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Episode 581: My 2025 Mindset Snapshot + My 2026 Growth Goal

In this behind the scenes episode, I’m sharing what went on in my business in 2025 and what my Growth Goal is for 2026. 

2025 was a really challenging year for me in my business! In this episode, I’m sharing why it was so hard and the personal development work I’ve been doing to get on track for my 2026 goal. There are so many lessons that came from 2025 that I’m now applying to 2026 and I can’t wait for you to hear them.

If you’re a perfectionist and you’re building a business, you want to listen to this episode today.

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Introduction
Hi and welcome to another episode of The Perfectionism Project. A podcast full of perfectionism advice for entrepreneurs. My name is Sam Laura Brown, I help entrepreneurs release their perfectionism handbrake, so they can get out of their own way and build a fulfilling and profitable business. I’m the founder of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Done group coaching program, which is otherwise known as PGSD. And for even more perfectionism advice to help you with your business, you can follow me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.

Sam Laura Brown
Okay so this episode is a reflection on 2025 and me sharing what I’m up to in 2026 and I want to make this episode such a big episode, such an all-encompassing episode and what I’m going to do is record a sufficient episode because I have other things that I’m also wanting to accomplish today and I want to allow myself to be briefer than I normally would be so that you get to hear this episode and so that I can also complete the other things that I want to complete today and so I just wanted to share that because if you are a long-time listener of this podcast you will know that I love doing these behind-the-scenes episodes and I really love a long episode personally as a listener and I love creating them and sharing them and just getting into all the details and this episode is going to be a little different to that because I’m going to be keeping it brief but it’s going to be so helpful to hear about and I’m really excited to be sharing what I’m sharing in this episode.

So recently at the end of last year at the end of 2025 I released two episodes one about a concept called the mindset snapshot to help you review the year and one about a concept called the mindset forecast to help you identify what mindset, what thought and feeling you need to be in to be able to create the result you want to create in the following year and then in PGSD I taught two workshops on those topics our PGSDers have absolutely loved doing those workshops and putting those concepts into practice and it has just been so fun. So if you do join us when we open for enrollment on the 30th of January doors to PGSD will be open for one week only you’ll be able to take those workshops as well to do any reflecting you want to do on 2025 I’ll guide you through it and also planning for 2026 if you haven’t done it already.

So what I want to share in this episode is just what came up for me as I was doing that for myself and I feel like I have so many behind the scenes updates that I could give and there’s so many things I could share but in this episode I just want to keep it constrained to a high level update and just reflection on what were my main thoughts and feelings in 2025 and then what my plan is. So let’s just jump right into it. So in 2025 I feel like for me the year is really in two separate chunks and those two separate chunks relate to a big event that happened for me personally and for my family in 2025 which was our baby boy Liam joined our family.

So I gave birth in May and he is our fourth little one so at the time of his birth we had four under four and that is obviously a massive life event very important and that was really like the first half of the year almost was really focused around getting the business ready for me to have another baby and for me to be a mom of four and then after he was born and I chose I did an episode on this as well if you scroll back I chose not to have a defined mat leave period or anything like that but I just wanted to allow myself and trust myself to work when I wanted to work and to rest when I wanted to rest and I found myself in this thought of well I should have a defined mat leave because that’s what all my friends who are having babies are doing and that’s what everyone does even though I’m in such a different situation to everyone that I was subconsciously comparing myself to.

So I’m so glad that I gave myself that permission and really the second half of the year from let’s just say June onwards the second half of the year was really focused for me on reconnecting with myself and with the business and with my goals and just like just kind of finding my feet as a mom of four who is also running the business that I love and really what came up for me when I was doing my mindset snapshot so this is and I talk about in that episode so I won’t teach on it in this one but that is really identifying like what was the main thought that you had in the year what feeling did that create and what were the actions and inactions that flowed from that feeling that was generated by that thought and then what were the results that were created.

