Continuing our chatty, unscripted conversation from last month! We’re talking relationships that take ten years to cultivate, letting your inner child solve dramas, and getting quality time with girlfriends.

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Hello, you are listening to Celebrate Cultivate. I'm your host, intuition coach, and voice in your earbuds, Kaileen Elise Sues. How are you doing? Are you hanging in there? I feel like it is just a wild time in the world. We all have so much on our plates and our to-do list. There is a lot of great stuff happening with the end of year and holiday season.

It's like all the vibes are sparkly, but also there's a lot of stress that comes with this time of year. I honestly have every desire to like sit here and talk your ears off forever, ever and ever. But what we probably both have time for is just a bit of a check-in. I still have a long list of things that I want to chat with you about from.

Our episode a few weeks ago where I just kind of gave you some updates and some insights and things that I've been learning and doing. I got so much great feedback about that episode, and like I said, I only got to like half of what I had written down, so. We're gonna get back into that, but before we do, I wanna give you a little update About a year of you, the doors are closed.

We totally sold out. I had seven people sign up during the wait list period, so I If you were waiting to like sign up without being on the wait list, I'm so sorry that I was not expecting that to happen. Although I'm totally thrilled and obsessed with the people who. Are in the crew, the folks who came back for another year, and those of you who are brand new to a year of you.

I am. You know who you are. I'm so, so excited to get started. We are going to kick things off next week with our. Winter welcoming ritual call, and of course I'll be sharing more about a year of you as the seasons unfold here on the podcast and on Instagram. But if you are interested on getting in the wait list so that you can sign up in spring.

You can already like get on the list for that. So I'll drop a link in the show notes for the wait list, but also if you want to work with me now, I do have some spots open for end of year or beginning of new year sessions and I'm offering a promotion where you get half off for these calls. This kind of came out of a conversation with that I had with a few different folks in a year of you and past clients just talking about how you and I are craving that time to release what's not serving you and welcome the new year.

But maybe you don't wanna do it by yourself, like maybe you don't wanna like go through the process of like sitting down to journal and setting goals and reflecting on the year. And I totally get that. Like this time of year, specifically this year, I reached out to a few folks who I look to for support in business and in health coaching and have been signing up for things.

I didn't really expect that I would want, and I don't really know that you would say I needed it, but it was more like I desired it, you know? And so for you, you might not need, quote unquote, like it's not a do or die situation if you don't reflect on this year and you don't step into the new year feeling aligned and, and ready for what's next.

Maybe that's what you want, and it's totally okay to want that and to make space on your calendar and invest in yourself. So if that's something that you're interested in, I'll, I'll put the discount code in the show notes for today's episode with a link to sign up for a session. Or you can go to kaileenelise.com and book a single session with the code HOLIDAYTREAT. That'll save you $222. So you get it for half off. And if you want while you're signing up for it, add in the little secret menu item that I have there for a reading. It's a three card reading that I dos. After your session, I pull cards to gather insights and information from the universe, from your guides, from your intuition.

I record it all for you on an audio so that you can listen to it later, and I add in some connections between what happened in your session and the insights that you received there, and then what the cards. Came through as, so that's something people are really loving and you can only get that reading when you book a a session like this.

Okay, so now let's get into it. Like I said, I have this long list of things that I feel like have happened recently that I never got a chance to talk about on the podcast that I've barely shared about on Instagram, and it feels silly sometimes to go back in time. And kind of catch up and rehash stuff like this.

But at the same time, if we don't like, I don't know, it just, that also feels silly. So I'm gonna get into it, and I'm hopeful that as you listen to this, it'll take you back a few months to what you were doing in October. Maybe some things that you wanna celebrate, some things that you. I wanna carry forward with you, and the first for me is that I have officially crossed the threshold of having done 250 one-on-one client sessions.

So just like those sessions I was telling you about earlier, like I've done 250 of them in this last catch up. Session that we had two or four weeks ago, whenever it was that that last episode aired. I said I'd been a coach for five years, but I don't know if I mentioned that I've actually done more than 250 one-on-one sessions.

That feels like, like a huge body of work to me, and I've literally. The taken handwritten notes of every single session. I have like a file of them, and I'm thinking that in 26, maybe it will be the year that I revisit those notes and that I revisit these sessions and in like, I don't know if this is actually gonna happen, but, and I idea I've had for a really long time is to send those back to everybody, you know?

I tell everybody when they do their session and I send those audio files like, Hey, download this in the next 48 hours so that you have it in your files and listen back to the session if you feel like it. I always recommend that, but it's not like nothing bad will happen to you if you don't listen to your session.

