EP 146: What 2024 Taught Me About Resilience, Growth, and Letting Go

Welcome to Alive and Thriving, where we explore the deep inner work that drives sustainable, aligned success for soul-led entrepreneurs.

In this special end-of-year episode, I’m reflecting on 2024—not just the wins or the challenges, but the profound lessons my business has taught me about myself. Because your business isn’t just a vehicle for impact and income; it’s a mirror that reveals what needs healing, shifting, or celebrating within you.

Through my lens as a 6/3 Manifesting Generator and leader of The Embodied Success Movement, I’m sharing the moments that humbled me, strengthened me, and realigned me. This year reaffirmed that emotional mastery and alignment are the keys to thriving personally and professionally.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• The Power of Self-Leadership: Why being the first to go deep, heal, and shift creates the foundation for leading others.
• Alignment as a Non-Negotiable: How stepping away from my Human Design authority disrupted flow and how reconnecting restored clarity.
• Releasing Fear and Self-Doubt: The emotional blocks I’m leaving behind in 2024 and the expansive energy I’m taking into 2025.
• Introducing The Embodied Success Movement: A bold vision for a world where women lead from alignment and create businesses that honour their well-being.

This episode will inspire you to:

• Reflect on what your business has been teaching you about your own growth.
• Identify what you’re ready to release as you step into the new year.
• Align with the version of you who can hold and expand into your biggest vision.

Why This Episode Matters:
The new year is often about setting goals, but true transformation starts with acknowledging and accepting where you are. This episode is about lowering resistance, finding gratitude for your current journey, and creating space for new opportunities.

Listen to This Episode to Discover:

• The emotional lessons that shape sustainable, aligned success.
• How to trust the process and honour your unique path to growth.
• Why letting go of fear and self-doubt is essential for creating your next level.

Transcript

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Are you a soul centered entrepreneur ready to step into your power and create a life and business you love? Welcome to the Alive and Thriving podcast, where host Jessica and industry experts explore how your inner world fuels your outer success. Let's dive in and ignite the embodied leader you were meant to be.

