If you’re a service-based business owner trying to figure out what’s actually driving growth right now, this is for you. In this Q1 2026 business debrief, I’m breaking down revenue, client growth, marketing performance, and the real decisions behind the numbers. Because the truth is, your next level isn’t found in more effort, it’s found in better awareness.

If you haven’t taken a step back to evaluate what’s working in your business, start here: take the Business Growth Quiz and get clear on your next move.

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I sat down to do this debrief thinking it would take maybe 30 minutes.

It didn’t.

It took hours. Not just pulling numbers, but actually looking at them. Interpreting them. Letting them tell me something instead of rushing to conclusions.

And what came out of it surprised me.

Because on paper, some things looked like they were going backward. But underneath that, everything was actually moving forward.

Revenue Is Down, But the Business Is Stronger

Let’s start with the number everyone looks at first.

Revenue is down about 20% compared to Q1 of last year.

And it would be really easy to panic there.

But when I looked deeper, the story changed.

Why Revenue Dropped (and Why It Doesn’t Matter)

There were a few key factors influencing that number:

• I had a long-term, high-value client in early 2025 that isn’t present this year
• I ran a pay-in-full offer last year that inflated revenue temporarily
• I pre-sold retreat tickets in Q1 2025 that didn’t repeat this year

So yes, revenue is lower.

But it’s not because the business is weaker.

It’s because last year’s numbers were artificially elevated.

What’s Actually Happening Instead

This year, I’m seeing something much more valuable:

• Consistent monthly revenue
• Recurring income as the foundation
• Predictable cash flow

Instead of spikes and drops, I’m seeing stability.

And that matters more than a temporary high month.

Because consistency builds a business you can scale.

The Power of Looking Below the Surface

This is where most people get it wrong.

They look at a single number and make a decision.

But the real answers are never on the surface. They’re a layer or two deeper.

If you’re nodding your head right now, you’ve probably done this too.

You’ve looked at a dip and assumed something was broken. When really, you just didn’t have the full picture yet.

This is why I say this all the time: The answers you’re looking for are in the data you’re not looking at.

Podcast Growth Is Finally Paying Off

This is one of the biggest wins from Q1.

And honestly, it didn’t happen overnight.

It happened because I started treating my podcast like a real growth channel.

The Numbers

From January to March:

• 2025 listeners: 559
• 2026 listeners: 1,994

That’s more than triple.

Downloads also doubled:

• 2025: 1,600
• 2026: 3,731

And this is the part that matters most.

It’s not just vanity metrics anymore.

It’s converting.

What Changed

Here’s what we started doing differently:

• Strategic SEO-driven episode titles
• Consistent promotion across platforms
• Repurposing content into blogs
• Treating the podcast as a sales tool, not just content

And because of that shift, I’ve had:

• Cold leads find the podcast
• People book calls directly from it
• Clients convert from listening

That changes everything.

If content isn’t converting, it’s not a content problem.

It’s a positioning and strategy problem.

If you want to go deeper on this, listen to my episode on building a content strategy that actually converts.

Where My New Clients Actually Came From

In Q1, I brought in 8 new clients into my core program.

But the more important question is this: Where did they come from?

Here’s the breakdown:

• 4 from an in-person event
• 2 from referrals
• 1 from networking
• 1 from the podcast

Every single one of those came from conversation.

Not ads. Not funnels. Not passive marketing.

Real conversations.

What This Tells Me

There is a very clear pattern here.

High-touch, relationship-driven strategies are working.

And they’re working fast.

Which brings me to one of the biggest insights from this quarter.

In-Person Events Are Still One of the Highest ROI Moves

I tracked the return on investment from one event I attended in January.

And the result?

A 931% ROI.

Let that sink in.

Why Events Work So Well

When you’re in the room:

• You build trust quickly
• You have deeper conversations
• You can demonstrate expertise in real time

And here’s the kicker.

The people I met at that event converted within four weeks.

Compare that to a networking connection that took nearly a year

Speed matters.

And proximity accelerates trust.

