The Glow Up | 2 | The Energy of 2025 & 2026

This year has been about endings, shedding, and preparing for what's next. I'm sharing the biggest lessons from navigating a collective 9 year, a personal 9 year, year of the snake (I'm also born in the year of the snake!), and my nodal return all at once. Plus — what it's really looked like to let go of offers, close loops, and come back to leading a desire-led, fulfillment-led business.

In this episode:

• The numerology, astrology, and human design transits shaping this year
• What I've let go of (Midas Coach Mentorship, Brand New Era Mastermind, Instagram accounts, a podcast)
• The tension I feel between mysticism and science (and how I'm reconciling it)
• Coming off the roof as a 6/2 projector
  *After recording this, a little extra research shows me that actually 6 lines don’t come off the roof until around age 50. Oops! But still, the message remains — I’m in a time of transition, where I know my lessons are clarifying and crystallizing.
• Why I'm done with reverse-engineered launch schedules
• Leading from desire and intuition vs logic and strategy
• Trusting myself to follow through without a rigid plan

Links:

• Work with me in my Mastermind or Private Coaching

Next Episode: Day 3 - Blinders Up, Let Go of the Stories

Transcript

Welcome to day two of the Glow Up. I have got a conversation today that has been, is really based upon a lot of the biggest lessons that I have had this year. A lot of them are related to numerology, astrology, human design and a lot of the like collective and personal transits that have been going on obviously for us and for me. So this year I came into this year knowing that collectively we're in nine year and numerology which is all about endings, closing off loops, leaving patterns in the past, saying goodbye to old ways of being, old identities and getting ourselves ready to step into the next year which is a one year. So I knew that this was gonna be a big year of shedding and change for me. The last time I went through this was when I was realizing that I could no longer be a therapist and that I was searching for the next stage searching for what was coming next I knew that I wanted I could I could picture the life that I wanted I knew that I wanted like a level of freedom I knew that I wanted I was at the time where I was like looking at all of these programs like remote yeah I don't know if you guys ever saw those things but it was like we if you had a job that allowed you to be remote you could go and like live in a place for a year or you like move around and you get to experience. I'm getting to experience all this freedom so I could see all of these different paradigms of work and I just wanted all of that. And this year I have been in a similar place where I know that I have outgrown and that I have kind of come to not the end of these lessons of this maybe I was feeling that. I feel like I'm going through a change in identity and I knew that I was preparing for that this year. So I came into this year with the intention of I'm closing this is what I see to my team late 2024. I'm closing out You know the things that we're not taking with us into the next into the next era and I'm taking the best of This last era of business into the into the next one So I really had this intention to like clean up shop and to know what I was gonna take with me We also came into this year and this year is year of the snake which also is about shedding. It's about letting go of old patterns. So there's like this huge theme going on, right? And on a personal level, I am year of the snake. I was born in the year of the snake and I am also in a personal nine year. We are in a collective nine year. Like all of these things were lining up to show me that I am in this place of there are things that need to be let go of. And so that was what I really came into this year with the intention of. What I also didn't realize and have figured out as we've gone through this year, I don't really pay that close attention to like astrology. I know a little bit about it, but I don't play pay super close attention to it. Is that I was also going through my nodal return this year. Those big eclipses that we had on the Pisces Virgo nodes. I am I am a Pisces North node, Virgo South node, which means that all of these lessons are coming up for me. That means that as a Virgo South node, a lot of the lessons that I have in are about letting go of perfectionism and, you know, being hyper structured and doing things in a particular way. And the Pisces North node is very much about intuition and mysticism and trusting your pathway forward based upon what you feel. and I have always kind of felt something. I found out about this Pisces Virgo North-North-South-Node thing is that it does really encapsulate one of the biggest struggles that I have had as a grown-up in the last few years of business where I have discovered things like human design, astrology, numerology, which are so mystical. And yet, I mean, those of you who know me well will know, like, I'm a science gal. or at least like that was a huge piece of my identity for like you know the first sort of 30 years of my life and I do I love science I love research I love evidence-based I love noting out on that and there is also this very I would say it's a relatively big piece of this a big piece of me but I feel like I'm closeted I it's like I talk a little bit about mysticism but actually the the extent to it plays out in my life is a lot bigger that I let on. I love it. But because I have had a hard time reconciling this with science, like, we're probably never going to get any evidence to say that human design is actually, like, real, right? I don't know. Maybe we will. Maybe we will. I'm not sure. I would love if we had something. But we just currently don't. And so for me to, you know, believe in something that has honestly, quite honestly, really changed the quality of the design. I think I've had a lot of experience with my life through understanding myself better. And also to reconcile that with the part of me that loves science, it's been really tricky. And I imagine that there are a lot of you who also resonate with this as well. So this has been a massive lesson for me this year that I didn't really realize that I needed. It wasn't an intention. It just kind of, it was something that happened. So this year I have been in the space of this intention. Quite consciously of closing out what I'm not taking with me and and really being clear about what I do take with me into this next phase of of life and career and business. And to be fair, I haven't actually had a very clear idea of what that looks like to me. I know that in human design, I'm currently 36, about to turn 37. So I'm also as a six to projector, I'm about to come off the roof. for those of you who know what that means. This middle phase of my life, since my satin return in my late 20s, I'm now coming off the roof where I'm, I've spent the last 10 years, like I guess crystallising a lot of the lessons from the first 30 years of my life. And now I'm like coming off the roof and like I'm feeling like I have a lot more of that wisdom to share. I feel like I have books in me. I feel like I want to speak. I feel like I just have so many things that I want to give professionally. Personally, to the world, I want to do research. I want to have this body of work that I contribute to. I want to impact hundreds of thousands of people's lives, if not millions of people's lives through research that can be distilled into lessons for people that genuinely make their lives