The Year That Changed Me

Season 1 ends with a recap of the wildest, most transformational year of my life. From Dave’s peak week and our chaotic holiday traditions to rebuilding my business, starting therapy, launching this podcast, and figuring out who I am beyond motherhood — this episode is a reflection on everything that changed me in 2025.

I’m sharing the highs, the hard moments, what I’m carrying into 2026, and a little sneak peek of what’s coming in Season 2.

If you’re here for episode 10… you’re officially one of the real ones. 🫶

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You're listening to Real and Naturalish, the podcast where we evolve and own the glow up in real time. I'm your host, Natasha Pearson. Welcome back to the podcast. So it is officially peak week for David, meaning it is the week leading up to his bodybuilding competition, and things are about to get pretty crazy this weekend. I have a bunch to update you on from Thanksgiving. So let's get into it. I know I mentioned this earlier in the season, but we heard about a Masogi, which is pretty much a Japanese, I guess you could call it a challenge. We heard about it from Jesse Itzler, um, where pretty much you set a goal that takes you an entire year to complete. And that is a Masogi. So at the beginning of the year, or actually the end of last year, Dave decided that he wanted to do a bodybuilding competition. And not because he's interested in bodybuilding per se, but because he has always wanted a certain physique and setting the goal of competing in a bodybuilding competition was something that would hold him accountable. So we are in the final week. It is the first week of December at the time that I am recording this, and I could not be more proud of him. He has been working so hard every single day since January 1st. He's lost, oh gosh, this morning he was 192. He started at 260. So he's almost lost 70 pounds. He has muscles that I have never seen since I've known him, and he's lighter than he was as a 16-year-old, which is kind of crazy. And he's doing some pretty intense workouts. So right now he has a lifting workout every day, and he's been doing 90 minutes of cardio. So going to the gym, and he has been walking stairs for 90 minutes, and it was so funny. Um, last week we wanted to have smash burgers and he can't have them, but he made them for the family, and he was gonna go pick up some ground beef because the only stuff that we had was frozen. So he's gonna pick it up after his workout and come back home and make burgers. And he told me he was like, you know, the whole last 30 minutes of climbing stairs, I was watching YouTube videos of how to make the best smash burgers, and it's like, that's so crazy. I cannot imagine working out, working so hard, eating so little, and watching food videos. I actually just went out to check on him in the sauna right now, and he is watching food videos on his phone. We have plans after his competition to go to Postino's. Um, they have this really amazing roast beef dip sandwich there. He loves those sandwiches. He's actually never had one from Postino's, but I had one a couple of weeks ago and it was so good. I knew that would be the perfect meal for him. And that is where we're going after his competition. I actually also am planning on making him some hot chocolate, like the European kind of hot chocolate that's super thick and decadent and so good. I'm gonna make some and put it in a thermos so he can have it for right after his show. But things are crazy this week. He is meeting with his trainer every single day to work out and to practice posing. He has 90 minutes of cardio. He is sweating in the sauna every night. He has to go get waxed. He actually has to like shave his whole body every day leading up to his spray tan. He's only getting his back waxed. Um, but he has a spray tan. I mean, I'm sure you've seen bodybuilders, they are so tan. And in fact, the last time I was getting a spray tan, I was talking to my technician about it, and she said that for those competitions, they actually spray them. And then usually you're supposed to shower after you get a spray tan. But she says you don't shower, and then the next day they spray you again. So that is how they get so, so dark. Dave is actually driving down to Tucson on Friday. That's where his competition is, and then the kids and I are gonna go down on Saturday. So I will not see him until after he gets his tan, and I'm really excited. So let's chat a little bit about Thanksgiving. It was such a great weekend. I made Thanksgiving dinner. All of our family is up in Washington, with the exception of my grandparents who are snowbirds and they live in Chandler, so they came over for Thanksgiving. I made a whole feast. I did, I think this was my fourth turkey that I have made, and it was the best turkey I have made yet. And I felt really bad because Dave actually couldn't eat any of the turkey. His trainer said that it was cooked in too much fat, but if he wanted to, he could have ground turkey. He