🌻A Day in the Life: The Endings We Don’t See Coming

TL;DR — A Day in the Life: Endings, Cycles, and the Sent Folder That Became a Time MachineThis final 2025 installment of A Day in the Life reflects on how endings often happen quietly — long before we consciously “close the door.” Inspired by cleaning out your Gmail sent folder, you revisit 11 years of your life: your first freelance gig, Craigslist job applications, yoga studio front-desk shifts, rocky relationships, financial strain, student debt, and the emotional weight you carried into adulthood without support. The sent folder becomes a scrapbook of your becoming and unbecoming — showing how each version of you kept trying, learning, surviving, positioning, and slowly forming the 3P framework (Purpose, Presence, Prosperity) long before you knew it existed.The act of deleting becomes an energetic release: a way of thanking past versions of yourself, acknowledging resilience, and recognizing the seeds of entrepreneurship, freedom, and multi-hyphenate identity that were always there. The episode ends with an invitation to listeners: reflect on your own cycles, honor your strengths, let go of what’s complete, and enter 2026 with clarity, spaciousness, and support — including your one-month support container for anyone ready to re-strategize their next chapter. A Day in the Life: The Sent Folder That Became a PortalThere’s a moment in every cycle — every season, every identity, every chapter — when you realize that something ended long before you officially acknowledged it. You were already shifting. Already becoming someone else. Already done.And sometimes, that realization comes from something as mundane as… cleaning your Gmail.This is the final A Day in the Life episode of 2025 (don’t worry, the series will continue in 2026). I started this series back in the spring — not knowing what it would become, just knowing that I wanted to be transparent. I wanted to show the actual behind-the-scenes: the messiness of building a business, the emotional weight of job hopping, gig work, freelancing, quitting, pivoting, starting over, and refusing to let a job title define my entire identity.I wanted to be the person I didn’t see enough of online: someone honest about the middle, not just the highlight reel.The Sent Folder MomentSo here’s the story:I was cleaning out my inbox — something simple, something almost mindless — when I got curious and clicked into my Sent folder.And there it was:2,200+ emails dating back to 2014.Eleven years of my life.Eleven years of becoming — and unbecoming.Eleven years of decisions, attempts, failures, leaps, and survival.This folder wasn’t just digital storage.It was a portal.A time machine.A scrapbook that Gmail had been quietly curating for me.Emails about…* Craigslist job applications* My first $600 freelance gig in 2016* Yoga studio front desk shifts* My accountant referring me to his client* Proposal templates I made without knowing I was “doing business”* Rocky family dynamics* A painful romantic relationship* Student loans* Car loans* Cold emails, cold calls, job boards, pivots, reinventions* Helping coworkers with resumes and writing samples back in 2017* Every version of me trying to breathe, trying to belong, trying to surviveI was stunned.I was emotional.And honestly? I was in awe of myself.The Weight We Carry Before We’re ReadyThere is so much pressure put on us in our early twenties — emotionally, financially, psychologically — and yet we’re not equipped, not supported, not guided.I graduated into debt.Into unstable family dynamics.Into relationship turmoil.Into a career landscape that demanded experience I didn’t have.Into a system that was never designed for someone multi-hyphenate, intuitive, cyclical, creative, or freedom-oriented.Looking through those emails reminded me:I wasn’t just job hunting — I was fighting for air.And still, I kept going.The Seeds Were Always ThereEvery single version of me — even the overwhelmed 21-year-old trying to figure out whether I needed a master’s degree — was doing something that future-me still uses.I saw:* The early signs of my entrepreneurial muscle* The first moments of my “freelancer identity”* My instinct to coach, guide, edit, and support* My ability to position myself, no matter the industry* The beginnings of what would later become my 3P Framework:Purpose, Presence, ProsperityYears before I knew the language for it, I was already living it.Decluttering as a Ritual of ClosureAs I deleted emails one by one, I felt myself releasing…The pressure.The fear.The mistakes.The confusion.The survival mode.The versions of me who didn’t know they were allowed to want more.I said thank you to every past me — because she got me here.This is what I mean when I say everything is cyclical.We don’t know what seeds we’re planting until years later.We don’t know what cycles we’re closing until we’re already standing in the next chapter.Try Everything. Let ...