January 1, 2025 • 14 mins
What if 2025 is the year you truly thrive?
In this uplifting solo episode, Nicole Jansen, host of the Leaders of Transformation podcast, presents a special New Year's message focused on transforming past disappointments into future victories. Nicole passionately articulates how 2025 can be your year to thrive, filled with hope, transformation, and limitless possibilities.
Holding nothing back, Nicole shares her own experiences with failures and setbacks and encourages listeners to adopt a mindset of abundance and positivity. She emphasizes the power of speaking life over oneself and the incredible potential within every individual. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to reboot their mindset and seize the opportunities that lie ahead in the new year.
What We Discuss in this Episode
- What inspired the focus on thriving in 2025.
- How past disappointments can be transformed into future growth.
- What strategies can help in speaking life over oneself.
- How beliefs impact our actions and results.
- Releasing past hurts and embracing a prosperous future.
- How Nicole's personal experiences have shaped her approach to overcoming failures.
- The importance of setting meaningful goals and maintaining a vision.
- The role of community and supportive environments in achieving success.
- Why speaking life over different aspects of life is crucial.
- How to declare your prosperity and abundance in 2025.
Podcast Highlights
0:00 - Embracing the Call
2:28 - Transforming Setbacks into Comebacks
3:22 - The Power of Declaring Abundance
5:12 - Strategizing Life and Future Goals
6:41 - Importance of Setting Meaningful Goals
9:11 - Opening Up to Learning and Growth
10:09 - Practical Steps for Transformative Growth
12:16 - Being an Example of Positive Influence
12:58 - Letting Go and Moving Forward in 2025
14:39 - Final Encouragement
Favorite Quotes
Belief and Transformation: “If we really understood what our potential was and what we were capable of, we would do so much more than we have ever done in the past.”
Learning from Setbacks: “When we don't learn the lesson, we are bound to repeat it.”
Power of Positivity: "Life and death is in the power of the tongue. Use your words to transform your situation."
Hope and Future: “God is abundant, and we are made in his image. We are created to prosper.”
Don't miss out on this empowering episode that aims to elevate your mindset and set you on a path to thrive in 2025. Listen now and start declaring your success today!
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(00:00):
Welcome to the leaders of transformation podcast. The number one
show for business leaders and entrepreneurs passionate about uplifting
others and making a greater impact in the world. Now, here's
your host, transformational coach, speaker, and business
advisor, Nicole Jansen.
(00:21):
Welcome to episode 525 of the leaders of
transformation. For this episode, I thought we would do something a little
different. We are going into a new year, and there's
always a lot of excitement, anticipation of the year ahead.
And there's also oftentimes a lot of disappointment
about what happened in the year past. And as I was
(00:44):
walking this morning and I was like praying about what could I talk
about in this episode, what came to me was it's
time to thrive in 2025. And I believe that is a
word for you. That is a word for me. That is a word for all
of us to believe and expect great things to happen
in 2025. So in 2024, maybe you didn't reach your
(01:05):
goal. It's time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you
had a divorce or a separation in your marriage. It's
time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you had to close a
business. It's time to thrive in 2025.
Maybe you plan to lose weight this past year and you ended up gaining
weight. It's time to thrive in 2025.
(01:28):
There, god has good plans. God has good plans for
you, plans for hope and plans for a future. Jeremiah
2911 says that. It promises that God is not looking
to harm us. He is looking to prosper us.
And it's time that we believe that, truly believe. If we
really understood what our potential was and what we
(01:50):
were capable of, we would do so much more than we
have ever done in the past. Our past would pale
in comparison to what we would do this year. And
so I encourage you this year, this today, but also
throughout the whole year that you start to speak life
over yourself. Maybe you have been disappointed. Maybe you've
(02:12):
been betrayed. Maybe you have been jaded. Maybe
you've set goals and you haven't reached those goals.
