2023 Is In Full Swing!

First, I want to share with you some EXCITING things that have already happened this year that allows me to keep supporting you, my community and help you to reach your BEST self.

I launched a PODCAST.

This podcast is FULL of motivation, inspiration, and ACTIONABLE Tools that you can put into your life to reach your peak performance in your life, leadership, and business.

Check it out here:

https://itstartswithyouwithjuliemenden.buzzsprout.com/share

We've already had episodes on:

• "You Are Your Own Catalyst For Change"
• "How Self-Trust Helps You Achieve Your Goals"
• "Break Out Of Your Box of Limiting Beliefs"
• "How To Speak With Confidence"

**If you like what you hear, it would mean the WORLD if you subscribed, shared it with a friend, and left a Rating/Review, as this helps to get it out to more people!!**

You can also watch the videos and subscribe to my new YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQx1tAZpAmaaVfgPVx8sXtQ

ALSO, I became a published contributing author of a new book that just launched THIS week and has already hit BEST SELLER in multiple categories!

This book is filled with 24 amazing leaders sharing their stories and their tools for helping you reach your peak performance.

You can get your Kindle copy for only $0.99 this week for Book Launch Week!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTW8MYV8

Now, let's reflect on 2022 and prepare for 2023.

Here we are, already into February of 2023..anyone else feel like they blinked and it was February?

I wanted to take the time to share with you a recap of my 2022, and share with you the things in place for 2023, in hopes that you too take the time to reflect and set the vision.

Every year, I pick a word..last year, my word was Skyrocket.

I had BIG things I wanted to achieve in my business, and life, and so I started the year with big visions of where I was headed.

It was a year filled with so many WINS

• Doubling my business
• Working with so many AMAZING 1:1 clients, teams, and organizations leading leadership development trainings
• Some great Speaking Events
• Getting a professional Speaker Reel made
• Trips to Florida, Arizona, and Denver
• My own development working with coaches and in masterminds to continue to grow myself (I practice what I preach!)
• Hiring a Virtual Assistant and an Executive Assistant
• Many amazing family memories and moments

I also really like to keep it REAL. I'm always talking about showing up more human as a leader, and so, I also want to show up that way for you.

2022 was a great year, and also, the HARDEST year of my life.

I won't even share all the things that happened because there were many more than this that rocked my family this past year. Here are a just a few:

• Many, many moments of stress, overwhelm, questioning what I'm doing and what I'm building
• Lots of investing back into me and my business and navigating the financial side of growing a business
• In April, my husband being COMPLETELY unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer (and me being away on a work trip when he got the news...) and making some tough decisions
• After years of progressively worsening health symptoms myself, sometimes debillitating..In August I was finally diagnosed with chronic Lymes Disease (7 different strains), Mold Toxicity, and several other things.

If you don't know much about late stage Lymes, it moves to your brain, nerves, joints, etc. so needless to say, there were some tough moments and still are as I am on a healing journey.

Did I mention, this is just scratching the surface of what all happened in 2022??

Why do I share all of this?

Really for 2 main reasons:

1) So you feel Seen.

As I have opened up about my own stuff from the past year, it has allowed others to open up to me and I have heard so many stories like mine, of people who have had some really really tough things the last year or more and sometimes we just need that space to bring it to the light and talk about the fact that it is HARD to keep showing up when things are tough.

2) To Let You Know-->You Can hold BOTH

You can hold both gratitude and celebration of amazing things happening, AND sadness, frustration, overwhelm...you can hold both. It's all part of the human experience and I truly believe that they are all opportunities that are happening FOR us, not TO us.

We anchored into gratitude this year, seeing the opportunity in things, and putting things into perspective.

As we are into 2023, I reflected on the last year, and asked myself:

• What did I struggle with?
• What did I achieve? Where did I miss the mark?
• How did I feel?
• What did I learn?

Looking to the New Year, I reflect on:

• What do I want to leave behind in 2022?
• What do I need to release, in order to be able to show up the way I want in this year?
• Who do I want to be this year? And what do I need to do, in order to be that person?

My word for 2023 is SIMPLIFY..and when I pick a word, I write it in my notebook everyday. I ask myself, what can I simplify today? How can I really embody this?

My Challenge for YOU:

If you haven't yet, take the time now to go back and reflect on 2022, maybe ask yourself some of those questions. Give yourself permission to feel the hard, or to feel the gratitude, or the pride..

Plan for what you want to do this year, and how you want to show up.

Here's to 2023!!