Nine months into the year, most of us are carrying a secret tension: the map we started with is not the same the road we actually traveled. In this episode, Blaze walks you through a reality-based year review — no judgment, no fixing, no scoring yourself against who you thought you'd be by now.
She shares her own full year: the podcast reboot, building a garden from scratch while a family of ravens nested overhead, the solar panel crisis, the water tank disaster, the first big family trip in years, perimenopause surprises, and a deep reckoning with how she wants to use (or not use) AI and technology in her creative work and daily life.
If you're tired of measuring yourself against social media's highlight reels and want to know where you actually stand right now, this is the clean assessment you need. And next week, Blaze will help you figure out what to do with this information.
You can read a full transcript of this episode here.
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