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Reading Goals, Reset & Real Talk with Olivia

• Jordan • Season 1 • Episode 23

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We swear we're not buying more books... After December!

Goals that actually stick rarely start with spreadsheets—they start with a feeling. We as in Olivia and I decided our feeling for 2026 is consistency, and it changed everything about how we read, buy, and share books. From a simple 45‑minute daily target to a color‑coded year‑in‑pixels page, we map a routine that protects mental health, surfaces patterns, and keeps stories fun. No shame, no streak anxiety, just a gentle checkpoint that tells us when life is getting loud and what to tweak next.

We also get real about the TBR and the dopamine loop of book mail. Tabs on unread spines, shelf counts in Notion, and a “shop your shelves” ritual help us see what we already love. Content creation gets its own reset. Batching shoots and edits reduces burnout, and each platform has a lane: TikTok for raw hot takes and TBR experiments, Instagram for polished favorites and visuals, YouTube for vlogs and deep dives. ARC boundaries return control to our tastes—we stay with core teams and skip the ad hoc rush. 

We close with rapid‑fire 2026 anticipated releases and the 2025 reads we can’t stop thinking about, from heart‑stopping romantic suspense to nostalgic favorites that felt like home. If you’re craving a reading year that fits your real life, this is your blueprint: simple habits, visible progress, fewer shoulds, more savoring. 

Subscribe, share with a bookish friend, and tell us the one change you’re making to design your best reading year yet.

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Jordan:

Alrighty, I am back with another episode. And I have the lovely, the beautiful Olivia with me again. And I'm so happy that you could come back on the podcast, Olivia. Like, thank you so much. Like for the listeners, I had to, it was like kind, it was last minute, but it wasn't last minute. And Olivia was so kind to be like, yes, I'm down. Like, let's do it. And she came up with this idea for this episode, which was honestly literally perfect. We well, we'll get into it later. I want to know, Olivia, what is the highlight of your week so far?

Oliva:

Hi everybody, and Jordan, thank you so much for having me back. This is the most fun. So I'm so glad we get to chat again. Hopefully, this time I don't like completely ignore you at one point and we just move right into the subject because I still think about that all the time. Um, I'd say my highlight of my week is I got some really fun book mail. So I got a PR box from one of my favorite authors, and it had a cap in it that says save a horse, ride a cowboy. And then the other one I got had an apron that is for a celiac safe restaurant that one of the main characters runs. So just like a very personalized box. So I have those two new items that I cannot stop wearing.

Jordan:

Oh my gosh, I love that. I love that. I um going back to I think about that moment all the time because I feel like that just like sums up our relationship. And that's like the one thing I wish we had video because that would have been the perfect teaser to have like on Instagram, and I don't know how to like share it. So it's more so if you if you listen, like if you know, you know. Um but I remember I remember seeing you getting that book mail in the mail, like that box. I remember you being so excited. You're the cutest.

Oliva:

I put it in Vlogmas, like I recorded it because I was gonna record the unboxing. Yeah, it was on my stories too, but I grabbed the box and started recording, and I forgot that the hat was in there, and I just got so excited. So, yes.

Jordan:

I love it. Uh book mail is just like the best thing in I love I just I love getting books. I just I love books. It's the best thing. It honestly is. Yeah, uh yes, exactly. I I love it and I just like want all the books, but that I know that's like not maybe the best, but I just want all the books. I just want books, man. I just want books.

Oliva:

I've already gotta put shelves up in this place. I've been here for how many months can I do maths? Uh probably like eight months I've been back, and I already need to put up new shelves.

Jordan:

Wow, wait, I didn't know it was eight months. I feel like it wasn't that long ago.

Oliva:

Yeah, end of April, beginning of May.

Jordan:

Wow. Of this year, though, right?

Oliva:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jordan:

Of 25, yeah. Oh my goodness. That's crazy. My library is exploding, that is for sure. I love it. I love it. Well, okay, so on that note, which I guess maybe doesn't really make any sense, but we're going with it. We are going to talk about our 2026 goals. And I'm so excited because I love doing goals, uh, like reading goals, like all that jazz, maybe some new releases. Um, we're just gonna see where this episode takes us, but that's gonna be like the main of this pod, the main thing of this episode.

Oliva:

Right, like everyone spends either the end back betweenness section, like the 26th, the new year's, or even in January, like the beginning of January, people start like really focusing on what their 2026 goals, intentions, all of that is. And I feel like some people just always think that goal planning is for that part of the year, and it's not always meant for that. I think it's always a good reminder of like, even if we're in the middle of the year and you're listening to this, like you can change your goals at any point. And I think that's what's so important. It's like you, you there's no set timeline, right? You can start and stop whenever you want.

Jordan:

I totally agree, and it's so funny because I went back to I was looking at the goals that I created like in the beginning of 2025, which honestly I really didn't meet any of them. I mean, I guess my one goal was not having a like a book number I wanted to read, and I guess I didn't necessarily I hit that goal because I didn't have a goal number. Um, but I'm very excited to go into this year with the goals that I have written down, which is some from last year. I took some away, added some, and so I'm so excited. But I want to know what is your like first goal? Like, I don't know, it like your first one you wrote down or like your number one.

Oliva:

Yeah, so I set like a word for my reading this year just because I felt like I needed some sort of guidance. So for me, I've gone with consistency. I feel like the last half of this year, I've really struggled to be consistent with reading, like picking up books every day. You know, 2024 was my reading year by far. 25 has been very, very different for me reading-wise. I've been in and out of moods of picking up books, not picking up anything, switching formats, stopping in the middle of books, even though I'm loving it. Like there's just been this disconnect. And I felt like 2026 needed to be the year of consistency for me. So I've made it like reading 45 minutes a day my goal of the year. And then I built out like one of those year in pixels trackers so I can check off if I read that day for at least 45 minutes. And I'm also pairing that with how many books am I finishing? Like each day, am I finishing a book? Am I, you know, what am I doing on that day? Am I picking up something new? Because I read across all three formats now. I'm just curious to see which ways I'm finishing first. Ooh, wait, is this like a new app? What app is this? No, no, I did it on my have like a fully physical reading journal that I prefer using.

