Date Yourself Instead - 24 powerful life changing lessons I learned in 2024
Episode Date: December 15, 202424 powerful life changing lessons I learned in 2024. 2024 was one of the most impactful, insane, incredible, exhausting, beautiful and chaotic years of my life. In this episode, I dive into 24 of the ...biggest lessons and takeaways I got from this year, and get fully transparent about my life and some of what happened. I hope this can inspire you to kickstar 2025 with excitement. I love you, so grateful for this community. JOIN MY MASTERCLASSES - SIGN UP AT THIS LINK HERE DOORS RE OPEN JANUARY 1, 2025. Always feel free to leave a comment on Spotify, on youtube, or message me on my instagram @lyss @dateyourselfinstead.
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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Date Yourself Instead.
I am back in London baby for the holidays.
A lot of you have been messaging me on Instagram asking me
why are you in London again? What's going on? Are you going to see
that guy you were dating over the summer? For those of you who are familiar with
the podcast and for those of you who have been
listening to Date Yourself Instead, since this past summer,
you know that I was seeing this guy in London this past summer. I recorded the whole saga
from A to Z. If you haven't listened to those episodes, feel free to go back in the episode archive and check it out. I mean, you might want to spare yourself,
honestly, because I don't even want to give this man airtime ever again or give
him my energy ever again, but I was low-key offended that some of you thought
I was flying all the way back to London from Bali to see this man. Do you know
who I am? Do you know the
woman I've become? Do you listen to date yourself instead? If you know me as a savage Capricorn
woman who has done the inner work, who has committed herself to healing, there is no shot
in fucking hell I would ever go backwards at this point in my life.
Yes.
Do we all make mistakes?
Do we all go back to our ex?
At some point in our lives, if we are unhealed, if we still have shit to resolve, if we still
have things to work through with ourselves, yes.
Okay.
There are exceptions when it comes to going back to an ex. However, if you guys listen to those episodes, especially the one how to stop being nice, you will understand the difference between me now and me a year ago and me two years ago when I first started my brand and date yourself instead and this whole podcast. I am such a different person now. And we don't go back to the past.
We don't revisit the past.
We don't go back to old people and old exes
and old timelines.
Because once you heal and once you really actually commit
to the healing process and you jump timelines
and you create a brand new reality for yourself
and you become a different human being,
that person does not exist in the new timeline.
That person is irrelevant.
That person does not deserve an ounce of our energy.
So moving into 2025, moving into the new year,
we're starting fresh, clean blank slate.
And on today's episode,
I wanted to share the most impactful
lessons that I've learned in 2024. 24 valuable amazing takeaways I got out of
this year 2024 moving into the new year with clarity, with peace, with stability,
feeling good, feeling strong, feeling empowered, feeling like the most confident fucking versions of ourselves.
We are not going back to the past.
We are not bringing our exes and our troll ex-boyfriends into 2025.
We are not starting the year off like that.
A couple years back when I was still involved
with my ex-boyfriend, we celebrated New Year's together
when we were like in the midst of a breakup
and just on and off and so toxic and so chaotic.
And I remember starting the new year feeling like
I was doing something really wrong,
because I was like, how am I starting my year off
like shit already?
You know what I mean?
Like why would you put yourself through that mental torture starting your brand new year off with old
baggage, with someone that doesn't treat you right, with someone that doesn't see your worth and your
value? We are not moving into 2025 doing that. And on today's episode, part of the episode, I wanted to cover everything I've learned,
24 valuable lessons I've learned in 2024.
And also, I just wanted to make a clear reminder,
or I wanted to record this episode
to give you guys a clear reminder moving into the new year
that we are not settling,
we are not tolerating games, bullshit, confusion, heartbreak from people
that are beneath us, to put it lightly.
I do feel like sometimes I word things in a way
that sounds kind of savage or bitchy,
but the truth is that's the only way I realize
that things get through people's heads.
Every time I get a message from someone, they're like,
I listened to your podcast on repeat and I just feel like
you're so savage and cutthroat and to the point.
That's why I listen.
I'm like, yeah, there is the side to me when I'm recording episodes.
I have this in me where I want to drill it through
your brain that you should never be settling.
And I don't want to sugarcoat anything.
There's no point in sugarcoating anything.
I want this to be as clear and impactful as possible.
And I'm telling you, 2025 is the year of redemption
where you redeem yourself for all your past mistakes,
for tolerating shitty
behavior.
We're going to this new year empowered, confident, strong, and excited to take on the world,
excited to take on healthy relationships with healthy people that lift us up and inspire
us and empower us to be better and do better in the world. Another big thing before I really dive into this episode of 24 Lessons I Learned in 2024,
I also want to make a point of saying that it is so important as you mature, as you get
older, as you're evolving and healing, that you have some sort of faith or some sort of higher power
guiding you through these times and guiding you
through the new chapters of your life.
Especially if you're depressed, if you're anxious,
if you're struggling, having guidance,
a higher power guiding you.
Whatever God it is you believe in
or whatever higher power you choose to believe in,
that could be the universe, angel guides, a relative that past that you
feel is watching over you, just some sort of higher spiritual force guiding you, is
the key to moving forward and healing and making progress towards a better future for
yourself.
I cannot emphasize this enough, and I was never, ever religious.
I never spoke about God.
If you've listened to all of my previous episodes from the last two years, if you've been following
the podcast since I first started it, which I know a lot of you are loyal, loyal listeners,
and I'm so grateful that you've experienced this whole journey with me, building this brand, I never spoke about God
because I didn't really believe in God.
And I was raised Catholic, but I never talked about it.
I never put an emphasis on it.
I was always spiritual.
I always believed there was a higher power
at play guiding me, but I never mentioned the word God
because it honestly freaked me out.
Like it made me feel uncomfortable for some reason.
But this past year for me has been the most insane series of events where I just,
there's just too many things that have happened where I realized that I needed a higher power to guide me
through probably the lowest rock bottom points
of my entire life.
This year was one of the most mentally challenging years
of my life, partly because I found out,
which I will make a series on this,
and I'm committed to making a series on this in 2025,
but I wanted to be fully healed when I spoke about it.
I found out the man that I loved, that I thought I was gonna end up with,
that had promised me marriage, had asked me for my ring size,
had done everything in his power to keep me in his life and have this control over me,
I found out that he was a complete and total con artist.
He completely fabricated his entire identity to me from A to Z for four
years straight. And he's the reason I started Date Yourself instead. He's the
reason I went to my rock bottom and was having the darkest thoughts I've ever had in my life,
he brought me down to the lowest point of my life.
And I bit my tongue forever.
