Hard situations are unavoidable — family stress, grief, shared responsibilities, conflict, holidays, work projects, or major life transitions. What is optional is letting those moments damage the relationships that matter most.

In this episode of This Daring Adventure, we explore how to move through hard situations without losing connection, compassion, or yourself in the process.

This episode offers a grounded, practical framework for navigating emotionally charged situations with intention and care.

Rather than focusing on fixing others or controlling outcomes, this conversation centers on self-leadership: managing your thoughts, processing emotions, allowing discomfort, and choosing how you want to show up — again and again.

This episode is for anyone who wants to build strong relationships, even when life feels messy, heavy, or overwhelming.

In this episode, I share 10 principles to help you navigate hard situations while protecting and strengthening your relationships:

1. Why setting an intention for the relationship changes everything
2. How the story you tell yourself shapes your emotional experience
3. How to choose how you want to show up — regardless of others’ behavior
4. Why rehearsal and visualization help you respond instead of react
5. How to release control over others and reclaim control over yourself
6. Why discomfort is not a problem — it’s part of meaningful connection
7. How processing emotions regularly prevents resentment and burnout
8. The role of compassion for both yourself and the other person
9. Why this work must be practiced repeatedly, not once
10. How to recover when you mess up and begin again without self-judgment

1. Navigating relationships during stressful or emotional situations
2. Managing family dynamics and conflict
3. Emotional regulation and intentional living
4. Personal growth during hard seasons
5. Compassion, boundaries, and self-leadership
6. How to stay connected under pressure

1. What hard situation or relationship am I currently navigating?
2. What do I want the relationship to look and feel like when this is over?
3. What story am I telling about the other person — and is it helping me?
4. How do I want to show up when things feel uncomfortable?

Every year, we hear the same thing:

“I hope this year brings you everything you want.”

But what if the year isn’t bringing you anything at all?

In this New Year’s Day episode, Trista challenges the quiet but powerful belief that time, circumstances, or January 1st will magically create change in our lives. Instead, she invites you into something far more empowering: ownership, intention, and agency.

This episode isn’t about resolutions, pressure, or “new year, new you.”

It’s about remembering that you are the creator of your life—not the recipient of it.

Inside this episode, you’ll explore:

1. Why hoping for the year to “bring you something” subtly gives away your power
2. What you actually do control—and why it’s enough
3. The difference between intention and outcome
4. Why the best year yet doesn’t mean an easy year
5. How to stop waiting and start deliberately creating your life

This is a calm, grounding reminder that you don’t need to feel ready, confident, or certain to begin. You just need to be willing.

If you’re ready to stop drifting, stop waiting, and start creating—

this episode is for you.

Happy New Year.

Let’s build it on purpose.

Let's go!

If this episode spoke to you, you’ll love the work we’re doing inside You, Redefined — my coaching community where we’re preparing for Shift 2026, a 12-week identity and mindset transformation designed to help you create real, sustainable change.

Come join us and become the woman who decides to make changes, not wait for them.

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In this episode, we explore a powerful mindset shift for women who feel unappreciated, unsupported, or overlooked in their relationships and friendships. If you’ve ever found yourself waiting for someone else to make the plans, buy the flowers, initiate the call, or show you the love and attention you want… this episode is your wake-up call.

We ask one life-changing question:

Who better than you to give yourself what you need?

We unpack how much energy we lose when we wait, hope, complain, and expect others to behave differently — and the extraordinary power we reclaim when we stop outsourcing our joy and start meeting our own needs.

• Why unmet expectations in relationships create emotional suffering
• How we unintentionally outsource our happiness to other people
• The mindset shift that stops resentment and disappointment
• Why people often don’t show up the way we expect — and why it’s not personal
• How to take back your power by giving yourself what you want
• The identity shift that unlocks confidence and independence
• What happens when you redirect your energy from complaining to creating

When you stop waiting for others to go first, you stop feeling powerless.

When YOU go first, you become unstoppable.

• “Who better than you to take care of you?”
• “People aren’t thinking about you the way you think they are. They’re thinking about their lives.”
• “You can spend energy complaining, or you can spend energy creating. Only one moves your life forward.”

Join me on December 18th at 12PM EST for my new class: The 2026 Identity Shift masterclass.

You'll learn:

✨ Why change feels hard for you (and why nothing has gone wrong)

✨ Why your identity determines your future

✨ How to rewrite your self-concept and emotional patterns

✨ The formula that makes your shift inevitable

Sign up HERE so you don't miss it. A replay will be shared if you can't join live.

If this episode spoke to you, you’ll love the work we’re doing inside You, Redefined — my coaching community where we’re preparing for Shift 2026, a 12-week identity and mindset transformation designed to help you create real, sustainable change.

Come join us and start becoming the woman who goes first.

Want to try coaching for yourself? Sign up for a free one hour coaching session with me HERE.