Episode 6
Ep 006. How to Commit to Your Most Adventurous Year Yet BEFORE the New Year Rolls Around
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. 👇
>> Join the Early Bird Waitlist here.
Where to learn more about Allison:
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Transcript
You're listening to the Adventurous Reinvention podcast. I'm
Speaker:Alison Boyle AKA She Dreams of Alpine and this is the
Speaker:show that's dedicated to all the adventurous spirits out there who have either
Speaker:been transformed by the outdoors or interested in what it
Speaker:looks like to step into a new adventurous and courageous kind
Speaker:of identity in their life. It doesn't matter what your background is in the
Speaker:outdoors, what age you're starting at, or where you grew up. If
Speaker:you're curious about the outdoors and using adventure as a way to
Speaker:reinvent yourself, you're in the right place. I'll be
Speaker:sharing all kinds of personal adventure stories, lessons I've
Speaker:learned from the mountains, teaching what I know about the outdoors and leadership,
Speaker:and interviewing some amazing adventurous women all along the
Speaker:way. I've been coaching women on becoming safe, confident, and
Speaker:self sufficient backpackers and leaders of their own adventurous lives
Speaker:since 2018. And I know exactly what
Speaker:big fears and self doubts can pop up along the way. I have
Speaker:so much to share with you so let's dive in.
Speaker:Okay. Before we get started I wanted to kick this podcast
Speaker:episode off with another very quick announcement. We are
Speaker:less than 1 week away from our final backpacking
Speaker:badass program enrollment of the year. So next week on
Speaker:November 18th to 21st, so that's Monday through Thursday,
Speaker:we are opening up enrollment to my signature coaching program, the backpacking
Speaker:badass program. This is our online course community and
Speaker:coaching program where we teach you everything that you need to know about
Speaker:backpacking and being safe and self sufficient anytime that you hit the
Speaker:trail. And for many of our clients, this program
Speaker:is the difference between thinking maybe one day I'll go
Speaker:backpacking and them actually going on their very first of
Speaker:many backpacking trips. This is our very special,
Speaker:only happens once a year, Black Friday enrollment, and it's our
Speaker:final enrollment of the year into this program, and we are going
Speaker:really big with our deals, bonuses, and giveaway prizes during that
Speaker:week. So if you've been wanting to start backpacking or become more
Speaker:self sufficient and confident in your backpacking adventures, then our
Speaker:Black Friday enrollment is a very good time to join us in the
Speaker:backpacking badass program and go all in on your goals to start
Speaker:backpacking more confidently in 2025 and beyond.
Speaker:So we have a very special early bird wait list that you're gonna wanna join
Speaker:if you are interested in that program for that enrollment event, which
Speaker:is if you go to she dreams of alpine.com/bird,
Speaker:I will also drop that link in the show notes, but if you go to
Speaker:that link, you can sign up for our early bird wait list. And the reason
Speaker:that you want to be an early bird for our Black Friday enrollment
Speaker:is because our early birds will get early access to our
Speaker:amazing Black Friday deals and bonuses. And some of our
Speaker:bonuses that we're gonna be giving away, during our Black Friday
Speaker:enrollment are limited. So, for example, we have
Speaker:a limited bonus for what we call the bestie
Speaker:bonus, which is one of our biggest bonuses we give away all year,
Speaker:and it is limited to the first thirty people that enroll. So if you are
Speaker:on the early bird wait list, you will get a head start and early access
Speaker:to claiming that bonus on our very first day of enrollment on
Speaker:18th. Plus, when you join our early bird list,
Speaker:my team and I also created this sort of sneak peek guide of all of
Speaker:our bonuses and prizes for that enrollment. That way you can kinda
Speaker:take a peek at what we're offering during this Black Friday enrollment
Speaker:and you can see what things are appealing to you most and maybe
Speaker:what day you would want to enroll if you're interested in enrolling. So,
Speaker:again, you can get on the early bird list by signing up at she
Speaker:dreams of alpine.com/bird. Now, let's
Speaker:dive into our adventurous reinvention podcast episode of the
Speaker:week. This is episode 6 of our podcast.