And we go into that in detail in those workshops in PGSD so I really want to invite you inside to do that just because of how much our pgscs have loved doing that so for me when I look at the year and I feel like I had so many really important epiphanies and realizations like in business it was such an important year for me just finding my spark again just reconnecting in so many different ways you can probably tell if you’ve been listening like over the last year you can probably tell in my energy that I am mentally now in a different place to where I was a year ago maybe you can’t tell but I feel like you would be able to tell that I’m just feeling so much more connected so much more willing to work hard and to show up and to be out of my comfort zone again in the business and so when I looked at okay what was for me in that first half of the year what were the main things that I was doing.

And so looking at my actions and inactions from that period and like what was I trying to do and what did I actually do and so because I do power planning I can just scroll through my calendar and see all of that very clearly I don’t have to try it like remember I can just literally go to my iCal and scroll back I love doing this to study myself and just scroll back and see like where was I deciding to spend my time and what was I deciding to do in business and also in personal life as well like I can see when I was exercising I can see when I was reading roughly I usually add in when I was reading if it was like a good chunk of time I can just see so many different patterns and themes and like exactly what I was doing exactly what I was deciding and I love power planning for so many reasons but one of them is that my actions and inactions in a week will tell me so much about how I’m thinking and how I’m feeling and the way that I built and have built my business is by taking a personal development first approach and the series that is coming out this week starting on the 22nd.

It’s a five-part series it’s all about how to grow your business as a perfectionist entrepreneur by personally developing and that is the approach that I take that is how I do things and how our PGSDers love to do things too we’re all personal development nerds and so when it has come to really understanding myself my favorite tool for that self-awareness and connection with myself and seeing when I’m disconnected is my power plan which is very clear to see and so when I looked back through the first half of the year so much time was spent trying to figure out how to have the business be successful without me having to be involved and you probably tell this from the outside as well because I really didn’t spend much time at all in anything that was customer facing if you will I was doing coaching calls and inside PGSD but I wasn’t doing new podcast episodes I wasn’t showing up on Instagram I was just very focused on I need to be creating better systems and I need to be optimizing and I essentially need to be like systemizing myself out of the business.

Which is really interesting I’m not trying to do that anymore not helpful at least not in that thought pattern that I was in it’s not to say you have to have your business tied to you but I was literally trying to have my business be successful without the spark that comes from me when I want to actually be involved I want to be really and this is when I’ve been thinking like I have to have a set mat leave and so I was like okay so to do that I have to have the business run without me instead of like well I actually this is where I got to I actually really want to be involved like I love my business I love being in my spark and showing up and sharing and coaching my clients and like I just don’t want to try and optimize myself out of the business or like systemize myself out of the business.

So I really spent a lot of the first half of the year in the back end of the business and trying to like my thought was I need to be doing like thinking like a seven figure CEO like entrepreneur and I was talking to chatGPT a lot during that time and really just like trying to be like I need to be in different thinking and in this like seven figure thinking even though literally I have made multiple seven figures overall in my business already so I could tell there was some like identity self-image stuff going on because I was basically saying to chatGPT like how do how would I think like a seven figure entrepreneur when I literally am that already in terms of my circumstances but I wasn’t like my self-image hadn’t caught up to that and because my revenue had decreased and I’ve talked about this in different episodes so I won’t go into it here but because of certain decisions I’d made my revenue had decreased and also because of certain life circumstances that had me feel certain ways at me make those decisions my revenue had decreased so I felt like I wasn’t the version of me who could make the money I was making anymore that I was kind of like back to being a beginner in business.

Even though I wasn’t and even though I was actually more wise and so there was all of this like I need to be in this seven figure thinking and not this six figure thinking even though I literally again already I’m in the seven figure thinking because that’s literally what I’ve created anyway so there was so much time spent doing that and just trying to like be better and I’ve noticed for me as well because in 2023 I was also in this thought pattern which was unhelpful for me like I need to be a better leader and then earlier in 2025 it showed up as I need to be like a seven figure CEO and it’s just interesting for me to notice when my brain goes into like I need to be good at business I tend to to feel inadequate and not not do things that help me be good at business or just feel like I’m in this proving energy.