just stuck with his broccoli and chicken, and we had a whole Thanksgiving feast. I think we're actually gonna do it again for Christmas time so he can have some mashed potatoes and gravy because he loves mashed potatoes and gravy. Anyways, my turkey was so good. I did the Gordon Ramsay recipe. So you like take the skin and you put butter underneath the skin and then you put butter on top. My turkey, though, was like a little bit wet on the outside, and so I actually put it uncovered in the refrigerator overnight and then I put butter on it in the morning. That dried the skin out, which made it so crispy. It was delicious. And then I took the turkey out of the oven once it hit 155 degrees and it finished cooking as it was cooling. We usually let it rest for about an hour. It was the juiciest turkey I have ever made. It was so, so good. It was also really nice getting to visit with my grandparents. And in fact, when we were eating dinner, we started talking a lot about family history because I wanted my grandparents, who are my kids' great-grandparents, to hear some of the stories from my grandparents when they grew up. I mean, my grandma grew up on a farm. Um, she did not milk cows, though. I will say that I was teasing her about that. She's like, I actually didn't milk the cows, but she did help her dad stack hay. Um, and then my grandpa has a very fascinating family history. He was actually born in Jerusalem and actually left Palestine in 1948 as a refugee and came over to America around the time he was 18 years old. But he has some crazy stories from his childhood and growing up in the Middle East during war. So it was pretty cool to have my kids hear those same stories that I heard growing up from my grandparents. And then after that, everyone had dessert. I didn't have dessert because I was still stuffed from turkey, and I told myself, you know what, I'm gonna just wait a little bit longer and then I will have pumpkin pie. Well, jokes on me because I passed out on the couch at like eight o'clock. I was so tired. Dave said I was snoring really loud, and he said the kids could actually vouch for him. Cause I tell him anytime he tells me that I store, I'm like, I don't snore, I don't snore. And he's like, You were snoring so loud. I think I was just exhausted from so many days of prepping and getting ready. And then finally you have the big event, and then after it's over, I'm like, okay, I can rest now. And then Friday we had some errands to run and we wanted to have a pretty relaxing weekend. So we just did some errands. The whole family went out, I got my brows laminated, and then the whole evening we just hung out, watched Christmas movies. I did an entire Christmas puzzle with Claire. I actually did two Christmas puzzles over Thanksgiving weekend. This is the best time of year to just watch Christmas movies and do puzzles. Although I will say I don't like puzzles that are more than a thousand pieces. 500 is like the sweet spot where it's just hard enough to have something challenging to be doing, but not so hard it gets frustrating. A thousand pieces is a little bit more of a challenge, and then any more than that, it's just too much work where it's not really enjoyable for me anymore. I like to challenge myself doing puzzles, but a lot of times it's just a way for me to get my mind off other things and that and to relax and unwind at night. And then I am so proud of myself for this. But for the very first time ever, I got all of the Christmas shopping done over the weekend. I took advantage of all the Black Friday sales, I made a list, and I did not deviate from my list. So I'm really proud of that. But I got all of the shopping done for the entire family. I got wrapping paper, all of the things, and I got a lot from Amazon. So all the things I got from Amazon, I made it for them to arrive on the same day, not until next week, because this week is just hectic, but they're all gonna arrive on the same day. And my plan is to have all of my wrapping done before Alan's birthday, which, speaking of Alan's birthday, this is so funny. Um, Dave and I were having like a marriage meeting. I mean, just talking about everything that we had coming up during the week, just getting on the same page because this week is super busy. And he was like, Alan's birthday is coming up. And I said something really funny. I don't want to say what it is, but I remember like I literally stopped middle of our conversation and I pulled out my phone and I was like, hold that thought. I have to write this down. I have my first joke for my stand-up comedy routine that Gretchen and I are gonna do on the podcast next next year, next season. But I figured I should start writing things down now so I can come up with my own little set. But the plan is to get all of my Christmas wrapping done, all of our presents wrapped before Alan's birthday. So Alan's birthday is December 16th. He's going to turn three. I also planned his birthday party over the weekend. I got his birthday presents. It is so hard. I