What If a Goal Were More Like a Vision? | Season One | Ep 3 of 5

An orientation on creating a living relationship with our visions

This is the audio edition of the third essay in Season One of The Observatory, a five-part series about dreaming again, becoming the woman you can see from here, and building a life that can support her.

In this orientation, we reconsider not only what we’ve been taught about goals, but the relationship we have with the things we choose to create.

I share the idea of the JUICY Goal, something that has shaped the way I consciously create my own life for years, and return to the story of the dream beach house I once imagined, built, loved...and twelve years later, chose to sell.

What happens when the dream comes true, but the woman who dreamed it continues to become?

Perhaps a vision doesn’t need to be a contract with our future. Perhaps we can live in relationship with it, allowing it to guide and change us while remaining present enough to notice when the vision, or the woman living toward it, has changed.

Sometimes we get exactly what we imagined.

Sometimes the vision changes.

Sometimes we change.

And sometimes becoming asks us to release something we once worked very hard to create.

Which eventually brings another question into focus:

Who are you being there?

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What Do You Really, Really Want? | Season One | Ep 2 of 5

An orientation on knowing what you really, really want

This is the audio edition of the second essay in Season One of The Observatory, a five-part series about dreaming again, becoming the woman you can see from here, and building a life that can support her.

In this orientation, we sit with a deceptively simple question my longtime mentor Bob Proctor asked again and again:

What do you really, really want?

We explore the difference between admiring someone else’s life and actually desiring to live it, what our don’t wants might be pointing toward, and what becomes possible when we give desire a little room before asking it to explain exactly how it intends to happen.

For now, we’re simply looking up.

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What If You Never Actually Chose This Life? | Season One | Ep 1 of 5

An orientation on living life by design rather than default

This is the audio edition of the first essay in Season One of The Observatory, a five-part introductory series about dreaming again, becoming the woman you can see from here, and building a life that can support her.

We begin by looking at the life that’s already here and considering a deceptively simple question:

How much of this life did I consciously choose?

Before we change anything, perhaps there’s something worth noticing first.

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After Dusk Transmissions: The Porch Frequency

Episode 00 | Summer 2026 | An Introduction to After Dusk Transmissions

Introducing a new podcast - After Dusk Transmissions.

In this episode:

This is the trailer for The Porch Frequency — your introduction to After Dusk Transmissions and the world of the Front Porch on Substack. You'll hear what this podcast is, who it's for, and what Michele hopes it moves in you.

Find the Front Porch on Substack: https://michelemarieneyers.substack.com

If something in this episode moved something in you, I'd love to hear about it. Send me a message — the front porch mailbox is always open for receiving.

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Michele Marie Neyers writes and speaks about what lives in the unseen — the inner world most people sense but rarely stop to explore. She believes in beauty, simplicity, and the quiet power of small pleasures — and she’s been known to send handwritten notes and tea samplers to women she’s never met in person. This Front Porch is her curated corner of the internet — warm, unhurried, and always honest. Wander as much or as little as you like. The tea is always on.

Thank you for spending a little time on the porch today. Come back soon — there’s always something worth finding when you wander.Get full access to the sacred art of becoming HER at michelemarieneyers.substack.com/subscribe