“Grownups can be dream killers.” A stop-you-in-your-tracks truth that opens a deeper conversation about courage, safety, and choosing possibility again. In the final episode of Beyond the Quo for 2025, Stacey Luces sits down with Yulimar Trumbo, an investor in the future of entrepreneurs and a world-class sales facilitator who has worked across 40+ countries with Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and government sectors. Together, they close the year with honesty, humor, and depth, exploring what 2025 revealed and what 2026 can become. They unpack why intentions create alignment while resolutions often create pressure, why authentic connection matters more than proximity, and how protecting your time is really about protecting your life. Through personal stories about family, entrepreneurship, partnership, and change, they discuss leading yourself first, trusting what your body knows, and building “a new same page” in relationships and communities. 🎧 In this episode: • 02:39 Intentions vs. resolutions • 05:06 Decisions that shaped the last decade • 10:47 Protecting your time and saying no • 26:24 Dreams, courage, and refusing to shrink • 29:07 Youth, innovation, and social entrepreneurship • 39:36 Relationships, loneliness, and real connection 💡 Key Takeaways: • Intentions create alignment. Resolutions create pressure. Intentions invite your spirit to rise toward what’s possible. Resolutions demand compliance. This episode reframes the New Year as alignment, not self-correction. • “No” is autonomy in motion. Practice it early and often. Self-betrayal starts small. If you override yourself in minor moments, you’ll override yourself when the stakes are higher. Boundaries are built in the everyday. • Courage must be protected or it will be negotiated away. “Grownups can be dream killers” isn’t an accusation. It’s a warning. When safety becomes the goal, imagination shrinks. Courage is the cost of a future that’s truly yours. • Transformation begins with a new internal language. Words like sacrifice, balance, guilt, and control quietly drain power. Replacing them with center, integration, responsibility, equanimity, and surrender changes how you lead, love, and choose. You’ve already done the quo—now it’s time to go beyond. 🔥 Feeling inspired? Don’t keep it to yourself! • Subscribe, share and follow Beyond the Quo and I’d deeply appreciate your five-star rating so more people can listen and learn! ✨ Connect with Stacey: staceyluces.com IG @ Stacey.Luces LinkedIn @StaceyLuces ✨ Connect with Yuli: LinkedIn @yulimar-trumbo
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“Grownups can be dream killers.” A stop-you-in-your-tracks truth that opens a deeper conversation about courage, safety, and choosing possibility again. In the final episode of Beyond the Quo for 2025, Stacey Luces sits down with Yulimar Trumbo, an investor in the future of entrepreneurs and a world-class sales facilitator who has worked across 40+ countries with Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and government sectors. Together, they close the year with honesty, humor, and depth, exploring what 2025 revealed and what 2026 can become. They unpack why intentions create alignment while resolutions often create pressure, why authentic connection matters more than proximity, and how protecting your time is really about protecting your life. Through personal stories about family, entrepreneurship, partnership, and change, they discuss leading yourself first, trusting what your body knows, and building “a new same page” in relationships and communities. 🎧 In this episode: • 02:39 Intentions vs. resolutions • 05:06 Decisions that shaped the last decade • 10:47 Protecting your time and saying no • 26:24 Dreams, courage, and refusing to shrink • 29:07 Youth, innovation, and social entrepreneurship • 39:36 Relationships, loneliness, and real connection 💡 Key Takeaways: • Intentions create alignment. Resolutions create pressure. Intentions invite your spirit to rise toward what’s possible. Resolutions demand compliance. This episode reframes the New Year as alignment, not self-correction. • “No” is autonomy in motion. Practice it early and often. Self-betrayal starts small. If you override yourself in minor moments, you’ll override yourself when the stakes are higher. Boundaries are built in the everyday. • Courage must be protected or it will be negotiated away. “Grownups can be dream killers” isn’t an accusation. It’s a warning. When safety becomes the goal, imagination shrinks. Courage is the cost of a future that’s truly yours. • Transformation begins with a new internal language. Words like sacrifice, balance, guilt, and control quietly drain power. Replacing them with center, integration, responsibility, equanimity, and surrender changes how you lead, love, and choose. You’ve already done the quo—now it’s time to go beyond. 🔥 Feeling inspired? Don’t keep it to yourself! • Subscribe, share and follow Beyond the Quo and I’d deeply appreciate your five-star rating so more people can listen and learn! ✨ Connect with Stacey: staceyluces.com IG @ Stacey.Luces LinkedIn @StaceyLuces ✨ Connect with Yuli: LinkedIn @yulimar-trumbo
