Six Questions For A Midyear Reset

The year is moving fast, and if you’ve been running on autopilot, you can wake up one day with results you never actually wanted. I’m slowing things down with a mindful midyear check-in built for high-achieving women, creative entrepreneurs, and anyone who’s tired of performing their way through life.

You’ll hear a personal update on my shift from “life coach” branding to leaning more fully into mindfulness coaching and why I want to keep studying awareness for the next 50 years. From there, we ground the conversation in reflection that’s useful, not punishing: noticing what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next without spiraling into judgment. I share a simple framework for the sixth month of the year: six questions that help you clarify your goals, your habits, your self-talk, and your definition of success.

We walk through prompts like what you hope changes in the next six months, what you love about yourself (especially when that question feels itchy), what you don’t like about yourself without turning it into shame, what you like about your life, and what you want to name with more detail so you can reclaim choice. We also dig into the courage question and why your brain makes the unknown feel huge, even when the next step is small and concrete.

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Mindfulness Rebrand And Long View

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If you want to create what I like to call a life of the ease and authenticity, you ready?

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Hello, hello, hello, my friends, and welcome back to another episode of Believe Like a Boss. I am your host, Life Coach, Nandi Camille. Alright, my friends, also, there's as I'm saying this, something is changing. So exciting. So I've recently done a rebrand, if you can even say that. You all know I've always said I'm a mindfulness-based life coach, and mindfulness is awareness without judgment. I'm recently doing a rebrand to mindfulness coach instead of life coach. I'm still technically a life coach, but the branding around it is going to be less focused specifically on creative empreneurs and high achieving women, although those will still be the women that I work with, and that will still be the focus of this podcast is helping creative empreneurs and high achieving women, women leadership and business mindfully show up as their best in every area of their life. That will not change on the podcast. But my branding and how I'm showing up online is going to change just slightly. I'm still always going to be me. And what I've been really meditating on is like, how does me change in the next 50 years? Who do I want to be in 20 years and 30 years and 50 years from now? I guess in 50 years I'd be 80. But like, what do I want to do over the next 50 years? Was more so where the question came from. How do I see myself showing up over the next 50 years? Not just over the next five, like what is the work that I want to devote myself to for the next 50 years? And what comes up again and again, which is no surprise, hopefully, to you all, is mindfulness. Is I want to continue to practice and study the art of mindfulness, which is awareness, simply, right? And when we can practice awareness, it allows us to slow down. It allows us to be mindful, which is aware. And when we are mindful, which is aware, we can notice what's working, what's not, what's next. We can be less reactive to other people and we can be responsive instead. We're better leaders, we're better humans, we're better friends, we're better communicators when we are mindful, when we are aware. That is my belief. That is my why is why am I expanding into mindfulness? Because I think mindfulness is truly for everybody. I absolutely will continue to do my work with creative entrepreneurs and high-achieving women because when women that are building businesses and are and are and are in places of leadership don't feel their best, mindfulness is such a beautiful tool to help them unpack depression, move through anxiety, move into a daily joyfulness that maybe was feeling more absent before, or maybe it leads them through that mindfulness to make a change in their life, right? So I'm still doing that work, but I also believe that mindfulness is so important in the work of children and in schools. And as you all know, my background is in education. So I want to bring this into schools. I want to bring this into corporate spaces. So that is the big shift that's happening. We'll talk more about that later. I feel like I've already like really truly talked too much about that already. Um, because I am 100% the type of person that's like, what are we talking about on the podcast today? Can we get to that, please? So for my friends that are ready to dive right in, let's go. For those of you who truly listen, thank you. I truly do appreciate that too. And I think that that's something that I'm working on is being willing to. This is my podcast. Hello. I need to be able to, and I want to be able to take up space. Hello, it's my podcast. I should be able to say whatever I want to and not feel like, oh, I need to keep it short for the person who wants me to get to the thing. Y'all can hit fast forward. Love you so much. I truly do. I truly do. Thank you for listening to the podcast. And as always, take what six to you, leave the rest. If you feel like somebody can get something from this, if you feel like this can uplift somebody, share it with that friend who needs this podcast. All right,

