Expansion Was the Intention, Resilience Was the Lesson--A Year-End Fireside Chat with Meg

Send us Fan MailThis episode is my honest look at a year that didn’t go the way I planned. I’m talking about the kind of year that forces you to sit still, drink something warm, and admit that the only silver lining you walked away with was resilience--aka, what you earn by getting dragged through situations you never signed up for. Add to that the human negativity bias, working hard to convince me the whole year was a wash.I walk you through the moments that shaped 2025 for me: a long-awaited family trip derailed by illness and rain, the emotional gymnastics of parenting toddlers through airport chaos, and the strange comfort of realizing I can’t control most of what hits my life...only how I interpret it. I didn’t find a bright side in any of it--because sometimes, that's the honest truth--but I did manage to find a way to see these events as neutral instead of catastrophic. That’s where resilience started to take shape.If your year felt heavy, or if you ended December convinced you failed more than you grew, this episode is for you. I break down how our minds naturally overemphasize the hard moments and undervalue the wins, and how you can overcome negativity bias so you see a more accurate version of your life. Not a positive spin--a genuine one. Because resilience becomes real once you stop letting negativity bias run the narrative.What You’ll Learn in This Episode• How negativity bias exaggerates what went wrong and hides what went right• Why resilience sucks to build, and often shows up disguised as disappointment• The role of neutral interpretation when positivity feels dishonest• What we can actually can control when life refuses to follow the damn script• How to see the year you actually lived instead of the version your brain fixates on