Anchored Reflections: A New Year’s Tradition of Growth, Gratitude, and Being Present

In this special New Year’s Eve episode, host Stephanie Parks is joined by her daughters, Peyton and Piper, to continue a cherished family tradition—pausing to reflect on the year behind them.

Together, they share favorite memories, proud moments, and lessons learned through both challenges and change. The conversation centers on gratitude, personal growth, and what it means to stay anchored—to what matters most, to one another, and to being present in the moment.

Whether you’re looking to create a meaningful family ritual or simply want a thoughtful way to close out the year, this episode offers warmth, laughter, and honest reflection to carry with you into the year ahead.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:13

Champagne Smiles and Magical Miles. And I'm your host, Stephanie Parks. If you're new here, welcome. If you're returning, I'm so glad you're back. Today's episode is a little different, and honestly, it's one of my favorites to record. As we close out the year, I'm sitting down with two of my favorite humans, Peyton and Piper, to talk about something that we do every year together. It's our New Year's reflections. This isn't about resolutions or pressure to become someone new overnight. It's about pausing, looking back with honesty, and noticing what mattered. The hard times, the funny ones, the growth we didn't even realize was happening at the time. We're sharing how we reflect what surprised us this year, what we're carrying forward, what we're gently letting go of. If you have kids, teens, or even any family tradition that you want to create more meaning around, I hope this conversation inspires you to start one of your own. So, Caitlyn and Piper, we've been doing this tradition for at least 10 years. Usually we're on vacation together. Unfortunately, this year we are in mid three different time zones across the US, but we are together virtually. And we want to share this with you on New Year's Eve because it is our tradition. We usually are sitting around a fire outside somewhere. We've done this in Turks and Keikos many times, haven't we, girls?

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Yeah. Yes.

unknown 1:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Sometimes we're home, sometimes we're at Turks and Keikos. This year I'm on the mountain and you guys are working, unfortunately. Or fortunately. But but we have a this bag and it's full of years and years and years of these memories. And sometimes we just go through and take these little wound-up pieces of paper and read them. And it makes us laugh about what's changed and what we thought would happen that didn't. The prediction one, I think, girls, is one of the funniest because sometimes we did it, we nail it right perfectly. Sometimes we all because we keep it a secret from each other. We zip it up. I put it away for a year, and it comes back out when we're all together. And as we're reading these over the years, what's some of the funniest things that had happened?

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Gosh, I mean, Peyton is always the one to guess mine before I even realize it. I bl I remember this was one of the first years that we started doing it, and she uh predicted that I would get a boyfriend, and that year I just so happened to get my first boyfriend, which was unexpected on my part, but clearly she already knew. Did you know that, Dayton?

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Well, Piper and I are very similar people, spaced out in a three-year age gap. The things that I experienced at 17, when I'm 20 and Piper's 17, I can kind of assume maybe things are gonna follow the same trajectory. Well, we're very different people. If you've met both of us, you know that the older we get, the more that we have in common, uh, which is really cool. It's scary, it's weird sometimes. Yeah, I'm just I'm just following my own playbook when I predict for Piper. Oh, let's not follow Peyton's playbook.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

I'm kidding. I was thinking when you said that about sisters, I probably need to have one with my sister, do a podcast with her, because we're six years apart, but through the years, the years, the gap has gotten smaller and smaller because now we're both in the same phase with older children. Now I've actually I've stopped aging, of course, and she's caught up with me.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

I don't see anything wrong with that logic. No, I don't think so. I think the year that you're talking about, one of the first years we did did this, and it Peyton, you predicted Piper getting a boyfriend. I think maybe Kyle predicted that she would have her first kiss. Was that true as well?

SPEAKER_02 4:12

You Yeah, yeah, Kyle's typically pretty spot on even whenever we're not doing predictions. Kyle is very quick to predict what's gonna happen and even warn me whenever it comes to relationships. And I I tend to not listen, and then things go exactly how he said that they would, and then I have to tell him he was like this year.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

There was there was one situation that I think Kyle had shared his opinion with months before, and then Piper had to humble thyself and give Kyle the satisfaction of knowing that he was right.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

Isn't that terrible when we have to we have to admit that he was right? But being the only man in our household, he does give us a different perspective for sure. And usually usually what's funny is for these New Year's traditions, we go back and look at it and how right he is, but he does it in such a funny way.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Well, he also pretends he he doesn't he's not a he's I don't know what I'm gonna write. Okay, I'll do it because y'all are and then he yeah, his so he's our his are the best year after year.

