Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,

and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.

This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply spiritual truth.

It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, or praying about what's next.

Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you,

and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go.

I don't know if 2024 was the best year of your life or the worst. I don't know if you're

rearing to go, ready to run into 2025, or if you're taking it real

slow, trying not to make any sudden moves.

But I do know this. Your past year deserves reflection, and this coming year deserves intention.

So, after a short podcast hiatus, I'm trying to practice what I preach

and diving in to recap what worked, what didn't, and cast some vision for what comes next.

Let's go.

Hello, friends, Jess here. I want to welcome you back to the Jess Connolly podcast. A reminder

that this is not my podcast. It's our podcast. And I want to just acknowledge the brief hiatus we

have been on. We took a long break. We haven't had episodes for the last few months.

And I mean, I said it was a brief break. And then I just said we took a few months off. So

depending on how you look at it, that was not our plan. We had incredible episodes planned

throughout the end of 2024. And as I've shared in podcast episodes throughout the whole year of

2024, this has just been an incredibly difficult year for our family. Some stuff we've shared

publicly, some stuff we haven't been able to, but it was just really, really, really difficult

year. And for a lot of that year, I would still

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