mean, Dave's birthday is in December, Alan's birthday is in December, our dog's birthday is in December, my mom's birthday is in December, and then we also have Christmas. So December is like a crazy month for us. June is also a really crazy month for us because usually school's getting out, and then Gretchen and Ralph have a birthday one week apart, and then Claire's birthday is three weeks after that. So it's like all of these birthdays and big events happen in small little chunks of time, twice a year, and it's usually the most stressful time of year. And I told myself I'm going to be prepared this year. I did all of my shopping, I'm gonna do all of my wrapping, I have everything planned for Alan's birthday. So after Alan's birthday, I will have nine days until Christmas, and I don't want to do anything. I want to relax, I want to spend time with my kids, I want to do more puzzles, I wanna bake. I love baking. Oh my gosh. Speaking of baking, side note, the caraway bake set is so good. I do all of like my cakes and all of our cookies on their bakeware. You should check that out if you haven't. But I want to do my baking and I just want to wind down for the rest of the year. In fact, I actually think my goal is to take an entire week off of social media. In the past decade, I have not taken off more than one day. I take off Sunday every single week. And even when I go on vacation, I mean I'm still posting on my stories, I'm still creating content. And for me, creating content is my job. So it's almost like when I'm on vacation, I don't really get a vacation. But this year for Christmas, I mean my words for this year were balance and boundaries. And I want to create a boundary where I am not working the week of Christmas, which means I don't want to be posting on social media. I'm not gonna show up on my stories, I'm not gonna post anything. Honestly, I don't even want to open the Instagram app or the Facebook app. I want to just unplug and go off the grid for a little bit. But that is my goal. And then Sunday we had church. I actually wore this really cute outfit to church. I got this plaid skirt. It's red, black, and white from Vici. It's so cute. It's linked on my like to know it. So go check that out. And then after church, I prepared for December 1st. So we do have an elf on the shelf, Rex, that comes to visit every single December. So the kids were really excited to see him. And this year, Rex actually brought us a Jesus sees us. So it's like imagine an elf, but it's Jesus. And the kids can touch him, they can hold him, and there's a book that goes along with it, which is Jesus' birth story. It's really cute. And I thought it would be a really great way for us to remember what the season is all about. And so, right next to our elf, we now have a Jesus that our kids get to look at and see every single day and be reminded of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. And then also our advent, last year we did Crocmus. So this was like an idea I had because, you know, our family loves Crocs. It's actually kind of funny. I hated Crocs at first. David convinced me to try them. He bought me a pair and I started wearing them around the house for maybe, you know, a couple of months, and I was like, I will never leave the house wearing these. And then I left the house wearing them. And now I like totally get it. I understand why people love Crocs, especially for the kids. I mean, you can literally put them in the dishwasher to clean them. They're so convenient. Anyways, I was looking at my Crocs and I'm like, oh, there's 26 holes. This is perfect for like an advent. I don't want to give my kids chocolate or candy every single day during December. So why not instead give them croc charms? So last year, this was our first year doing it, and the kids loved it so much. We're doing it again this year, but it's called Crocmus, where their advent calendar has six croc charms in it. So one for each one in the family. We each got a new pair of Christmas crocs. And so every single day, the kids will open the advent calendar. We take turns opening it, and they, whoever opens it for the day, gets to decide who gets what croc charm. And then that croc charm goes on our Christmas crocs. So we just started our second annual croc mist today, which the kids absolutely love. And how we have them open the advent calendars, we take turns. So this year we just did it youngest to oldest. Alan opened today's, then it will go Claire, Ralph, Gretchen, and then Dave and I are also going to participate this year. I'm not gonna lie, because there were a couple of croc charms that were really cute, and I wanted to decide who was gonna get which one. And you know, I am only gonna open the advent calendar a couple of times, but the whole family still loves it. It's a way for us to bond together, and we all have a pair of matching Christmas crocs by the end. All right, let's get into the main segment of this show. Can you believe that we have made it to the end of season one? My goal was to launch season one, to