Jordan:

Yeah. Gotcha.

Oliva:

So I ended up putting in like you obviously you can customize how you do trackers when you do it physically. So I built out an entire year-in-pixels spread, and you can look them up, but I'm quickly showing Jordan because she can see. Um, so it's got like the days and then the months across the top, and then you have a box for each day, and you color it in corresponding to if you read that day or not.

Jordan:

Oh, I love that. That is so cool. I kind of I feel like I want to try to do something like that. Maybe I can like look into it before like the new year. Because I know if it if it becomes after January 1st and I don't start it, I won't, because I won't know how to go back to it unless it's like January 1st or 2nd where I can like keep track of it. Yeah, then I feel like I could go back to it. But like if you know how like once it gets to like mid-January, I'm like, I'm I don't know if I read whatnot. Whatnot. Oh, sorry. Well, I don't I don't mean to.

Oliva:

I was just gonna say it's helpful for me to like track trends. So is there a certain part of the month that I'm just not reading? And what's going on in that part of the month that's stopping me from doing it? Because my mental health ties directly to my reading habits, and that's something I can kind of physically see how I'm doing mentally. I think sometimes we have this like winders when it comes to our own mental health and we miss how we're actually doing. Reading has become my checkpoint for it of being like, hey, you're not reading, red flag, something must be up, something's either stressing you out or something's going on where you're not picking up books. And that typically means mentally I'm not doing great. So it's a good way to have a physical representation of that to see if there's any trends or things I can do better for myself.

Jordan:

Okay, okay. That like honestly, that makes sense. Because I know too, like, and I don't know if this is the same for you, not necessarily reading-wise. I do go through bouts of like reading, not reading, but I know content creation. If I'm depending on where I am in my cycle, I will either be more creative or less creative of like if I'm like about to start that time of the month, I'm I almost feel like I'm less creative. It's like when I'm like leading towards like my ovulation, I'm more creative.

Oliva:

Yeah. Well, you've got more energy too, then. Yes. And it's it takes a lot of mental energy to create content. But it's funny you mentioned that because I've also put that in my reading journal is building a consistent content creation schedule that works for me because I've taken the end of December off completely from posting, which I think has been really helpful in terms of like coming up with my own reading goals and focusing on my own growth independently. I think sometimes we can get influenced by seeing what everyone else is posting this time of year and feeling that pressure to adopt those goals when they might not serve you.

Jordan:

Yeah.

Oliva:

So I feel like it's almost the best time to be a little selfish and just focus, you know, on what works for you. So one of the big things with consistency being the theme of 2026, it's building schedules that work for me. So figuring out when filming and editing and how I'm gonna batch that into my weeks and like planning because I love content creation and posting, and it's one of the best things. I just need to figure out a way to make it work consistently throughout the month.

Jordan:

Uh well, yeah, because you you post a lot. I feel like you were telling me that you were posting like twice a day.

Oliva:

Yeah, I was. I was posting twice a day, and then December's been just like a heavy month. So I've taken a lot of it off and taken a step back, and I was posting once a day. So which is still a lot.

Jordan:

Yes, and you're like, and you posting once a day, like you doing your vlogmas, those are like a lot, especially editing, recording, editing, what however you want to do it. Like it's not just a simple like recommendation. No, it's the same day too. It's so that's like a lot for you.

Oliva:

Yeah, it is a lot to do the same day, and I think it's made me appreciate batching so much more because for me, it's very easy for me to film videos. Planning probably takes me an hour or two a week. Filming, I can film everything I need for a week and a half in about an hour, depending on the video. And then editing is what takes the longest for me. But the more you do something, the better at it you become. So it takes less time. But again, building that into a schedule that is not like gonna burn me out is typically is more of what I'm intending to do next year. So, like maybe making it a filming day, an editing day, you know, do I need a couple days to edit? How far out am I filming? That's sort of what I'm working on next.

Jordan:

I like it. I like it. Wait, so are you setting a reading goal? Like, I want to read this many books for the year.

Oliva:

Yes. It's gonna be more of a beginning of the year focus, though, because I just found out I got into nursing school and that starts in May. Congrats! Thank you. Yes, that should be my highlight of the week, but you know, books first. Um, but I got into like the program that I wanted and everything, so it is a year long, very intensive, and I will end up with another bachelor's degree at the end of it. So I'm basically doing a four-year degree in a year, which is crazy.

Jordan:

Yeah, so you're gonna have like no time for reading. Well, actually, that's a lie, because I feel like are you driving or you commute to Oh, I'm gonna commute.

Oliva:

I live in the area that my university's in. Okay. So it's close enough.

Jordan:

Well, I was gonna say like audiobooks. So you're still you'll still be able to get your like reading in, it just probably will be different.

Oliva:

Exactly. It's gonna be a different kind of schedule in the second half of this year, this year, next year. And I think just the whole point of having consistency be the focus of the first five months and setting that 100 books is to make sure that I've ingrained it into my day so I'm taking care of myself mentally because school's gonna be a lot and it's gonna be stressful. And I think everyone, even if you're like working or whatever you're doing, there's something that's stressful in life. I don't think anyone walks through life stress-free. But uh being able to have those things built into your day that protect you and take care of you is really important. And since I know reading does that for me, I have to make sure I get those 45 minutes of reading in somehow.