Speaker:This week I wanted to talk a little bit about how to commit to your
Speaker:most adventurous year yet before the new year's even
Speaker:rolls around because I think like a lot of us, we kinda put off this
Speaker:decision deciding who we wanna become and what goals are important to us
Speaker:until January. We kind of put it on the back burner. But I really like
Speaker:to encourage people to, if you already know that you wanna do
Speaker:something, to kinda like make that commitment ahead of time. So that's what I wanted
Speaker:to talk about in this episode and what that looks
Speaker:like. I always am thinking about the end
Speaker:of the year and kind of, like, how the year has gone for me. Did
Speaker:I achieve my goals? If I didn't achieve my goals for the year, then why
Speaker:not? Did I have fun this year? Did I get to show up the way
Speaker:that I wanted to? And, also, when I start thinking
Speaker:about this time of the year, like, how can I go into the new year,
Speaker:and in our instance, that's 2025, how can I go into the new
Speaker:year learning the lessons that I need to learn to make sure that I
Speaker:do things differently if I need to instead of repeating kind of
Speaker:the same mistakes again and again and again? So for
Speaker:many of the clients that we end up working with at She Dreams of Alpine,
Speaker:they tend to be the kind of people who are always doing things for
Speaker:others. They are usually putting other people's desires and
Speaker:dreams ahead of their own, and they put their
Speaker:own stuff on the back burner. And like when they're constantly doing this
Speaker:for other people, they're people pleasing and showing up for other people and not
Speaker:themselves, they end up finding themselves in this cycle of feeling
Speaker:overextended, overbooked, like they can't catch their
Speaker:breath, their life feels too busy. And when it
Speaker:feels that way, when they feel like that, it feels like
Speaker:there's absolutely no room and no way that they could find any time to
Speaker:do things for themselves. So it feels like this kind of helpless,
Speaker:hopeless cycle of just, like, I never have enough time to do things that
Speaker:are for me. But really, in order to
Speaker:feel less overextended and, like, you can actually catch your
Speaker:breath, you need to do the things that bring you
Speaker:joy and fill up your own cup first. Or
Speaker:else, like, life is just always going to feel like this never ending hamster
Speaker:wheel where you never get to go after your dreams or your
Speaker:goals that you always wanted to go after and year after year just like this
Speaker:never ending cycle because there will always be more people to please,
Speaker:there will always be more things to do, and that will never stop.
Speaker:Right? So maybe you can relate to that a little bit. Maybe
Speaker:that's a little bit how you're feeling. And maybe
Speaker:in when you enter 2024, like, you had big plans to change that this
Speaker:year, but somehow now we're looking we're here in
Speaker:November of 2024 and that plan sort of slipped through
Speaker:your fingers, you didn't get to do what you wanted to do, you didn't
Speaker:get to try the things that you wanted to try and it kind of feels
Speaker:like you're repeating that same overstressed, overextended,
Speaker:it's too busy all the time kind of life and it really
Speaker:it sucks to feel that way, it sucks to be in that cycle, to feel
Speaker:like you're trying to do everything and simultaneously feel like you're failing at everything but
Speaker:I, feel like you're failing at everything. But I just wanna encourage
Speaker:you that there is some good news here. So I know personally, because I've
Speaker:seen this in my clients, I've done this for myself, that you can
Speaker:turn things around, 2025 can be different for you.
Speaker:You. If you haven't been able to find the time for
Speaker:yourself to do something that really fills your cup this year, like, maybe
Speaker:like backpacking, I'm assuming you're probably listening to this podcast because you
Speaker:like the outdoors or you're interested in the outdoors, you are outdoorsy
Speaker:in some way, maybe you're interested in backpacking. But if you haven't
Speaker:been able to find the time for yourself to do that
Speaker:thing, to do the thing that fills you up, then my encouragement
Speaker:is to claim that time for yourself in
Speaker:2025. And it sounds simple and it sounds subtle and we're gonna talk about what
Speaker:the difference is, but you're never gonna find the time you have to claim the
Speaker:time. If you didn't have a great year this year, I want you to know
Speaker:that you're only one choice away from making sure that things turn
Speaker:out differently for you next year. And it really, it really,
Speaker:really is as simple as making a decision, all right?