do 10 episodes. In fact, how Dave's Masogee this year is doing a bodybuilding competition. Mine was to launch my podcast. This has been something that I have been wanting to do for a long time. And so I'm really excited to say that I finally did it. And I was thinking today, since, you know, we're at the end of the year, it's gonna be 2026 soon. We're at the end of season one. This has been such a transformational year for me. You know, I have said that for a long time. I would say this has probably been the hardest year of my life. And I want to change my mindset around that. I don't want to think of it as the hardest year of my life anymore. I want to think of it as the most transformational year of my life. I have gone through so many big changes, and I would say the biggest one was probably, you know, just entering this new phase of my life as a mother and as a human. I mean, you spend your whole childhood, at least if you're someone like me, thinking about getting married, what your wedding's gonna be like, how many kids you're gonna have, what you're gonna name all of your kids. And then you finally get to that point where it's like, you know what? I got married and I had kids and I love my life, but I never thought about what comes after this. And for me, that has really been this year of transformation and thinking about what comes ahead. And I mean, I've gone through so many other changes too. And while this year has been really hard, I want to choose to look back at this time as a time that was also very exciting, a time where, you know, I kind of feel like I get to, in some ways, reinvent myself. So today I just want to do a little recap and some reflection. I mean, I have learned a lot since launching a podcast. Number one, I've learned that I actually really enjoy podcasting. Um, I also enjoy podcasting with guests and having people to chat with, but I also sometimes like my solo episodes, although I don't know if my solo episodes will be as long. Also, we're gonna talk about some plans that I have for next season because I have learned so much this season. Anyways, you know, I've learned that the sound quality matters, your mics matter, all of that matters. I have learned a lot about planning and recording, editing, re-recording, you know, a lot of stuff. And I feel like it took me a long time to launch this podcast because, you know, in some ways, I feel like I have a lot of pressure and a lot of eyeballs on me. So if I'm gonna do something, I have to do it perfect the first time. But I decided to take the advice that I give my kids and tell them, you know what, if you're gonna start something new, you are probably gonna suck at first. I mean, you are not going to get better unless you put yourself in situations where you are going to fail, you are going to have difficult challenges and you are going to have to overcome them. And that was what this season was for me. It was me sucking at podcasting. And unfortunately, but fortunately, I had to do it in front of a lot of people. But if you are here still, if you are at episode 10, you're one of the real ones. And I am so, so grateful for you. And honestly, I'm really grateful for this community. You know, in a lot of ways, I feel like this podcast for me has been very therapeutic. And honestly, I feel like it's helped me find my voice again. I don't know if you have been hearing or reading about this, but there is an epidemic of loneliness right now. People not seeing other people in real life. And, you know, you can feel like you have all these friends on the internet, but human connection and being in person with people is so important. Anyways, I could do a whole episode on that. I don't want to get too into that, but I feel like just like we have this epidemic of loneliness going on, I also feel like there is an epidemic of people who are just not fully who they are out of fear of what others might say. And I'm not gonna lie, this past year, I mean the fear of judgment from other people has weighed really heavily on me. I have gone through a lot of personal changes in my personal life, also in my work life, and being so public online. A lot of times it's just scary to put yourself out there. But my mindset going into 2026 is just gonna be: you know what? There's always gonna be people that don't like me. There are gonna be people that say I talk too fast or I talk with my face too close to the camera, or people that get annoyed of my squirrel brain and going on tangents. But you know what? That's just who I am. And who I am helped build this community. And if you're here listening, I am grateful for you and you're probably someone that I would hang out with in real life. And so I have decided to stop focusing on how scary it might be that others will be judging me and remember why I'm here in the first place. I am here to help inspire other women, and how I can do that is just showing up as authentically me. So I am just gonna go into 2026 and be me and know that God put me here for a reason. And if I can help