a while, and I'm excited for that side of my life as well. Talk about manifesting.

Kailee Nauman: 35:15

I know I love Tina's man's. Um he's wonderful, he's wonderful for her. I'm excited for him to just be where we're all at again, and it's always so fun when my friends get in relationships, and it's just to watch it bloom and meet a new person, bring a new person into our friend circle. And he's an entrepreneur too.

Tina Floersch: 35:41

So, like he gets it, understands that side of things, and I get to watch him blossom in his own lane and being a barber, and he wants to do personal training and all these other things. It's just really fun to have someone to dream alongside of, you know.

Kailee Nauman: 36:01

It's super special, and just seeing like all of us accomplish our dreams, you know, even with Zach, my fiance, his the whole purpose we moved down here was for him to work at Universal, and he's doing it now.

Tina Floersch: 36:14

And it's like he's working his way up to where he wants to be. Yeah, it's so cool. And this is just the beginning. I know we weren't we talk a lot about how, like, in um I think it's Chinese astrology, it's the year of the snake, 2025, and 2026 is the year of the horse, and so the snake into horse energy. It's like the snake was like I might be botching this, but like preparation, slow intention, and then next year is like the horse is like taken off action, put it into movement, momentum, go.

Kailee Nauman: 36:54

Yeah, really lean into it. And yeah, I'm excited. You know, I think the world is changing as well, and it's like, how do we all slow down and embrace that? I think that's one thing I've been, you know, doing all this research with AI and also this holiday season has been really interesting because I feel like I'm very embedded in the world of holiday sales and marketing, and it's just opened my mind to be like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yes, money makes the world go round, but wow, we are just marketing is just shoved down our throats. And it's made me as a designer and wanting to get into the space of marketing be like, okay, how can we be more intentional with this? How can we work and do sales in a very mindful way?

Tina Floersch: 37:48

Yeah, mindful and intention and in a again, going back to just like the community, like how can we support those that are around us and building that that bubble that right?

Kailee Nauman: 38:10

I think this is something I feel like nobody really talks about, but it's you know, I've consumed so much podcasts and books and everything, but we are exposed to too much. It's just the reality of it. Our brains, if we look at like how we've evolved, right, in our brains, we went from no technology and only knowing your neighbors to knowing people across the world and the universe. And there's a lot of psychologists out there and like mental health advocates that are like, our brains can't fully comprehend. And so I have really helped myself or what's helped me is like coming back to focus on your community around you, focus on your community around you and like see what type of change that makes. And oftentimes, again, we go back to the ripple effect. If we're focusing on the people around us and we're, you know, being more intentional there and watering our flowers that are right in front of us, like things will grow. We don't need we can't, you know, take a cup of water and ship it across the world and then be like, okay, hopefully that water waters your flowers. Well, there's probably no water left because it took so long to get there. So being more intentional and mindful about that, I think has been really important for me and something I've been continuously reminding myself when I feel like I'm not doing enough, or I feel like I need to be doing more. And I'm like, no, you're doing enough. I know, you're doing enough.

Tina Floersch: 39:44

I know it's just the pressure and the the how much, like you said, it's the consumption. And I saw this thing the other day where it said the average person now consumes more data in a week than their grandparents did in a year. And it's Just like we're just bombarded with all of this stuff, and it's and it's just like taking that pressure off and just being like, You only have this one life. Do what fulfills you going back to the community and how you're nurturing those in your next door to you and really focusing on that and and putting your energy into that and kind of shrinking our our bubbles and and not consuming as much and putting the energy into spaces that you can visibly watch them grow and put them into people that you can be with. And it it's it's such a basic thing, I feel like, but I feel like we've just really lost it, especially after COVID. And it's just like everything has been digital, digital, digital, grow, grow, grow. And now it's like, okay, whoa. Yeah, let's bring it back in. Like we are still humans living one life in this one world. It I just got goosebumps, like just slow, slow down and enjoy it and be with the people that make you happy, fulfill fulfill your life on a daily basis. And it's that's just like the most important thing is and the comparison. Like, don't don't be comparing yourself. Yeah, comparison eats up everybody, you know.

