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Episode Title: Your Bold New Year

Stepping Into Brilliance in 2025

🎙️ Episode Summary:
In this Bonus episode of the Bold and Brilliant Podcast, host Tracie Root shares powerful messages about what it means to have a bold new year. Drawing inspiration from the Bold New Year Summit hosted by The Gather Community and including clips from some of the amazing speakers from that event, Tracie encourages listeners to step into 2025 with bravery, ownership, leadership, and decisiveness. This episode is perfect for entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone ready to take bold action toward their dreams in the new year.

Tracie dives into each step of the BOLD acronym—Be Brave, Own It, Lead with Intention, and Be Decisive—and offers actionable advice to help you show up, step up, and make 2025 the year you go after your goals with confidence and clarity.

✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🔹 Be Brave – Learn why stepping outside your comfort zone is crucial for growth and how taking bold risks can help you achieve what excites you.
🔹 Own It – Understand the importance of taking responsibility for your actions and progress, even when it’s messy or non-linear.
🔹 Lead with Intention – Discover how to lead your life and business with purpose, clarity, and confidence in every decision you make.

🌟 Memorable Quote:

"It's not about how hard you can hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward." 

📌 Resources & Links Mentioned:

🔗 The Gather Community upcoming events!
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Your host,
Tracie Root

Episode Transcript

Tracie (00:01):
Are you ready to take bold action and live a life of
brilliance?
Welcome to the Bold andBrilliant podcast, where women
leaders share inspiring storiesabout daring decisions that
shape their business, theirlives, and their careers.
Today, I'm bringing you amessage from my own heart, my

(00:21):
own experience, and some clipsfrom a gather community multi
speaker summit we just held lastweek.
Let's talk about what it meansto have a bold new year.
Welcome to the bold andbrilliant podcast.
Last week, we hosted the boldnew year summit in the gather

(00:41):
community, and it got methinking, what does it mean to
have a bold new year?
What does it mean to you?
I'll tell you what it means tome.
A bold new year means steppinginto the year with bravery,
ownership, leadership, anddecisiveness.

(01:05):
You may recognize that satisfiesthe BOLD acronym.
This means we're taking chargeof our goals, we're embracing
opportunities, and we're makingthings happen instead of waiting
for them.
Here's what that looks like inaction.
Step 1.

(01:26):
Be brave.
Be brave.
Step outside your comfort zone.
Take risks.
And face challenges head on abold new year means daring to
dream big and go after whattruly excites you.

(01:49):
Have you thought about somethingbold that you could do outside
your comfort zone for the restof 2025?
Something you could createstarting today that is in that
collection of dreams in yourmind.
What could you take action ontoday?
That you were afraid to startyesterday.

(02:13):
Think about it.
The second step is to own it.
Own what?
Own your actions, yourdecisions, and your progress or
the lack of progress.
Progress isn't linear.
Moving forward toward your dreamis not linear, even with the

(02:35):
word forward, that might meanone step forward, two steps
back, three steps forward, onestep back, five steps forward,
four steps back.
You don't know what it's goingto look like, and there is no
perfect time to start.
We can't wait for things tohappen.
We have to make them happen withconfidence and with

(03:01):
accountability.
Own it.
Own what you're taking care of.
Own what you're creating and ownthat you have the skills and
talent and knowledge to do it.
Step three is lead withintention.
Lead your life and your businesswith purpose.

(03:22):
And clarity, make sure that thegoals you set are meaningful and
that they align with the visionthat you have for your dreams.
When I was young, I didn'treally know what it looked like
to be a leader other thanpositional leadership, being

(03:43):
named in charge, having a title.
But what I learned was that realleadership is leading by
example, making the decisionsthat are right for you, for your
business.
For your family, for the peoplearound you, lead with intention.

(04:05):
Decide that's what you're goingto do.
And step four is decisiveness.
Decide what you're going to do.
No more hesitation, makedecisive moves and take
consistent action.
Bold new year isn't aboutwishing or imagining what could

(04:29):
come.
It's about doing and growing.
And learning and doing more.
A bold new year is aboutstepping up, showing up and
making your 2025, the year yougo after your dreams.

(04:54):
Are you ready to go after whatyou truly want out of your life
without fear, without excuses,without holding back?
Are you ready for a bold newyear?
Now's the time.
I'm sharing some clips from ourrecent bold new year summit.

(05:15):
In the hopes that they willinspire you and encourage you to
continue to build and createyour bold new year.
I hope you enjoy them.
And thanks for listening.

Gina (05:28):
It's not about how hard you can hit, it's about how hard
you can get hit and keep movingforward.
That's where self worth comesfrom.
It's not about how anyone elsefeels about you, it is about how
you feel about you.
So even when the world istelling you no, you get to say

(05:50):
yes.
My challenge to you then is topay attention to the words in
your head, the words that comeout of your mouth and your
actions.
And next time you feel defeatedor rejected, uh, or unworthy,
remind yourself that your selfworth is not up for negotiation.

(06:15):
It is yours to claim and to own.
And the more you practice owningyour worth, the more worthy you
will feel.

Tracie (06:27):
It's the authenticity that you brought today.
That makes people excited tohear what you have to say.
It was really fantastic.
So thank you.
Congratulations.
And Clara wrote some reallylovely things in the chat about
it as well.
And lots of great comments.
So I think that, oh, you shouldbe really proud.
And I think we all really lovedthat talk.