just one person, that still matters. You know, I mentioned at the beginning of this episode, our elf, Rex, wrote us this letter and told us that he brought us a Jesus sees us this morning. And one thing that he wrote in the letter just made me think that Jesus taught us how to love one another and how to serve one another through his actions. And he used his gifts to make the world a better place. And if we're supposed to be like Jesus, we also need to be using our own special gifts and talents to make the world a better place. And so for me, going into 2026, I know more than ever it is my mission and my goal to take something that has completely changed my life and use that to help pay it forward and help other women. And I find so much joy in that. And I want to do more of that in season two. I want to do more inspirational episodes and talk about just lessons that I've learned on my weight loss journey. Because if there's one thing that I've learned over the past decade, is even if you don't feel like an inspirational person, just by showing up and just by sharing your story with other people, that is so helpful and that is inspiring. So a little over 10 years ago, I started sharing my weight loss journey after I had my first baby and I started sharing it. On Facebook. I was not even on Instagram at the time. I honestly wanted to treat Facebook like my fitness diary to hold me accountable on my weight loss journey. And so falling into this line of work really happened on accident. I mean, there was no such thing as an influencer back in 2015. But I don't think that God put me here on accident. I think that by showing up and being vulnerable and sharing things that I'm going through in my life can help inspire other people to be healthier and happier. And honestly, I think that the gateway to just an overall happier life is taking care of yourself. And when I say that, I don't mean self-care. I actually mean taking care of your body's biological needs. I mean, think about the way that you take care of a baby. Are you taking care of yourself the same way? I mean, when I got serious about my health and when I started making myself a priority and actually caring for my body, everything started to change. I mean, weight loss, yes, was a part of that because I wanted to be living a healthier life. I mean, I got to a point where I realized this isn't just about looking good in a bikini. I want to be here to have great grandchildren one day. And not only do I want to be here, I want to be able to play with them. I want to be able to pick them up. And I knew that that started with changing my own life first. You know, when you're on an airplane and they say you have to put your own oxygen mask on first. You truly do. Until you help yourself be the best version of you, until you take care of you, you can't pay it forward. I mean, when I started taking care of myself, like truly for my health and not just for weight loss, everything in my life started to change. I had a more clear head. I felt better. And I started to notice it showing up in other areas of my life. When I started taking care of myself, my relationships with other people improved. I felt like I was getting more opportunities. And I really think it's because I was just showing up differently. I had more confidence, and not confidence because I was smaller, but confidence because I had actually proven to myself that I could do something hard. And it was just, you know, showing up, exercising, eating vegetables, losing the weight. That was something I struggled with for so long. And once I proved to myself I could do that, I felt like I could accomplish anything. You deserve to be the best version of you and the healthiest version of you. Okay, other things that I loved on the podcast this season was having guest experts, um, talking to my myofunctional therapist, my hormone nurse practitioner. I got so much feedback from both of those episodes. They have been shared like wildfire. And honestly, I wanted to bring both of them on because I learned so much. And I really feel like I have this niche and more holistic healing and just general wellness. And I want to know if there's anyone that you want to hear from, anyone in like this one niche area or anything in general, send me a DM, email me. I would love to get some other experts on the podcast. Okay, so that was just a little bit about season one of the podcast. I also just in general want to reflect on 2025. It is so wild that we are already in December. And I feel like I say that every single year. Don't we all say that every single year? And it in some ways it's like, oh my gosh, where has the year gone? But when I look back, there are a lot of things that we actually did do this year and a lot of experiences that we had. And I was thinking about, you know, how in December people will post like one photo from every month of the year. I was thinking about what would I post every month? What did I actually do? And it's like, oh, I actually I went to New York, I did a