I bit my tongue for what feels like forever because I've come so far in my healing journey
and I've made a point of not speaking about this yet
because I really need to be ready to speak about it in detail.
But without God, without a higher power guiding me, without that faith and that sense of there's
something watching over me, I'm being protected, I'm being guided into a better future, without
that structure, I wouldn't be sitting here recording this episode today. I literally
would not be able to continue what I'm doing.
I wouldn't have been able to continue date yourself instead.
And I am so lucky and grateful that I was able to recover
who I am and revive who I am with the power of my faith
and becoming more connected to it.
So if you are going through a really, really difficult time
and you're moving into the new year
and you're listening to this right now,
I cannot emphasize enough work on having a sense of faith,
moving into 2025, trusting and believing
in the process of your life and your future
and knowing there's a better future ahead
and knowing that things are gonna get better
and knowing that even if you're going through the roughest,
most chaotic breaking point of your life
where you feel like nothing is going right,
just trusting and having complete faith
that eventually everything will be okay
and everything will work out.
And that's like probably the most important lesson
of all of the lessons I'm gonna discuss on this episode.
But I just wanted to preface this episode with that
because faith is the foundation of everything.
Faith is the reason I'm here today recording this.
So yeah, I also wanna mention before I really start,
sorry, I keep delaying this, but it's important.
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soul into because it is everything I did to reset my mind and my body and my heart and
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It has all the meditations I've done.
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It has videos guided and instructed by me,
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It's a one-time payment and download.
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We have an amazing private community group chat
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which is all about learning how to detach
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and remove from your current timeline,
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If you're interested in joining the master classes,
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If you're a podcast listener and you could go to the link
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at dateyourself instead for more information.
And now let's dive in to today's episode,
which is 24 lessons I learned in 2024,
starting with healing.
Number one, healing isn't linear.
We have this idea that, oh, it's one and done
once we go to therapy,
once we listen to the self-help podcast,
we're done, we're healed, we feel good in the moment,
and that's it.
But the truth is healing isn't linear,
and you have to be gentle with yourself.
Every single day, you are doing the best you can.
That's something I really realized,
because I thought at moments when I was going through
the lowest point of finding out about my ex
and all that shit that went down earlier this year
about how he betrayed me, how he really betrayed me, I thought I was okay in certain moments.
I was like, I'm good.
I'm fine.
I think I'm okay.
You feel good in certain moments and then one day you could wake up after two weeks
of feeling amazing
and you feel like shit again.
And you go back to the past
and you start thinking of memories
or you have a dream about your ex
and you're like, you wake up and you're like,
fuck, I feel terrible.
That's normal.
It's human, okay?
We have brains that store memories
and it's okay to go backwards sometimes.
But it's really not going backwards.
It's just a part of the healing process.
Healing isn't linear.
It comes in waves.
Some days are going to be amazing.
Some days are going to suck.
And you obviously want to get to a place where the days that
suck become less and less, but especially in the beginning of your breakup if you're going through a hard
time. Just understand that it's okay to have those bad days still. Be easy with
yourself, be gentle with yourself, and I promise you it does get better over
time. Time really does heal, but just remember that it comes in waves and that's okay.
Number two, your worth is a non-negotiable.
Your value and how amazing you are is a non-negotiable.
We're not going into 2025 with low self-worth.
If I have to remind you a million times
of how amazing you are, I will.
Because you are.
And you deserve someone and the people in your life to see that value and to see your
worth.
And if you're allowing shitty people into your life right now that don't see your worth
and that make you feel small and that make you feel less than you are, cut them.
Trust me, fucking cut them.
You need people around you that uplift you,
that make you better, that make you want to wake up
in the morning and create and feel inspired
and feel proud of who you are.
You deserve a partner, a romantic partner
that makes you feel proud of who you are.
Does the person in your life
that you are tolerating right now
make you feel proud of who you are. Does the person in your life that you are tolerating right now make you feel proud
of who you are? Make you excited to wake up and take on the world? Make you feel like a better,
more confident version of you? If the answer isn't, I'm not sure, they don't. That person doesn't make
you feel good. If you're on the fence about it, that person isn't right for you. I'm telling you right now, if you are unsure about how you
feel with someone, or you feel anxious, or you feel confused,
or you feel out of body, like you're having an out-of-body
experience because you're not really able to be yourself
and show up as your truest, most authentic self,
those people aren't worth it.
You will know when someone brings out the best side of you.
I have a friend that I kind of made recently that lives in Bali and she is, she's coming
on.
I think she's really friendly with everyone obviously and she has such a bubbly, great,
amazing personality, but I think she gets me and understands me and she has
inspired me to go after my dreams even more. And I've never really had that many friends like that.
There have been a few that have inspired me with my career, with my work and who I am, but
I often would have this problem where people would kind of be secretly jealous of me
if they saw I was doing better than them
and kind of like subtly dig at me
or not really want the best for me.
And you could just tell by their energy
or it's just a feeling you get when you're like,
oh, I don't know if that person's really happy for me.
But now as I'm working on myself,
as I'm learning the power of really loving myself,
I'm attracting more people
into my life that genuinely want the best for me.
And it is the best fucking feeling.
And as I said, your worth matters.
You are so worthy.
You are so worthy of being loved and appreciated
and adored and respected by the people around you.
So to have that now and to have people around me
that actually do love me and do want the best for me
is the best feeling.
And I could tell you right now,
you will know if people around you
really want the best for you because you'll feel it.
You'll feel more inspired.
You'll feel excited to be around those people.
If you feel drained when you leave an interaction,
those aren't your people.
Number three, the only way out is through
with your healing and with your emotions
and with your pain and what you're going through.
It's so hard to face yourself.
It's so fucking hard to face yourself
and what you've been through and your trauma
and the shit that you might have to deal with
when it comes to a breakup
or it comes to your childhood trauma
or anything that you've gone through that's traumatic,
sometimes it's easier to bury it and suppress it
and just ignore it and be like, I'm fine, I'm good
and live in denial, but I am telling you,
it will come back to bite you in the ass
if you don't address it.
And for me, something I learned this year
is addressing the pain immediately when it comes on.
And that's exactly what I did when I was at my rock bottom.
I grieved for several weeks, and I was in a really dark place
where I was like, I don't want to go into the podcast studio
and record episodes anymore.
I don't want to do what I'm doing anymore.
I don't want to live in New York anymore.
I hate saying it because I'm like, I feel so bad for that version of me.
And I just want to hug her and be like, it's going to be okay.
But this year there was like a few weeks
where I literally did not want to be here anymore.
It was so bad.
And I've never felt that way.
I really haven't felt that way to that extreme.
