New Year, New Energy: Words That Transformed Us in 2024 and What’s Next

Welcome back to Soul Talk for the Seekers—and Happy New Year! 🌟 As we step into 2025, Ashlie and Jaclyn reflect on the transformative power of choosing a word for the year.

We dive into:
✨ How our 2024 words ("Voice" and "Authenticity") guided us—even when we forgot them!
✨ The profound lessons we uncovered by peeling back layers of old programming.
✨ Our bold 2025 words ("Unity" and "Slow") and the expansive energy they bring into this new chapter.
✨ Practical steps to embody your Word of the Year and amplify your personal growth.

Plus, Ashlie shares exciting news about her Stop Manifesting, Start Reality Shifting course and how it can revolutionize your mindset for 2025. Grab this here https://www.ashlieallen.com/offers/7Np6JnYr/checkout
 
Whether you’re a seasoned reality shifter or just starting your journey, this episode will inspire you to align with your purpose and take charge of the new year.

Let’s make 2025 a year of transformation, connection, and intentional growth. Keep seeking, and we’ll see you next week! 💫

You can find Jaclyn @ www.jaclynkaminskibodyandsoul.com
Follow me on Instagram or Facebook @jaclynkaminskibodyandsoul

You can find Ashlie @ www.ashlieallen.com
Follow me on TikTok @inspiredashlie or Instagram @ashliealleninspired

Transcript

0:04

Welcome to Soul Talk for the Seekers podcast and channel. I'm Ashley Allen. And I'm Jacqueline Kaminsky. We're two intuitive soul sisters joined by synchronicity and spirit here to dig in. We want to invite you along on our journey where anything may come up, but if you consider yourself a seeker, you're in the right place.

Jaclyn: 0:33

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to Soul Talk for the Seekers. Happy New Year, everyone. I can't believe we are officially in 2025. Um, and that got Ashley and I thinking, which is kind of funny. Um, we had said 2024 Word of the Years. Back in, obviously, last January, last December, right, a year ago, um, I had, like, declared one, right, and I was like, yes, And then I completely forgot about that word and actually forgot that I even said it so much so that I was like, Oh, let me go scroll through social media to see what my actual word was. That's how I found out what my word was. What's your Instagram? So there's that. So yeah, so today we're going to be talking all about. Um, kind of like looking back on 2024, reflecting our word and you know what I mean? How, even though we forgot, we even had one, how it was so very aligned and our word for 2025 and kind of the energy that we are really aligning to for this year. So let's kick it off with our 2024 word and what happens? I don't know, Ash, if you wanna start or you want me to start your call,

Ashlie: 1:58

uh, it doesn't matter to me. Um, I can, I can start. So it's funny, I'm, I'm, I'm happy to know that you found your word when you went and looked. I did not. So, but, but it didn't matter because. It became abundantly, abundantly clear to me, um, what the theme was pretty, I would say it probably was early on that the theme was a theme, but I didn't realize what it was until, you know, it kept hitting me in the face multiple times over. And I realized it finally by August, August, September, but for me, the word or the theme, if you will, was all about voice. Which, go figure, we launched a podcast, we, you know, there's, there's a lot of stuff that we did. Um, it wasn't about the podcast launching though, it wasn't about that for me. For me, it was about really listening to what my voice was. What did I actually think about XYZ? I had this big realization that I had been, I'd really taken a lot of pride in being someone that could go anywhere and have fun, go anywhere and, um, and. And really have a good time. I be a diplomat, you know, like, Hey, if we're not getting along, great. I love, I love problems. Let's solve them together. Let's figure it out. But sometimes what I realized what happened is that I would lose my voice in the whole thing. And I would listen to how everybody else felt first. How does everybody feel? What is everybody thinking? And I would use that to then calibrate my own thoughts. I am no longer doing that. And there's so much that I was able to really walk away from by not listening to everybody else first and then figuring out what I needed or wonder what I was going to do. Um, and that was hard. That was very hard. When you've been doing that for your entire life, literally the program is, is, It's so intense. It's there. Right. And, and I thought that I had started walking away from that years before this last year, by the way. Like I thought that, that my people losing tendencies had reduced greatly. And they had, but they did. They totally did. Right? They did. They did. They did. It's just