high rocks, I competed at the World Tap Dance Championships in Prague. Dave did his bodybuilding competition. We started homeschooling the kids this year. Okay, I'm actually gonna go back in my camera role because I feel like so much has happened. I also started going to therapy this year. This year was actually the year I had to rebuild an entire income stream. I've had internal team changes. I officially launched body confidence. We had our first retreat for body confidence at the beginning of this year, which I wanna do again. I turned 36, and the theme of my birthday party was conspiracy theories. I am actually a huge fan of conspiracy theories. I dressed up as a lizard person, and David and I did a presentation on the Great Pyramids. It was so much fun. We had all the kids' birthdays this summer. We went to McCall, which was so much fun. I want to do that again. We went to a couple of baseball games. Oh, and all of my book clubs, all of the books that I read this year. Oh my gosh, how many books have I read this year? I don't think I am nearly as many as I was last year. I read 52 books last year. In fact, I remember on the very last day of 2024, December 31st, you want to know what I was reading? I was reading Hatchet because I don't think I ever had read it before. And it was a short book that I knew I could finish in a day. And I did that to meet my book goal. So for 2025, I actually set a smaller goal because I didn't want to feel like I was rushing through reading just to hit an arbitrary goal that I set for myself. And I am the type of person where if I set a goal, I'm gonna do whatever I can to hit that goal. And so my goal for this year was 38 books. I am at 42 books for the year. Oh, I read the entire Throne of Glass series this summer. That is definitely something that needs to be noted. That series is what, 5,000 pages? So yeah, I have read less books, but I feel like I have read more longer books this year. I started using a red light mask this year, and that has helped my skin so much. I also started hormone replacement therapy. Well, I started that at the end of last year, which I will put information in the show notes for where I go. I do online telehealth for it. If you have not listened to my episode on hormones, you need to go listen to that. But getting my hormones back to normal levels has made me feel like a new human. Highly, highly, highly recommend doing it. If you have not had your hormones checked, go get them checked. I chaperoned Ralphie's field trip at the end of last school year at this wildlife park in Arizona, which was really fun. Oh my gosh, I'm scrolling through my camera roll and there are pictures of Dave from April. It is crazy to see what he looks like today versus what he looks like he looked like in April. Oh my gosh. You know, I told him that it feels like I am cheating on him because he feels like a different person. It's so, it's so wild. Ooh, another thing I started doing this year was going to the head spa. That is the best thing ever. I would actually say that going to the head spa and like getting your hair washed and a massage on your scalp, oh my gosh. It is almost better than getting a full body massage. You know, I'm finally to those pictures when I was doing high rocks, and that just reminded me I am doing another high rocks next year. My events this time, I'm doing the ski erg again, and then I am doing lunges. I need to start practicing my lunges. I actually bought a sandbag to practice. Another huge milestone for 2025 is my firstborn daughter has surpassed me in height. She can wear my clothes, she can wear my shoes. She is probably listening to this right now laughing because she thinks it's so funny that she's taller than me. She can give me a piggyback ride. She can literally pick me up. Having a child that is taller than you is a really, really weird experience. I went to TP USA's YWLS event this summer. That was in Texas. Another thing that happened this year was I reunited with people from the small town that I grew up in. One of them being my high school history teacher, who apparently lives two minutes down the road from me, which he was my favorite teacher in high school. One of my favorite teachers. We took Gretchen to a post-Malone concert this summer for her birthday. We went intertubing with Dave's family, which that was Alan's first time intertubing, and he loved it. Alan learned all the words to define gravity this year. That kid loves Wicked. It is his favorite movie. I started tapping again. Dave and I celebrated our 12-year wedding anniversary. Wait, has it been 12 years? We got married in 2013. Yeah, 12 years. I started the podcast. That was a huge milestone for me. And that actually took months of planning. Ralph on a pogo stick. That kid learned how to pogo stick this year, and he is really good. I think he can do over a hundred. Another thing that I love doing this year was we have this restaurant in our town called Distillery, where they have musicians that come in from Nashville. They do line