Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the podcast. Today's going to be interesting. I got a little emotional preparing for it, actually, because I'm reflecting on 2025, both personally and professionally. I didn't realize what a full year I've had. If you have a podcast, I recommend doing this just for yourself, to go through your year, look through your pictures, look through your trips, look through the things that you experienced, because, wow.
I had a full, beautiful year, and it was really cool to reflect on. And so I'm going to share some of the lessons that I've learned in business and personally, because I think, you know, one of the cool parts about being in the wisdom economy is we share wisdom with each other, and we all benefit. And so it's not just, you know, some of you are, I love you so much.
And some of you just like, we're connected, we have a relationship, so you're gonna be interested in like, what I did this year and my mistakes and what I'm changing. Some of you are gonna listen and apply it to your life in your own way. Some of you are my friends and just like, are curious about what I did this year and what I'm up to.
So the first thing that I saw when I looked through my photos was the fact that I started skiing last winter, and I had skied and snowboard before, but this was the first year that like, I made a commitment of it. Me and my sister-in-law, Gracie, we went quite a few times, we like bought special gear, and we had so much fun. And it was so important for me to have a place where I could like experience flow.
And I'm a little sad because right now, I am pretty sure I have a torn meniscus. I haven't talked about that on the podcast, but I have an MRI coming up pretty soon. And so I don't know if I'm gonna be able to ski this season. And so looking at the pictures, I was like, oh, I loved skiing. It was so fun. I really hope I can do it again. Because it's just so good to have those things outside of family and business just for me.
And so being on the mountain and the snow, being in the quiet, zooming down the mountain was so good for me. And I really hope I can do it again. The next big thing that I wrote down was that I went to the Hormozi event, and I created an episode about it. And I think I called it More Better New. And it was the principles that I learned from Alex Hormozi and his wife, Layla Hormozi. And it was a great event. But this is what's interesting.
At that time, I felt a lot of uncertainty in my offerings in the direction of how I was scaling my business. And so when I got into the room, I felt very different than everyone else in the room, because I'm not trying to build this mega company. And I went to the scaling event, not knowing that actually, like I didn't know how I was going to scale.
So I had Quiet Wealth Collective going, I had Lighthouse Mentorship going, I had my mastermind, and I had private coaching. I had those four offers kind of up and running when I went to Vegas. And what I thought would happen is that I would go to the scaling event, the workshop at their headquarters, and then I would figure out how to scale Quiet Wealth Collective. When I went in, that's kind of what I thought.
And it was funny, because around that time, I hired my coach, Amber Lilyestrom, which was another significant part of my year, which I'll talk about in a little bit, at the same time. And her approach is very different than the Hormozi's, which is amazing. And so it's just interesting to feel like this mismatched energy, because here I am at the Hormozi event, and it's like, scale, scale, scale, build a company. Lots of people wanted to sell their companies.
Lots of people had mega teams, right? Just a lot of complexity. And there's nothing wrong with that. I think a lot of people want mega companies. I just realized I didn't. So here I am going to this event thinking I'm going to learn how to scale Quiet Wealth Collective, and I end up leaving that event, deciding to close Quiet Wealth. And it had been a wobble for me for a while, energetically. I didn't know what was wrong. I didn't know what I would change.
But that was kind of going in like, oh, I'm going to make updates, I'm going to make changes, I'm going to start scaling it. And then I left the event going, oh, like, actually, I'm going to complete Quiet Wealth in August. And that was in April. So in April, I decided to close Quiet Wealth, and then I complete it in August. At that time, like I said, I had started working with my coach, Amber. I jokingly refer to us as Amber Squared.
And she helped me figure out like what my right size business is. And so a lot of the work that I've been doing is kind of like peeling back the layers of what works for me and my energy, what works for my family, and keeping the main premise of my life, the main premise, which is abundance and love and joy and creation and intuition and being available for my loved ones and letting my business be the right size for me.
And so that has been a huge part of this year, too, is kind of like experimenting. So another big thing that was happening this year is I led in the beginning of the year, I called it the Abundance Mastermind. And so I filled it with six amazing women. We had our first retreat in March, in Heber City, Utah. And a few of my other private clients came to that retreat as well. And it was amazing. And clients from my groups. So it was a mix.
