2024 Recap, Celebrations & Reflections from The Deeply Satisfied Woman

I’ve got four more working days for 2024! 🤩

A few client calls, pre-loading a bunch of marketing for the start of 2025 and delivering the final group coaching call for the Overflow ladies for the year. Then I’ll be done!

This is my last newsletter for 2024.

And I want to celebrate with you! 😍

This year has been beautiful.

Here’s the highlights reel;

✨ I entered my first two ever business awards, and was selected as a finalist in BOTH from thousands of entrants – the Australian Small Business Champion Awards and the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards in the Business Coaching category

✨ Philip and I helped my Mum and Dad pack away (and cull!) their belongings and move out of the home I grew up in, into their gorgeous new home

✨ We continued to plan our wedding, locking in some important details like caterers, asking our favourite humans to be in our Bridal Party, having them all say yes, and I even bought a dress!

✨ I produced and released my free three part video series, Stressed Out to Successful & Satisfied: Overcome anxiety and burnout and move towards relaxation, abundance and radiant femininity.

✨ I got to support Philip in significant ways while he’s been in a position of greater responsibility with the Freemasons since the start of the year.

✨ I was given more speaking opportunities, including some great podcast interviews, running a remote workshop at a women’s wellness gathering in the UK and delivering the keynote presentation for a sold out event championing women’s empowerment!

✨ I made my first TV appearance. 📺

✨ I found a new somatic therapist and did some deep healing work that has had beautiful ripples in my life, relationship and business.

✨ I’ve grown my free community, The Best Place for Business Women, on Facebook to over 150 women.

✨ I stepped into the role of President of my BNI chapter!

✨ I delivered the most successful half day workshop I’ve ever run in my business.

I could go into another layer of detail about how proud I am of my clients, the fun, random adventures we’ve had and the beautiful friendships I’ve deepened in, but I’ll leave it at that.

It’s been rich.

There’s also been some challenges;

About 12 months ago, I shared with a few of my closest humans that I was drawing a loving line in the sand with myself, and calling in change in 2024.

Specifically, I was referring to my business.

After over 13 years in business, I’ve loved doing 1:1 work with women, and I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed the beauty of small group programs, but there was a missing link in my business model that I hadn’t been able to crack.

I still hadn’t figured out how to balance my efforts across marketing, sales and delivery in a way that meant I had a predictable, steady stream of clients and income.

There has been times of overflowing abundance, and times of real challenge.

This was both a ‘practical’ issue in the realm of my business AND an ‘inner world’ issue of nervous system capacity.

Last year, I said to myself ‘enough is enough’ – I’d been doing this long enough, and I was sick of this cycle. I declared that in 2024, I was going to tackle this issue once and for all.

So to honour that declaration, I’ve had to confront myself. I’ve worked HARD. I’ve had to (at times) show up when I really didn’t feel like it. I’ve confronted the way I was still keeping my business small to protect myself and play it safe. I’ve called on discipline, I’ve asked for and accepted a lot of help. I’ve felt some ugly feelings, and let myself be seen, held and loved in those feelings.

And the silver lining to traversing that challenging terrain has been THIS (I saved the best celebrations for last!):

🌊 I designed, recorded and launched my brand new ‘Overflow’ program – a 10 module journey for driven women which includes a hybrid of both pre-recorded material and live group coaching.

🌊 The first cohorts of women are journeying through Overflow, loving it and seeing their lives change in gorgeous ways.

🌊 This program represents a truly scaleable model with the potential to provide me really healthy recurring revenue from a membership group while providing amazing value to the women in the program.

🤩 I feel like I can say, ‘I did it!’ in response to that commitment I made 12 months ago.

There’s still a journey ahead to learn to scale this program, build my capacity to hold bigger groups, and market and sell it to a wider audience, but that’s 2025 Nic’s job.

Finally, unsurprisingly, the same unconscious patterns that have kept me looping in my business over the years, have also had impacts in my relationship. This year while I’ve worked through some of the deeper layers of these patterns, have been some of the most challenging ‘dark night of the soul’ moments in my life thus far.

Philip has been a rock of love, support, encouragement and belief in me. 🥹

And I’m tremendously grateful to say that I’m finishing the work year feeling solid in myself, my business, my relationship and my path ahead.

I truly hope your 2024 has been rich, filled with growth, and that you’re looking forward to quality time with those you love over the Holidays!

Thank you for lending me your attention this year, whether that’s been by reading the odd blog or social post, or perhaps journeying with me more deeply. 🙏🏻

I truly appreciate it, and look forward to seeing you for more Secrets of Success, Sex & Soul in 2025!

Never underestimate the power of your past. Because it’s not in the past. It’s here in this living moment with you – woven into your responses, choices and perceptions; baked into your nervous system and psyche through and reinforcement and repetition.

That doesn’t mean your past has to define you, not at all.

Though, you’re lying to yourself if you say ‘its in the past’, yet have done no work to clear the ripples of that past from your system to create space for something new.

Yesterday, in a session with my coach, I went ‘back in time’ to the end of 2020, when I went through an experience that was somewhat challenging for me.

Here is a sublime example

Despite acknowledging the challenge at the time, I realised looking back that I hadn’t fully resolved or digested what happened there.

Part of me stayed frozen in that experience, and on the subtlest of levels, I have gotten in my own way unconsciously ever since.

That past experience was with me in every moment. It informed my capacity and energy levels, choices and perceptions.

And this is how the past shapes us – you have experiences that your system ‘learns’ from, and you then – often completely unconsciously – adjust accordingly to avoid repeating painful or difficult events.

We are such clever adaptive creatures.

But, those ‘adaptations’ will inadvertently shape your behaviour, attitudes, thoughts and feelings in a way that can begin to inhibit your ability to fully show up for your business or career, relationships, and life in general.

If you bring the process of ‘learning’ from these past experiences into consciousness, you gift yourself the chance to mine the gold from the past, get the learnings and gifts link example: and then move forward with your life.

„ QUOTE DESIGN: I CALL THIS PROCESS ‘DIGESTING’ YOUR PAST EXPERIENCES, AND HAVE SPECIFIC PRACTICES I TEACH TO SUPPORT YOU TO DO THIS.“

I call this process ‘digesting’ your past experiences, and have specific practices I teach to support you to do this.

The challenges of the past – and your adaptations – can become like a cage you find yourself living in if you’re not aware, but this digestion process ensures your continued liberation…

Which past experiences do you need to free yourself from?

We are such clever adaptive creatures.

If you bring the process of ‘learning’ from these past experiences into consciousness, you gift yourself the chance to mine the gold from the past, get the learnings.