Jordan:

Yeah, no, no, no, I I definitely agree. Because like I know this year I did not set a reading goal because I I think I was becoming like too stressed and hitting it, and I never quite hit it. But I think this year for like 2026, I want to set a reading goal for 100 books because I want it to be something that I can reach for. And I always struggle with hitting a hundred for whatever reason. I usually like am just under. And I think this year, I'm hoping I can hit a hundred without setting a goal, but I'm I think right now I'm at 94. So it could be tough. It maybe it dep, it kind of just depends. But I think when I was like writing this hundred, I just like seeing like the the keeping track of it on Goodreads. So I was like, you know what? I think I'm gonna set 100. And I I think what I did, yeah, and I divided it by like the 12 months. And if I hit like eight books a month, yeah, that like pretty much is like just about it's like under a hundred, but like just about. So like maybe if I do like nine books a month, and sometimes like I'll hit like 15 books a month. So I feel like it just kind of depends if like what reading flow I'm in. And I'm like, I won't, I want to do that. I really want to hit a hundred books for this year, well, 2026. And so I think that's like my number one goal is hitting a hundred.

Oliva:

Yeah, I've done the same number as you, and I think it's interesting because you're reaching to hit that goal. And I've actually brought my number down this year from what I read in 24. So 24, I read something like almost 250 books, maybe just over 250 in 2024. I was reading maybe 20, I was reading at least 20 plus books. And then this year, my main focus was bringing down that reading number, which I know might sound bizarre to people, because it wasn't like I wasn't loving every book I read or anything. I just wanted to slow down because I was reading so many incredible books and they were favorites, and my memory is phenomenal. Like that is probably one of my best traits. And I was remembering everything and loving all the details. I just wanted to savor that time a little bit more with characters and everything. So I said, let's slow down. Let's now I know my taste, let's really like dive into books I'm going to love. And then I brought the number down. I mean, kind of unintentional by the end of the year because I feel like I've barely read anything this second half. So it's very strange.

Jordan:

What number are you at for 2020? Can I ask? Like, where are you?

Oliva:

Yeah, I think I'm 162. Holy poop! Yeah. And I'm like 94. Okay, but think about it. You also read a lot more of the heavier fiction and romantic than I'm reading right now, which is like significantly chunkier. I'm reading a lot of small town romance, MC romances, which are normally shorter than yours, and they're a little bit easier to consume because it's I feel like fiction writing can get very dense very quickly. Yeah. And romantic can sometimes, versus there's nothing really dense in my books. They're like emotion, like writing style-wise, they're not very dense to read, and they don't take as much mental capacity to read, unless it's super emotional, and like there's a different emotional toll that comes with some of those books.

Jordan:

But I definitely like want to read more of those, but I feel like sometimes like I've tried reading some authors that are like Small Town, Suspense, Mysteries, Romantic Suspense, but I don't know. I think I need to like still find my authors because I've picked up some and I just oof. It was a struggle to finish.

Oliva:

Yeah, and I've had my my fair share of those when it comes to romantic year is learning your taste.

Jordan:

That's true. That is true.

Oliva:

Yeah. Have you set any other goals for this year?

Jordan:

For like 2026? Yeah. Okay, yes. So I have, I really this kind of goes hand in hand because I really want to limit my buying new books and read books from my physical TBR. But technically, this was a goal from last year. But at the beginning of the year, I had something really rough that just like totally rocked me. Like that. I was like, fuck everything. And I'm pretty sure, like, you know, it's like what we were talking about, getting books in the mail is like a dopamine hit. It's like serotonin, like you, it just it makes you feel good that I was like, I I made it seven days, and then I was like, fuck it all. And I just and that I never got back into it. So I really want to try this year to limit the book buying. I'm not gonna say like going on a book buying ban, even though for January, I really want to try to do like people do the dry January. I really want it to be like a dry book buying month because I really do because I I feel like I saw so many people tackling their physical TBR, and I I want that to be me. Like, I want to use my home library as like a library or as like a bookstore, being like, okay, I'm gonna go book shopping and then like pick from my shelves.

Oliva:

I love doing that with KU too when I'm really struggling to not buy. I will clear out my Kindle and go on KU and buy books because I've got the subscription, so I need to use it. So if I'm like itching for a new book, I will go on and nothing in my library is screaming to me. I will go on KU and shop and read on my Kindle at that point.

Jordan:

Wait, that's so smart. So it's it's like a fun little hack. Yeah. Well, see, I don't know about you too, but like I feel like I've also been diving into like book talk more than like bookstagram. I feel like bookstagram, I see a lot of the same books because I feel like I follow the same people that like like my tastes, and we all like like the same books, so it's I don't really see too many new things, but I've been following different book talkers because I want to try different tastes of books. But then here's the thing. So that's also one of my goals, but I will get into that later. But I feel like now there's so many more books I see that it just makes I feel like the book buying was even higher because of it. Because now I'm seeing new books and I'm like, oh well, I want to read that, and then I'd go buy it.

Oliva:

Yeah, I am I've also got a similar one to you. I want one month where I've not bought a single book. I put one month solely because I think that would be a great place to start. And maybe in the future I challenge myself to more. But one of my personal goals this year is more financial based because of said school and everything coming up that I need to make sure that I'm financially secure. And I think having the one month where I don't buy a single thing would be great. But I also have so many on my shelf that I'm looking at that, like, yeah, I need to read those. I also have a lot of like special editions of favorite books. So it makes it look like I've got more TBR books than I do, but I'm going to do a big count just after the holidays and everything to go through and see exactly how many unread physical books I own and then set a number and be like, I want my TBR below this number by the end of the year.