It was like clients from My Miracle Mind, private clients and clients from Quiet Wealth or Lighthouse Mentorship at the time in March. And it was so amazing. We had a great weekend. I felt super on fire after the retreat because I was like, this is the work that I want to do.
And what's interesting about the timing of that is the retreat happened first.
So I went to the retreat, was like, this is the work that I meant to be doing is like up close and personal, intimate, deep work with people, my people. And then I go to the Hormozi event in April thinking I'm going to scale the Quiet Wealth collective. It was just a misalignment for me. And so I was so grateful that I started working with my coach, Amber, because she started to reflect back to me, like, hey, maybe there's some things we can clean up.
Maybe there's some business model that we can look at and some structural things that we can change. I ultimately decided to close Quiet Wealth and go all in on the intimate, deep work that I do and let that be the main thing instead of trying to scale something that doesn't. And I'm not saying it's bad to scale because like some people really want to scale big. And I thought that might be me. And it wasn't. And through the podcast, the journey of the podcast, because some of you know, like I've been talking about this all year because of what happened in April.
And so then we get into summer. The other thing that happened personally is, you know, the beginning of the year, my youngest daughter was in preschool. And then this was our last summer before she went to kindergarten. So come summer, you know, I go to California. I go and visit my in-laws. I visit my parents in Colorado. We go on lots of trips during the summer.
We're entering into a different phase of life. In August, my youngest daughter started kindergarten, full-day kindergarten. So now all three of my children are in school all day. And it felt like this big exhale of like, I didn't realize how much tension I had been holding of like trying to grow my business and be available as the mom that I wanted to be. And so I was constantly being disrupted during my work hours, which is like, okay, like, I'm not mad about that at all.
Because like, that's the kind of life I wanted with my babies while they were young. Right. But all of a sudden, I found myself like with a lot of spacious time in August. I have kind of like regular work hours and uninterrupted hours of work. And so things started to change then too. I had done the Lighthouse Mentorship summer semester. Some of you were part of that. Thinking that Lighthouse Mentorship was going to be the thing, right?
There's like this theme in the groups, which I talked about in the last episode about House of Abundance, right? This theme of like, trying to find the right fit of my group program, knowing that my preference of working with people is like up close, personal, intimate, deep. And so I've been trying to find the fit. And I love Lighthouse Mentorship both semesters. So like Lighthouse Mentorship in the beginning of the year from January to May.
I love Lighthouse Mentorship summer semester, which happened in June, July and August. And then in August, I led a program called Quantum Play. And Quantum Play is one of my fan favorites. It's about conscious creation. It's about the quantum field. It's about creative faith. I would use the word manifestation. I just don't love the word manifestation. I could create a whole episode. I love the word conscious creation, right?
Because I still think like effort is required, right? And sometimes I think when people hear the word manifestation, I don't think that's the definition of manifestation. I think it's just what people kind of have evolved into thinking about it. Like, it's like woo woo and out there, like you just imagine it and it comes to you. And it's like, that's partially true, right? So like, I really love the word conscious creation.
And so Quantum Play is my program for like consciously creating and aligning your wealth energetics. And so I love that program. During that time, I opened a program called the Amber Smith Vortex. Amber Smith Vortex was a month to month program where you just like have calls with me and it's very intuitive. And I coach and I teach and I train and we brainstorm basically whatever I'm responding to in the group.
As I look back on the sequence of events that happened between Quiet Wealth Collective closing, Lighthouse Mentorship, my mastermind kind of taking off at the same time, it becomes very obvious like what needed to happen for me was to let my miracle mind become the main thing. So in October, I led a retreat in Park City with the Miracle Mind and I knew I was gonna be called Miracle Mind when I went to the retreat.
And it was like so obvious that like this is the main thing. And so one of the things that I had been working on with Amber, my coach, was kind of transitioning from like scaling the groups, scaling Quiet Wealth, scaling Lighthouse Mentorship, scaling the Vortex, to like allowing the mastermind to become my main focus.
One-on-one work in a group capacity, right, where there's like a retreat, there's one-on-one calls with me, there's group calls, there's Voxer, there's a group Voxer, it's intimate, it's close, it's connected, I'm like up in everyone's business, like I'm on a deep personal level in their corner. And it was like such an obvious thing now, but throughout the years I've been trying to figure out, okay like one-on-one is taken care of, mastermind is taken care of, like what do I do with the group? Oh that's how I scale.