This is why I’m doubling down on:

• Speaking at events
• Attending more rooms
• Hosting my own experiences

Because the data is clear.

Not Every Offer Is Performing the Same

This is where the debrief gets honest.

Some things worked. Some didn’t.

Back Pocket Insights Membership

• 14 cancellations
• 9 new members

At first glance, that feels like a loss.

But when I actually looked at it, it wasn’t.

• About 65% replacement rate
• No one canceled due to dissatisfaction

They canceled because:

• They were too busy
• They weren’t using it
• The format felt overwhelming

That’s not a failure.

That’s feedback.

And I’m already making changes because of it.

The Missing Piece Intensive

• Only 2 sales
• Both at discounted pricing
• None at full price

That tells me something important.

The offer isn’t positioned correctly yet.

But the delivery?

Incredible results.

So the problem isn’t the value. It’s the packaging.

That’s a very fixable problem.

The Investment I Wouldn’t Make Again

This one matters.

Because this is where growth actually happens.

I made an investment before attending an event.

And I shouldn’t have.

Not because the person was bad.

But because:

• I didn’t fully trust my gut
• I wasn’t in the right phase to invest
• I met someone at the event I would have hired instead

That’s on me. And I’m not blaming anyone else.

The Lesson

If you have an event coming up:

Do not rush into investments beforehand.

Because the right person might be in the room.

And if your resources are already committed, you won’t have the flexibility to act on it.

That one lesson alone was worth it.

The Real Win of Q1 Wasn’t Revenue

It was identity.

Coming into 2026, I felt like something was shifting.

Like I was in that in-between phase.

Not fully who I was before. Not fully stepped into what’s next.

And then March forced me to slow down.

• Less momentum
• Less new business
• More space

And in that space, everything became clearer.

What Changed Internally

• I got clearer on my positioning
• I started acting on long-held ideas
• I leaned into being my own best client
• I stopped outsourcing my decision-making

And that shifted everything.

Because strategy without identity clarity will always feel forced.

How Do You Know What’s Actually Working in Your Business?

If you’re trying to figure out where to focus, start here:

• Look beyond surface-level metrics, understand what’s influencing them
• Track where your best clients are actually coming from
• Pay attention to what’s converting fastest, not just what’s visible
• Use feedback from cancellations as data, not failure
• Notice where you feel resistance, there’s usually a lesson there

This is how you move from guessing to leading.

What I’m Doubling Down On Next

Based on this debrief, the direction is clear:

• More in-person events
• More SEO and content strategy
• More relationship-driven marketing
• Refining offer positioning
• Expanding collaboration opportunities

And most importantly:

Continuing to trust my own decision-making.

If you’re at a point where you know something needs to shift but you can’t quite see it yet, this is exactly what we work through inside a CEO Strategy Call.

The Bottom Line

Q1 didn’t look perfect on paper. But it was one of the most important quarters I’ve had in years.

Because I didn’t just look at the numbers. I understood them.

And when you do that, you stop reacting. You start leading. You start making decisions from clarity instead of emotion. And that’s what actually moves your business forward.

You are far more capable of this than you think.

But you have to be willing to look deeper.

Full Episode Transcript

Hey, hey, right, today we are diving in and I am giving you a peek behind the scenes. I’m pulling back the curtain and I am going to share with you my entire Q1 debrief. The good, the bad, I don’t wanna call it the ugly, the what didn’t work, let’s say it that way. Looking at numbers, revenue, all the different things that I am looking at and analyzing and taking into consideration, celebrating wins, all of the things. But this is a complete behind the scenes peak of my business in the first quarter of 2026. And the goal here is that you spend some time doing the same, doing your own debrief, doing your own reflection, practicing the pause and really looking at and seeing what is actually working, where your time and attention needs to go.