Jordan:

Wait, that is so that's so smart. You what I saw somebody do on Instagram or TikTok or somewhere is they put like a little tab on every book they had not read yet. And so see visibly seeing all the tabs, you can see every single book. Cause like I feel like you look at your shelf and you're like, most of the books on your shelves, it's or at least for me, are books that I have not read. But I think visibly seeing something being like, look at all the yellow tabs you can see. Like I need to read them so I can take that tab off. So I I totally agree with like your counting, and I want to do the tab thing myself because I just I need to physically see all the books. Because I've gotten to the point where like and I don't know about you, but I recently like reorganized my shelves. And when I reorg organized my shelves, I took off a ton of books, but I took off a lot of books that I bought and I will know I will never read.

Oliva:

Yep. I've I think as my tastes have changed over the years, I've realized these are the books that are just not for me anymore. And I will pull those off. But I'm also really lucky that I have a Barnes and Noble down the road that does a buyback program. So I will save 50 of my used books or my second books I want to get rid of and take them down there, and they will give me a gift card afterwards for the amount of how much they would pay to have those used books. It's one of six stores in the country, so you would have to look and see if they have it near you. But I am very incredibly lucky to have that down there. So that's what I do with my unhaul books that I have not read. And it's like once every couple months. But the other thing that I sorry, my brain just completely went blank because Jordan's face is in a state of shock and it's cracking me up.

Jordan:

I did not know that was a thing, but like I of course it's one of six, so it's definitely not gonna be any near me, but I will be looking up. Well, I do have a used book store by me that does the same thing, but I never really go there because it's buy me is like not really buy me, but they're also very they they really don't take in that many, and you get one dollar for every book, and I think it's a dollar for a hardcover and then 50 cents for a paperback. And I'm like, I and even though it takes more work, I kind of am like, all right, well, I'm gonna try to sell them on Pango first, see if I can make more than that. But honestly, I wouldn't have to do that.

Olivia:

We'll do that with some specials.

Jordan:

Well, oh yes, yeah, special editions are like perfect, but I would love to do it at Barnes and Noble because like I would love like a gift card because it's Barnes and Noble, yeah.

Oliva:

It's a it's a good little trick. I think my other problem with my physical TBR specifically is I have books in series, so I have a couple in a series that I have not read yet, and I'm part way through it, and then that adds to the physical TBR.

Jordan:

Okay, fair, I feel like I think this is I I think I will do this because I I'll buy the first book in a series, but I won't buy more most of the times. I won't buy more. I'll just buy the first book. So I think if I start a series and I love it, where I will read the next book right away, I will allow myself to buy that next book. But I have to start and finish the first one before I can buy the next one. And I have to like piecemeal. I think I will allow myself to buy that like a book that way. But I do, I think I'm gonna adopt your at least one month no book buying.

Oliva:

Yeah, and I know it's not gonna be January for me because I have a hockey romance night run by Lit Actually, which is Tessa Bailey's going to, and Lit Actually's bookshop is there, and I love supporting the indie bookshops that go, so obviously I'm gonna buy something at that. And then the weekend after, I'm in Toronto, so I'm going to the hopeless romantic bookshop there. So January is just like out of the question. February, I will probably get myself a couple of books because it's Valentine's Day and I want to make myself a book bouquet, which is also on my list of the year to do. And then March is Sports Romance Con, which I'll be at. So the first three months of the year are all knocked out because there's no way. That's the other thing that gets me is book signings. Oh my god. One of my favorite things is going around and meeting new authors to me. And then sometimes I just get sucked up in having such a wonderful conversation with some of these authors, and like their books are right up my street, so I end up buying them. And now I have a few of those sat on the shelves that I'm like, oh, I remember meeting her. I had the best time. I really need to read her books. So that's the other one that gets me a little bit. Just a just a teeny tiny bit. And it's supporting the authors. Yeah, it's not a problem.

Jordan:

It's not not a problem. But I think I think I'm gonna use January as a gnome. But oh, see, but this is the other thing I do. So I know I go into January being like, I won't buy any books. So I fucking binge by in December. It's like December 31st, and I'm buying like 10 books because I know January I won't buy any.

Oliva:

To be fair, that makes sense if you're binging books December 26th because it's Barnes and Noble's best sale of the year. What? Did you not know this? Yeah. So December 26th is Barnes and Noble's best sale of the year. The only big thing that Barnes and Noble ever do for their sales is there's one in the summer, yes. But the one in November and like their whole Black Friday thing is mainly about the signed editions. Like they have signed editions of so many books. So if you if signed things matter to you, that's when you shop at Barnes and Noble. But me and my mum have this tradition on Boxing Day. We go, we save all the hardcovers that we want to get for the year because they're like 30% off, or select ones are 30% off or whatever. And I get triple stamps. So me and her have this tradition: Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, and Barnes and Noble's like big sale of the year starts. We go and have a morning shopping around for all the hardcovers or best books of the year that we want to get because they're so discounted, and we get a stupid number of points, and I use all of the rewards that I've saved up since my birthday, because my birthday's the end of September. So then we get like $30 something dollars off because everyone in my family uses my Barnes and Noble membership, and we go shopping and get books lent. So I also buy a ton at the end of December and then just go into January. So that's why I'm waiting to do my like actual count and database setup, which is in Notion, of all of my unread physical books, because it's just gonna get longer by the end of the year.

Jordan:

And like we we deserve books by for the end of the year, like we deserve to be. Exactly.

Oliva:

We survived the year. That is a reason to treat yourself to a book.

Jordan:

We deserve the books, god damn it.

Oliva:

Like we deserve the books, everyone's doing those like accomplishment cakes. I want an accomplishment book stack. I accomplished this this year, book. I accomplished this this year, book, you know.

Jordan:

All the books. Wait, so then do you have any other reading goals? I feel like I just gave you so many of mine, but like I did not.

Oliva:

No, I have a few more. Um I obviously have like a socials one because we all have like like bookish social media goals that are slightly separate. Um, but one of the things I think is really relevant to this is I want to host some kind of community event.

Jordan:

Oh, yeah.