And no one really knew.
No one knew what was going on in my head
because how would anyone know?
Like, I wasn't going to tell people that
because I didn't want to look or sound dramatic.
And it's not like I would have done anything to myself,
but it's just the thoughts alone that can get really scary.
And that's what depression is.
And I didn't want to even admit that I was depressed
to anyone because I was like, why should I be depressed?
I have this amazing brand.
I have all these amazing people listening to my advice
and my wisdom.
I have to be strong.
I have to be strong.
And I kept telling myself, I have to be strong.
I have to stay strong and keep up this image.
And it just got to the point where I was like,
I'm literally at my breaking point,
which is part of the reason I moved out of New York
and literally gave up my New York life.
And I realized that in order to get through my emotions,
I had to face them.
I had to go through them.
I had to go through the darkness of pain. I read this book once that talks about this tunnel of pain that you have to go through
sometimes in order to get to the light. And I'm forgetting what the name of the book is
called. But that's what I went through. I had to go through the tunnel of pain in order
to be where I am right now sitting in the studio recording this episode and channeling
this to relay messages to everyone. I had to go through that pain. The only way
out is through. And it was so hard. It was so dark and my dad really helped me. My
dad really is like my best friend and he really helped guide me out of it.
Anytime I would have a panic attack, I would call him and he was like, you have to stay
strong.
You're going through depression, but it'll pass.
And it was nice to have him, but no one else really knew anything.
I was very private about it, but if I'm doing this work and
this is my podcast and I know there's people listening that could probably
connect with this in some way or maybe it'll help you if you are in this position right now.
The only way out is through. You will get through it. I promise you, you will.
I've been there. I get it and
you will come out so much it. I promise you, you will. I've been there. I get it. And you will come out so much stronger.
I promise.
I promise.
And it might take some time, but I also committed to the healing process.
That's a huge thing.
Committing to facing those emotions and dealing with them.
And I went right into therapy.
I did energy work.
I gave up my life in New York entirely.
I burned my old self down.
I flew to Bali, which it was also really out
of my comfort zone because I didn't know
what I was doing, what my plan was.
I didn't have any real friends there.
I didn't know why I was doing what I was doing.
I just knew that I had to make a genuine change
or else I was not what I was doing. I just knew that I had to make a genuine change or else I was not going to be okay.
And I put my happiness on the back burner to try to make things work in New York and it just wasn't sticking anymore.
It wasn't resonating. Life wouldn't let me stay there anymore because it was traumatic.
Like living with my ex there, being in the apartment where we had so many memories together. It just wasn't, it wasn't doable for me anymore.
And I just want you to know it does get better.
And that's it.
And sometimes you just have to go through the shit
in order to rise to the top again.
Number four, detachment doesn't mean you don't care.
It just means that you're choosing your piece.
Detachment is an art. And this is why I created my masterclass, Dare to Detach, in the first place, because detachment will
get you very far in life. When you learn how to master the art of detachment, you become
a superpower. You become so powerful because you don't let things control you. You don't let the external
situations that are happening around you control your life anymore. You release them knowing that
there is a higher power at work working in your best interest to make sure that you have the best
life possible. And once you let go and surrender what you've lost and you say, you know what?
This person doesn't want me anymore.
There has to be something better
and I'm gonna detach now.
Your life will get better.
You will see major shifts in your life
when you master detachment.
And once again, it doesn't mean you don't care.
It just means that you're choosing your happiness
and your peace and yourself
over this situation or this person or this relationship.
Because if you're so attached and you're clinging on to what is no longer serving you and your
highest good, you will lead a life of unhappiness.
Attachment is the root of suffering.
It really is.
That quote could not be more true. It really is because if you are depending
on something else external outside of yourself
to make you happy, to keep you going,
and that goes away, what are you left with?
You have to get good at mastering detachment
and also being in a place of groundedness
where if you do lose something,
you know that you're
still going to be okay no matter what because you have yourself and you love yourself and
you're so grounded in your own energy that even if someone walks away from you or even
if something disappears from your life that you're going to be okay because you have yourself
and that's all you need.
This year for me was the most detached I ever had to be,
detaching from my old environment where I grew up,
where I was living, detaching from my old identity
of thinking that I was gonna marry someone
that was a con artist, detaching from old patterns
and cycles that I was repeating in my relationships.
Even though I thought I was healed
after really facing myself, I realized, oh shit, I
was repeating the same mistakes from 10 years ago, just in
different physical bodies. Like it was the same guy over and
over again, just in different human form. And once I mastered
that, and once you master detachment,
you become a free bird, literally.
You become so fucking free.
Freedom is like the best feeling in the world,
emotional freedom.
And yeah, it's super important.
Number five, forgiveness is for you, not for anyone else.
When you forgive someone else,
what you're really doing is taking the negative energy
that you're festering in your body,
that's festering in your body and releasing it.
You have to forgive people for yourself,
even if you hate their guts, okay?
Let's be real.
I have also struggled with this
because people have done me dirty, done me wrong,
and I'm like, fuck that.
But at the same time,
if you're harboring resentment in your body
and anger and bitterness
and you hate someone,
you're really just poisoning yourself.
If you're holding those emotions in your body,
you are really just doing yourself
the biggest fucking disservice.
And I struggled with this for a bit
with men that I've dated
because at some point you're like,
what did I do to deserve this? And you could start getting angry or bitter or pissed off
because you're like, enough is enough.
But the key to dealing with these emotions properly,
which I learned this year too,
and it kind of ties into this,
is once you forgive that person,
channel whatever energy you have left that might be anger, resentment, bitterness towards them
into something productive for yourself. So for me, the guy that I dated over the summer
who love bombed the shit out of me here in London, literally was like, you're my wife. He played this whole character. It was like a
load of bullshit, right? And I fell for it because I wanted to
see the good and I wanted to see the good in him and I
trusted him. And at first I was like so angry. And I was angry
at myself too because I'm like, how could I have fallen for
this again, right? But I was angry at him and upset at him.
And then one day I just woke up very shortly after it happened
and I was like, you know what, let him go, let him be,
let him do whatever it is he needs to do in his life
without me.
It's his loss, it's his problem.
But I forgive him.
I forgive him because he was a child
and I clearly deserve better, so much better.
And I'm not gonna let this dictate my life.
I'm not gonna let this control my emotions.
I'm not gonna let him have that effect on me anymore.
So I release this, I let it go.
I forgive him and I forgive myself.
And now what am I gonna do with my disappointment, my anger, my bitterness?
What am I gonna do with those emotions?
Am I gonna just sit here and dwell,
or can I go create a podcast episode about it?