Why Reflection Shapes The Next Chapter

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last week, my friends, we talked about why reflection matters. Why reflection matters. Ooh, ooh, because awareness is so important for us to move into our next chapter in order to call in what you want next. It's so impactful to be able to understand where you are, what you want, what's working, what's not, and then from that place, what's next. Instead of blindly grabbing on to or running towards what you think success is based on somebody else's definition of success. Our awareness allows us to check in and see do I like the definition of success that I am seeking, that I am going after? Is this my definition of success? Is this somebody else's definition? And it's not just about success, it's about everything, right? When we reflect, we check in. Do I like the way I'm showing up in my conversation with my boss on a day-to-day basis? Do I like the way that I'm showing up in my conversation with my clients? Do I like the way that I'm showing up in conversation with myself? Right? It goes with everything. And when we, again, take the time to reflect, it allows us to produce from an aligned place instead of producing for the sake of producing, right? When we are, when you're in a place of creating results and you're noticing, okay, I'm creating results, but it's not the results I want to create, right? I'm in a relationship but I'm not happy in that relationship. I have a business, but my business is making me crazy when it was supposed to be this like fun thing I was really excited about, right? I have a job that makes me a lot of money, but I'm miserable. We check in. How did we get here? And it's less important to understand how we get here. That is important, but I don't want us to ruminate and stay here. I think the reflection that's more important is what's next. Where am I going? What do I want? What is required in my thoughts, feelings, and actions in order to create the desired result that I want? That's more important than looking at your past. Your past has already happened. Is there information there? Absolutely. Reflect on the quote failure. Understand why you didn't get the raise, understand why you didn't sign the client, understand why you didn't get the job, reflect on it, take your notes, and then move forward, right? So that's why reflection matters. And if you want to go deeper, go listen to that last podcast.

Six Months Six Questions Framework

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This week, my friends, we're six months into the year. We're six months into 2026 as this podcast is going out live. You don't have to be listening to this podcast in real time to get something good out of this. But for the purpose of where we are right now in the year, I thought, six months, six questions. So we're going with the theme of reflection that we had last week, but this week we're gonna dive a little bit deeper. And I'm asking you six questions. You know, I always ask questions, always. You know, mindfulness. We gotta check in. How else are we gonna check in if we don't ask ourselves some questions? So I have six questions for this sixth month of the year in 2026. Isn't that so fun? For all you that are so scared, you're like, you're just at 666. My mom used to be so afraid of that number. It's the devil's number. And you know, there's a negative connotation to it, but as I've continued to delve into it, I'm like, it can't all be negative because I just don't believe anything is all negative. You know, there we have to let's do some research. Where does this come from? Um, but there's also other texts. There might be text that says it's it's the devil's number, it's negative, but there's also other text that says that triple sixes is not actually negative, it's a it's an opportunity to pause, it's an opportunity to check in and be like, hey, what's going on here? Which is so funny. Now I'm saying that out loud. I'm like, oh, it's reflection. Triple sixes is like, hey, pause, reflect. Do you like what's going on right now? If you don't, pivot. Now's a really good time to reflect. Isn't that so interesting how that worked out? Okay, here's six questions as we're six months into 2026. First

What You Hope Changes Soon

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question is in six months, what do I hope has changed? In six months, what do I hope has changed? I feel like this first question is gonna be the heaviest. The next five are gonna be a little bit lighter. This one is the most in-depth. In six months, what do I hope has changed? When I ask you that question, I just want you to notice what comes up. Because truly, what comes up for you? What do you hope has changed in six months? In your body, what do you hope has changed in six months? In your environment, what do you hope has changed in six months in your habits, in your personality, at your job, in your bank account? And I want you to notice these are only things that you can control. Right? What do you hope has changed in six months? Your mind might say, I hope my marriage has changed in six months, I hope my boss has changed in six months. Okay, that's fine, right? Notice naturally whatever comes up for you. We're not gonna judge any of it, allow it to come up. Now, from that list, look at it again. What is within your control? Right? If you hope that it's your boss that changes in six months, what can you control? You can't control your boss, but you can control yourself. Is there something you can shift in your behavior that would support your boss's poor mood? This is not again about people pleasing either, so please don't hear that. But is it that you maybe your boss is going through something? Would checking in on them on Monday morning be something you could try just to see if that shifts your relationship? You checking in on them personally. If you're like, I don't have the bandwidth for them, they're not nice, that's fine, right? What's within your control? What do you hope changes in six months? Aster that is within your control. Maybe you pause the podcast, maybe you save this one for later.

