“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. 53 - Beyond the Storm: Caribbean Leadership, Reinvention & Kaleidoscope Focus with Elena Diedrick-Lynch
Beyond The Quo
55 minutes
1 month ago
Ep. 53 - Beyond the Storm: Caribbean Leadership, Reinvention & Kaleidoscope Focus with Elena Diedrick-Lynch
“We talk a lot about leadership in the boardroom, but what about leadership in a relief center… with your kids packing supplies while you’re drowning in survivor’s guilt?” In this heartfelt episode of Beyond the Quo, host Stacey Luces dives into the themes of redefining success, living authentically, and leading courageously in midlife. Joined by her dear friend Elena, they discuss the impactful leadership during the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Elena shares her experiences, from navigating community disasters to balancing parenting and career aspirations. This episode highlights the importance of empathy, resilience, and community support, offering powerful insights for both personal growth and effective leadership. Don't miss this moving conversation filled with inspiration and practical wisdom. 🎧 In this episode: • 01:53 Relief Efforts and Challenges in Jamaica • 04:04 Personal Stories and Community Resilience • 13:46 Gratitude and Hope Amidst Chaos • 17:51 Supporting Relief Efforts and Community Involvement • 28:03 Navigating Career and Personal Loss • 30:13 Motherhood and Leadership • 33:30 Cultural Values and Kindness 💡 Key Takeaways: • Leadership in crisis is deeply human, not polished. Elena’s story of Hurricane Melissa shows that real leadership looks like answering a desperate call, organizing “chaotic” volunteer efforts, and doing what you can with imperfect information and limited resources. • Gratitude and kindness are powerful stabilizers in disaster. From a woman who “lost everything” but still stands in gratitude, to a 13-year-old who just wants light and food, to simply seeing the security guard or busboy, the episode highlights how acknowledgment and small acts of care create emotional stability when everything else feels uncertain. • Your life, legacy, and “second season” are a choice. Through the eulogy/rocking-chair exercise and Elena’s “kaleidoscope mind,” you’re invited to question one-dimensional living, embrace reinvention, and take messy action toward the life you actually want, knowing your choices shape not only you, but your children, community, and the next generation. 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 Elena: LI @elena-diedrick-lynch-ja or Www.elleja.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