What’s shifting? What patterns? What trends are you seeing? All of the things. All right. So this one’s going to be a fun one. I’ve got a full page of notes to go through. so hopefully my ADHD brain won’t get me too bad on this. but yeah, I’m excited to dive in with this. So let’s do it. Okay. First and foremost, I want to preface this and say that like this literally sat and like, it took me a good couple of hours to work through and get and collect all of this information. I don’t wanna use the word data, because it’s not all just data. I mean, it is, but it’s information, right? And I also want you to shift your mindset a little bit around the word data. Data is simply just information, okay? And information is powerful. Information allows us to make educated decisions, okay? And that’s what we’re doing today. So first and foremost, debrief, right?

Everybody always just looks at their profit or their revenue number. Okay, so be it. That’s fine. Let’s start with it. Revenue is down 20 % ish, approximately 20%. However, my profit margin is remaining the same right around 50%, which I am totally good with. think that that is, I feel good about having a 50 % profit margin. My taxes are feeling good with a 50 % tax margin.

Um, but here is the difference because it’s easy to look at and go, Oh my God, I can’t believe my revenue is down. Like I am feeling like 2026 has been a far better year than 2025. If you go and listen to my Q1 debrief or my Q2 debrief from 2025, you, you’re, you would hear a difference in my tone. Like I am feeling really good about where 2026 is at and where it’s going. So to see a 20 % decrease in revenue, was kind of like, well, damn.

So I took a little bit deeper dive and this is again, there’s always more to the story and this is where you’ve got to look below the surface. So many people live at surface level and make decisions from that surface level when really the information is like a couple layers deep. Okay, so a couple things that have affected.

my revenue is one, I had a long-term more done for you client in the beginning of 2025. That was a good percentage of reoccurring revenue. Number two is I, the end of the year in 2024 and in February, I ran a special on FBA that was a pay in full special.

pricing was much different then and so I had a couple people pay in full. So again, that inflates revenue when you get a pay in full on paper. It doesn’t mean that revenue was better overall, right? Because it just meant that they paid in full for that time period when really that revenue needed to be split out over the course of six months, right? So when you look at that, the other thing is that in March of last year, I pre-sold tickets to my upcoming retreat.

two previous attendees that had attended the retreat in 2024 and I had two people again pay in full. So there was some increases in revenue in 2025 from that that I didn’t have in 2026. But here’s something else I noticed in 2026 where in 2025 I had a really high month in January because of those painful, I had a really high month in February.

And then March was like half the amount of January and February, like cut in half, where what I’m seeing in 2026 is consistent revenue. So it’s not increasing a ton. It’s not decreasing. I’m not losing money. It’s maintaining. It’s creating sustainability. It’s creating predictability. It’s creating sustainability, right? So

the income level is maintaining, which I think is far better than having high months, low months, high months, low months, right? I like seeing this consistent revenue every single month. So that I’m actually totally happy about when I look at my revenue is that I’m seeing a lot of consistency with these incremental increases, which builds over time, right? Because at this,

point because a lot of the revenue coming in right now is all reoccurring revenue. There’s not a, there’s a very slim chance that it’s going to decrease, right? Like I have hit baseline. can only increase from here because of the way my contracts are set up because of the way the revenue is coming in. It’s very sustainable. It’s a baseline. So that’s a wonderful thing that, you know, we’re on the way up.

And yeah, there’s still gonna be cash injection months and there’s still gonna be things that happen, different things, but I’m feeling really, really good and positive about the consistency, okay? Let’s talk now about podcasting. Okay, so you know last year I brought on a BA, maybe you don’t know, but last year I brought on a BA. This podcast is five years old at this point.

I personally did not start taking it terribly seriously. I took it seriously, but I didn’t take the promotion of it seriously until sometime in 2025. think it was mid 2025. And I brought on an assistant and her sole job at the time was to repurpose my podcast and to manage my podcast, to get it to more people. And so we started doing that and I started

networking in different communities. I started mentioning it a lot more. I started sharing it on social media. I’m very active on threads. And when people click on your profile on threads, they can see your podcast right underneath your profile threads added that feature. It’s an amazing feature. so podcast growth, is super exciting. I’m thrilled about this is my average listeners,

number of listeners or total number of listeners, not average, was total number of listeners from January to March 2026 was 1994. That same time period in 2025, I was at 559. So I tripled my, actually over, it’s well, yeah, it’s more than triple my listeners. Okay. So that is massive.