So for me I’ve just noticed that kind of thought pattern for me doesn’t help me so there was that for the first half of the year we did I think I did maybe I shared one or two launch debriefs from that time on the podcast but we did a launch in April and we had one PGSD sign up which was we’ve never just had just one sign up and partly it was because I just wasn’t really connected like I wasn’t my spark was gone and I was just like how do we have the launch happen without me being involved and instead of me which I’m now I’ve been doing so much and you can probably tell I have just reconnected now with why I love being involved why I want to be creating and for me this year 2026 is really about creating and expanding upon my body of work and my intellectual property.

And I’m doing two episodes a week again and having them be all new episodes and just letting myself share so much and coach so much and all of that because really for me in 2025 I just like I just saw how first of all it didn’t work to try and optimize myself out of the business but also I didn’t want that like I actually including when I had a fresh newborn I still wanted to be able to work and I wanted to be able to be connected to my business instead of trying to do the right thing which was disconnecting myself from the business because I should because you shouldn’t want to work when you have a newborn but like I actually do want to be connected to my business in that time and I also have circumstances that mean that doesn’t cost me any connection with my newborn either because first of all he’s just asleep all the time and it just meant just allowing myself this year in 2025 to really own that I’m different and I do things differently and I’m not the typical mom or the typical business owner even though there are so many like business owners that are parents that are in a similar circumstance my perfectionist brain just wants to see everyone who’s different and not everyone who’s similar.

So the first half of the year and also the second half of the year but particularly like when I zoomed out and looked like okay I was asking ChatGPT and just like talking to ChatGPT a lot and really not trusting my own thinking but just like trying to get the right answer and like just I’m really not talking to ChatGPT much anymore except for like troubleshooting specific like yesterday I needed to put my new toner in my printer I was like hey tell me how to do that like stuff like that but I really just returned to connecting to myself and asking my brain and writing my own things instead of trying to be like no I shouldn’t I shouldn’t write this anymore and I should have AI do it like no I actually want to do it myself and I will have AI do certain things I’m not trying to be like archaic about stuff but also I just saw for me how talking to ChatGPT a lot just actually created disconnection from myself even though I did self-coaching with ChatGPT it just ended up like I could go on a side thing about this but I just ended up finding that like the it just kind of like would agree with me and even when I’d ask it to challenge me it would just kind of agree with my diagnosis and then assume what I was saying was correct and like really what you need in coaching.

What I need is someone to zoom out and be like wait why are you asking me this again you asked me this last week like why are we here again so I was missing a lot of that I don’t know that like that zoomed out and then I was also in a business mastermind but I wasn’t feeling connected to that and like the philosophies in that and so I then wasn’t following that so anyway there’s lots of things I could share about what I was doing or what it looks like for me but I kind of zoomed out when I was doing this exercise and looked at okay like what thought what thoughts was I thinking that had those things happen downstream and for me it makes so much sense how the year played out and in terms of revenue for the year we ended up at about two hundred thousand dollars in revenue and having I think like just really seeing that for me the main thought that was kind of like just subconsciously going on was that I just have to make sure my baby is okay.

And I just have to make sure I’m okay and my business just needs to survive like when I look at how must I have been thinking to show up the way I was showing up and make the decisions I was making and then and then at the end of the year in 2025 I was really especially in the last few months like reconnecting with my desire and like with myself and just I’ve done episodes about that as well the episode I did on connection first strategy second I think it’s a really good one to listen to but I really like then that was me coming out of this thought pattern of like I just need to make sure my baby is okay and I just need to make sure I’m okay and I didn’t have the thought my business just has to survive like I was consciously trying to build the business but I didn’t really have a clear goal and when I look at my actions I wasn’t doing the things that would grow the business like I wasn’t actually wanting to create any uncertainty in the business I was just wanting to maintain status quo and not have the business completely burned down.

