Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos

Create Your Best Year Yet: 2026

Episode Summary

Inspired by the book Your Best Year Yet by Jinny Ditzler, join me as I walk through 10 questions to help you reflect back on 2025 and look ahead to 2026, starting with celebrating! And ending with a letter to yourself, written as if it’s December 2026. *** Note: this is a replay from 2024 so that’s why I’m referencing different years - the info is still solid!

Episode Notes

Here are the questions:

  1. What did I accomplish in 2025?
  2. What fun things happened?
  3. What were my greatest disappointments?
  4. What did I learn?
  5. What intention will make me most successful in 2026?
  6. What one word will be my focus in 2026?
  7. How do I limit myself and how can I stop?
  8. What inner qualities would I like to nurture?
  9. What external outcomes will demonstrate that these inner qualities are deepening?
  10.  What’s my “why”?

Some resources for you:

Project more confidence and credibility with my free tips: 9 Words to Avoid & What to Say Instead: Words to Avoid | Karen Laos

My book “Trust Your Own Voice”: https://karenlaos.com/book/

Connect with me:


Website: https://www.karenlaos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosofficial 

 

Episodes also available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwQoTGdJX5eME0ccBKiKng/videos

 

About me:
Many years ago I found myself tongue-tied in a boardroom, my colleagues and executives staring at me. My stomach in my throat, I was unable to get the words out (in spite of being in a senior leadership role). 

Then, I heard my boss shut down the meeting. My heart sank. I was mortified. She pulled me aside and said, "You didn't trust your gut. You could've tabled the meeting like I did."

Why didn’t that option occur to me in the moment? Why did I feel like I needed permission?

That was the day I set out to change. I began a journey of personal growth to discover the root of the problem. Once I did, I wanted every woman to experience that same freedom.

I’m now on a mission to eradicate self-doubt in 10 million women in 10 years by giving them simple strategies to speak up and ask for what they want in the boardroom and beyond, resulting in more clients, job promotions, and negotiation wins.

Companies like NASA, Netflix, Google, and Sephora have been propelled toward more effective communication skills through my signature framework, The Confidence Cocktail™.

This is your invitation to step into your most confident self so you can catapult your career!