And it's like no, like what if the Miracle Mind was the main thing? And then the group, it's not that I don't love the group, of course I love the group, but it just like doesn't have to produce the volume and it doesn't have to produce the high revenue that I thought it did. And it felt like this big exhale.
And so I changed the Amber Smith Vortex to House of Abundance, I changed the pricing so that it's easier for people to get into House of Abundance, and it's a year-long experience with me because I want it to be intimate and personal and relationship-focused, even though it's a group, right, where like maybe we're not in Voxer together, maybe we don't have one-on-one calls, but I know who you are in the group. And like letting that be the game plan, and it just feels so good.
But you can see kind of like what I went through this year of like the unfolding sequence of events. Contrast creates clarity. And so I've had these amazing experiences with the Miracle Mind where I'm like, this is what I meant to do, these are my people, this is the work that I think I do best. And then letting that be the main thing. And it's been amazing to see that unfold. I have eight amazing ladies in there right now, and I'm excited for 2026 with the Miracle Mind.
We're doing a retreat in Las Vegas in March, and then we'll do a retreat in Park City in October. And I'm just so excited for that work. But it's been a long process of experimentation and things not quite fitting, right? It's not that my groups didn't work. They did. Like I had a ton of fun. I love the people in the groups. I loved Lighthouse Mentorship. I loved Quiet Wealth. I loved the concepts. I loved what we were teaching.
But the relationship piece was missing, where I knew them on a deep level. And so I'm really excited to have this setup where I can know my clients at every level, in House of Abundance, in Miracle Mind, and in 101. I know everyone in my world, which is a top priority for me. And I didn't know that until I was in the Hormozi event going, this isn't really what I want. It was very data-driven. And that's not bad at all. I hope I made that really clear.
It's not that I think that the way that the Hormozi's do business is bad. Obviously, it's not. It's amazing. They're incredible. But I want the relationship. I want to go deep. I want to have a personal relationship with my clients, which not all coaches do. But I do. I know everything about my client. I know about their spouses. I know about their partners, if they have them. I know about their children, if they have them. I know about their parents.
I know about their childhood. I know about their clients. I know about their money stories. I know about their spirituality and their relationship with God. I know so much about them. And I like that. I like the relationship piece. That's why I wanted to become a one-on-one coach in the beginning. And so a lot of this year had been remembering, truly remembering who I am and what work I want to do and letting that take up space and not making myself wrong or not making myself forced to do something else. I had a big aha. I think I created a podcast about it.
I don't want to be a CEO. I want to be a coach. And that was such good awareness for me. I'm not trying to grow this CEO organization. I want the garden in the backyard feeling of my business, where it's me. When you work with Amber Smith Coaching, LLC, you work with Amber. And it feels so good. And so I feel like I'm really clear going into the new year that it's House of Abundance, my 12-month group coaching program, and then Miracle Mind, which is my mastermind and one-on-one hybrid program.
And there's my higher level one-on-one clients that we do VIP days and all sorts of stuff. But that felt really clear. And so all of this was happening while just in my personal life. I went skiing. I traveled to my in-laws house a couple times. I went to see my parents in Colorado. Me and Wesley went to Disney World in February, which is hilarious because now we're about to go to Disney World. At the time of this recording, we're about to go to Disney World for Christmas.
This will come out after Christmas. So while you're listening to this, I'm in Disney World, which is just kind of fun. I went to Moab with my friend and her boys. What else did we do? I went to California in the summer with my sister-in-law and my mother-in-law, which was so fun because my sister-in-law has four little kids. And we just had so much fun playing in the sand and the waves and collecting seashells. And I grew up in Northern California. So it was fun to be back.
And my old stomping grounds actually drove the girls past my house, like where I went to high school. And we drove past my high school and past where I used to work for the city of San Ramon. And it was just like a little, I don't know, it felt like a Hallmark movie, you know, where I'm like, this is where I grew up before I even left home, before I went to college. And so that was really cool.
