Your Reputation Era is Calling… Will You Answer?

All good things evolve—and today, we’re talking about the power of giving yourself permission to pivot. This is my last solo episode of Goal Slayer (yes, you read that right!), and I’m pulling back the curtain on why I’m making this shift, what’s coming next, and why changing your mind isn’t failure—it’s growth.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in something that no longer fits—whether it’s a business, relationship, identity, or creative project—this episode is your wake-up call. I’m breaking down the mindset shifts that make it easier to let go, the fears that keep us clinging to the old, and why the people who are meant to be in your life will follow you into your next chapter. And of course, I couldn’t talk about reinvention without mentioning the queen of eras herself—Taylor Swift. 🎤

Tune in for the real talk, the behind-the-scenes of my decision, and a whole lot of encouragement to make your next move—because you don’t need permission from anyone but yourself.

In This Episode, We Cover:

• Why I’m retiring Goal Slayer and what’s next
• The fear of judgment when making big changes
• How to reframe pivots as evolution, not failure
• What Taylor Swift’s eras can teach us about reinvention
• Letting go of what (or who) no longer aligns with your journey
• A sneak peek at the new podcast and what’s coming soon

If you’re ready to step into your next era—whatever that looks like for you—this one’s for you. 

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Sleigh Girl Slay, welcome back to Goal Slayer.
I'm your host, Caitlin, and I am nervous.
I normally say excited, I'm nervous, but also so in a state of calm.
Welcome back to Goal Slayer.

(00:22):
I'm your host Caitlin.
I am so freaking excited and also have some big news.
Sleigh Girl Slay.
Welcome back to Goal Slayer.
I'm your host, Caitlin.
And you know what, babe?
I'm just gonna cut to the chase because I can't keep a secret.

(00:47):
That is one of the last times you will hear me on a solo episode say Sleigh Girl Slaybecause this podcast is gonna take a pause.
And by what I mean by that is
Goal slayer is going bye bye.

(01:10):
That's what this podcast episode is about.
I have a lot to share about my reason.
I don't want you to get too paranoid because it's not going anywhere.
I will be back.
We are just not going to be called goal slayer anymore, but this brings me to what Ireally want to dig into is that oftentimes

(01:34):
No one gives us enough permission to change our damn minds.
I have been thinking about changing the name of the podcast for a few months now, becauseif you follow me on social media, you may have noticed like subtle rebranding, new color
scheme, especially if you're on my email list, you'll see the new colors.

(01:57):
There's like a new energy, a new vibe.
And
It's been like a thing in the works.
And as I start to develop this new era, which I'm also going to get into, I just felt likeGoal Slayer has run its course.

(02:17):
And I was like, OK, can I do this?
I literally just did this last June.
And then I said, yes, you fucking can, Caitlin.
This is your show.
You can do whatever you want with it.
There is no rules.
That is the cool thing about starting a show like this is that you get to make the rules.
And I was in my head, to be honest, like, people going to think that you can't make upyour mind, that you're bad at making decisions, that you are wishy washy?

(02:45):
And then we've just gotten off the let them book series that we were doing as a community.
And my response is, let them.
Let them think I'm wishy washy.
Let them think I can't make a decision.
because truthfully, I know none of that is true and that where I'm headed is very muchaligned and Goal Slayer was aligned too for the season and era that I was in.

(03:09):
And as I mentioned, this is not an ending.
This is simply an evolution.
And if anyone has shown us how to reinvent ourselves without losing who we are, it's
Well, first my girl Madonna, but we're not going to be talking about Madonna today.
We're going to be talking about Taylor Swift, the queen of eras, right?

(03:34):
She just got off the biggest selling tour ever where she went through all of her differenteras of who she was as an artist and who she is now as an artist.
And listen, I am not a Swiftie, like literally at all.
There are a few songs that I absolutely love.
And I think she's a freaking creative genius, but I would not call myself like a superfan.

(03:59):
But when I thought, is something that really, I'm not sure like you could go anywhere onthe planet and say Taylor Swift's name and someone not know who she is.
So like, who is a better representation of change than this woman, Taylor Swift?
So that is like,
My inspiration for today's message and podcast episode is the permission to pivot, thepermission to evolve and why switching directions doesn't mean you've failed.

(04:30):
In fact, it usually means the opposite.
means you are growing and not everyone is going to grow with you.
And that's okay because who is meant to be in your space will naturally be attracted towhere you're going.
And those that don't come along, don't come along.
And that's okay.

(04:51):
Again, Mel Robbins talks a lot about that in the book, Let Them, and it is just a naturalthing that happens in human evolution.
Not everyone we've known for our entire life is gonna be with us for the entire journey.
There are those lifetime people, but many are reason and season people, right?
They are there for a reason or a season.

(05:12):
And that's...
that was the intention behind it.
And when we try to make people more than what they are in context, like if we try to makea reason person, a lifetime person, that's where we really lose our expectations and
things get lost.
anyway, this is the last solo episode.

(05:32):
And I did want to share that there will be the...
two episodes that I've been doing every month with Renee for numerology and this and theenergy of the month.
So we still are going to do April and May and then coming out mid May will be the newpodcast where we will have a new look, a new name, same channel.

(05:55):
and you'll still be able to catch all the goal, Slayer episodes and even the first era,which was the beam life.
Okay.
So it's all going to be there, not going anywhere, just a new name.
new look and a whole different energy, but same old girl is still me.
Just like it was always Taylor Swift.