Oliva:

So like a read-along or a book club for a month, just something fun. I don't know what it's gonna be yet. I still need to brainstorm it, but I really want to host a community event that is at the top of my list today. I also really want to read more romanticity and more dark romance.

Jordan:

Yeah, I've I've noticed too, because I feel like so. We've we've I've been like friends with you since basically I started the bookstagram. Yeah, the bookstrap, my bookstrap.

Oliva:

It's like our second month. Both of us, it was our second month.

Jordan:

It was like yeah. I feel like you did read a lot of dark romance and romanticity when we like first started. I mean, I think we both did, and I think we both kind of like ventured out of it.

Oliva:

Yeah, I would say that. I read a a couple, I wasn't massive in it at the beginning. Um, and then I sort of went on a small town romantic suspense kick, and the romantic suspense killed the itch for the dark romance because it had enough of it that I was like, okay, that part of my bookish personality is satisfied. And then with everything going on, I felt like I didn't need to escape into a different world. And I was worried I wasn't gonna love these really hyped books as much as other people did. Plus, I realized I'm a series binger, and so many of these series are incomplete that I didn't want to have to reread every single time a book came out, partially because I felt like it was a little bit of ripoff, but you know, that was just how I felt in the moment. So I ended up just taking a bigger break from romantic, and I'm slowly starting to get back into it again. I have a ton on my shelf because it's currently my favorite section to shop in the bookstore. Like I'm so much more interested in that right now than I am like just regular contemporary romance. So my one goal is to read 12 romantic books, and the other is to read 12 dark romance books.

Jordan:

I I like that because and then building like building off that, one of my like my goals is to read new to me genres because I so I love fantasy and like romantic, and I feel like I read a lot of like romanticy, but I really want to try to read more just fantasy with maybe a subplot of romance or no romance, so then like high fantasy. So I want to read um maybe like Brander Brandon Sanderson. Um, there's like I'm like picturing these covers, but I don't know the authors or the titles, so that's not very helpful. But like Gideon the Ninth, I really want to read. Um, I really so I I am not a sci-fi girly. I like don't really like sci-fi. I've just never in if it's sci-fi and space, like count me out. Like, I don't like that. I do not like space. I I don't, I'm like not a fan of aliens, it's just like not my thing. But I really want to read Project Hail Mary. Everybody raves about that book and like the movie's coming out, I think in March or April. So I really want to read that before the movie. And I feel like a lot of people say that um you should try the audiobook. And I feel that I do love audiobooks, so I think instead of like eyeball reading it, I'll listen to it, and I think that will be my way of getting into sci-fi, right? So I'm like, I think that's that's that's it.

Oliva:

That's the way I love that. I yeah, I'm pretty happy with the subgenres I'm reading, just increasing the romantic seat and the dark romance is gonna be good just to break up some of the small town and the sports that I'm consistently reading. But I'm also very lucky that there's such a wide range in those genres that I've got the depth to kind of play with whatever interests me. So that works. The only other I have a couple more challenges that I'm doing, but I'm doing uh the 12 by 12 challenge. I asked 12 people that have very, very similar tastes to me to give me books because they kind of know what I'm interested in, and like I typically align with them very, very closely. So they're books that are already on my radar, which makes me feel like I'm gonna be a little bit more successful at it.

Jordan:

I then I give props. Sorry, I give you props because I feel like I tried to do the 12 by 12 multiple years, and I maybe read like one or two books off that. I'm like, forget this. I'm just and wait, sorry, one more thing. I did the at the beginning of the year, I did 25 books I wanted to read in 2025. I think I read two out of the 25 books.

Oliva:

Yeah, I've skipped doing that. I think I'm too much of a mood reader to do that, and 26 sounds like a lot. If you think about you're reading 100 books a year and you're already dictating a quarter of the books you're gonna read, that's a lot. Yep. So I skipped that. Um, but what I did add in is a backlist binge. So I'm picking specific authors that I have backlists of that I'm interested in picking up. So I have Indie Valentine, who I loved Capri and Collie from, and I want to read her Atlanta Boys series. I have Brandy Hines, I'm obsessed. She writes darker romance, and I loved the first book in the court series, like one of my favorite books of 2025. So I want to finish her entire backlist, and she has a new release.

Jordan:

Are you talking about Burning Ivy? Yeah. I tried so hard to get into that book. I could not get into it. To the point that, like, because I think I I signed up for it wasn't an ARC, but it was almost like a re-release, and I like could not get into it, but I was like, thank goodness it's already out, and there was an audio book. Cause I was just like, listen, I just had it on in the background because I just needed to finish the book for like what I signed up for, but I was like, I can't stand this book. So I think it's so funny. I loved it. I think it's so funny because I did I remember when you posted about it and you're like, I love this book. And I was like, I did not.

Oliva:

Yeah, I just I really enjoyed it. I loved the plot twists, I loved Ivy herself. I don't know, I just thought it was so much fun. But that's also the writing style that I love. Like the very poetic, very atmospheric writing style kind of just got to me. And I was like, Yep.

Jordan:

Maybe it just maybe it was that. Maybe it was the writing style that just was like, I was like, come on, I'm bored.

Oliva:

Yeah, I want to also do Samantha Young's Argnock series. It's her romantic suspenses set in Scotland.

Jordan:

Oh, wait, I feel like you you told me about these. Wait, did you tell me about these?

Oliva:

No, you I really told you about Halflight Harbour, which is her latest release, and that was phenomenal.

Jordan:

I feel like somebody told me about Scotland.

Oliva:

Yeah, it's gotta be Halflight Harbour because that one just came out and it's my top romantic suspense book of 2025. It's phenomenal because he's got a mystery, she's got a mystery. This whole like very, very tiny town in the Scottish Isles has a whole lot going on in it, but it was cozy and suspenseful, and it was just brilliant. Like it's 500 pages, I want to say, and I sat in one sitting and did not stop reading.

