Here’s the final episode of Space to Think for 2025, a conversation that feels like a bridge between this year and the next, full of small beginnings and energy for whatever comes next.
Earlier this week, I had the joy of chatting with fellow coach and former teacher, Hannah Buchan, who is 71 days into a 100-day uplevel of her life and business. On paper, it sounds ambitious, but in reality, her approach is disarmingly human. Her guiding value is simple: feeling alive, and everything in her 100-day challenge flows from that.
Hannah talks openly about what many of us recognise: the gap between the life that looks good and the life that feels good. She describes the moment, while recovering from COVID, when she realised she’d been playing it safe. Not wrong. Not unhappy. Just not fully, unapologetically herself.
What I loved in this conversation is how small and tangible her uplevels are. Updating her website. Starting a ceramics class. Getting new photos taken. Buying plants and finally filling the neglected garden beds. Tidying her car. Adopting kittens. Choosing clothes that make her feel joyful. Saying yes to a speaking engagement that stretched her.
None of these are dramatic reinventions. But together, they change the texture of a day and therefore a life.
She also names something many of us can relate to, I’m sure - she never wants to do the thing. And yet she has found ways to move through resistance, whether through a song, a shift in perspective or the reminder that confidence comes from trying, not waiting.
There’s a quiet power in that. A reminder that we don’t have to wait for clarity or readiness or the perfect moment. We can start where we are, with what we have and trust the compound interest of tiny actions.
As Hannah says, the real imprint of this challenge is the belief that it’s okay to want more and that energy, joy and rest aren’t luxuries but foundations.
It’s a conversation full of honesty, warmth and permission.
Thanks for listening to Space to Think, a podcast where I create space to think through conversations with guests exploring their knowledge, insights and stories. Each conversation holds the potential for ideas to grow wild.