Also my downloads, which again, we don’t always compare downloads. That’s it’s kind of one of these like vanity metrics, but it’s still a measure of growth, right? My downloads in January to March, 2026. this current year. We’re 3,731. Um, in January to March of 2025, was a 1600. So downloads have doubled and listeners have tripled this.

is a serious win. That is incredible growth. is something I am tracking. I am so freaking proud of it. It tells me that what we are doing is working and we can capitalize even more on this. Now let’s look at and dive deeper again below the surface level. What are the things that we have changed? So one we know we’ve been promoting a little bit more. That’s awesome. But one of the other things that I started doing is getting much more strategic with my SEO and my

titles of my podcast episodes so that they would become a little bit more searchable. And I am pleased to say that I know of at least two people, one that has turned into a client and one that is a prospect that have booked or taken a next step directly from finding this podcast.

There were cold leads, right? Like they found the podcast through search or somehow it popped up in their Spotify something, or they heard me on another podcast and they started listening to this podcast. And from there, they took an action, booked a call with me. one of them joined Backpacket Insights, which then she jumped into FBA. So that is incredible. I’m so freaking stoked about that because honestly, again, for five years, I’ve had this podcast.

I would say, I don’t want to say it’s the first time it’s the first, it’s I first, started tracking this information. because again, I wasn’t really taking the podcast seriously as a sales and marketing tool. was a content tool for me. It was not a sales and marketing tool. So just shifting my perspective, shifting the positioning of the podcast, diving a little bit deeper into SEO and strategy behind the podcast has net result. are doubling down on that. We are doing more SEO. are doing.

more GEO for AI recommended search. We’re going, we’re doubling down on that. doing, we turned all of the episodes into blog posts. So we’re doing more with the blog to be found through SEO, GEO. There’s just a lot going on behind the scenes that we put into this that have net results. So super, super stoked about that. Let’s talk about new clients in Q1. So I,

brought on eight new clients in FBA, which was amazing. did that off of the back of it was mid February. I did do a price increase. So all of those clients came in pre price increase. So again, something to think about is I am working on shifting my positioning. I’m going to talk about that a little bit more, but eight new clients into FBA. Amazing. So happy.

And that brings me to where they come from, right? That’s always the question of like, where did they come from? One of them came from a referral. One of them came through the podcast, like I told you. Four of them came from an event that I attended in January. One of them had been in my world for quite a while. We met through networking, actually. And then another one came through referral. So that’s two that came through referral, one that came through networking.

four that came through an event, that’s seven, and then, one that came from the podcast, so that’s eight. So again, all of these things, if you think about it and look at what’s working, all in-person, networking, conversation driven. The three out of the four that converted from the event, converted from a actual conversion event. So you know I love conversion events.

that converted extremely well, which brings me to my conversion rate on in-person events. This is something else that I wanted to start tracking because going to in-person events is not, it’s not cheap, right? There’s a lot that goes into it. There’s a lot of planning, scheduling, being away from home, dealing with all of the things that are at home. If you’ve got kids, pets, whatever, husbands, schedules, just in general, like going and being at an event in person is,

It’s work, right? It’s work and it’s an expense. And so I wanted to start tracking my ROI on that. And the event I went to in January, I am currently sitting at a 931 % return on investment. Let me say that again. I am currently sitting on, currently, a 931

return on my investment to the in-person event I went to. Okay, if that doesn’t tell you something, it should. In-person events work. Here’s the other thing that that tells you.

When I take a look at it again, I’m giving you facts I’m giving you all everything behind the scenes the one person that converted from networking that I said went into FEA Her and I have been talking for almost a year at this point if not longer the people I met at that event They converted within four weeks So in person event not only converts, but it converts fast

because you can have real conversations. You can dive deep very quickly. You can share your expertise. You can be seen as an authority. There is so much power in it. So am I going to other events? Well, you know, I’m speaking at Power Table Live, so I cannot freaking wait. I already know that my return on investment from Power Table Live is going to be double that, if not more, in so many different ways. And I’m definitely doing more events.