Can I channel this energy and use it for good
to help other people?
And that's what I did.
And that's what you have to do.
When you have negative emotion,
channel it into something positive.
Alchemize the energy.
It is so fundamentally important and it is so impactful
and it's changed the way I live my life.
And it's really exciting.
And this is how the biggest artists in the world
deal with their pain, right?
Think about musicians, how they go through heartbreak, they go through loss, they go
through something really fucked up, and then they channel it into something creative.
They channel it into music.
You could do this with anything, any form of art.
Just channel it into something positive.
Number six, self-love is everything. And this is pretty basic, simple concept,
but this year was showing me what self-love really meant
on the deepest fucking level.
More than I could have ever asked for.
And I'm so grateful because when you hit your rock bottom,
you almost completely have to start over from scratch. I feel like my life just kind of burned to the ground
this year after everything I went through.
And I had to recreate a new person out of the ashes,
out of my old self that burned to the ground.
I had to literally rebuild and reconstruct
an entirely new human being.
And the beauty of that is that it felt like a fresh start,
where I was like, well, if I didn't know how to love myself
in that old version of me, this new version of me
is gonna fucking love herself.
This new identity that I'm creating for myself
is gonna love herself so deeply that nothing else matters.
I don't care who comes into my life. I don't care who tries to hang out with me, is gonna love herself so deeply that nothing else matters.
I don't care who comes into my life.
I don't care who tries to hang out with me,
who tries to talk to me.
This moment is about me.
And until I love myself so deeply
to the point where my foundation is unshakable,
I'm not entertaining a single soul.
I'm not dating, I'm not on any dating apps.
I deleted everything.
I literally told myself,
I'm rebuilding a any dating apps, I deleted everything, I literally told myself, I'm rebuilding
a new woman from scratch.
And once I did that, everything changed because I no longer tolerated a second of negative
energy around me, of people who didn't see my worth,
of people who didn't see my value,
those people just fell off the fucking grid.
I don't even know 90% of the people I knew a year ago,
I don't speak to anymore.
And that's not a bad thing.
It's just, they're not meant to be in this version of me.
They're not meant to know this version of me.
They're not meant to access this timeline that I'm on now
because they just weren't right for me anyway.
They were right for maybe that old version of me
that didn't respect herself,
but this version of me respects herself so much
that I'm just gonna attract better people into my life now.
And I've lost a lot of people, but that's okay.
That's okay.
This is life.
This is how we evolve and grow.
When you ascend timelines and you heal, a lot of people will fall off and
It comes with self-love when you love yourself more the people who don't actually love you or appreciate you are gonna fall off the map
But that's a good thing
number seven
Leaning into my feminine energy has changed the game for me. I
Leaning into my feminine energy has changed the game for me. I was always operating in my masculine energy,
always thinking I needed to take care of myself for everything,
take control of everything, take charge of everything.
And that also showed up a lot in my romantic relationships.
Not anymore. Not anymore.
I'm accepting the fact that, yes,
do I have more masculine energy than a typical woman, maybe.
But the right man, the right person for me,
will be so in their masculine that they'll make me extreme.
They'll make me feel even more in my feminine,
if that makes sense.
I just dated men that put me in my masculine more.
So I felt like I still had to take care of them
and do everything for them.
And it was just so, it's just not my thing.
And some women are okay with that.
But for me, I know that being in my feminine energy,
feeling beautiful and confident as a woman
and letting someone take care of me
is the way I'm operating in 2025. I used to hate
the idea of a man buying me flowers. It would gross me out and I'd be like, no, I don't want
flowers. I just don't want any of that. But now I'm like, no, that's so sweet. That's so endearing.
I have embraced this energy more, being in my feminine energy more,
especially after when I was living in Bali
and just that island has a very feminine driven energy.
It's just so magical and beautiful and healing.
I realized that I was so in my masculine energy
where I was just always so consumed with work and taking charge and taking action and not giving myself a chance to breathe and relax.
And I think that's also linked to my hormone imbalances.
I've spoken about this on the podcast, but I grew up living with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which is a hormone imbalance,
it's a hormone disorder that affects your ovaries
and it's not fun and it's not pleasant.
And I do strongly with all my heart believe
that hormonal imbalances and conditions
are linked to women not being
in their feminine energy anymore.
Because we're always in like fight or flight and always stressed out and our bodies just
go out of whack.
And this year was about mastering being in my feminine and taking a step back and just
relaxing and letting a man treat me right and say, hey, I've got this.
Hey, I've got you.
I have your back.
And letting them come forward,
not me forcing something or me making the plans
or me making the dates, no.
Let them come forward.
Let them come to you.
Let them wine and dine you and take care of you
and make you feel like a woman.
Now, not everyone might agree with this,
but this is just for me,
this is what I realized about myself,
what makes me feel good
and what I'm moving towards in 2025.
And before I move on to number eight,
I also wanna make a note that embracing your femininity
means embracing your vulnerability
and understanding that being
vulnerable and being emotional and being a woman is the most powerful fucking thing in the world.
Being a woman is the most powerful thing in the world. It's not weak when you cry. It's not weak when you show emotion. It's not weak when you fucking feel,
when you open your heart.
It's beautiful.
It's fucking beautiful.
And we're taught that if we cry,
we look weak in front of a man
and we look like we're emotional
or we're crazy or something's wrong with us.
But no, we're just feeling.
We're human. We have hearts. We have feelings. something's wrong with us. But no, we're just feeling, we're human, we have hearts,
we have feelings, it's a good thing, it's a powerful thing.
And if we know how to channel it properly
and we use it for good, we become our own superstar.
We can use it to fuel our creativity.
I've realized that being emotional
and opening my heart more this year
has made better episodes, has inspired me to create more, has inspired me to go after my dreams even more.
It comes with this fire and this passion burning within me that I never had before.
Don't suppress that fire for a man.
Don't suppress that fire because society says if you show emotion, you're weak and crazy
because you're a woman.
No, embrace it. Fucking embrace it.
Number eight, this ties into the whole femininity thing, but learning to receive will change your
life. Learn to receive instead of trying to just chase after everything and grab onto everything
and chase after a guy that doesn't fucking want you, why don't you just sit back
in the passenger seat and become a passenger princess, okay?
Take a seat and let things come to you.
Let the magic unfold.
Let the magic come to you.
Trust in your manifestations.
Trust in your superpower as a woman.
Trust that things will come to you
if you just sit back and relax
and enjoy the ride of your life.
Stop forcing, stop pushing, stop pressuring.
Just relax.
Number nine, your intuition is your fucking superpower.
And I cannot reiterate this enough.
Your intuition is everything.
