How to Get Hot & Rich in 2026: The Plan No One Wants to Follow

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Let's go make shit happen. What's up, you guys? Welcome back to the podcast. Happy New Year. Happy 2026. I'm excited to get into things. I hope that you are feeling the energy of the new year. I know the end of this past year felt a little bit weird. There was sort of this melancholy vibe that was happening. I posted about on my Instagram stories and a lot of people were like, yes, It feels kind of off, it feels kind of weird, but I at least feel like the fog has lifted and I am fully in the energy of New Year's now. I am such a slut for New Year's. It's just such a good— when the energy hits, it's just such a good time to feel motivated, excited. You have your new goals, you're like feeling so ready to go. I don't know, I just love it. It's this time of year and also back to school time of year are like two of my favorite times of year. So happy New Year, happy 2026! Hopefully you're feeling good, and if not, just trust the timing, that your motivation, energy, excitement for this year ahead is going to come online. Don't worry if you haven't done your vision boards yet, don't stress about it. Like, all the pieces are falling into place for the rest of January, and just trust that this year is going to be the best year yet. So welcome back to the podcast, thank you guys for being here. In this episode, we're going to talk about how to get hot and rich in 2026, which I'm I'm so, so excited about. So I'm gonna go through the identity around being hotter, being richer, and then I'm also gonna unpack for you some explicit, like tangible things that you can do for your health planning and for your business planning. I'm gonna share with you my full workout split, everything that I'm doing to get hotter this year. This is the year that I get married, so I'm being very serious about it. We're gonna go through the exact thing that, and the format and way that I plan for my business every single year. So if you want some tangible takeaways and some motivation, stick around. This is the episode Let's dive in. So the reason why I decided to do this episode about how to get hot and rich in 2026 is because most people at the start of a new year are going to have some sort of health or physique-related goal and some sort of money-related goal. It's just very, very common. And whether that money goal is to earn more, save more, invest more, whatever, it's just very, very common that people have some sort of health or physique-related goal for the year and something to do with their money, finances, business. That's just kind of the way that it works. So I think it's two really relevant areas of our lives, our health and our finances, our health and wealth, if you will, and they go really well together. So that's what we're going to talk about in this episode. Now, the first thing that I have to say is being hot and rich starts with an identity. And I want to be clear when I say this, but— and I want to be careful about how I say it, but I also want to give like a little bit of tough love. I think being secure within yourself really is the bare minimum at this stage. If you're like saying you want 2026 to be your hot and rich year, then being secure within yourself is really the bare minimum. So if you're like, oh, I want to be more confident, the bar is truly on the fucking floor, girl. Like, if we're claiming that 2026 is going to be your hot and rich era, then we need to be aiming for way more than just confidence. You need to exercise the most amount of audacity that you probably ever have this year, right? And as the Gen Zers would say, you need to be serving cunt all year long if you want 2026 to be your hot and rich era. It's so much more than just being secure within yourself, being confident, whatever. No, we need to be serving cunt for the entire year. You need to move with insane conviction, authenticity, and unrelenting drive. You need to unblock your fucking throat chakra and start creating content that's actually worth watching. You need to stop waiting to be invited and invite your damn self. And I'm not I'm not talking about to like parties and social gatherings. I'm talking about to rooms of opportunity. Insert yourself. If you want this to be your hot and rich year, insert yourself. Pay to play. Fork over the cash. Get in the room. Learn the skills. Rub elbows with people. Make a name for yourself. It's going to require unrelenting drive and fucking audacity. Okay? You need to start telling yourself that you are the hottest bitch on the planet and then moving like her. This is where we're starting. We're starting with the identity because we're going to get into the tangibles. The way that you see yourself, perceive yourself, think about yourself, your self-concept, all of that is so important into actually getting you to be able to take the actions that need to happen in order for you to create these kind of results. So you need to start telling yourself like, I'm the hottest bitch alive, or this is my healthiest, hottest era of my life. I have never felt better. I have never looked better, or I'm on the way to feeling the best I ever have. I'm on the way to looking the best I ever have. You need to start telling yourself that and then moving like that version of yourself. Tell yourself you are a millionaire in the making and then move like her. Start programming yourself to believe that these things are normal. What is normalized, you can create. $10,000 a month is normal. It is not rare. Lots of people do it. $20,000 a month is normal. $50,000 a month is normal. $100,000 a month is normal. $1 million a month is normal. There are people doing it. Now I get that's like an exceptional level, but we've got to normalize the things that we want to bring closer to our reality. So it starts with the identity. What we're telling ourselves, how we think about ourselves, and that kind of self-concept that we are continuously and intentionally building. It all starts with identity. So hold the posture of the woman that you want to become and then live your life as if it's already real. Hello, manifestation basics 101, right? But for example, let's say if my company was making $20 million a year right now, would I be able to afford revenge bedtime scrolling until midnight and then consequently waking up later than planned? Kind of snoozing my alarm, maybe missing my workout and then pushing off my first work task of the day until later because I'm running behind. No, I would not be able to afford losing that much time and focus from my company if it was generating $20 million a year and I needed to be working on it, in it, and scaling it. So those are things that have to go, right? I have to stop staying up too late. That's— I'm being— I'm not like being general. I'm being literally serious about me. Like, I have to stop staying up too late. I have to be ruthless ruthless with actually going the fuck to bed when I said I was going to go to bed. I have to be ruthless about getting away from my phone and not getting pulled into distractions. So much of my life and my business is on my phone, and that means I open up this vortex so many times a day to reply to clients or post to stories or start making a reel or doing whatever, answering Slack messages. And this is the black hole that sucks me in. So I have to get into the habit of getting away from that, only doing work from my computer. I bought 2 new computers, so that should help, right? I have a brand new laptop, a brand new desktop. We'll see if that helps me. But we have to like take literal examples from your life and think, okay, if this is where I'm trying to go and my life