Whatever it is, I would acknowledge it, I would encourage you
to maybe if you got to journal it, write it on a piece of paper,
all the disappointments, all the things that you hoped would happen
in this past year or maybe in your past, like, all,
(02:34):
you know, how many years you've been alive and look at those
disappointments, write them on a piece of paper, and then
burn the piece of paper. Release the past
and embrace the present and look to the
future. So this is a really short message here and I
just wanna encourage you. It is time to thrive
(02:56):
in 2025. Lean not on your own understanding this
year. Maybe it doesn't look like it's possible for you
to start that business, to have a relationship, to get
healthy. Maybe you've got a negative diagnosis from the doctor.
Declare it over yourself. It's time to thrive in
2025. I am going to thrive
(03:19):
in 2025. You need to speak life over yourself. You know, life and
death is in the power of the tongue. And so often, we use our
words to describe our situation. And in doing
that, we perpetuate the situation that we don't want.
Instead, we need to use our words to transform
our situation, to transform our lives, to transform
(03:41):
our beliefs about ourselves and about others and about the
world around us. And I believe that is what God is calling us to. I
believe that is the message for this year in 2025
and that we can thrive. And, you know, it's interesting because I've been
working on for the last several months, working on a new
faith based community for the leaders of transformation. As I said this morning and
(04:03):
like, what am I gonna talk about in this episode, this
very special episode? And this idea of thriving
came up. It was like, duh, oh my gosh. I've been talking about
that in all of the courses, Everything I've been
developing for our community, the marketing, the messaging
is to thrive as God intended. God intended us
(04:26):
to thrive. And if you don't believe that, just look around at nature.
Nature is abundant. There is no
shortage of trees and plants. And maybe even if you're in the
desert and it's dry where you are, there's no shortage of
rocks. There's no shortage of sand. You can't count the number of
sand kernels or whatever they are, little fragments of sand. You
(04:48):
can't count them on a beach. You can't count the number of rocks. You
can't count the number of leaves that we have in
nature. God is abundant. He is an abundant God,
and we are made in his image. And so we are
created to prosper. We are created to be
creative and to grow and to thrive and to prosper
(05:11):
in our lives. And if you're not prospering, there may be
some things that may be holding you back. Maybe there's some limiting
beliefs that you've had about yourself. Maybe some, like I said earlier,
disappointments, hurts. I've been hurt. I've been
disappointed. I've been betrayed. I failed. I have
failed miserably on many different levels and
(05:32):
sometimes more than once in the same area because I guess I just need to
learn the lesson, you know? And when we don't learn the lesson, we are
bound to repeat it. And so I encourage you to
believe for the great thing to happen in this new year. And so I'm
not gonna give you some goal setting strategy. You know, there's lots of
things out there that will teach you how to goal set, setting
(05:54):
smart goals, goals that are specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, and time dated. I've taught them myself.
There are different ways to envision, create vision
boards, and put the vision boards. I have a vision board in front of me.
I know exactly what my goals are. It reminds me every day. All of
those things are great, and we need to do those things. We need to
(06:16):
set goals. We need to have vision. We need to have it in front of
us so we don't get distracted. We stay fixed and focused on the thing that
we truly want to create. And setting goals that are actually meaningful
goals for us is important because when you don't set a meaningful
goal, you're not gonna have the motivation and the energy to see
it through. And so that is absolutely important. But you know what's important? Even
(06:38):
beyond all that is speaking life over yourself. Because if you do
all of that and then you speak disappointment, you
speak lack over yourself, you speak scarcity over
yourself, none of those things are gonna get accomplished. Why?
Because you won't have that motivation. You won't have that inspiration to see.
And even if you go and work hard, I hate to say this, but even
(07:00):
if you go and work hard and do the thing that you really are trying
to do and you're not in belief, in confidence, believing
and speaking it into existence, you're gonna struggle.
I did this. I did this for myself so many years.
