2024: A Year of SPACE & EXPERIMENTATION

It’s that time again. 🎉 The end of the year. The collective pause. When we flip through the highs, the heartbreaks, and all the beautiful chaos in between.

And wow—2024 was something else.

For me, this wasn’t just another lap around the sun. Two words anchored my year: SPACE & EXPERIMENTATION.

Not resolutions. Not goals. Just two simple intentions that cracked open a whole new world.

These words were fuel. A compass. A challenge. They taught me to make room—for ideas, for growth, for the unexpected. They gave me permission to play—to ask “What if?” and lean into the unknown.

As I reflect, it turned out the universe doesn’t just listen. It tests you. It didn’t just hand me what I wanted, it handed me what I needed.

The universe, being its cheeky self, had bigger plans. SPACE and EXPERIMENTATION weren’t just personal mantras. They became the thread that wove everything together, revealing deeper themes:

RESILIENCE & ACCEPTANCE

The Power of Intentional Beginnings

Every year I choose one or two words as anchors or my intentions for the year. This past year I chose the words SPACE & EXPERIMENTATION.

🌌 SPACE wasn’t just about Marie Kondo-ing my calendar. It was about clearing my mental clutter, emotional baggage and that constant hamster wheel of doing more, faster, better. It was about making room in my soul. The permission to breathe. To pause. To pause long enough to actually hear my intuition, to listen to my gut and trust it.

Think of it like being a gardener: Pull the weeds. Make room for the magic.

🎨 EXPERIMENTATION was my green light to colour outside life’s neatly defined lines. 2024 was my playground. To say: What if I try this? From work to family to projects, it was about treating every moment like a lab—testing assumptions and exploring what happens when you step outside your comfort zone. I treated the year like one big experiment.

I tried. Tested. Pushed boundaries.

Some things clicked. Others flopped spectacularly. But each moment was a chance to uncover something new.

These two words shaped my year.

Let me break it down.

Resilience: The Real MVP

Resilience wasn't about "pushing through".

It was about adapting, flowing forward and becoming. About becoming stronger, wiser, and more aligned with who you’re meant to be.

Reclaiming alignment when life knocked me sideways.

From a hospital bed fighting dengue in Bali to a flooded home right before Christmas, 2024 pushed me in ways I couldn’t predict.

But each challenge taught me something profound: growth doesn’t come from accumulation. It comes from letting go.

The Moments That Tested Me

January - Dengue in Bali

Picture this: I’m in a hospital bed, battling dengue for the second time in Bali. Blood platelets at 9. Hours away from a transfusion. Oh, and my husband? Right there beside me, hooked up to his own IV.

There’s nothing like IV drips and whispered warnings of transfusions to remind you: You’re not in control.

It was terrifying. Humbling. Quiet. The stillness taught me more than the chaos ever could.

That forced pause reminded me: Growth isn’t always about doing. Sometimes, it’s about being and surrendering. That pause became the spark for so much—launching The Worth Club, reigniting my passion for facilitation, and aligning my actions with my core values. 

The Six-Month Recovery Marathon

Six months. That’s how long it took to feel whole again. Just as I started to feel human again...

• A sprained ankle.

• A torn ligament.

• Oh, and a pre-Christmas flood that forced us to evacuate our temporary home in 24 hours.

Each chapter? A resilience and acceptance masterclass

Letting Go to Level Up

Despite typically living beyond conventional boundaries, the first half of 2024 caught me in an unexpected dance with FOMO and autopilot responses. Like a temporary spell that needed breaking, I found myself saying yes when my inner compass pointed to no.

This year taught me to return to my truth—aligning my choices with my core mission and values.

Whether it was declining a prestigious executive role or stepping away from projects that didn't light me up, each release became an act of reclaiming my authentic path.

I embraced the necessity of shedding what no longer served me. I stopped saying yes when my intuition screamed no.

Sometimes the most powerful growth happens not in accumulation, but in the conscious choice to let go—like trimming a plant to help it grow stronger.

Acceptance: The Quiet Superpower

If resilience is the fight, acceptance is the peace.

🤍 ACCEPTANCE emerged as the silent teacher through it all. Not as passive resignation, but as active embrace of what is.