already looked like that, or my finances already looked like that, or my health already looked like that, or my schedule already looked like that, or, you know, I was at this level of kind of like relevancy or importance, or I had this level of demand or these many clients— if my life already looked like that, What is it that I'm doing right now that I would not be able to afford? Like, it just simply would not fit into that lifestyle and start making adjustments there. Another example, if I was in the best shape of my life, do you think that I would be hoping that I get time to work out sometime today in my busy schedule, or would it already be in my calendar first before anything else? Because for someone who's in the best shape of their life, their health and their fitness is probably at the very tippy top of their priorities list, right? Okay, so noted. Doing that. We're doing that. Another example: if I were the most spiritually connected that I've ever been, would I be giving God my scraps of leftover time, energy, and attention just whenever I, you know, had some extra time to spare? Or would I be putting that relationship first? Would I be giving God my first and my best? Okay, noted. So we're doing that, right? You got to look at your life and think about where you want to be. Work backwards from there of all the things, all the shit that you're doing that would not fit, and then start to rearrange, eliminate things, and ruthlessly re-pattern the way that you think about your life and choosing your habits really, really selectively. And we'll talk about habits in a second. But another thing I wanted to say is like, I don't really think that anyone should have to tell you what habits to start or stop this year if you want to be a better version of yourself. Because we all already know, like real talk, right? It's not that complicated. We know the things that we're currently allowing that don't match with our highest potential. You already fucking know, right? The only question is, are we actually going to change those things or not? It's never been complicated or confusing to figure out how to get in better shape or how to make more money. There's a million ways to do both of those things, and you've already heard of most of them. It has never been complicated or confusing. So Okay.

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You also have to remind yourself, like, I'm not lacking clarity. You know what to do. You know what you should be doing. You know what you need to get rid of and what you shouldn't be doing. You know what's blocking you. You know what would be better for you. You know what habits to implement and which ones to to quit. You're not lacking clarity on how to become a better version of yourself or how to get hot, how to get rich, how to do any of the things that you want to do this year. You're only lacking action. I think that you could easily become 10 times hotter and richer in 2026, but we need one key thing, and that's discipline. And that's the kicker, because we know what to do and yet we don't do it, right? We're lacking the action and the discipline in order to hold that action consistently. So Alex Hormozi defines discipline as this: the number of times you can do a challenging or punishing event in a row without receiving a reward. And he talks about it in the sense that when he was running a gym and he had all these trainers, they would always kind of lecture people, especially at the start of the new year, about discipline and how that was going to be the key to getting to their goals. Obviously, right? And he's like, you guys can't really lecture your clients on discipline because you're not disciplined. And they're like, what do you mean? Yes, I am. I'm so disciplined. I wake up every day at 5 AM to go to the gym. And he's like, that's not discipline. You fucking like it. This is your passion. This is something that's like the most important, most fun, most fulfilling part of your life. You like waking up at 5 AM. It's easy for you to do that because you care about it because you're passionate about it. That is not discipline. And so I think there's a really interesting distinction there of understanding, because sometimes we're like, oh, I'm so disciplined here. But not over there. And it's really just kind of like a reflection of our values or what we find to be easier, what we care about more, or what we find to be easier. And true discipline is the number of times that you can do a challenging or punishing event in a row without receiving a reward. So not doing something that you like over and over again, it's doing something that you don't like over and over again. That is true discipline. It's your ability to do the shit that you don't enjoy consistently consistently in the pursuit of a long-term goal rather than just the instant gratification. Because a lot of stuff feels good to do now, but it's like, what is actually going to feel good in the long term? A business example of this is last year I decided to cut an over-six-figure revenue stream from my business. I was like, this is not scalable. I can't continue to do this knowing what I'm trying to build. I want to build more scalable spaces. I want to have more impact. I want to be able to reach a lot more people, help a lot more people. I want there to be more volume in my business, and I'm not going to have the time, energy, or attention to focus on that if I'm busy over here doing this thing that takes up so much of my time and is completely non-scalable. So I had to cut it from my business, and I was really focused on prioritizing that long-term vision, that long-term goal of having more volume, more impact, and more scalable revenue than the short-term gratification of going, oh yeah, this person wants to pay, you know, $30K to work with me. One-on-one. Sometimes we've got to get rid of what feels good and what can be very, very enticing to do in the moment in pursuit of a long-term bigger vision down the road. And what's going to happen in between there is like a lot of discomfort. It's not fun to remove revenue streams from your business. It's not fun to make less for a little while while you're ramping up these other streams. It's not fun to do a lot of the things that are required to get your health in check or to feel better about yourself and your identity or shift your mindset, there's going to be some stickiness in there. There's going to be some friction because we are prioritizing the long-term vision and goal at the end of the road rather than what feels good right now in the moment, right? If you listen to Layla Hermosa's content, she says often like, fuck your feelings, follow the plan. And that's sort of another iteration of what we're talking about here, right? Fuck your feelings, follow the plan. It doesn't matter what you want today, right now, in this moment. It doesn't matter that I only slept 6 hours last night because I was planning a last-minute photo shoot for something that I got invited to do, and the shit had to get done, so I had to stay up late. I still woke up early, I still made it to the gym, I still got my workout in. I went to Starbucks, I got myself some matcha. I needed a little caffeine, but like, we figure it out, right? And that's not the ideal situation because, like I said, one of my goals is to go to bed earlier. But like, sometimes the long-term future vision of where you're going and what it's going to take to get there is going to require the the friction and the discomfort and kind of eating shit sometimes in the short term. And that's what a lot of people are not willing to do. They're not willing to put that in. And I think a hard truth actually is that if you're scared of the