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EP#113 WORD OF THE YEAR 2026

• Kristen Werner & Mia Steel • Season 1 • Episode 113

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Start your year with the messy truth. If you're feeling flat, scrolled out, and allergic to AI-polished B-roll telling you how to live this one’s for you.

We’re anchoring 2026 to two words: Launch and Joy.

In this episode, we unpack the platform shift that’s already happening:
 🚫 Scripted sameness is out.
 ✅ Real, intuitive, human content is in.
 People can feel when it’s honest and it’s converting better, too.

You’ll hear:

  • Why our best-performing content came from a mid-launch pivot
  • The secret to holding a room (or a phone screen) for hours
  • How we’re using our phones to build a sustainable, joy-fueled business
  • Why low-edit videos, live sessions, and IRL workshops are the formats to watch
  • How to let JOY be your content filter if it drains you, it drains them

You don’t need a 9-step funnel and AI content map.
 You need your gut, a good story, and the guts to show up before it's perfect.

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Pick your word of the year and tag us on socials. We’ll cheer you on every step of the way.

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SPEAKER_00:

Can you still hear me? Every time I touch my robe. I'll send you a clip that we should do at the start of this podcast. You know that funny as fuck chick. She just did a big fart and she's like, fucking see you later, 2025. Like, fuck, I love you. Hey, dog. Can't wait till this dog goes home. And what do you got? It's like a lab lab mix with the what are those pointy nose fast runners? Oh, I am a greyhound.

SPEAKER_03:

Pointy nose fast runners. You knew what I was talking about. Oh, I know, everyone knows. And I feel really sorry for them because I think they know that they look that weird. And so I think that they know, like you can tell that they're a little awkward. Like they're kind of like, I know, I get it.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm a bit weird looking. I'm very slow, but I'm also very fast.

SPEAKER_00:

And this one's just dumb. It's dumb as.

SPEAKER_03:

Apparently, they were like really, really good dogs. Like they're super lovable and amazing. I just can't bring myself to be like, oh, snuggle, love you. Nah. And they shiver, and then it's like and I'm not into dogs with coats. I know that'll offend a lot of people, but I'm not with dogs with coats.

SPEAKER_00:

Nah. I mean, just the face. And like, yeah, I can't get past that.

SPEAKER_01:

So shallow. And that is how we are starting 2026.

SPEAKER_02:

Are you ready to master the art of creating content that converts? Hey, I'm Mia, a mum of two, who went from being a burnt-out ambo to six-figure content creator in less than a year. Oh, and I'm beginning a late ADHD diagnosis. And I'm Kristen, also a mum of two, and a former corporate branding queen to an entrepreneur. My dyslexic brain sees marketing very differently, and that's my superpower. And together we're showing women like you how to master video marketing and create content that generates income. Whether you're just starting out or ready to scale, we are breaking down everything from landing brand build to building your own empire. Welcome to I Am That Content Creator Podcast, where we take scroll topping content into serious income. No filters, no fluff. Just real strategies from two neurodivergent mums who get it. So let's turn your phone into a video marketing machine. Let's go! Let's go.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, that's like sure we're done.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm keeping this in the podcast with my eye, because we're gonna go rogue this year. I'm not I was about to say my name, my word of the year, but I'm not until the end because that'll ruin everything of the lead up. Yeah, the lead up, yeah. Dog.

SPEAKER_00:

Hang on a minute. Does it have a name? Dog. She doesn't respond to my name. She's chewing my uh what do you call it? Cheapskin. No, cow house.

SPEAKER_03:

Do you have like a bond that you take? Because like, what if they fuck up your house? Do you take a bond?

SPEAKER_00:

There's like insurance on the app and stuff if something happens, but I think that's if something happens to the dog, not my stuff. So I've been doing a puzzle out on the back deck just to calm my mind. And one of the other dogs the other day jumped up and chewed a whole heap of pieces. So now they're missing.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, that's not a great puzzle. I had no time for puzzles.

SPEAKER_00:

I didn't either. I didn't either. But since starting this one, it's really, really hard. And I find when I'm doing it, I'm not thinking about anything.

SPEAKER_03:

Now I'd be thinking this is fucked. I hate this and I want to throw this in.

