In this week's episode of Be YOU, Jill really reaches a turning point in the 2026 Year of the Firehorse series: the moment in which we are shedding what no longer serves us. Over the past eight weeks, the podcast has been clearing space, confronting discomfort, and removing ourselves from the expectations, patterns, and attachments that hold us back, and now, we move into claiming the life that we have been imagining - honestly, vividly, and without apology!

Jill imagines with her listeners Saturdays that unfold effortlessly, Mondays that begin with presence and intention, and moments that are truly filled with freedom, connection, and quiet joy. She pictures herself along with listeners in the mirror - comfortable, confident, fully inhabiting their bodies - while also honoring their own sense of style, strength, and self-love. From the clothes that we wear to the meals that we really love, the relationships that we cultivate, and even our connection to money and abundance, nothing is off-limits in this discussion. Every detail truly does matter, and everything is given voice!

Listeners of the show are also encouraged to slow down and feel the process in stages, similar to easing into a pool, breathing through the initial shock and eventually recognizing that this space, this frequency of desire, is now their natural state. What does your ideal home look like? Who surrounds you? How do you move through your career or creative pursuits? What intimacy, pleasure, and freedom do you allow yourself to experience?

By the end of the episode, Be YOU listeners are invited to dive deeply into their visions, merging them with the clarity, courage, and intention that they have been building! Jill explains how the energy of the Year of the Firehorse - fast, wise, and powerful - supports this major change, helping us all root deeply in our knowing while remaining disconnected from outside pressures, so whether you are a longtime listener of the show or are joining for the first time near the end, this episode of Be YOU is a chance to witness, speak, and inhabit the life that you have already been ready to claim!

Show Notes:

[1:27] - After clearing out what no longer serves us, it's now time for us to declare desires that we've been too afraid to voice!
[3:47] - By easing in slowly, we can more fully feel change and realize that we already belong there.
[6:10] - Describe your ideal life aloud in vivid detail, as if sharing freely with a trusted friend.
[9:56] - Jill encourages us to imagine an ideal Monday filled with ease, gratitude, intention, and meaningful work or rest.
[12:26] - Jill argues for radical honesty, pointing out that it reveals that self-love - not perfection - defines your ideal body and life.
[15:52] - Jill encourages us to admire ourselves, nourish our bodies, follow joyful movement, and name the feeling that we want the most.
[18:08] - Envision your ideal home, relationships, and intimacy by vividly describing how your perfect life feels.
[21:00] - Jill explains how to explore your ideal relationship with money, daily life, and friendships via fearless, detailed imagination.
[24:05] - Reflect, move, breathe, and embody your desires until they feel fully integrated within you!
[27:40] - Trust your inner knowing in the year of the horse without rushing or surrendering your grounded confidence.
[30:18] - Jill announces that the next episode is the final episode but reminds listeners that Be YOU will soon be re-airing on YouTube.

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As the Year of the Firehorse approaches and Jill continues with this miniseries, she invites listeners into a powerful pause - one that doesn't rush toward what's next but first asks what must be left behind. This episode centers on a bold question: what are you truly done with? Not the polite answers, not the socially acceptable ones, but the truths that you feel in your body when no one else is watching. Jill explains why clarity around what no longer fits is the necessary doorway to creating a life that actually feels like yours!

Throughout this discussion, Jill brings in her usual blend of reflection, humor, and raw honesty as she challenges the idea that obligation equals alignment, and she explores how fear hides inside "shoulds," old identities, habits, and even relationships, and why releasing them isn't selfish but is rather essential. From body image and health to money, work, and the invisible pressure of other people's opinions, she offers some grounded examples of what it can look like to draw a line and say, "No more." Listeners are encouraged to journal, visualize, and examine every corner of their lives as if watching a movie, noticing where they've been been neglecting their own truths.

Jill also shares a very personal reveal: after nearly five and a half years and over 300 episodes, she has decided to end the Be YOU podcast. This choice didn't come from burnout or strategy but rather from the same inner guidance that she has been teaching all along, and she speaks openly about what it means to follow a calling that makes no sense on paper but feels unmistakably right in the body. The decision, she says, is part of an even bigger change - one of reclaiming herself and funneling her creative energy into a new chapter of her life!

This episode of Be YOU is not about chasing a "new year, new you" fantasy but is rather about courage, honesty, and the freedom that comes from living in alignment. Before next week's vision-setting episode, Jill asks listeners to get very clear about what they are ready to release because the life that you want can't fully come into being while you're still holding onto what no longer belongs!

Show Notes:

[1:30] - Preparing for the Firehorse year starts by releasing what we're done with and choosing readiness over fear.
[4:42] - Imagine judgment disappearing, and notice what your body wants to release as you clear physical and emotional space!
[7:11] - Hear how Jill authors her one life by releasing fear-based roles and taking small steps toward true freedom.
[10:03] - Living in alignment allows what's meant for you to flow easily while misalignment quietly leads to regret.
[13:13] - Jill argues for honoring what you want by boldly declaring what you're done with and choosing a new way of being.
[16:21] - Jill encourages visualizing misaligned parts falling away and then examining every life area to decide what no longer belongs.
[19:26] - Hear how an old childhood program still whispers about others' opinions, even when Jill consciously doesn't care.
[22:33] - Jill watching her life like a movie revealed that she is truly done with the podcast after five transformative years.
[25:04] - Jill believes that when a choice feels illogical yet deeply aligned, that's how she knows that it's probably the correct choice.
[26:18] - For Jill, calling all of herself back means closing this channel and redirecting her energy toward writing and self-reclamation.
[29:31] - Even though the podcast will no longer have live episodes, it will live on as a complete YouTube archive!

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