Trust your gut, trust those feelings, trust those instincts.
Your intuition never lies.
It never steers you wrong.
Every time you feel something, lean into it.
Don't deny your intuition.
Don't deny your superpowers,
your psychic abilities,
your intuitive tendencies.
We know things.
If you're a woman listening to this podcast,
we know things.
You don't even need the physical proof.
If you feel a bad gut feeling about someone,
you're nine times out of ten right.
I would say 10 out of 10.
I would say 10 out of 10. I would say 10 out of 10. the physical proof, if you feel a bad gut feeling about someone, you're nine times out
of 10 right.
I would say 10 out of 10 times right, but there have been like very few instances I
can recall where I was wrong if my gut was saying something was off.
Maybe two or three times I've been wrong out of like hundreds.
I'm not even kidding.
And the issue is what we do is we convince ourselves out of our intuition,
and then we just go to logic and we're like,
oh, no, that's impossible.
Or why would they cheat on me?
No one could be that shitty, right?
Like you convince yourself out of your intuition.
But in 2025, we are literally committing to honoring our intuition.
If you feel wrong about something,
if you feel like something's just not right,
lean into it.
If you feel like someone's lying to you, confront it.
Okay?
Promise?
Okay.
Number 10, take breaks when you need them.
Slow down and be in the present moment for a hot second.
Being in Bali taught me something so valuable. Sorry if I'm annoying by the way, if I keep bringing up Bali. I don't want to be that
person you know on Instagram when everyone's like, oh that person that just got back from Bali doesn't
shut the fuck up about it. Well that's me right now but too bad because Bali is magical and has
taught me so much about myself and I am having retreats there in 2025 and 26.
So get ready, get ready, everyone.
But it taught me the power of being present.
I am so much more present.
I'm off my phone in the moment.
I'm having better conversations with people.
I'm more attentive.
I just love being present more than ever.
And I used to be so distracted
and all over the place with my brain
and I would be thinking 10 steps ahead when I was in a conversation with someone. I was thinking
about the next moment. That was just how my brain operated because it was just the way I grew up.
I was always looking for the next moment, for the next escape type of thing. And now I'm like,
no, I'm in the moment right now. I'm here in this moment embracing it, cherishing it, valuing it,
valuing my time here. And it's a beautiful thing. And sometimes you just need to take moments of
rest off your phone, take a break from scrolling and just ground yourself. It's so important.
Number 11, boundaries are going to get you so fucking far
in life in your relationships and everything.
Hold firm to your boundaries.
Write down a list of your boundaries,
what you will and will not settle for into 2025
and stick to them and don't shy away from them.
Don't change them.
Don't change your boundaries for anyone.
For example, can I just keep bringing him up
because he's a great recent example.
This is the last guy I really invested
any sort of emotion into.
But the guy over the summer
that I had this two month thing with,
my boundary, I already knew,
I was like, he's gonna obviously message me again
at some point and wanna see me again.
This man is gonna regret ever knowing me
because now I'm just, I'm fucking done.
Once you do me wrong the way that he did me wrong,
you're done. Like, you are cut from my life completely
and there's no going back and that's my boundary.
My boundary is I'm not going back to the past ever again.
If you wrong me, if you do something fucked up,
there are no second chances anymore.
I'm done with the second chance, third chance,
fourth chance thing. That's there are no second chances anymore. I'm done with the second chance, third chance, fourth chance thing.
That's not a thing for me anymore.
It used to be because I'm a very sweet, nice person.
Like many of you, I'm sure you want to see the best in everyone and you want to give
people chances because you would hope if you did something wrong, you would get a second
chance.
But the second chance is essentially there if you know for a fact it was a one-time mistake, right?
You know at your fundamental core
that that person made a one-time mistake.
But there's a huge difference
between someone's identity being shitty
and then them making a simple mistake.
If you know someone's an amazing person
with an amazing heart and they fucked up
in one instance one time and
it was isolated and you know that they'll never ever ever ever ever do it again because
their identity and at their core they're a good person that's sometimes excusable. That's
okay right? We all make mistakes no one is perfect but if you just know that someone
has a shitty they're just shitty at their core.
There's no point of a second chance
or third chance or fourth chance.
You know if someone has a bad character.
So there's none of that.
And my boundaries are like so firm with that.
It's like no second, third, fourth chances.
And then I have tons of other boundaries
that I'll get into in another episode.
But he DMed me when I got here and was like,
hey, do you fancy meeting up?
I'm like, did you like fall down a flight of stairs
and hit your fucking head?
Like, in what world, in what world do you think this is okay
to even have the audacity to slide into my Instagram
DMs and think that I'm going to forgive what happened? I mean, no, I forgave him. I forgave
him talking about forgiveness and forgiving people. I just made a point of that. But it's like,
do you think that I'm going to sit down and have a coffee with you and act as if nothing happened?
I don't know that version of me anymore.
Like, I don't know the version of me that I was when I met you and when I interacted with you
and when we had this weird fling over the summer, which I don't even know how it happened.
That version of me does not exist anymore.
You don't go back to people that broke you.
He was a catalyst to the woman I am today.
I will say that.
He freed me from my old self completely.
And I'll forever be grateful for that in itself as a concept.
He freed me from the darkness of all the past relationships I've been through.
He was like that person that helped me ascend to the next level of my life.
Because after that situation, that's when I hit my rock bottom this year.
And it was only up from there, baby.
I was like, fuck this.
I'm never tolerating bullshit from a man again, the way that I used to.
And I'm a new woman now.
So thank you for that.
But my boundaries are so firm that you're not even getting
a fucking reply.
There's no way.
And that's that.
So stick to your boundaries. Number 12, you can change your story at any moment.
At any moment you want, you can change the story.
You can rewrite the timeline.
If you hate where you're at in your life right now,
you can change it through the power of your thoughts
in your mind.
And this is what my masterclass, Dare to Detach,
and my other masterclass, The Mind, Body, Soul Reset,
is really centered on.
It's really focused on both of these masterclasses
are designed to help you reset your life,
change the narrative of your life, change your story.
You have the opportunity right now,
moving into 2025, to change the story of your life.
Guaranteed, you can do it through the power of your mind
and your thinking and your thoughts.
You have to rewire your brain
to believe that you deserve better,
you can attract better,
and you can create the life of your fucking dreams.
I promise you, it's possible.
Number 13, I kind of touched on this earlier,
but being vulnerable is a superpower.
Open your heart up to new experiences and people.
Don't be afraid to show your emotional side.
Don't shy away from emotion because you think it makes you look bad or weak.
Life is short.
Show your true color.
Show who you are.
