Shifts I'm Making to Activate My Next Level Self in 2026

Hey Ladies! In today's video I am sharing shifts I am making as we enter 2026. If you feel the pull to level up how you see yourself, how you show up, and how you own your desires, then this video is for you. I share my personal shifts I am making, to give you ideas that can potentially help you activate your next level confidence and self.

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Hey ladies, welcome back to another video, another episode. So today I'm going to be sharing some shifts that I am going to be making entering 2026 to level up even more of my confidence, my self image my dream goals. So if you've yourself been filling this, pull towards leveling it up, like how you see yourself, you know how you show up in the world, how you own your desires entering 2026, then this is something that I definitely wanna share with you because some of the shifts that I may be making may be something that you needed to hear to help you activate that next level two. And so let's go ahead and get into it. If you see me looking down is because I have my notes. So first things first is one of the shifts that I am making is allowing myself to play with my ideas, to play with my creativity, to play with my desires without restriction. And a lot of ways that I'm doing this, I'm really doing this primarily in my business. But you can apply this to multiple things in your life, whether it is in your career or whether it is in your relationships or in some of your dream goals. You can use this same shift to take it to the next level. And what I mean about play is because what I want us to get out of this box, this restriction of what we believe that we need to do to have certain things a certain way, your desires, your goals, your vision. It shouldn't feel restrictive. It shouldn't feel boxed in. And a lot of times these restrictions is what is holding us back. It is really holding us back from that next level we're made to create, we're made to experience. We are made to really dive in into the unknown and. Live out our desires. Our desires are there for a reason. So if you've been holding yourself down, your desires, down, your ideas, your creativity, and you feel restricted in it if you feel called to this, allow yourself to play. And so what I feel like restrictions look like. So one is I have to do it this way because this is what everyone says. It needs to be like, this is how I supposed to do it again, whether it is in your business. You think you're supposed to do things one way because you have, you're watching so many videos, you're listening to so many people's ideas and taking in their opinions about how you should do things that you're blocking out your own creative juices. You're blocking out, you have intuition, you have desires, you have creativity coming, and then what happens? Boom, you pause it, you stop it because you feel like but this isn't the right way. I'm gonna listen to these other people, and there's a time and place to listen to other people. But what I've realized is that you can listen to other people, and some you could take pieces, but still own your ideas, because. Then you're gonna be able to see what you are capable of. You're gonna be able to create your own rules. Like you can approach it your own way. This makes it more fun. This makes it more exciting when you get to, when you get to own that, because there is not only one way. And so what I've decided to do. To play with my desires, play with my ideas, play with my creativity, is really just scratch restrictions all together and choose to do what feels good, choose to do what is screaming to me. What is like making me excited? What is turning me on? Then, following rules. And so what this requires for me, what I had to do in order to shift some of these things is question beliefs, right? To shed, what feels restrictive. A lot of times these are limiting beliefs. These are the things that keep us boxed in, that keeps us fearful in play, fearful and experi experimenting. Thinking that we have to do things one way, a certain way, someone else's way. But what if you decided to start questioning your beliefs? Start questioning beliefs that you've internalized. Sometimes a lot of these beliefs, like I already said, is from other people's opinions. But what I've learned, especially with increasing your self image, increasing your confidence and your belief in yourself is learning to form your own beliefs, learning to follow your own path. Why? Because this is going to increase your confidence. Once you start seeing that you get to, battle on yourself. You get to take a risk, you get to step into the unknown, and you survived it and you experience, something that you was told wasn't gonna be able to work out that way. Once you get to do that and you see it, guess what? Your confidence levels up. And each time you do this, it's going to go to a new level and a new level and a new level. I've always played with certain ideas, and what I mean by playing is about being when I think about play, it is not just about like we, haha, like this is so fun. Yes, this is fun, but it is like being playful and just being flowy. Being a little bit of a risk taker, being