dancing, and I went there, we went there a couple of times with our friends actually, and it's so fun. And we took the kids there once too, and they love dancing. That's definitely something we will continue doing next year. You know, as I'm looking through these pictures, it's making me think I need to do this with my kids. One thing that we love doing is I will screen mirror my phone on our TV and we'll go back and look at pictures of the kids when they were babies, and they love it, but I need to go do a reflection with them over the year because there's so many fun family pictures of just little things that we did, like going to a high school football game. Alan, countless pictures of him picking his nose, that kid. He picks his nose and eats it. And he knows that we don't like it. And so it that makes him do it more. I don't even try to fight it anymore at this point. I just, anytime I can, I say, you know, boogers go in tissues, not in your mouth. You know, I'm glad I took the time to do this because there were so many times this year where I felt like quitting, or I felt like everything is going wrong, where I got nervous for our future, a lot of uncertainty. But specifically these past couple of weeks, it almost feels like all of that had to happen because now I feel like all of these dominoes are falling into place, and I am so excited for what is to come in 2026. I feel like my business is starting to evolve. I feel like new doors are opening, um, some really cool things coming in 2026 that I can't talk about yet. But reflecting and just seeing how much can change in a year. Even though it feels like it flew by, I want to go into 2026 with intention. My words for 2025 were balance and boundaries. Learn how to set boundaries so that I can have more balance in my life. And that was a hard one for me, but I feel like I am ending the year with boundaries in place and having more balance in my life. And so going into 2026, my words for 2026 are going to be focus and growth. I have big ideas for things that I want to do. I want to stay laser focused on one thing. I feel like I have tried so many things in 2025 and have failed in so many ways, but that has taught me what I want to do going into 2026. And so now I want to get focused and now I want to grow and evolve even more. I feel like new seeds have been planted and I have trust in God's plan for me. This year has actually really built my testimony. And I think if this year has taught me anything, it's that sometimes you need to slow down and remember at the end of the day, everything's gonna be all right. And if I could go back and tell myself last year one thing, it would be you know what? It's gonna get worse before it gets better, but it is going to get better. And then it will end up better than it even was before. We have made it to the end of the episode. Thank you for recapping 2025 with me. And I do want to end with a little bit of a sneak peek of what is going to come season two. We will be coming back for a season two in early 2026. It will not be in January. January, I really am going to focus on Body Confidence Academy. So stay tuned on my Instagram or if you are on my email list. We are going to be starting together as a group in January. And I will be sharing more about that soon. But I really want to spend the first month of the year focused on body confidence and helping new women get started on their journey. And if you are listening right now and you are interested, I will put a link for you in the show notes to check that out. But the podcast will be coming back sometime in early 2026. One thing I have learned from this season as well is that while, yes, it's nice to not really have much of a structure and have the freedom to talk about whatever you want. I have realized that sometimes it can be really hard to come up with things to talk about if you don't have some structure. So I want to bring a little bit more structure into season two. And we're gonna have some new episode types. So think like pep talks or, you know, I said I had a conspiracy theory birthday party this year. One thing that I also do is go down random TikTok rabbit hole sometimes. So maybe we'll do an episode discussing that. I definitely want to have more guests on the podcast, expert guests for you, but also just bringing on some friends to do episodes with. Nothing is set in stone yet. I do want to take some time over the next couple of months to think about that, but I do know there will be some more structure. And if there's something in particular that you loved this season, I would love to know as well. Make sure to leave a review in the comments and share this podcast with a friend. And stay subscribed for updates for season two. And you made it to the end, which means you're officially one of the real ones. Don't forget to follow, leave a five star review, and text this episode to your bestie. And if you want the unfiltered behind the scenes, make sure to get on the email list. 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