In this episode, Marsha shares several questions to support you in defining what you are meant to leave behind from the previous year. Here is a list of questions to ask yourself.

​​1. What story from 2025 no longer serves who I am becoming, and what new meaning am I choosing to give it now?

2. Where did I operate from survival, pressure, or fear, and what empowered state do I choose instead for 2026?

3. What belief created the most friction this year, and what upgraded belief will create more ease next year?

4. What emotional pattern did I overuse in 2025 that I am now retiring, and what emotion will lead me in 2026?

5. In what moments did I abandon my needs, and how will I honour myself differently moving forward?

6. What version of me worked in 2025 but cannot walk with me into 2026—and who am I choosing to be instead?

7. What am I finally willing to release so that my energy, capacity, and identity are free to expand next year?

8. What truth about myself did 2025 reveal—and how will I lead with that truth in 2026?

Highlights

[00:00] Why it’s still the perfect time to reflect before setting new goals

[01:10] The importance of reviewing the year before creating a vision for the next one

[02:05] How limiting decisions quietly crack the foundation of belief

[03:10] Why your subconscious cannot move forward while holding outdated identities

[03:55] The jug metaphor: making space by releasing old stories

[04:05] Question 1: Rewriting the story from 2025 that no longer serves you

[04:55] Question 2: Identifying survival, pressure, or fear states and choosing a new operating state

[06:55] Question 3: Upgrading beliefs that created friction into beliefs that create ease

[08:05] Question 4: Retiring emotional patterns that no longer serve your leadership

[09:00] Question 5: Where self abandonment happened and how to lead yourself differently

[10:45] Question 6: Honoring parts of you that worked before, without letting them run the future

[12:15] Question 7 and 8: Releasing resentment, expanding capacity, and leading with truth in 2026

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, OUTSPOKEN NLP Coaching Certification, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

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In this milestone 950th episode, Marsha welcomes listeners into the new year with one of the most important conversations you can have before setting goals for 2026. She breaks down the real reason most goals fail, not because of effort or discipline, but because the conscious mind and subconscious mind are not working together.

Marsha explains how your subconscious mind runs the majority of your behaviors, decisions, identity, and nervous system responses, even when your conscious mind thinks it is in control. Using simple metaphors and real time examples from her own business, she shows how internal contraction, fear, and old programming quietly sabotage growth, visibility, and capacity.

This episode is an invitation to pause, take inventory, and stop trying to outwork beliefs your body does not yet feel safe holding. If you want 2026 to look different, this conversation will change how you approach goals, support, investment, visibility, and success itself.

Highlights

[01:05] Why recovery after the holidays matters more than jumping back into productivity

[02:20] The power of the pause and how growth happens in stillness

[03:10] Your subconscious runs 95 percent of your life, not your conscious mind

[04:20] Why vision boards and goal setting only work at the 5 percent level

[05:10] The ceiling and floor metaphor and how belief determines capacity

[06:30] Conscious goals vs subconscious safety and why they often conflict

[07:55] How nervous system contraction quietly blocks expansion

[08:50] You cannot outwork what you do not believe is possible

[10:05] A real time example of feeling contraction around investment and growth

[11:20] Identifying old fear based patterns versus present truth

[13:05] Visibility as a subconscious safety issue, not a confidence problem

[15:35] Receiving support as a form of rewiring identity and capacity

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, OUTSPOKEN NLP Coaching Certification, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

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In this final solo episode of the year, Marsha reflects on the identity she is stepping into as she prepares for 2026. Rather than revisiting grief or hard lessons, this conversation focuses on what the year built in her, the internal shifts that created sustainable growth, and the leadership standards she’s carrying forward into the new year.

Marsha shares ten defining realizations around capacity, regulation, boundaries, identity, creativity, community, and self trust. She unpacks why strategy only works when your nervous system can hold it, how regulated leadership changes everything, and why success actually thrives inside clear boundaries. This episode is an invitation to pause, take inventory, and consciously decide who you are becoming before setting goals for the year ahead.

[02:18] Why this episode is about what the year built, not what broke her

[04:52] Capacity before strategy and learning when a yes is actually a no

[06:02] Regulated leaders make better decisions and why the pause is power

[07:44] Strong boundaries and not every message deserves an immediate response

[07:55] Identity first and why results collapse without internal clarity

[09:16] Letting go of pressure and recognizing hustle as contraction

[10:32] Trusting her voice as an asset and learning to pivot in real time

[11:55] Community over isolation and learning how to receive support

[13:21] Ending the pattern of playing small and reframing self doubt

[14:40] Creativity, play, and why fun is actually productive

[15:45] Why success loves boundaries and self honesty

[17:47] You are not behind and sustainable growth happens in regulation

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, OUTSPOKEN NLP Coaching Certification, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

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