word discipline, or if you're kind of turned off by the word discipline, you are probably one of the ones who's lacking it in some area of your life, if we're being real, right? There was a big conversation probably a couple years ago about like replacing the word discipline with the word devotion. And I think that's amazing if you want to replace discipline, with devotion, because it makes you feel better. And I talked about this even on the show, and I think I'm just like in a different season of my life where I'm like, I don't need to trick myself anymore into like doing things or accepting that it's going to be hard. I'm just like, nope, it's probably gonna be hard. So who fucking cares? Like we're doing it anyway. So I don't need to tell myself, oh, this is devotion to my mission. Like I don't really need to be coddled in that way anymore. And so I think that's me reflecting on that has been really interesting of like, hmm. I wonder why I like bent my knee to that narrative of like, oh, discipline is too masculine or it's too scary or what? It's like, no, it's not fucking scary. It's what it takes. It's what's required. It's like, how bad do you want it? Like, do you want to help people? Do you want to make an impact? Do you want to have a business? Do you want to build abundance for your family? If it's going to be hard, like, are you willing to do the hard thing? If it's going to require discipline, like, are you down? Like, sometimes it's just like, I think I'm getting a lot more ruthless in my acceptance of the facts of life. And that sometimes it just is what it is and we don't need to coddle ourselves out of it. We just need to fucking accept it and move forward. And listen, there are plenty of things that I could be way more disciplined in and that I know I need to, to work on. And so if you're also self-aware enough to know that discipline in whatever area in your life is not your strong suit, then what you want to do is get accountability, build community around the things that are hard for you to do consistently. And you will do them with more ease. Accountability and community are the number one solves for low levels of discipline. So if you know, hey, I— it's really hard for me to stay consistent in this. I really lack the discipline to show up for this over and over again. Get accountability, whether that's like a mentor, a coach, a body double, a friend, a partner to do it with. Like, you have to build community around the things that are hard for you and they will become easier. A really good example of this was this past year. I wanted to go to the gym and lift more consistently, but I had been used to working with my personal trainer and then she moved away and I kind of struggled a little bit with my consistency and I wobbled and I was like in and out of the gym, but like not on top of it as much as I was when I had the consistency of having my trainer, which is why I had originally hired her in the first place. So I was like, okay, I don't necessarily want to hire another trainer, but what if one of my friends could be my workout buddy? So I enlisted my friend Annelie and I was like, let's get fit together. Victoria, let's lift. I got her to come to my gym, sign up, and we started lifting together 2 to 3 times a week every single week for over 6 months. Now when I tell you that this helped with my discipline so much, I was in the gym working out at 8 AM 2 to 3 times a week without fail, whether it was the first day of my period or it was a crazy rainstorm where like it was borderline flooding and we were like worried about driving to the gym. In the gym working out with her after I had just gotten home from a trip and I was running on like 5 hours of sleep. Things that I would have never, ever, ever showed up for if it was just me. And so sometimes, like, the superpower is the self-awareness to know, hey, I lack discipline in this area, so I need to get fucking accountability. The same thing with my health this year. I was like, I want to get fit. I want to be so hot for my wedding. I want to sort out my hormones. I want to regulate everything, optimize everything. So I need accountability. So I'm going to hire someone. So I actually hired one of my clients who's my functional nutritionist. She's, you know, like my health person right now, getting me on top of everything, my supplements, all my testing, evaluating like every single level in my body, stress levels, blood levels, hormones, like all the things, digestion, gut, like we're doing all of it. And I would have never had that much of a focus on that part of my health if I hadn't gotten accountability in that area. Sometimes it's community. Like for a lot of my clients who come into spaces like Top Tier Mastermind or The Room, it's like being surrounded by people who also have that hunger, who have that motivation, who have that goal. Just being in the room together and being able to chat back and forth, seeing everyone's messages. A huge thing this year in Top Tier was like we created community and accountability around our holiday sales and Black Friday and all those things. So that it would motivate the shit out of everyone to do better and to do more and to keep pushing. And so every single day people were in the chat ringing the alarm, oh my God, just made a sale, just closed this person. Someone just bought this, another $10K, another $9K. It's only been 4 minutes, 30 people from my waitlist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And we had some of the biggest and best results inside of the mastermind for those holiday deals. People hitting their highest cash months in their lives, in the history of their businesses. And these are experienced business owners who are 6, multi-6 and 7-figure business owners, and they were hitting record-breaking numbers. $20K days, $90K months, $60K. I mean, the numbers were insane. And a lot of it was, of course, the strategy. Yes, that we implemented. We weren't just throwing shit at the wall like I was helping them with how to actually do this positioning, messaging, strategy, all those things. But a lot of it, like when it came to the actual week of moving those offers and promoting them and pushing them, it was the accountability. It was that energy of like, oh my gosh, if she's doing it, I can do it. If they're still going, I'm going to keep going. That just inspired me. People are buying because you get in your head and you're like, oh, it's slow, or people aren't buying, or Black Friday is different this year, or whatever was happening in the outside bubble. But then within our little group, it was like, no, this is alive, it's working, it's happening. She can do it, I can do it. And that creates crazy, crazy momentum. So there's so many different areas of your life, your health, and your business where you can apply this. But truly, If you know that you lack discipline in something, get accountability, build community around the things that you want to be better at, that you want to be hungrier at, that you want to be more consistent at, and it will become so much easier for you. So with that being said, let's get into some tangible tips for getting hotter and richer, shall we? We're going to start with health planning. So the first and most important reminder that I want to tell you is that you do not get hotter on accident. It requires strategic planning. So in its simplest, most basic boiled-down form, we are going to need to eat whole foods, walk a lot more, work out often, and sleep 7 to 9 hours a night. That is basically the formula. Everybody knows that, right? This is not rocket science. But what you have to do is figure out the things in your life that are making this harder to accomplish.