Because I felt so much uncertainty in my personal life and so when it came to personal life and this thought of like I just need to make sure my baby is okay and that I’m okay what was going on with that was that for my pregnancy with Liam it was a high-risk pregnancy and I haven’t shared this publicly before but the circumstance of that was that when I was in the first trimester right at the beginning like literally when I found out I was pregnant and went and got the blood test we also found out that I was positive for a virus called CMV and that virus can get just to summarize and make it like the the distilled version that virus can get passed on to baby and if you have that virus in the first trimester which comes from if you have daycare kids that’s the highest risk to get that virus and I had three daycare kids so that made me I didn’t even know anything about it and that you really like should make sure you definitely don’t share water bottles or like anything like that.

So I wasn’t even aware of that no one had told me anything about CMV anyway so I was positive for that virus myself I had had the symptoms of the virus it wasn’t really a big deal at all I just felt a bit unwell but what it meant was that that that virus CMV can get passed on to baby and they can be there can be all sorts of things that flow from that but they can be deaf blind have different neurological things going on and it meant I was then immediately categorized as having a high risk pregnancy and that I needed to have lots of scans and there was other reasons as well there was uncertainty around the pregnancy but high level the CMV was the main thing so we had very regular scans I needed to take 16 antiviral tablets a day but there was nothing that could be done to reduce really like nothing solid that I could be doing and this was part of such a big lesson for me in 2025 like there was nothing I could do to really have an impact on whether my baby who is Liam would be getting CMV and would then potentially if he had CMV be blind or deaf or have different levels of blindness or deafness or other things going on as well.

And so I really just felt like I couldn’t do anything. And I had so much fear around it, so much uncertainty around it. It’s why I didn’t announce that I was pregnant until I think it was March.

So like two months before I was due to have Liam because we were having such regular scans and then having baby MRIs. And then there was an incidental finding of a brain bleed on the MRI. And so we need to have another follow-up MRI.

And there was just so much uncertainty around the pregnancy and would Liam be okay and not being able to know until the birth what the situation was. Like there wasn’t any way to definitively say anything when he was still in utero. And so that meant throughout the whole pregnancy I had that uncertainty in pregnancy is already an uncertain thing just by its nature.

Life is uncertain. But there’s that plus on top of it, I had really high levels of uncertainty. And also I was, and I’ve talked about this on the podcast too, with the postpartum experience that I had when I had my twins, Jack and James.

And at the same time, I also had my daughter Lydia, who was a toddler. She was 19 months old when they were born. So had three under two.

And I just had such a hard postpartum, which circumstantially makes sense. But I was just really putting so much pressure on myself during that time. I’ve talked about it before, like that period.

But I knew I had work to do to have a different postpartum experience. Like there was feelings I needed to process and personal work. So I hired a life coach personally to do the work.

And I did that for the first half of the year. I think I hired her in January. It was Michelle Weeks, who is previously has been a PGSD coach.

So I worked with her from January to, I think it was June or July. I just knew I wanted to have so much support during pregnancy and postpartum. And so I was doing that work and just really, really focused in 2025 on my personal life.

And therefore my thoughts about the business was essentially, I just need to keep it surviving and I can’t give it my attention. I can’t give it my energy. I was still working, but I just was really kind of like going through the motions or doing a lot of backend things or trying to be better and just not doing the simple things.

I know that at this point, I’m very familiar with the things that grow my business. I have returned to doing those things, things like recording podcast episodes. But if you looked at my power planning, I just was not doing any of the things that I know work for me in my business because my main thought for 2025 was I just need to make sure Liam’s okay.

And I just need to make sure I’m okay. And of course, continue being around and looking after myself and our home and my family and see my friends and like all the other life things too. So to me, it makes so much sense.

And you want to do this when you do your mindset snapshot. I was talking about this on the PGSD coaching call today. You want to really be clear on how it makes complete sense why things happen the way they happened to not be like, Oh, I was unnecessarily getting in my own way, which is something the PGSD I was coaching today that she said like, Oh, like now I’ve seen this.

I can see I was unnecessarily getting my own way. I was like, no, what you did makes complete sense. And now we’re just going to do things differently.