Speaker:You can claim for yourself like right now,
Speaker:today, while you're listening to this podcast, anytime this month, you can claim
Speaker:for yourself that you will spend more time on your health,
Speaker:that you will get stronger this year, that you will spend more time
Speaker:outdoors, that you will become more confident and self sufficient in
Speaker:your own skills, that you will stop being such a
Speaker:people pleaser and doing everything for everyone and neglecting yourself.
Speaker:You will make backpacking inevitable in 2025 if that's one of
Speaker:your goals and you will learn the skills to make adventure
Speaker:a non negotiable part of your life and your lifestyle.
Speaker:So when you claim these things for yourself, you stop making
Speaker:these things optional and you stop putting everyone else's
Speaker:needs in front of your own. And this is the only way
Speaker:to, like, get out of that overwhelmed, too busy cycle,
Speaker:never have time for myself kind of thing. When you claim
Speaker:something, when you decide that this is what you're choosing
Speaker:instead of, like, hemming and hawing about it being, like, I don't have enough time,
Speaker:this is when you get to put your mind to work on finding all the
Speaker:ways to make it happen. So something I talk about a lot with
Speaker:my clients is, like, what we focus on, we create. A lot of times we
Speaker:talk about this in the context of fear. So when you're
Speaker:overly focused on fear and that's the only side of things that
Speaker:you're seeing, you're just gonna, like, perpetuate and find all the evidence that
Speaker:create fearful thoughts, right, only things that are negative about it, right, but when
Speaker:we put our mind to focus on focusing on something else, then we can
Speaker:start to see the upside. And it's the same thing with claiming time
Speaker:versus finding time. If you're, like, always saying to yourself, I'm too busy, I don't
Speaker:have the time, you're gonna be finding evidence for that. But when you claim and
Speaker:decide that this is important to you, that this is something that you wanna
Speaker:do next year and work on, you are gonna start looking for ways
Speaker:to create it. So what we focus on, we create. So as
Speaker:soon as we claim something and shift our focus to getting
Speaker:outside, going backpacking, doing something that is just
Speaker:important to you that's when you will start making it a
Speaker:reality. You will begin to look for ways to make it happen, you will begin
Speaker:to enlist help from your family to make it happen,
Speaker:you will begin saying no to things that don't align with this decision,
Speaker:but you need to be all in and you need to be committed to it.
Speaker:So, for example, I have this client, her name is
Speaker:Renee. She did this exact same thing last year
Speaker:before the year even ended. So that's why I don't want you to
Speaker:wait, like I don't want you to go into the holidays thinking like I'm gonna
Speaker:find time later because we're just gonna enter an even busier season, you're gonna
Speaker:feel more overwhelmed, so we need to like decide that this is important to you,
Speaker:and that's exactly what Renee did. So Renee joined our
Speaker:Backpacking Badass program during our Black Friday enrollment last year, which is similar
Speaker:to the enrollment that we're hosting next week. And one of the big
Speaker:reasons Renee invested in that program is because she wanted
Speaker:to claim the time to invest for herself, invest
Speaker:in herself so that she could be better for her children and her family and
Speaker:be an example to them to show them that they can accomplish
Speaker:anything they set their minds to. And she knew that she could only show up
Speaker:for them in the way that she wanted to if she was showing up for
Speaker:herself first. And so when Renee signed up for the
Speaker:backpacking badass program, that one decision,
Speaker:that claiming of that decision and claiming of that time for herself,
Speaker:right, changed the direction of her life. She committed to getting
Speaker:healthier, she met a group of women inside of our program to hike and
Speaker:backpack with, she trained hard for her goals this summer,
Speaker:she got really strong, she got outdoors nearly
Speaker:every weekend even with her very, very busy schedule,
Speaker:and this past year Renee ended up going backpacking a
Speaker:lot and she started taking her young kids on, like, special camping and hiking trips
Speaker:with her because she felt confident enough in her skills November, she
Speaker:started taking action in January, she hadn't waited around to do that, she knew
Speaker:that this was something that was important to her, and she even joined our adventurous
Speaker:reinvention experience this past summer and did one of her hardest backpacking trips
Speaker:to date. And she didn't just, like, stop being a busy mom. She
Speaker:was a busy mom still, very busy, had a lot of things on her plate,
Speaker:was juggling a lot of things. But what she did do was that
Speaker:she claimed that her desires and her goals were an equally
Speaker:important part for being there for her family. And backpacking helped
Speaker:her feel like she was not only taking care of herself but taking care of
Speaker:her mental health in a special way, and it allowed her to feel
Speaker:more like herself again, which allowed her to have more
Speaker:time to give to her family, right? So now she's like
Speaker:an adventure mom, an example to her children that they can do hard
Speaker:things and it's important to fill their own cup even when life is
Speaker:busy. It first for Renee
Speaker:started with claiming that she was gonna make a change. And for
Speaker:her, it started when she joined our backpacking badass program during the Black Friday
Speaker:enrollment week. That was a way for her to kinda,
Speaker:like, draw a line in the sand and say, like, I'm committed,
Speaker:it's time, I'm tired of putting this on the back burner, I'm tired of
Speaker:putting myself last, and she went into the new year betting on herself ahead
Speaker:of time. And she did not wait for January 1st to
Speaker:decide, and that's, like, something I really wanna encourage you to do. Whatever
Speaker:is on your heart, whether it's backpacking or not, like,
Speaker:don't feel like you have to wait till January 1st rolls around to
Speaker:decide to be all in on it and to make a change.
