“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. 54 - Beyond the Comfort Zone: How Purpose Pulls You Out of Survival Mode with Stacey Luces
Beyond The Quo
37 minutes
4 weeks ago
Ep. 54 - Beyond the Comfort Zone: How Purpose Pulls You Out of Survival Mode with Stacey Luces
“You don’t need a new year to reinvent yourself. You just need to stop living on autopilot and start living on purpose.” In this episode of Beyond the Quo, host Stacey Luces dives into the importance of understanding and living with purpose. She discusses three core themes: redefining success on personal terms, leading courageously by addressing self-leadership and habits, and living authentically despite life's stages and societal expectations. Stacey explores why December is a month of reflection and preparation for the new year, and how purpose can replace temporary resolutions. She offers actionable strategies to shift from a status quo existence to a more intentional life, tackling tough subjects like relationships, boundaries, and incremental changes. Perfect for anyone feeling stuck or looking to make meaningful progress in their life and leadership journey. 🎧 In this episode: • 01:29 December Reflections and Resolutions • 02:31 Understanding and Living with Purpose • 04:57 Breaking Free from the Status Quo • 11:53 Finding Your Purpose • 18:25 Practical Steps to Discover Your Purpose • 26:34 Assessing Relationships and Priorities 💡 Key Takeaways: • Purpose Ends the Cycle of Performing Without Fulfillment You can have the job, the paycheck, the title, the busy calendar… and still feel empty. Purpose gives your life direction instead of letting you spin in place. • Purpose Isn’t Dramatic Reinvention; It’s Incremental Alignment You don’t have to burn your life down to live intentionally. Two-millimeter shifts — boundaries, priorities, values — move you toward your authentic self without chaos. • When You Live on Purpose, Everything Elevates Your confidence rises. Your relationships shift. Your energy changes. You stop performing, stop explaining, and start attracting aligned people, opportunities, and even more income. 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
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