SPEAKER_00:

That's what I think about meditation when I got to sit there and do nothing.

SPEAKER_03:

No, not meditation. That's like why they told me I did a boxing workout and I was like, it was so hot in the shit, and I was like, I'm gonna die in here. I was like, this is amazing.

SPEAKER_00:

I go outside and I turn around, came back, come back in. I'm like, ugh.

SPEAKER_03:

Should we start the podcast, Mia? Welcome to our podcast, but welcome to 2026. What the fuck is this year gonna bring? Tell me.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, like we we haven't been doing this for a while, it seems like our last podcast felt like a lifetime ago. But TikTok awards the last time we met. What the hell? What the hell? Life life. But um, 2025, what a fucking random year. So random.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, like nothing bad happened, but just it just happened and it I don't think it's what I thought it was gonna be. I don't know what I thought it was gonna be, but I don't know. It wasn't like a year that I was like, damn, that was a fucking great year. It was like, oh, that happened.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's just kind of it's like a minger, a minger year, just sort of among along. Just minging. You're a minger. Yeah. It's just happened. You're a ringer now. You're also a minger. You're a minger ringer. I need a ginge minge now too. That's a really great start. I tell you. Yeah, I mean, like highlights, meeting you, TikTok awards. TikTok awards, huge. Launching evolution. We've got some incredible ladies in our evolution container, which has been amazing to hang out with them and yeah, help them on their journey. Yeah. That's as far as I can remember back. My memory doesn't go too far back.

SPEAKER_03:

I couldn't tell you what happened this time last year. Could not tell you. Oh, I can tell you that I didn't have an air conditioner this time last year. I didn't get it to by the end of January. And so now it's 40 degrees outside, and I'm all inside, just like it's love and life.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

So I mean, that's all I do remember. But no, like nothing significant. I mean, you're turning 40 this year, so that's gonna be a significant year. Did you have to bring that up? Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm gonna bring it up constantly because it's fucking number, mate, but it's 40. I know, I know. I'm actually not too scared about it. I'm I actually feel like it's gonna be just a reminder for me to just fucking do the thing. Who gives a fuck? Just do it. Yeah. Like you're doing old, mate. Just do it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

And I must admit, like, it's more I was shocked at how much my body went from like, we're doing all right, to like, nah, you're fucked. Like instant. Yeah. I was like, I'm sorry. What are we doing now? Why are we doing this? Which is not okay. But anyway, let's pedal back a bit and then let's go into so this whole podcast is gonna be about your word of the year. Yeah, first and foremost. Our word of the year, we're gonna share with you so you can do your word of the year. Highly recommend it because it's something that we've done for a long time. It's a little anchor piece. We just did it with the evolution people inside our community. They had some absolute ripper words.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

We're gonna get that into a minute, but I think so. For anybody that has felt like I have been so disconnected over the holidays. And I haven't had a holiday. Like we haven't had a holiday. It's just I've been disconnected since I became the full-time carer of the children and doing everything in the house from Christmas till New Year's and having no support and you know that. So no holiday, it is just technically called a holiday. And I have had low points. I've voice noted you, like we've had we haven't talked spoken as much. We had like a little like cheeky divorce or something that felt weird. It felt uncomfortable. Yeah, it was weird, very weird. It wasn't purposeful. Don't worry, guys. Mummy and daddy are breaking up. I think we just had no energy to even speak to each other.

SPEAKER_00:

Nothing, because I was like, I got like I can't even, I can't. My ideas were just like yeah. The ideas weren't even coming to me, which is weird because usually I'm, you know, on fire all the time. But I think it was just I hosted Christmas at my place this year, so everyone stayed here. So it's a lot of people in the house. Um, I did the cooking, or mum helped me, obviously, but usually I just rock up to other people's places. Um, and it was just, I don't know, it just felt a little bit flat this year.