SPEAKER_03 5:19

Oh well, I'm glad he's not listening to us record this because we don't need him to get dead any larger than it already is. I think I call I call that reluctant participation. He's he always is reluctant, but once he does it, he has fun. And not just with this running Disney races with me. He was just this morning going, I don't have my costumes ready. And he does not want to want it, he doesn't act like he wants to do it, but then he's all in. Who doesn't 50 miles at Disney? Exactly. Well, that's the difference. That's a conversation for next week's episode.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

That means he loves you a lot. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

I know, I know he loves all of us, but it is reluctant participation most of the time. Okay, so we're doing reflections. I would like each of you to tell me something that happened that made you really proud of yourself, even if nobody noticed.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

That's good. Okay, I guess I'll go first. Something that happened this year that I'm proud of myself for. There was two things that came to mind. One was at the end of the year, I got the opportunity to present research that I had been working on to the president of my school, which was super exciting and a really cool opportunity that I didn't even know I would get to have. And I I'm proud of myself for doing that because it was scary. And that was like the most professional environment I've ever been in. I felt like you, mom. I felt like I you were with her. Yeah, borrowed mom's clothes. It was I I'm proud of myself for for following through and doing that because it had it was something I'd never done before.

SPEAKER_03 6:54

And then I love that so much for you, Piper. If you could see me right now, I have this huge smile. I'm having a proud mom moment because I I felt that for you, because that's not your that that normally would not be your forum, right? You're very not introverted, but very small circle, close, calm, quiet. And to get on a stage and powerfully present something confidently, I was so proud of you.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Thank you, mama. I appreciate that. But yeah, so yeah, proud of myself for doing that.

SPEAKER_03 7:28

Yeah, I think it's hard because I heard both of you pause when I said something about yourself that made you proud. Because it's easier to say from all from me, from mom, I'm always proud of my girls, right? So it's easy for you to look at someone else and say, I'm proud of you for filling the blank. Like Peyton, if I said, What are you proud of Piper for? Piper, what are you proud of Peyton for this year? But instead, that'd be introspective, I think, is really important. And as we're looking at this new year, going back and patting, giving yourself, we talked about giving yourself grace, but also giving yourself props for doing something that you're proud of is important. Peyton, what are you proud of?

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Yes. A big theme of my year was career focused. And it started pretty gray, just not knowing exactly where it was gonna take me. I knew I wanted to be back at Disney. I didn't know how long it would be. I didn't know if that would be in the role I was given initially. And I'm I'm very proud and impressed with myself. I surprised myself with the success from the roles I did go after for the extension opportunities I applied for. I applied for as many as I could, and I got better responses than I anticipated, leading to the role that I'm in now, to the role that I'm going to be a status part-time cast member in next week. Not something I forgot to do. Yay mom! Like if I had never put myself out there, if I had never said, well, why, why, you know, why not? I thought I wanted this, I got offered both. I went with the one that I had did not have any prior interest in, and it has been the best fit. It's been my favorite job. And leaps of faith have not been things that have scared me before, nowhere like pivoting from the path, but following a plan that I didn't even know existed and it working out better than expected. Very, very happy with how it's turned out, very proud of myself for sticking with it.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

Yeah, absolutely. You should be proud of yourself. And we will take a deeper dive into growing your career through the Disney College program and then being offered status, position, job because it is not easy. And I think I assume that once you completed successfully a college program that you automatically were given a job, but you're not. And you have to interview and you have to have proven yourself and have references. And I think it's been a great growing experience for you, Peyton. And it it makes me so this is again proud mom moment. It makes me proud to say that you are out there. I was actually at dinner last night talking to some of my friends. And I'm like, it's not, it's not all the magic that you think it is. And the having the ability to be able on Christmas night to de-escalate a situation with a family as your family is sitting waiting to have Christmas with you, and you and you handled that so professionally. And it wasn't I'm upset as a 23-year-old that my family flew in and and they're sitting at a restaurant waiting on me. It was I have to make sure that I'm doing my job. And you guys have seen me do that for years. You've seen me be on vacation and pick up the phone because that's what you do when you're a professional. And you pick up the phone, you take care of problems, you do your job. And I'm so happy that Tate and I got to watch that firsthand. And that hopefully all these years of sometimes mom wasn't as present as I would like to say that I I wanted to, and my heart was there, that you took something from that and it helped you where you are today.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