I struggled and I strived and I didn't realize
that the reason why I was not creating the results that I
(07:22):
desired was because I had a faulty belief system. I had a
belief system that said that I wasn't smart enough, wasn't old
enough, wasn't capable, educated enough, whatever it is. And
so I started to speak life over myself, changed my questions
that I was asking. Instead of saying, what's wrong with me? Why is this not
working for me? I started to ask myself questions like, what am I learning?
(07:45):
What am I learning in this process? What am I learning about myself? What am
I learning about others? What am I learning about sales and marketing and
business and relationships and being healthy? What am I
learning about life? What am I learning about faith? What am
I learning about what works and what doesn't work and
how I can move forward with confidence and with success? And so
(08:07):
I encourage you today, there's a lot that I just threw in there. I was
just kinda going off the cuff and I hope and I pray that that
blesses you. Somewhere in there, you're gonna discover some
insights. Maybe there's a missing piece for you in terms of being
able to move forward. I teach a results model, a transformative results
model, which says results come from behaviors. Behaviors
(08:29):
are influenced by our mindset. Mindset is made up of
our beliefs like we've been talking about. It's also our nature.
It's who we are inside. It's the greatness, the preloaded
greatness inside of each and every one of us. The personality
that we have, the strengths that we have, the desires, the aspirations,
all of that that is within us. And you know what? Too often,
(08:51):
the world speaks negative and we allow all that to kinda like get
all over us, and we don't even realize it. We don't even realize that we
can be fully immersed in personal development. We can be
fully immersed with positive thinking people all around us
and yet not realize that we have limiting beliefs. So I
come back to where I started. It's time to thrive in 2025.
(09:14):
Start speaking life over yourself. Start speaking life
over your family, over your marriage if you're married, if you
wanna be married over your future spouse. Speak
life over your children, speak life over your
business, speak life over your career, speak
life over your community, over your neighbors, over
(09:36):
your whatever the community is that you're part of, your health,
speak life, start to declare what you would like to
see have happen and do it in the present tense.
I am healthy. I am strong. I am
lean. I am energized. I have vitality
flowing through my body. I am smart. I am capable.
(09:59):
I may not know how to build a business, but I can figure it out.
I may not know how to have a successful relationship, but I can
learn. I can read. I can study. I can learn from others.
You can learn whatever it is that you don't know. You can learn it. You
learn things before. You can learn things again. Okay? So
I encourage you. I just pray a blessing upon you today. I
(10:20):
encourage you to speak life over yourself. Believe and declare. Maybe
you need to put it written up on your wall in front of you, on
your mirror in your bathroom, on your fridge, wherever it is that you need
to write it and just write it's time to thrive. Or even better
yet, I am thriving in 2025. This is
my year to thrive. This is my year to thrive as God intended. This
(10:43):
is my year to break out and to step into all that I'm
capable of. So God bless you. Happy New Year.
And if there's anything we can do to support you, please let us know. We
have a great community like I was talking about earlier, lead as a transformation
community that is for our faith based entrepreneurs,
aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking to start a business or
(11:05):
have a business and wanna grow a business. And if that's you and you're
interested in being part of that community, you can go to leaders of transformation.com.
There's a page on there or go forward slash faith community.
You can get all the details there and check that out. And, of course, we've
got many more guests. This is a podcast. We have 524
episodes prior to this. We're gonna have a whole lot of episodes
(11:29):
this year that are gonna just blow your mind in terms of the people that
are gonna be on this show. Expand your mind beyond what you ever
believed was possible so that you can become and step into
all that you are capable of becoming that leader of transformation
that you are capable of being. I believe that every single person is
capable of being a leader of transformation in your
(11:50):
respective area. And, you know, it's funny because I had a a mentor years ago
who I said to him, I've always wanted to be an example to those around
me. And and he said to me something really that stuck with me
all these years. And he said, Nicole, you're always an
example. The question is, what kind of example are you?
You are being an example right now to those around you. There are
(12:12):
people looking to you. There are people watching you.