Jaclyn: 4:24

the layers,

Ashlie: 4:25

right? Were

Jaclyn: 4:25

peeling

Ashlie: 4:26

the layers. Exactly. Peeling the layers. And this was maybe the most, um, deep rooted layer for me. And I released the layer that was tied to Am I going to lose friends over this? Am I going to, am I going to be relatable? I think that's the big thing. Like, am I going to be relatable? You know what? Sometimes I'm just not, it's not always going to be a thing. And that's, that's all right. Cause I'm listening to whatever. The inner wisdom that I have in my voice that comes through is now. And so that was my theme for 24, but yeah, so no, I couldn't remember the word, but it was just a resonant thing that occurred. And what's cool about it is it has created a jumpstart into this year that I feel I've been waiting years for.

Jaclyn: 5:16

Yeah. Oh my God. So like this 2025 is. So freaking expansive, um, for both of us. I love that. I love it. Love it. Love it. I'm so excited. Okay. What's

Ashlie: 5:30

yours? I want to hear.

Jaclyn: 5:31

So my word for 2024 was authenticity. So it's interesting because I always felt like I was showing up as authentic as I possibly could. I'm Um, but I definitely had programming that was subconscious, right? I had a lot of beliefs. A lot of it was subconscious that I didn't necessarily know. Um, that was there. So I really wasn't being authentic, right? Like I was acting and being the person who was really, um, in my, like, shit of my, like, limiting beliefs and all of that. Um, and what I loved about it was I, in 2024, I did so much work, right? Like the quantum Akashic record healing work that I did was, insane. Um, I released so much that I had been trying to for years. Um, that I, I just, but I, I, I didn't know how to get there and I couldn't get there. I really was like, I feel like I have these blocks and I just don't know what they are. Um, and I try to be authentic, but I just don't feel like I was being authentic. And that really did, um, open up so much. So, and what made me really realize it was, was how by me being so authentic, how that really was mirrored back to me. Um, oh, I love everyone else. In my life, where they felt safe enough to really shine there like where they're at. And, and let me state that I did so much healing work on myself and it raised Everyone around me. And when I say everyone, I am saying my husband, my children, my family, and like all of them, even to the point where my mother just said to me, Oh my God, are you working with so and so in the family? Because It sounds like you have been and I'm like, no, but I've been doing so much work on the line that of course, of course that would happen. Um, and so like, it's freeing me, but it's freeing everyone else around me. And that has been the most, honestly, the most magical piece to it all. Um, but like, even my co workers. I've realized. Because I was right like we all know I have a corporate job and so for years and I, as you'll know this, I kept that both of those lives very separate. Um, I felt like I had to, I don't know, be somebody else when I was there, even though I was still very much me, but, but not right. Like I, I was a watered down version. Um, and now I don't, I really don't give a fuck. There is no watered down version. Um, I always was, I kind of all of me, but now I'm like, so fucking embodied in it. And so, um, like my team of women, all of them, like even watching them like elevate and like the conversations, it is insane. And I love every single second of it because it's literally just pulling, like, it's just the mirroring. Like I just, um, authenticity was like so huge and so healing. Like, I finally feel like I, um, I can really like show up and do that. I also, I'm going to say I always, so just kind of like what you even said, I, I always feel like there's deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. And I don't ever think we will fully achieve right once. I think we have our last breath. Yes, we've achieved it. But up until that point, like I really do think, right, you can always go deeper and deeper and deeper because it's limitless, endless. amounts of, right, authenticity, right? And I agree with yours. Like, I don't think, but I love that we get to keep going deeper and deeper and deeper into it even more. Um, I love that.