I think definitely on the same wavelength as Piper and I's age gap feels closer and closer the older we get. I am starting to see, and we've me and you have had conversations, mom, recently about well, this happened and this it made me feel this way at work. And I I wasn't a fan of how this went over, but also that's how it is sometimes. You know, I had this situation that's a completely different field of the line of business, but it's still something that you worked with, worked over, made peace with in your career, and you're able to help me through that now as I'm discovery for the first time. But it's something you've known for years being a professional.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

And it's very, it's very rewarding as a mother to watch your children mature and to make good decisions and be able, I I really believe it is small minority of 23-year-olds, Mayton, that are able to handle the stressful situations of de-escalating an unhappy unhappy guest. I'm trying to use your language of the world of I was gonna say client or customer, your guest. Um I I've spent a career learning how to handle guest relations, and you're a very at a very young age, handling this in a very mature way.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

Thank you, that's the person I need to hear that from.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

I forget we're being recorded.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

We're just talking, we're just catching up on the phone.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Oh again, I wish I could give you a reach out and give you a big hug. On that note of being proud of yourselves, let's think about what was harder than you expected this year.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Peyton, again, I I will start. Piper and I kind of fielded the questions to each other. Mine was pretty apparent, and it was saying goodbye to things that you didn't think you would miss in the moment because you're on to bigger and better. But it's still there's a little bit of a grief because it's something you were comfortable with. Switching roles for me, saying goodbye to a role that I was good at, but was not growing it anymore. But I'd made friends. I was close with my leadership. They had given me advice to get me where I am now. And it was harder than I thought it would be to say goodbye and to realize that those friendships might not be the same, they might not look the same because our work days look completely different now, but also making peace with that. But moving on from something has never been terribly difficult for me. But it it's been maybe just because I'm older, just a little, a little harder is something I noticed this year.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

It's it's growth. Growth and it change, you you can't grow unless you change, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Yeah, I feel like that's a great point.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

Of this year is a lot of change. For sure. Or for you, what was harder than you expected?

unknown 14:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

For me, I graduated college this year early. With a 4.0 in two years. Go girl. For Piper, which is great. Um, but on a similar note from what Peyton said is I didn't realize just how much I was having to say goodbye to and kind of closing that chapter of my life of being in college, being at GCU with this community that I had gotten to be a part of for the last two years was ended up being really hard because then I realized in the fall, all of my friends, my entire friend group was moving back to Phoenix and I wasn't. And I ended up hitting a lot harder than I expected. And I wasn't happy with that reality at all because of just how much I had grown to love that place, to love those people. And unlike Peyton, I I'm a creature of habit. I do not like change, and I've learned to adapt a lot this year with with the change that has happened. And I've learned that it's not a bad thing at all. It's just different. It's just new. I think I think that was that was a lot harder to deal with than I realized because growing going into college, I was very motivated. I'm like, I'm gonna get it done in two years. I I'm gonna get in and out, and it'll be great. And then and then I was surprised to to to learn to see how attached I had become. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

That's very similar for both of you.

SPEAKER_04 15:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

That's interesting. And and at different phases of of your lives and of you know your professional or college experiences, but very similar. And it and it makes a lot of sense. It is hard to walk away from something you're comfortable with to grow. So, what's something you learned about yourself that surprised you? It's a very similar, you know, theme, but a little bit different. Something about yourself that you learned that was surprising.

SPEAKER_02 16:14

So this one was very quick to come to mind whenever me and Pate were going through these. It actually goes back to something that Kyle told me about myself. Well, both you and Kyle actually told me about myself this summer, that I had to learn about myself. And it was in relationships with people, I tend to, romantic relationships, I tend to not to I tend to avoid the red flags that I see or just the potential points of concern for the sake of saving the relationship. And in turn, I end up hurting myself more down the road. And so that was an interesting thing that I wasn't aware of about myself until y'all pointed it out. And then I started noticing it. And once I started noticing it, now I've been working on being more vocal about it and just being more aware rather than thinking that the better choice is to just keep the peace and not stir anything up.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Well, and and Piper, I don't think it's the confrontation you're afraid of. I think you love love. Whether it's your puppy or your boyfriends or your friends, you you pour yourself into whatever relationship you have. And once you do that, it's really hard for you to unwind it.