SPEAKER_03:

I feel that across the board. I feel that it was everywhere. And I I don't know what it is. A lot of people like cost of living, all of that. I think that that's part of it, but I don't know if it's just, I mean, the world in general is just fucking cool sometimes. Um I think the biggest thing actually that we noticed at the end of last year, which and then moving into this year, is there is a really big shift in how we want to consume content as people in general. And I think as a collective, it's kind of like we can see through the bullshit. So don't feed me your fucking B-rolls with text on screen and tell me what to do. Like, talk to me, be a real person, share the real shit, which is what we do inside of our community, is make sure people build dynamic personal brands, like personal brands that are so fucking magnetic because they're you, like you can't be anybody but you. So, how do you amplify that in a way that isn't just noise, but it attracts your right person and it gives you an outlet that you've you want to lean into. You're not trying to create a persona to fit on social media, you're just doing what feels natural to you and having confidence in that.

SPEAKER_00:

I feel like there's some sort of mass awakening happening, especially on TikTok. Everyone's just waking up to the bullshit and we've just had enough of it, and the world is heavy and everything kind of sucks. And I just feel like we're just at this breaking point where it could go one way or the other, and I don't know which way it's gonna go, but people are just longing for real connection in person. I'm already sick of the AI shit. Yeah, I used to consume a lot of the AI content, and now I'm just like, you know what, I can't be bothered. I can't be bothered learning a new program or playing around with it anymore because I just I want to go back to just watching real people talking about real things and trying to better our lives.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

I think that's the it certainly is a shift that I like. Like I I want to do in person. And this year we have in-person things in the pipelines, and we want to bring you that because it's so important to us, and we've wanted to do it for a long time, and everything's leaning towards that, just feeling right. And I think that's exciting because for a while it's like, do we, don't we, you know, the whole collective haven't really known what to do. Where I think it's it's at a point now where we're saturated, not saturated with online, but I don't know, maybe it's just that bullshit meter that we can see through it. We've been here for so long that people can see through it. And now it's time to just go, well, this is the me you see online, this is a me you get in real person. We're exactly the same. And those people that aren't the same may never do in-person events or you know, may continue the same, stay the same. I don't know, but there's certainly a shift that happened the end of the year, and I can definitely see it coming now.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and maybe it's to do with that, you know, year of the snake coming into year of the horse, we're all shedding all the bullshit, seeing through it all, getting rid of that, and we're ready to just charge on in this new, I don't know, new earth. Like people are quitting their jobs in masses, they don't want to climb the corporate ladder anymore. They're sick of all the bullshit, they're seeing through all the politics and all the crap. And it's I think we're coming into a place where we're gonna see a lot more entrepreneurs because of AI, and you know, realizing that your freedom and your happiness uh is worth a lot more than climbing a corporate ladder and making someone else rich. And well, hey, wait, wait a minute. Now I can do that myself. I don't need a team of 50 and 100 grand to start a business anymore. I can literally do it on my phone in two seconds, and I think it's gonna be exciting, but I think we're just gonna have to be careful what we consume online because I can feel a lot of content getting heavy, and so I find myself searching for things that are just light, yeah, funny, light, yeah. I'm not so I don't I'm I'm I always am gonna enjoy learning, but I'm finding myself not wanting to consume too much information at the minute.

SPEAKER_04:

No, neither.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, just yeah AI is everywhere. We can get content at any second about absolutely anything. And it's kind of like to me, it kind of feels like certainly if I don't know if this is a millennial thing, but like it feels like we all want to just go back to how it was and kind of shut that door and be like, you know what? We'll be back soon. We're just popping out for a while. See in five minutes, like it feels like that. Like I really just want to go back to that kind of time where you couldn't get information quickly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm just gonna go buy one of those wall phones and just you know, dull, dull a number and just chat. I actually saw a girl um, she did a TikTok the other day. I think she's doing a bit of a series where she didn't edit or just didn't do anything, just hit record and just spoke. No cutting out a filler words, no editing, no nothing. And I found myself just watching her, just slowing down and watching her. Um so you know, maybe that's where things are heading too. Yeah. We're slowing down and seeing through the bullshit.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. Yeah, I think it's gonna be, and part of that excites me to think what the year will bring because things have changed. So I think that's good. So, you know, for the over the Christmas and new year, and we're just starting this potty out, start of Jan. It's I don't feel like I have this like, oh my god, these are my goals and ambitions, and here's all my like I don't feel like that. I don't want to be like that. I want to be like, you know what? I'm here for it. I'm here for just taking some challenges that I know are gonna be big, but I'm also gonna say, fuck it, let's try again and again.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. It's almost like the universe has got my back. You know what? We're all on a floating rock, who cares?