Maybe they're your children. Maybe they're your friends. Maybe they're your
family members, maybe they're your coworkers, colleagues,
the people in your neighbors. People are watching and that
shouldn't disturb you, that should encourage you that you are
an example and you have the ability to influence. You don't need to
(12:35):
have a big following on social media to influence people. You
influence people already. When you walk into the store and you
buy something and you go up to the cashier and how you treat the people
in the store, how you treat the cashier, how you treat the people in
line makes a difference. And so I encourage you
to recognize who you are and who God
(12:57):
says that you are. And let go of anything, any lies that
you believed about yourself, anything that you have taken on
that somebody else has said about you or maybe not said to
you, just let it go. Let it go. And if you need
to dust it off of you, if you need to write it down on
a piece of paper and burn it, burn it,
(13:19):
release it, let it go. It is time to
thrive in 2025. God bless you. If
there's anything we can do to support you, reach out, let us know and we
are here to support you along your journey. Okay? And we look forward to seeing
you next week for another episode of the Leaders of Transformation.
Let's go. Thank you for listening to the Leaders of Transformation
(13:41):
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world a better place for everyone. We'll see you next time.
Welcome to the leaders of transformation podcast. The number one
show for business leaders and entrepreneurs passionate about uplifting
others and making a greater impact in the world. Now, here's
your host, transformational coach, speaker, and business
advisor, Nicole Jansen.
(00:21):
Welcome to episode 525 of the leaders of
transformation. For this episode, I thought we would do something a little
different. We are going into a new year, and there's
always a lot of excitement, anticipation of the year ahead.
And there's also oftentimes a lot of disappointment
about what happened in the year past. And as I was
(00:44):
walking this morning and I was like praying about what could I talk
about in this episode, what came to me was it's
time to thrive in 2025. And I believe that is a
word for you. That is a word for me. That is a word for all
of us to believe and expect great things to happen
in 2025. So in 2024, maybe you didn't reach your
(01:05):
goal. It's time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you
had a divorce or a separation in your marriage. It's
time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you had to close a
business. It's time to thrive in 2025.
Maybe you plan to lose weight this past year and you ended up gaining
weight. It's time to thrive in 2025.
(01:28):
There, god has good plans. God has good plans for
you, plans for hope and plans for a future. Jeremiah
2911 says that. It promises that God is not looking
to harm us. He is looking to prosper us.
And it's time that we believe that, truly believe. If we
really understood what our potential was and what we
(01:50):
were capable of, we would do so much more than we
have ever done in the past. Our past would pale
in comparison to what we would do this year. And
so I encourage you this year, this today, but also
throughout the whole year that you start to speak life
over yourself. Maybe you have been disappointed. Maybe you've
(02:12):
been betrayed. Maybe you have been jaded. Maybe
you've set goals and you haven't reached those goals.
Whatever it is, I would acknowledge it, I would encourage you
to maybe if you got to journal it, write it on a piece of paper,
all the disappointments, all the things that you hoped would happen
in this past year or maybe in your past, like, all,
(02:34):
you know, how many years you've been alive and look at those
disappointments, write them on a piece of paper, and then
burn the piece of paper. Release the past
and embrace the present and look to the
future. So this is a really short message here and I
just wanna encourage you. It is time to thrive
(02:56):
in 2025. Lean not on your own understanding this
year. Maybe it doesn't look like it's possible for you
to start that business, to have a relationship, to get
healthy. Maybe you've got a negative diagnosis from the doctor.
Declare it over yourself. It's time to thrive in
2025. I am going to thrive
(03:19):
in 2025. You need to speak life over yourself. You know, life and
death is in the power of the tongue. And so often, we use our
words to describe our situation. And in doing
that, we perpetuate the situation that we don't want.