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This year, my business has become my greatest teacher and it didn't just whisper to me. It shouted lessons that I needed to learn personally and professionally. It shouted fears that I needed to release and it shouted to me, the woman that I needed to become. And the biggest question throughout this year was, Did I actually listen, welcome back to a live and thriving. My name is Jessica. If you are brand new here, welcome as we close out the 2024. Yeah, I have been reflecting not only on what I've accomplished in my business. But actually what it has taught me about myself, and that is what I'm going to be sharing with you guys today, because let's be honest, our businesses are mirrors to our internal environment. And I share this with you all the time. If there is something not happening in your business that you want to be happening, you need to turn inward. And you need to look at what is, what energy am I bringing to this? Who am I showing up as? What version of myself am I showing up as? And what beliefs am I holding about this situation? How am I self leading? These mirrors reflect back everything that we need to see, even the parts that we're not yet ready to face. This year for me has been such a teacher. They all are. This year has been such a teacher. It has been humbling. It has been empowering. It has been transformational. It has been even more of a journey of self leadership, of growth, of letting go. So today I want to share with you My most powerful lessons that my business has taught me in 2024. I thought, how did I want to share this episode? I see a lot of people sharing their lessons their highlight reels of their year. And if you want to hear the highlights of my business, which I am so happy to share, let me know. I'll record an episode on it, but I'm going to share with you what my business has taught me because it is ultimately my growth. Is my business's growth is going to depend on my own and I would really encourage you as you do your reflections. I hope you're reflecting. Everyone's talking about reflecting at the moment. I know. I hope you are reflecting, though, because growth comes from reflections and I want you to, yes, reflect on all of your business statistics and your business challenges. I also want you to reflect on. What lessons these have taught you about yourself as you do this. I'm going to share with you today what I'm choosing to leave behind in 2024. And I'm going to share with you because my business has evolved. I have evolved. I'm so excited to share with you a renewed sense of purpose. That I'm taking into 2025. So by the end of this episode, you will understand the lessons that I have learned about self leadership, alignment and resilience. You will hear why I'm leaving fear and self doubt behind and how I am stepping into 2025 with this boldness and clarity and hopefully you will be inspired by the My updated upgraded new movement for my business. You might've heard me talk about a movement before. This is, my bigger purpose. This is the, what is this business here for? I know I am here as a human to help people have a healthy emotional experience. What is my business here for? I cannot wait to share my updated movement. And what this means for you. So grab a drink, grab a journal. If you want to, if you like to write down nodes and let's dive into these lessons. So the 1st lesson for me that I have learned this year is that self leadership is. Is the foundation this year really reminded me that I really do have to go first in everything that I'm doing. I really truly do. And I think a big part of that for me is my line six in my human design. I think that's always going to be something that is there for me. But also, as I grow as a leader and as I move my people forward, and as I sit here, even speaking to you, I really had to have gone first. I really, truly do. I want to speak to you, not from in the forest that I can't see through the trees. I want to speak to you from the other side and say, yes, you are in the forest right now, but here is how we can move through that. And I know because I've been there. Been there. I had to go there first. And that is something that I'm really always learning with myself. So when I am coming up against these challenges, and I've had a lot of personal challenges this year, a lot of things that have challenged me in my internal world that have then reflected in my business. And so as I'm coming up against these challenges, I have to constantly remind myself, I am being put through this to go through this first. Okay. And I will go through this, I will navigate my way, no matter what that looks like, whether it be making aligned decisions, showing up for my clients, navigating these big challenges that I've been sent. I have realized that the energy that I bring into my business sets the tone, which means that everything that I do in my business is about me. And about how I show up, and there were moments this year where I did not feel strong. There are moments where doubt crept in. There were some moments for me where panic attacks have crept back in. But what I have learned through all of this is that self leadership isn't always about feeling strong. It's not always about showing up and, Pretending with a mask that I have this perfect life and this perfect emotional state all of the time. I am not regulated all of the time. I'm like any human. I'm up. I'm down. I'm in. I'm out. I certainly spend, Less time than I used to in dysregulation, but I am not meant to feel good all the time. And neither are you, but I am learning how to show up through that and how to move myself through that and when to ask for help through that. And there were some times where I had to step back for a week or two weeks throughout this year, and maybe it was