So for me, I’ve shifted now into a completely different thought pattern, but it makes complete sense to me that my primary thought for 2025 was I just need to make sure my baby is okay. I just need to make sure I’m okay. And my business therefore just really needs to survive.

Like I want it to survive and I want to keep making sure that we get our clients amazing results, which we had so many PGSDers in 2025 get really incredible results. So like that continued, but I was like, I just also the other thought, I just don’t want any more uncertainty in my life. And when you’re growing a business, there is going to be uncertainty.

So I just wanted to subconsciously keep things status quo and keep the struggles that I had because the struggles were familiar. So what is my plan for 2026 and what am I focused on? So I’ve really been connecting, connecting, connecting, and really focused on belief first and connection first. But like, it’s not just connection.

You also need belief. I talk about this more in the personal development series it’s coming up. So definitely stay tuned for that.

But I really just been reconnecting with all the things that work for me that now after more than 10 years in business, I’m very clear on, for example, like how it feels for me to be in my spark and how that works in my business and all the different things like that. Like I just feel very clear on what works in my business and I’m getting those things back in place. And I’m connecting with my desire to work hard and to be uncomfortable.

And I have more capacity now for uncertainty. I’m doing a lot of work on my capacity so that I can, in my four days off, be with my four little ones and be present. And on two of those days, be looking after them by myself the whole day and enjoying that and then having my three work days and being willing and wanting to work really hard, knowing that my rest time is also very demanding because there’s a lot of emotional regulations that needs to happen when you have four small children.

And so this year, my goal is 500,000 in revenue. It’s a year that it’s a goal that I’ve achieved before and many I’ve had one year, I achieved more than that in revenue and maybe three years where I achieved just a bit less than that. But I haven’t achieved that level of revenue since 2022.

So it’s really just like this year is all about reconnecting and just like fanning the flame and like getting like the spark didn’t go out, like the fire didn’t go out, but I’m just like fanning the flame. I’m just really reconnecting with my desire to be uncomfortable and to show up and to work hard. And as I said, increasing my capacity so that I can do that and do the things I want to do in my personal life.

I have personal goals as well for this year. I want to do a pool build and I also physically want to return to my normal weight that I am. And I’m not that far off it at this point, but my goal is to do that by the end of the year and to just be at my normal weight.

I’m eight months postpartum currently. And also I’m going to be playing a lot of tennis this year and doing running and just really like getting settled in as a mum of four and as a mum of four who loves business and doing hard things and challenging my thoughts and growing and evolving and who wants to be able to have that capacity where I can really be showing up fully in my business and fully in my personal life. I just found like in a lot of the second half of last year that I had a thought as well that like I’m already like in demand too much.

Like I don’t want any extra demand and that’s partly like exclusively breastfeeding and being the food source for a human. And also having our kids, having our three older kids also like it is demanding being a parent. And even though that’s something, a demand that I want to have, it’s demanding.

And so I just had, I noticed I subconsciously had this thought like I don’t want any extra demand on me. And that in some of my work time, I was just in this kind of like conserving energy mode because I was I need to have my energy for when I’m looking after my kids. Instead of what I’ve returned to now is like working really hard energizes me.

When I’m in my spot, connected, figuring out something hard, challenging myself, like challenging my beliefs and doing all that, that gives me energy. When I have a hard work week, I actually have more energy even though it’s tiring. I’m so much more satisfied.

I’m so much more myself. I feel so much more fulfilled and accomplished than when I’m just kind of like coasting to try and conserve energy. That conserving energy mode doesn’t actually energize me.

It actually has me doing things that drain my energy. And so I noticed for me that, and I also with that, I hadn’t been power planning in the way that I normally would, which at this point for me five years in to power planning means that typically I would power plan out a quarter at a time or at least a month at a time and be very clear on exactly what my needle movers are, exactly what my goal is, like doing all those things. I was just fuzzy on those things because I didn’t want to be clear.

I wanted to be fuzzy on them because I didn’t want any more demand. I didn’t want any more uncertainty was finding my feet. And now I feel like I found my feet.

