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The Spiritual Hustler
Shedding Season: Why Everything You Outgrew in 2025's Year of the Snake Had to Go
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Welcome to the Spiritual Hustler podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Zweig, multi seven figure serial entrepreneur, best selling author and branding and business coach. And this is a show where we are redefining the word hustle. Reclaiming our true feminine nature of magnetism and putting down the self judgments and shame around loving to work and making a lot of money at it. On this show, you're going to learn how to stop hustling and start spiritually hustling. By pressing play, you are now part.
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Of a new movement of women who.
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Don'T hustle for money. We hustle for meaning. We don't hustle from lack. We hustle for love. We don't hustle from survival. We hustle for humanity's thriving. We hustle toward healing the ancestral programming of fear and step into a new understanding of safety in the body to receive. This shift isn't going to only heal your life.
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It's going to make you a whole lot richer too.
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This is the Spiritual Hustler podcast.
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Well, hello my beautiful spiritual hustlers. Welcome back to the podcast. Oh my gosh, am I so happy to be here with you guys. This episode is going to be a little different. It's going to be a little slower, maybe a little deeper, a little bit more reflective. I want to thank you first and foremost for being here. I never take your presence for granted. You guys are my greatest gift, this community. And if you're new to the show, welcome to the community. We all are so happy you're here. And if you're not new, welcome back on this show. We all know if you're new, you will know that we talk about all things business here, what it means to build a brand, to become a leader, to grow a team, to scale revenue, to make an impact, and also, of course, all the things that have to do with spirituality, whatever you call it, Great Spirit, the divine mother, the Divine Father, God, universe, the light source, intelligence, we break it all down here. Whether it's feng shui or crystals or akashic records or astrology or human design or breath work, we really blend the two because I don't think that they're separate. I think we need both in order to fully embody our power and our light. And so thank you for being here. In the spirit of my gratitude, I wanted to actually share with you guys before we get started that I have a whole new fresh stock of Spiritual Hustler and Lightworker swag. There is nowhere else you can get this swag other than the podcast. I'M telling you, I am chock filled now with the most amazing sweatshirts that have the mission of the show on the sleeve. They've got this beautiful quote on the back. They're taupe colored. They're so yummy and luxe. You guys gotta get a Spiritual Hustler sweatshirt. And my lightworker hats are back in stock. I've got Spiritual Hustler beanies and black and white and gold stitching. You guys. My point is, I am here to shower you guys with this swag. The only place you can get this swag is through this podcast and through what I'm about to tell you. I am running another massive giveaway. So if you have not yet left a review on the podcast, I want you to go to Apple Podcast. That's the place to do it on Apple. Leave us a five star review. Couple sentences right before you submit it. Because you've got to submit it, screenshot it, send it to me over on Instagram in the DMS at Jessica Zweig. I hang out there all the time. It's really me in the DMs. And we'll grab your address and we will send you swag. We're going to be doing a couple giveaways a week, so the chances to win are high. And all you've got to do is take 30 seconds. Let us know and let the world know what this show has meant to you. And it is my deepest honor to be in reciprocity and give back to you guys for not only leaving a review, but for being a part of this community and listening in the first place. It is not lost on me. So leave us a review and you have a chance to win some insane swag. And don't forget to subscribe to the show and share this podcast with anyone that you feel needs to hear it. And on social media. Tag me. I'll reshare it. I love coming to find you guys in the DMs and on that platform. It really is a chance to take this podcast conversation one step further. I love you. Thank you in advance. And I cannot wait to see who wins. Let's get into it because today, in spirit of this being the last episode of the year, I really want to talk about the year of the Snake. It's not over yet, you guys. It goes all the way until February 16th. So we got a few more weeks to go. But I want to talk about what this year meant, what this year took, and really what it cleared for me and I believe for the collective, because 2025 was not a normal year. You feel me? 2025 was a nine year in numerology. And nine years are not about building, right? We live in a nine year cycle according to numerology. So two plus two plus five is nine. And nines are the year of endings. Completion, closure, death before a rebirth. And for so many people in my community, in my life, in my network, I really saw this being the year of divorce, breakups, job losses, identity dissolutions, saw a lot of friendships ending. I saw entire life structures quietly, at times violently falling apart. But here's the thing that I really want to say. Here is what really came through for me as I was getting ready to record this episode. And also just in being an observer over these last few months. What ended in 2025 was not the job or just the relationship or the circumstance. What ended was the part of you that tolerated it. And that is something to really celebrate. Because the snake doesn't just destroy things randomly. The power of the snake, the snake medicine so strong, it sheds what no longer can contain her growth. And for a lot of us, that shedding was brutal, even though it was necessary, even though it was in our highest service, because we are all about to expand so big in 26, and I'm going to talk about that. We had to shed what was keeping us contained. Now, I really want to be honest about my own year, really considered sharing all of this today, but I feel it is in the highest service of all of you guys. To be really honest today. You know, maybe on the surface it looked like I had an amazing year. I sold out to incredible feminine frequency business schools. I went to Avalon, I moved into my new beautiful house. I didn't really have a catastrophic headline moment of my own, sort of year of the snake. But as I was reflecting and preparing for the show, that's actually not true. There was a lot of endings in this year of mine. This was the year that I did end relationships, specifically female friendships that were no longer in alignment. And I'm really, really proud of that. This stage in my life. I think what I'm most proud of is that I look around my community, my network, my circle of friends. And I don't have any women in my life who are unsafe, who are competitive, who are gossipy, who are low vibrational or disempowering. Like I stand in a circle of unbelievable, powerful women who are so loving I could cry. And I took stock of that circle and I realized that it wasn't completely immaculate. And so this year Demanded like a whole new next level of boundaries from me. They weren't reactive boundaries, they weren't angry boundaries. They were just very clear and clean and sovereign boundaries. And I really let go of friendships that couldn't come with me into this new phase of my life. And it wasn't dramatic at all, actually. It was super decisive. And that is snake medicine as much as it is anything. All right, sisters, let's.