It's like all of these things are happening while all this business stuff is happening. Of course, you know, what else? I took a few notes. Oh, here's some other things that happened. So I had three VIP days this year with private clients, one in Colorado, two in Utah. We grew our amazing garden this summer, which, you know, I love the garden metaphor. All my babies are in school. The other big thing that happened was that Wesley got a promotion in his company.
So he travels and he works from home. So historically, it's been, he would work on site, close to where we live in Utah. But now he travels to three different sites, one in Utah here, and then in other states. And when he's traveling, he gets to work from home, which has been really cool for our family because he gets to be around.
It's ironic that even though he travels for some days of the month, we see him more because he gets to work from home, which is just such a cool blessing. The other thing that was good was I started doing in-person workshops with part of the Vortex. One of the things that I wanted was to have an in-person component so that people could meet with me live. So I got a membership at KILN, local co-working space.
And my clients who are in Utah, and I've even had people come from Idaho. It's been really fun to have people come down. But what I love about it is I get that deep connection. I can look people in the eyes, I can hug them, we can talk in real life and in real time about what's going on in their life and business. And so I did workshops like Abundance Workshop, Lightning Bolt Clarity, Architecture Resonance.
And it's just so fun to be in person in a room masterminding and brainstorming and coaching and creating together live because I do so much work on Zoom. It's so fun to do it in person. I had people that came to almost every single one I did live this year, which is so fun. Sometimes my private clients would come, sometimes Vortex members would come, sometimes random people who weren't in any of my offers would come, which was perfect.
It was a great way to meet people. I've never done that before. I didn't have the capacity. One of the things I'm grateful for is Zoom. The virtual aspect of what I do is such a blessing, especially as I was raising little kids. It gave me flexibility. It made it so that I didn't have to leave my house. But one of the gifts and blessings that I have now is that my kids are in school, so I have this capacity to have a three-hour workshop. That will continue in 2026 as well.
I didn't do one in December because it's just too crazy, but there will be one in January and then going forward because I love it. So it's like six to ten people in a room sharing, coaching, creating together. It's just so fun and definitely like a highlight of my business this year for sure. This is just me future casting. I think the more AI tools grow and virtual tools and the internet and technology expands and honestly becomes more pervasive in our lives, the more we're going to crave in-person human experiences, at least if you're like me.
I want more human. I want more real. So you could try that. I was coaching someone earlier this year who started going on walks just in her neighborhood and where she lived, and she just invited people to come. It was a great way to meet potential clients, but also people are craving. People want in-person, and so that's something that you can consider for yourself. How can you add more in-person? How can you create more human touch points?
It doesn't have to be a three-hour in-person workshop, but could it be a walk around the block? Could it be doing a lunch offering? Could you attend things? Maybe it's not you hosting it, but could you attend it? I think there's a lot of possibilities there. I know for me, it was cool to see people come in and have a deep dive in person. That's just so rare for the online coaching space.
The other thing that is really cool is this year is my highest revenue year ever, and I'm really grateful for that. What makes me even more excited about that is my client roster is freaking amazing. I'm working with my favorite people. If you're listening to this, I love the work that I do. I love every time I open Voxer and I see messages from my clients. There's no one in my world that I'm like, oh no.
I feel like I have an amazing relationship with all of my clients, and I love what they're doing, and I love the questions that they bring, and I love what they get coached on, and I love what they're creating. Even though some of them had hard years, I know that that's not uncommon. In fact, many of you listening probably would resonate with that too. It doesn't mean that everything's all fine and dandy.
Sometimes we have to go really deep and face some hard stuff, and we have to make hard decisions, and we have to look and be honest and meet ourselves with some uncomfortable truths so that we can expand into what's next. Even though, like I said, it's my ideal client roster right now, I love them so much, it doesn't mean that everything was like rainbows and giggles.
I'm proud of them, and I'm proud of the work that they're doing for their families and for themselves and for their communities. It's really inspiring to see the willingness to be coached, the humility, the commitment, the development over the course of the year. Some of my clients I've been working with for years. This year was one of those ones that cracked us open in unique ways, and some people created freaking miracles this year, personally, financially, in business, with clients, in their marriages.
There's been some amazing, amazing creations this year. When I think about the big theme for me personally, the other thing that really became clear is a focus on the emotional reality of abundance, which has been the thing I keep coming back to with clients too, because to me, that's what's created all of my success. My highest revenue year ever did not come because I got the strategy right.