SPEAKER_02 17:28

Right. Yeah. And I think I just needed that little push, that little tough love from Kyle. Yeah. Tough love from you guys to really make me stop in my tracks and be like, oh no, you're right. You you guys were right.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

So I appreciate it. I'm so glad. That's a great, that's a great takeaway from 2025 for you. Payton, what about you?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Yes. So I don't even know if I've shared this one with you, Mom. Maybe a couple boy, they'll survive me on the recording. No, no, no. It's short and sweet. It's short and sweet. It's just that, as you know, I take after my mother and I'm a people person. I am an extrovert. I get recharged by being with my friends, by being out places, by experiences. But my whole job is people and talking and vacation planning with them and problem solving. But it is, it's just talking to people. So my recharge time has looked a lot different this year, and I've started to value quiet, and I'm home and I'm crocheting and I'm watching Stranger Things and I'm having a glass of wine in it, and it's perfect. And that's that's very needed sometimes, where it's just me and my thoughts, and I can download my day, and it's quiet, and there's no one else. Piper.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

I I've seen that recently. We have not talked about that, Peyton, but I've seen that with you because earlier, younger Peyton was go, go, go, go, go non-stop. And I even observed that a little bit when we were with you at Christmas. Like you just need some downtime. And it's true. I do the same thing. So when I'm on the road, it's entertaining other people. And it's non-stop. 24-7. I'm not 24-7, I may sleep for three or four hours. But it's pour yourself into where you are at the time, at the place, with other people, like you were doing, Peyton. And then I get home and I I want to be home. I want to cuddle down, sit in the media room and cuddle Matty Joe and watch something on TV, but I don't want to go anywhere. I just want to hunker down. And so I get it. Because there's only there's only so much you can put out before you need to recharge. And I think that's a great takeaway.

SPEAKER_04 19:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

And it's a great, it's it's really at again, I'm gonna say this again at 23. It's something that it took me a long time to learn. You can't you can't be as good giving yourself out there in the world unless you take care of yourself.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

You just you said it best.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

That's it. Yep. Okay, well, let's let's do one more thing, one more question, and then I'm gonna ask for some help from you guys, okay? Okay. So I want to talk about something that you're grateful for. Something you that happened or a small moment. It doesn't have to be big, but something that made you really grateful.

unknown 20:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

I've tried to I've tried to do this a lot, reflect on being having gratitude in my life. And so I'd I'd like to hear that from you.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

I think that's so important. I mean, psychologically, that's what leads to the most happy people. Here she is using her degree. No, I'm not even kidding. Yes, even pointing. I love that you do that, Mom, because it's it's so true. Even just recognizing three things in your day that brought you joy or that you're grateful for completely changes your mindset without you even realizing it over time.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Takeaway for our listeners as well. I'm I I'm gonna try to apply that. Three things each day that I'm grateful for.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

Yeah. That's why gratitude journaling is a thing. But to answer your question, the thing that I'm grateful for this year that I didn't realize would be such a blessing is actually getting to live in the same state as my sister. Again, we kind of joke about it and talk about it a lot now, but we are closer now than we have been since we last lived together, which was five. Five years ago. Yep. Yeah. And it has been such a joy and such a blessing to, in our adult lives, get to come together again and just literally be closer than ever. I believe it was two weeks after I moved to Florida. I was I was spiraling, I was stressing out about a situation, and Peyton made me what she calls a crash out corner, and literally just threw me in a corner with pillows and blankets and talked me through it. And this is that's this is a luxury that I d haven't had in in so long that I I didn't realize I missed so much. And and what I re had realized, realized is Peyton, Peyton is my best friend. She's my she's my ride or die since I was born. And we used to fight a lot, and now that We lived together Yes you did. Yes, I was there. Fight in Vicker all the time and now and I Physical fighting as well. Physical fighting. All of it. More than more than verbal assault. We were just yes, very angry towards each other scratch marks, trust me. I saw them. So I w what I didn't realize whenever I moved to Florida, obviously I was very nervous. I think you remember, Mom, I was, you know, very nervous the week leading up to moving. And I didn't and I didn't know what it would look like being so physically close to Peyton again until I moved here and she took care of me and we just fell right back in fell right back into our our place with each other. And I think that's what I'm most grateful for because if she wasn't living in Florida, if she wasn't here, I think my experience here so far would have been drastically different. So I'm very thankful for that.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

I thought the two of you are getting this moment because life changes quickly as you become an adult and you have your own families. And this is a very special time. My sister and I got to do this uh similarly right before Peyton was born. She moved in with me young. I was young, married, pregnant with Peyton, my first daughter. And we lived together and worked together for six or eight months. And it was a special time, and it's a time that I I treasure that you never get back. So don't take it for granted.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

We're trying, we're trying hard. I mean, it's easy when you're in Disney World and you can just go to the parks whenever. Oh, stop it.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

We're we we work very closely together, so that's always been fun. Everyone, all of our co-workers on her side and my side know, oh, that's their sister. Yeah, yes, that's paper. They all think we're twins.