Kailee Nauman: 41:35

Tina and I are the oldest, and it's been real we talk about it a lot and watching what journeys our siblings go through. And my sister's going through a pretty transformational spot right now. And her and I were talking, and she's only 26 and or about to be 26. Yeah, about to be 26. And she was saying, I feel behind, I feel like I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I feel, you know, and I told her, like, you're so young. And she goes, I know everybody keeps telling me that. And I'm like, then take it for what it is. Like it feels like when you're young, at whether you're 20 or 18 or 26 or even in your 30s, you feel like, oh my gosh, well, I'm not doing this and I'm not doing that. And you know, I want to be doing this or I want to be doing that. And it's like, you'll have time. You'll, you know, like perfect example of sitting here reflecting, looking at what you accomplished in a year. That's huge. You know, I just I was promoting a group mentoring, and some of the questions I sent out was like, look at everything you've accomplished. Slow down, stop thinking about, oh, what am I gonna do tomorrow? What's gonna happen this year? What's gonna happen next week? And just applaud yourself, give yourself credit for everything you've already done. And that's not just business-wise, no, that's your health-wise. Have you been working on your physical, mental well-being, mind, body, soul? Have you been working on and figuring out like what works in my work life versus my friendships? Tina's Tina's sweet girl peaches just came up the stairs. Slobbering up the wooden stairs. Oh, you woke up from your nap.

Tina Floersch: 43:31

Okay, good morning. You were good morning. We were so cool.

Kailee Nauman: 43:34

You're gonna be a star guest today. I don't think we've talked about you on the podcast much. Oh my god. Anyways, she was outside taking a cat nap, but now she's like, um, hello.

Tina Floersch: 43:48

Attention to me. You guys have been gone for 45 minutes. What is happening?

Kailee Nauman: 43:56

Anyways, I was trying to get with that. Just like, you know, don't forget to applaud yourself, don't forget to celebrate yourself.

Tina Floersch: 44:03

Yeah. And I think we talk about that a lot. And it's it's something that you and I have really focused on a lot this year. And I think that's where a lot of the growth and the confidence has come from. Like really taking those moments to acknowledge, pat yourself on the yourself on the back, and being like, okay, what else can I do?

Kailee Nauman: 44:27

Yes. Yeah. Seeing it as like opportunity for what's next.

Tina Floersch: 44:31

And not forcing it, like doing things that feel right. Like you and I have had like what we're gonna be doing next year is stuff that we've talked about since you and I first met. And it just hasn't been the time. And we've tried, we've we've put it, we've put things together, and it just isn't it, it just never came together. And you and I have just kind of taken a step back of like, okay, if it's not gonna come together effortlessly, we're not gonna force it. And I think that's a big piece of of life too, is just like setting the intention, manifesting, and not forcing it. If it's supposed to be, it'll be.

Kailee Nauman: 45:11

And like I'm thinking about yesterday, Tina and I were doing a puzzle, and you're not gonna force a puzzle piece into a spot and then walk away because then you can't put the rest of the puzzle pieces in there. Like exactly it, you gotta be intentional with it. And if it fits, it fits. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And being okay with letting go, yeah, that has been a huge lesson for me to be like, you know, I just that's it's not it anymore. You know, I'm making some really big shifts in my business for next year, and there's just a lot of aspects that I was like, I want to do it this way, I need to do it this way. And finally I sat down with Tina the other day and I was like, I can't, I can't do it this way. I've been trying to for three or four years, and it's just not, there's certain things in my business that aren't working, and being okay to be like, that's all right. Let it go. Yeah, who knows? What can I do differently? Yeah, you know. Oh well, friends. I think that's a great place to end that.

Tina Floersch: 46:17

Yeah, happy end of the year, 2025. Oh, wow. I hope you take some time to reflect. Make a list of things you've accomplished, make a list of things you want to accomplish next year. And oh my gosh, treat yourself. Honestly.

Kailee Nauman: 46:37

Whatever that looks like to you, do it. Yes, do it. Take care of your little self. Yeah. I I'm not a gift giver, so when it's the holiday seasons and everybody's like, oh my god, holiday gifts, I'm like, I don't. No, I I have removed myself from that expectation. But I usually do treat myself at the end of the year, like me and Tina doing this weekend together. It could be as simple as that, like having a girls' weekend, or maybe you just need a day by yourself. A little sweet treat. Doesn't have to be much. Well, we love you guys. We're sending just so much good energy. And thanks for being with us this year. Yeah, it's been a wild ride. We appreciate just all the support for the people we've had on the podcast this year. It's been so good. Thank you to our guests. Holy cow. Oh my god, the guests. We need to do a little guest recap. Yeah, we do. That'll probably be how we start January because you'll listen to them and you're like, wow, this was a great episode, but go back and listen to them. Like, there is just some episodes throughout this year that golden nugget after golden nugget.

Tina Floersch: 47:42

And you know, maybe we got a few guests lined up for next year.

Kailee Nauman: 47:46

So we're just getting started. Yeah, baby. All right, we'll see you all in 2026. You can find me, Kaylee, everywhere at eclecticdesigns.co.

Tina Floersch: 47:58

You can find me, Tina, everywhere at visualflow. And our final sign off for twenty twenty.

Kailee Nauman: 48:05

Bye.