What's Your Word of the Year?

In this episode, host Jennifer Henczel shares the power of choosing a word of the year and how it can guide your decisions and actions. She reflects on her own word for the upcoming year, "ease," and how it's shaping her life and business goals. Jennifer also shares practical exercises for setting intentions, personal stories of success, and tips for creating more flow and focus in your life and business.

Choosing a word of the year provides a simple yet powerful focus to guide your decisions and actions throughout the year. It acts as a personal compass, helping you stay aligned with your goals and values amidst distractions.

Jennifer’s word of the year for the upcoming year: Ease.

It's about letting go of unnecessary struggles and embracing joy and preparation, and embracing calm confidence.

Links & Resources:

A step-by-step exercise to clarify your dreams and goals:

• Imagine it's December 31st of next year—what do you want to achieve?
  Reverse engineer those dreams into goals, goals into steps, and steps into tasks.
  Take action on your first task immediately.
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• Imagine it's December 31st of next year—what do you want to achieve?
• Reverse engineer those dreams into goals, goals into steps, and steps into tasks.
• Take action on your first task immediately.

Jennifer’s Reflections on 2024:

• Her word of the year for her business this past year was Expansion:
• Successfully launched the Women Podcasters Awards with over 400 nominees and 15,000 votes.
• Expanded her community, memberships, and support for podcasters.
• In her personal life, she embraced the word Laugh by attending comedy shows across North America, including Netflix’s “A Joke Festival” in LA and performances by Jerry Seinfeld, Sebastian Maniscalco, Nate Bargatze, Jim Gaffigan, and more.

Moving Towards Ease:

• Jennifer’s creative pursuits: Rediscovered her love for art, particularly neurographic drawing—a meditative and healing practice.
  Started a group called Calm Doodles with her sister, inviting others to share their artwork.

Embracing Manifestation:

• Diving deeper into manifestation: Insights from her journey of shifting from surviving to thriving, as shared in the Inspiring Innovators Show.
  More manifestation tips and mind-blowing interviews coming soon on her podcast.
• Jennifer created the Ultimate Manifestation Coaching Kit.

Podcasting Tools & Tips:

• Switched podcast hosting platforms from Libsyn to Captivate: Benefits include built-in AI and other advanced tools.
• Transitioned from WordPress to Systeme.io for better workflow: A platform for creating show notes, lead magnets, sales pages, courses, and memberships. Comparison of Systeme.io vs. Go High Level for podcasters.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Women Podcasters Network: Access Jennifer’s Show Notes Map and Guide, along with templates, tools, and membership perks. Visit WomenPodcasters.com/join to learn more.

Key Takeaways:

• Choosing a word of the year provides focus, clarity, and alignment.
• By breaking down dreams into actionable steps, you can create momentum toward your goals.
• Simplify your podcasting workflow with tools like Captivate and Systeme.io to save time and amplify your efforts.

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What's your word of the year and why? I want to know.

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My name is Jennifer Henczel, and I'm your host today.

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So what's your word of the year? Choosing a word of the year provides a simple yet powerful focus to guide your decisions and actions throughout the year.

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It acts as a personal compass, helping you stay aligned with your goals and values amidst distractions. Anyone who knows me knows that I love conciseness, so this practice really resonates with me and I do it every year. My word of the year for this upcoming year is eas e se eas. This isn't about avoiding challenges or coasting through life.

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It's about approaching each moment with confidence, clarity, and a sense of flow. For years, I've worked hard to hone my skills, build meaningful connections, and create opportunities that align with my purpose. Now I'm embracing the trust I've earned in myself and my future. EAS does not appear by chance, but by preparation, persistence, and perspective. I've let go of unnecessary struggles and I've released the hustle.

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I'm ditching what drains me and I'm doing what delights me. It's about moving through life and knowing that I'm equipped to handle whatever comes next. And I'm going to do it with more confidence, more laughs, and more ease. I have an exercise that I've been doing for years for myself and with my clients to help with clarity. Imagine it's December 31st of next year.

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What big dreams do you want to bring into reality by then? Now reverse engineer that and what are the goals that will get you there? And now break down each one of those goals into steps and the steps into tasks. Now identify the first task towards that dream and do it right now. Stop what you're doing and do that first task as soon as possible.

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Don't put it off. Do it today. Do it now. Taking that action with clear intention will magnetize that dream towards you. It starts now. This past year, my word was expansion. I very intentionally expanded my community. I grew my groups and memberships. I launched the Women Podcasters Awards and it was massively successful beyond my expectations. I had overflowing support from the podcasting community, and I had over 400 nominees and over 15,000 votes took place.

