Happy New Year, happy 2026. I am thrilled to be with you going into a brand new year. This is now the

seventh New Year's episode I have recorded as a podcaster. And the level of gratitude that I feel

to be able to still be doing this is insane,

truly, truly insane.

So whether this episode is your first New Year's episode that you are listening with me

or your seventh or somewhere in between, I am so grateful you are here. And if this is the first

New Year's episode you are listening to with me, this was a good one to begin to begin with.

And I really hope I'm able to keep you after this, and I think I will because we are entering

2026 with a conversation unlike we've ever had before, especially for New Year's.

Typically, what we do is very strategic.

I'm a very strategic person.

That's a large part of what it is that I do and what I

support people with. So typically, the New Year's episode is all around, you know, what's the new

strategy? What's the new plan? What's the new goal? Who's the new you going into this year that's going to be a match for what it is that you want to create?

And there's some of that in here.

But we are ninjaing 2026.

Okay, we are working smarter, not harder.

We are coming at a new year and a brand new vision.

Again, like I said, unlike any way we've ever done before. Because in this episode, we are going

to get into the one decision that quietly yet very effectively determines your income,

your quality of relationships, your confidence, and essentially the level of life that you

will come to normalize long before strategy is even

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