It's just something you invested in and if you want to listen back, fantastic. But I do think it'd be kind of a cool time capsule that if you did a session with me back in 2021 and you only ever did one session, if I sent that back to you now, like. What would that feel like and how would you experience that and what will, looking back through those notes, give me, you know, I, I don't know.

I'm not sure. It's just an idea that I've had honestly for quite a while, but I kind of think that 26 might be the year that I go back through those archives. So that's something I'm curious about. And for you, if you're looking at your body of work, whatever that is, and however you choose to define that, is there some sort of archival, like revisiting project that you've.

Had on your mind that it's been an idea, like something that you've wanted to do that maybe now is the year, this is the time to do it. Like certainly between now and the end of the year, I'm not putting any expectations on myself besides like, get through the holidays, support my clients, be present with my family, like, you know.

Just getting through the holidays maybe isn't the phrase that I wanna be using because it's like, I'm not, I don't wanna rush it. I certainly don't wanna rush it, but I just think that like I wanna be present for each individual to do and task that I'm. Focusing on like do the thing, complete the thing, move on from the thing.

But in each thing, can I be more present? And then in these ideas and these kind of like aspirations and these things that, like the pings that you get, you know, I get those all the time. Just because you get the ping. Just because something like is on your mind or feels like a good idea, it doesn't mean that you have to action it now.

And I think that's something that we get really tripped up on, that it feels like we're behind or like, Ugh, I had this amazing idea three years ago and I still haven't done it. And it's like, maybe you haven't done it because it wasn't the right time. So that's one of the approaches that I'm taking with this like client session thing is like maybe it just hasn't been the right time and maybe it will be soon.

Another thing that happened in the fall that I'm feeling still, so like, Ooh, pinch me. I can't believe I got to do that was the Wild House Papers Cultivating Conversations event here in Austin. So if you're unfamiliar with Wild House Paper, they're such a cool company. They have very intentional and beautiful paper products for like planners and calendars and journals.

And they have an app, if you like my stuff, you'll obviously love their stuff because it's, I mean, in the journal, like the first, when you open there, it's called the open journal. And when you open it, like the first little intro thing talks about listening to your inner voice. I mean, it literally could not be more perfect.

And I went to the Cultivating Conversations event that they hosted in Austin last year, and I remember when I went. I actually recorded a whole episode after I went about making friends in your thirties because so much of the conversation that we had around that table was about relationships and friendships and connection, and I just walked away feeling like, wow, you know, there's so many of us who desire deeper connections and like why is that and how can we kind of carry that forward in our lives?

I also remember being there and being like, I would really like to facilitate this conversation in the future. Like this is something that, it was, again, one of these situations, we've talked about it before where I was in a room and I was like, oh, I could be running this, like I could be hosting this. And so when the opportunity came, they asked for applications too.

Be the person who facilitates the conversation if they come to your city. So I threw my hat in the ring and I got it. And being able to host a group of women around a table who, most everybody didn't know each other. Some of us knew each other or had like met each other before, but I think there were only.

Two official besties at the table, around the table for a group of 12. It's like, you know, it's just so nice. And honestly, if nothing happens after that, that's also okay. I kind of think that when we go to those sorts of events or we do these sorts of things where we like connect with other women, especially sometimes we might feel guilty afterwards if we don't.

Take that and run with it or you know, create deeper connections past that one interaction. But sometimes that one interaction is meaningful. You know, sometimes that one rainy connection morning where you have a good conversation like that can be enough, or those relationships can build over a longer period of time.

That's sort of something that I'm also trying to. Feel into and incorporate moving forward in my life is just knowing that. Even if you only see somebody once a quarter or even once a year, it doesn't mean that like you're starting over, that you don't know each other or that it's like not a real connection because there's a bunch of different kinds of connections in our lives.

Perfect example, is that on. This week, I'm not sure if this episode is gonna air on Thursday or Friday. By the way. You'll listen to it when it comes, right? Like I'm a little behind as we all are. So I'm just letting things roll. But this week my husband's company has their holiday party and I only see his people from work once a year.

But. He's been at that company for more than 10 years now. So I've seen these people 10 times and I think it's just easy to sort of like throw that away and be like, oh, well these are his work coworkers. Like, I don't really know them. But if you see somebody you know, once a year, over 10 years, like eventually you do know who their kids are and you know, it's, it feels good to catch up.

And so I'm actually looking forward to it this year 'cause I'm kind of taking a different perspective of like. Wow. We've been doing this for a really long time now. Like I do know their faces. I do know their names, and I do know a little bit about them, and that's enough for like a really, really nice night together.

Speaking of really, really nice times. Another thing that I'm so proud of and happy that I did this fall was the partnership that I have with a professor out at Syracuse University. She is a professor of a few different classes over there, but she's in the business school and one of her cla, her name's Elizabeth.