I’ve got two that I am planning of my own where I am putting butts in seats. And then I have at least one or two more that I would like to attend in 2026 where I am going and being a button, a seat, because I’m telling you it works. Okay. So that I’m so thrilled about.

I have a total of 18 clients inside of FVA. started with 22 or 21. But again, some of that is one of them was somebody who went out on maternity leave and just didn’t come back to business as far as I know. Another one was a hybrid client. She was a FVA and one-to-one client. Her six month contract is up. She’s got lot of medical issues, just appointments and things coming up that she needs a break because she’s not going to be able to work because of it. Totally understand that.

And then actually the third one wasn’t really, was when I look at my numbers, it was a duplicate. So really holding strong. feel really good about that. Let’s talk about Backpacket Insights. Backpacket Insights, $11 a month currently, more on that soon. I had 14 people cancel in the, the first quarter of the year. And, but I had nine new people.

So not a hundred percent, you know, but fairly close, right? What are we looking at? Like 60, 70 ish percent. I’d have to do the math. I think it’s like a 70%. So I’m having like a 70 % new to cancellation. like, that’s not terrible. Yeah, 65%. So it’s about 65 % of like cancellations compared to new. So, or new people. So I’m having like,

65 % new compared to the cancellation. Not bad. So it’s not a hundred percent. Like there’s always churn in any type of membership like that. And if I look back at all of the people that canceled, nobody canceled because they were unhappy, right? They canceled because they were too busy. They were not utilizing it. just wasn’t the WhatsApp group was too overwhelming for them. I took in feedback and I took it very seriously.

I am going to shift and make some changes to that again, more on that coming in a minute. but yeah, I mean, overall, I was really pretty happy with back pocket insights because it’s easy to look at all of the cancellations because you see them come in, right? People saying, I want to cancel, I want to cancel, I want to cancel. And so that’s what you remember. But I was like, I know I had new people come in, but I didn’t think it was nine. And so again, this is why it’s so important to look at the information in your business because.

I could have easily said like, my God, all I did was lose people in back pocket insights when actually I didn’t, you know what I mean? It was like a 30 % loss when you look at like the comparison. That’s not bad. Like that’s really not bad for a membership of that in that style. Okay. and then speaking of offers, the missing piece intensive that I was, that I had, I only sold two of, I sold two of them at a discounted rate. So I have not sold any full at full price.

more on that soon. There’s some changes coming to that as well because of this, looking at facts, but also the two that I did, I learned a ton from. One of them, was amazing, awesome. We worked through it in two days. We got through all of the content. It was awesome. Another one, we’ve had to extend it out because she has some medical, again, medical issues that made it so that the two-day intensive was not a good fit for her. So again, something to, I learned from that.

I learned a lot from the experience. I love the intensive offer. However, I also know it’s not for everybody and I am looking at different ways to position that, which I’ve got that figured out. All right, which, okay, I’m not gonna go there yet. I’m not gonna go there yet. And now I wanna talk about investments that I made that I’m not 100 % happy with, okay? So.

We all do this. We all have investments. I look at investments where I had great ROI, things that I felt like went really well. So we talked about the event. Even though I wasn’t terribly overly impressed with the event itself, the ROI was still fantastic, which is, I go because I want to meet people. So again, you always go into an event with your intention, your expectation. For me, it’s always about who can I meet in this room? And I met the most amazing people.

Okay? However, with that being said, knowing that I was going to an event, knowing that I was going to meet new people, I hired somebody right before I went to that event, and I wish I did not. Because I met somebody at the event that I would have loved to work with, that I think would have 100 % captured what I wanted better, but I made this decision, it felt impulsive, I’ve been much better about making impulsive decisions.

