Midlife Revolution Unleashed
Welcome to Midlife Revolution Unleashed—the podcast that empowers midlife professionals, entrepreneurs, and change-makers of color to step boldly into their next chapter!
Hosted by Stacy M. Lewis, a seasoned nonprofit executive and the Midlife Momentum Coach, and Wayne Dawson, The VIP Coach, this show is your go-to resource for unlocking resilience, wisdom, and purpose in midlife.
Stacy is a dynamic advocate for women’s empowerment, helping midlife women gain clarity, confidence, and unstoppable momentum. Wayne specializes in leadership and career transformation, equipping men with the strategies to break barriers and elevate their success. While they each bring a unique focus, both coaches are deeply committed to serving and uplifting people of color navigating midlife transitions.
Together, they’ll help you redefine success, break through limitations, and play your biggest game yet—whether you're pivoting in your career, launching a passion project, or simply leveling up in life.
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Midlife Revolution Unleashed
Reflect Without Judgment And Fuel Your Next Season
Reflection shouldn’t feel like standing before a judge. As the year winds down, we walk you through a humane, practical way to look back that builds momentum instead of regret. We call it the Four R’s of Reflecting Well: remember without revision, recognize what works, release what doesn’t serve, and reimagine what’s possible from a place of truth and faith. Along the way, we unpack how cultural narratives, comparison, and perfectionism can twist memory, and why your nervous system’s signals matter when you revisit tough moments.
In this episode, we explore how to reflect at year’s end without spiraling into judgment, and how to turn honest looking back into fuel for 2026. Our Four R’s—remember, recognize, release, reimagine—pair mindset shifts with practical tools like wins-first, one-word reflection, and the 3-2-1 Grace Report.
Wayne offers a vivid story about crossing a high rainforest bridge in Ghana—and how reframing an “incomplete” into a genuine win unlocked courage and future readiness. Together we show how resilience shows up in small restarts, and how to spot the places you’ve been quietly underestimating yourself.
Fear is loud but rarely truthful; vision grounded in faith and values is flexible, hopeful, and doable. Choose an expansion word for 2026, rewrite the meaning of a stuck story with a kinder truth, and take one small step that proves your future to yourself.
If this resonates, subscribe, share the show with a friend who needs a gentle year-end reset, and leave a review telling us your 2026 word and the one thing you’re releasing. Your next season starts with how you look back—let’s make it fuel.
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December has a way of pulling us into two places at once. Who we've been this year and who we still hope to become. But for so many midlife folks, especially in our communities, reflection turns into rumination, which then turns into regret. But what if the way you look back could fuel your next season instead of draining it?
Coach Wayne:And what if your reflection could be more honest, more open, more gentle, and more hopeful. Without pretending everything was perfect. Check out today's episode. You found the midlife revolution unleashed. The space to embrace your wisdom, reignite your passions, and move boldly into what's next. I am Coach Wayne, the VIP coach.
Coach Stacy:And I'm Coach Stacy M. Lewis. We're here with insights, stories, and strategies to fuel your midlife journey. So take a breath, lean in. Your revolution starts now.
Coach Wayne:Stay safe. Good to see you, my lady.
Coach Stacy:Good evening, good morning, good evening, afternoon, all those beautiful things. Good day to you, Coach Wayne, and to our midlife revolution unleashed listener. It is so exciting to be here tonight. How you doing?
Coach Wayne:Me? I'm doing fine. Fine. Just doing great, Stacy. Came back well charged from Africa. I don't know when the high is going to end, but I'm enjoying it. Thank you, Matt.
Coach Stacy:Enjoy it. Ride it as long as you can. Welcome to those uh new and returning to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. I am your co-host, Coach Stacy, a midlife woman's coach, a lover of God and his people, and a nonprofit professional. And once again, it wouldn't be an episode of the Midlife Revolution Unleashed unless I was joined by my esteemed co-host, Coach Wayne.
Coach Wayne:And I'm the dude. Stacy's talking about Coach Wayne. Yeah, they call me the VIP coach because I help men through midlife so that their second half can be their best half. Stacy, we got a show and a half in for tonight. And this time of year, it's reflection time for most. It's the end of the year. And if you're in business, it's the last quarter. Either way, people tend to look back and reflect and uh and then position themselves. You know, they evaluate how's the year been and how will it be in 2026? So we're gonna talk about that today, Stacy.
Coach Stacy:Absolutely, and good evening to Delane. Today we're gonna ref talk about how to reflect well, right? How to look at the year or this chapter of your life through that lens that honors your growth and your wisdom and your humanity and looking forward to that future. Um, where would you like to start, Sir Wayne?
Coach Wayne:Well, what is reflection? What is it and what isn't it, Stacy?
Coach Stacy:Because yeah, shine. No, that's that's a good one. Um, because I think so often we entangle reflection um with judgment, right? So we look back or we think about something that has already happened, yet we do so with judgment or with comparison. And the type of reflection you and I are talking about this evening is really the reflection that looks back in a way that informs but does not judge. That's what I would say reflection is. What would you say, sir?
Coach Wayne:I think you're on the money with that, Stacy. I think uh we want to talk about holding back the tendency to be harsh, to beat ourselves up. And you know, there's a narrative about our worth as a as a group, as a people, people of color, black folks. And and so most times or many times I work with clients, I have to remind them to pull back. There are more wins and more things that they ought to be pumped up about than the missing parts that they complain about. You know, they start off with the what's wrong with me kind of uh attitude. And Stacey, we want to stay away from that sort of reflection this week.
Coach Stacy:I totally agree. And and we want to point out that um reflection can really be distorted by so many things, um, whether it be that comparison that I mentioned earlier, you know, those cultural expectations, the perfectionism, um, or really just trying to make it, right? Trying to keep everything moving forward. Um, but they can really distort those like those things can distort how we reflect and whether we reflect well or not.
Coach Wayne:And we call it oftentimes generational trauma. But a lot of us carry on not just the regular traditions that family has, but the the emotional traditions as well. The piled upon trauma, as it were, that says that we are wrong. We're always trying to fix ourselves because we came out with the idea that we're broken oftentimes. And that's a narrative that we got to let go of in the reflection that we're talking about tonight.
Coach Stacy:I I totally agree. And we are reminded that you know, our nervous system also plays a role, right? That the the way the brain remembers, sometimes we hold those memories in our body. And you and I, I feel like maybe last episode we talked a little bit about embodiment and really just acknowledging where you're holding something, feeling something in your body. Um, and and sometimes reflection can really connect with our nervous system in a way that you know we're feeling the reflection. We're feeling what we reflecting, what we're reflecting on. Um, and we want to be aware of that.
Coach Wayne:Yeah. Stacey, one of the things that I oftentimes do, in fact, it's it's a routine. When I work with brothers in my coaching practice, I start off each session with tell me a win that you had. And the win could be really small, but it's important to get us on that footing where we're thinking about optimism and positivity. So I start off, and I'll say to our audience tonight, when you're reflecting, let us count our gifts, start off with the wins before we talk about what we missed and what we need and what we don't have.
Coach Stacy:I like that. I like that a lot. Um, often uh in conversation with women, um, we're talking about reflecting, uh, yet it comes, it's coupled with as I reflect, I should be further along, or I should be there, or this should have happened. And oftentimes that measuring stick is not really our own, or it's not our own truth. It's some story that we have been telling ourselves about where we should be, what we should have accomplished, uh, and is not necessarily based in our truth, what we're here to do as individuals.
Coach Wayne:I wonder if we were to think about our lives or our day or our hours in a way that started off with some sort of appraise, self-praise and recognition. And we don't mean to be arrogant, we just mean find the thing that we can be thankful of and grateful for and begin there. What would our day and our self-esteem be like rather than the criticisms and the the critiques that we give ourselves?
Coach Stacy:I agree. And you have begun to jump into uh the core part of tonight's episode, which is that the four R's of reflecting well. Um, and that first one um that really comes with that uh praise, that Thanksgiving, that um, okay, well done, uh, is remembering without revision. Sometimes we remember, but we're not really remembering what happened or reflecting on what actually happened. Um, we're reflecting on it from the way or from the perspective, we'll say, of our inner critic. And so it is so important that we begin to remember without revision.
Coach Wayne:Yeah. And and we create our own stories. Sometimes we create stories that we we wish it were, and it keeps us from a reality. And I would say that let's keep it real, right? That the kids tell you, keep it real, dude. So let's keep it real, and and when we reflect, let us tell the story as is, not the script that we wished it were. And we're certainly not pleasing other people. So if we don't do that self-assessment in terms of reflection and honest, being honest with ourselves, then Stacy, we're not in a position to take uh action that is gonna be impactful.
Coach Stacy:Absolutely. And we can talk about some questions that that you know our listener can ask themselves, uh, but not until we say hello to Barbara. Hey Barbara, it's good to see you in the house, sis. Welcome to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. Uh, one question is what actually happened? Right? To really, if you're gonna reflect, say, okay, what actually happened? Not what did I want to happen, or what's the story I'm telling myself about what happened, but what actually happened?
Coach Wayne:And what's the meaning or the lesson that we can derive from what really happened? Because there's always a blessing in the lesson. And so whether it's, you know, something that we are looking back and saying we don't like, um, how do we kind of turn it around, Stacey, and ask the question, you know, what's the meaning of this?
Coach Stacy:Yes, yes. I I love that part because I think it's so important to not just look back and say, what happened, um, and what what the meaning of it is, uh, really, but how we want to then take that meaning and move it forward, right? Do or do we want to move it forward is is probably something we'll talk about a little later. Um, but I think it's an important part of reflecting. Let's talk about uh the second R, Wayne. What you got?
Coach Wayne:Second R. Uh recognize what works. So so do your score sheets, as it were, and recognize what worked. So if it worked, what you want to do? You want to keep it in your toolbox so that you can work it again.
Coach Stacy:Absolutely. Where where was I consistent? Right? Like to your point of celebrating the wins, not where was I inconsistent, but where was I consistent, even if not perfectly? What did I handle with courage, wisdom, or creativity? Uh, again, that positive reflection, like looking at those nuggets that you can really embrace and carry forward.
Coach Wayne:You know, Stacey, all people, somebody once joked and told me all people are like cockroaches. No matter how we get hit, we're gonna come back again, uh, and stronger than before.
Coach Stacy:I don't know. No, I don't know if I'm gonna take that one.
Coach Wayne:It's a bad analogy, right?
Coach Stacy:I don't know if I'm gonna take that one.
Coach Wayne:I I know, I know. But the the point I think they were making is resilience. And so when we look at reflection and look at what worked, look at your resiliency, look at how you bounced back, look at how you came again. If you can't go this away, you go that away. But we make it happen, and so I would so suggest to folks look at the places and the the challenges and the overcoming that you had when you reflect.
Coach Stacy:Yeah, yeah. I I really, really like that, as well as looking back and recognizing where you may have underestimated yourself. Um, you know, I was thinking about, and good evening to Gordon. Wayne, this is one of your people. Gordon said, good evening, Wayne. Uh hi Gordon.
Coach Wayne:Hey, thanks everybody who joined and and absolutely welcome to. Yeah.
Coach Stacy:Nice to have you, Paul. Welcome to Midlife Revolution Unleashed, and thank you for acknowledging my presence, Paul. I was thinking about when I was um in Berlin and just the level of work and responsibility that I was called to, and I can recall um particularly one time before I was going to speak, right? It's a big meeting. Um, and really looking back, I realized in that moment I was underestimating myself. I was underestimating my ability. Um, and I think it was important for me to remember to say, like, hey, hey, hey, mate, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like reflect. I reflected on times that I've done a similar presentation or a similar speaking event before, right? To reflect well is what we're talking about tonight. And Gordon, you and I are good. We're you you you are forgiven.
Coach Wayne:Thank you, brother. Thank you for joining everybody. So, Stacy, you know, it's still so fresh in my mind and in my heart. I gotta share whenever I can the um trip to Ghana. And though I do things to kind of prop myself up, I'm really definitely afraid of heights, especially heights over water. And that's because I'm a Jamaican born on the island, not in the water. Okay, you'll get a okay, okay, got it. So there's 170 feet above um ground level forest floor, and we're in this rainforest in Ghana, and there is this rope ladder or rope bridge that you gotta walk across. And it actually has seven stages, two of which were out of commission because they were working on it, but it starts inclining and looks longer and looks scary from the get-go. So here I am with folks, and um, you know, Audrey with me and and the folks we're with, and they're going over it. And I went over the first one, felt like I was about to leave my tribe on the floor. So nervous was I. But I started breathing and I practiced all the things that I share with others, and I just start stepping, and it was from one step to the other, and the rope is moving because other people are on it, right? And then when you look down, there's a hundred, you're seeing the canopy, the top of trees, 170 feet down, and I'm walking across. Stacey, there's no room for two people, so you can't turn back. You understand? Once you're going straight. Cut a long story short, I got to the end of the first one, and to get off, because I didn't want to complete the all five, and that for me was a breakthrough. So I had to take another route to get off, but I'm still 170 feet high, and I'm walking off on the other side, so I still had to do it. When I got off, I was beginning to beat myself up and saying, Oh man, I didn't do it, I didn't do it. And then I stopped and and OG pointed out and said, But you did, because when you started, you just absolutely were at ground zero, and you completed it and came across. So that in in my mind is reflecting and looking at um the plus and the positive. So I had to give myself a star for for doing it, Stacy.