because of a migraine attack, or maybe it was because of high anxiety. Maybe it was because I was going through something in my personal life. And the times that I did that. I reminded myself that doesn't mean that I'm failing. That doesn't mean that I failed and to show up and say to my clients, I'm here, but I'm going to be just a little bit less responsive, because I'm practicing what I preach and I'm moving myself through something that's actually self leadership. When I was at retreat and I was in this heightened state of panic attacks because something that was going on for me. And I left the learning on day one, I left at 11 o'clock and I went up to my hotel room and I tuned in through zoom, but I left the stories that I had myself then were like, Oh my God, how can you help people through their emotional challenges when you couldn't even stay in that room? But then I was like, hang on, you are listening to your body right now. You know that you are beyond your capacity for tolerance and you understand why this is happening. You are leading yourself right now. So self leadership isn't always just about showing up anyway, but it's also being okay with understanding when you do need to turn inward. And that was a really big lesson for me around self leadership this year. So if you have your journal, you could reflect now on where in your business are you waiting for someone else to lead you? And how can you actually go first instead? For me and mine, that's always going to be through the emotional challenges. It's always going to be through meeting that edge, through meeting that fear that self doubt through meeting that next level that feels uncomfortable and moving myself through that. So this brings me to lesson number two, which is humility brings growth. I have been humbled this year in ways that I didn't expect. There were personal challenges that pushed me to my edge, okay? Moments that really forced me to pause, to reevaluate, to let my ego go. And what I have really, started to sit with is that humility doesn't mean weakness. It's actually the willingness to acknowledge where you need to grow and to ask for help and to accept that you don't always have all of the answers. And that was something that I really had to sit with that reminder that I need to ask for help sometimes. And that doesn't make me any less of a leader. That doesn't make me any less of a mentor. In fact, it makes me a better one. So I wonder for you where where could humility open up a new door for growth in your business? Because just like me, you don't know everything. And if you've got a good mentor, they have a mentor too, because they don't know everything. My third lesson that I wanted to share with you guys today is about trusting my journey. Trust is something I have always been in and out of relationship with more. So in my personal life, to be honest, than in my business. I, step into my business, I leap, I am in full trust that everything is going to work out. But when things aren't working out, I have to stop and look at where am I misaligned? I'm misaligned in trust in my actual life. I'm misaligned in trust in making decisions within my personal life. Now as I, as a manifesting generator and a 6. 3 human design, I have this emotional authority and that is my compass. And that is. That is the way that I'm designed to make decisions. But there are times this year that I ignored it. There are times where my head was like, Oh, you've had a response. So move forward. And I did that. I did that in my business. Quite a few times and not quite a few times, but for a certain period of time, I was having these responses. I was initiating. I wasn't fully writing out my emotional wave, and I was allowing the shoulds as an open head center to come in and dictate my strategy and completely lost touch with who I actually am and what I bring and what is authentic for me and aligned for my business. I let fear and pressure and external noise pull me out of a space of alignment. And the results of that were a lot of frustration. Around three months, not wasted because there was a lot of lessons learned in that time, but three months of literally changing my strategy, trialing things that I didn't need to trial. Although that's my line three, I am an experimenter, but it wasn't coming from an aligned place. It was coming from a place of alignment. So and not even so and like this is the way I think it should be done. This is where I see everybody else doing it. And I got caught in that and, oh yeah, I've had a response to that. Maybe I had a response, but I didn't allow my emotional authority. And when I actually did come back to that aligned way of decision making and authority for me, I actually realized how off the path. I had gone and off that path it had led me to frustration it had led me to these like I guess I was just so off the path I can't even so this year taught me again and again that my authority always knows what's best and that when I trust it when I listen to it when I actually tune into it when I pause. Which is hard because I am a manifesting generator. I want to move quickly. And if you ask my assistance, I move really quickly. Oh, by the way, guys, we're going to move over onto this new platform and yep, I've written out my wave. So now we're doing it and here I'm in and I've booked this in and here's all the things that we're going to do with it and bam. And then I literally get messages like, I love how fast you move, but. That decision that I was talking about then that was made with my emotional authority. So when I actually pause, when I actually ride out the emotional wave and I make decisions from that embodied space, everything flows. And that was just another reminder of that this year. And I'm not perfect at that, but I'm going to continue to practice writing my