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I created it as an opportunity for podcasters to grow their communities, and I provided tools to help people, and we all had a lot of fun. In my personal life, I decided to spend even more time on self-care and fun stuff. And my word this past year in my personal life was laugh. Literally this year we chose to spend more time laughing.

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We've been to several comedy shows. We've traveled just to see comedy shows. We traveled to LA for Netflix is a joke festival, and we went to several comedy shows in Vancouver. We've seen Jerry Seinfeld twice. We saw Nate at Sea, we saw Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Bill Burr, and lots more. So I'll be infusing more light hearted fun into my life.

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I've done a number of things this past year to help myself move forward into the next year with more ease. For example, I started getting back into art and drawing, and it's a very specific kind of drawing called neuro graphics, and it does so much for me in my brain. It's like a form of meditation. It's like a vacation for my brain.

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It resets my brain. You can see some of my drawings on my socials. My sister and I started a group called Calm Doodles Clem Calm Doodles, where people can share their neuro graphic art or any kind of art. I love it. Another thing is my husband and I have been studying manifestation more deeply. If you know our story, which you can listen to in the first episodes of either of our podcast, The Women in Podcasting Show or Inspiring Innovator Show, we have been able to flip our situation from surviving to thriving.

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And as we study more, we look back and we see we've manifested so many amazing things into our lives that we never thought were possible. And as we move forward in our journey, we're manifesting even more incredible stuff. I am in awe of how the universe works, so we'll be talking more about that on our Inspiring Innovator Show this coming year.

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And we have some mind blowing interviews coming up as well. From a podcasting and business perspective, I specifically moved from Libsyn to captivate, and I love it. If you're new to podcasting, Libsyn and Captivate are podcasting hosting platforms. If you want to have a podcast, you need to have a podcast host. They provide the RSS feed for your podcast, and they distribute each episode to all of the podcasting platforms.

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I had my eye on captivate for a while, and then my mentor Dave Jackson made the move and I figured it was time. So the stats are way more accurate. The tools and the built in AI are priceless. Libsyn was at the top of the industry for a long time, but now captivate has advanced way beyond Libsyn. In my opinion, that's just my opinion.

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Every aspect is better at captivate for me. So both are podcasting hosts. It's up to you. Research and see which one you like, but that's just my personal opinion and experience. I'm also in the midst of moving from WordPress to system, where I can create all my show notes with ease. It has funnel building features for my lead magnets and sales pages.

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You can build courses and programs for memberships, and it has complete lead magnet capture and email marketing features. It's saving me tons of time. I was deciding between system SEO and go high level and they both have lots of similar functions, but system SEO, I can build all my show notes using their blog feature. I love creating show notes, and show notes are a great way to engage your audience and build your list towards monetizing your podcasts.

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And so I just didn't find that in Go high level, didn't have the website functions that I wanted, so they all have the same except for the website and blogging functions. And I love using the blog function to create the show notes. So did you know I have a show notes map and a guide in the Women Podcasters Network?

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You can find that at Women podcasters.com/join and you can get that and lots of other goodies. And you can see that package alongside all the other member perks. So I'm on a path for more ease in my life and business. How about you? Would you like to ditch what drains you and say yes to what delights you? If you have ever doubted yourself, let this be a reminder.

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You are capable, you are worthy, and your journey is unfolding just as it should. Let this coming year be the year that you move with confidence and ease, knowing that you already have everything you need within you. What lights you up? Do more of that. I have created a new package called the Ultimate Manifestation Coaching Kit to help you to unlock limitless possibilities for you and your clients.

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Customize my manifestation journals, workbooks, ebooks, scripts, and affirmations to use with your own clients and members. Save time and increase your impact. Infuse my manifestation materials into your own practice and create profound results for you and your clients. I'll put the link to that in the show notes of this episode. So what's your word of the year? I'd love to hear it from you.

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You can connect with me in my groups. If you go to women podcast.com/groups and you can find all of our groups there. I also invite you to join us in our membership at Women podcasters.com. You can find all the links and resources from today's episode on our website at Women podcasters.com. If you enjoy the Women in Podcasting show, we'd love it if you could leave us a positive rating or review on your favorite podcasting platform or YouTube.

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It helps us to reach and inspire more listeners just like you. Together, let's thrive with ease.

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My name again is Jennifer Henczel

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Thanks so much for being here. Bye for now.