I’ve been much better about listening to my gut and this one, didn’t, I didn’t because this person came to me as a referral from somebody I highly respect who has a wonderful working relationship with this person. And I can honestly say like, I don’t know that me and this person have ever really like always clicked. I’ve known her for quite a few years now, but I was like, maybe it’s just me, you know, maybe it’s just me. And, you know, I don’t know. And so I said, yes.

And the work was done to the contract and that’s it. And so, yeah, it was an investment that I’m not thrilled with, but I learned a lot from it because one, I didn’t listen to my gut, two, I wasn’t necessarily ready to make this investment because I was kind of in the middle of this like identity shift, clarity, working through a lot of things I should not have purchased when I did that was on me.

Remember, we talk a lot about taking radical responsibility in our businesses. I’ve been using that. I’ve been saying, you know, my North star is being my own best client. I am not going to sit here and put the blame on said person. I am going to take the responsibility for myself. I should have never hired when I did. I learned a lesson that like, you’re going to meet people at an in-person event. So if you have one coming up, don’t make any investments prior to it because you’re probably going to meet somebody and wish that you maybe had the funds available.

to hire said person that you meet at an event and you don’t because you’re committed to something else. So I learned and going into Power Table Live, I’m not hiring anybody. I already know that somebody in that room is going to be somebody I need and want to hire. I don’t know exactly what yet. I have an idea. I have a thought, but I don’t know. And so I learned a lesson. It was a good one. I wouldn’t do it again, right?

I’m going to listen to my gut a little bit more. That is something I am continuing to learn. I feel like I am gotten a lot better at it, but then I’m like, I have these experiences and I’m like, Hmm, damn it, Michelle. You knew you kind of felt it, right? You felt it and you chose to ignore it. All right. And this is where influence plays a role because I was influenced based off somebody else’s opinion, based off somebody else’s experience, not listening to my own gut.

That’s on me, nobody else, me, okay? I am taking radical responsibility for that. And then I just wanna wrap it up with this and saying, Q1 for me overall was a massive behind the scenes, up leveling, shifting. came into the year feeling, I came into the year like the only way I can describe it is like,

butterfly that was still in its cocoon, right? Like I knew something new was emerging. I knew something was coming and I could feel it. I could feel it coming into 2026. But then 2026 just kind of like got off to a start. We started moving, we started going and I kind of let that little piece of me that was in the cocoon just kind of, I stopped giving her some attention. And then March slowed way down.

As far as new business, March was a fairly slow month. We had the kids here the first week of March. I took a vacation, which kind of interrupted my momentum. And anytime your momentum gets interrupted, you kind of just have this feeling of like trying to get back into it and whatever. I couldn’t seem to get the momentum built back up, not quickly, but what it did do is…

it allowed me to really sit and think. I knew that there was still this unsettled feeling that there was still this new identity that was emerging. was a lot new. And so I really had the time and space to kind of see what was ahead. Again, the North Star of being my own best client is by far the best thing I’ve done for my business in nine freaking years.

why it’s taken me this long to do this again, you always know when you’re ready. And probably if I had done it in previous years, I wouldn’t have been ready for it, but I’m so freaking ready for it. Like I said, I knew I was kind of on the edge of like this unsettled, like something’s going to change. Big changes are happening. Things are going to happen. I will talk about this further in the next episode because it’s, I want to really talk about the changes in positioning, the changes in my offer ecosystem.

I had so much time and so much clarity. have some amazing, wonderful friendships. Colleagues that we mastermind together were like verbal processing buddies. You know, that same, that saying every coach has a coach. And, you know, I started thinking about it earlier today and I was like, man, I don’t really have a coach right now. And then I was like, reframe, reframe. You absolutely have colleagues. You are doing things. I am investing into my business.