I just told you at the beginning of this episode how wrong I got the strategy sometimes. The mismatch, the quote failures, the things that didn't work still worked, because I think I am fueled in what I teach by emotional reality of abundance. The feeling of my life matters more than what it looks like, and that's been a theme my whole life. I remember writing a post on Facebook when you'd share song lyrics and stuff.
I remember saying this, I should find this post, because my friend commented on it. I still remember writing it. It was like, I don't care how your life looks. I care how it feels. I still think that that's true for me. I don't care how my life looks. I care how it feels. Same thing is true for my clients. I don't care how their lives look. I care how their life feels. All the money in the world won't matter if you don't feel good in your own life.
To me, my work has always been both, which is why I'm so excited for House of Abundance to become a thing, because I'm combining those two concepts. I want your business to feel amazing and produce results, of course. Of course. But I also want your life to feel amazing. I want you to actually like where you live, and I don't mean the physical location on the map. I mean your emotional presence. Do you like to live in your body? Do you like to inhabit your life?
You're the main character in your life, that you wake up and you're like, dang, yes, I love this. And so I think that has been a huge insight for me this year, that that's the thing. And then the money and the clients and the success comes as a byproduct. I loved coaching, and I loved the coaching business, and I loved being a creator. I loved podcasting. I loved writing. I loved creating content before any of it made me money.
And that's so important to say, because so many people are getting into the coaching game to make money, and then they wonder where the money's coming from. Where will the money come? And it's like, you got the order wrong. I've shared this story before, but I went to a Luke Combs concert, and he said something like, what would I be doing if I wasn't doing this? And he's like, doing this.
And I remember feeling this lightning bolt clarity for me, that that's how I feel about what I do. And it's hard to teach that, because you want your clients to succeed in the physical sense. You want them to make money. You want them to sign clients. But you have to love what you do, regardless of those circumstances happening. You have to love the game. You can't just love the winning. So like, I play basketball, and so I'll use that as a metaphor.
It's like, you have to love playing basketball. You have to love shooting. You have to love playing defense. You have to love getting a rebound. You have to love boxing out. You have to love getting a tip, or getting a steal, or making the perfect pass, doing a nice move, and then hitting a jump shot. You have to love the feeling of playing basketball. And what's funny is, that puts you into flow, which makes you amazing at playing basketball, ironically.
I think the same is true for business. Finding a way to love the creative process. Finding a way to love marketing. Finding a way to serve people before they ever pay you. Finding a way to love learning the art of sales, and persuasion, and impact. Finding a way to love writing emails. Finding a way to love podcasting. That's the inner work, and you can't fake it. You can't manipulate the universe. You can't fake it and get clients. It has to be real.
We are energetic beings, and so one of the things that I have noticed is like, the more in integrity I am with my creative process, and my life, where I'm like, I am as abundant as I say I am. Like, I have a great family life. I'm not faking that. I genuinely love being a mom. I'm not faking that. I genuinely love my clients. I'm not faking that. I have a great marriage.
I'm not faking that. And so there's this like, element of truth telling that I think the internet does a poor job of explaining, because it can seem like it's a certain way, or that success looks a certain way, but the reality is, is there's a thousand different ways, and it's a one-of-a-kind experience, and what I'm most interested in for the podcast, and for the work I do with clients, is like, what does that mean for you? What does that feel like for you?
Not what it looks and feels like for me. Like, I know what it looks and feels like for me, but if you try to take on what I do and make it yours, it won't feel right. Like, I had that experience at the workshop in Vegas. What's funny is like, I would go back to the workshop in Vegas. There was such a goldmine of information there, but would I create what they're creating? No. And so I think the number one skill set going into 2026 and beyond is discernment.
Discernment for what is yours and what is not. Discernment for the decisions that you need to make in your marketing, in your sales process, in your offerings, and the platform that you show up in, in your niche. Like, all of that. Discernment on how often you work, how often you show up online, because like, I have a lot of friends that are like really pulling back, and it's so aligned for them.
They want to be in their life more than they're on Instagram, and I love that, and I feel very similarly. And I probably create more on Instagram than some of my friends who feel this call to pull back, and like both are okay. I create very consistent content because I love it, and that's a good fit for me.