Coach Stacy:Well, I'm I'm gonna give you a star. I wanted to like make a star symbol, but I'm gonna give you a star as well because I think you really demonstrated um the point. And so I'm gonna ask you a question in that experience, and as you were then reflected positively, right? Because it sounds like you initially reflected in a way that that wasn't so great. Um, but as you reflected positively, what do you think worked? What worked in that reflection methodology, you know, or how you shifted your perspective of reflection?
Coach Wayne:I wanted to give myself credit for the attempt. And when I reflected, um I it was a win. Maybe I didn't get through all five, but I got through two, and that was a huge win because at ground zero, I had never done it, and I was at nil. So when I reflected, I I sort of had to reframe now now what did you get out of this? And I'll be honest with you, if I visited again, I'd be able to do it. Just knowing that I came out safe, I was okay, I you didn't, nothing happened, I'd be able to do it. And so um, in my reflection, um, I had to look at what was the lesson here and and reframe it.
Coach Stacy:And I that segues so beautifully into the third R because you released what wasn't serving you, right? Even in that moment, not to speak of the next season, but at some point we make the decision to release what is not serving us. And so um, before we jump into that R, we should say, or you should say, Wayne, hello to Sean. Welcome, Sean, to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. We are so excited you're here.
Coach Wayne:That's my brother from another mother. Oh my goodness.
Coach Stacy:He's got a lot of those, but it's okay. Um, the reality is that we we really must learn and practice, right? So not just talk about uh, but practice releasing what doesn't serve us now or andor what will not serve us in the next season. So as we're reflecting, looking back. At 2025, or looking back at Q3 of 2025, or looking back at, you know, the last five years, whatever your reflection time or time period is, really looking at what is not going to serve you and beginning to release what won't serve you.
Coach Wayne:And say because we're talking to a midlife audience, and the midlife audience has the I would say the advantage of lived experience and some knowledge, you know, yes. The wisdom of saging as they age. Because we're talking to this audience, it's important that when we reflect, we look at the wisdom of time and experience and figure out how we can put that together as a lesson to move forward, but to grow from.
Coach Stacy:Yes. Yes. And and rehearsing, right? Or letting this the story that is replaying uh be one that is going to carry us forward.
Coach Wayne:And again, you know, moving forward and reimagining the future doesn't have to be perfect. Uh, sometimes we get stuck in that mode of perfection and we spend a lot of time just not getting out. Uh, procrastination steals the man's movement because, or woman, because we're stuck waiting for it to be just right. When we reflect and we take the message and the lesson to move forward, it doesn't have to be a perfect plan. It's just a plan. And you can move, Stacy. As a person of faith, we know we can move with faith rather than fear.
Coach Stacy:Absolutely. I I love the piece about um it's a plan, right? You have a plan. Sometimes you have to modify the plan in the middle of the plan. Um, and that that is another opportunity, right, to reflect on what's what's working well, what's not working well, and what is going to help the next um work well. And so as we move into 2026, we want to acknowledge, right, that we can't carry everything. We cannot carry all the relationships, expectations, the roles, the habits, or the stories that belong in the last chapter into the next chapter, right? So let's let's really look at what needs to be retired. What do we need to let go?
Coach Wayne:So we're talking about releasing, right, Stacy? Yes, releasing. What doesn't serve the next season? This is a big one. Uh I hate to say it, but some of the brothers that I work with are stuck in horrible relationships, and they're stuck in horrible relationships because they're wishing on a star that they're gonna transform their partner. Sometimes we just have to bless it and let it be. We have to release it, whether it's your relationship with money or with an individual or health habits. If it's not working and serving you, you just have to make room for something else that will. So part of uh uh reflecting is to learn how to release what's not working for you.
Coach Stacy:I love it, love it, love it. And I'll just bring in Sean's comment that says if you can reframe your seeming failure, you can reframe your future. 100% agree because as you reflect, you are reframing and making sure that what it is you're bringing into your future is serving you. And before we go once another further, we are now the dynamic trio. Once again, Wayne, we are back with Curtis Brooks.
Coach Wayne:Ah, my man, my man Curtis. I was reaching out to my man earlier today, Curtis Brooks. Right.