Ashlie: 10:04

I also, I can attest to what you're saying about like being your friend and, and hearing the stories and, and also honestly hearing your family on the other line when we'd be talking and. I, I, while you say, yes, this happened, like, yes, it did happen. I saw it happen with your family. I think it's interesting because we had like some correlations there with, I think voice authenticity have like so much in relation to them. Um, and I think you said something that is super important. It's like, the more we can get on board with our own authenticity, our own voice. The more it frees others to do the same and to do it more fully. And I think that's the point of it all. It's not about relatable, unrelatable, how you're seeing, how you're not seeing like that part actually can fall away. And I think that's the point is that you, you aren't caught up in how would that perceived and, and I. I have, um, and, and last year was hard. It's so funny that

Jaclyn: 11:05

like our words were basically like we called them something different, but in the end they were really the same. That just occurred to me now, which makes me laugh because of course it is, it

Ashlie: 11:16

is makes me laugh too. And it's, and it's also not, yeah, not surprising. Um, but, but yeah, I'm, I'm excited for this year. I don't know about you. Last year was very hard and, and I felt like there was lots of, For me personally, lots of internal churn and obstacle and fighting like, like literally fighting and healing and, and just the internal churn was wild. I felt like I had to go hermit more than anything because I, I didn't know, you know, in the process of finding the voice and moving into that place, I had to, I mean, things have to get difficult before they can get easy, you know, they don't have to, but, but I think that's the, um, that's a lot of times the process is you feel real, you feel muddy before anything can be clear. You

Jaclyn: 12:02

got to feel the shit, right? Because if you do not feel it, you are not healing it. It's, it's got to release somehow, right? If you don't have, it doesn't have to take long, but you got to feel it to release it. And that was definitely something I would totally agree with you. I, um, right. I spent probably eight months of last year, like deeply, deeply, deeply in the work. And like, there was times like I stopped working on my business altogether for months because I was just like, I physically couldn't like I was so in my shit and healing my shit that I did not care I was like, no, like, like, let's go right you know me I'm like I'm always the one like let's get in the ring let's go I like to face my shit, and I did, and it was triggering and. Shitty, and all of the things, but it was also beautiful as fuck, and like, so amazing on the other end, um, and led me to write, like, I, it was funny, because my word for, um, even like, Last year, a lot of what I plan on creating obviously all came out of last year, right? Like the downloads were crazy and I loved every single one of them and, um, it, I love that it really did also like help foster my word for 2025. So, and it was like, not even a process, like my word for 2025 just dropped in, landed and I was like, of course, that's what it is. It would be nothing like that.

Ashlie: 13:47

I love it so much. Let's hear, let's hear your word for 25, because I think it really kind of that, that what token 24 leads to 25. And I want to know what it, what the, what it equaled for you when you

Jaclyn: 14:01

got to it. So my bird for 2025 is unity. Um, and I chose unity because it really is more than right. Like, I don't mean just togetherness. Um, it's about this deep soul level, knowing that everything, every person, every experience, every single moment is connected. Um, it's the realization, like, we're not just individuals walking through life separately. We really are all a part. Right of this like intricate cosmic. I really don't like the word tapestry, but that's where I'm going to go with it because I don't know what else to call it. Um, but when I think about unity, it's not really like losing my individuality at all. So I don't, um, because it's not, but it is kind of like stepping beyond the me into the way because we really are all one. And. We are all one, but we also have our, like, right, unique expression and that part that we were kind of like even just talking about before, um, is that even though we are all one, we all have our own, right, like, unique gifts and our own, like, unique puzzle pieces to be part of the same puzzles. Or, like, we're all a part of a river that ends up into the big ocean, right, like, that makes it all. All work together in the most beautiful way. But like, I've realized so much so that like unity, um, every single right, like thought, feeling, emotion, everything that's in us, we are, that's our frequency. That's what we are admitting to the, like, we're admitting that out into the world. So to me, it's, it's like, I really just want to send out, truly, with like my whole heart, like, nothing but love to everyone, and I mean everyone, and I mean the murderer, and I mean like, and I've always meant that, but like, I feel so much deeper in that, like, we are all of the things, we can find every single thing in me, we find everyone, right? And it's, it's losing the um, The separation of it all