better. And I know that in order to do that, in order to have the capacity for a PhD and to explore that part of my life and my... I guess my brand and my being, I have to free up time and capacity. And so that's what this year was all about, was freeing up time and capacity, creating more systems. And interestingly, I don't think I've created any more systems, but I have cleared out so much. And this is what came to a head a couple of months ago, for those of you who watched the deconstruction process. I shared a wee bit, I haven't shared like a lot of it yet, which I will talk about more over the next few days, I think. in that I have been systematically removing things from my business and interestingly like I said yesterday it has been about I have been making decisions emotionally. No I don't mean that in a negative like way I mean leaning into okay what feels like it's coming with me and what what do I feel like I have outgrown. What do I feel is something that is not really my message versus something that I have I could not die with that message still on my heart. I know that sounds like quite serious and quite crazy but that is really how I operate. I don't really know how to do things by halves. I don't really know how to be half in something and so when I'm in something I'm all the way in it which means that I have to be really careful about how much I say yes to because when I say yes to it I'm in it. I don't like drop that ball and so the last few months I've let go of the Midas coach mental I've let go of a mastermind my brand new era mastermind. I just woke up one day and I was like that's gone like I'm not I'm not taking any more clients for that I'm closing out this loop this is going to be finished and out of my product suite. I have completely gotten rid of instagrams and like the exceptional coach podcast is gone and then the things that I remain in I really had to sit with and go is this still here? Is this what I still want to do? Obviously this podcast has made the cut but I also knew that I was like I don't really want to do weekly episodes and the same thing goes with social media like I really I can't like I can't keep myself to some kind of like production schedule and I know that there will be a lot of you who feel that way too like it it doesn't feel correct to keep your creativity on a production schedule and And so this brings me to really what is the best way to do it. The biggest lesson of this year is coming back to leading a desire lead business, a fulfillment lead business. A I don't care if this makes sense professionally or strategically or I don't care if this is not best practice from like a strategic point of view. I don't care. I want to run my business my way. And as history would tell me if I look back through all the years that I've been running my business, any time I have led my business purely from a place of I want to do this and so I'm going to do this. I want to share this piece of content so I'm going to share this piece of content. I want to start this podcast so I'm going to start this podcast. I want to sell this thing so I'm going to sell this thing. It has always worked out well. Any time I have stuck with something and forced myself to do something because it was on the the schedule or I thought that I had to do it. And I don't mean like delivering to clients, like that is a complete pass. Like I will always deliver what I say that I'm going to deliver to clients, but like I'm talking about like launch schedules and things like that. Anytime I've tried to like reverse engineer, like this is when I'm going to do this launch and this is how many weeks we need. And this is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I go way too much into logic. It ruins me. I get so incredibly bored and I go way too much into like, well, I have to work this way. If I want XYZ and I am not willing to run my business that way anymore. I want to play in, I just want to do what feels right. And that doesn't mean avoiding what feels hard. That doesn't mean not facing fears. That doesn't mean not doing things that feel sticky and crunchy because often things that you desire feel sticky and crunchy. And there is resistance to work through to allow that to work that way. So don't misunderstand me and say that I'm only doing what I want. I'm not willing to do the work based on some reverse engineered overly strategic process. I want to show up when I want to show up. I want to say what I want to say and I want to let that be enough. And so, you know, maybe that's what this podcast becomes. Maybe that's what my sub-stack becomes. Maybe that's what my Instagram becomes. Like, I... Will speak when I have something to say and that will be hella fucking good And I will sell when I have something to sell and that will be hella fucking good and When I don't have anything to say or to sell I will not be saying or selling anything and This feels so much cleaner to me. This feels so much better for me As a projector I think just as a human in general just giving myself permission to do what feels right and I say this saying if that is a lesson that you also need then when are you going to give yourself permission to do that as well and a lot of this comes back to the ability to trust yourself and so all of this for me came back to this like little niggling piece of like where I didn't trust myself to like it was like if I don't have a plan I don't trust myself to show up, right? And if I don't show up, I won't make sales and if I don't make sales then my business will fall apart and blah blah blah, right? But really the alternative to this is I trust myself to follow a desire through. I trust myself enough to listen to what I want and I trust myself and my intuition enough to give me the steps to get there. That's what I trust because that has never let me down and I bet, I bet, If you look back in your past. You can see that too. You can see where intuition helped you versus when you ignored it or you tried to go overly strategic and things fell apart. I bet you can see that too. This is not just like a thing that is unique to me. You can trust your urges, the ones that are correct for you. You can trust your emotions. You can trust your intuition. And I think we're done with this idea that you can't run a business that way, that you have to be perfect, to be professional. You need to be strategic and structured to be successful. I think we're done with that now. I think we're moving and we're being invited to move into a time where we are allowed to trust our desires. We are allowed to trust our intuition and that they will lead us to the best kind of innovations, the best kind of lessons and the biggest transformations that we could possibly ever hope for. And that they often defy what our logical mind believes can happen. And that is the kind of life and business that I want to play in. So these are some of the biggest lessons that I've had this year in 2025 and I know that stepping into 2026 with these lessons on board, I am going to be a stronger, more internally resourced, happier, more fulfilled human. And I really cannot wait to see where my intuition takes me in this next year, in this next nine years. In whatever phase is coming next. Thank you so much for being here. If this helped you in some way, I would love for you to reach out to me and let me know. I always really want to know what spoke to you, what resonated. And if you feel cold, please share it to your stories or share it with a friend who you know would really help. It would really help. Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow.