Welcome to the Peak Revival Podcast.

My name is Vesta, and today we are gonna have a conversation

about girlfriend conversations and dinner party realizations.

about this year and about life and about how we want to live it and

what we're choosing I was at a dinner party last week, And you know, it's

already well into the year and, uh, you know, at this dinner party.

They went around, uh, the table and they said what's your word for the year?

and, um, I was like, oh my gosh, I really don't have a word.

This is really interesting.

Like I had a theme for the year, but as you know, everyone was going around the

table and talking about what they wanted.

It was really interesting.

Like there was women saying like, they are just not tolerating things anymore

that they've tolerated in the past.

Being more authentic and speaking up, and things like that.

So it was really interesting.

And then, know, for me it came, you know, when it came round, I thought,

actually this is a perfect word for me.

My word was rebuild.

Because last year, uh, everything went wrong and it was kind of

like the slate was cleared, right?

And so it was, you know, about beginning again or building.

And so rebuilding came to me because rebuilding my body after my leg

break or ankle break, but also other things, rebuilding other things.

And that was really interesting.

And so listening to what everyone had to say and, what they were gonna do

differently, there was a really common theme I found, uh, where it was, was

really about being more authentic and choosing yourself and designing

life in the way that works for you.

Last year was also the year of the snake.

If you follow the Chinese astrology, which I'm not a big Chinese astrology

follower, but certainly for last year, I didn't find out until towards the end

of last year, You know, I caught up with someone and I was like, oh, this year is

just the worst year that I've had in about 20 years, and that is legit, not a joke.

The worst year I've had in about 20 years.

And my friend was saying, and she goes, oh yeah, that's because

it's the year of the snake.

I was like, what are you talking about?

And then she explained it to me, right?

And I was like, oh my gosh, that sounds exactly like what

I'm going through, right?

This shedding process of everything that no longer

serves you that you can't take into 2026, which is the big year of

transformation and a lot of things happening at an accelerated pace.

It's like, wow, that's really interesting.

That's okay.

That feels like there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Right?

And of course, sometimes I think we, I, well, I hook onto these things

'cause I think, okay, something good is gonna come out of something bad.

And so, you know, the dinner party we're talking about this and these

are conversations that I have with my girlfriends all the time, right?

We, we talk a lot about the year of the horse and it was,

it's a fire horse for this year.

So rapid transformation and big energy and things changing for the better.

you know, I did hear one astrologer say.

That this year is about a lot of truth being uncovered.

And you know, as we are coming into the fire horse, there's a lot of things in

the media if you've watched anything about the Epstein files being released,

which is shock horror, disgusting.

I don't know.

I feel like that's all part of That energy of the fire horse.

I don't know.

I could be finding things where they don't exist, but I, I do actually believe that

this is all part of it, and so the fire horse, if you are someone who follows it,

and I'm sure when I say that you might.

Be thinking, oh my gosh, I totally follow this.

Or you are like, I've never heard of this.

you know, the shedding off from last year was an important part of the process

to create what we're gonna create this year, which then kind of brings me to.

The next question, which is, what am I gonna create for this year?

Right?

I'm rebuilding through this process and I'm only having this conversation 'cause

maybe it's going to spark some ideas for you, which I think this is an important

conversation to have with yourself.

I've been having a lot of realizations.

About patterns of mine that I haven't even noticed before, patterns that I've

had for about 20 years it's really crazy that I'm only just seeing so clearly

now that it's mind blowing for me.

And so my thinking is changing.

I'm having these realizations, so there's definitely a shift that

I'm seeing for myself and I'm hearing from other people as well.

So I'd be very curious to hear like if you are watching this on YouTube

and you can see the comments, please do leave me a comment.

I'm very curious to see what other people are noticing this year, what

kind of shift is happening for them, You know, some of the stuff that, that I'm

experiencing is this idea of choosing yourself and not in a fluffy woo woo

kind of way, because sometimes, you know, I've heard that being said before and

I'm like, what does that actually mean?

Does that mean putting yourself number one priority?

