In this episode, Allison Boyle dives into the importance of committing to your adventurous goals BEFORE the new year starts.

With 2025 around the corner, Allison shares insights on how to break free from the cycle of putting personal desires on the back burner and step into an adventurous lifestyle.

🎉 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: On November 18th-21st we are opening up enrollment to my signature coaching program, The Backpacking Badass Program (our online course, community and coaching program where we teach you everything you need to know about backpacking and being safe and self-sufficient anytime you hit the trail).

For many of our clients, this program was the difference between “maybe one day” and 👉 going on their first (of many) backpacking trips.

Our Black Friday is a perfect time to join us in the program and go ALL-IN on your goals to start backpacking more confidently in 2025 and beyond.

This is our FINAL enrollment of the year, and we are going BIG with our deals, bonuses, and giveaway prizes during that week. 

Early Birds get EARLY ACCESS to our deals (some are limited!). Plus, when you join our early bird list, we will also email you a Sneak Peek Guide of our bonuses and prizes for that enrollment. 👇

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You're listening to the Adventurous Reinvention podcast. I'm

Alison Boyle AKA She Dreams of Alpine and this is the

show that's dedicated to all the adventurous spirits out there who have either

been transformed by the outdoors or interested in what it

looks like to step into a new adventurous and courageous kind

of identity in their life. It doesn't matter what your background is in the

outdoors, what age you're starting at, or where you grew up. If

you're curious about the outdoors and using adventure as a way to

reinvent yourself, you're in the right place. I'll be

sharing all kinds of personal adventure stories, lessons I've

learned from the mountains, teaching what I know about the outdoors and leadership,

and interviewing some amazing adventurous women all along the

way. I've been coaching women on becoming safe, confident, and

self sufficient backpackers and leaders of their own adventurous lives

since 2018. And I know exactly what

big fears and self doubts can pop up along the way. I have

so much to share with you so let's dive in.

Okay. Before we get started I wanted to kick this podcast

episode off with another very quick announcement. We are

less than 1 week away from our final backpacking

badass program enrollment of the year. So next week on

November 18th to 21st, so that's Monday through Thursday,

we are opening up enrollment to my signature coaching program, the backpacking

badass program. This is our online course community and

coaching program where we teach you everything that you need to know about

backpacking and being safe and self sufficient anytime that you hit the

trail. And for many of our clients, this program

is the difference between thinking maybe one day I'll go

backpacking and them actually going on their very first of

many backpacking trips. This is our very special,

only happens once a year, Black Friday enrollment, and it's our

final enrollment of the year into this program, and we are going

really big with our deals, bonuses, and giveaway prizes during that

week. So if you've been wanting to start backpacking or become more

self sufficient and confident in your backpacking adventures, then our

Black Friday enrollment is a very good time to join us in the

backpacking badass program and go all in on your goals to start

backpacking more confidently in 2025 and beyond.

So we have a very special early bird wait list that you're gonna wanna join

if you are interested in that program for that enrollment event, which

is if you go to she dreams of alpine.com/bird,

I will also drop that link in the show notes, but if you go to

that link, you can sign up for our early bird wait list. And the reason

that you want to be an early bird for our Black Friday enrollment

is because our early birds will get early access to our

amazing Black Friday deals and bonuses. And some of our

bonuses that we're gonna be giving away, during our Black Friday

enrollment are limited. So, for example, we have

a limited bonus for what we call the bestie

bonus, which is one of our biggest bonuses we give away all year,

and it is limited to the first thirty people that enroll. So if you are

on the early bird wait list, you will get a head start and early access

to claiming that bonus on our very first day of enrollment on

18th. Plus, when you join our early bird list,

my team and I also created this sort of sneak peek guide of all of

our bonuses and prizes for that enrollment. That way you can kinda

take a peek at what we're offering during this Black Friday enrollment

and you can see what things are appealing to you most and maybe

what day you would want to enroll if you're interested in enrolling. So,

again, you can get on the early bird list by signing up at she

dreams of alpine.com/bird. Now, let's

dive into our adventurous reinvention podcast episode of the

week. This is episode 6 of our podcast.