Speaker:Renee knew that she would always be too busy if she didn't decide that this
Speaker:was important to her. So even if you feel like 2024
Speaker:didn't go as planned and everything felt busy and it felt like it rushed by
Speaker:for you, I want you to know that you can decide today to do things
Speaker:differently moving forward. And if you see backpacking as differently moving forward. And if you
Speaker:see backpacking as a way to carve out more time for yourself to learn a
Speaker:new skill and to become the kind of woman who does hard things, then maybe
Speaker:one of the ways that you claim this for yourself is by joining us in
Speaker:the backpacking bad
Speaker:ass program next week. And if you think that you might be a
Speaker:good fit for this program, then I do wanna tell you about 2 extra
Speaker:special ways that we are going all out to support you in having your most
Speaker:adventurous year. So something that's really important to me and my team is that
Speaker:you join this program and it doesn't just fall to the wayside. We want this
Speaker:to be something that you are able to take action on and you feel the
Speaker:momentum and the stoke to keep going. So for
Speaker:this enrollment in particular, we like to kick off the new year
Speaker:with celebrating you on making that claim that this is
Speaker:important to you and you wanna go all in. So we have 2 very
Speaker:special bonuses that everyone will get no matter which day that you enroll
Speaker:on November 18th through 21st that will support
Speaker:you in kinda kicking this whole thing off. So the
Speaker:very first thing is we never do we rarely
Speaker:do live coaching accountability cohorts. I used to do them all the
Speaker:time when I first Badass program, but now we
Speaker:don't do them as frequently. But one time we do do them is at the
Speaker:very beginning of every year. So the very first 6
Speaker:weeks, not the very first 6 weeks of the new year, but
Speaker:starting mid January because people kinda coming back from the holidays, so starting
Speaker:mid January, we're gonna go through 6 weeks together
Speaker:where we have live coaching calls and accountability. So what I
Speaker:usually do during this time is that my clients,
Speaker:they'll join during Black Friday and then they'll take the time to just
Speaker:really enjoy their holiday, but they just kind of know in the back of their
Speaker:minds that, like, I have made this commitment to myself and we are gonna kick
Speaker:this off in January. So in mid January, we will start
Speaker:the program together, and I'll kinda give you some direction on what to focus
Speaker:on, and then we'll meet at the end of that week after y'all have gone
Speaker:through some of the materials, and we will have a discussion and do some coaching
Speaker:on the specific module lessons that you were learning that week. And you get to
Speaker:meet some of the other people, specific module lessons that you were learning that week.
Speaker:And you get to meet some of the other people because it'll be, like, a
Speaker:virtual meeting. You get to ask all your questions with me as we're going through
Speaker:the program, and we'll do 6 weeks of that together as we go through the
Speaker:core material
Speaker:inside of the Backpacking Badass program. And in addition to
Speaker:that, right before we kick off that 6 weeks of
Speaker:live coaching and accountability, we're also doing a brand new
Speaker:event this January. We're calling it your adventure era,
Speaker:and it's gonna be a 5 day challenge. That's gonna kick off right before
Speaker:we have our live coaching. And that challenge is really to just get really centered
Speaker:and clear on exactly what you wanna create and become
Speaker:and bring to life in 2025 when
Speaker:it comes to your adventurous identity and the adventures that
Speaker:you're going on and all the things. We're going to be talking about your adventurous
Speaker:mind, like the mental grit that you want to develop. We're going to be talking
Speaker:about strengthening your body and what does that look like for you in 2025.