What is getting in the way of you sleeping better, eating better, walking more?

The dumbest way to try to get hot this year would be to just try to add all these new habits at once or be like, yeah, this is going to be our year and almost just like put it on your vision board and hope that somehow you like change all of your habits and who you are. It's actually really hard to change how you operate. It's really hard to change the fabric of your being and who you are, how you think about yourself, your priorities, what you value, what you put first, what you make time for.

That's really fucking hard, so it's going to require a lot of intentionality. Hey, don't forget that every month we are picking a Listener of the Month to win $50 in cash just for showing love to the show. All you have to do is leave an epic review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, screenshot the review before you hit submit, and DM that screenshot to us on Instagram @makeshifthappenpodcast. And that's it. I want to thank you for being such a loyal listener and show my appreciation by putting a little extra cash in your pocket. I know it's super easy not to do it, but every single rating and review seriously helps the show rank higher and reach new people, so we appreciate them more than you know. We'll announce the next winner at the end of the month and slide into your DMs if it's you, so keep an eye out and good luck.

Love you guys, and thanks for supporting Makeshift Happen. So the first step is not what you need to start doing, but actually all of the stuff that you have to stop doing, or the things that you need to remove. So some things for me: I've got to remove my phone from the bedroom. I've got to remove ice cream from the freezer. I've got to stop snoozing my alarm 3 times. I've got to stop waiting until 6 PM to think about for the first time what I'm going to eat for dinner. I need to have a plan, right? So if you've ever read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and that's a really great book to read at this time of year, even if you've already read it, it's like a good reread or just do the audiobook. But you'll know that there's like two really important aspects to creating habits that stick. It's doing whatever you can to make it easier to do the habit and also making it harder not to do the habit. So an example, let's say I want to work out 6 days a week instead of 3. This is an actual goal because like I said, I was really consistent with working out roughly 2 to 3 times a week and now my workout split is going to be 6 days a week. That is a pretty big increase, right? You're doubling the amount of time that you're spending on this area of your life. And I wouldn't necessarily say that that's like a realistic goal, but I have an unrealistic level of motivation because I'm getting married. In 5 months. So anyway, the way that I would do this for this specific goal of like, okay, I want to work out 6 days a week instead of 3, you got to add friction to make it harder not to do it. So an example is I have a ClassPass membership so that I can go to Pilates and yoga classes, and ClassPass is going to charge me money any time that I miss a class or don't show up.. So that's something that I really want to avoid happening. I don't like the feeling of having to spend $14 or whatever it is just for nothing because I decided to blow off the class and not go. So that's going to make it harder for me to skip. It's going to make it harder for me to not do the thing that I am wanting to do. We're adding friction to make it harder for me to bitch out or to not do it. Then we want to reduce the friction. To make it easier for me to do it, right? I want it to be as easy as possible for me to actually do the thing that I want to do. So I could, like I mentioned, enlist a friend to work out with me. That's going to add to my accountability. It's going to make me feel like I have to show up. It's like an appointment, like I can't let this person down. That's going to make it easier for me to go. Or I could do something also as simple as like having my clothes out and ready in the morning. That reduces the amount of friction and the amount decision-making and thoughts and the amount of time it takes me to actually get up, get ready, and get out the door. Another example, let's say I don't want to be on my phone first thing in the morning, which that would be, you know, another great goal for me to have. So let's go through it. I don't want to be on my phone first thing in the morning. How are we going to add friction? Well, I can keep my phone in the other room. I can charge my phone at night in the bathroom or in the kitchen somewhere else so that it's not near me when I wake up, which means it's going to be harder for me to get to it, to reach it, to look at it, and to start being on it in the morning or scrolling in bed, right? So adding friction— I'm going to keep the phone somewhere else. Reducing friction so that I can make it easier for me to do the things that I want to do— maybe I'm going to get an alarm clock that wakes me up with like light and soothing sound, so it's like a more enjoyable experience for me to actually wake up on time and not be on my phone and procrastinating the day, maybe I am going to give myself a reward, right? So if I wake up and don't go on my phone, what do I get to do instead? Maybe I get to read my book for 20 minutes. If you're someone who loves to read and that's actually a reward for you, then maybe you're like, hey, if I wake up on time, like I can afford to read for 20 minutes in the morning and maybe that's really enjoyable. For you. If reading is not a reward for you, then, then that won't work. Maybe you get to buy yourself your favorite latte as a reward. Every day that you wake up to your alarm on time and you don't go on your phone for the first 30 minutes or hour or whatever it is, you get a latte. Sometimes, you know, it costs money. It costs money to get ourselves to change. I think that would be a really good one for me. But then you also have to follow with the punishment, which is like, if you don't do it, then you can't get yourself yourself the latte. So anyway, those are some examples for how to like add and reduce friction so that you can make your habits easier to do and harder to skip or not do them. So you can go through and ask yourself, like, if I wanted to be my hottest self this year, what would move the needle the most for me? Because that's going to look different for all of us. Like, your version of what it means to like be hot, that's kind of like an arbitrary term. Like, what— some people might have really specific like health goals. Maybe you are someone who struggles with your gut health, or you have really specific skin goals or beauty things, or you're on like a hair journey of some kind, or it's really specific to like your physique, body composition, losing fat, or you want to gain muscle. Maybe you want to gain weight. Like it's going to look different for everybody. So like, think about for you when you think I'm going to be my hottest self this year, what's going to move the needle the most for me with that? And what about my current routines and habits, the way I naturally operate right now, like my autopilot? Setting? What about my autopilot settings would need to change to make this possible? So first you're going to look around and go, hey, what is happening in my autopilot settings that is not a match for me being my hottest self? We got to think about what we need to remove, eliminate, get rid of first. Then for each habit that you do want to implement or add, you've got a plan for how you can intentionally reduce and add friction where necessary, like we talked about with those examples. To make it easier to do the things that you need to do and harder not to do them. I want you to write that down and then take action on it. So I also thought it would be fun to share with you, like, my personal current Get Hot plan and the things that I am doing in 2026 to be my absolute hottest self. I want to be lethal in 2026. I want to be the hottest version of myself I have ever been. I want to get to my wedding day, and I know this is like so silly and arbitrary. You don't need a wedding date or some event or a trip or a vacation or anything to be the reason that you decide to make really profound changes in your life. I know that. Don't come for me. But if you are a bride or have been a bride, you just know there's something about it that is really fucking motivating. So I want to get to my wedding day and be like, I actually prove to myself that I could have the level of discipline that it takes to be the best version of myself and look and feel how I want to feel. And it's not about that one day, because I could walk down the aisle tomorrow and feel beautiful. I could walk down the aisle tomorrow and be confident and have the best day of my life. I know that. But if I am extraordinarily motivated by this date or this idea, then why not, like, capitalize on it? Like, why would I not use that to my advantage? Because I want to find out what I'm really made of when I have this sort of like extraordinary level of motivation for something. I wanna find out the beast that could be awoken inside of me, and I wanna know what level of discipline I'm actually capable of. So I think it's just gonna be fun. Like, it's just a fun experiment to see like how lethal could I actually get? And I think that ripples out into a lot of different areas of your life when you become so hyperfixated, disciplined, motivated in a specific area, consistent, it's like it does change something about the way you think about yourself, the way you see yourself. It changes your identity. You're like, holy shit, like I'm so much stronger than I thought. I'm so much more capable than I thought. Like I, I can do a lot harder shit than what I ever thought was possible before. And that's part of like the game that I'm playing with this as well. It's not just the wedding day, but it's like, if that is motivating to me, why not capitalize on it and also find out who the fuck I am in the process?, right? And prove to myself that there is even a deeper level of commitment, consistency, devotion, discipline, whatever you want to call it, that's available to me. Like, wouldn't it be fun to find out what version of yourself you could be if you fucking tapped into that? That's what I'm most excited about. So this is my current get hot plan. This is not a recommendation or a suggestion to anyone else. I just think as nosy people on the internet, sometimes it's fun to know what other people are doing. Giving you the privilege of knowing what's actually happening in my life. Take it or leave it, whatever you want to do with it is up to you. This is just like what I'm doing. So like I said, I'm moving from like working out 3 days a week to working out 6 days a week. So I'm doubling my workouts, which is a pretty big goal. And the way that I'm going to do this is I have ClassPass for Pilates and yoga. I have a gym membership for lifting. And then I also just downloaded the WeGlow app, I think it's called. For like workout inspo when I'm bored or like need structure or want to follow like an actual plan for maybe even some of my like lifting workouts and things like that. So those are kind of like the resources that I'm using to help me in this season. My current split is going to be 3 days of lifting, 2 days of Pilates, and 2 days of cardio. And you might be like, 3 2 2 is 7, you said 6. But that's because I'm kind of stacking the cardio onto a workout another day so that I I still have a rest day in the week. So I'll walk you through like what the Monday to Sunday situation is just so you can kind of like visualize it if you care. Again, I'm not assuming that you do, but like some people are curious and just nosy. So Mondays I'm gonna do lower body lifting at the gym. Tuesdays I'm doing Pilates and sometimes I do Hot Pilates, which is like mat Pilates. And, and other times I'll do like reformer Pilates on the actual machines. Wednesdays I'm gonna do upper body lifting and cardio. So this is like a StairMaster or interval sprints on the treadmill. Thursdays I'm doing another lower body lift in the gym. Fridays I'm meant to run. You guys, I fucking hate running. I hate it. I hate it. I'm starting with just like 15 minutes, 20 minutes. And if we're being honest, it's not even a run at this point. It's a jog because your girl is building it up, building it up. But unfortunately, yeah, Leslie did tell me that I'm going to need to get some, some actual cardio in. I can't just go to the gym and lift with my specific goals that I have. I have very specific, like, body fat goals and physique goals. And in order to achieve those, it's not going to be enough just to lift weights or to do Pilates. I am going to have to add in some cardio there just to like get like the metabolism like moving and blast some fat. So you will find me running. I've been doing it a little bit already, running outside, hitting the pavement. Yeah, I'll, I'll keep you informed on how the journey goes. Saturdays are going to be our rest days, and then Sundays I usually take a yoga class or a Pilates class, just just depending on what is available. So that's kind of my split. I'm focusing on whole foods. I'm limiting inflammatory foods. For me, things like gluten, dairy, eggs— those are things that I'm intentionally not eating at all, or just eating the most minimal amounts, like if I'm like eating out or whatever. So I'm going to be doing that. I'm also taking 4 trillion supplements, or at least trying to. Oh my gosh, I don't know how— I know this is like short-term. This isn't like a long-term thing where I'm going to be taking all these supplements forever, but it's like I'm on very specific protocol for different things that we're solving for. And so sometimes it's just like a lot of fucking pills and I'm not very good at it. Like I definitely fail every single week. Like I'm not perfect at taking my— I'm like, I have to take like 8 or 9 pills, like 4 different times a day, every single day. And, uh, one time I took them with not enough food in my stomach. I was on vacation in Aruba actually. I, this wasn't included in the vlog, but I should have told you guys about it. It was Thanksgiving. We went out to dinner and I had one bite of a bread roll and I was like, I'm literally gonna puke. I