I’ve reconnected with my desire. I’ve gotten so clear on exactly what I want to achieve, why it’s important, the time I want to do that in. So I’ve mapped out for the year, my clean rest.

I’ve mapped out having regular time off as well. Not just, so I’m having about eight weeks off, three weeks of that will be family holidays that we go on. And then the other weeks will just be time at home to just potter around the house, do nothing, see no one.

I will see my family, but like not have any plans and just let myself be. It’s really such an important part of my fuel is time to just let myself be and read and see friends and just like do whatever I feel like in the moment. And I’m also having regular time on one of my work days that like every third week I am not going to be working the afternoon just so I can have time to do nothing while no one else is in the house.

So I’ve got a lot of clean rest built in to my year. And that to me is so energizing because I can see if we know clean rest is the fuel for being able to show up and do the hard things and all of that, that I can see all of these like fuel stops that I have coming up. Like I can see all the times that I’m pulling into the gas station to get re-energized.

Plus I know the way I’m working, working hard energizes me. So just knowing that I already have just from that alone, so much more willingness to show up and work hard. And I teach this in those workshops in PGSD and our PGSDers.

So like, oh my God, this feels so good to have this mapped out for me. And I felt the same, like, okay, I have the container. I know exactly when I’m working and I’m not working that many work days.

So now I get to challenge my beliefs and I get to raise my self image and do all the personal development work to create the result I want to create in the work time that I have, which is how I love to be in my business. And I love to be an example of what I preach and practice what I preach, which is growing your business by developing yourself and challenging your thoughts and believing new things and increasing your capacity for uncertainty and, and for all the things, all the feelings. So that’s what I’m doing this year.

We have a PGSD launch happening every quarter. All the dates for that are already mapped out. The next one, the upcoming one is happening on the 30th of January for one week.

And then the podcast series is going out on the 22nd. So that’s coming up very soon. I can’t wait to invite you in and for you to hear that series.

And then we have a PGSD launch each quarter and I have a few other major projects that I’m working on, but I really have a painfully simple plan because that’s the plan that I can actually execute. Having it be complicated, my perfectionist brain wants to do that, but it really doesn’t help me follow through. So I love just having a painfully simple plan.

I’ve got my growth goal. I’ve got my power planning. I’ve got my clean rest and I have, I just really have the thought, I know what I’m doing because I got really clear on exactly where I didn’t know what I was doing.

Where was I fuzzy? Where was I unclear? Where was I decided? And over really like the last few weeks, I was quite unwell. I didn’t ever say this, but I was quite unwell over Christmas and New Year. But now it’s like, I forget that is even the case.

And it was so recent because I feel so energized by just all of the clarity I’ve been creating. And part three of the series that’s coming out, or actually maybe it’s part four, is about how our perfectionist brain wants to be confused and how it really takes courage to be clear and a willingness to be clear because we want to be confused so that we have an excuse for why we’re not achieving things or we have an excuse for not taking action. And I just really have done the work in the last six weeks, I would say, to really find everywhere that I wasn’t clear on what I’m doing and when I’m doing it and how I’m doing it and making those decisions.

I’ll have more decisions to come for sure. But I feel very clear. I have my power planning mapped out.

I’m very connected with that. I’m even like, I power plan out the quarter, but then today I was like, okay, I really need to spend half an hour making my little tweaks to keep this plan workable because one of the things I was doing took me way longer than I thought it would. And so I needed to re-dig the plan to keep it within my work time that I want to work.

But I just re-dig the plan and keep on going. So I really feel in such an incredible place mindset but the results haven’t shown up yet. And it’s so important.

Our brains just want to go into this, like, I’ll believe it when I see it, but you need to believe it first to be able to see it. And so literally right now, as I record this, I’m in a period where returning to that level of revenue feels so inevitable. And yet my results are not reflecting that that’s the case.

So I just have to keep holding the belief and being connected and doing the work that I teach. And that’s going to be, I’m going to be sharing with you in the personal development series. So I’m really in the thick of like reconnecting and being so connected to all of that work.