Jordan:

Oh my goodness. Okay, okay.

Oliva:

Yeah, so I really want to go back and read her Ard Nock series, but it's universe. There's two series in it that I really want to read next year. Um, and Maggie Gates is another one whose backlist is just people rave about it 24-7.

Jordan:

I feel like I see it a lot. Like Maggie Gates, that name sounds really familiar. That I think I've just seen it.

Oliva:

She just got yeah, Dust Storm, Downpour, and Fireline all just got re-released traditionally.

Jordan:

Oh, maybe that's why. That might be why. Okay, fair. Fair.

Oliva:

So yeah, I have my giant backlist spread of that. And then there's one more thing that I'm trying next year. No, two more. But have you got anything else?

Jordan:

No, I think I got, I think that's it for me. So give me your two things. Maybe I'll add this.

Oliva:

One thing I want to do is yes, I'm doing 12 by 12, but I also want to try and read just more based on my friends' recommendations, so I can broaden my taste of it. So I'm tracking what books I'm getting from what friends, recommendation-wise, and I want to at least from like all of my friends read one book that they love. I like that. I like that a lot. It gives me the power in choosing, which I prefer because we all love our own control over our own reading. Yes. It's rare that I want to give up my own little power. So that is part of my list. And then I'm doing seasonal challenges myself. So, like in my journal, I've got a winter challenge set up, and it's like a bunch of little things that I want to do within that season. And so one's like read a Snowden book, visit three indie bookshops, have a solo date with your Kindle somewhere, make yourself a book bouquet, go to the hockey romance night. I didn't know that was happening at the time I built this, but I'm very glad it is. Uh, cozy reading day. Like just little things to check off. And then throughout the season, if I'm having like an open day, that's going in there. Um, and then I'm putting those little memories in my journal and scrapbooking about them. So I really savor that that reading time or that adventure or whatever it was.

Jordan:

I I really like that. I really like that because I think that's gonna be fun. And then it's like also like that's great for like content too. So it's like these things that you've created, not created, but things you want to do, and then you can make content out of it too, which is very nice. Cause like on for that for me, I think I want to try. I really I'm having a lot of fun on TikTok. I feel like Instagram is like less fun lately. So I want to try like just kind of like focusing on TikTok, and then maybe like here or there I'll like take some things and put it on Instagram or whatever. But I really I want to try doing like I want to almost essentially create my TikTok like a YouTube page where it's I want to do maybe like TBR monthly TBRs and then kind of go through of like, oh, did I hit like my monthly TBR? Like, did I read any of these books? Cause like I am a mood reader, and so I want to try doing things like that. And I love I love like how I can be more, I don't not honest isn't the right word, but I w I love doing like my reading wrap ups, my yes no maybes. And I know everybody has their thoughts on that, but I feel like at least TikTok, I can have that space where because I don't have really authors following me like I do on Instagram. So it's I'm like excited. I want to do like more of that.

Oliva:

So you're kind of going into 2026 differentiating content between Instagram and TikTok, which I think is really cool because a lot of people, including myself, cross-post. So I'll post Instagram and TikTok the same. But because I'm only just starting out the TikTok side of things, I think that's fair. And like you can change it up as you go, but I agree that TikTok is much more of a raw and accepts negativity a little bit more than Instagram does. I think the Instagram space is pushing more to stay positive, which I appreciate. Um I think you get a lot more of the hot takes on the TikTok side of things. And if you have a different opinion compared to the major majority, you're gonna get more of a common ground of that on TikTok.

Jordan:

Yeah. And I think too, like I want to be able to post, like I really like sometimes like I think a book is like shit. And I want to be able to post that, but you're right, like I don't want to necessarily post that on Instagram. Like I do and I do kind of cross-post. Like sometimes I'll take like the positive things like that I posted on TikTok and I'll repost them on Instagram. So I'll probably still try to do that sort of thing because like I know I I posted uh my favorite books each month for 2025 or like my six-star reads from 2025. And I think I will share those on Instagram, but I also want to do my least favorite book from each month from 2025. But I ended up separating them because then I was like, okay, the least favorite can just stay on TikTok, and then the most favorite goes on Instagram. And I kind of and like the six-star reads will go on Instagram, so I'm kind of I wanna I do I'll I'll part cross-post, but part not because I also feel like TBR videos, I feel like Instagram, I don't even know what it is, but like I don't think a TBR video that I could post on TikTok will do well on Instagram.

Oliva:

Yeah, and I think what you also do really well is your bookish photo shoots. And I don't think those necessarily get appreciated on TikTok as much as they would on Instagram.

Jordan:

Yeah, no, I don't they they definitely don't, but I also feel like I was getting so stressed out in pictures, which is like what Instagram is. And I feel like sometimes like sitting in front of a bookshelf just talking about books is easier than getting dressed up for a picture that needed to be like taken. But I and granted I still want to take pictures. I just I think I would rather focus on like the video more. Yeah. So I'm like holding it. Join me.

Oliva:

I'm team video 24-7. Like, there's no there's no time I am taking pictures unless it's cover photos, and that is a battle. I choose to do that maybe once or twice a month because good lord, having to screenshot like screenshot parts of a video of yourself, the faces I pull is criminal. My god, anytime I'm like scrubbing for a video and I just always pause at the wrong point, and it just looks god-awful. And I'm like, who let me do this? Who let me think I was photogenic enough to pull this off?

Jordan:

I love it. Yeah, no, no, no, like same though. I just I well not with like a video. Sometimes, like for TikTok, if I know like I'm gonna pull like a still, I'll either at most likely at the end, because I'll be holding like the stack of books and I'll just freeze. Yep. And then I can just like shorten it to like 0.01 seconds, and then that will be at like the beginning. So then I can just save it there. Because I like there's no like usually my face is like and I'm like, I can't, I can't save that. The listeners won't see my face, but just think of like the ugliest face. Yeah, that's the face I was making.