SPEAKER_03:

And and we've got we've we know what works, we're good at what we do. Now we just gotta trust that continuously and support the incredible creators in our world that are gonna do some pretty awesome shit.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and even s like some of the women in our evolution container, they're doing in-person workshops and events, and that gets me excited, just thinking of what they're doing and where it's all going. So I think it's gonna be a big year of going back to our roots.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Just like living in the 90s again. Yeah. Good times. Did I send you that TikTok, that lady, she's bringing apple and peanut butter out to the backyard with her kid, and she's like, right, we're pretending that it's the 90s today, all right? I'm gonna put this food here and I'm not gonna see you until the sun goes down. Where's your brother? I don't know. Good. That's how it is.

SPEAKER_03:

It's so true because like I was thinking about it, because you know, it's obviously school holidays and the kids have been great. At the end of the day, they have actually been really good. Yeah, but I was like, I don't remember like being like four centimetres from my mum at all times going, what are we doing? Mum, what are we doing? What are you doing now? What are we doing? Should we do this? Like, I mean, I don't know if it's we had a pool, so maybe she was like swim shot.

SPEAKER_00:

My mum was working, so uh I don't know where I was, PCYC or something.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I know, like it's one of those things that it's kind of like I think as a whole, we put all this extra pressure on us to like be the mum, do the thing, do the job, make the money, make everybody else happy and all these things. And when you're failing at one of them, you think you're failing at all of them. But when we kind of do go back to the 90s and go, hang on a minute. And my mum would have just been like, I don't know, make your own breakfast. What yeah, where I'm like, Who wants this? Who wants that?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, totally, yeah. And I think, you know, I hope that's where things are going back to as well. And just yeah, like we I find this very strange. We gave our kids a Wii for Christmas, just an old Wii that was been in the cupboard for 20 years. Yeah, and they loved it and you know, played with it for a week or two, and they're over it. They haven't touched it. And I'm like, that's strange. They've been out the back on the trampoline, playing under the hose, and I'm like, this is good. Yeah. I I thought that they were just gonna get addicted to it and I would have had to fight them and do all that stuff. That's why we delayed it for so long. But I'm like, fuck, that's good.

SPEAKER_03:

And I also think part of that, and we're the same, like as you guys, is part of that is we haven't given them anything else. So my kids got the wing too, just before because we found in our shippy container. And because it's not as like what do you call it, like animation and it's not as perfect and everything like that, it feels old school. So it feels like cool, we've played that game, right? We're done. And then they'll go outside and they've been in the pool and all that kind of stuff, and then they'll come back in and they'll do that. Like it's it's just really trying to get them. And I also bought this. Oh my god, here's an ADHD moment because I'm just I'm just no scroll. For Christmas, we also got just thinking about the things that they can do. We got them this, it cuts cardboard, but it looks like a wood saw, like you put the cardboard through it. Oh man. I think that's all the ads for that. It's called the munchy something, it's fucking amazing. So, watch out, craft mum over here, 10 out of 10.

SPEAKER_00:

This thing gets a saw out, a jigsaw out.

SPEAKER_03:

But like they've been they've been cutting all these things and they've been creating all this stuff, and like because we've got so much cardboard from Christmas, and so I just see this like, oh great, we're making something else.

SPEAKER_00:

Next thing they're cutting up the plants and the buddy.

SPEAKER_03:

So that's been wholesome. So I think going back to that is, and also um with how we run the business and our 2026, I feel like both of us are at a point now where it's like, I feel like a way, like there's pressure because we want it to work so badly. There are moments where I'm like, you know, this has just got to continuously keep working and pushing, and you know, but then at the same time, I'm slowly kind of just going, hang on a minute, it already works. So you just keep doing the same thing and just keep meeting more incredible people, and like it's it's a different feeling than I've had most starts of years, which has been like, okay, I have to have this, and this is my year, and this is the year I'm gonna be this, and it's kind of like no, it's not a bad thing either.