SPEAKER_03 23:55

Yes, that's you're just missing the Lynn part.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Missing Maddie.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

No, I I'd love this time for you. Okay, Peyton.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Not to piggyback, but I I'll I'll do my own Peyton spit on it. But I, you know, I was gonna be in Florida again no matter what. I have spent years trying to convince Piper to do the Disney College program just because I think it I think it is a valuable experience. I and you mentioned we'll we'll have another time to talk about it in depth, but having your little sister here is well, having my little sister here is because I we we call each other pretty consistently when she was home or in Arizona. We would call almost every day. But being able to pick up the phone and be like, okay, and when are you off work? And do you want to get get Wendy's frosties? And do you wanna come over and I'll make you dinner? Or hey, this morning, hey, can you make me breakfast? I have no groceries, thank you. But getting to pair the action with our conversations, or it's just it's unreal. Did not think we would get this opportunity again. It's meaningful, and I'm so glad that you have it.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

Okay, so last question for you two. Something this year that you reflect on that makes you laugh.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

Hmm, that's a good question. Come on. To move for the fourth time, fifth time considerer, because I'm an opportunity seeker, and every time there's an opportunity to live somewhere better, I took it. I've moved apartments three times in Flamio Crossings, and if you count moving in the first time and what I'm about to do moving out next week, that will be five times, which is more. That breaks the record. That breaks the record.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Do you categorize that as opportunity taker or as a gypsy lifestyle?

SPEAKER_00 25:50

I uh it's hard. It's hard because I don't think I don't think a traveler like that would mind shared bedroom, shared bathroom situation. But one of my moves was to have my own bathroom, own bedroom. So it's very princess-like of me. I didn't need to do it. And then the second time was just to live with one of my best friends from my first program. How could I say no to that? Now it's time for me to leave flamingo behind and move into a new place. So I don't know what you want to call it, but it is funny that it's happened five times. It's really you think I'd be.

SPEAKER_03 26:24

Well, hopefully, we'll hopefully just like a big girl job, we'll find you not permanent home, but a more long-term situation, living situation. How about that?

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Yeah. Honestly, what came to mind was this. I was not expecting my mom to step into the influencer, has her own podcast role. But it took I flip my feet laugh too. Oh, I was gonna ask. Because now I get to I get to tell all my coworkers about my mom at work, and they're always I always start off with, yeah, well, my mom's an influencer. And they're like, right? And they're like, let me see if I can follow her. Let me see her podcast. Oh, yeah. Stephanie in the parks. Stephanie in the parks. I'm so proud of you, mom. It's it's kind of like funny in that it's not something I ever would have expected. Well, this is the next step that my mom's gonna take in her life. Me either. I love it because you're you are like move you're I don't know, I don't know how to put it into words, but it's not like it's a step in your career necessarily, but you are growing in a creative outlet. And I love seeing the more this is gonna sound weird, but the more human side of mom. Oh, not just a professional. She's not, she's not just my mom. She's her own person. This is her first time living life too. And this is yeah, she's exploring this new thing, and that's really inspiring to see, honestly. And it's been really, really, it's been a cool opportunity just to watch you develop this and kind of get to be to even be a part of it. Is that it's really neat. And yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Well, now I'm crying. So I've I've gone from laughter to tears. That's most of our long phone calls. It's true.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

It's very true. Well, thank you for that, girls. It it it's been a journey for me, and I'm excited to continue it. But it's definitely challenging putting yourself out there and being vulnerable, especially as guarded as I've been social media-wise. But I've had such support from people that I've known throughout my life that have reached out. And it's interesting, it's been an interesting few months of trying it and dipping myself in order and learning. And thank you. I appreciate both of you being supportive and being on this podcast with me and giving me feedback. And I love that. And I love the community that is being built here.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Yeah. You're doing a great job, Mom. You are.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

Oh, thank you. It's it's not easy. Every time I'm like, oh, should I press publish or not?