This week I wanted to talk a little bit about how to commit to your

most adventurous year yet before the new year's even

rolls around because I think like a lot of us, we kinda put off this

decision deciding who we wanna become and what goals are important to us

until January. We kind of put it on the back burner. But I really like

to encourage people to, if you already know that you wanna do

something, to kinda like make that commitment ahead of time. So that's what I wanted

to talk about in this episode and what that looks

like. I always am thinking about the end

of the year and kind of, like, how the year has gone for me. Did

I achieve my goals? If I didn't achieve my goals for the year, then why

not? Did I have fun this year? Did I get to show up the way

that I wanted to? And, also, when I start thinking

about this time of the year, like, how can I go into the new year,

and in our instance, that's 2025, how can I go into the new

year learning the lessons that I need to learn to make sure that I

do things differently if I need to instead of repeating kind of

the same mistakes again and again and again? So for

many of the clients that we end up working with at She Dreams of Alpine,

they tend to be the kind of people who are always doing things for

others. They are usually putting other people's desires and

dreams ahead of their own, and they put their

own stuff on the back burner. And like when they're constantly doing this

for other people, they're people pleasing and showing up for other people and not

themselves, they end up finding themselves in this cycle of feeling

overextended, overbooked, like they can't catch their

breath, their life feels too busy. And when it

feels that way, when they feel like that, it feels like

there's absolutely no room and no way that they could find any time to

do things for themselves. So it feels like this kind of helpless,

hopeless cycle of just, like, I never have enough time to do things that

are for me. But really, in order to

feel less overextended and, like, you can actually catch your

breath, you need to do the things that bring you

joy and fill up your own cup first. Or

else, like, life is just always going to feel like this never ending hamster

wheel where you never get to go after your dreams or your

goals that you always wanted to go after and year after year just like this

never ending cycle because there will always be more people to please,

there will always be more things to do, and that will never stop.

Right? So maybe you can relate to that a little bit. Maybe

that's a little bit how you're feeling. And maybe

in when you enter 2024, like, you had big plans to change that this

year, but somehow now we're looking we're here in

November of 2024 and that plan sort of slipped through

your fingers, you didn't get to do what you wanted to do, you didn't

get to try the things that you wanted to try and it kind of feels

like you're repeating that same overstressed, overextended,

it's too busy all the time kind of life and it really

it sucks to feel that way, it sucks to be in that cycle, to feel

like you're trying to do everything and simultaneously feel like you're failing at everything but

I, feel like you're failing at everything. But I just wanna encourage

you that there is some good news here. So I know personally, because I've

seen this in my clients, I've done this for myself, that you can

turn things around, 2025 can be different for you.

You. If you haven't been able to find the time for

yourself to do something that really fills your cup this year, like, maybe

like backpacking, I'm assuming you're probably listening to this podcast because you

like the outdoors or you're interested in the outdoors, you are outdoorsy

in some way, maybe you're interested in backpacking. But if you haven't

been able to find the time for yourself to do that

thing, to do the thing that fills you up, then my encouragement

is to claim that time for yourself in

2025. And it sounds simple and it sounds subtle and we're gonna talk about what

the difference is, but you're never gonna find the time you have to claim the

time. If you didn't have a great year this year, I want you to know

that you're only one choice away from making sure that things turn

out differently for you next year. And it really, it really,

really is as simple as making a decision, all right?

You can claim for yourself like right now,

today, while you're listening to this podcast, anytime this month, you can claim

for yourself that you will spend more time on your health,

that you will get stronger this year, that you will spend more time

outdoors, that you will become more confident and self sufficient in

your own skills, that you will stop being such a

people pleaser and doing everything for everyone and neglecting yourself.

You will make backpacking inevitable in 2025 if that's one of

your goals and you will learn the skills to make adventure

a non negotiable part of your life and your lifestyle.

So when you claim these things for yourself, you stop making

these things optional and you stop putting everyone else's

needs in front of your own. And this is the only way

to, like, get out of that overwhelmed, too busy cycle,

never have time for myself kind of thing. When you claim

something, when you decide that this is what you're choosing

instead of, like, hemming and hawing about it being, like, I don't have enough time,

this is when you get to put your mind to work on finding all the

ways to make it happen. So something I talk about a lot with

my clients is, like, what we focus on, we create. A lot of times we

talk about this in the context of fear. So when you're

overly focused on fear and that's the only side of things that

you're seeing, you're just gonna, like, perpetuate and find all the evidence that

create fearful thoughts, right, only things that are negative about it, right, but when

we put our mind to focus on focusing on something else, then we can

start to see the upside. And it's the same thing with claiming time

versus finding time. If you're, like, always saying to yourself, I'm too busy, I don't

have the time, you're gonna be finding evidence for that. But when you claim and

decide that this is important to you, that this is something that you wanna

do next year and work on, you are gonna start looking for ways

to create it. So what we focus on, we create. So as

soon as we claim something and shift our focus to getting

outside, going backpacking, doing something that is just

important to you that's when you will start making it a

reality. You will begin to look for ways to make it happen, you will begin

to enlist help from your family to make it happen,

you will begin saying no to things that don't align with this decision,

but you need to be all in and you need to be committed to it.