a little dangerous, being a little bit of a bad girl, right? These are things that unleashes a new level of you. We can unlock new levels of confidence if we stay restricted, if we can't play, because this is how we build courage. This is how we build trust, which is that confidence. This is how you get to see different levels of yourself. And even though I played with different ideas and different ex experiences, which got in me even creating content, when I first started creating content I was doing I started a little bit with Shortform, but I was already creating like my podcast. And in my mind I thought, okay, I only can do interviews because I just had this idea, this restrictive idea. For some reason that podcasting was only for interviews and this was the only way that it was gonna. Be great. But even though it was taken on interviews and that was fun, and that was bringing in listeners, there was something that I was restricting. There was something that felt trapped and that was because I wanted to express my own opinions. I wanted to bring my own ideas, my own experience from, lived experience and my insight to the world, not just taking other people's insight because I thought theirs was more valuable than mine. So I started to play around with it, and. Do one solo video. It was fully scripted, right? Do need solo videos. I was doing that and then I'm like, okay, this is not so bad. I'm getting better and better. And then I played around with just reading off of an outline, and that was scary. And I was like, oh, no, this doesn't work. And then I was like, I did it back to scripting and that didn't feel good. And then I was like, Ugh, I gotta try outlining again. Let's play around with it. And just getting up here and playing. And what happened is that the more I played around with doing solo podcasts, doing solo videos, the more I played around with it, my confidence grew in my insight, my confidence grew in what I bring to the table. Once I started being able to be consistent and play around with, my outlines, my confidence grew with being able to speak without having something scripted. And so that's game. That's just one example of what it looks like to play around with different things. But where was I going with this? Where was I forget where I was going with this, but there, but that's just one way to play around with different things. You really get to expand and build your confidence when you play, when you step into that unknown. Also what this requires for play is trusting that your desires. Is there for a reason, is there for a reason that pull that that desire to maybe try to express yourself a little bit differently, right? To maybe play around with flirting to, to show up to work in like new outfits that desire to start doing your hair or a certain way, that desire to learn different skills that desire to do things your way and, play around in your business. That desire is there for a reason and you want to learn how to trust it. That is something that I'm really making entering 2026, is trusting that every desire that I have is there for a reason. Because I believe desires is God gift to me. Like I truly believe that. And sometimes when we fight it, when we're looking for favor, when we're looking for luck, when we're looking for when we're looking for, something to change our life. The thing is sometimes just right there. It's right there and we can't see it. We can't see it because of that lack of trust that it is there for us, that lack of trust, that this is here for a reason and that is gonna work out. So we stop ourselves. But if we just allow ourselves to just trust it, and receive it, and just play around with it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be this set in stone thing. Like you tried it, maybe you don't like it, maybe you realize you don't like it, right? Like I have certain desires to do, certain things in my business because I thought like this was the way to do it. And when I tried it, I said, Nope, I don't like this. And I tried it. I kept trying it because I thought this is the way to do it. And I had that desire because I saw someone else doing it that way. I didn't like it. Like you get to play with even certain desires that come. If you don't like it, guess what? You get to go to the next thing and really follow what your desires are. And then the another thing that this requires, I I've already touched on this a little bit, but this really requires you to make your own rules. Just make your own rules to live by. We don't have to follow anybody's rules, right? Like we get to design it the way that we want to design our lives. This is a game, and if we truly get to play it, like how we wanna play it, it is again, goes back to questioning rules that you took on, questioning beliefs that you took on and deciding that this is how you want to do it. I want to do it this way, and so I'm going to try it this way. So I truly believe that as a woman like we are meant to break rules, like we break rules, like rule breakers are queens. Rule breakers are kings. Rule breakers make impact. Rule breakers make history because we get to create our own rules. We don't have to live by the rules of everyday life. The rules of like. How things