Don't say I never gave you my secret to manifesting a new life

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Hello. Hi HSR. Missed you.

I’ve been much better at posting daily on TikTok, so y’all know what’s been up with me this first week of the year. I have many words of this year but the main one is consistency, so please call me out if you don’t see me on that channel frequently and often this year.

The promise I made to you after proudly sharing my vision board reel at the end of 2025 was that I would help you manifest your dream 2026 too, using my proven framework. This isn’t what will work for everyone, but it’s worked for me in every capacity of my life, so use at your own risk. Truthfully, I wish I could trademark this, because I know we’re about to see it all over people’s next-year vision board videos.

Fun fact, the minute I signed my contract with Steven Bartlett, he said, “You manifested this, didn’t you?” I immediately answered, “Yes.” The way I have with literally my entire life. To prove it, here is the Pinterest board I made (that was ALWAYS public) when I called off my engagement and moved my stuff into storage. I knew I couldn’t make that mistake again, so I was going to manifest what my dream husband looked like. 2.5 years later, the proof is in CJR and my relationship. You may notice pictures of CJR and I on there and that’s intentional (you’ll understand when you see below) but also because our relationship is literally my dream!!

So every single year, I make a vision board, but it’s not like the girlies I see on TikTok. It’s not complicated, and it doesn’t take a long time. It’s a daily practice. It’s similar to the conversation I had with Steven in our episode. The price of entry is embarrassment for success, but it’s not paid in one lump sum, it’s paid every single day.

Your action towards your vision board is due every single day.

So here’s how to start.

Open a journal. Figure out what comes out naturally with what you want in key categories (health, finances, lifestyle, business, relationships). Head to Pinterest. Do not waste your time (respectfully) scrolling through magazines to find the PERFECT picture when you can halve the time spent on Pinterest. Make your board public and pin it to the top so you see it often. This is not something you never revisit again. You are going to add to it throughout the year. Remove things. Add things. Don’t hold yourself to something you thought when you felt the pressure to start the year off right.

Then, once your PUBLIC board is in a good place, take out your notes app and write down the actionable steps to get there every single month, week, and day and how often you will re-visit your pinterest board. Visualization works because the brain doesn’t distinguish well between imagined experience and lived experience. When you repeatedly visualize outcomes, your reticular activating system starts filtering for opportunities that align with that vision. You don’t become lucky. You become more aware and more decisive.

Example: if your goal is to make more money and you have $100K on your board, what are the actionable steps you are going to have to pursue on that cadence to achieve it? How many contracts do you have to sign? How many products do you have to sell? Brand partnerships to achieve that?

Vision boards aren’t magic. They help provide clarity and it’s up to you to add structure and accountability to it.

𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 ♡

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Last week on Hot Smart Rich, I sat down with one of my greatest inspirations, Steven Bartlett from Diary of a CEO, and it truly felt like a full circle moment. After announcing Steven and FlightStory’s investment and partnership in December, this conversation was a powerful reminder that consistently showing up compounds, belief grows quietly over time, and the people you admire most may be watching long before you meet them. We talked about what creators need to win in 2026, why quitting is not failure, why embarrassment is often the entry fee for bold moves, and how independence is not the flex we think it is. What stayed with me most is how real growth comes from choosing the right people to build with, and this episode reminded me that this is only the beginning.❤️

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Do we all remember the Starbucks of 2010? It was where you went to go and hang out in any neighborhood. A space to get away from home or work and have a third space. This is like Central Perk in friends or the MET steps in Gossip Girl. A third place has always been important for culture and for us as humans. It’s always been more than coffee. It is about where people feel grounded, recognized, and part of something outside home and work.

And in 2026, the third place is not disappearing, it is actually evolving in response to a deeper cultural shift where people are craving things that are real. AI has made life faster and more efficient, but also more isolating. We already have been feeling the effects of digital convenience with things like Uber Eats, Post Mates, Door Dash. The simple errands of grabbing milk or picking up dinner all served a purpose to fill our tank from a social point of view. But now those interactions are happening way less frequently.

There has been a resurgence of third spaces and the ones winning at it right now understand that how they’re going to win is by designing their spaces for community, not for velocity.