Speaker:We're gonna talk about your adventurous community. We're gonna talk about skill sets
Speaker:and all the different, like, gaps that you need to fill in the new year.
Speaker:We're gonna be talking about your plan, like, what adventures do you wanna put on
Speaker:the calendar. It's gonna be about getting really clear around those goals, and that
Speaker:way when we step into working on the backpacking status program, you have a really
Speaker:clear vision for what you're working towards inside of the
Speaker:backpacking status program. And so that you will get a
Speaker:free ticket to that because that will be, like, a paid event, and
Speaker:it will include our she dreams of alpine printable
Speaker:adventure calendar, and we also have some, like, reflection journal stuff that you can kinda
Speaker:look back on
Speaker:step into that sort of, like, adventurous identity
Speaker:that you might be wanting to bring to life, even if you're brand new to
Speaker:being outdoorsy or adventurous or any of these things.
Speaker:So I just want you to know that my team and I are committed to
Speaker:your success and so all that is left for you is to
Speaker:claim it for yourself. We know that you're busy right now
Speaker:and we want you to go into the holidays feeling like you can relax and
Speaker:really enjoy this holidays, but we also want you to go into the holidays
Speaker:knowing that you're going to have the most amazing and adventurous year
Speaker:ever starting January 1, 2025. So that's
Speaker:why we have created so many bonuses, and that's just the tip of
Speaker:the iceberg. If you go check out our other ones, there's even more. Right?
Speaker:But that's why we created so many bonuses to support you in getting
Speaker:massive momentum once January starts. And you
Speaker:can start the program earlier if you're, like, you join during Black Friday and you
Speaker:wanna start digging into the materials, you absolutely can. So many of our students, they
Speaker:just wanna, like, I just would need to get through the holidays first, and we
Speaker:understand that. So you can put a pause on it and pick it back up
Speaker:in January with us as we go through kind of the live cohort
Speaker:accountability portion of the program. So this also goes from, like, my
Speaker:existing clients too because I know, like, a lot of y'all are already backpacking
Speaker:badass, clients of ours. If you joined our program and life
Speaker:happens and you feel like you didn't make the progress that you wanted, today is
Speaker:a great day to recommit and join us in January again to make big
Speaker:moves towards your goals. So for those of you who are
Speaker:interested in our backpacking badass program, make sure that
Speaker:you're on our early bird wait list by going to shejamesofalpinedot com/bird.
Speaker:Again, our enrollment opens up next week, November 18th through
Speaker:21st. We will be giving you all kinds of more
Speaker:details about that enrollment next week, but we cannot wait to support you in
Speaker:your goals to start backpacking in 2025 and beyond. If you have
Speaker:any questions at all, please don't hesitate to send me a DM on
Speaker:Instagram or shoot us an email at support at shedreamsofalpine.com.
Speaker:And, yeah, I'm so looking forward to meeting everyone who joins us, and we'll
Speaker:talk soon. Bye. Hey.
Speaker:I wanted to thank you real quick for tuning into the show and listening
Speaker:all the way to the end. If you love this episode and you want deeper
Speaker:support in becoming a safe, confident, and self sufficient hiker and backpacker,
Speaker:then head over to shedreamsofalpine. Com/waitless
Speaker:to learn more about our backpacking badass coaching program, where I teach
Speaker:you absolutely everything you need to know to be self reliant on the
Speaker:trails and stop waiting around on others for the adventure
Speaker:invite. So I'd love to help you more in your journey of stepping
Speaker:into your adventurous identity, and that program is
Speaker:the absolute best place for us to start working together. So again,
Speaker:that's she dreams of alpine.com/waitlist, and you
Speaker:can learn all about it there. So that's it for today, folks. I hope
Speaker:you get to spend some time outside this week and I'll be back very
Speaker:soon with a brand new episode. Bye.
