What if January isn’t the time to sprint, but the time to listen? We step into winter as a threshold, an intentional pause where rest becomes action and receiving becomes strategy. Instead of forcing resolutions against bare trees and short days, we explore how aligning with the season strengthens intuition, steadies the nervous system, and lays the groundwork for a more authentic year.

Nikki unpacks the tension between society’s push for instant reinvention and nature’s quiet cadence. We revisit Ayurvedic wisdom and circadian rhythms, talk about creating white space in a culture that rewards constant output, and share how to train your body to feel safe in stillness. You’ll learn why “slow is the honest pace,” how to spot the hidden costs of overriding winter (burnout, shame-based goals, lost intuition), and simple practices that shift your state: buffer your schedule, take phone-free walks, savor grounding foods, and protect the morning theta window for soft visualization.

This is a season to let desire mature without measuring output. Think of January as a holding pattern that consolidates nine years of learning and readies you for spring’s clean momentum. We offer reflective questions to guide your integration, and gentle rituals—from mirror affirmations to fireside pauses—that build a foundation of warmth, presence, and self-trust. Choose stillness before strategy and watch your plans root deeper, your energy refine, and your path clarify without the push.

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Episode Links

• S2, E113: Closing 2025 With Gratitude, Numerology, And Magic: A Collective Reflection
• S1, E45: Embracing the Spring Equinox: Why January 1st Isn't the Real New Year

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The calendar says go, but your body says pause. We open the year by treating January as a threshold—an intentional space to soften urgency, restore trust, and let clarity rise from quiet. Coach Alyssa Simpson joins Lizzy and we get practical about building an abundant life that doesn’t cost your nervous system: identity-first manifestation, cycle-led planning, and boundaries that hold when life gets loud.

Alyssa shares the moments that pushed her to end people pleasing and own her energy leaks—family tensions, client friction, even a car accident—then maps how small, consistent habits cue a wealthier identity. We dig into the be-do-have model, why instant gratification derails sustainable change, and how rest is not a reward but a core mechanism of manifestation. If you’ve ever tried to out-hustle the universe, this is your permission to try trust instead.

We also challenge hustle culture in entrepreneurship. Many of us still run our businesses inside rigid, masculine structures and wonder why we’re exhausted. We talk about leading from feminine energy—setting the tone, keeping meaningful white space, and letting money and operations follow. You’ll hear concrete ways to align your calendar with your hormone cycle, ask for support at home without drama, and reorient goals around what 80-year-old you will bless you for. Alyssa’s Restfully Rich program invites high-capacity women to rebuild success from embodiment, presence, and true receiving.

If January feels slow, heavy, or uncertain, you’re not behind—you’re right on time. Press play to trade pressure for presence, refine who you’re becoming, and design a year that grows from rest, not rush. If this conversation resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a gentler start to the year, and leave a review to help more listeners find us.

Episode Links

• MZC Practitioner Collective: Alyssa Simpson
• S1/EP.36: Manifesting Abundance: Transforming Money Mindsets and Embracing Feminine Power with Alyssa Simpson
• Daysy - Your Personal Fertility Tracker

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What if the chaos you’re feeling is actually the pressure that shapes you into something clearer, kinder, and stronger? We open a protected space, call in guidance, and receive a January 2026 Arcturian transmission that repeats one unwavering truth: all is not lost. From there, we unpack why heavy emotions rise now, how unprocessed energy turns sticky, and why life keeps surfacing what’s ready to be healed.

We explore two vivid archetypes: one raised with transparency, rituals, and room for emotion; the other taught to avoid hard truths and silence their voice. These paths create very different reactions to global noise. Together we practice detachment without numbness, feeling without fusing, and the art of “surfing the wave” from the solar plexus, so that headlines and timelines don’t hijack our center. We talk soul contracts, chosen challenges, and the steady march toward a more truthful “new earth” that prizes coherence, integrity, and compassion.

You’ll leave with simple tools: gratitude as a daily baseline, awareness as 90% of healing, and protective visualization using white diamond light. We share mantras like “Peace begins with me,” and invite you to call on whatever guidance speaks your language - saints, angels, the Arcturians, God, the universe. Most importantly, we ground into a practical promise: when you heal yourself, you lift the field around you. Your steadiness is palpable. Your presence is medicine.

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