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A sturdy castle, a restless river, and an ancient mountain frame a New Year story about leaving before anything breaks. We open the season with a dream that maps the inner shift from comfort to calling, inviting us to move not because disaster strikes but because timing quietly changes. The landscape becomes a guide: foothills as earned rest, the castle as the life we built to shelter others, the river as time’s irreversibility, and the mountain as awe that asks more of us.

We unpack how success can become a ceiling without warning, and why healthy growth doesn’t burn the past. Instead, it blesses what worked and steps forward without contempt. Along the way we face the relational cost of change: some people stay, some go, and no one has to be the villain. Leadership here isn’t control or endless consensus-building; it’s the courage to name the weather, pack the bag, and go first. We talk about somatic knowing, the body’s early sense that movement is due, and how to honor grief without surrendering direction.

The climb itself teaches what vision can’t delegate. Effort is real, progress is incremental, and community becomes visible in small acts of care: a hand offered, a pause to let someone breathe, quiet encouragement that travels down the line. If you feel a season turning—even while everything looks fine—this conversation offers language, images, and questions to carry with you: Where are you waiting for agreement when timing already calls? What would it look like to trade control for timing and let awe, not ambition, lead?

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About Season 2

Season 2 of Cuppa Terrific follows The Seasonal Ascent — a symbolic and psychological journey through change, individuation, and inner leadership. Each episode explores a different stage of the climb, from leaving comfort to learning how to walk at altitude.

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