SPEAKER_02 28:54

I can't even imagine. Yeah. Not easy, but I think you're doing great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Thank you, girls.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

All right. Well, we've gone on and on. Have a favor to ask. I'm struggling with my word of the year. And I have a few that I would want to buy you, and I'd love for your feedback. You don't have to decide, but I would like by midnight tonight to have a decision.

SPEAKER_04 29:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

I have I have had, and I say word of the year, but you guys know this. They're basically setting my intention for the coming year. One year, I think I mentioned this in the last podcast. One year it was being kinder and gentler, and having that mentality actually worked, I think. You can tell me if it did it wrongly.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Yeah. I think it does work whenever you verbally say, okay, this is what I want to work towards. And then you start remembering it every time you have the opportunity to do that.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

So yes, I played relentless. This year I have a few. I'm gonna throw them out here. And I like thinking wanted it to be simplify or simplification or minimalized because things are busy and I I like to be a consumer. I like to do a lot of things that I was like, okay, maybe if I simplify them, like, no, this is not the year for that. Maybe in a year or two, but this is not the year. We've got a podcast, and I've got all my influencing stuff, and I've got a career, and I've got all the things, and you girls, and I'm still wanting to start running the masters and the major marathons. I want to go to Berlin and run next year, like all the things, dude. So I'm like, this is not the simplified year. Not yet. So then I again the podcast has been really creative outlet for me, and it's been fun for me. And I was like, okay, last week the podcast was it was being present over trying to be perfect, and not that I'm a perfectionist, but I'm I do like things to be the way I like them, which is good and bad. So I do like being present over perfection, but I'm not sure that that's it. I like intentionality, but I feel like it's an overuse. Being intentional is an overused word. So yeah, I didn't feel like that was brilliant. Grounded, I like grounded, like strong, strong presence, leadership, energy, but rooted. Like rooted. I'm leaning, leaning in a little bit towards anchored, like being present, being intentional, calm leadership, even if life's busy. Yeah, I like that a lot. Do you? I like anchored. Actunge is another one I played with, like present, purposeful, intentional, but anchored. I'm leaning that way, but I I want your feedback. I've threw a lot to ask you.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Yes. I feel like thinking about anchored, it encompasses multiple facets of life. It's not just like professional or personal or emotional, but it's like you can apply it to anything.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Yeah, it it combines a lot of the concepts you talked about in all the words, and just on today's record-breaking length podcast.

SPEAKER_03 31:58

I know. I was gonna say we're gonna get to split this up. 40 minutes is longer than I've ever done. And I don't know that anyone's listening to 40 minutes of us talk, but we'll figure it out. We're a little we are, yeah. And it's been fun. It's been so fun. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

I think anchored is a very cool motif. It gives me gift ideas for you. So you like anchored? I do. And we'll we'll revisit this New Year's Day tomorrow, see if anything happens in now in what six, eight hours. I don't know, I can't do math. Yeah, I should do math. Ten hours from now. Three hours different, so I've got a little more time.

unknown 32:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

But like think about the other words that you said, like being an intentional and being present, like being grounded, I feel like is similar to being anchored. Yep. It just depends on how you want to word that. But I think it was another one, but I don't I th I think anchored is more me than devoted.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Yeah. I'm on the same page as you. Okay, well, you guys marin marinate on that one for a minute and then get back with me. And we'll we'll make the big announcement tomorrow. But I want you guys to have your words as well. So I know you said that was one of the things you were struggling with was her word. So it's been the next few hours because before the clock strikes midnight on the East Coast, I want you to text me your words.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

Okay. Sounds good. Lock it in.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

Lock it in. Okay. Well, I think we're done here. This has been amazing. I've had so much fun with you girls. We've had button. So thank you, everyone, who listens to this. I hope that we didn't ramble too much, and I hope you're able to pull something away from this. As always, you can reach me by texting directly to this podcast. It goes straight to my phone and I will respond to you. If you have ideas, questions, you want to share some feedback, tell me what your word of the year is. I would love to hear from you. You can also message me on any of my social media channels. All the channels are at Stephanie in the Parks. You can also email me at Stephanieintheparks at gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you. Also, just happy new year. Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening and letting me share my heart and some of our family's traditions. Love, hug, kisses, cheers, go drink some bubbly, book the trips. Happy New Year. It's Matty Joe time. Bye, girls. Happy New Year.