"Grownups can be dream killers."

This one stopped listeners in their tracks when it first aired — and it's just as relevant now. We're bringing it back because some conversations don't have an expiration date.

Stacey Luces sits down with Yulimar Trumbo — investor in the future of entrepreneurs and world-class sales facilitator who has worked across 40+ countries with Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and government sectors — for a conversation about courage, safety, and choosing possibility again.

Together they explore why intentions create alignment while resolutions create pressure, why authentic connection matters more than proximity, and how protecting your time is really about protecting your life. Through personal stories about family, entrepreneurship, partnership, and change, they dig into leading yourself first, trusting what your body knows, and building "a new same page" in relationships and communities.

🎧 In this episode:

02:39 Intentions vs. resolutions
05:06 Decisions that shaped the last decade
10:47 Protecting your time and saying no
26:24 Dreams, courage, and refusing to shrink
29:07 Youth, innovation, and social entrepreneurship
39:36 Relationships, loneliness, and real connection

💡 Key takeaways worth revisiting:

Intentions create alignment. Resolutions create pressure. This episode reframes goal-setting as an invitation to rise — not a demand for compliance.
"No" is autonomy in motion. Self-betrayal starts small. Boundaries are built in the everyday.
Courage must be protected or it will be negotiated away. When safety becomes the goal, imagination shrinks.
Transformation begins with a new internal language. Swap sacrifice, balance, and guilt for integration, equanimity, and surrender — and watch how you lead, love, and choose differently.

You've already done the quo — now it's time to go beyond. 🔥

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✨ Connect with Stacey

staceyluces.com · IG @Stacey.Luces · LinkedIn @StaceyLuces

✨ Connect with Yuli

LinkedIn @yulimar-trumbo