authority. Because it does leave me in this beautifully aligned place. If you don't know your human design strategy and authority, I would recommend that you start exploring it. If it's something that you're interested in. I know a couple of amazing people who work with human design. Tegan Parkinson is one of them. She is the co, she is a co coach in my mastermind space. At the moment, as I record this, she, and I don't say that because She has plans to leave. I say it like that because you could be listening to this in five years and I don't know what it's going to look like in five years, but yeah she's in our mastermind and she helps my ladies navigate their life, their business, their inner world, their outer world, through the lens of their human design. But your authority is the key to align decisions. And yeah, human design has just changed, totally changed my world in that space. So yes, a big lesson this year is a reminder to come back to my strategy and my authority. And that whatever my head is telling me to do is probably not my strategy or authority. Now, my fourth lesson that I wanted to share with you guys is that there is strength in uncertainty. This year, I have struggled. With again, not in my business, but in my personal life, but my business has taught me this because I see again, the reflection of what's happening. Where am I blocking myself? So this year I have had to let go of so much control expectations, timelines, people, so many things. And this has really reminded me, and this is a lesson that I feel like I'm still in, in some ways, but it's a big one. It's really reminded me that uncertainty is not the enemy. It is the space where growth happens. And I'm gradually building more and more evidence that this is the case. So as I lean into uncertainty, it's actually taught me resilience. It's reminded me that I am stronger than I think, and I am always held and that everything does actually work out, even when it doesn't feel like it will in the moment. But if I'm trusting my authority, when I'm making these decisions, it's going to work out for whatever way it is supposed to. So uncertainty has kept me stuck. Uncertainty has kept me small. Uncertainty has kept my nervous system in a space that was quite dysregulated for a long time this year. And that again, comes out as a reflection in my business. And for me to be able to recognize, okay, I wanted to hit this goal and I didn't, why didn't I hit that? What's actually going on for me? Oh, I see. There's this energy of fear, this energy of lack, this energy of abundance. If I don't trust abundance in health, abundance in money, abundance in, in love, if I don't trust any abundance in my personal life, how can I expect to bring in abundance in my business? And it's the same for you. So what uncertainty are you currently resisting in your business? And how can you actually lean into it instead of fighting it? And I know in my human design, I am actually never meant to feel certain. And that's a really big thing that I've been really like gripping with this year. Is finding safety in moving forward and making decisions where my brain is looking for certainty. My brain wants these answers that is going to tell me like, yes, this is what you're supposed to do. Yes. This is the right way forward. Yes. This is the foolproof way. My brain is looking for those answers, but my body is uncertain. And that, as I said, has held me back for so long until I have realized Especially more recently that I'm never meant to feel certain. So again, if I'm in trust with my strategy and authority, I'm going to make good decisions, but my decisions aren't meant to be made out of certainty. I am actually supposed to learn to feel safety, to leap without that certainty, to make decisions without certainty. And the times that I have felt certain about something, or I've searched for certainty for something, are times that I have been left feeling very frustrated. Very off path. So if you allow yourself to see these moments where you feel the most out of alignment, the moments where things felt the hardest, instead of seeing these as failures, I now see these as course corrections. I see them as a communication to my body hey, you've stepped out of alignment. It's okay that you've stepped out of alignment. You're aware of this, of what's happening. Come back. Your business will always guide you back into your light, into alignment. If you're willing to listen, you're willing to pay attention. If you're willing to dive into you in order to get back there, I would really encourage you to schedule 30 minutes to reconnect with your vision and your values. And notice, are your current actions in alignment with where you truly want to go? So I want to share with you now what I'm leaving behind in 2024. Reflecting on these lessons, I realized that there are things I just cannot take with me. There are things I just will not take with me because these were things that I was tolerating within myself. And I really love that lens on my, one of my mentors. She introduced us to someone who gave a talk a couple of months ago, and she was talking about what are you tolerating within yourself? And that just hit me so hard. I was like, holy won't say the word. Oh my gosh, there is so much crap that I am tolerating from myself right now. So some of the things that I'm leaving behind, these are things I'm not going to tolerate within myself. First of all, I'm not going to tolerate a certain minimum standard for money. Okay, there is a minimum standard that I want to hold and I will not tolerate less. I will not tolerate fear. Any longer of stepping into the bigness of my vision, fear of the uncertainty, fear of not being enough. I will not tolerate that within myself anymore. I will not allow those conversations to continue to grow in my mind. And if