supposed to be. We get to play around with it and then we create our own rules that way. And so the next shift that I am going to be making, and in 2026, starting now, like we're now waiting till 2026, but starting now is reentering, reactivating my Boss Babe era. So this is something that like. I've been so scared to do still scared to enter this era again out of this fear of hustling. And I'm gonna go to like, why, like, why I've been so scared. But if you've obviously like I, I know that I speak to women who want more for themselves, who want to be ambitious who is ambitious and have goals and have dreams and desires. And so like maybe you're like holding yourself back because you're scared to go all in. You're, you wanna be in your soft life. You want to like, not work hard. Girl, I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. But let me just challenge you a little bit because. I have those desires too. The reason why I was scared to enter this era again because I was in this era before when I built my first business. My re retailing business that I've talked about is one because the fear of I can't have fun anymore. This is one affair. When I was building my previous business or when I was in network marketing and I was in this boss babe era, this girl boss, right? I truly restricted myself from having fun. I didn't have fun. I felt like if I if this wasn't working out, I can't have fun, right? Like fun to me was like non-existent in that era. And so that was a fear. The next fear that I had. Is because hustling in the past has really hurt my romantic relationships. It hurt my romantic relationships because I was so focused on grinding, so focused on making this a success the business that I had, and then also just focus and feeling like either I can't have both, I can't have my business and I can't have romance. And it was because like the relationship that I was in, it was a constant struggle. It was a constant struggle and a lot of times it was because I was too busy or I was too focus on being successful and things like that. And so that kind of form this fear in me of Ugh, I can't have both. Like I, as women, we want riches and we want romance. We don't just want romance and we just don't want riches. What is that? We want both, right? And so for a long time I was thinking like, oh, like sometimes the relationship could be an inconvenience to the success that I'm trying to have or achieving the success could be an inconvenience to relationship. And I had a really hard time balancing both. And so I was scared to free enter, a hustling or I just didn't wanna hustle anymore. The third thing, if you can relate to this of course, is mom guilt. Having mom guilt. Because thinking, like entering that boss babe era, that the mindset of that you're not gonna be present or not going to be like a good mom because you're focused on building something. Especially if you put a lot of hours into it or what, or you have a full-time job as well. And so all of these things, like these are things that I used to battle with. And it's because when I was working and like network marketing yeah, I barely saw my daughter for a whole year. I saw her like obviously, but I will work at eight o'clock in the morning. I'll get home until 11:00 PM at night. And I was like so scared to ever step into this era again. Another thing is, again, you can relate, is draining myself. This is another fear. Draining myself and getting overwhelmed easily. Hustling can do that. Hustling right? Quote unquote hustling can do that to you. It can make you feel drained. It can make you feel over, it can make you feel overwhelmed. And so that really deactivated my Boss Baby era. However, the shift that I'm making is that I've decided to reenter, reactivate the ball state era because the good news, again, with playing, I get to play with the definition of. Hustling. I get to redefine. I get to make a new rule for myself of what hustling looks like for me. And so maybe this is something that you can do for yourself, like redefine, if you've been scared to go all in, because of a lot of these fears that I've had as well. What have you like played around with redefining what that looks like for you? It doesn't have to look like this draining soul sucking, no fun, no love, no romance, time of your life. It doesn't have to look like that for you. Instead, what I decided to do is to really allow. Is actually give myself permission to add pressure. Not hustle, but add pressure. Because pressure, right? It creates diamonds, Pressure creates confidence. Pressure creates next level. You When you can work through pressure, there is so many unlocked levels of yourself that you'll be so surprised. Like pressure is not a bad thing. Pressure is a great thing. Pressure is what helped me, get out of being shy. Pressure is what helped me develop certain skill sets that. Help me become a stay at home mom and, build my own business at the time. Pressure helps you discover, it helps you unlock your potential. It helps you unlock really unlock your greatest potentials, unlock your capabilities. It gets to stretch your experiences. It forces you to create discipline, to create structure. These are things if you want to level up in, in your