Hi, Reader,

This week was a bittersweet milestone for me:

I recorded the 100th episode of The Awesome Human Podcast! (wow!!!)...

… and announced that it would be our last episode + what I am launching next.

More on this in a moment, but first, I want to tell you how the Awesome Human Podcast came to be and what it taught me about moving through fear of the uncertainty.

When the pandemic hit, my business broke.

Before the pandemic, I traveled around the country giving keynote speeches and doing leadership workshops.

And then the pandemic shut down the world. All of my speaking engagements were canceled. Literally overnight my calendar became blank.

I felt overcome with fear of what would happen: What would we do? How would I pay my team? What if I can’t rebuild?

I have this memory of sitting in my home office with the door open as my husband Avi passed by. He paused and I looked up at him and said: “What if this is it? What if I can’t do it?”

We all had so many challenges during the pandemic and keeping my business afloat was a huge one for me.

About a month into the shutdown, I woke up with a strange sense of clarity:

I couldn’t control what was happening but I needed to do something to feel useful.

What could I do?

We chatted with my team and decided to host a free webinar where I would share emotional fitness skills to help people struggle less through the shock and stress of the pandemic.

We emailed our community and corporate partners and 2,500 people registered.

1,200 people attended live and thousands more watched the recording.

Wow!

So we decided to do it the following week. And the following. Hundreds of people kept coming and telling us how helpful this was for them.

We began to call this Awesome Human Hour and I hosted it every single week throughout the pandemic.

A few months in, we got an email from a woman who had attended one of these webinars.

She said it helped her so much that she wanted to bring something like this to her company. I ended up doing a virtual keynote for them a few months later.

More inquiries like this came. I did more virtual keynotes. We reached out to our previous corporate clients and I did virtual keynotes, workshops, and town halls for them.

My speaking team also began to pitch virtual keynotes about emotional fitness during difficult times and my calendar slowly but surely filled up.

I also hosted dozens of pro-bono talks and workshops for teachers, nurses, and educators -- people who were literally holding up the world during the pandemic.

I had reinvented my business to be 100% virtual.

It felt invigorating to be helping so many people during what was such a rough time for many: More than 12 thousand people attended these live Zoom sessions.

Feeling useful became my lifeline through the stress of the pandemic.

And it all began with one decision:

To shift from fear about the uncertainty of the future into connecting with my purpose and how I could take action to be useful to others.

This week we celebrated our 100th and final episode of Awesome Human Podcast.

I was nervous to share this news with the community and my podcast listeners, but I knew it was the right thing to do.

Over the past year or so, I’ve been going through a reinvention of my thinking and my work.

I’ve asked myself difficult and beautiful questions, like:

• What do I feel eager to share with my audiences and community?
• What feels deeply true to me vs. what I feel others have come to expect of me?
• What new dimensions of my thinking and work do I want to explore?

Getting up the courage to tell myself the truth has been refreshing and powerful.

One answer that emerged over and over was that what really lights me up is to help people to imagine what’s possible -- in their work, life, relationship with themselves -- and then activate them to take action to make it their reality.

My shorthand for this is that I love to help people unleash their future thriving selves!

I’ve been doing this in many ways already -- through these emails I write to you, my books, speaking, and in my mentorship work -- but I want to do it more and in new ways.

Which brings me to my other big news:

🎉 I’m launching a new podcast!!!!🎉

It’s called REINVENT•ABILITY and its heart purpose is to inspire you to embrace change with a mindset of possibility and purpose, and to take action to evolve into your thriving future self.

We’ve recorded the first few episodes and I truly can’t wait to share them with you. We’re launching in early September, so watch this space for the official launch announcement!

Phew, this has been a week of a lot of lasts and firsts.

I’ve felt all the feels, but most of all, I’ve felt grateful for being able to be useful to so many people and proud of myself for staying true to myself.

It was incredibly heartwarming to hear words of gratitude and encouragement from the awesome humans who joined this week’s live Awesome Human Podcast recording.

But one comment really stuck with me.

I hope reading this email inspires you to tell yourself the truth about what feels deeply good and meaningful to you and to take 1 step towards creating more of that in your life.

You’re here to evolve and grow.

You got this.

With enthusiasm,

Nataly

P.S. I’m always excited to hear from you. Hit reply and let me know your thoughts, questions, or reflections!

And if you have a question about change or reinvention that you want me to answer on my new podcast, send it my way! I’ll be answering listener questions during every episode!

P.P.S. In the last episode of The Awesome Human Podcast, I shared the 5 lessons I've learned about reinvention over the past few years. Here's the link to the recording if you want to watch it and the episode will be out on all podcasting platforms this week.

​Click here to check out all of the previous 99 episodes!