Coach Stacy:So, you know, one one question uh in this area is what disappointment am I willing to stop nurturing? I don't know about you, Wayne, but I can I can even think about uh kind of my own personal uh wallowings, right? You know, we can wallow in the way something didn't go the the way we would hope. And so that disappointment um can be something that we just that's what we're nurturing, right? We're just nurturing the fact that, oh, that didn't go well. I mean, we're we're feeding the the weeds instead of the the plants. Um, but really, what disappointment am I willing to stop nurturing to bless and release, as you said?
Coach Wayne:Yeah. And and and where can I make a shift to move forward? How do I show up a little bit differently so that I can move forward?
Coach Stacy:I'm a I'm a loving it. I'm a loving it. I release what drains me so I can receive what grows me. There we go. There's an affirmation for you all. And it's time for the last of the four R's. Wayne, that would be let's reimagine what's possible.
Coach Wayne:Yeah, and I kind of cheated with this because I mentioned before that our visioning can come from a place of faith rather than fear. And so when we reimagine what's possible, we are looking at positive possibilities. You know, we're in a world today that fear drives a lot of us, and you got to turn that media off sometimes, just so that you can it reimagine possibilities and positivities. Um, if you follow what you're hearing, man, you're likely to stay indoors with your head under the sheet forever. So reimagine through faith rather than fear.
Coach Stacy:I the reason I love that is because that fear is not truth, right? They one acronym uh is false evidence appearing real. That's fear, and so it's false. And so if we're going to imagine or reimagine from a place of fear, that means that we're imagining from a place of an untruth or a lie. And we can't we we cannot have a fulfilling vision when we are imagining from fear, and so it is that I love that you talked about faith and and fear, and and I just wanted to align or lock up that faith with truth, and that that fear and trying to vision from a place of fear will never be successful. Here's a coaching question, Stacy.
Coach Wayne:What is one thing that I can expand in moving forward in 2026? Um, you know, I challenge my clients to choose a word, a mantra that they will use each year. This year, my word was discernment. So the challenge is what can you expand in 2026? And perhaps you can choose a word or a phrase that helps with your expansion.
Coach Stacy:I love that question. And I will add, what desire keeps tapping me on the shoulder or makes the the hair stand up on the back of my neck, right? They talk about how you should do something, a little something every day that that scares you. Um, but what is that desire that keeps tapping me on the shoulder? Is another good question to ask yourself.
Coach Wayne:So shall we go into reflection practices that our audience can use uh uh this coming week? And to kick it off, how about uh ask three questions, Stacy? And the questions that I would suggest, and you can take the second one. The first one is what mattered most to me this year, the year 2025? What mattered most to me? First question.
Coach Stacy:Yeah, that's a great one. And I would add, where did I show up with integrity? Really, this is kind of an internal uh uh debrief, right? So you're asking what mattered most to you and where did you show up with integrity?
Coach Wayne:And again, we talk about being honest with yourself, be honest with thyself. If there was, if you're not integrist, if you realize that you're cheating yourself, don't lie about it. For folks, for example, that are dealing with the issue of waste management. Sometimes we want to hide the scale and pretend because we, you know, or but let's be real. I mean, let's get real and show up with integrity and speak the truth. Did you have that chocolate cake that your wife can't find, you know, uh that you complained the kids had? So let us be integrous and stay true to ourselves as we reflect. Um, and a third question that we may ask, Stacy, you know, where and what do we want, and perhaps even how, do we want to shift as we move forward into the new year?
Coach Stacy:Where, what, and how do we want to shift as we move forward? Yeah, that's a good one. I think that there are um a couple of other actions or practices that we can begin to grab on to as we want to reflect well. And one is to um use the exercise of the one-word reflection, right? So where you choose a word that describes your lived experience this year, not your performance, but your lived experience this year, and then ask yourself, what is that one word teaching me?
Coach Wayne:Taking the lesson from it all is what we're talking about. You know, a word reflection does not have to be a party where we come in and we become victims and we moan and we groan. We talk about if or could've should've. Let's stop shooting on ourselves and uh figure out to your point, Stacy, uh, what is the word that we can use that teaches us, allows us to propel and to prepare and to be purposeful as we step into 2026?
