End of Year Reflections

This short episode is a wrap up for the year with a list of the favorite episodes, a personal reflection on the year and some exciting new for next year.

Thank you for being a listener of the Differently Podcast and for sharing it with others.  Because of you and your sharing, we reached 35 countries this year!

Happy New Year!

2023 Favorite Episodes

How to Slow Down with Camille Smith
Overcome Challenges with Creativity
Client Spotlight: Choosing Freedom in the Face of Fear
Be the Leader You Were Made to Be with Amy P. Kelly
Move Life Forward, Differently

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

I'm Karla Reeves, and this is Differently. Whether you feel stuck in survival, navigating a change or seeking more for your life, May this podcast be your weekly nudge to take a risk to build a life that is uniquely bold, authentic and in alignment with your deepest values. After a decade of coaching individuals from corporate leaders to creative artists to multi-million dollar CEOs I'm convinced we are far closer than we realize to what we deeply desire, and it's a willingness to do differently that can change everything. Welcome to the final episode of the year for the Differently Podcast. I can't even believe this completes our third year of the podcast. It has been an incredible journey and I want to thank you, Whether you are a new listener or you've been hanging out with me for a while. Thank you. Thanks to you and your sharing, we have reached listeners in 35 countries. How cool is that? I also want to give a shout out to my amazing husband. Without his emotional and technical support, this podcast would not happen every week. As we wrap up the year, I want to point you to some of the favorites for this year, in case you missed them, and share something from my own reflection on 2023 and give you something to be excited about for the new year. The favorite episodes for 2023 are how to Slow Down with Camille Smith. Overcome Challenges with Creativity. Number three is Choosing Freedom in the Face of Fear with Bob Parsons. That was a client spotlight. Number four be the leader you were made to be with Amy Kelly. And number five, move life forward differently.

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As I look back on the podcast this year, I also did my own personal reflection. Have you done that yet? There's still plenty of time and I highly recommend it. I think I'm surprised every year when I do the reflecting part of my planning process as to how much the reflection informs the creating part for the new year. This year, in my reflection, one of the questions I asked myself was what was my life curriculum this year? In other words, what did the events, circumstances and terrain of my everyday life? How did it teach me, shape me and mold me this year? Life taught me so many things this year, but the overarching lesson has been to surrender and trust. I've learned to have vision, goals and dreams, but not be attached to the outcome. I've learned to walk through uncertainty and keep showing up, keep showing up, keep showing up.

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About six or seven months ago, I felt strongly. It was time to build the next stage of my business and I deeply wanted to just lay it all out on paper so that I would know where I was headed. But every time I sat down to write or draw the next business model or layout, it just didn't work. It wasn't coming together. I felt like I was forcing the wrong puzzle pieces together. And then one day a quiet, wise voice inside me said stop trying to figure it all out. Just show up every day, do a little bit of work on it and I'll show you the next piece. And now, seven months later, that map is laid out on paper. I know where I'm going and what I'm doing, at least for the moment.

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The journey this year to get here in my business has been filled with a lot of struggle, a lot of doubt, confusion and frustration. But I kept showing up and slaying the mental dragons on the daily and surrendering again and again. The amount of struggle that it took to stay in step with this was ridiculous. The amount of doubt, confusion and frustration that I faced on a daily basis was more than I ever remember facing as an entrepreneur. Something kept me showing up and slaying those mental dragons I tried several times to take this all back into my own hands because I was frustrated and felt like it was taking way too long.

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On this side of things, I see God's faithfulness. I see the power of surrendering and showing up to do the work, as our 19 year old son said to us, as we did our best to support him in navigating some circumstances and decisions this year. Quote stop trying to be perfect. The struggle is good. Which leads me to All that struggle I mentioned this year. Well, it's brought some things to life, things that just might impact you and your life new opportunities to engage and learn and ditch the status quo to embrace that life. You know you're here to live. Some things are coming, and I will be sharing all of this with you in the coming days and weeks.

Speaker 1: 5:30

I also wanna thank all of the guests that came on the differently podcast this year, and I wanna let you know that we're going to have a lot of the differently. Guests will be coming back. I want you to go deeper and get to know them even more. I already have some episodes recorded that I can't wait to share with you. Until then, my friend, happy New Year. Hey, thanks for tuning into this episode of Differently. I hope it stirred your thinking and I invite you to take one inspired action from something that stood out to you. If you wanna hear more conversations like this, be sure to hit follow on your favorite podcast app, and if this episode could impact someone you know, please help us spread the word and pass it along. Remember new episodes drop weekly. See you next week.