I have other clients who it's like, whether they're like a projector in human design, or like they just like more private life, or they want to do substack or something different, different kind of creation, but it's so aligned for them. And that's the key is like, it has to be in integrity with your soul, and what you're trying to create in life and business.
And so, like I said, I think discernment will become more and more and more important as you evaluate what's useful to you, what works, what creates clients, what creates revenue, and what doesn't, what works for you from a sustainability standpoint, kind of like I talked about with Jenny a few weeks ago on the podcast, finding ways that it feels like a good fit for you, and not letting the outer world dictate that for you, or make you confused, or make you doubt yourself.
And so, that's my little spiel about going into the next year, because like for me, I'm pretty clear about next year. I'm all in on House of Abundance and Miracle Mind, and one-on-one experiences. I'm all in on these in-person workshops, and VIP days with clients, and writing. That's another thing I wrote down. Like, I started writing a lot more this year, because I had the capacity and the space to do it.
And kind of a funny story, in high school, I used to like get these blank sheets of paper, and like I would write like little essays, but it was more like, it wasn't poems, but it was more like poetic. It was like, almost like inspirational messages. I don't know how to explain it, but it was like a short story, or a short essay. And I remember like reading them to my mom, and mom was like, honey that's really good. And it's funny, because I remember wishing that that could be a job.
I should find them. I wonder if I could find them in my memory box from when I was like 17. I used to write about, it kind of reminds me of Emerson, if you've read his books on like self-reliance, or like personal development, and the universe, and love, and creativity. I used to write that kind of stuff, and I would have no place to use it. I was like a life coach long before I was a life coach, if you know what I mean.
And now it's like, that's what I do on Instagram, that's what I do in the podcast, that's what I do on my emails. Like, it's just so funny that the seeds were always there. I just didn't know. I remember in second grade, for Martin Luther King Junior Day, we like did a I Have a Dream. And I remember trying to explain what I wanted to do, where I wanted to like, you know, I'm in second grade, so I'm like seven years old.
And I'm trying to explain like how I want to help people be inspired. I didn't have that word, but like that's what I wanted to do. Like I wanted to inspire people. And so I remember the teacher going, oh like do you want to be an author? And I was like, yeah, like I guess so. Like I want to be an author. And it's funny how those little synchronicities show up. I actually haven't thought about that in a long time.
I'm like kind of taking a pause, like dang, I kind of forgot like how long I wanted to do and be this. I remember in high school, I took an AP psychology class being like, I'm gonna be a therapist, because I always just wanted to like share wisdom with people that would change their life. Like I wanted to be a resource, I wanted to support, I wanted to talk to people and help them. And now I'm just doing it as my career, by choice, by my creation. And it's just really cool.
And so writing has been an integral part of what I do. And I think I will be writing more. One of the things I mentioned last week was that when my daughter started going to school full-time, like I didn't really fill the space with more clients. I started filling it with like writing. And I've really liked that. Writing books, writing emails, writing for Instagram, but just like writing more. And it's very inspiring to me. And I like it. I like it. And so that's another reflection.
So I look at this little list, all the trips that I went on Moab and Disney World and Colorado and California and Nevada, and all our little mini-adventures to Idaho and the mountains and the beach. Think about my VIP days and the hikes and skiing in the mountains. I think about all the conversations, the great conversations that were very inspiring and like mind-blowing with clients, and the hard ones. Like it makes me want to weep.
Like hard conversations with clients who are in hard circumstances and who are resilient and strong and brave and choose an expansive view of life, regardless of hard things that are happening in their world. To be able to witness them and be there for them is like one of my greatest honors and privileges. And I'm so grateful for it.
I think about the texts and the Voxers that my clients send me and the shares in the group, people tagging me on social media, the private messages that I get, heartbreaks, diagnoses, scary situations, as well as like the celebrations and the mind-blowing results and creating what they've never created before. Like I'm here for all of it. I'm here for all of it. And I'm so grateful. It was a wild year, just even as a mother, to watch my daughters like evolve.
You know, I have a fourth grader, a second grader, and a kindergartner, and they're all amazing. So amazing. And it's going so fast. And I'm sure all of you can resonate with that. I feel like time is moving faster and faster. And if we're not careful, like it slips by, right? And so I have this concept, I shared it on the podcast, I don't even know, like years ago, called Present Moment Abundance. And I think about that, where this is all we have, right, this moment.
