New Year, True You: Visioning Your Next Chapter

As a new year approaches, it's not unusual to start pondering what your next chapter will look like - especially, if there's a quiet longing inside you to stop pushing so hard, and start living in a way that actually feels like you again. In this solo episode, I invite you to imagine meeting the "true you" of December, 2026. This is not about pressuring you into another list of goals, but to reconnect with what your soul truly wants next. Show Notes | Transcript Join me as I share a tender, honest moment about grief, self-judgment, and the kind of coping many of us recognize. Then, you'll be gently guided towards a new way with aligned intentions rooted in worthiness, support, and trust in Divine timing. You'll also experience a practical mini-workshop using my L.O.V.E. Method, a simple, heart-centered framework to help you let go, open up to receive, value what makes you uniquely powerful, and embrace the truth of who you are... especially in midlife, when your priorities shift and your spirit starts asking for something more. Key takeaways: Recognize the difference between pressure-driven resolutions and soul-led aligned intentions that restore self-trust. Learn how to vision your next chapter without shrinking into practicality too soon, so your dreams have room to breathe. Discover why “less is more” in midlife. How choosing a few core intentions can create real momentum (without burnout). Create one simple daily/weekly practice that turns your intention into a lived experience - especially around boundaries, energy, and ease. Midlife has a way of clarifying what’s real: what you’re willing to keep doing and what your body and spirit are done tolerating. If this episode speaks to you, listen all the way through, and then share it with a friend who’s navigating her own reinvention after 50. And if you’re feeling that nudge: the one that says “I’m ready for clarity, I’m ready to come home to myself,” consider reaching out to explore a next-step clarity session with me, where you can name what you’re releasing, what you’re receiving, and what you’re building now... with support. Resources: Learn more about the Good Grief Women's Retreat: goodgriefretreat.net Join the Soulful Women's Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulfulwomensnetwork Receive daily inspirational email messages: bit.ly/LoveLightNotes Need support? Go to engagewithgloria.com to schedule a call. Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT - New Year, True You: Visioning Your Next Chapter Introduction: Envisioning Your Future Self Namaste. Imagine meeting the you of December 2026, one year from now. What is she doing? How is she being and what would she. Thank you. So as I mentioned, a year from now is December. Well, because this is December right now. And yeah, it's. That end of year is rapidly approaching. I mean, as I, I'm recording this, it's like we're already past a week into the month and it's going to be Christmas and New Year's or whatever holiday you celebrate, like in a blink of an eye, it seems like. And I know that a lot of time people are doing things like setting goals this time of year or they're doing vision boards about what they want to create next year. Thinking about doing a vision board myself. I have one that I've been looking at all year long and thinking I need to update it. So I also wonder if how much of what you've been doing, maybe you have been setting goals and things like that, that it's related around other people, maybe your family, your clients, your community. So if that is the case and you've been putting yourself last or nearly last, stick around. Because today we're not going to be doing resolutions. We're instead creating a vision for 2026 that's rooted in your soul, supported by your higher self and designed for the wise, radiant woman you are right now. Welcome to the Podcast: Empowering Women Over 50 But first, if you're new to the podcast, if you happen to have stumbled upon us, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. I am Gloria Grace, midlife empowerment guide and self love advocate for women over 50 who want to boldly live life on their terms. And I, yeah, I know all about the setting of goals and not necessarily having them work out because that happens sometimes. You know, I know I've certainly done that in the past in my business. And in fact, a couple, you know, a couple years ago I actually had, I bought this whole, it was like four volume set to use throughout the year of planners. They were one for each quarter of the year. And I started with all the good intentions and filled it out for like the first quarter. I think I did good. I think I did the whole first quarter. Second quarter started slipping back and wasn't doing it so much anymore. And, and then as often happens, those goals didn't materialize because what you focus on expands and conversely, what you don't focus on, well, maybe it doesn't necessarily contract, but it certainly doesn't expand very well if you're not paying attention to it. My Personal Weight Loss Journey: Breaking the Yo-Yo Cycle And I know also, and now that's for, you know, certainly in my business, but also even in my personal life. Now I've. If you have been someone who has actually subscribed to the podcast on YouTube and you've been watching episodes of me over the last few years and in fact, I've been doing this podcast now since. Well, we. This is our December marks the seventh anniversary. And I. I didn't actually call this season seven because. Well, I'm going to tell you about that a little bit later. Why. But anyway, so you're just going to have to keep tuning in to listen. But anyway, yeah, I started this in December, this podcast, this version in December 2019. And as I said, if you have happened to. And even if you haven't been subscribed on YouTube, go back in and go to my YouTube channel at Gloria Grace Rand R A N D and go ahead and look at my transformations over the last six years because you will see my face balloon and then get smaller and then balloon and, you know, and the rest of my body too, and then get smaller again because I have had a terrible habit of putting on £40 or so and then taking them off the next year because I'm realizing that, oh, I can't fit into my clothes anymore. I don't like this. I have to wear bigger sizes. I'm sure many of you out there could probably relate to this, right? And, you know, you start it off and. And the last time I did this was summer of 23, I believe. Yeah, I think it was the summer 23. And I actually went to a hypnotist and. And it worked for a while and I was releasing weight. And then over the holidays and Christmas time, I started indulging and put the weight back on. And then so by last, in the fall of 24, I was back up to where. Where I didn't want to be again, let's put it that way, a weight I didn't want to be. And I was miserable because it's like I was really, I think, beating myself up a little bit about the fact that how many times have I done this, Gloria? And really, I would say it's even gone back to like 2015, 2015. I got rid of a lot of weight. I was on a different program at the time and did really well. And then in 2016, my sister passed and I gave myself permission to eat my grief. So I did. And so this started this, this yo yo thing where it was like every year I was either putting weight on or taking it off, putting it on and taking it off. Finding What Works: The Post Diabetes Solution Well, thankfully the universe sent me a wonderful LinkedIn connection last year. A lovely gentleman who, you know, we, we connected a few times and he happened to mention in one of the last calls we had, last zoom calls, that he had discovered this book and he had gotten rid of a lot of weight and was feeling so much healthier. And so he suggested it to me and it's called Post Diabetes. And I got the book and I read it one week at a time, I should say, because it, the, the authors of the book don't want you to go ahead because it includes, it's basically a nine week plan to move you out of diabetes to so that you can be post diabetic. Now, I'm not. I have never been thankfully diagnosed as diabetic, but I knew the way I was going I could be really heading towards type 2 diabetes and I didn't want to do that. So I followed this program and the weight came off and it was pretty easy too. It was not challenging, really challenging at all. And so by this past spring, I'd say by March or April, I had actually released almost 50 pounds and I put a few of those back on. But I can still safely say that from compared to last October, October of 24 to now, which is December 25, I still have £40 off and I have released those pounds. I'm now putting them back on again. And I've been a little indulging this last week again. And I decided this morning that no, let's go back to eating good food. I don't need to do that anymore. It's like I still would like to release a few more, but heck, even if I stay somewhere within the this like a 10 pound range, pretty darn good. And it really feels good to know that I'm not going to go back because I'm, I'm not the person I was even a year ago. I'm not. I've grown a lot, personally and professionally. I've been. I worked with someone this summer on my branding and that's why I call myself now a midlife empowerment guide. You probably noticed again, if you've been subscribed to this podcast for any length of time, that I've sort of changed my titles over the years, over the years. But this is the one that's sticking because this is the one that really feels finally aligned and it feels good. So, all right, hopefully you see a little bit. Well, this is a little bit of my journey....