E177 - Key Insights to Enter 2026 With Clarity, Focus, and Direction
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
This final episode of the year is a special compilation reflecting on the lessons, reminders, and moments that shaped 2025. It’s a curated journey through insights from across the year—designed to help you slow down, take stock, and step into 2026 with greater clarity, presence, and intention.
This episode is less about doing more and more about listening—reflecting on the growth, challenges, relationships, and inner shifts that defined the past year. It’s an invitation to notice what wants to be released, what wants to be integrated, and what seeds you’re ready to water moving forward. Sometimes all it takes is a one-degree change in direction to alter the entire path ahead.
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2025/2026 Reflections and Intentions: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/yearinreview
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:37 Review 2025 Instead of Planning 2026 (E166 – Tim Ferriss)
00:05:27 The Most Important Practice of 2026 (E152 – Mark Manson)
00:10:11 There Is No Wealth Without Health (E128 – Mindy Pelz)
00:12:26 The Importance of a Bedtime Routine (E143 – Michael Beckwith)
00:17:59 How To Grasp The Opportunity of Life (E119 – Marianne Williamson)
00:25:16 The Power of Entrainment (E145 – Dr. Theresa Bullard)
00:31:01 Be Careful With What You Desire (E160 – Aaron Abke)
00:35:18 Explore Your Relationship With Money (E140 – Lewis Howes)
00:41:59 Ad – Momentous
00:43:14 Happiness is an Inside Job (E149 – Dr. Thema Bryant)
00:48:16 The Unique Opportunity of Our Times (E154 – Sadhguru)
00:53:25 How To Discover Your Dharma (E155 – Dr. K)
01:01:11 Living The Moment You're Meant To Live (E164 – Dr. John Demartini)
01:07:53 The Problem With Manifestation (E118 – Aaron Doughty)
01:13:29 Finding Stability in Surrender (E135 – Yung Pueblo)
01:16:23 Relaxing Into Instability (E146 – Cory Muscara)
01:20:42 Looking Back To Plan Ahead (E158 – Tom Campbell)
01:24:35 A Different Perspective of the Future (E165 – Dr. Iain McGilchrist)
01:29:04 The Unlimited Potential of Being Human (E134 – Peter Crone)
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Watch the Full Episodes
Tim Ferriss: https://youtu.be/NxmUCGuapNw
Mark Manson: https://youtu.be/to-APJvffFQ
Mindy Pelz: https://youtu.be/pgWnbRg5-cg
Michael Beckwith: https://youtu.be/r3wrUmE1L3w
Marianne Williamson: https://youtu.be/AQzKagUJGvI
Dr. Theresa Bullard: https://youtu.be/mrKiH4J0_5U
Aaron Abke: https://youtu.be/zXMKj8fNnYQ
Lewis Howes: https://youtu.be/PTPjCtF9es4
Dr. Thema Bryant: https://youtu.be/ItRCT_L2kpA
Sadhguru: https://youtu.be/FMoXXb-wKE8
Dr. K: https://youtu.be/zj40FT631P4
Dr. John DeMartini: https://youtu.be/dVR01alAe8o
Aaron Doughty: https://youtu.be/79INohJ7KTw
Yung Pueblo: https://youtu.be/bwom9Y6ybcg
Cory Muscara: https://youtu.be/IrxFMkYUBFg
Tom Campbell: https://youtu.be/IoGSWLuH2Js
Dr. Iain McGilchrist: https://youtu.be/LZ5C11mlTH4
Peter Crone: https://youtu.be/VCi93m9lloM
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. This is the last episode of the year, |
| 0:04.5 | and it is a compilation episode filled with various different moments of 2025, with different |
| 0:10.1 | insights and reminders to help you step into 2026 with intention and with clarity and presence. |
| 0:16.4 | I have as an addition and a bonus gift for you all, just because I love y'all. |
| 0:21.0 | And I want to say thank you for being in my life |
| 0:23.7 | and for making what I do possible. |
| 0:26.0 | I am linking down below my year in review template |
| 0:29.0 | and also 2026 intention setting guide as well. |
| 0:32.6 | There are just a bunch of different questions |
| 0:34.6 | with a Spotify music playlist that you can play as well. |
| 0:37.9 | And just reflect on the growth and the challenges and the relationships and all that came |
| 0:42.5 | up this past year for you. |
| 0:44.6 | And to set intentions for this next year, what are the seeds you want to water? |
| 0:49.4 | What are you calling in? |
| 0:50.6 | And I think it's just in a really incredible time of the year to slow down to get clear |
| 0:56.6 | to change direction even one degree and that has big effects down the road so I hope you find |
| 1:02.1 | that useful again a link in description for that and that's it I just want to say thank you guys |
| 1:07.1 | thank you for making what I do possible I am very excited about what we're cooking behind the |
| 1:12.4 | scenes as the team is growing within know thyself to bring you in person community experiences |
| 1:18.0 | more diverse conversations increasing the quantity of the episodes as well as the quality and |
| 1:26.8 | yeah that's all. |
| 1:27.6 | Thanks for coming along this ride and I will see you next year. |
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