And so to learn and to train yourself to be in the present moment, abundant, changes everything. You know, I try to like really slow down with my kids and like look them in the eye and hold their face. You know, I hold their face and I put their forehead against my forehead. And like, I feel how little they are and that they're never going to be this young again. They're never going to say like the words that they say, like Lainey says, excited, instead of excited.
She says, I'm so excited. And like me and Wesley say it that way. And it's just like so tender, you know, like how they're growing into themselves and the skills that they're learning. And like this year, Teagan almost didn't play basketball. We kind of made a post about it on Instagram because she had a really hard season last time because she was put on an older team.
So she almost didn't play basketball. And me and Wesley are both basketball players. So it was kind of like, oh, dang, like, is that the end of her basketball career? You know, like, dang. But then she ended up choosing to play again and had an amazing season, learned how to hit shots, learned how to play defense, learned how to rebound, learned how to kind of tough things out.
And it was like, that's what it's about, baby. Like that growth and that tenacity and the mental toughness that comes from sports is something that I obviously have benefited from my life. But seeing them like overcome their own unique challenges and to choose thoughts about themselves on purpose. I shared a reel earlier from Riley, who's like, I'm good, I'm brave and I'll be okay.
She still says that to herself because she has a lot of fears and she's working on, like, I just love the little journeys that my girls are on and developing into who they are and like looking at them this year. I'm like, oh, my gosh, they have grown so much, not just like physically, they have grown physically, but mentally and emotionally and spiritually and like their little personalities and their strengths and how they mirror back to me some of my own opportunities for growth and patience and love and generosity. Nothing will do that to you like parenting.
And so sometimes as you're reflecting on your year, it's easy to get caught up in what did happen or didn't happen. Revenue wise, it's easy to judge yourself for not taking the right action or not doing enough. And I just want you to like when you look back on this year, look through it through the lens of abundance, the things that you wouldn't change for the world, the things that matter so much more than a number on a spreadsheet.
In fact, I want to share a quote that I wrote for Instagram that came because I'm writing a book for House of Abundance. If you're in House of Abundance, you got it. But I wrote a book for them. And this is a quote from that book. I said, to be a master of creating your reality, you must become a master of creating your emotional reality. You must master your frequency.
What's ironic about this is when you master your frequency, your identity, your emotional reality, physical reality begins to bend in your favor. The clients money flows, but you won't need it to anymore. And that's the whole point. And I feel that way about this year. You know, my business worked phenomenally. And I'm really grateful for that. I have the most amazing clients. I have such a full life. And like, obviously, it's making me emotional right now, because I have so much of the things that I wanted, you know, that I've been envisioning for a long time.
And like, a lot of it manifested this year. Like I said, highest revenue year in business, full amazing client roster going into 2026. Nothing is missing. But this is the important part. This is what I want to teach is like, I've been doing the belief work to feel like nothing is missing. And my internal emotional reality got there before the physical reality did. And that's conscious creation. That's mastery. That's the whole point.
So that you can feel abundant with or without your business doing what you need it to do. And when you get to that point, the business will work, but you no longer need it to to feel what you want to feel about your life. And I think that's the whole point of my podcast. That's why I called the abundant heart. Because going through life with an abundant heart, the physical reality comes, it's inevitable, it's law.
But your life experience, your life force energy, the feeling you have when you like, look at your loved ones, where like you feel nothing is missing. I wouldn't trade that for anything. I mean, regardless of what's happening 3d in my business, like that's the feeling that I want for my life. And that's the feeling that I want for you. So thank you for going on this journey with me. Thank you for being with me in 2025.
I appreciate you all I read all your messages and I read all your emails and comments and DMS and I appreciate you and you are very real to me. Even if I don't know you, I feel connected to you and I'm grateful for the time you spend with me on this podcast. I'm grateful for the work we get to do whether you're a client or just a listener. I really am grateful for you.
Thanks for being here. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and that this new year unfolds with amazing magic and miracles and blessings for you. For those of you who are continuing our work together this year, I'm so excited for 2026. And I know great things are in store. So thank you. I'll talk to you soon.