I love it. I’m so here for it. And yeah, that’s really my plan.

I’m doing two podcast episodes every week. I’m really going to be sharing so many ideas that I have and just showing up as me in my spark, in my self-trust. And really this year, the focus is perfectionist getting shit done and inviting you into that and having new PGSDers.

Our goal is for it to be, I think it ends up being a hundred PGSDers in the year. And that is just also the best thing ever for the PGSD community to have so many different people being able to get coached on different things and to connect with. And I’m just so excited for PGSD as a community to have those new PGSDers join and to meet them and coach them and see who they are and just continue developing all the things to support you and help you.

So that really is my plan for the year. And obviously I have a lot of plans with my kids as well. And yeah, it’s Lydia’s last year before starting school.

So I really want to spend a lot of time with her and also the twins and also Liam, but it just feels, it just feels kind of surreal to have my daughter almost be at school age and that then she’ll be out of the house five days a week. I know the school day isn’t that long, but yeah, I just feel really excited for this chapter and just like entering, kind of like leaving the chapter of having babies. And who knows, we might have another one, but that’s currently not the plan.

But the last really five or six years have been heavily focused on pregnancies, having babies, postpartum, like all of that stage. And now it really feels like a new chapter and just going into like being a young family. And like we have our, what we foresee to be our family members, maybe there’ll be an addition, but not planning on it.

So just really entering this next stage of them having school aged children and older children where you can do different kinds of activities. So I’m really excited for that as well. And to just, it’s summer here, so just continue spending a lot of time swimming and in the pool and outdoors and in the yard and going to the creek and just different things like that as well.

Seeing friends, I have a lot of friends who have little babies, not as little anymore, but the same age as Liam. So that is so lovely as well to have. So I’m just really excited for this year.

And it has taken me a lot of personal development work to shift into these thoughts and these thoughts now that I’m in them just feel so natural and effortless. And like, it’s just how I think, because I’ve been in these thought patterns for extended periods before, but also I really had to do a lot of personal development work to shift my thinking. And so the series that’s coming out is going to guide you through the key personal development work to do as a perfectionist entrepreneur and why it’s essential to be able to build your business.

So I cannot wait for you to listen to that. Subscribe to this podcast. If you are not already subscribed, all the episodes are coming out on the podcast for free.

You’ll get them in your feed. So make sure you’re subscribed and I really hope you enjoy the series. And I hope you’ve enjoyed this episode as well to just hear an update on my year and what I’ve got planned for 2026.

And yeah, that’s it for my update. I hope you’re having a beautiful day and I will talk to you in the next episode. Oh, also I feel like I should include this because I just finished recording and realized I didn’t say so.

What we found out at birth is that Liam didn’t have CMV, that he had never gotten the infection. And therefore it was kind of just like, okay, well that’s it. And we never have to think about that again because he never had it.

So I just wanted to mention that, that that was like the result. I feel like that’s a pretty important piece of the story that I forgot to mention. But yeah, so that was great news that we got and it was a relief.

But also I had made peace with he’s going to be exactly how he’s meant to be. That was a thought that really created so much emotional safety for me and that we will be okay no matter what happens. Whenever I tried to go into like, he’ll definitely be okay.

It didn’t create safety. It just created like, how do we know that? Like there’s literally a very good chance he might not be. So really just going into he will be exactly as he’s meant to be.

Everything will be okay, regardless of what happens, created so much peace. By the time we found out after birth that he didn’t have the infection, it was a relief, but also it wasn’t as big a deal. I don’t know how to describe it.

Anyway, it was such an interesting year, 2025, lots of lessons, lots of life lessons around uncertainty. I’m going to be creating some podcast episodes on that as well. And just so many lessons that I learned in my personal life that apply to business.

So many business lessons as well. I’ve already been coaching on so many of them inside PGSD. So stay tuned for that.

But anyway, that’s me wrapping up the episode and I’ll talk to you in the next one.

Outro
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Author: Sam Brown