Ep. 39 - Beyond Transition and Grief: Build a Life That Powers You Through Changes with Stacey Luces
Beyond The Quo
43 minutes
4 months ago
Ep. 39 - Beyond Transition and Grief: Build a Life That Powers You Through Changes with Stacey Luces
You can hold grief in one hand and ambition in the other, and still lead powerfully through both.Welcome to Beyond the Quo with Stacey Luces—Leadership Strategist, Power Reset Coach, and former Fortune 100 executive turned reinvention guide for women in midlife. In this episode she dives into the theme of transitions. Stacey reflects on the challenges of midlife transitions, both expected and unexpected, and offers powerful strategies to navigate these changes gracefully. Whether it's dealing with empty nesting, aging parents, or professional shifts, she provides insights into cutting old contracts, making room for grief and ambition, and building a supportive life structure. Tune in for practical advice and personal reflections that will help you redefine success and live authentically through life's many transitions.🎧 In this episode:• 02:29 Personal Stories of Transition• 10:25 Understanding Unspoken Contracts• 23:12 Making Room for Grief and Ambition• 33:09 Building a Support System💡 Key Takeaways:• Cut the Old Contracts – Many of us operate under unspoken agreements about performance, worth, and success. Identifying and rewriting these outdated “contracts” can free us from perfectionism, people-pleasing, and control patterns.• Make Room for Grief and Ambition – Midlife transitions often carry unprocessed grief. Avoid skipping grief in the name of grit; instead, create space to acknowledge loss while still pursuing goals.• Design a Supportive Life – Success isn’t just about performance; it’s about intentionally designing a life and support system (power circle) that can sustain you through personal and professional transitions.• Transitions Are Gateways, Not Failures – Change isn’t a sign of weakness or distraction, it’s an invitation to evolve, redefine success, and build the next version of yourself with greater authenticity.You’ve already done the quo. Now it’s time to go beyond.🎙️ Feeling inspired?Share this episode, leave a five-star review, and help others find their way back to themselves.✨ Connect with Stacey Luces: staceyluces.com
Beyond The Quo
“Grownups can be dream killers.” A stop-you-in-your-tracks truth that opens a deeper conversation about courage, safety, and choosing possibility again. In the final episode of Beyond the Quo for 2025, Stacey Luces sits down with Yulimar Trumbo, an investor in the future of entrepreneurs and a world-class sales facilitator who has worked across 40+ countries with Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and government sectors. Together, they close the year with honesty, humor, and depth, exploring what 2025 revealed and what 2026 can become. They unpack why intentions create alignment while resolutions often create pressure, why authentic connection matters more than proximity, and how protecting your time is really about protecting your life. Through personal stories about family, entrepreneurship, partnership, and change, they discuss leading yourself first, trusting what your body knows, and building “a new same page” in relationships and communities. 🎧 In this episode: • 02:39 Intentions vs. resolutions • 05:06 Decisions that shaped the last decade • 10:47 Protecting your time and saying no • 26:24 Dreams, courage, and refusing to shrink • 29:07 Youth, innovation, and social entrepreneurship • 39:36 Relationships, loneliness, and real connection 💡 Key Takeaways: • Intentions create alignment. Resolutions create pressure. Intentions invite your spirit to rise toward what’s possible. Resolutions demand compliance. This episode reframes the New Year as alignment, not self-correction. • “No” is autonomy in motion. Practice it early and often. Self-betrayal starts small. If you override yourself in minor moments, you’ll override yourself when the stakes are higher. Boundaries are built in the everyday. • Courage must be protected or it will be negotiated away. “Grownups can be dream killers” isn’t an accusation. It’s a warning. When safety becomes the goal, imagination shrinks. Courage is the cost of a future that’s truly yours. • Transformation begins with a new internal language. Words like sacrifice, balance, guilt, and control quietly drain power. Replacing them with center, integration, responsibility, equanimity, and surrender changes how you lead, love, and choose. You’ve already done the quo—now it’s time to go beyond. 🔥 Feeling inspired? Don’t keep it to yourself! • Subscribe, share and follow Beyond the Quo and I’d deeply appreciate your five-star rating so more people can listen and learn! ✨ Connect with Stacey: staceyluces.com IG @ Stacey.Luces LinkedIn @StaceyLuces ✨ Connect with Yuli: LinkedIn @yulimar-trumbo