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And this was also the year that I got my team Right. And if you are a leader, you know, we talk a lot about building a team and what it takes to be a leader on the show. And if you are a leader of people listening, you know how hard that is sometimes leadership, you know, means choosing alignment over comfort. It means choosing truth over loyalty. It really requires long term integrity over short term relief. And that required shedding people that I really, really cared about. And it really hurt and it really stretched me and it really asked me to trust my own intuition even when my heart felt so heavy. But leadership doesn't reward avoidance. And the snake year really demanded of me precision. And so the biggest initiation, if you will, of my snake year was my house. Now, it looked really, really beautiful and fun and exciting on the outside. But moving into this new home wasn't just a logistical upgrade and the amount of capacity it took from me. I mean, you guys, if you want to build a custom house here, from me here, now, I don't really recommend it. It is not for the faint of heart. It requires so much capacity. It's like a full time job on top of your job, your life, but bigger. It's like all of a sudden stepping into an enterprise business, like a full blown operational enterprise business that you have no idea how to run and you have no idea what the language is and you have no control. And that alone pushed me almost to my edge. In fact, it did push me to my edge, but it wasn't a logistical upgrade as much as it was a worthiness upgrade. So before we moved, we lived in this house for a year and a half in Nashville. We rented. That was our stuff. Like, we moved all of our furniture down from Chicago and it was filled with our lives. And we purged everything out of that house. I'm talking 30 bags of garbage, years of furniture. We sold everything on Facebook Marketplace. Old identities hiding in old objects, emotional residue from, like past versions of myself, past relationships. I wouldn't call myself a hoarder, but I'm very sentimental. And I save, like anything anyone ever gives me, whether it's like a written card or a special gift or, you know, or some sort of token of nostalgia. Like, I saved it all. I'm talking about, like, we moved stuff down from Chicago that was in that house that I had had since like my early 20s. And I threw it all away. We sold it, we donated it, we released it. And what surprised me the most in this whole transition was the house that I am living in currently required a new version of me that no longer believed. I had to Earn beauty and safety or abundance through struggle. It was really a big part of me that, you know, quietly was like, do I deserve this the whole time? Like, do I get to have a dream this big? Do I really feel worthy of living in a home that is this beautiful and expansive? That part of me had to die. And man, was that an initiation. Because it was like a death. Like I went through a full on ego death and identity shattering and it felt like I was being chewed up inside my system for months as I was preparing to move during that purge. So much fear, so many old scarcity stories, so many old self loathing patterns. Worry, doubt. It was a full on fucking initiation, you guys. And that was the snake year. It doesn't bypass anything. It asks you to walk straight through them and let yourself be ripped open. And you know, here is really the biggest takeaway from that for me above all and all of the things that I had to shed this year that I really want to leave with you and relay to you. And this is something that I want us to embrace. The deeper the loss, the deeper the pain. The deeper the stretching in the fucking muck is. The deeper the expansion. The deeper your unraveling goes, the wider you find new capacity. What we shed in 2025, it all created the space required for what is coming next in our lives. None of it was random and none of it was a punishment. It was all preparation. Because now we are standing at the edge of 2026. All right, this is a one year. Two plus two plus six is 10. One plus zero is one. It's a one year, a new beginning. And it is not just any new beginning. It is the year of the fire horse. You guys, this only happens once every 60 years. The last time this happened was in 1966. And fun fact, in Japan and the Eastern hemisphere birth rates went down. This is historically factual because families in the east avoided having children. Because in the year of 1966, especially daughters. Because they didn't want their daughter to be born under the year of the fire horse. Because they didn't want their daughter to be wild. Too powerful, too fiery. Okay, you guys, let's fucking take that in. I am so fucking pumped for the year of the Horse it like I could jump out of my own skin. Pun intended. Year of the Snake. We're almost done. This is the year for powerful female entrepreneurs. This is a year of momentum and visibility finally. And leadership beyond our own capacity currently. And courage in a way we have never allowed ourselves to trust. But here is the truth Sisters, we can only ride that fire horse if the snake went first. You had to shed the old skin. You had to let the parts of you that tolerated the people, the places, the old stories, the relationships, the identities die in order to move at an entirely new speed. So giddy up cause we're about to ride. Thank you so much for riding with me this year. Thank you so much for being a part of my community. I want to thank you for the reflections, the. You know, I've met so many of you, like in traveling and in the city and just like being out and about and. And through social media and in my community in FFPs like I feel you guys, I know you guys. I am so honored that you listen to this show so consistently. Just for being here and for staying in the room, you know, when we have uncomfortable conversations or I challenge you as I challenge myself to look at the parts of ourselves that we need to work on, you know, and what our greatest potential and capacity is to be living our birthright, which is joy and abundance and vitality and success, you know, and if you're listening to this episode and thinking as Jessica is explaining all this, like, wow, this year almost broke me too. I want you to know that you were never breaking. You were becoming. I'm so honored to walk this chapter with you guys. This next chapter, this community, is my greatest gift. So cheers. SL raise a glass of non alcoholic champagne. Cheers to what we released in 2025 and cheers to what is rising in 2026. And most of all, cheers to the woman that you are always becoming. I love you all so much. Happy, happy holidays and happy, happy new year and I'll see you guys in the year that it all begins again. Let's go.