And I'm not seeing it like that.

Right?

I see.

Choosing yourself in.

Not when you're burnt out, right?

So often I see women, they're burnt out and their health is struggling, and I'm

like, you literally have to drop something so you can pick yourself up, right?

So you have to put yourself on your list.

You have to choose you.

Right now, that's an essential because everything else will fall

apart, but it's not in that way.

It's not in a burnout way.

It's like, how do I want to live?

And how do you really want to live?

What do you really want?

because I see today that the world is so different.

The world is completely open.

You know, some of the conversations that I had with women is they're

really living differently.

They're homeschooling, they're traveling the world because they can

work from home or they have their own business where they work from home.

They're taking their kids, traveling the world.

Like We have so much opportunity now, and unfortunately for some of

us, and I've seen this in myself.

We are sticking by the old rules and we're still doing things in the old way.

And I wonder if this is the year where we really break away from old rules and old

programming and the way that it should be and really start to choose ourselves

and to live the life that we really want.

And that requires you to ask yourself that question, what do I really want?

Not what I should want.

What's the right thing to have?

What's the right thing to do by everyone?

And just to explore it.

And it's not to say, oh, you're up and gonna leave your family.

It's not about that.

It's about really asking yourself that question and then like the way

I've been asking it, like, I would love this, but I also love this.

I'm like, how could I have both of those actually, that's a

thought I've not thought before.

How do I have both of those things at the same time?

And that's why I think this exercise is important.

Like, What do you really want?

How do you really wanna live?

What do you want this year to be like?

Who do you wanna show up as?

Or how do you want to be by the end of this year?

asking yourself and really choosing yourself.

Like, what do I want?

if we are going to.

Make changes and create lives that we want and that we love and that we

enjoy, and I think we forget that.

I think we forget we're meant to really love and enjoy our life.

We can get so caught up in the struggle and the everyday responsibility and

the stresses and the burdens and the financial pressures and the cost of living

and whatever else is going on, right?

I think we forget that we're meant to enjoy it and.

I still do think that that's a choice regardless of what's

happening in your life.

You can choose to enjoy your life, but then choose to create it the way that

you want as well and choose yourself.

So a lot of women are changing the rules.

They're not going by the old, old rules anymore of career,

of success, of lifestyle, of mothering, of parenting business.

They're breaking the old rules and they're doing things differently

in the way that they want.

And I'm hearing stories from these women and I'm like,

wow, I'm so inspired by this.

Right?

And these are women who would seemingly have a lot of constraints

having a business and children and whatever, but they're doing it right.

So what am I doing right?

You know, it just opens you up to more opportunity and possibility.

And I think that.

That's the invitation maybe for 2026 is okay, we're already into it, but

maybe if you've forgotten that this is a big year, then maybe this is

a really good time and a reminder to rethink this process or rethink

what you really want from this year.

So that's what I wanted to discuss, right?

So these are the discussions and the thought processes that I'm having.

I wanna do things differently.

I want to find a lot more joy in the every day.

And you know, in the previous podcast I was talking about how when we see

the good in what we do and in our little wins and in our life and in the

enjoyment of our life, we just really go up to another level in our life.

And I, I really believe that, and I'm seeing that more and more that as we.

I guess shift our mental state and our energetic state, our frequency.

We really go to another level of possibility for our life.

Like some people in the spiritual circles or in the quantum circles

would say it's a different lifeline.

It's like a. It's like a time different timeline, right?

You shift like your life is going this way, and as you make these changes,

simple changes, you actually shift yourself into a higher vibration or a

higher frequency or a higher timeline but things look different and new

opportunities are available to you.

So that's kind of where I'm at.

So, but I would love to hear out of everything I've just said and the

conversations I'm having with my girlfriends, what are the interesting

conversations that you're having?

That you are going to create something new or you are, or realizations that you're

having about yourself, or maybe you're choosing yourself or choosing, you're

gonna break the rules, the old rules.

You're gonna make your own rules now.

Like I'd love to hear that in the comments below.