they do, I will find a way. To support and heal that part of me who is coming forward with that fear, but I'm not going to tolerate that dictating my life anymore. I am not going to tolerate that little voice of self doubt that questioned whether I can actually hold the impact that I'm creating. Particularly at times where I felt like I was struggling personally, I'm not going to tolerate that. I know that I can hold that impact and I know that I'm a brilliant leader despite times that I struggle. And if you've listened to that episode the channel of struggle, the channel of crisis, I'm always likely to struggle in some level. So I am not going to tolerate that to be a block from me anymore. I'm not going to tolerate misalignment, any choices or actions that pull me away from my authority, from my values, from that deeper purpose, from why I am doing this. Those are things I am not tolerating. I am leaving those behind. Stepping out of that, stepping literally out of that suit of that version of me and stepping into another level. I'm choosing to step into 2025, deeply connected to the big vision for my business and the ripple effect that business is meant to have. And that has changed since I first started the business, since I first created my movement. So what I am taking with me, I am taking with me my new movement for 2025. And this, impacts you. This impacts what you hear through the podcast is impacts how, what you get when you work with me. So I'm going to share this with you because as we step into this new year, I am so grounded more grounded than ever into this movement that I am here to lead. This movement is the embodied success movement. I am here to pioneer this movement that redefines success for soul led impact driven entrepreneurs. This is a movement where healing and thriving are intertwined, where emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, and self connection are the foundations of aligned leadership. And sustainable business growth in a world that really glorifies burnout and hustle. And not to get me started on that. I stand for women who are ready to rise by reclaiming their emotional power, trusting their unique path, leading with authenticity. Because this movement, this is the ripple effect. This movement is the ripple effect. Is about breaking generational cycles of overwork of repressed emotions and self sacrifice. And it is about replacing these with self trust, holistic wellbeing and abundant impact. It's about you unbecoming everything that you were told that you needed to be to fit into that mold that you believed that you needed to fit in so that you can become The woman who leads and succeeds and thrives on your terms, because when a woman heals, when she aligns, when she thrives, when she impacts through her business, and this is why I'm so passionate about working with entrepreneurs in particular in this healing space, in this growth space, because we impact, boy, do we impact differently. And she's not just changing her life. She is changing her family. She's changing her community. She's changing. Whoa, I nearly knocked my, I got so excited. I nearly knocked my fork out of my bowl. She is changing the future for generations to come. That is what I'm here for. This movement is for the soul led entrepreneurs who are rewiring the rules of success, who are proving that emotional mastery and alignment and sustainable strategies can coexist. With impact and abundance. This is about creating a business that thrives because you are thriving. It is about you being as successful internally as you are on paper. It is about doing the deep inner work so that you can show up as the woman who leads unapologetically, creates change for herself, for her family, and for her clients as that fully embodied version of herself. And to embody that version. That deep work to feel safe in your mind, in your body, in your nervous system, in your beliefs, in your emotional stage, to hold what it is that you are ready to hold. This is the work that I am here to do. This is the work that I am bringing into 2025. And if you can't tell, I'm very passionate about it. I cannot wait to see. Where this journey takes us. So if you are coming along for the ride, if you are coming along for this movement, for the embodied success movement, then I cannot wait, to support you maybe through the podcast continually. Maybe through content on Instagram, or maybe it's time that we had a chat about how we could work together. So as we close out 2024, I invite you to reflect on your own journey. What lessons has your business taught you this year? What fears or doubts are you leaving behind? And if you are ready to step into 2025 with boldness and with clarity and with alignment, Then perhaps we talk about whether the transcendence mastermind. Or my bespoke mentoring, which is private or the embodied entrepreneur program is right for you because there is a place for you in this movement. Now I would love, love, love to hear your reflections. You can come over to Instagram and share them with me. You can send me an email if you like, please come and share with me what lessons has your business taught you this year and what fears and doubts are you ready to leave behind? And what are you not going to tolerate any longer within yourself? So that you can grow your beautiful business. Let's make 2025 the year that you truly thrive from within. That's it for today's episode. Thank you so much for joining me and I look forward to being in your ears again next week.

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That's a wrap on today's episode. Feeling inspired to explore your inner world and reach your full potential? We'd love to hear from you. Subscribe for more, leave a review and share your takeaways on Instagram at jessica. reid. ilc. Until next time, keep thriving!