Acceptance isn’t giving up. It’s leaning in. It’s trusting that even the detours have something to teach you.

Throughout the entire year, it became the gentle reminder that sometimes the path forward isn't about changing circumstances, but about changing our relationship with them. I was reminded to go with the flow and accept what was being served to me was there for a reason.

The Unexpected Thread: Self-Worth Changes Everything

As I leaned into SPACE and EXPERIMENTATION, I explored a deeper truth.

Our relationship with self-worth and the way we value ourselves shapes EVERYTHING.

How we design technology and systems. How we lead. How we show up in the world and our relationships.

💻 Tech isn’t just tech. When we build from scarcity, we create systems that drain us. But when we operate from wholeness? We build tools, businesses, and lives that nourish and elevate us.

It’s like discovering a secret door in a room you thought you knew. And once you see it, you can’t un-see it.

The Peaks That Lit Me Up

It wasn’t all chaos. 2024 had its wins—big, small, and soul-shaking.

Here’s what sparked joy:

• 🌱 The Worth Club: What started as an experiment and passion in financial wellbeing turned into a movement. Vulnerability became currency. Transformation became contagious.
  

• 🌍 New Board Roles: Two new board roles—not for the title, but for the impact. Because real change happens when you bring your whole self to the table. It was about stepping into systems-level impact and bringing integrative thinking to the table.
  

• Soulful Collaborations: Collaborating with kindred spirits who GET IT. I am grateful for my new found relationship with Uma and Jingjin. They’re soul connections who see life and business as one intertwined tapestry, where every conversation sparks new possibilities and deeper purpose. Together, we sparked ideas that could rewrite the game.
  

• Connection & Community: This year, connection and community were front and centre. Relationships weren’t just professional—they were personal, raw, and real, from the Meta Alumni community to reconnecting with past connections or building new relationships. They transcended the ordinary, becoming catalysts for transformation- true connection isn’t transactional—it’s transformational.
  

• ✨ Teaching Renaissance: From teaching and mentoring at SUSS and the TechStars UAE cohorts, I rediscovered my love for catalysing growth in others. Seeing those lightbulb moments? Pure joy.

Each win wasn’t just a triumph. It was a reminder: Magic happens when you design your life with intention.

Lessons to Carry Into 2025

As I step into 2025, I’m holding tight to the lessons 2024 gifted me:

✨ Alignment > Prestige. Saying no to that executive role wasn’t just a rejection. It was a declaration: I choose authenticity over optics. Life’s too short to chase shiny things that don’t feel right.

🏡 Home Is a Feeling, Not a Place. Home isn’t four walls. It’s about living in alignment with your values.

👩‍👧‍👦 Presence Beats Perfection. With my kids, my work, my life—it’s not about doing more. It’s about being fully present in the moments that matter.

Looking Ahead: 2025, Let’s Go

The seeds I planted in 2024? They’re already sprouting. And I cannot wait to see what blooms.

🌱 Leadership Alchemy. I will continue to create spaces where leaders can grow not just their businesses, but their souls. Spaces where leaders explore the intersection of value and values.

💻 Technology With Heart. I will continue to explore how digital spaces can elevate humanity, not exploit it. Tools designed from a place of abundance, not scarcity. This is the revolution I want to spark.

🖋 Writing Without Armour I’m committed to sharing the messy middle—not just the shiny outcomes. Because the real transformation? It happens in the trenches.

🌍 Systemic Impact Through Integration. By weaving together all my experiences, I want to create solutions that address root causes—not just symptoms. Turning contradictions into connections. Solving deeper challenges with integrated thinking. Using my kaleidoscope of experiences to craft unconventional solutions.

The Synthesis

Here’s what I know for sure: When we value ourselves, we create systems—businesses, tools, communities and a life —that reflect that worth.

So, if you’re navigating your own storms, here’s my advice: Lean in. The detours, the pauses, the setbacks? They’re not obstacles. They’re shortcuts to wisdom.

2025 isn’t about resolutions. It’s about intentional choices.

One step. One experiment. One bold act of alignment at a time.

Here’s to crafting futures that excite us, building bridges that connect us, connections that ground us and creating impact that outlasts us.

2025, we’re ready for you. Let’s go. 🚀

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