Ashlie: 16:33

is

Jaclyn: 16:34

really probably. So yeah, I do. And it's really just embodying unity for me even more. It's really just seeing the connection instead of division and with everything too. That's not just with others. That's with like nature with the universe. Um, to me it feels very much like blending not overpowering. I also feel, um. Right. It's aligning. It's not competing, but I love about the energy. And when I really, really feel into it, it's like knowing that we get to be like every single person's win is my win. And like that feeling. feel so good to be able to be like, fuck yes, you did that. Oh my God. And it's like me doing it too, right? It's just such a, Oh, I just, I really, I just love it. I can go on and on. I just keep talking about it, but I just am like, yes. And the way I'm really, it's like, I'm just going to continue to do more and more like with me and be, and right. Get like, Right. Obviously continue to keep my energy first and foremost, knowing that by doing that, it is going to help raise, right. The consciousness of those around me and continue on and on, but I also do have other things like all of my offerings this year are going to line up perfectly and are so very much unity focused.

Ashlie: 18:04

I love that so much. I love what you said about the competition thing. So, um, you and I in our previous lives. Meaning this one, um, have been known to be competitive. Right? And, and I took pride. I took pride in it. Like, oh my God, yes. Are you kidding? Love a comp are same. I love a competition. I love one, I love one. I love when there's nothing. And, and I saw the competition with myself the biggest, but I'm not gonna lie to you. There would be times where I'd be like, dang it, they just got that. Dang it. And that would be my response when somebody else would win. I'm like, dang it. They just got that big thing or they just did the, and uh, I've noticed a change in myself where I don't feel that way at all anymore. Now, whenever anybody has something exciting happen. I own it differently, and I, and I love it. Even, it actually feels more momentum building to me than how I used to. Like I used to gain momentum from others winning and being like, Ugh, dang it. But, but I gain more momentum now when somebody else wins and I hear about it. I'm like, oh, that is so good for them. They so deserve it. That, yeah, that, that gives us all something to strive for and do. And, and I, it, it hits differently now. And, and so anyway, I have to, I have to say that and name that because. The old Oh my gosh, if I'm not number one, I'm dead.

Jaclyn: 19:28

Oh, same, same, right? Like I had to be number one at every single thing I did. And let me say to you, I have put that on my children and that is something, so it's, it's so funny, like it's something that I see in them all the time and I'm like, Fuck. I really wish I didn't do that, right? Like, because it's funny. They both took it very differently, right? Like perspective wise. And I'm always like, shit, there's one we're going to really have to work on and heal.

Ashlie: 19:54

It's, it's funny. I mean, I, I do, I do see it in. I see it in my daughter a little bit, but she's still so young that I'm like, you know what, we're just, she's moving for all of it. So it's, I'm not, I'm not too worried about it right now. And I'm not honestly not worried about anyway, because it's all, that's a part of the experience, right. Is to have things that we have to. So, so I think it's great. And you know, the other thing I think I need to say this, because for those of you out there that are listening, that you are competitive and you're like, no number one or bust. Um, so the cool thing is that when you release the need for the outcome, And you are in real alignment with you and what your purpose is and what you're doing. The winning comes naturally without having to, we all get to, and so I, you can still have the wild, crazy, stupid success. And not, you don't have to have that, that first kind of competitive vibe I was talking about in order to have that. And I, I think that's been a big lesson for me. That's been like, Oh no, like you actually, there's so much more to gain when you have the second, when you come into the second realization of what it can be like.

Jaclyn: 21:02

Oh yeah.

Ashlie: 21:05

I love it.

Jaclyn: 21:05

So why don't you go ahead now and share with us your word.