I am investing into people. I have colleagues that I have conversations with on a regular, some that are ahead of me, some that are at the same point as me. There’s a lot going on. So I am doing a lot of work behind the scenes. I’m doing a lot of subconscious work. So I am paying to work with a subconscious reprogramming expert. Oh, those are the other two big things. Holy shit. Two of the other amazing things that happened in Q1.

is that I brought in two resident experts into FVA. And I’m not talking guest experts, I’m talking resident experts, meaning they are showing up every other month like they alternate. Holy shit, has it been amazing. Freaking amazing. And it’s only been two months that they’ve been there. We had a messaging expert, Chelsea Quint. And then I have a subconscious reprogramming, Abby Acevedo. Chefs.

Kiss, one of the best decisions I have made in 2026 was bringing them in. The results are going to be so fire. So that’s been amazing. And see, here’s my ADHD. The other thing I forgot to tell you is in Q1, because I had this space, because I had the time, because I started getting this clarity, I’m coming back to where we were, I started taking action on an idea that I have had for over a year.

an idea that I have wanted to execute and implement for over a year and I haven’t done it because I ask people about it. I talk to people about it. I get a lot of feedback around it. I’ve had a lot of like, if I were you, I would do this. Have you thought about this? Have you thought about this? And it has stopped me in my tracks. And I finally just decided I’m going to freaking do this because I have the strategy in my mind. It’s going to work. It’s a collaborative idea.

It’s a way that I can collaborate with other business owners that I freaking love in a way that is a low lift for all of us, but high impact. I’m so excited about it. I promise I will tell you about it. You will likely hear about it in my email list. We’ll hear about it first. So if you’re not on the Sunday morning brew newsletter list, jump in there. The link is in the show notes. They will hear it first too on the up leveling and the positioning changes.

the offer all of that. So if you’re not on my email list, please jump on there. I promise I don’t spam the shit out of you. I send a really awesome newsletter on Sundays, which that has maintained. If I look at Q1, that’s been maintaining about a 50 to 60 % open rate. Wonderful email marketing is working actually close to clients by sending emails when I thought I wanted to quit. again, so many amazing things, but again, I think one of the

biggest wins is that I had the time and the space and the people surrounding me and supporting me to work through this identity shift and positioning of who I am, what I bring to the table, the expertise, the authority, what I want to be known for, being pushed outside of my comfort zone, taking scary action, doing things and putting myself into rooms has been so fulfilling.

I can’t even begin to describe it and I haven’t even launched any of it out yet. It’s all still in this like ideation, creation phase, but it’s there and I’m not going backwards. And I think that is what is so important and so valuable to me is that I see the vision for it. I’m stepping into it, I’m executing it and I’m not going backwards. Even though the universe continues to send me these little tests.

these little challenges that keep asking me, are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure you’re not gonna go backwards? Because it’s easy to get pulled backwards. It’s very difficult to get pulled forward, okay? And I’m not getting pulled backwards. So there you have it. I think I have everything covered that was on my notes.

Overall Q1 was a fantastic, I’m thrilled with the way Q1 has started. I’m excited to capitalize on this and double down on the things that are working. And I’ve got my plan. I’ve got my North star. I’ve got ideas. I’ve got execution, all the things. And I just can’t wait to see what the rest of 2026 brings. So if you have not taken the time to do a full Q1 or quarterly debrief, whenever you are listening to this.

Give yourself the time and space to do it, but it’s not like a quick half hour thing, right? This is like sit and really look below the surface level. Look at all of the things to give yourself the information, right? As I always say, the answers that you are looking for is in the data you are not looking at. I can’t say it any other way. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. The answers and the results that you are looking for are in the data you are not looking at.

Go look at your data and you will find the answers. It is worth your time to do it, okay? So if you love this episode, if you want to share this episode, I greatly appreciate anybody that shares it. If you’re thinking of somebody that you’ve been listening to, like somebody, I’ve got this person in mind that needs to hear this. I want you to stop this episode right now. I want you to go share it with them. I want you to post it to your IG stories. I want you to tag me in it.

I want you to send me a DM, send me an email. Let me know you’re listening. Let me know what you thought of this. Let me know what you loved and I’ll see you in the next episode. All right. So until then, I love you. I believe in you and I will see you soon.