SPEAKER_00:

It's just uh yeah, it's like that continuously wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, the next income goal, the next all this sort of stuff. And yeah, maybe it's that collective awake awakening where we're just like I just want to be at home without any stress, the bills are paid, I'm making me bread in the bread maker, and I'm happy and I'm growing me one tomato and I'm nom nom nom nom nom nom that I think that like consumerism always wanting more, more, more, more, more. I don't know. I'm just sort of a bit over yeah, continuously wanting.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. Yeah, no, I think that's it. And it's now for me definitely in person, like just get me around people. I'm ready for it. Yeah, I'm ready for that.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

So if you are, we'll get into the word of the year, we may as well, because we've taken this long to get there. Why not? So if you've never done this before, it is something we do every year that we have done for the last couple of years. And for us, a word of the year is basically an anchor point, right? It's that that point that just keeps you pulled back. It keeps you just every time you go a little bit this way, you kind of think of that word of the year and it pulls you back in line. And it and it doesn't have to be, you know, you don't pick a word of the year, don't put stress on it. Like just find something that you just keep saying or feeling. And I I know with the word of the year I've chosen, I just kept saying it. And I kept, every time something happened, I wanted more of this word. And it just kept coming back to me. I was like, that's my word of the year. Like in other years, I've struggled and I've thought, oh, what do I want? And they've been very hustle culture kind of words, which is nothing wrong with that. I've I've lived my hustle culture years, I've been doing this online since. Stuff for over 10 years now. So it's one of those things that this year the word of the year just is a reminder. It's a constant thought-provoking thing, keeps you on track, allows you just to keep centered in a way. I don't know. It's just I've really enjoyed doing it. And I think every year we've had our word of the year. And last year our word of the year was fuckus. Not fucker. Facus. Both fuck it and focus. Yeah, well, we did a lot of fuck it. Focus. And it's funny because when I was thinking about it before, and we were talking to the evolutioners about it, it was a word that at first I was like, I don't know if we stuck to focus. But then when we started talking to them about it and unpacking it, we really did in terms of every so often we went to go off track and we both said, hang on a minute. No, we gotta focus. We've got to focus. And because we did focus, we had$30,000 weeks. Like we did that. And we did that several times. And if we hadn't have focused, I don't think we would have. So it's not that that word made and breaked everything and that was the reason. But I do believe that that word just stopped us from doing a few things that we'd usually roguely do.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Did we? I think I think what in combination with the word focus, which is why we had some really huge launches, is that we went back to we really listened to our intuition for the first time in a while because we were so focused on strategy and gotta do this, and the guru says to do that, and this and that and this and that. And we kind of lost ourselves. And so when we really pulled everything back and just I don't even what provoked us to do this, we just went, you know what? We gotta go with our gut on this one. Intuition. We changed our launch halfway fucking through and we're rogue as fuck, and that was one of our biggest launches ever. Yeah. Yeah. And so intuition with a bit of focus can do some pretty cool things.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. And I think that's what that word of the year is so good for, is that yeah, like you say, it just keeps you on track. But we really we did listen to our intuition and we did lean into it, and thank God we did, because it's it's allowed us to now step into the multi-brilliant project, which is one of our incredible communities that allows entrepreneurs who are a little neurospicy to realize that you don't have to have a linear path for success. You can create your success in a path that ain't linear, and we've done it. And we love to share how that's possible and to support you in going, you haven't failed. It's just a different way of doing things. And I think that's where that whole word focus for me originally when I thought about, I was like, oh, we really did, maybe we did lose focus, but then we didn't because it's it's always been our calling. We were just brave enough to lean into it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. And like we've got the blueprints and the how-tos and the strategies and everything. But I think inside our community, we really focus on uh allowing our students and community members to lean more into their intuition as well. As well as just worrying about consuming the information and the tactics and all the things. Because when you do that, that that's when the magic happens. That's when it feels easy, that's when it lights you up. And I think coming into 2026 and our new words of the year, um I think it's just gonna solidify the fact that yes, you just gotta go with your gut. Especially now in this world of AI where information is everywhere.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Go with your gut.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. And so what's your word of the year gonna be, Mia, for 2026? What's gonna be your anchor point? My little anchor point.