Practicing Real Self Love

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Second question is what do you love about yourself? What do you love about yourself? I love this question for so many reasons. I love it because it makes us itchy. If you have not been in the practice of loving yourself intentionally, giving love to yourself, showing love to yourself, telling yourself that you love yourself, receiving love from others without blocking it, just allowing somebody to say, I love you, and you're just like thinking I love you too, and like accepting the love, right? When we're not in the practice of loving ourselves, this is a very uh itchy and uncomfortable question. What do you love about yourself? And I think that's actually a really beautiful thing when it's itchy and uncomfortable because it it's information. All of this is just information, right? We're not judging any of it, any of it. If you notice that that question is itchy, you also get to notice, man, I have been out of practice of loving myself. And that's not an opportunity to beat yourself up, that's an opportunity to celebrate. Oh, I get to love myself, I get to feel better than how I have been feeling. I get to speak to myself better than how I have been speaking to myself. What do you love about yourself? And if when you ask yourself the question, nothing comes up, that's okay. That is totally okay. Meet yourself where you are. All of these questions, again, are mindfulness based. So awareness without judgment. None of these questions are meant to give you ammunition to beat yourself up. All of it is information, right? So what do you love about yourself?

Honest Self Inventory Without Shame

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Number three, flip side, what do you not like about yourself? What do you not like about yourself? I love both of these questions. It really just gives us an opportunity to be honest. Again, when we're in school, I find that we reflect so often. We do about me's when we're in school in almost every single grade. I remember in fourth grade, we would do this thing where we would, it was about me to the nth degree. Everybody in the classroom would get an opportunity to do this. And so when it was your time, everyone in the class would interview you. And this is, I went to school at Lehua Elementary School in Oahu, Hawaii. So I was very blessed that I lived on a beautiful island and this is where I went to school. But in in my fourth grade class, if it was your about me month or about me time, because there had to be like probably two people per month, because there's when you're not even in school for 12 months. Anyway, the point being, everybody, every student would interview you and they would ask you about yourself. They'd ask you your favorite color and what you liked and what you didn't like and what you're good at and what your expectation I guess not what your expectation, what fourth graders would ask, right? In your about me. What kind of cookies do you like? That kind of stuff, right? And so then the whole class would then create your about me book basically for you. I wouldn't do if everybody was interviewing me, I wouldn't write my about me book. I would be interviewed by everybody, and then the book would be given to me that would be about Nandi, but my classmates had written it for me. And I just thought that was so cool because not only am I reflecting, but then my reflections are being reflected back to me. And I remember specifically in the book, I had I everybody asked me the question that was the most asked of me was what was my favorite color? And until I was at least in middle school, I did not have a favorite color. I would tell everybody the rainbow because I couldn't pick one. I said, I love the whole rainbow. So the memory that I have of that book is I had a bunch of rainbows in my book because that was the thing that kept coming up again and again is like, Oh, Nadi loves the rainbow. Notie doesn't have a favorite color, she has the rainbow, right? And so when we're in school, we reflect so much. We know ourselves really well. Our teachers, our grandparents, our parents ask us about ourselves, what did you do today? What did you enjoy today? What kinds of conversations did you have with your friends? What kind of sports do you like to play, right? People are asking us all the time about ourselves, and we were constantly reflecting. And then we become adults, where especially when I speak on the Western world, we are asked to produce. Nobody seems to give a crap about who we are in the workspace. It's like leave your personality at the door. This is where you become a robot and you need to work. And that is, again, not all workspaces. There's always a spectrum of workspaces. And I love our workspace that wants you to bring your whole self. If you ever work for me, that is 100% who I am as a boss. I'm like, tell me about who you are. What else do you do? What else do you like to do? Because really that tells me about your skills and how I'm going to use them in the works in the workspace. If you're really creative, I'm going to use you for creative projects. I'm getting on a tangent now. The point being, reflect, slow down. What do you like about yourself? What do you not like about yourself? And then don't beat yourself up for it. Just being aware of it. Just be aware. What do I like? What do I not like? I like that. I love all the colors. I don't like that. I keep saying I'm gonna go to the gym and I'm not. I don't like that I keep saying I'm gonna try new foods and I don't, right? What do you not like about yourself? Check in, be honest. Don't beat yourself up. Just be honest. Question

What You Like About Your Life

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number four What do you like about your life? Let's zoom out a little bit. What do you like about your life? What comes up when I ask a question? What do you like about your life? Dramatic pause on purpose. Some of you were like, Did something happen to the podcast? No, I wanted you to think about that. What comes up for you when you think about what you like about your life? What do you love about your life? Either one. What comes up for you? And then the very last

Naming What Is Not Working

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one. Oh, I'm a liar, number five. What do you not like about your life? Flip side.

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Right?