got up, I ran to the bathroom, and I projectile vomited into the toilet. And I was like, oh my gosh, it's because I took my supplements like too far away from my meal. I was trying not to miss them, I was trying to be a good girl, I was trying to take my supplements even on vacation, and that's what I got was vomiting in the toilet. So listen, I'm not perfect with them, but I do try. And there is a lot of them, and it's a really, really big big challenge for me personally, but these are things that were personally prescribed by my functional nutritionist based on my testing. Like, it's for very specific protocols for things that we're solving for in my health, and so that's why there's so many of them. And it won't be like that forever. That's not like a long-term plan, obviously, but that is something that I'm doing right now. I also have a goal of getting 10K steps a day because I'm gonna be honest, I don't naturally do that every day. That's not like my baseline yet. And so that's what I'm working up towards. To help me with that, I've got a walking pad in the office over here. I'm getting committed to taking the dog out more and doing more walks. Jaime does so many of the dog walks. He's very happy about this because I'm like, listen, I'm going to have to take over some of these dog walks if I'm trying to get this step goal, because your girl sitting behind the desk recording podcasts and helping clients and everything and being on calls all day, like, it's not— it's not giving 10K steps. So I have my Oura Ring to help me track that. So that's good. I got some ankle weights. I like to wear those when I'm walking around the neighborhood. So just like little things to help me with that. And then in terms of beauty, I have a red light mask. I use that every other day. I also am very transparent about the fact that I tried Botox for the first time a couple of months ago. Mm, not totally sure how I feel about it still. I felt like I looked a, a lot worse at first, but then started to look better. I also had my lip filler completely dissolved and then redone by a more meticulous injector who's a little bit more conservative with how much he'll put in and just really wanting to make your face look symmetrical and natural. And that is something that has made me feel a lot better because my lips were bothering me prior and then I got everything dissolved and I was like, oh my gosh, I actually don't like this. I like hadn't seen myself without lip filler for 4 years and I was like, I look so weird. And then I got them redone just in a very like light, conservative way with a very meticulous injector who's very specific about symmetry and those things. And I was just like, this actually is amazing and I love the way I look with this and it's helping me feel hotter. So that's part of the journey of feeling hotter this year. Just being totally honest, that's everything that I'm doing, focusing on and the goals that I have. Now let's get into business planning. How are you going to get richer in 2026? I'm going to walk you through the way that I sort of lay out and plan my year at the top of every year. So if you want to do this in January, now is a really good time to do so. First, you're going to write down all 12 months of the year on a big piece of paper. Then you're going to go month by month and you're going to note down anything that you already know for sure is going to be happening that month that will impact your business or your time capacity. So this could be like a big trip that you're going on, if you're getting married, if you have time blocked off to be out of office, whether it's for like a family trip or you're going on a retreat, maybe you're hosting a retreat. If you have a speaking engagement, if your kids are off school, like just going through all the things that you know for sure are already like set in stone gonna be happening, putting those down in every single month of the year. Then you're gonna go through and pencil in your set kind of launches or promotional pushes, whatever you wanna call them, the things that you do to actively move product and to sell your services throughout the year. So this is gonna look different for a lot of people depending on what their business model is. But anything that you know for sure is happening to like drive big sales, whether it's a launch of a new product or a program or an opening of a store or whatever it is, it's like go through and make sure that you mark those down when those are happening. Next, you're gonna set a rough plan for what you'll be selling every single month. Or if you're like, well, I don't have enough things to sell to where I would be like, it would be very different month to month, then you can plan this quarterly. Quarterly and really just focus on like, what am I selling every quarter of the year? This is what I did back in the day when I really had just one signature product or program that I was selling all year long. I would just launch it over and over again. And I knew I'm going to launch this 3 or 4 times this year. It's going to be happening in January and then it's going to be happening in March and then it's going to be happening. And I would just go through and mark them down. If you have a little bit more of a sophisticated product suite or you have more things that you do, or you have multiple businesses, then this, it'll be helpful for you to go month by month and really see what you're focusing on selling and promoting each month. Now take a pause, step back, look at the spaces. Where are the gaps that you have room to kind of fill in with new projects or important things that you want to build or focus on this year? Maybe you are starting or launching a podcast this year. Maybe you are really wanting to, you know, create a YouTube channel. Maybe you have a new course or a program that you're building, or like whatever else is coming up that is like, that's going to be a major focus for me this year. It's a new project. It's something that's going to take time, attention, energy. You got to look at— you've already put all the things in there that are pretty much set in stone. So now it's like, where are the gaps to where I could actually focus on this, to where this would actually fit in? And then jot that down. Okay. Q2 is looking a little bit like there's some more openings, so maybe I'm going to work on X project in quarter 2. I'll probably start mapping it all out in April, and then by May I'll be ready to launch it. Like, you really want to go through and plan for how those new projects and things are going to fit in and exactly where they're going to be fitting in. Then, to help you formulate some sort of revenue goal for the year ahead, you are going to make an educated prediction of the revenue based on past sales performance. So not pulling a number out of your ass, which is what some people do when they make their revenue goals. They're like, oh, I'm gonna make $2 million this year, even though they like are barely hitting $10K months with any level of consistency. You wanna make an educated prediction of the revenue that will be coming in based on past sales and launches, how they performed, what you already know about the things that you're