End of Year Recap and 2025 Intentions

**This article is republished from my newsletter

2024 Lookback

It’s hard to believe that 2024 is coming to a close. The unforeseen prophet, otherwise known as Katt Williams??, foreshadowed a wild year - and boy was he right!

This year we’ve witnessed celebrity falls from grace, Olympic triumph, expanding conflicts around the world, a tumultuous U.S. election and so much more. It's been a year of dizzying highs and lows and everything in between.

And this of course isn’t counting our personal journeys this year.

For me, 2024 was a pivotal year. Here are some of my highs and lows…

Highs:

• Published my first book, Do You and it became an Amazon bestseller its first week!
• Got engaged to my incredible partner Jeff??
• Received a California Black Women’s Trailblazer Hall of Fame Award.
• Had my first television appearance on Live in the Bay!
• Took on some new coaching and consulting clients, including a fun project training and coaching a group of internal facilitators for their company-wide learning day.

Lows:

• Launched Bossy and Blissful as an online community but did not receive the sign-ups I hoped for and have since placed this offering on hold.
• Had fewer speaking engagements than I had hoped for.
• Struggled to gain more traction and visibility on social media.

Like so many of you, this year was a mixed bag. But I’m grateful for all of these varied experiences to teach me more about myself and bring me closer to my purpose.

Reflect and Release

A couple of weeks ago I facilitated a 2025 Vision Workshop for a friend’s birthday party where we began by reflecting on 2024. During this section, I asked her guests to take a few minutes to think about what this year has felt like for them.

And then I asked them to complete the following prompts:

• This year has been…
• One thing I learned about life / myself this year is…

I invite you to do the same. Even better, do what I call a “Gratitude Board” for 2024, which entails writing out or creating a visual representation of everything you’re grateful for experiencing this year.

I believe it’s important to mine the lessons of our past experiences to prepare us to refine our intentions moving forward.

?If you’re interested in doing a similar reflection or vision session for yourself, your team or your community, message me or grab some time on my calendar here.

2025 Intentions

With 2024 in the rearview mirror, I’m excited for what’s to come in the New Year!

A few years ago I began practicing yoga at home and that has turned into a regular routine and a passion of mine - so much so that I’ve decided to pursue Yoga Teacher Training.

Yoga has helped me to heal the grief of losing my husband and has gotten me back in touch with my body, mind and spirit.

My intention for 2025 is to teach yoga to busy professionals, especially high-achieving women, in a fun and accessible way! Stay tuned for some lit yoga classes by yours truly????

In addition to yoga, I’ve been dedicating time to meditate each day. This simple practice has brought me profound clarity, greater peace and a deepening of my intuition.

Meditation has allowed me to tap into my inner wisdom and receive divine guidance. I’m being guided to use my gifts to help people heal from within.

As a result, in 2025 I’ll be introducing new 1:1 and group healing experiences and will be launching a new podcast called “The BlissFULL Life” to share the spiritual lessons I've learned over the past few years to help others cultivate more stillness and design a life of joy, ease and purpose.

I can’t wait to bring you along on this journey with me.??

Wishing you the fulfillment of your heart’s desires in 2025 and beyond??