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502: My 12-Week Reset: Health, Money & Business

February 21, 2026

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  • Structuring the year into 12-week sprints focused on distinct areas like health, money, and business helps combat overwhelm and maintain focus on concrete goals. 
  • Investing in paid accountability coaching, particularly for health goals, reinforces commitment and provides necessary external motivation to overcome inconsistent execution. 
  • The podcast served as the essential constant and bridge out of corporate life, providing flexibility, income, and leverage through every chaotic life season. 

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Sprints Structure and Overwhelm
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  • Key Takeaway: Structuring the year into 12-week sprints, focusing on one goal per month, combats overwhelm by providing concrete, manageable objectives.
  • Summary: The host structures her year in 12-week sprints, dedicating each month to a specific focus (Health, Finances, Podcast Moguls). This method keeps her focused, motivated, and organized by providing something concrete to work towards monthly. This approach prevents procrastination by grounding her amidst competing priorities.
January Health Focus and Accountability
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  • Key Takeaway: Committing to a paid, intimate accountability coaching container for health goals forces investment and prevents succumbing to excessive self-grace and bad habits.
  • Summary: January was dedicated to health, initiated by joining a small, paid accountability group with daily coaching and check-ins. The host realized she had given herself too much grace over six years, leading to inconsistent execution in physical fitness. Showing up for the group created necessary motivation and cemented new lifestyle habits.
Rebuilding Physical Capacity
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  • Key Takeaway: It took six years of avoiding discomfort to face the loss of physical strength and begin the humbling process of rebuilding fitness from scratch.
  • Summary: The host had drifted away from intense exercise for six years following the birth of her children, leading to lost strength and awkwardness during initial workouts. The first workouts involved soreness and slow progress, requiring her to humble herself and rebuild slowly rather than relying on past muscle memory. This physical effort generated internal confidence and improved emotional steadiness.
Health Fuels Capacity
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  • Key Takeaway: Prioritizing personal health is essential because it directly fuels the capacity to parent well, be a good partner, lead effectively, and build business goals.
  • Summary: The host views her health as a business priority because it fuels her capacity in all areas of life, including parenting and leadership. She realized that showing up for herself provides the necessary energy reserves for her family and business demands. Putting herself on the balance sheet as a priority is crucial for long-term success.
February Financial Audit Focus
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  • Key Takeaway: February is dedicated to auditing business finances to move from emotional spending and avoidance to strategic decision-making, especially concerning entity structure and tax strategy.
  • Summary: The host addresses past emotional spending patterns stemming from postpartum challenges and isolation, which weakened spending discipline. February’s focus is auditing every account, subscription, and expense to gain clarity without shame. This foundational financial work is necessary to address delayed entity changes and tighten up tax strategies after nearly ten years in business.
March Podcast Moguls Updates
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  • Key Takeaway: Elevating the Podcast Moguls program involves updating marketing assets like ad creative, webinar slides, and email sequences to better incorporate the host’s personal journey as a podcaster.
  • Summary: March focuses on updating the Podcast Moguls group coaching program, including new ad creative, better webinar slides, and stronger email sequences. The updates will incorporate more of the host’s story about escaping corporate America to build a flexible career. This process requires significant mindset work to manage overwhelm and maintain focus during execution.
Podcast as the Constant Foundation
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  • Key Takeaway: The podcast remained the steady constant through six years of personal chaos, serving as the bridge out of corporate life and the foundation for current stability and leverage.
  • Summary: Through postpartum depression, sleep deprivation, and identity shifts, the podcast was the one consistent element the host could return to. It provided flexibility, intellectual stimulation, income, and ownership of her intellectual property, preventing reliance on external schedules. Building an owned asset like a podcast creates long-term positioning and leverage for navigating life’s inevitable waves.