Oliva:

Oh my god, children. Do you know what we should do is post like some of the photos of us looking at our worst on our stories the day this episode goes live, just so people have a visual reference. Right, right.

Jordan:

Actually, not a bad idea. I kind of here for it. Um, okay. We did you have any other 2026 goals or is that it?

Oliva:

Oh, no, there is one. Talking of diversifying content, yeah.

Jordan:

Okay, I wasn't sure if you wanted to say that. So, like, I didn't want to say anything.

Oliva:

No, I am back to see that in 2026. I am kind of reclaiming it for myself because I used to do it in 2023, and there's been a whole lot of self-growth since 2023 and changes. And if you know, you know. So I am going back to it. I'm very excited. It's gonna be one video a week on Sunday on Saturdays, yes. Um, but it's mainly just because I've loved doing Vlogmas, people have loved the vlogs, and even though it has been a sheer chaos month, like my phone broke, so we had to get a new one. Everyone in this house has been sick. I have been very sick, so it's just been a lot. But I do want to capture more of what life is like as a reader and how I incorporate it into my daily life, how we consume these books and how they change us as people, what we learn from them, just like all of those little moments. And I really want to capture what's coming next in life. I think it's gonna be the best chapter yet next year. So just having those visual things to look back on is so much fun. Plus, you only get like a minute to like a 30 seconds to a minute and a half to talk about a book on Instagram or TikTok. And I love to yap. So having that space to like really share reactions and have those clips of like, oh my god, what did this book just do to me? Like, all of that, I want to encapsulate it and put it back on YouTube. I loved having those video diaries. So that is what we're going back to. It's mainly gonna be vlogs. There's gonna be some sit-down videos where we like go through subgenres and my top five rec for them. But the whole intro video goes live on New Year's Day, and then every Saturday. I know I'm so excited to, so then every Saturday after that it will be a video of some kind. I have all of January planned out. Oh, dude.

Jordan:

That's gonna be really fun. Will you do like book reviews? Will you do like TBR videos? Are you gonna do all that stuff? Are you gonna do not that stuff?

Oliva:

Um, book reviews will be in the vlogs themselves. So, for example, I've got the hockey romance night coming up in the middle of January. I'm gonna do a hockey romance themed reading vlog for that. So I'm picking hockey romances to read, and my reviews of those books will be in the videos. I like that. Yeah, we're gonna do the whole swapping screen time for reading time, which is gonna be a little bit tricky because I, with my screen time, I don't count the time I'm on Instagram or the time I'm in CapCut or photos, because that's part of being a content creator. So to me, I view my content creation as a part-time job. And that time is considered working time for me. So I don't count that as part of my screen time, but everything else would count as screen time, and I will switch that for reading time.

Jordan:

Oh, I like that. I like that. Yeah, I I really do. I also like that. I know I'm going back to what you've already said, but I really like your um read for 45 minutes every day. I think I might adopt that too. I need to get some squares I can color them in.

Oliva:

If you want, I will make you your own personal reading journal, and then you can have your little tracker pre-made, and I will send it to you before the beginning of the year.

Jordan:

Don't tell me I might take you up on that.

Oliva:

You genuinely could. I wouldn't. I'll send you what mine currently looks like, and you can pick your colour scheme and everything.

Jordan:

Oh my god. I yeah, girl, I'm gonna I'm gonna take you up on that. I'm gonna take you up on that.

Oliva:

Yeah, I made a whole mood board too for this year of like what I want my books to be. So, like there is just vibes of me reading and like romanticism or keep going, cowgirl, like just little things, because I love cowgirl romances, and I want to read some more of those, but I will put a picture up so you guys can see it. I think I have a reel that's like my 2026 reading journal that you guys can go and watch as well, that you'll see the whole thing, but I'm quickly showing Jordan what she looks like.

Jordan:

So I I'm obsessed. I love it. Yeah, I like it just having creative enough for that.

Oliva:

I think it's just having an idea of what you want in your year, right? Like, yeah, or what you want your reading to become that matters. So yeah.

Jordan:

I like that. I like that. Oh wait, were you gonna say something?

Oliva:

I was just gonna say I'm also stepping away from arcs a lot next year. Like I'm signing up for very few and far between arcs.

Jordan:

Oh my gosh, I am so happy you said that because I want to do the same. Like, I'm not counting like arcs that publishers send me because I feel like those are very much you do not, you're not like forced to read that right away. It's just like on your own time. But I want to sign up for less ARCs because I also feel like sometimes when I sign up for them, it's like, okay, I want to actually read it right then and there, but then when it comes in, I don't, I'm like forcing myself to read it and I don't want to do that.

Oliva:

My problem is that the release dates are bunched all together, so a lot of authors are currently on the same publishing schedule, and it's a month off, a month on, a month off, a month on. So then months become bombarded with arcs. So I have a list of ones that I am I read all the time and I love, and like that is perfect for me. I'm on a couple of teams, and then those are like my go-to authors, anyways. So those easy, but like my ad hoc arcs, I am completely trying to step away from. Um, just because those are like, hey, you know, I will absolutely read that when it comes out. Unfortunately, I just don't want to have that pressure to read it before it comes out right now.

Jordan:

I like that. I like that a lot. Yeah. Okay, so I do. Can we do like I only have four books here? Can we do like a rapid fire of like the 2026 new releases that we're excited for?

Oliva:

I don't know if you I think I have a couple that I can come off the top of my head.

Jordan:

We'll go, let's go back and forth. So you wait, do you want me to go first or do you want to go first?

Oliva:

Doesn't matter to me.

Jordan:

Okay, you go first.