So, for example, I have this client, her name is

Renee. She did this exact same thing last year

before the year even ended. So that's why I don't want you to

wait, like I don't want you to go into the holidays thinking like I'm gonna

find time later because we're just gonna enter an even busier season, you're gonna

feel more overwhelmed, so we need to like decide that this is important to you,

and that's exactly what Renee did. So Renee joined our

Backpacking Badass program during our Black Friday enrollment last year, which is similar

to the enrollment that we're hosting next week. And one of the big

reasons Renee invested in that program is because she wanted

to claim the time to invest for herself, invest

in herself so that she could be better for her children and her family and

be an example to them to show them that they can accomplish

anything they set their minds to. And she knew that she could only show up

for them in the way that she wanted to if she was showing up for

herself first. And so when Renee signed up for the

backpacking badass program, that one decision,

that claiming of that decision and claiming of that time for herself,

right, changed the direction of her life. She committed to getting

healthier, she met a group of women inside of our program to hike and

backpack with, she trained hard for her goals this summer,

she got really strong, she got outdoors nearly

every weekend even with her very, very busy schedule,

and this past year Renee ended up going backpacking a

lot and she started taking her young kids on, like, special camping and hiking trips

with her because she felt confident enough in her skills November, she

started taking action in January, she hadn't waited around to do that, she knew

that this was something that was important to her, and she even joined our adventurous

reinvention experience this past summer and did one of her hardest backpacking trips

to date. And she didn't just, like, stop being a busy mom. She

was a busy mom still, very busy, had a lot of things on her plate,

was juggling a lot of things. But what she did do was that

she claimed that her desires and her goals were an equally

important part for being there for her family. And backpacking helped

her feel like she was not only taking care of herself but taking care of

her mental health in a special way, and it allowed her to feel

more like herself again, which allowed her to have more

time to give to her family, right? So now she's like

an adventure mom, an example to her children that they can do hard

things and it's important to fill their own cup even when life is

busy. It first for Renee

started with claiming that she was gonna make a change. And for

her, it started when she joined our backpacking badass program during the Black Friday

enrollment week. That was a way for her to kinda,

like, draw a line in the sand and say, like, I'm committed,

it's time, I'm tired of putting this on the back burner, I'm tired of

putting myself last, and she went into the new year betting on herself ahead

of time. And she did not wait for January 1st to

decide, and that's, like, something I really wanna encourage you to do. Whatever

is on your heart, whether it's backpacking or not, like,

don't feel like you have to wait till January 1st rolls around to

decide to be all in on it and to make a change.

Renee knew that she would always be too busy if she didn't decide that this

was important to her. So even if you feel like 2024

didn't go as planned and everything felt busy and it felt like it rushed by

for you, I want you to know that you can decide today to do things

differently moving forward. And if you see backpacking as differently moving forward. And if you

see backpacking as a way to carve out more time for yourself to learn a

new skill and to become the kind of woman who does hard things, then maybe

one of the ways that you claim this for yourself is by joining us in

the backpacking bad

ass program next week. And if you think that you might be a

good fit for this program, then I do wanna tell you about 2 extra

special ways that we are going all out to support you in having your most

adventurous year. So something that's really important to me and my team is that

you join this program and it doesn't just fall to the wayside. We want this

to be something that you are able to take action on and you feel the

momentum and the stoke to keep going. So for

this enrollment in particular, we like to kick off the new year

with celebrating you on making that claim that this is

important to you and you wanna go all in. So we have 2 very

special bonuses that everyone will get no matter which day that you enroll

on November 18th through 21st that will support

you in kinda kicking this whole thing off. So the

very first thing is we never do we rarely

do live coaching accountability cohorts. I used to do them all the

time when I first Badass program, but now we

don't do them as frequently. But one time we do do them is at the

very beginning of every year. So the very first 6

weeks, not the very first 6 weeks of the new year, but

starting mid January because people kinda coming back from the holidays, so starting

mid January, we're gonna go through 6 weeks together

where we have live coaching calls and accountability. So what I

usually do during this time is that my clients,

they'll join during Black Friday and then they'll take the time to just

really enjoy their holiday, but they just kind of know in the back of their

minds that, like, I have made this commitment to myself and we are gonna kick

this off in January. So in mid January, we will start

the program together, and I'll kinda give you some direction on what to focus

on, and then we'll meet at the end of that week after y'all have gone

through some of the materials, and we will have a discussion and do some coaching

on the specific module lessons that you were learning that week. And you get to

meet some of the other people, specific module lessons that you were learning that week.