Ashlie: 21:10

Okay. So my word is interesting. Um, that word, the word isn't interesting. No, it's actually slow, slow. Okay. Interesting. It's not interesting. Well, it's going to be interesting. I can promise you that, but the word is slow and you might go, okay, well, but I was, I was doing actually a meditation that was, uh, I was inspired at the end of the year to do a course, uh, just a one hour. Kind of fast track course on how to, to reality shift because I'm obsessed with reality shift, you know, obsessed with it. And I thought, wow, I'm just going to do a course I'm into this. And so I was actually going back and listening to the meditation and while I was doing my own planning for 2025. And as a part of that meditation, you have to, you're in the future. You're, you're visualizing all the things that. You, you can, your wildest dreams happening and in that you have to grab what the energy is of what is required for those dreams to happen. You bring it back into your current body. You bring it back into your current self and, and you have to identify what that feels like. And when I was feeling all of that, all of those future things, just. Take over in my current self and my, in my, now it felt slow and strong and steady. It just felt slow and strong and steady and it felt, it felt consistent and just, and, and I love that for me because if you know me, I move fast. I move fast, fast, fast. I'm rushing in, I'm rushing out. I'm, I'm, And I'm not always doing that. I've really tried not to do that as much, but I still find myself, the default setting is fast for me. So I go into default and that's the setting. And, um, I really believe you, what you, what

Jaclyn: 22:57

I said, I definitely understand that.

Ashlie: 22:59

Yeah. It's like, Ooh, fast, fast, fast. Like, can you move? And, and I noticed I've taken on this slowness, just even in the one day that we've been in the new year. Yesterday was a slow day, and I, I got the most magical things done by being slow than I think I ever have gotten done by being fast. And I got the best ideas, I got the best, I actually moved faster by being slow. And, and so, it's contradictory as it sounds that, yeah, so that's my theme. I'm, I'm really owning a slowness this year. And it sounds like, It sounds odd, but I, I think it's going to be a magical word. And. Um, and being this for me, that is gonna, gonna be powerful for the year.

Jaclyn: 23:48

Totally. I actually say to my team all the time, I have, right, like going back to the corporate thing for a sec, because right, you're, you're the same way I was always the same way. It was like, you had to move so fast. Um, and I think that's like, we as women would wear it as like a badge of honor. And that was our fastest way of getting burnt out. And right. All of the things. Um, and I see it and I witnessed it every single day. So I say to them, one of the things I always say is I'm like, when we slow down, because right. Like our natural energy, when we slow down, that's been right. Like the divine downloads come in even more, the creativity flows, we get, we literally do more when we slow down. With less effort and flow, and it is, ugh, so yummy. So I love that that is your vibe this year. That is like, watch out, world, because Ashley's fucking coming. Very slowly, though. But it's so funny because it's slowly and potent as fuck because you get to move slow and it gets to be, right, like, super intentional, super big, really. It feels like such bigness.

Ashlie: 25:04

It feels like it's going to be a wild year. I'm really, I'm excited to take, I started with this a little bit, like I toyed with a play with a little bit of this at the end of last year and, but didn't fully own it yet. I was just sort of, it was like dipping your toe in the water, not like fully in. And, um, I'm excited to see how this impacts the team that I work with at work and my corporate job. In our, in our ability to be impactful. And I mean, I'm just, I'm pumped. I'm so, I'm so pumped because I feel like it's an opportunity for the meaningful change.

Jaclyn: 25:46

Yeah, I love that. I'm so excited.

Ashlie: 25:51

Yes. So, you know, I have to, I've got to say this because if you are in your planning stage for the year, you've got to go check out. I till, um, tomorrow, actually, um, I just launched a Stop Manifesting, Start Reality Shifting course. But they can take it at any time now. They can take it at any time and it's through, um, the Inspired Consciousness Academy, my new, uh, this is going to be really, this is an exciting part of your, uh, your journey. It's a really exciting way to start the year for me. But um, obviously, we'll

Jaclyn: 26:24

drop all the links and the notes so that you can go access it as well.

