New Beginnings: How to Make This Year Your Best Year
Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt
Madison Prewett Troutt
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast! This week, Madi kicks off the new year with an honest and encouraging conversation about new beginnings, fresh goals, and the conviction that leads to lasting change. As we step into a brand-new year, Madi challenges listeners to shift their focus from surface-level resolutions to heart-level alignment with God. Together, Madi unpacks what it really means to make this your best year yet… not by doing more, but by surrendering more. From setting faith-centered goals to letting go of what no longer serves God's purpose in your life, this episode invites you to start the year grounded in truth, clarity, and obedience.
Always remember to stay you and stay true.
Questions/topics discussed and answered:
• What it actually means to make this year your best year
• Why conviction leads to real transformation
• How to set a goal that lasts
• Letting go of idols, habits, mindsets, or expectations holding you back
• Starting the year with faith, clarity, and purpose
AND SO MUCH MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | This is going to be your best year yet if you make it all about Jesus. |
| 0:04.0 | We want a full-time God, but we have a part-time faith. |
| 0:07.0 | The reason that so many of us are unhappy is because of social media. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm just going to go there. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm challenging myself in this next year, that I want to challenge all of you guys in next year. |
| 0:15.0 | Bring back the Sabbath. |
| 0:16.0 | I don't know what that is for you, but there are some things that you need to lay down in order for God to take over. |
| 0:22.0 | When we make God our first, everything else will take care of itself. |
| 0:26.7 | This would be a year where you truly rest in God's presence. |
| 0:29.6 | I've just been so convicted of it. |
| 0:32.0 | Why do I want to be seen by other people? |
| 0:34.8 | Only then will you be filled up if you're first giving up all that has |
| 0:38.8 | your heart. I still in my mind feel 19 and 20 sometimes. I'm like, how am I about to be 30 years old? |
| 0:45.1 | How are we living in 2026? How do I have a child? This is crazy. |
| 0:53.9 | What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Stay True podcast. I'm your host, Madison |
| 1:01.2 | Pruitt Trout. And it is 2026, a new year. Like, how many times are we going to mistakenly write down 2025 when we're making our little |
| 1:13.9 | journal entries? |
| 1:14.6 | Because I know that I'm going to probably be doing that a lot. |
| 1:17.5 | I can't believe it's a new year. |
| 1:19.4 | 2026. |
| 1:21.1 | It's so wild. |
| 1:22.2 | Like, I laugh when I go back and watch the, like, Sweet Life of Zach and Cody and, like, |
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