going to be selling. So anything that you've sold previously, you have data and knowledge about how that's performed, how many people typically buy, what the sales numbers usually look like. So you can generate some sort of prediction of, okay, when I launch this, we usually do around $10K, $30K, $60K, whatever it is, right? For new things, new projects, new programs, new things that you're going to be selling, you don't have data yet. So you're going to make an educated guess based on what you know about your business, your audience, your volume, how many people you tend to get in programs or courses, etc., that kind of thing. So you're going to make this educated prediction of the revenue for every month or every quarter of the year. So you can literally look at your year before it's even started and be like, roughly based on all the things that I'm already planning to sell, I'm probably going to make somewhere around X amount of dollars this year. Now what you can do is you can look at that on a quarterly level and you can see if there's, if there's any like disparities where it's like, whoa, like my revenue is going to be really low in Q2, but like it's almost all coming in in quarter 4. If that's happening, then maybe you want to look at, okay, why is that? And is there a way for me to better distribute some of this like work effort, time, revenue over the course of the year? And it's okay to have like really intense quarters and then other ones where it's like more coasty. That's totally fine., but sometimes it can be helpful to have this bird's eye view and look at and be like, oh, actually, like the revenue's gonna be pretty low in quarter 2. And maybe that's because there's not a lot of stuff in there. And you're like, I actually wanna create a new offer or build something or make something or sell something because I wanna add to that revenue. I have the time and the spaciousness to do it. It just kind of gives you some more insight about how you can play and, and move things around once you have the visibility over what is on the calendar and what the predicted kind of revenue is. Is for the 4 quarters of the year. Now, before you set your actual goal for the revenue for the year, you're not just going to take that educated guess and that prediction of your revenue and be like, okay, that's my goal. No, we want to leave some room for growth, for assuming that, you know, you're going to have new people coming into your audience, assuming that you can increase the volume of your programs and offers, assuming that you're going to have more and better clients, or maybe that you're going to raise your prices at some point in the year. And so there is the ability for that number to fluctuate and grow. We want to leave room for growth and also leave room for some magic because you never know what could happen, right? We gotta leave space when we set our revenue goal for the growth and the magic. It's not just an educated guess on what the revenue is on paper. We gotta add some like spice to it. So you can look at your educated guess of your predicted revenue numbers and then leave room for growth, leave room for magic, inflate that number slightly, and feel into what intuitively is the best kind of goal for you to set your sights on and use that number as your new annual revenue goal for the year ahead. Now, as you're doing this, I'll also just mention, I think it's important to like leave some open space in your 12 months for the unexpected, whether that's good or bad things that could pop up, for new offers to potentially take shape and for plans to change. Change, right? Because this is meant to be a rough outline or like idea of how your year is going to go, not a set-in-stone plan that you cannot deviate from and nothing can change. This is really just to build more clarity around where you're going, what's happening, what you're selling, and when you're doing what, so that you're not showing up to every month being like, okay, another month in my business. I wonder what I'm going to do. I wonder what I'm going to sell. It's just about getting more organized, but not being super rigid. So things can totally fluctuate and change. Again, I do this every single year and it's never gone 100% to the plan that I set, but it does follow pretty closely. But of course there's always unexpected things that pop up, new projects. Oh, we're going to go on a podcast tour, actually. Oh, we're going to do this. Oh, I got an idea for a new offer. Actually, I thought this was the most important priority, but I'm going to switch it and we're going to do this first. So of course there's going to be changes and things. It's just to set like a rough outline, an idea, but it's not something that's immovable. And lastly, I'm just going to share with you guys some calendar tips that I find really helpful. After you do the like business planning session where you write down all the 12 months and everything that we just talked about, you're going to want to make sure that you add all of the fixed events from that business planning session to your literal calendar. So add all of the trips, launches, launch prep time, retreats, working on projects, any of that, like add it all to the calendar so that you remember as you go through the year, oh yeah, That's what I had said I wanted to do this month. That's what we're planning for. Oh, that's when this launch is happening. The masterclass is going to be on this day, which means 10 days before that I need to start promoting it. That's going to be like, if you literally have that stuff in the calendar at the start of the year, you will be so much more organized and so much further ahead than a large majority of people. So add the shit to your calendar. Then another amazing calendar hack is to embed repeated tasks tasks to just like repeat over and over again so that they're already there every single week. So if there's something that you do every single week, don't rely on yourself adding it to the calendar or having it on a paper to-do list or remembering to do it every single week. Like have it just recur over and over again in your calendar so that it's always there and it gives you more of a frame to work with every single week when you're trying to think about where am I meant to be? What am I meant to be doing? Like how am I delegating my time? How much time do I have? You have a more visual representation in your calendar of the things that you already need to do. So let's say you work on scripting your podcast or recording your podcast every Monday instead of just like hoping that you get around to that, remembering it. Why don't you make a time block for it and have it repeat every Monday for until infinity until you change your mind, you change the schedule of it. You can have repeating tasks like time blocks in your calendar that repeat every single week. For you to like clear your email inbox, for you to respond to clients. Like if you have Telegram or Voxer or one of these things and you want to reply to your clients every day or a couple of times a week in the morning, then just set a time block for it and have it recur every single week so that these things are already there and you already see them. It's