Ashlie: 26:30

Yes. And I actually, I just had somebody who completed it and they sent me an email last night. I'm going to read this too because it was. Oh, I love that. So, um, it's good. Um, wow. Ashley's reality shifting course was truly transformative. In just one hour, I was pushed to explore my inner blocks and gain clarity on how to move forward in 25. The session was both challenging and incredibly motivating. Thank you for such an impactful experience. I highly recommend this workshop to anyone looking to make meaningful changes in their life. So, so do it. You can actually name what you want to pay through tomorrow. So, um, I want this to be super just accessible for people to grab. So grab it, grab it now. Um, I had the most, the most fun time doing it. Oh my God. I felt like my, my soul was literally lit up the whole time. So I hope that that's flow, right? Yeah, that's flow. That is right

Jaclyn: 27:23

there. That is flow. The epitome of flow. Love it.

Ashlie: 27:27

Yes, and the guidebook I did yesterday while I was slow on January one is also a part of it and it gives you all the steps if you're like, I need to see it step by step person. So yeah, go, go check it out. I think this year is just, it's meant to be one that, Surprises us all in the ways we want it to though, right?

Jaclyn: 27:49

Yeah, you know what i'm gonna do and I actually invite everybody at home to do this as well And I invite you to do this ash. I'm gonna create a video Of myself talking to my future self one year from now and i'm gonna ready I'm gonna lay out all of the things like all of the things that I Want to have accomplished like in every single area of my life You And talk to my future self as if it's done and we did it, like, with that fuck yes vibe, you know what I mean? Like, yes! And I'm just gonna, just like, go into how I'm gonna do it, honestly, is I'm just gonna go into full fledged, like, channel mode of, like, Or you could, one can say, like, brain dumping mode of, like, you know what I mean? And just say all of the things, no matter what comes out. And then I I'm going to record myself listening to it and then being like, yes, I did that. No, I didn't. And like, right. And like, just see, right. Like what happens, where we go, all of the things. So I really do invite everyone to do that, but I'm totally doing it. And I think you should do.

Ashlie: 28:58

I think it's a great idea. And I, I've done that before, but it's been a while.

Jaclyn: 29:03

Oh, so I've never done that. So I am super excited. Like I've done, right, like I'll write stuff, but I lose my notebooks. But like this video, and I'm actually going to, because I don't want to forget, because let's be so for real, I'll forget that I even had it. So I'm going to have to like put it under something so that I remember. I love that. What a

Ashlie: 29:25

great idea. Everybody should go listen to it and do it. Oh my gosh. We are just buckle up for 25 people because it is gonna be a good one. Oh my gosh.

Jaclyn: 29:37

Oh yeah. I do think, I mean, I don't want to go into predictions of what I think is going to happen this year, but I also, it's going to be a fucking year of, yeah,

Ashlie: 29:48

I am excited. There's going to be a big motion and big. Um, and I think motion and

Jaclyn: 29:54

big emotion,

Ashlie: 29:56

big, big emotion. I also think that there's going to be a lot that's going to be presented to us. That's gonna, it'll either create, um, fear or promise of change. And I encourage everyone, I think it will start

Jaclyn: 30:11

with

Ashlie: 30:11

a lot of fear

Jaclyn: 30:12

and that's like our hope is that like people don't lean into the fear, you know, lean into the promise of change

Ashlie: 30:19

and into the faith of change. And I think that's what. As you think about what's possible this year, think about the faith for change and for positive change towards more of what we want to see. And when everything, when anything happens that doesn't create or form that, see it as a sign that that's what's next and give room for that being what's next.

Jaclyn: 30:39

Yeah, I'm so excited.

Ashlie: 30:43

So with that, I think that's probably a great place for us to close here. If you haven't done your 25 planning, just because it's the second doesn't mean it's too late. I think last year I did on the seventh or something. You can do whatever the hell you want. Do it in

Jaclyn: 31:02

December. No

Ashlie: 31:03

one, Matt, it does not matter. It doesn't do it whenever it hits you to do it, but go, go create it. So it doesn't create you. Okay. That's one thing that I think is important. Yeah, for sure. Get, get a start on it and let's, let's dig into 25 with a little bit of gusto. Why don't we? I love that. And keep seeking everyone. See you next week. Bye.

31:38

Thanks for hanging out with us. If you want to hang some more, you can follow us at Ashley Allen Inspired and Jacqueline Kaminsky Body and Soul. Until next time, keep seeking.