SPEAKER_00:

Mine has a little two ways to it. It's a little bit strategy, but also a little bit fuck it. My word of the year is launch. And we launch, we get better at it every time we do it. We enjoy it more when we go with our gut.

SPEAKER_03:

And we're raging live launches. Like, if you want live launch training, y'all want to come to us because we live launch like motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_00:

We love a live launch. I don't think we've ever done, I think we did an evergreen for a little while. We're like, nah, it's just doesn't hasn't got the feel to it. Nah, we're live.

SPEAKER_03:

And like even in our live launches, we've held people on live launches, like 20 odd people, 30 people. We had 40 people once in a live launch for two hours. Yeah, we've heard gurus talk about the fact they can't hold people for longer than 40 minutes. Two hours.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, they're like, you got to pitch, you know, before the 60-minute mark, and web's still babbling two hours on, and people are still there. And that comes back to intuition as well. Like you just have to be you and it just all comes out. And so we love launching. And I think when we first started launching, it was it was tough and it was hard, and there was so much to do, and that's when we were sort of really heavily leaning on the strategy. But I enjoy it more and more the more we just lean into what what we feel and what we want to do. So launching in that sense is gonna be my focus of the year or my word of the year, but also launching myself as a person into 2026. 40 in a couple of weeks, feel 28. Don't look at what I feel 48. Fucking bitch. Um, and yeah, I'm just gonna fucking launch myself into my 40s because the more I think about the world and how it is, like floating rock, no one knows what they're doing. I'm just gonna launch my shit into the world and not think twice about it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and oh my god, you know, a great point to put to this, and it's a TikTok that I sent you because it fucking hit me like a ton of bricks.

SPEAKER_05:

Which one's it?

SPEAKER_03:

Is it said that in three generations' time, no one you won't be known.

SPEAKER_00:

So if you think about it, my kids, kids, kids, kids, your kids.

SPEAKER_03:

They won't fucking know me. They won't know me, they won't care. They'll know, like, oh, that great Nana Kristen. They'll know your like family tree or your genetics or something. And then I was thinking about my family, and I'm like, yep, I know my nana. I didn't know her mum. Yep, couldn't tell you. And that, like even now I've got goosebumps, that fucking hit me. So why I was like, Yeah, here we are going like, I don't know if we should launch. Oh, what should we say? Oh, I don't know if I should create that piece. No, no one gives a fuck.

SPEAKER_00:

No one, literally, no one. Yeah. Yeah. Like, and so why not just launch your fucking shit? Launch the idea. It fails, who gives a fuck? Launch the piece of content, launch, just launch it, launch yourself, launch your real, true, authentic self into the world. We're gonna be swarmed with all this AI content. So your personal brand is gonna be fucking everything, and people are gonna see through the bullshit. So yeah, just launch yourself.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep, love it. I love that. That'll be on your computer.

SPEAKER_00:

Launch. And I do love me launch numbers and everything, so I know your number girl.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. And what's yours? My word of the year this year is very different from me. Like I said before, I have done a lot of hustle words in my time. Um, and I feel like I'm constantly hustling, and that's where every year I get to this. I'm like, yeah, what's my fucking, yeah, what's my word? And this year, my word is joy. Just give me joy. Like I just want, and it's the kind of joy that I want to make decisions based on does it make me happy?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Like not does it get you the right numbers, not does it get this certain income, doesn't make you happy. Does it make me happy?

SPEAKER_03:

And like, you know, even decisions and the word of the year doesn't have to just be about business, it can be in your life. So if you know, if there's things that my husband's like, hey, um we should all go to the family, we should go to the fucking bunnings together, because like we should. Like, we're on the yes girls, like, yeah, let's go as a family. We're really I'm like, I'd actually just like to sit here and create some TikToks, to be perfectly honest, or read a book, or go for a run. So it's like little things, it's kind of that permission sip to also say no to things that don't light you up.