Show the world the magic that you have inside of you.
Don't hold back.. Don't hold back.
Just don't hold back.
Be yourself.
Be your fucking self.
It will get you much further than hiding who you are.
Number 14.
Manifestation works simply because you believe that it does.
There's a lot of people who are skeptical about manifesting
because they're like, oh, it's not working. Well, that's because you believe that it does. There's a lot of people who are skeptical about manifesting because
they're like, oh, it's not working. Well, that's because you believe that it's not going to work.
You have to trust so deeply in what you're trying to manifest. I started my podcast from zero.
My dream was to have a top podcast in the world. Like, my dream was to have people listening to me
and sharing my stories for a career.
Like, it was a milestone of mine to even hit a hundred people listening was like a huge thing for me.
I was like, I just want to do this for the rest of my life. I want to speak. I want to go to a studio and record.
Like, I want to wake up every day and tell people, like, I have a podcast. This is what I'm doing full time.
But at the beginning, that looked delusional because there was five million podcasts already out in the world. The guy that was managing me
at the time was a literal asshole and was like, oh, you think you can have a podcast? He was just
so degrading and rude and shit all over my confidence with that, because he was not
supporting this idea. He was kind of bringing me down the way, which confidence with that because he was not supporting this idea.
He was kind of bringing me down the way,
which was so crazy that he was managing me,
and I was like, okay, he's gotta go.
So I ended up firing him, obviously.
But at the time, I had no emotional support around me.
I felt completely lost. I was completely broke.
I was literally like,
I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing. completely broke, I was literally like,
I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing. And the only thing that drove me was,
my back was just up against the wall.
And I was like, you know what?
I'm just gonna manifest this shit.
I'm gonna believe in myself enough to manifest it
and create the life of my dreams
and do what I wanna do and make this a thing.
I'm just going to do it.
And I put my blood, sweat, and tears into it.
It was a lot of work.
Manifestation also comes with hard work, okay?
You can't just expect shit to come at you all the time.
You have to put in the energy and the time and the commitment,
and you have to put your heart and soul
into what you're doing.
And I did, but I believed in myself.
You have to believe in yourself.
Believe that you could do it.
Believe that you're capable.
Believe that it's happening for you.
Live and breathe it.
You have to want it, bad.
You have to want it.
And then you have to work towards it.
That's just one example.
But manifestation always happens when you believe in yourself enough, guaranteed.
Number 15, I said this at the beginning of this episode,
so I'm just gonna gloss over this one,
but faith is the most important thing
that's gonna ground you, that's gonna keep you sane,
that's gonna keep you going in the worst of times.
So keep your faith, have a sense of something,
a higher power you believe in, whatever it is,
and just live by faith and not by sight.
Number 16, your environment is very important
and the people that you surround yourself with
are very important.
Okay, so for example, me moving out of New York,
I am so fucking grateful. I took the leap of faith and did it.
I was riddled with anxiety doing it too,
because I'm from New York, I'm born and raised in New York.
My identity is literally built around New York.
Everyone was calling me Carrie Bradshaw at a point,
from TikTok, I was making these Sex and the City style
TikTok videos, it was really as a joke.
I never wanted to be here.
I never aspired to be here.
It was never like that,
but it became this brand unintentionally.
And people were commenting,
oh, you look like Sarah Jessica Parker, whatever.
It became like this identity for me
where people were like, oh, you remind me so much of Carrie,
Bradshaw, and Manhattan, and Sex in the City,
and you make me want to live in New York, andZ and I was like well am I happy being branded this way? Do I even
want this? Do I want to be branded as Carrie Bradshaw? Do I really want that or
should I follow my fucking happiness and do what I want and build a new life for
myself? So I am not saying I'll never go back to New York.
I'm never gonna say never to anything.
And two months from now, I might be there again.
I have no fucking clue.
So I'm not gonna say I'm making any permanent decisions,
but if I hadn't left when I had chosen to left in October,
I just don't think I would've become this woman
that I am right now.
Like I am such a different woman than a few months ago.
And so much can change in so little time.
And leaving New York showed me that.
It just environment is really everything.
It really is everything.
It changes you.
And it also opens you up to new experiences.
And I met so many cool people along the way in my travels in Bali
and now London and it's just been such a game changer. So yeah. Number 17.
Your voice is your superpower. Don't be afraid to speak your truth. 2025, I'm calling it right now, is the year where we expose the frauds and we speak our truth,
and we live our best lives living authentically.
We are living authentically in 2025.
There's no sugarcoating. There's no bullshit.
We're just going to be ourselves.
And I feel like more than ever, I'm myself.
Finally, finally, I'm myself.
I don't have anyone in my life and I don't even care.
I don't care that I'm not dating anyone.
I'm so happy being single, being at peace.
I'm like genuinely for the first time in my life,
so happy loving my own company with myself.
I'm healed from the past.
I've done the inner work. I'm healed from the past. I've done the inner work.
I'm focused on my mission.
And I'm just fucking grateful.
It's so amazing when you wake up every day
and you know that you're not filtering yourself
and you're not bullshitting yourself
and you're not lying to anyone.
You're just, you're so honest with who you are
and you're living by your word
and you're living by everything you say you stand for.
You're living by it.
That's the most exciting feeling in the world.
I think in the past, I want to word this the right way,
but I think when I started the podcast,
I was still dealing with so much shit.
I was still convincing myself that I was okay.
I was still healing from a lot of things. I was still healing from a lot of things.
I was still going through a lot of things.
I was hiding a lot of things because I was embarrassed
having a man in my life that was treating me like garbage
while I was recording episodes on how to love yourself.
Come on, it's not really living authentically.
And I felt shame.
I still believe all of those episodes
are so impactful and positive.
And when I play them back, I'm like, this is great advice.
And I'm sure it's helping everyone,
regardless of what I was going through.
I'm sure it's helping people, which is
the most important thing, right?
But it doesn't feel good when you're not 100% living
by your own advice.
It feels like you're living a lie. And when you're not 100% living by your own advice. It feels like you're living a lie.
And when you're listening to the episodes,
it's my higher self speaking.
It's this voice that's above me speaking and giving advice.
I can't really explain it, sounds kind of crazy,
but it's like I almost get into the studio
and the words just come out.
And now I'm in a point where everything I'm saying
is exactly what I'm living to a T.
It's like full transparency and honesty
and truth and authenticity.
And you'd be surprised where there's a lot of people
that put on these masks and put on these fake shows
on social media and they're not who they say they are at all.
And it's just important to talk about because I feel like I was doing that on a very minor scale. Everything I'm saying, I believe to be true, and it's who I am at my core. But you can't keep that
up. Like, you can't keep up two different lives, like one life where you're saying one thing,
and then in real life you're doing another.
