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181 | Before You Begin: 5 Truths for Any New Season, Identity, or Fresh Start

  • Emily Reuschel
  • 1 day ago
  • 4 min read

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In this grounded solo episode, Emily shares five transformative truths to support you at the edge of any new season, identity shift, or fresh start. Whether you're beginning a new habit, exploring a mindset change, considering a business pivot, or simply feeling the pull toward growth in the new year, these insights offer clarity, encouragement, and direction.


Emily unpacks why we often overcomplicate new beginnings, how perfectionism disguises fear, and why small, simple steps are far more powerful than grand plans. She explores the role of fear in personal evolution, the importance of getting out of your head and into conversation, and how lived experience prepares you for whatever you're stepping into next.


This episode is a reminder that meaningful change is nonlinear, intuitive, and deeply personal, a refreshing alternative to “New Year, New You” pressure. If you're craving practical mindset support and grounded guidance for your next chapter, this conversation will meet you right where you are.


Meet Emily Reuschel:

Emily Reuschel is a Soul Expansion Coach for Wild & Waking Women, guiding leaders, dreamers, and changemakers—particularly in rural communities—through the powerful journey of reclaiming their truest selves. Known for challenging the status quo, Emily empowers women to break free from inherited limitations, embody their truth, and create lasting impact in their lives and communities.


As the host of the Wild and Waking podcast and the facilitator of transformative retreats, workshops, and virtual communities, Emily curates sacred spaces for connection, healing, and expansion. She inspires women to shed societal expectations, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and transform from the inside out.


Emily’s work is anchored in her signature Wild & Waking Framework—a soul reclamation process that moves women from performative survival to embodied leadership. Her approach honors the unraveling of old narratives, the remembering of true essence, and the reclamation of personal power—all leading to a rise marked by unapologetic expression and aligned action.


Through her work, Emily guides women home to themselves, helping them live with alignment, purpose, and intention. Whether speaking on stage, leading mastermind groups, or facilitating retreats, her warmth and authenticity create a ripple effect that inspires lasting change. Emily’s mission is clear: to help guide women in reclaiming their truth, step into their power, and rise boldly as forces of lasting change.


In this episode, Before You Begin: 5 Truths for Any New Season, Identity, or Fresh Start, I cover:

  • Why new beginnings feel overwhelming, and how perfectionism, over-planning, and pressure often mask fear rather than support real change.

  • How to simplify your first steps so you can build momentum without needing a full plan, strategy, or end vision before you begin.

  • The role of fear in personal growth, including fear of failure, fear of success, fear of judgment, and why fear often shows up even when a path is aligned.

  • The power of community and conversation in gaining clarity, and why you can’t evolve, pivot, or create solely in your head.

  • How your lived experience prepares you for new seasons, identity shifts, and fresh starts even when you don’t feel “qualified.”

  • Why waiting for permission keeps you stuck, and how cultivating self-trust becomes the true turning point for any transformation.

  • Real examples from coaching conversations, cyclical living, identity work, and your own Wild & Waking journey that illustrate how change actually unfolds in everyday life.

  • A grounded alternative to New Year pressure, offering a more intuitive, sustainable, and compassionate way to approach personal growth in January and beyond.


If this episode supported you, share it with a friend who’s stepping into a new season of their own. Connect with me on Instagram or Threads and let me know what truth landed for you today. And if you want deeper support as you navigate your next chapter, leave a review, follow the show, or reach out to explore working together one-on-one. Your next step matters and you don’t have to take it alone.


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About Wild & Waking: 

Wild & Waking is more than a podcast—it’s a sacred return to who you’ve always been.


This space is for the woman standing at the edge of everything she’s outgrown. The one who’s checked all the boxes, followed all the rules, and still feels the quiet ache for something more honest. More alive. More hers.


She’s begun the unraveling—of roles, expectations, identities that no longer fit. She’s remembering the voice beneath the noise, the rhythm beneath the hustle, the truth beneath the performance. She’s reclaiming her joy, her intuition, her fire. And she’s rising—not as a version of who she was told to be, but as the truest expression of who she already is.


Hosted by soul expansion coach Emily Reuschel, Wild & Waking is for the spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches, rural changemakers, and conscious leaders dismantling old paradigms and creating new ways of living, leading, and becoming. Through raw conversations, deep reflections, and embodied wisdom, we explore what it means to awaken a life of abundance, authenticity, and purpose.


This is for the woman who holds both sacred rage and radical joy. Who moves with reverence for the seasons of her life. Who isn’t afraid to break cycles, speak truth, and dismantle what no longer serves—not to destroy, but to create. To rebuild a world rooted in the celebration of difference, the beauty of nuance, and the power of sovereign, embodied leadership.


If you’re ready to come home to yourself—fully, fiercely, and without apology—welcome.


We’ve been waiting for you.


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For more transformative conversations, visit: EmilyReuschel.com


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