SPEAKER_00:

Life's too short to just do shit you don't want to do.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and I just think you know, business can feel really heavy, and we work so hard, and we love what we do, but I want to make sure that I've got the joy to give to people because I'm also enjoying myself. Like it's that kind of just I just want things to be fucking fun. You know?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and people feed off that, and you know, when you are joyful in your business and in your life, then it you're a magnet to more joy.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah. And I think leading with that, I think we've you know, both as a partnership, we've always brought joy to our community and things like that. But it's more just being the word that is that anchor point that's that I don't know, does it bring me joy? Not really. I don't want to do it then. Cool.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, it's fun. Little permission slip, if you will. I like it.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, we should join joy do a joy launch. Next minute I'm setting up setting up a funnel for a joy launch. Meh meh. It sounds kind of great. It's joy launch. Um a little bit. It's a massage parlor. You want happy ending? Oh isn't there a golden shower? No, it's not. You see that Instagram story I put up when I was in Singapore? I was just looking for some massage joints around just because we got delayed in our flights. And the only one I could find was a prostate massage. Oh no, right. Yep.

SPEAKER_03:

Not today, thanks. Not today. Not today. Oh, so that is our word of the year. We have launch and we have joy. And so we would love you to jump on the socials, let us know your word of the year. We'll probably post these on there. So let us know because sometimes when you put it out to the universe, it comes back. And while we're here, I will tell you the word of the year from our incredible evolutioners so far. These are just some that are on the call. I had some good ones. So we have, hey, I had some good ones, they had some great ones. So we had structure, focus, intentional intuition, two words, but I'll I'll let it slide. Building, change, intuition again. There's a bit of intuition focus. We had kiss, but that was a is it a synonym?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, let's just go with that. Synonym. Sure.

SPEAKER_03:

Synonym is not a noun. I don't even know what they are. So cool. But kiss is keep it spiritually simple, which I loved because it's a nice alignment with her. And then health was a big one, which I think is very important to all of us. And these are some of the words. So they were some of the words from our evolutionists that were there on the call. And it was just really good to hear them. And now we get to kind of help reflect back with them on that and celebrate those words and be an anchor for when they kind of go a little sideways. We can also be that anchor. So that's really cool. Very cool. So tell us your word of the year in the socials. But for now, have we got a love, don't love to really start out the year?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, sure. Why not? We are not prepped, but let's do it. Why not? I mean, don't love currently uh is the hot weather. I feel like I've said this in a prior don't love, but it's 40 degrees in Melbourne today. I believe the same in Adelaide. Fucking hot, and I don't do hot at all. Singapore was horrific for me, but I contained my heat rage quite well, I think. But yeah, I'm not going outside today, so that's me, don't love uh me do love, well me don't love is that my puzzle that I started is out on the back deck in the heat, and my love is puzzles. I haven't done a puzzle for 30 years. Pulled one out, just started doing it, and I'm loving it. My brain I love you.

SPEAKER_04:

I don't love that for me at all.

SPEAKER_00:

I didn't think I would love it either, but now I'm obsessed with finishing it. I just wanted to finish it, and when I do it, my brain switches off. I don't think about anything else except for finding the next fucking piece, and when I can't find it, I'm just like, oh, I'm not leaving until I get it in there.

SPEAKER_03:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

And so that's been my meditation for the last couple of weeks. Puzzles.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, that's good. Yeah. Because I'm glad someone enjoys puddles. My my uncle's a raging puzzle-aholic, and he does like the thousand piece puzzles, and I'm like thousand.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's why it's incredibly frustrating. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