It's just, it's not authentic,
and people can sense that and feel that.
And I think if you listen to my old episodes
and you listen to my recent ones and who I am now,
you can easily tell the difference.
You can easily tell the difference energetically
and the way I look and the way I'm speaking.
Because right now in this moment,
I could confidently say,
I am really, really dating myself instead.
And it doesn't mean I wanna be alone,
but it just means I'm confident enough
to do my life alone until the perfect person arrives.
That's gonna enhance my life instead of take away from it.
Number 18, be consistent.
Be consistent in anything.
If you want to be successful, you
have to be consistent in what you're doing,
even on the days you don't want to do it.
And I feel like building a routine
and building more consistency and working on consistency
in my life has given me the most crazy results when
it comes to my business, my career, everything.
And being consistent with following through with plans,
it's also the small things.
I used to be really flaky and it wasn't intentional,
but it was just how I always was.
And I've made a commitment to being more consistent
with everything in my life.
And it's really been such a game changer.
Number 19, kind of touched on this already,
but if you want big things out of your life,
you need to take bold action,
and you need to literally do shit.
Like, you have to take the actions
to live out your dreams and your manifestations.
I just saw Wicked here in London,
and I took myself on a little solo movie date.
It was really amazing.
That movie was great.
And all the interviews actually, I think, were so inspiring to me because I saw this interview,
I think, where Cynthia was like, who plays Alphaba, she was like, I did all my own stunts
in the movie and I wanted to do all my own stunts. So I woke up at 2 a.m. every day and I just
was doing backflips and shit.
I don't know what she said.
Something like that where she was like so fucking committed to being the best she could
be and really immersing herself in her role.
And same thing with Ariana, who plays Glinda, where she was like, she would have done anything
to be that role.
And she was living and breathing Glinda
for the last two years.
And she would have literally done anything
to get that part.
And the lengths and extremes to which these two women
did everything they could to manifest these roles
and get these roles, it's insane.
And it was inspiring to me because I'm like,
you just see people like have these huge accomplishments
and you're like, oh, wow, like, how did they do that?
It was luck.
No, it wasn't fucking luck.
It was hard fucking work and discipline
and showing up every day and pushing through hard moments
and blood, sweat, and tears type of shit.
You have to put in the work. You have to put in the work.
You have to put in the work.
Number 20,
if you're feeling alone,
say something to a stranger,
put yourself outside of your comfort zone for a second,
do something different.
I'll give you an example.
Even today, London's really not the best weather
at this time of year.
There was like a storm and I was isolated
and hibernating for the last three days, didn't see a soul.
And this morning I was like, I can't do this anymore.
I need to get out of my house.
And I booked a Pilates class.
Then I met some cool people at Pilates
and even doing that one class boosted my mood
for the rest of the day because I had human interaction,
I had connection, I moved my body, I did something,
I took action to get myself out of isolation.
Sometimes you have to take action to get yourself out
of that loneliness and that isolation
and you're not gonna wanna do it because when you're isolated, You have to take action to get yourself out of that loneliness and that isolation.
And you're not going to want to do it because when you're isolated, you can get in a rabbit
hole of continuing to isolate yourself and then it leads to depression.
And you could cut it right now.
Go for a walk, listen to a podcast, say something to a stranger, compliment a stranger and have
a moment of human interaction and watch how your mood changes.
It'll take two minutes.
And you just got to get up the courage if you're shy.
I know I'm not the most extroverted actually,
even though it might seem that way, I'm not.
But like, it's as simple as seeing someone
and saying, oh, I love your bag.
I love your jacket.
I love your hair color.
Where do you get your hair done?
Just anything.
Just say anything.
I mean, you have to mean it.
Don't just say anything.
But say something nice, OK?
And see how that changes your day.
It really does make a difference.
And even if that person was like, eh, thanks, whatever,
and walks away, it's just learning how to put yourself out there more,
which inspires you to be a little more bold
and feel a little better about yourself
and feel more confident.
And I think it works like a charm,
something I learned this year.
Number 21, the right person will meet you where you're at.
Number 21, the right person will meet you where you're at.
I saw this video on Instagram, it was like two nights ago, and it was a guy giving a, I think it was like a Ted talk,
and he was saying how if you only love yourself 20%
and someone comes along and loves you at 30%,
you're gonna think it's the most amazing person in the world.
And then you're gonna settle
because you just don't love yourself.
And you're gonna settle for a shitty person
that doesn't even really love you that much
because you don't love yourself.
But if you love yourself 100%,
it's gonna take someone really fucking special
to impress you and to win you over
because they're gonna have to keep up with that person
that loves himself 100%. And I thought it was such a beautiful speech. special to impress you and to win you over. Because they're going to have to keep up with that person that
loves himself 100%.
And I thought it was such a beautiful speech.
And it's so damn true.
If you meet someone when you're really, really, really wounded
and unhealed and not ready for a relationship,
and then you just are lonely, you
can end up settling for literal shit.
And I've been there. I've been there, done that. And I've been there.
I've been there, done that.
And I'm speaking from personal experience
when I was insecure and I felt like I was lonely
and I was going through a period of hard time
and then a guy would come along and say all the right things.
Yeah, it's just like you end up getting yourself
in situations that you shouldn't be in with
people that shouldn't even have access to you because you're desperate in a way.
You'd rather be with someone that treats you badly than be alone because you're afraid
to be alone and you don't love yourself enough.
But when you master being okay with being alone and loving yourself so much that you'd
rather be alone than with shitty company, your whole life changes and you're going to
end up attracting such amazing people into your life, such beautiful experiences into
your life.
Number 22, don't be afraid to say no.
This is kind of a funny one because this can apply to literally anything.
Like it could apply to just being a people pleaser.
Don't be afraid to say no
if someone asks you to hang out and you don't want to,
you don't wanna go out,
you wanna stay in, have a night to yourself.
Don't be afraid to say no
and just have your boundaries in place.
But it's funny because I struggled with this
when guys talk to me and then they expect
for my phone number.
Like they expect to get my phone number and it'll be some random guy.
And it's happened to me so many times, especially when I was in Bali and it's very easy to meet
people there.
So I was sitting at a cafe on the beach and this older man
overheard me talking to my mom on the phone and then he's like, can I come and
sit? And I was like, sure, no problem. I have no problem having a conversation.
