159: {Solo} My 2025 Gratitude List

As we are rounding out 2025, my heart is full of love, support and gratitude! In today's episode I'm listing the top 25 things that I'm grateful for this year. The list includes each of you that tune into the show each week. It means more than you'll ever know! 

Transcript

Caroline Pennington (00:01.23)
All right, we are rounding out 2025 about to head into 2026. I wanted to come on here today and talk about 25 things that I am grateful for this year. So number one, it is my health. I'm a firm believer and truly really believe at the bottom of my core that health is wealth. And so I'm very grateful for 2025 being a healthy year. I am grateful for my husband, Gary.

For those of you that don't know, I am married to Gary. We've been married about a decade and he has been the most supportive, loving partner. And I'm very grateful for him. I'm grateful for my family and my parents, my brother, sister. I have a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law and I actually have three, two nieces and, or two nephews, excuse me, and one niece, two of which arrived this year, which is

a blessing to our family. I am grateful for my church family and community. that has been a great outlet for spiritual fulfillment for me. I am grateful for my two podcast managers. For those of you that follow me on social media, I have two wine writers, Xena and Zara, and I refer to them basically daily as my podcast managers. I'm grateful to be living in this small town in South Carolina called Beaufort.

I didn't know if I'd like living in a small town, but I actually have fallen in love with the city and the community and the people here. So I'm very grateful to be living on the coast in South Carolina. I'm grateful for my friends. I have friends that are here local and I have friends that are all over the country and I am grateful for each and every one of you. I'm so grateful for this podcast. I'm so grateful that I started this journey a little over two and a half years ago. I had no clue what I was doing.

and literally read a blog about how to start a podcast and then just figured it out since. So don't ever underestimate the power of a YouTube video, okay? I am grateful for the opportunity to travel. I've been able to travel to a lot of cool places this year, both for work and for fun, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to do that. I think travel is a great outlet just for new experiences, meeting new people, do new things, and I think travel is a healthy.

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has been a healthy outlet for me for both work and fun. I am grateful for fish tacos. So for those of you that know me well, I literally love a fish taco, blackened, not fried. And I'm also so grateful for my clients, for each and every one of you who have trusted me with your marketing to grow your business online. I am truly grateful for each and every one of you.

I am grateful for, have spoken on many stages this past year and I'm grateful for that. So thank you if you have been in the audience or seen online, I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do that. I am grateful for the reviews of this podcast. Y'all it never gets old when I log onto my Apple account and see a new review. Oh my gosh. It just literally warms my heart. So thank you for each and every one of you who's left a review. And if you haven't left a review and you like this podcast.

I would greatly appreciate you leaving a review. Those go a really long way in the podcasting world. so thank you to each and every one of you who've done that. I'm grateful for sunsets. For those of you that know me, I am a sunset girly over a sunrise. Don't get me wrong. I love sunrises as well, but if I had to choose, I'm a sunset girly. And this past fall has been, I've seen the most incredible sunsets here in our community. And I'm very grateful for that.

So we're in the month of December and both my husband and I have birthdays in December and I love a birthday. just isn't a new year to celebrate you being alive and you being here on this earth. And I just love birthdays. My husband is a Sagittarius. He's December 15th and I am Capricorn December 31st. So New Year's Eve, girly over here. And so that's been two opportunities for us to travel and do something fun and celebrate in the month of December.

On top of everything else with the holidays, which leads me into my next one, which is the holidays. I'm grateful for the holidays. I love the holidays. love celebrating. love coming together. It's a community. I love some holiday food. I don't know about you, but I definitely go a little crazy and indulge with the holiday food, but it's okay. Okay. I'm grateful for personal branding. Y'all this, I know this buzzword gets thrown around a lot these days, but personal branding is literally the game changer.

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for you and your business or you as a human, you as the expert, whatever fill in the blank that you want it to be, it can change the game for you and your life. So if you're listening to this podcast and you're like, I don't know, it sounds scary. It is scary. When I started my personal branding journey, I had literally no clue what I was doing. I was so cringe. I had no clue what to post out there. No clue what to say, no clue what I was doing. But the important thing is that you actually start doing it.

That is when the game is gonna change for you is the personal branding. Okay, I'm grateful for networking events. I always talk about the power of getting in the room and at the networking events, that's literally where I've met clients. I've met people I've been asked to be on my podcast or vice versa. And I would truly encourage you to start getting in the rooms. I know it's weird. It feels awkward. You're like, I don't know anybody, but that's okay. You'll leave.

knowing people and it just, you'll stay in touch with them and your network will grow and your network is your net worth. I am grateful for good books. I like reading a personal development book in the mornings while I drink my hot tea. And so I'm grateful for good books that I've read. My goal, I make it a goal to read one book a month and I might speed that up for next year, but I'm grateful for good books.

I'm also grateful for the gym that I go to. I work out five days a week, Monday through Friday, and the gym has been a great place to meet other people in the community, to strengthen my body, to get my mindset straight for the day. And so I'm grateful for my gym and the gym opportunity, the gym community. I am grateful for our new home. For those of you that don't know, we moved this past year in March.

And so we moved to a community we actually used to live in, which is great. There's restaurants nearby. It's beautiful. You can walk and see the water. I just am so grateful for our new home. I am grateful for good neighbors. We have been blessed with that, both in our old neighborhood and our new neighborhood. And so I'm grateful for that. I am grateful, even though it's hard to be a Gamecock South Carolina fan, I'm grateful for the Gamecocks.

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I decided to go to University of South Carolina because I wanted to go to a really big football SEC school and the Gamecocks, even though they've been inconsistent, it's hard being a Gamecock fan. It has been a great school, higher education experience for me and I've enjoyed following them sports wise afterwards. And last but not least, I am so grateful for each and every one of you who tune in this podcast every single week. It means more to me than you ever will know.

And so I am grateful for you. So until next time.