(06:17):
it's still me, Caitlin.
So let me just go into this Taylor thing really quick.
Okay.
So think about all of the eras.
Now, even if you don't know Taylor Swift and all of her genres, like me, like I don't, youknow, you and I are in the same boat.
If you don't know them either, but you.
we can all imagine when she first came out as like a country artist and she has gonethrough pop and all different other kinds of genres and sort of blended a bunch of genres.

(06:44):
She's done collaborations with a ton of artists and whether it's that country sweetheartor rebellious girl and reputation, or even when she did more singer songwriter style,
every version is authentic to who she is.
It's not like she was being fake.
by being a country artist, fake by being a pop artist.

(07:07):
It is an evolution and it's a part of her.
And she doesn't erase the past versions.
She just builds on them.
And guess what?
I get to do the same and you get to do the same.
Did you hear me?
We get to be the same like Taylor Swift.

(07:27):
How many times do people get to tell you that in a day?
So if you, if people don't,
around you don't get it.
They are not your people.
And again, permission to bless and release.
doesn't need to be passive aggressive.
It doesn't even need to be necessarily a conversation.
Usually when people grow, we grow apart in a natural way and it is what it is.

(07:50):
So here's a couple of things in terms of like giving yourself this permission to pivot.
Cause I realized it's much easier said than done because a lot of what comes
with making the pivot is that head trash.
What are people going to say?
What are people going to think?
And that is ultimately the number one reason why we resist change is the fear of judgment.

(08:12):
We feel like we wasted time or it's the pressure to stay the same.
People don't like it when we change because when we change, people who aren't changing arereminded that they are staying the same and that gets uncomfortable.
So there is this pressure to be like, well, I don't want someone to get mad at me becauseI've changed.

(08:35):
So I'm just going to stay here.
And that's going to keep you small.
And you are never going to get where you want to go with that mindset.
So that is where we have to also do the reframe.
So we need to move away from the fear of judgment, allow people to do what they're goingto do, think what they're going to think.

(08:56):
Then we need to reframe.
You are not starting over.
you are building on what you've learned.
And that is a massive, when I realized that, like I am not starting from scratch.
It's just that every genre of this podcast has built upon the last and it's still me.

(09:16):
And I have evolved as a woman, as a business owner, as a partner, as a mom, as a coach.
And I am doing you a disservice if I stay the same.
And so this isn't the first time that I have made pivots, whether it's in my life orbusiness.

(09:37):
And one of the biggest things that has taught me how to pivot is parenting with mydaughter.
I've talked about it a lot.
has PDA, which stands for pathological demand avoidance.
And it is under the umbrella of autism, but doesn't present like quote unquote, typicalautism and.
If there's anything that will teach you to pivot, is parenting because kids will keep youon your toes and no two kids are the same.

(10:07):
And the way a kid acts with their mom, with their dad, with their other step parent orparent or guardian or grandparent, like they act different.
So you have to continually be like, all right, you're growing as a little human.
You've got hormones.
You've got new friend groups, new things that you're learning on top of now having aneurodivergent, you know, thing that we're dealing with here.

(10:30):
And so how do I, how do I navigate this?
And it's learning to pivot and not getting fixated on this is the way we are going toparent.
This is the way we're going to do it.
Cause that is going to keep everyone stuck.
So if you're a parent know that you've probably already pivoted many times in your life.
You just haven't given yourself credit for it.

(10:52):
But I want everyone, or not, to just pause for a moment and think about a moment in yourlife where you have pivoted and how it played out for you.
And maybe it wasn't the right pivot.
fuck, I have made so many wrong pivots, too.
I could have a whole entire mini podcast about that.
But honestly, every pivot was a purpose, and it taught me something.

(11:15):
And it made me better because it forced me to learn something new about myself.
So what does all this mean for you?
If you've been feeling like you need a shift in your life, this is your wake up call.
This is your permission slip.
Change the business, rewrite the offer, break up with that identity that no longer fitsyou because the only person that can decide to is you.

(11:41):
And trust me, if you don't, the universe decides for you.
That's happened to me too.
And that one's not fun.
I would rather be the one that's navigating and making the pivot choices rather than itbeing handed to me.
And also, I want you to know that I have enjoyed every single episode to my core of GoalSlayer.

(12:08):
And it by no means means that I wasn't excited about this or that it isn't something thatstill lights me up.
In fact, that's why it's taken me a little while, even though I've had this on my mind formonths to pull this trigger, if you will, because I do love it.
But even though we love something, we can acknowledge that it's not right for us, at leastnot right now.

(12:34):
And it has completely served its purpose in my life.
And I am so fucking grateful because Goal Slayer made me fall in love with podcastingagain.
Speaking of podcasting,
I'm also working on something new with my partner who speaking of pivot again, the, theuniverse handed them a pivot of losing their job, getting laid off the company shut down

(12:56):
and it was sort of overnight and we've pivoted to opening something really cool together,which is also, you know, really pushing me to grow and change.
And we're going to have again, this new look for the podcast, but it's going to be instudio form.
So that feels really cool and exciting too, that I will be able to have more of a visualelement to show up on and be in different channels and platforms that maybe feel even more

(13:24):
accessible than podcasts.
So thank you so much for being a part of this Goal Slayer family.
And I hope you will continue to be on the Beavlife journey because...
It has meant the world to me and hearing all the feedback every week of those loving yourfavorite episodes and connecting with all the guests and all the cool things.

(13:48):
has been really, really, really powerful.
And I look forward to seeing you very soon.
Think six to eight weeks, not too long.
We will be back.
Like I said, same voice, different name, new face.
And we're gonna have a really good fucking time as we always do.

(14:09):
All right, babe, go slay those goals.