Instead, we need to use our words to transform
our situation, to transform our lives, to transform
(03:41):
our beliefs about ourselves and about others and about the
world around us. And I believe that is what God is calling us to. I
believe that is the message for this year in 2025
and that we can thrive. And, you know, it's interesting because I've been
working on for the last several months, working on a new
faith based community for the leaders of transformation. As I said this morning and
(04:03):
like, what am I gonna talk about in this episode, this
very special episode? And this idea of thriving
came up. It was like, duh, oh my gosh. I've been talking about
that in all of the courses, Everything I've been
developing for our community, the marketing, the messaging
is to thrive as God intended. God intended us
(04:26):
to thrive. And if you don't believe that, just look around at nature.
Nature is abundant. There is no
shortage of trees and plants. And maybe even if you're in the
desert and it's dry where you are, there's no shortage of
rocks. There's no shortage of sand. You can't count the number of
sand kernels or whatever they are, little fragments of sand. You
(04:48):
can't count them on a beach. You can't count the number of rocks. You
can't count the number of leaves that we have in
nature. God is abundant. He is an abundant God,
and we are made in his image. And so we are
created to prosper. We are created to be
creative and to grow and to thrive and to prosper
(05:11):
in our lives. And if you're not prospering, there may be
some things that may be holding you back. Maybe there's some limiting
beliefs that you've had about yourself. Maybe some, like I said earlier,
disappointments, hurts. I've been hurt. I've been
disappointed. I've been betrayed. I failed. I have
failed miserably on many different levels and
(05:32):
sometimes more than once in the same area because I guess I just need to
learn the lesson, you know? And when we don't learn the lesson, we are
bound to repeat it. And so I encourage you to
believe for the great thing to happen in this new year. And so I'm
not gonna give you some goal setting strategy. You know, there's lots of
things out there that will teach you how to goal set, setting
(05:54):
smart goals, goals that are specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, and time dated. I've taught them myself.
There are different ways to envision, create vision
boards, and put the vision boards. I have a vision board in front of me.
I know exactly what my goals are. It reminds me every day. All of
those things are great, and we need to do those things. We need to
(06:16):
set goals. We need to have vision. We need to have it in front of
us so we don't get distracted. We stay fixed and focused on the thing that
we truly want to create. And setting goals that are actually meaningful
goals for us is important because when you don't set a meaningful
goal, you're not gonna have the motivation and the energy to see
it through. And so that is absolutely important. But you know what's important? Even
(06:38):
beyond all that is speaking life over yourself. Because if you do
all of that and then you speak disappointment, you
speak lack over yourself, you speak scarcity over
yourself, none of those things are gonna get accomplished. Why?
Because you won't have that motivation. You won't have that inspiration to see.
And even if you go and work hard, I hate to say this, but even
(07:00):
if you go and work hard and do the thing that you really are trying
to do and you're not in belief, in confidence, believing
and speaking it into existence, you're gonna struggle.
I did this. I did this for myself so many years.
I struggled and I strived and I didn't realize
that the reason why I was not creating the results that I
(07:22):
desired was because I had a faulty belief system. I had a
belief system that said that I wasn't smart enough, wasn't old
enough, wasn't capable, educated enough, whatever it is. And
so I started to speak life over myself, changed my questions
that I was asking. Instead of saying, what's wrong with me? Why is this not
working for me? I started to ask myself questions like, what am I learning?
(07:45):
What am I learning in this process? What am I learning about myself? What am
I learning about others? What am I learning about sales and marketing and
business and relationships and being healthy? What am I
learning about life? What am I learning about faith? What am
I learning about what works and what doesn't work and
how I can move forward with confidence and with success? And so
(08:07):
I encourage you today, there's a lot that I just threw in there. I was
just kinda going off the cuff and I hope and I pray that that
blesses you. Somewhere in there, you're gonna discover some
insights. Maybe there's a missing piece for you in terms of being
able to move forward. I teach a results model, a transformative results
model, which says results come from behaviors. Behaviors
(08:29):
are influenced by our mindset. Mindset is made up of
our beliefs like we've been talking about. It's also our nature.
