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As we close out 2025, this episode is an invitation to pause before you plan.

If the year felt beautiful—amazing. And if it felt heavy, disorienting, or unfinished—you're not alone.

Instead of starting the new year with goals, strategies, or fixing yourself, this episode begins where real change actually starts: identity.

In this episode, I'm sharing Step One from my Future Self Course: Dream Big.

Not as a vision board exercise. Not as wishful thinking. And not as a plan.

But as a necessary first step in identity creation.

Inside this lesson, we explore:

• Why starting with how keeps you stuck in your old identity

• How "being realistic" often means shrinking your desires before you begin

• Why getting your hopes up is not irresponsible—it's clarifying

• How dreaming big gives direction before you ever need a strategy

This lesson is about permission. Permission to want what you want. Permission to imagine without editing. Permission to let the next version of you come into focus.

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This episode is one lesson from the full Future Self Course, and to celebrate 2026, you can get the entire experience for $26.

You'll receive:

• The complete Future Self course

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• The accompanying workbook to integrate the work

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Let this be the year you stop shrinking what you want—and start becoming who you already know you're here to be.