The thought of that makes me like physically sick. You gotta have a wine while you do it. Like, let's not go too crazy. No, I couldn't handle it anyway. That's not my that's not my love. That's my don't love. Yeah, paper pots. I could do that. That's fine. I can handle that. Oh, dear me. What are yours? Well, look, my don't love is that my dog's not well. Oh, dicks. So Dixie Dog is she'll be 17 on the 4th of February. That is a stellar effort, by the way. 17 for a dog is I know, right. And she is just a trooper. So she got a little bit of a heart problem. We've given her some medication and it's come quite good. But we did find out she has a tumour somewhere near her heart, but it's very little. So look, she's come good. We thought we didn't know Christmas was even gonna make it, to be honest. So it's been just a roller coaster because I didn't realise how much we loved her and I like fully obsessed with her. Oh, you don't realise until they're gone, and it's like, what the hell? And seeing my husband upset like that. Oh yeah. When a man cries, you're like, holy shit. I know, and he was like, and I was like, and then I had to be like the stable one. I was like, how is this even a thing? I think in crisis I'm okay. Yeah. Um, so look, that's that's my don't love because I know it's not far. Yeah. But look, she's lived a fucking I know, she's a pod dog, lived a fucking good life. Um, and right now she's a pod dog in the corner and is happy. So we're just we're just loving her every second with us right now. Um my love, however, which will hundred thousand percent be your don't love, is um well, that's part of it. I was watching a TikTok, um, as you do, and somebody was talking about this lady who has got a YouTube channel. Her name is, I don't have my phone here, but Caroline Garvan, I think. I will find it out and put it in the show notes. She does an iron six-week weights challenge on her YouTube. It is all free, and it's six weeks, uh six weeks long. And there's I'm up to a 17, I'm up to the 17 one, 17 session, and it's 35 minutes. It's all weights training. It's enough. Like I've got a bit of weights at home at home gym. It's fucking amazing. Love it. So you know what?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, yeah, that's good. Tracy from Sexy Aging sent me, she's doing a challenge too for her menopause app as well. So we'll link that in the show notes too.

SPEAKER_03:

Which I've always been in my strength theory. I I love weights, always have loved weights. Um, I should have uh TikTok a while back because my best friend, when I was at school, I used to row. Um, I was a rower, and I was I had very strong, I have very strong legs, and she used to call me the Sherman Tank because I was built like a Sherman tank, and I was really strong and really fit. And so I was built like a Sherman tank, which is great when you're 16, that's what you want to be called. But I embraced that my entire life. But she used to play volleyball, and so I called her the septic tank.

SPEAKER_01:

Just because she was like all whimsical, and so we just used to walk around that was our nickname for each other, the Sherman Tank and the Septic Tank. I was in that kind of girl group at school that just we give zero fucks, but we just love each other so much. Loose.

SPEAKER_00:

If like if I was to do exercise religiously, it would be lifting heavy shit. Like I used to be a gymnast, believe it or not, like full-on regional training six days a week. Like I had an eight-pack is insane. I was just strong, really strong. Little fucking strong. You were a shaman tank as well. I was a tanker, yeah. Yeah. Put me in the cross-country team. No fucking way. I'm not running. You get fucked.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, I don't mind running, but I don't love it. I'd rather do like boxing and I like running for the mental release. I just feel like I don't love running for like I just like love to run every day. My body's not built to run. I'm a tank, as I said. But yeah, so get a I mean, if you want to get around it, I'll put the link to it in the show notes because it has been amazing. And it's one of those ones that I'm not good at sticking to things either. But when it comes to fitness, I'm pretty good if I like it. And then I I've I make up my own routines outside of that because I just like that. But yeah, 100% love it. Really good. Yeah. That's it. We'll link it. Fuck off. This is the end of the show. I would like us to bring the word cunt back into this. Like, can we bring that into our podcast? We say all the time, if it offends you, I'm sorry. You can maybe leave us a side note, give us a little bit of guys, that's on my favorite, but me and I use it all the time because we have fun cunts.

SPEAKER_00:

And don't listen to it in the oh, it's funny the other day. I was listening to one of your voice messages in the car the other day, and the boys are in the back. Don't do that. Don't do that. He can eat a fucking bag of dicks. He's just lost it.

SPEAKER_05:

And they're like, ah, fucking bag of dicks.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm not even gonna stop this.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I've learned not to listen to our voice messages on loud speaker. It's always in my ear, my ear pods or when I'm alone.

SPEAKER_00:

So they learnt a new word. Fucking baggy dicks. Not sad about that one.

SPEAKER_01:

Doesn't surprise me at all. No, no. Oh, well, that is a fabulous way to wrap up our podcast for 2026. Actually, we're not wrapping it up, we're just the start. Fucking shut up.

SPEAKER_00:

I want you into it.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, great word of the year. Let's go. Alrighty. But you can podcast. So many good ones, too.