confidence, in your self image, you wanna have structure, you wanna have discipline, right? And so exchanging the hustle, right? Exchanging that hustle. Were to actually, I'm just gonna add pressure to myself. I'm gonna add pressure to. Step the freak up step the freak up, right? Step up my identity to add the pressure to step up in my skillset, the pressure to expand my capacity, and still be a boss babe, without feeling like I'm gonna have a meltdown because I'm like overwhelmed. Or increasing pressure on yourself to maybe become a little bit more structured in what you are trying to achieve or any, with anything in your life so that you can also have space for other things in your life to flourish. like your romantic relationships being a good mom, having fun, like instead of focusing on fearing hustling, like how can we expand our capacity to take on more? And so this is the shift that I'm making, right? That boss babe reactivation is to help us thrive. We can't just be in a soft girl era. That's gonna get us nowhere. Yeah, feminine energy, like all of that is cute. But if there is like no structure, no foundation, there no discipline, it's like you're a ball of flop, literally, Like we need these things and we shouldn't fare anymore. We shouldn't fare. Like working hard. We shouldn't fear going all in. Instead let's just add a little pressure, expand our capacity to be able to do both, Like we can hold both. it is possible to have your business, your achieve your dream goals and still go on dates and still be a present mom. I hope this is making sense because this is what I am doing to really just level up how I see myself, how I show up, how I show up in the world, how I train myself to achieve things the way that I wanna achieve them. How I can train myself to have pressure to create a diamond out of me, to take myself to the next level So it is okay to enter that boss babe era, right? Like a lot of us are scared to do so because of these things. I'm sure, like some of you may find this relatable, but it's like pretty much just giving yourself permission to thrive, and redefining what that looks like for you. All right, so before I get to. The third shift that I'm going to be making if you feel called, if you feel this is desire in your heart to elevate, to transform your self image, your confidence. I do have new courses that are coming soon in the new year. These courses are literally created to transform how you see yourself, your level of attraction, your radiance to help you unlock your potential, your confidence and achieving your goals and in your dreams and how you show up in love, and a life attracting what you deserve and what you desire. If you said yes to any of that, if you feel called to experience these things then join my email list. I'm gonna put it in the description box. If you join the email list, you'll be pretty much the first to get access to these courses when they drop. Also, if you are on the email list, then you'll also get special offer. This is only for subscribers, that special offer. So again, if you're ready to transform, level up that self-image, level up that confidence, because you can apply that to everything in your life to just take it to the next level. Go ahead and click the link in the description box. Any updates will be given as it gets closer to releasing. Righty. So let's go ahead and we are going to get to ship number three that I'm going to be making. so ship number three that I'm going to be making, that I've been working on. For the past few months, and I'm going to continue working on, in 2026, is expanding my internal emotional container. Expanding that internal container to be able to hold heavy emotions, right? To be able to hold sadness, to be able to hold grief and anger and frustration or experiences like failure and heartbreak, and still be able to thrive. To be able to experience pleasure, to be able to show up with confidence, to show up how you want to be able to still keep yourself image intact, right? To be able to show up in business and your, in your life, your personal life. How. You truly desire to and be able to hold both. Okay. So why I am making this shift, why I've started making this shift is because what I've learned is that when you have a small container, this often causes self-sabotage, hands down, because it is challenging to feel both. It is challenging to feel like you can thrive. And challenging to be going through maybe depression or sadness at the same time. And if we want to be able to take ourselves our, how we see ourselves, how we feel, our, how we wanna show them where our confidence, our radiance, if we want to be able to get to that next level, we have to be able to extend our container. And this is something that I'm also currently working on. this is something that I've known from experience when my container is very small I've seen this over and over where like my emotions, if I going through something very emotional. Like I just shut down. Like I stop showing up in certain things. Like I wanna show up. I stop feeling like I can thrive when it's like really heavy emotions that's gonna fumble our next level. The next level version of you really requires to have a large container, right? this