happy new year
Hey friends,
New Year’s Eve always puts me in a reflective mood.
It’s like a quiet pause before the calendar flips. That strange moment where you can still feel the year you’re leaving, but you haven’t stepped into the next one yet.
I just wanted to say hi.
And thank you for being here.
Whether you’ve been reading along for a while or you just found your way here recently, I don’t take that for granted. I talk about some big, uncomfortable things. Money. Beliefs. Conditioning. Power. Freedom. And the fact that you’re willing to sit with those conversations means a lot to me.
As we head into January, I want to let you know what I’m focusing on here next.
All of January’s Substack posts will be free, and the theme for the month is money.
Not in a loud, flashy, hustle-y way. Not advice you’ve heard a thousand times before. And definitely not shame-based.
I want to talk about money the way it actually shows up in our lives. The emotions tied to it. The stories we learned about it. The assumptions we’ve been carrying around without realizing it. The ways it can feel heavy, stressful, confusing, or charged, even when the numbers look “fine.”
So many people think their money problems are about discipline or intelligence or effort. In my experience, they’re almost never about that.
They’re about awareness.
January will be about slowing down and looking honestly at our relationship with money. Where it came from. How it’s shaped us. And how changing the way we see money can quietly change everything else.
No pressure. No resolutions required. Just conversations that I think matter.
For today, though, you don’t need to fix anything.
Let the year land.
Let yourself rest.
And step into the next one a little more awake than before.
Happy New Year.
I’m really glad you’re here.
Caitlin
