Staying Aligned, Staying Aligned, Ah Ah Ah Ah Staying Aliiiiiiiiiiggnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhnndd.
FRIED fam, speaker friends, most excellent clients,
It is the end of another year.
I'm feeling a little sentimental. This podcast, my first book, my keynotes, UNFRIED with Sarah, coaching and more all started in June 2019. That is 6.5 years of showing up, deep diving, finding ways to get information out that is useful, trying (and often failing) at creating programs that will serve you best.
We've provided over 300 free podcast episodes. I have personally given over 40 talks a year, many of them pro bono to small groups, Sarah has coached nearly 100 people through UNFRIED, between the two of us, another 50 or so have been coached 1:1, we have done nearly 200 hours of free office hours calls, answered 1000s of facebook posts and emails.
FRIED has been a top 1% podcast globally for 4 years and this year, crossed 1 MILLION downloads.
I am proud and grateful and excited for our next (yet to be discovered) evolution.
I am proud and grateful for all of the effort you've put forth into your own and others burnout recovery through the year.
We celebrate every win with you, we think about you all the time, and we are honored that you rely on us for the best burnout information out there.
2026 will bring some changes that are desperately needed in order for us to continue to serve. One of them is that Free Office Hours will wind down by the end of Feb, 2026. Something else will come in it's place, but we aren't sure exactly what that will look like yet. Also, we're likely going to move the facebook group to an internal community on our website. This is for a few reasons - 1. Because my speaking is much busier than ever before *yay*, I don't have time to monitor the spammers (I had to delete 4 posts yesterday!). 2. It allows you more anonymity and a freer voice. 3. It's easier for us to have everything in one place.
Both of these things will come with a cost, maybe they'll be rolled into one, we aren't sure, but we're getting there.
Here's something that is happening at no cost (for now). I made a large investment with an AI company to create an episode finder that actually works. This included a large one off payment and monthly payments from now until forever. I have been playing with it. Sometimes I need to remind it to send me the correct link, but it gets there and will improve as we continue to use it. I know that scrolling through 325+ episodes can be hard, so using the FRIED AI will help you to find the episodes that are most relevant to you in the fastest way possible. Without scrolling and guessing.
As part of our own burnout recovery and relapse prevention, we are continuously looking at our resources and how we can support you from the saucers of our overflowing teacups and figuring out how to keep those teacups overflowing so that the give and generosity comes with ease and freedom.
Currently, UNFRIED has a waitlist, so if you've been considering that - now is a good time to add yourself to it to make sure you don't miss the next (and possibly last) round in it's current iteration.
Please let this email serve you and allow you to consider your own resources, your own generosity, and where there might be some misalignment that you can choose to adjust in the new year. Just because you've always done something one way doesn't mean you have to continue. When you change, you will disappoint some people. That's okay and it is part of your growth. You deserve to evolve, shift, and grow as your life evolves, shifts and grows.
We're doing that discomfort right along with you (and doing extra breathing exercises and yoga nidras to get ourselves through it ;)).
If you missed this week's FRIED episode, I'll ask that you give it a full listen. It's a call forward into what's next, into more alignment, more inner peace, and more fulfillment for 2026 and beyond.
<3 Cait