can't happen anymore if we wanna see the next level. If you wanna have momentum in your life, right? If you wanna have momentum in your life in anything. Whatever journey like you're on whatever goals that you wanna achieve, right? If shit is happening in your life and you're like, oh my gosh, I can't balance both. You're not gonna be able to thrive in a and show up in the place that you wanna show up because like your container is just too small. And, you're gonna always be starting over. And I'm like, I'm literally talking to you because I've talked to myself like this. Like you will always be starting over. No one has time to that we get to continue building, but starting over all the time, it is literally a container issue. and so this is the last shift that I'm actually leveling up in. This is not a new shift. This is just a level up shift and that is embodiment, leveling up. I speak about embodiment. I spoke about it so many times. This is really what started my confidence journey is embodying how like my most confident self is, how she looks, how she shows up. And so this is a huge part of my journey, and as I spoke about this, I was like, this is the quickest way. The quickest way to get to becoming the person that you wanna be, to experience the things that you wanna experience is through an embodiment, is through embodiment. And it is stepping to that en energetic field to really internalize this person to become one with the person that you desire to be. but the thing with this is that each year, this looks different, right? Each month this can look different. so for me, what I'm looking to embody this year just is share. It is fearlessness. I'm not a person who is afraid of a lot of things, but I have realized that sometimes when life it has, it creates a little bit of fear, right? It creates a little bit of restriction. It creates a little bit of like fear to really play full out, to live on the edge. And so I really wanna tap back into fearlessness because I believe that like your next level stuff like fear is, I saw somebody's put, like it said, fear is. Oh my gosh, what is it? Fair is the ticket of admission? Or something like that. Oh, price. Yes. Fair is the price of admission. Like it really is, like I plan on eating fair for breakfast, eating fair for breakfast, like in multiple areas of my life. Not just business. Not just business at all. And so what does embodiment look like for me? And fearlessness is, just gonna, just to give you a few, is like owning my desires even more without downplaying it. Like I'm over downplaying some desires that I have. I don't wanna downplay it anymore. I know what I desire and I like no longer feel guilty for that, right? The fear of letting go of certain things. Maybe letting go of people who are wasting your time, letting go of walking away from a relationship that you, maybe you fear that you're never gonna meet someone again. I've worked through that multiple times in my life, The fear of leaning back and not chasing because you think that if you lean back too much, like you're gonna lose it or you're gonna lose the person, or you're gonna lose the dream or whatever that case may be. For me, that's like reactivating my boss babe era, like being fearless in, in, in this decision, trusting my ideas, playing with ideas, trusting that I get to make my own rules, in spite of fear, I don't know if it's gonna work out. I don't know if any of the ideas, the desires that I have I don't know that it, it is gonna work out. But how would I show up to be fearless and going after my goals and showing up how I wanna be in a relationship, right? The fear of being yourself, being authentic, being authentic online, if you're a content creator, being authentic and believing that like you're still gonna be received, speaking up, saying what you need, saying what you want, right? In spite of fear of rejection. This is what that next level looks like is eating fear for breakfast, literally. And so that is just a next level shift in embodiment that I'm making. But maybe you're at your first level of learning what. Of what embodiment looks like for you, with your self image, with your confidence, or in your business in your dream goals or the word that you wanna embody, right? Fearlessness, limitless radiance, ease. Like what does this look like for you? Something that you want to truly incorporate that's gonna take you to that next level. Like, who is she? Who is she? How is she gonna show up? And so ladies, that is it. these are the shifts that I'm making and I hope like any one of these didn't have to be all, but these are maybe the shifts that you needed to hear to activate. That next level version of you and how you're going to show up, How are you gonna show up? How are you gonna own the desires that you wanna own? Like how do you wanna see yourself in 2026, right? Who do you wanna embody? how do you wanna play? How do you wanna take risk? How do you wanna get into this next level version of you? And so any of these shows that I made, I hope that it inspired you in any way. Maybe one of them spoke to you but yeah, your next level requires some shifts. All right, ladies, that is it for today. I'll see you, I'll speak to you in the next video. Bye guys.