It's who we are inside. It's the greatness, the preloaded
greatness inside of each and every one of us. The personality
that we have, the strengths that we have, the desires, the aspirations,
all of that that is within us. And you know what? Too often,
(08:51):
the world speaks negative and we allow all that to kinda like get
all over us, and we don't even realize it. We don't even realize that we
can be fully immersed in personal development. We can be
fully immersed with positive thinking people all around us
and yet not realize that we have limiting beliefs. So I
come back to where I started. It's time to thrive in 2025.
(09:14):
Start speaking life over yourself. Start speaking life
over your family, over your marriage if you're married, if you
wanna be married over your future spouse. Speak
life over your children, speak life over your
business, speak life over your career, speak
life over your community, over your neighbors, over
(09:36):
your whatever the community is that you're part of, your health,
speak life, start to declare what you would like to
see have happen and do it in the present tense.
I am healthy. I am strong. I am
lean. I am energized. I have vitality
flowing through my body. I am smart. I am capable.
(09:59):
I may not know how to build a business, but I can figure it out.
I may not know how to have a successful relationship, but I can
learn. I can read. I can study. I can learn from others.
You can learn whatever it is that you don't know. You can learn it. You
learn things before. You can learn things again. Okay? So
I encourage you. I just pray a blessing upon you today. I
(10:20):
encourage you to speak life over yourself. Believe and declare. Maybe
you need to put it written up on your wall in front of you, on
your mirror in your bathroom, on your fridge, wherever it is that you need
to write it and just write it's time to thrive. Or even better
yet, I am thriving in 2025. This is
my year to thrive. This is my year to thrive as God intended. This
(10:43):
is my year to break out and to step into all that I'm
capable of. So God bless you. Happy New Year.
And if there's anything we can do to support you, please let us know. We
have a great community like I was talking about earlier, lead as a transformation
community that is for our faith based entrepreneurs,
aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking to start a business or
(11:05):
have a business and wanna grow a business. And if that's you and you're
interested in being part of that community, you can go to leaders of transformation.com.
There's a page on there or go forward slash faith community.
You can get all the details there and check that out. And, of course, we've
got many more guests. This is a podcast. We have 524
episodes prior to this. We're gonna have a whole lot of episodes
(11:29):
this year that are gonna just blow your mind in terms of the people that
are gonna be on this show. Expand your mind beyond what you ever
believed was possible so that you can become and step into
all that you are capable of becoming that leader of transformation
that you are capable of being. I believe that every single person is
capable of being a leader of transformation in your
(11:50):
respective area. And, you know, it's funny because I had a a mentor years ago
who I said to him, I've always wanted to be an example to those around
me. And and he said to me something really that stuck with me
all these years. And he said, Nicole, you're always an
example. The question is, what kind of example are you?
You are being an example right now to those around you. There are
(12:12):
people looking to you. There are people watching you.
Maybe they're your children. Maybe they're your friends. Maybe they're your
family members, maybe they're your coworkers, colleagues,
the people in your neighbors. People are watching and that
shouldn't disturb you, that should encourage you that you are
an example and you have the ability to influence. You don't need to
(12:35):
have a big following on social media to influence people. You
influence people already. When you walk into the store and you
buy something and you go up to the cashier and how you treat the people
in the store, how you treat the cashier, how you treat the people in
line makes a difference. And so I encourage you
to recognize who you are and who God
(12:57):
says that you are. And let go of anything, any lies that
you believed about yourself, anything that you have taken on
that somebody else has said about you or maybe not said to
you, just let it go. Let it go. And if you need
to dust it off of you, if you need to write it down on
a piece of paper and burn it, burn it,
(13:19):
release it, let it go. It is time to
thrive in 2025. God bless you. If
there's anything we can do to support you, reach out, let us know and we
are here to support you along your journey. Okay? And we look forward to seeing
you next week for another episode of the Leaders of Transformation.
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