Coach Stacy:Yeah, you know, Wayne, I really uh like this practice of the grace report or 321 grace report. And instead of kind of looking at yourself from a performance review perspective, it really is from a grace review perspective. Uh, and so it you would name three ways that you cared for others this year, two ways that you cared for yourself this year, and one way that you are very clear that God carried you. So it becomes a report or an outpouring of where grace has shown up in your life as opposed to where the negativity or the disappointment showed up in your life.
Coach Wayne:I love that, Stacey. I like that you added number three because sometimes we we pound our chest and think it's about us. Uh, you know, when there are failures and losses, when we reflect, we blame everyone and everybody else except ourselves. And when we see success and progress, we forget we're not in this alone, and we forget that uh God's grace carries us through. And so it's important to humble ourselves and recognize that peace. Thank you for sharing that, Stacey, and adding it on.
Coach Stacy:Absolutely, Stacy.
Coach Wayne:What do you want to get into next, Miss Stace?
Coach Stacy:Well, I would just say um, what's one thing that you've been avoiding reflecting on because you're afraid maybe that it will confirm a negative belief about yourself?
Coach Wayne:But what if the truth is kinder and gentler than the story that you've been telling yourself?
Coach Stacy:This is all about reflecting well.
Coach Wayne:Stace. At this point, I'm gonna be just brazen and say this is an opportunity for folks who are going through some personal uh misgivings in their reflections, or folks who are beating themselves up, or folks who, with their reflections, don't quite know how to make the shift. It's an opportunity to get some coaching, Stacey, some some intervention from the outside experts. And and I'm pointing at you, Stace. So let's talk about it.
Coach Stacy:You're pointing at me, and I'm pointing back at you. The other, the the piece I would add um is that you could have gone through some reflection, and you might have even reflected well. And sometime we could use a little help, support, coaching, moving into that next. So I think that there's, I just wanted to add both the like, yeah, you might be struggling in one way or you might be struggling in another way. Yet the reality is that Wayne and I to are here to help, help you get clarity, help you build confidence, help you get stronger, and help you really create what's next, move toward and into what's next. How do the people get in touch with Coach Wayne?
Coach Wayne:Send me a smoke signal, I'll read it.
Coach Stacy:Uh both my contact information and Wayne's cocktail information is always in the show notes. It is our joy, privilege, and pleasure to uh be the co-host of Midlife Revolution Unleashed, and it is because it's our heart's desire to be of service.
Coach Wayne:So as we uh back in the green room and in preparation, we we certainly threw out a lot of homework and assignments, and it's a lot. So uh where would you start in terms of offering a challenge or an assignment for somebody to pick up and take an action right now?
Coach Stacy:I would say it's important to reflect as we think about moving forward, and the assignment would be to make a commitment to yourself that you are going to reflect well.
Coach Wayne:That's where you want to start. Yeah. Yep. Bye, Delane. Have a great week. Thanks. Uh, I would say journal. Uh if brother Sean is still on, uh, he's a king of journaling. He's been journaling forever. And uh I say journaling uh is where you can be honest, discreet, speak with yourself, and uh just reflect by writing something down. Your journal doesn't have to be fancy, leather bounded or nothing of the sort, but keep a journal in terms of your reflection and you can call on it to see your growth over a period of time as well.
Coach Stacy:And give yourself permission to rewrite the meaning of your experiences. If you put something away in a way that is not serving you, give yourself permission to take a look at it, revisit it, and rewrite the meaning of that experience in a way that is serving you. I'm not saying delude yourself or tell yourself a whole different story uh that doesn't line up with what actually happened. I'm saying if you put it away with a sense of poor reflection or negative reflection, consider taking a glance at it and saying, How can I rewrite the meaning? How can I reflect on that well, whether it be what did I learn or where did Grace show up or where how how did I judge myself as I was reflecting poorly, and really rewrite that meaning of that experience so that it is serving you as you move forward.
Coach Wayne:Thank you, Stace. Stacey we're about to get out of here. We're in the time. And uh, just before, if I can plug for Brother Curtis, Curtis has if you stay on LinkedIn here, and I think he may be duly coming over on Facebook, he has that man show that happens at eight o'clock Eastern time. So tune in with Brother Curtis, that's my man right there.
Coach Stacy:That man show. Well, I won't be there, but I am cheering Brother Curtis on. And I'll see you at the top. Thanks for tuning in to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. We're grateful you're part of this journey.
Coach Wayne:If you love this episode, share it, subscribe, and hit that notification bell so you don't miss another episode.
Coach Stacy:I'm Coach Stacy, and I'm cheering you on.
Coach Wayne:And I'm Coach Wayne, and I'll see you at the top.
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