Welcome to the Show Up podcast with me, your host, Natalie Norton.

This podcast is all about having the courage to be a really good human and living the kind of life that genuinely fires you up every single day.

Are you ready to become your best self and truly show up for your life, come what may. Me too. Let's do this thing. I'll always want you around. Oh.

Because you make me feel, baby.

Because you make me... Hello and welcome to episode two, your best year yet.

You guys, it is a new year. How is that even possible? In my mind, it's like June, maybe July, but for sure, not January. It's just blowing my mind how fast this

last year has gone. The new year is just such an exciting time.

I don't know if it's this way in every home, but when I was growing up, we did a lot of goal-setting.

It was a big deal in my family to the point where New Year's was almost as exciting for us as Christmas.

We took it really seriously.

We sat down together as a family and we did vision boards and we talked about our goals

for the new year and we worked really hard on making sure that we took an intentional step

into the new year.

And we're not going to talk about goal setting here because there's enough information out there about that. We're not going to talk about vision boards or anything

like that. But what we are going to talk about is how every single person out there, every one of

us has the power to make this year our very best year yet. No matter what junk may hit the proverbial fan, right?

I'm saying that this can be your best year even if bad things happen.

And I can promise you that some bad things will happen because that's just life.

So I'm going to start this episode by asking you to believe something that may be really

challenging for you because it's the kind of thing that just doesn't really leave a lot of

room for excuses and that's why it can be so challenging for people to hold on to.

And so maybe it's going to be hard for you to believe it first. And if that's the case, I challenge you

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