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It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to work in progress friends and happy new year. I hope you all are feeling excited about this big shift into 2026. It is, according to the numerologists, the end of a nine year, the beginning of a one year, which they say has incredible power about cycles ending and new beginnings.

It's also the year of the midterms.

Can't wait to continue fighting for democracy here in the U.S.

And hopefully by extension with our friends around the world.

I know whether it's, you know,

personal, political, or something small, everyone tends to, I don't want to say launch resolutions,

although maybe, I think you all know by now I'm more a fan of intentions than resolutions,

because at least for me, resolutions just feel like a recipe for failure. But I think the idea of a personal reset,

you know, of wanting to be intentional about positive change in our lives, that resonates

with me. So I'm curious what you all are thinking about

in terms of what you want to reset or reshape. I'd love to hear it. You all send in such

great questions for this. And so I now have more questions for you. My goodness, we got so many. I'm going to try to

make my way through them. Sammy asks, what do you look forward to the most in 2026? Gosh, I'm just excited that the last year is over.

There were incredible times of joy and wonderful highs.

But I think the year in general was pretty hard for a lot of people.

You know, the authoritarian shift around the world and

certainly here at home, you know, current leadership making its way through over half of Project

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