But I think he interpreted it as, oh now we're talking. And I'm like, no, no, no. I'm
just being friendly. You came over here and you were eavesdropping on my conversation. And I'm going to be polite, I'm going to be nice. And of course,
happy to have a conversation. But that doesn't mean you owe anyone anything afterwards. You know
what I mean? You don't owe anyone your phone number just because they asked you to have a
conversation. But the guilty, weird, people-pleaser version of me has this sense
of, oh, fuck, I need to give him my number now.
And that's something that I really have to get better at because what I would end up
doing is someone would ask me for my number and then I would be like, yeah, sure, I'll
give you my number.
And then they'd text me and I'd immediately block them.
Such a Capricorn move.
But yeah, that was my thing.
Cause I was like, oh, it's too annoying to say no.
So I'm just gonna block them as soon as they text me.
And that was my strategy.
If someone asked me for my number
and I just didn't wanna entertain it,
but I felt like, oh, it's harder.
It's just hard to say no.
So I'd rather just give it to them and then block them.
That was my way out and might not be the most mature thing.
But now I'm learning the art of just not giving a fuck and saying, I don't owe anyone anything.
No is no.
And sorry if that offends you, but I'm not interested.
And it's honestly refreshing to master the art of saying no.
Number 23, kind of ties into 22.
Not everyone deserves access to your energy.
So stop giving everyone access to your energy.
If you love yourself enough,
if you value your time and your precious energy enough,
and you know how special and important you are,
you're not gonna tolerate everyone trying to grab at you
and hang out with you and have access to you.
It's just exhausting, it's draining.
And the more you love yourself and the more you level up,
you're gonna realize that people will drop off
because you're not gonna be able
to just hang out with anyone anymore.
I'm not saying that in like a narcissistic, conceited type of way.
It's just facts. It's how it is.
When you master yourself,
it becomes a little lonelier sometimes
because you're going to weed out people
that can't keep up with you anymore.
That's just the name of the game.
If you want to be the best version of yourself,
the people who want to see you stay at their level,
they're not going to hit anymore.
It's not going to resonate.
It's going to fall flat.
It's not going to be the same type of friendship
or relationship anymore because you're going to change.
And when you change your internal state
and you change who you are,
people are going to change how they perceive you
or change how they treat you
if they're not going to meet you at your level
and they're trying to bring you down,
it's just not gonna work anymore.
And that's happened to me many times
where I've leveled up vibrationally
and I'm at a different frequency.
And then relationships change, friendships change,
and it's just how it is.
But the beauty of it is then you attract new people
into your life that meet your frequency
and can meet you where you're at.
And that's a beautiful thing.
And number 24.
I actually have 30 more of these,
but only have time for 24.
So if you like this episode, let me know
and I'll make a part two for 2025.
Number 24 is ask God for the answers
and He will always reveal.
He will always reveal, He will never deny you.
If you ask Him for something, you will get the answer
even if you don't like the answer.
This is the key to getting clarity,
the key to getting clarity on any situation,
anything you want, any person you want,
any relationship you want, any career decision you want.
I promise you he never fails.
And I've witnessed this for myself
time and time again this year, having a lot of confusion and
chaos happening in my life. I realized the importance of asking him for guidance through
the lowest parts of my life. And I'm going to give you an example to tie this episode together
and to also just explain to you what I'm talking about. So a lot of
the times when we're faced with a challenging situation or something really difficult that
we go through, we're like, what do I do? What do I do? And then we ask our friends or we
ask our parents or we ask our peers or we ask anyone or anything around us. We're like,
what do I do? What do I do? Right? And the key is to ask God instead of the people around you, because God has the answer, always,
always. No one else really has the answer. You and your higher self might have the answer,
but it's like you, your higher self, and then this higher power. So, if you ask him, he will deliver the answer in the perfect timing, and sometimes so fast
where you're like, holy fucking shit, this is crazy.
So for me, for example, when I was going through different types of relationships or things
with people, I would write in my notes, God, if this person
is not meant to be in my life, please remove them right now. And literally in hours that
person would just disappear or the next day that person would end things. It's just, it's
fail proof. And it sucks sometimes because you're not ready for the answer and you're
like, fuck, if it's the answer I don't want to hear, it's going to hurt. But wouldn't
you rather cut it than waste time and waste
years of your life with the wrong person
or in the wrong situation?
It's better to cut it now instead of waste your time.
And then people's true colors come out
and people's true intentions come out faster.
And then you realize that everything is happening for you
and not working against you.
And when you're able to trust God over your own wants and desires and trust a higher power
that's guiding you to the right place instead of your current wants and desires, your life
becomes easier and your life becomes more simplified and in a positive way because you
don't stress about the things you used to stress
about and you're not so caught up in the bullshit that you used to get caught up in because you are
trusting and you're having faith. As I said, faith is the foundation of everything. I mentioned it
several times in this episode, but it really is. And so for me, the way I found out that my ex was a con artist was insane.
And I want to save the story and tell it properly, but I'm going to tell you this because it
ties perfectly into this last number 2024 segment. I was having crazy anxiety one night, and I wrote in my notes,
God, please show me the truth. Show me what's going on.
I just need to know. I told God I was ready for it.
And I wasn't even really religious at this point.
I'm not, I don't even want to use the word religious.
It's just, I didn't really go to God for anything. It wasn't like a thing that I did. I would just let go off
of my intuition and my judgment. But this time, I asked him directly. And that night
at two in the morning, I got a message from a woman who is now one of my good friends, and she told me everything.
She told me everything.
And I'm going to keep it there.
I'm going to keep it short because I want to tell the full story in detail in the New
Year and really explain and dive into what happened. But I asked God, He delivered in hours, literally in hours,
and everything started unraveling and the truth was revealed
and everything was brought to light.
And I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't ready for it, but I was.
Because I wouldn't be sitting here. I wouldn't be healed.
I wouldn't have done the work to completely transform my life.
I wouldn't have had the year that I've had to rebuild myself from scratch if I hadn't
found out in that moment.
But God did what he had to do and his timing and it brought me here today.
And I'm so grateful.
I'm so grateful.
Even though it was the hardest year of my life, I'm so fucking grateful.
And I hope that inspires you to ask him for something that you're searching for.
And if you have any stories related to this, if you have any success stories related to
this after this episode, always feel free to DM me or leave a comment on Spotify, at
Lists or on the podcast account, at date yourself instead.
Always send me a message there.
I would love to read them.
And with that being said, I am so ready for the new year.
I'm so ready for 2025.
It is going to be the most incredible year, the year of redemption, the year of freedom,
the year of massive changes in the world, in ourselves.
We're loving ourselves more. We're stepping into our power more than ever. I just cannot wait to
see all of us transform together and heal together and grow together as a community.
I love you. I love you. I love you. Thank you as always and stay tuned for next Monday.