like reducing the amount of things that you have to remember and reducing the decision fatigue of going, oh yeah, I've got to remember to like like do that or check in with my team or any of that, like, stuff that naturally gets repeated every single week should just already be automated as a repeated calendar task or like time block, because it's just going to make scheduling your life around those things easier rather than trying to always remember to do them and fit them around other stuff. Automate as much of your calendar as possible, right? If you have a set schedule or you want to have a set schedule for when you create content or when you map out your podcasts or even when you like go for midday walks, like, all of that stuff just be recurring time blocks in your calendar every single week so that it's always there. Another tip is to plan your week on Sunday. I know a lot of people do this. If you are able, you could do it first thing Monday morning, but I don't have the time to waste on a Monday morning planning my week. I need to know already what's happening. So I like to plan it all on Sunday. And what that means is I'm going to fill in my time-blocked to-do list for every day of the week. I've said this so many times, Sometimes I use Google Calendar as my literal to-do list so that I can physically see, okay, for the next hour I need to be working on writing this email. And then after that, I've got to work on prepping this interview with X guest for the podcast. And then after that, for about a 3-hour block, I'm, you know, content creating. Like, I need to be able to see it in real, like, time blocks, not just on a paper list, because the reality is a lot of people have time blinders. And they don't realize how much time a task is going to take. So they set out at the start of the day and like I'm gonna do this, this, this— And then you'll realize that's 14 hours of work. Unless you're gonna work for 14 hours that day, you're probably not gonna get all that shit done. Then you might actually be able to prioritize what needs to come first second or third over what can wait until later on week because you haven't fucking realized that you aren't even gonna be able to do those things on that day; on Day One! So that's what you kind of do on Sunday. You, based on your priorities and what's most urgent and what needs to happen first, you slot in your little time blocks of, okay, I know I've got to do something for the podcast. I know I have to create content here. I know I've got this project or thing that I'm working on. Maybe you're building something and you're like, I really got to focus on building that course or that landing page or writing the copy for whatever it is. Okay. That needs to be a time block and needs to be inserted into your calendar somewhere for that week. You want to leave some white space. Space. Like, don't be back to back to back to back to back with the time blocks. And also don't make your time blocks stupid amounts of time. Like, don't make a 15-minute time block to like post. Like, everybody I know takes a lot longer than 15 minutes to post. So give yourself ample time. Leave a little bit of like space between tasks because you're probably going to go over or get distracted or need a snack. So, you know, it's not about being so rigid and psychopathic with the time blocking, but it is about understanding How much time do I actually have in a day? What is possible for me to get done today? And having that already visible on your calendar for the week ahead is so, so helpful. And there can be white space, of course, because again, things are going to come up. Your team is going to be like, oh, hey, you actually, we have to do this, or you got this email, or so-and-so wants you to do this, or they invited you to this, and can you prepare this? And so there, you do need to have some level of white space to insert those random things that pop up. Another thing that you should absolutely add to your schedule every week starting on Sundays and have it done for the week is your workouts. And if these are repeated and you can automate them again, just embed that as a repeated time block in your calendar. Like I know based on my split that I shared with you guys on Mondays and Thursdays, I'm doing a lower body lift in the gym. I know how long that's going to take me and I know that I'm going to go every Monday and every Thursday unless, you know, I'm sick or there's a real reason that I can't go. So why not just make that cut a time block in my calendar and have it repeat every single week. And then I only have to fill in— okay, I booked a reforming, uh, a reformer Pilates class on Tuesday, let me add that in. Let me add in the yoga class. Let me add in this. This is where I'm gonna run on Fridays because based on my schedule or what I'm doing that day, I'd rather run in the morning or I'd rather run in the evening. I'm going to book it in. So then on Sunday you can look at your week and you know exactly when you're working out. You know all of your to-do lists for every single day because they're your literal time blocks and tasks on your calendar and you are set up for success. And one last thing is like for anyone else who also has like time blindness or is just like perpetually late to things, add driving time. If you have to go places like physically, if you have appointments or you see clients in person or even like going to workouts and stuff like that, like anywhere that you're driving, add the driving time to your calendar. I know that sounds kind of psychopathic, but it's like you need to— for me, I need to know I need to leave the house at this time because I can see the time of the workout or when I'm meant to be like at a cafe meeting a friend to do something. But I'm going to think to myself because of my time blindness, like, oh, I have time to like finish up what I'm doing right now. And then suddenly I'm like, oh my God, I'm late. I need to be there in 5 minutes. So it really helps to have time blocks where it's like, leave now. Like the driving time is accounted for. All right, you guys, there you have it. My detailed plan of how I'm going to get hot and rich in 2023. 6 and how you can too. I hope you're coming with me. This year is going to be so fun, full of growth, abundance. It's gonna be an incredible epic year. We are in a year 1 in numerology. It is a fresh start. We are turning the page. It is a brand new chapter. It's a whole new era of your life. I hope you're feeling the energy. I'm so excited to go into this year with you. Thank you so much for listening to the show. If you loved this episode or you know someone in your life who wants to get motivated around getting hotter, and richer, and maybe you want to do it with them. You want to do it with a buddy in 2026. Copy the link to this episode, send it to a friend, let them know you were thinking of them and that you're ready to get hot and rich together in 2026. I love you guys so much. Thank you for listening, and we will talk to you next week. Bye! If you loved this episode, make sure to check out the show notes where I've linked a few similar episodes I know you're also going to love.

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