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Notice what comes up. Again, all of this is for us to gather information. What do you not like about your life? And see if you can get as detailed as possible, right? It might start really brand. I don't like my job. Okay, well, what about your job do you not like? Do you not like the hours that you work? Do you not like that it takes you away from your kids? Do you not like that your boss doesn't care that your five-year-old had a recital last week and denied you PTO? Do you not like that you're asked to work on weekends? Do you not like that it's far, the commute is too far? Do you not like the office spaces that you work in? Right? Get really specific about what in your life you don't like. Just as specific as you can. Because then we can start to notice where we actually do have more control. If you're noticing that what you don't like about your job is the pay and the location, then maybe we start to look for jobs that are closer to your house and make more money. Right? We start to take our power back when we understand what it is that we don't like. Instead of ignoring it, right? When we ignore it, we can't do anything about it. But we when we can bring it to the service, when we can shine a flashlight on it, as I like to say when I'm coaching, when I'm working with a client in a one-on-one session, I'm like, let's shine a flashlight on this for a second. Let's look at this. Because so often we want to hide away from the things we don't like about ourselves, hide away from the things that we don't like about our life. No, I don't want to look at that. I don't want to look at that. I think in part we don't want to look at it because it hurts to look at the things we don't like. I think in part we don't want to look at it because, in honesty, some of us are never gonna change the things we don't like. So it's like, well, I just don't want to look at it because I'm really not gonna do anything about it. And I think on the other side, we don't want to look at it because we will feel the conviction to like, oh crap, now I need to change it. Right now that I've looked at it and I've named it, I always kind of felt I didn't like my job, but now that I've named it, like, I don't like my job because I don't like the pain. I don't like how far it is from my house. Oh, now I feel the need to do something about it. Again, I'm gonna zoom out and tell you you don't have to do anything. You don't have to do a darn thing, but I do want you to be aware. I want you to be aware. You could have a job that I was actually just talking to a friend of mine, a neighbor of mine, and this is what's true for her. She has a job that she likes her job. She doesn't like her boss. She's very clear on that. And she's also very clear on she's not going anywhere. Because of the commute, the the proximity to our home, our neighborhood, and the pay that she makes, which allows her to support her three children. Those are trade-offs she's willing to have. But she's so on, like, it's so refreshing speaking to her because she's so clear on that. She's like, I don't like my boss. They get on my nerves. I really don't. But I really like the work that I do. And the work that I do and the pay that I get in the proximity to my house, that's worth it. Don't like my bosses, but you know, I keep hoping maybe one day they'll wake up on the right side of the bed. Right? She's not trying to control them, she's not trying to change the situation. She's speaking about it plainly. You don't have to change anything.

unknown 17:26

Right?

SPEAKER_01 17:26

But I do want you to look at it. What do you not like about your life? And

The Courage Question And Fear

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then the final question is what do you wish you had the courage to do? What do you wish you had the courage to do? Again, this is not permission to beat yourself up. I'm actually asking this question because I do think it triggers something in us that we're like, ooh, what do I wish I had the courage to do? Oh, I would do this, and I would do this. If I had the courage, I would do this. And I think what's so interesting about that is that again, we have a choice. You can zoom out and and decide maybe you decide, I I will never have the courage to do these things, right? But I wish I had the courage to do these things. You can look at it like that. Or maybe you notice you're like, ooh, you know, I say I wish I had the courage to do these things, but you know, if I if I took some action, I could do these things. Maybe you notice that because you're not doing those things, that's why you're feeling frustrated. I find that nine times out of ten, that is why the people that I work with are frustrated, are depressed, are anxious, are annoyed, are just over it. It's because there's this thing that they wish they had the courage to do that they know that they can do. And it's not so much, I think, that we build up this like, I need the courage to do it. Like we're gonna jump off of a cliff or we're gonna jump out of a plane with a parachute when really it's like all you needed to do was start the LLC. All you needed to do was make the phone call. It feels really big, but truly the action is it it feels so big because it's unknown. Right? Anytime we go to do something new, the brain says, Oh my gosh, are we going to be okay? I can't protect you from the unknown, so I'm gonna create the worst case scenario so that way I can be aware of what could happen at the very worst to protect us. But the reality is that, and thank you, brain. Let me just say that. Thank you, brain, for trying to protect us, right? The brain's just trying to do the brain thing, but it is our job through mindfulness to notice when that fear is not serving us, when it would serve us to move through the fear, because that's where our self-actualization is, that's where we accomplish the goal, that's where we just feel good about ourselves. We we did the uncomfortable thing that we want to do. What do you wish you had the courage to do? Again, none of this is permission to beat yourself up, all of it is information. Just notice. Isn't that so interesting that I don't like that about myself? Isn't that so interesting that I don't think that I have the courage to do this? It's just information. As always, my friends, take what sticks to you. Leave the rest. I'll see you next week.

Closing And Ways To Work Together

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