And you get to meet some of the other people because it'll be, like, a

virtual meeting. You get to ask all your questions with me as we're going through

the program, and we'll do 6 weeks of that together as we go through the

core material

inside of the Backpacking Badass program. And in addition to

that, right before we kick off that 6 weeks of

live coaching and accountability, we're also doing a brand new

event this January. We're calling it your adventure era,

and it's gonna be a 5 day challenge. That's gonna kick off right before

we have our live coaching. And that challenge is really to just get really centered

and clear on exactly what you wanna create and become

and bring to life in 2025 when

it comes to your adventurous identity and the adventures that

you're going on and all the things. We're going to be talking about your adventurous

mind, like the mental grit that you want to develop. We're going to be talking

about strengthening your body and what does that look like for you in 2025.

We're gonna talk about your adventurous community. We're gonna talk about skill sets

and all the different, like, gaps that you need to fill in the new year.

We're gonna be talking about your plan, like, what adventures do you wanna put on

the calendar. It's gonna be about getting really clear around those goals, and that

way when we step into working on the backpacking status program, you have a really

clear vision for what you're working towards inside of the

backpacking status program. And so that you will get a

free ticket to that because that will be, like, a paid event, and

it will include our she dreams of alpine printable

adventure calendar, and we also have some, like, reflection journal stuff that you can kinda

look back on

step into that sort of, like, adventurous identity

that you might be wanting to bring to life, even if you're brand new to

being outdoorsy or adventurous or any of these things.

So I just want you to know that my team and I are committed to

your success and so all that is left for you is to

claim it for yourself. We know that you're busy right now

and we want you to go into the holidays feeling like you can relax and

really enjoy this holidays, but we also want you to go into the holidays

knowing that you're going to have the most amazing and adventurous year

ever starting January 1, 2025. So that's

why we have created so many bonuses, and that's just the tip of

the iceberg. If you go check out our other ones, there's even more. Right?

But that's why we created so many bonuses to support you in getting

massive momentum once January starts. And you

can start the program earlier if you're, like, you join during Black Friday and you

wanna start digging into the materials, you absolutely can. So many of our students, they

just wanna, like, I just would need to get through the holidays first, and we

understand that. So you can put a pause on it and pick it back up

in January with us as we go through kind of the live cohort

accountability portion of the program. So this also goes from, like, my

existing clients too because I know, like, a lot of y'all are already backpacking

badass, clients of ours. If you joined our program and life

happens and you feel like you didn't make the progress that you wanted, today is

a great day to recommit and join us in January again to make big

moves towards your goals. So for those of you who are

interested in our backpacking badass program, make sure that

you're on our early bird wait list by going to shejamesofalpinedot com/bird.

Again, our enrollment opens up next week, November 18th through

21st. We will be giving you all kinds of more

details about that enrollment next week, but we cannot wait to support you in

your goals to start backpacking in 2025 and beyond. If you have

any questions at all, please don't hesitate to send me a DM on

Instagram or shoot us an email at support at shedreamsofalpine.com.

And, yeah, I'm so looking forward to meeting everyone who joins us, and we'll

talk soon. Bye. Hey.

I wanted to thank you real quick for tuning into the show and listening

all the way to the end. If you love this episode and you want deeper

support in becoming a safe, confident, and self sufficient hiker and backpacker,

then head over to shedreamsofalpine. Com/waitless

to learn more about our backpacking badass coaching program, where I teach

you absolutely everything you need to know to be self reliant on the

trails and stop waiting around on others for the adventure

invite. So I'd love to help you more in your journey of stepping

into your adventurous identity, and that program is

the absolute best place for us to start working together. So again,

that's she dreams of alpine.com/waitlist, and you

can learn all about it there. So that's it for today, folks. I hope

you get to spend some time outside this week and I'll be back very

soon with a brand new episode. Bye.