(06:48):
So thank you so much for that.
She does have a free gift.
In the, on the speaker resourcepage, it's seven days of self
worth, is

Gina (06:59):
it a challenge?
You'll get an email every dayfor seven days and there's a
journaling prompt and activityand an affirmation for each of
the seven days.

Tracie (07:08):
Love that, a whole little series.
Yeah.
That's great.
Paula says she already signed upand the emails are great.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you so much for that.
You draw.
To you what you believe you areworth.
That was like boom.
So good

Gina (07:26):
The words that come out of your mouth are even more
powerful because you are puttingyour thoughts into sound and
that sound has a vibration.
Which carries energy.
So you are putting that energyout into the universe.
And if you're familiar with thelaw of attraction, which says

(07:51):
you draw to you what you believeyou are worth, when you put
energy into the universe, thatenergy is going to come back to
you.
Okay.
Make those words positive.
Be nice to yourself, whetheryou're talking to yourself.
I do that all the time in themirror.
I talk out loud to myself.

(08:11):
Always respectful.
If you're talking to someoneelse about yourself, be kind and
loving.
You can, you can express thatyou're frustrated without
insulting yourself.
And then lastly is your actions.
Your actions are even morepowerful than the words that

(08:33):
you're saying silently in yourhead or speaking out loud,
right?
Cause you, again, you areputting your energy Into motion
into the universe.
So pay attention.
How are you showing up foryourself in a way that
demonstrates how you feel aboutyourself?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
The more you embrace the con, the chaos, the less
power it has over you.
How's that?
And identify what is in yourcontrol.
So what are your strengths andhow can you utilize those
strengths in the moments ofchaos?

(09:13):
Cause we're all strong.
What are the small actions youcan take towards your goals to
slowly take away that chaos?
And create progress and thencelebrate those wins, really
celebrate those wins becausewhen we celebrate, then we notch
up our confidence and then weknow that we can keep doing that

(09:37):
and we can expand on what'spossible.
And then it's really regainingthat control.
When I say control, sometimescontrol can have that.
Positive, and yet it can havethat kind of negative effect.
So it's really looking at howcan we manage it.

(10:00):
It's really looking atinternally, what is our anxiety
level around that chaos?
What is our overwhelm aroundthat chaos?
And really taking the controlinternally.
And not looking at externalcontrol and maybe that is

(10:24):
creating a new routine, reallyputting things on a schedule,
pull out that calendar andcalendar things.
So you're not chaotically goingin different directions.
You have that calendar thatyou're depending on.
This is, Oh yeah, now's the timefor this.
Maybe it's business related.

(10:44):
Maybe it's going to the gym.
Maybe it's even calendaring.
Your eating routines and waterdrinking routines, because
taking care of us will alsocreate a sense of connection
with the chaos, or it will allowus to look at the chaos

(11:07):
differently.
It's really takingresponsibility.
As humans, sometimes we put thatresponsibility out there, but
it's really bringing theresponsibility in, because when
we bring it in, and we know thepower that we have, we're able
to energetically put more focuson the things that we need to.

(11:30):
It's knowing our choices createripple effects.
When you have a clear, glassywater, and you drop that rock
into the water, you can see theripple effects and how calm they
are when the water is calm.
But when you toss a rock intothe waves of an ocean, the chaos

(11:53):
of those waves don't quitecreate the ripple effects that
we would like.
And so it's really bringing inthe calm to create the ripple
effects in life that we want.
So what are the choices that youcan make to have that positive
impact on your chaos?
Maybe it's reaching out foraccountability.

(12:14):
Maybe you know that there'ssomething that you want to work
on that feels a little chaotic.
And maybe there's anaccountability buddy to really
talk through it.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh my gosh.
Perfection is a flaw.
Nobody wants to hang out withperfect people.
That's vanilla.
That is not alluring.
It is your humanity and yourauthenticity that has people
lean in to be with you.

(12:49):
And this is why my friends likedon't always has to be looking
great and you don't always haveto be looking great and every
post doesn't have to be Theother day, I was having a
depresso day, and I said I washaving a depresso day.
Fortunately, I woke up the nextmorning, I felt alert, awake,

(13:09):
alive, enthusiastic.
But the thing is, we don't haveto look good all the time.
Be your authentic self.
And authenticity is a bold move.
But you know what?
Once you start to amplify yourauthenticity and your
visibility, it gets easier andeasier.

(13:31):
And then being bold is morestandard operating business
procedure.
Where would you like to beconsistently more bold in your
business?
Now, Gina, every time you say, Iwant to be a world class
professional speaker or publicspeaker.
My friend, every time you saythat makes me bliss, because

(13:54):
that's you declaring what youwant.
Way back when, I used to say,Hey, I want to be on the Oprah
show.
Now, I never got on the Oprahshow.
I have friends of that got onthe Oprah show, but that's okay.
It's not even so much aboutwhether or not you get it.
It's you declare something andyou make a path for it.

(14:15):
And guess what?
I didn't get that, but that'sokay because I can have another
dream or goal that is equally asbold.
When Tracy was asking after ourbreakout session about, where
are you being bold in yourbusiness?
And I said, Hey, I want to.
Do these big, big, big, um,retreats with women.

(14:35):
And I remember some years ago, Iwent to this conference and like
all of you, I love professionaland personal development.
Went to this conference and thisgal was talking about her
retreats.
And doing her retreats, and shehad the limousine, and she was
taking them to Paris, and theywere drinking champagne.

(14:57):
But you know, the way she talkedabout it, I thought to myself,
well that's really exciting.
But I also thought, hmm, maybe Icould do that.
And I let all of her success,again, inspire me to do my

(15:18):
thing.