Hi, Elizabeth, if you're listening. She has a class on entrepreneurial imagination, and last year was the first year we partnered together to bring intuition into her semester. We did entrepreneurial vision boarding last year, and this year we kind of upped the ante and I hosted a workshop for any student in the business school about.

Intuition and using your intuition in decision making, but then also in her entrepreneurial imagination class, we brought like clarity to the mix. So that was a big part of the conversation. And also one of the things that I noticed in working with these students and also just like developing this curriculum over the last.

Two years is how important it is to look at intuition from a l lot of different angles, and we do this in a year of view. I do this in my one-on-one coaching, but I haven't brought it a ton to the podcast. It's something that I want to continue to work on and look at in the next few years is. How tapping into your inner child or your past self and your future self, then also your current self, how all of those different parts of you are available as a lens into your intuition.

Sometimes when we wanna listen to our inner voice in the moment, especially if we're making decisions or we're feeling really stressed, it can be like too much static. It can be too hard to hear your inner voice in the now. But if you take a little bit of time and space and do a bit of breathing or journaling or meditation or a walk and look at your past self or your inner child, however you choose to name it.

And then you look at, okay, what does my past self, my inner child want me to know about this situation at hand? This decision, or this stressful time? Maybe it's the holidays or whatever, like the thing that your Q4 goals or you know, like not even worrying about this year, but kind of looking at next year.

Like there's so much at this exact moment. Like there's so many different opportunities or ways that you can be like, okay, I'm stressed about this. What is my past self? What is my inner child? What is me 10 years ago or me 20 years ago? Want me to know about the situation Now when I do that and when the students at Syracuse did that, there's so much like gratitude and appreciation for the present moment.

There's a lot less stress and pressure on your shoulders because your past self is so proud of you. You know, they are like, oh my gosh, I can't believe done this. I mean, there's sometimes maybe your past self, like if I think about my personal journey over the last few years with like my. Body and gaining weight with having three children and having a baby that was over 10 pounds as my last baby.

Then having a really bad back injury, like my current self can really beat me up about not working out enough and not eating healthy, drinking too much, like all of these things like, ugh, there's like a lot of sadness and grief and just like, oh, I regret that comes from not having a body that I want in this now moment, but my past self, like myself two years ago, who was like.

In really, really miserable pain, back pain or my past self four years ago that had a, a brand new newborn like. She's gonna look at me now and be like, oh my gosh, you're doing it. You're doing it. I'm so proud of you. Like, don't even worry about the holidays and the eating and the drinking. Like just do your workouts and hang in there.

You're doing it. You're not in pain. Like, wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. So that shift of like tuning into your past self. Is so helpful in business, in motherhood, in just relationships, in so many places. And then the same is true and, and we have talked about this, I feel a fair amount with your future self and with these undergraduate college students.

You know, their future self that we're talking about is like. You at 25 or you at 28, like they aren't worried about getting an internship or their first job. Like they've, they've made those decisions, they've made those strides, they've, they solved some of those problems. But for you and me, like my future self I like to reach to is like way far out into the future, like my 88-year-old self.

Like my imagining who my grandma is now like. What would she say to her 40-year-old self? You know, she would have so much compassion and so much love and so much guidance and so future, like getting into that future self can be really supportive and healing also. So the Syracuse workshops a, I'm so obsessed with just the school.

I didn't go there. I went to UNLV in Las Vegas. I have no affiliation, but when I, I've been there now twice in October and. The students are amazing. The faculty's amazing. The school is so cute. I love it. And it just is like in an alternate universe. I would've loved to have been in academia. I was super involved on campus.

I got my degree in elementary education, like my grandpa was a professor at Cal Berkeley his entire career, so I definitely had this like. At one point a a little baby like dream or vision of like being somebody who is involved in, in college somehow. And that just wasn't the path. But this has been like a little slice, a little taste of that and being able to, for like college credit in a class, talk to these students about listening to their inner voice, listening to their intuition, creating vision boards that are connected to intuition.

Aligned with their entrepreneurial dreams and desires. Like it is just, it's magic. Like it's so cool and I. The way that that partnership kicked off was I opened a few slots for people to have a free chat with me. I advertised it on the podcast and in my newsletter many years ago, and Elizabeth reached out and was like.

This isn't, you know, this isn't gonna be your like typical conversation. I'm not necessarily looking to like do a session with you or join your programs, but I think that there's something here that you are offering, that you're talking about that would be really great for my class. And we didn't like start a collaboration right away.

It was like we just had this like intro chat and then many, many months later she reached out to me and was like, Hey. This is the idea. What do you think? I had to submit a proposal to the university. I got the funding for it, like it went through and we've done it two years in a row now. So who knows?

Like it's not guaranteed for the future either, but it is definitely something that I got so much from. And I think the idea, the insight, the takeaway for you is if there are possibilities, like if you are interested in, in a year of view, we've talked about recently, like. Having a desire at one point in your life to be a librarian, but now like that is not the path that your life has taken.

But maybe you could volunteer at a library or maybe you could be on the board of a library. Maybe you can get a taste for, or even just like hang out at a library more often, you know, like and or, or have like a book club. There's so many different ways that we can incorporate these things that we once wanted, or old dreams that maybe like resurface.

There's ways to thread them through into your. Current now life and you don't know where one spark, one idea will, will go. And also as I'm talking through this, I feel like next year something that I would like to do is maybe on occasion like open up some of those coffee with me, zoom chats, because you just never know like where those conversations will go.

And it is. Like really nice sometimes when, if you've listened to the podcast for a really long time or if you've just now started listening and you're like, okay, wait, I need like some more information. Who is this Keely girl? And you just wanna like ask me some questions sometimes. It's really nice to be able to do that.

Okay. We are definitely wrapping this up pretty soon because I have a client session in eight minutes. So we're gonna finish this up. But before I do, one more little thing that I wanted to share a story, a fun happening was that my best friend Christie, who, if you've listened to the podcast for a long time, you've definitely heard of her before.

She used to have a podcast. She used to have this like really. Cool business online, helping women, mothers invest in their family finances so that they could like build wealth for their children. She's not like out and about doing that right now, but if she ever comes back, I'll certainly promote and share and, you know, talk about her because she's amazing.

But we've been best friends for a really, really long time. We used to work together and like back in our corporate days, I, like, we first had cubicles across from each other and I remember just like looking up to her so much. She had like the coolest style she had. She was like a few years older than me, had like.

A bigger book of business. Like she obviously like, seemed like she knew what she was doing and we hit it off because we had a common love for shopping and the movie slash book, the secret building vision boards and like going and hanging out at Barnes and Noble for hours and hours and hours buying self-help books.

Like those were some of the things where our friendship. Blossomed from there. So she came to visit in November, and when she did, we went and saw a live Abraham Hicks workshop, which this was the second time that I've gone to see Abraham Hicks, but it was her first time. If you are unfamiliar with the world of Abraham Hicks, it might be too much for me to explain in the last few minutes.

I will drop a link in the show notes to the episode I recorded after my first live workshop because it goes into all of the info and all the dets. But what was, I think, the biggest takeaway from this time with Christie? This visit, which she has come to visit me so many times, and I definitely owe her a visit next, but it was just how that when you n like.

Are able to spend time with like your person, how it helps you see and understand yourself better. I've done like so much work in trusting my intuition and following my gut and building this business and, you know, I have a really great support system here in Austin, but she's, she's known me. So long and she knows all the stories and the secrets and she remembers stuff that about myself that like I don't always remember about myself and same for me to her.

So being able to like make that time and how many people are like needed to make that happen. She's got two kids, I've got three. You know, it's like we've got. Babysitters and nannies and grandparents and husbands and all of these people lined up to like, help make our time together. Like it's a lot, you know, and it's a sacrifice and it's not cheap, but it really was so helpful this time especially just to like be with her and catch up in person.

And we, we just had the best time the Abraham Hicks workshop was, was. Was great. It wasn't like the most amazing life changing thing, and honestly, no one part of the visit was, and if we hadn't made it happen for November, like we would've been fine. But I think it's just like remembering that sometimes that stuff like making time for friends, making time for yourself, like it isn't.

Easy. It isn't free. It's like it takes a lot, but it, it's worth it. So if there's anything that you have kind of like on your heart or on your mind, or a person that you want to deepen your relationship with, sometimes it is going to take like some time and sacrifice to like make it happen, but it's worth it.

You know? It, it really, really is to like, get out of your everyday routine and leave the inbox behind, leave the laundry behind, leave the kids and the husband behind. And we went to bed by like. Nine o'clock every single night. You know what I mean? Like we weren't out partying. It was a different vibe than years passed, but it was like so restorative and we just like talked and watched Real Housewives in the morning when we woke up early, we went shopping, like we just had the best time.

So I, I don't know, I just needed to like recap that here on the podcast. So I'm wrapping up here. Because like I said, I got a runoff to a client session. If as you're listening to this, like you've had some sparks of insight, if you want to work with me, if you just want to share a story with me, come over to Instagram. I'm @kaileenelise, I love hearing from you. I love connecting with you. I do not know when my next episode will come out if we've got one more in us for this year. We'll get it out and if not, I will see you in 2026. Either way, it's all good and I just wish you a very safe and happy and healthy holiday season.

Thank you as always for listening and I'll see ya when I see ya.