Oliva:

Okay. What's gonna be my first book of 2026? So I am gonna go with Unbound by Python Corinne, which is book three in the Waterfell series. It is a hockey romance with like raw emotional twists, and it makes your 20s feel so much more realistic reading her books. And Unbound comes out later this year, I think it's in April, but I have an arc of it. So that is gonna be my first book of 2026, and this one is following Bennett and Paloma. That I'm just oh, I cannot wait for it.

Jordan:

You know way more than me. So just as a heads up, because I I'm very excited for In April Bulletproof by KM Moranova, which is like the next book in the dark first series. Cause I I don't know who it's about. I just love these like dark military series by KM Moranova, so I'm very excited for that, which I'm pretty sure it's releasing in April, but not positive.

Oliva:

I'm not always gonna know the release dates. My next one is gonna be Perfectly Us. God, I hope that's right, by Samantha Brynn. It's March 5th. We all know Samantha Brynn is one of the Lovier's favourite authors ever. I do not stop talking about her books at any point because she is just the best. But this starts her Steel City Legacy series, which is like the second generation of her first two series, and it's gonna cross over, and I'm very excited about it. But book one is Single Dad, Workplace Forbidden, One Night Stand, and her Marilee Else novella had the female main character called Olivia in it, and we got the teaser right at the end of that, and I am drawing on the floor ready for March 5th.

Jordan:

Oh, I I'm excited for you. I'm very excited for more of LJ Shen's Society of Villains series. I I Twisted Pawn is the one that releases next, and I feel like that's March, April, sometime around there. But I'm hoping we actually get another one at the end of the year, but I don't know. I don't think there's like a release date for it, but I'm very excited for more in that series. I I don't know, like like her books, they're like, because sometimes, like, I don't know about you, but like sometimes if I read like a contemporary romance, no matter like what it is, but I just I'll struggle through it. Like for whatever reason, I just like I can't like when I'm in it, it's good, but if I put it down, I have a hard time picking it back up. But her books, for whatever reason, I swear there's crack in it. I just like can't put it down. I love her books so much, but I think also too, like I've been reading her for years at this point that it's like nostalgia, too.

Oliva:

Yeah, that's a fair point. Oh, I have like a couple more in my brain, and I know that we said we were only doing four, so I'm trying to like. Oh my god, no, you can list no, you can list a bunch. I just have four. Oh, okay, perfect, because I can keep going. Uh, I'm gonna go with Champagne Problems by Hannah Grace. It's her next series after the whole um Oh my god, what was the original one called? It's Icebreaker Wildfire, Maple Hill University. It's Champagne Problems is gonna be F1 and I am so excited for it. Love the title. Best title ever. Yes, I'm obsessed with that. So hers is up on the list and it comes out the latter half of 2026.

Jordan:

Ooh, okay. I am actually I'm I'm excited for the last and final book in the Quicksilver series. I was I loved Quicksilver, was like okay feeling about brimstone, not like super obsessed like some people. I didn't hate it like other people, but I am excited to see. I actually liked the ending. I liked the ending and I'm excited to see where it goes.

Oliva:

I'm holding off on reading that until I have the last book in the series just because everyone's been so brutalized by the cliffhangers.

Jordan:

Okay, don't get me wrong. I didn't think it was like that crazy of a cliffhanger, but I understand that. I just like I'm like, okay, I'm excited to see where it goes. I like how it ended, but I'm also not like I need the next book, which I wish I was, but I'm not. Okay, but yeah, I get that.

Oliva:

Okay, that makes me feel a little bit better.

Jordan:

Yeah, I'm not like I'll probably I won't, I'll never reread this series. So, like when the last book comes out, I will get a recap of book one and two and then go into book three, but I won't yeah, okay. Yeah, that's I like I I and I just I feel like I need to say this here. I I never I never really sent said it anywhere, or maybe did on TikTok, but I feel like her pacing was so off, like she had things move so fast in some ways, and then we got five pages of a character punching a wall. So I'm like, what's going on? Like, I don't think we need five pages of this character punching a wall, and then we just crossed worlds in like a page, like oh wow, like something's like not competing, like at that point.

Oliva:

Uh next one that I'm reading, was it my go? No, yes, because you said the last one in that series. Can can my brain function, please? Oh, one that's out earlier in the year, January time. Sinful King by Natalie Kane, because Natalie Kane is Kristen Proby's new pen name for all of her dark stuff. So she's doing an entire Mafia series. And since I'm gonna be getting more into that next year, Sinful King is up on the list and like the whole rest of her series that comes out next year.

Jordan:

Oh, okay. Well, so my number like I think this might be like one of my most anticipated releases. I don't know when it's set to release, but I I five I finally read the Windy City series by Liz Tom Fordy this year, and I am so excited because there's a character in there, Monty, that he's finally getting his story, and it's in her own league. So it's a spin-off, but it's still Windy City, but it's like a spin-off, and I am so excited. Like, I am like that's definitely like my most anticipated like release. And I don't know when it's coming out, but it's coming out next year, and I need it.

Oliva:

I am so excited to read the rest of that series. I've still not read the right move. I'm still not the right move.

Jordan:

The right move is my favorite out of all of them. I love Ryan Shea so stinking much. I love him, I love him, I love him, and I need you to meet him so you can love him too. Okay.

Oliva:

All right, I will quickly, I'm adding that to like my absolutely have to read list. But the last three that I'm gonna give you as you're like really federal, is Megan Holly. Next year we'll be doing a women's rugby series. So instead of it being men's rugby, it's gonna be women's rugby at a college, and I cannot wait. So that's gonna be like one of my absolute faves. Then we have oh, Carly Robbins Boston Bobcat series continues next year, and I am dying to read that.

Jordan:

I okay, uh not to cut you off. I can't believe Carly Fortune's The Perfect Storm, our perfect storm releases in May. Uh also one of my most anticipated releases. I can't believe I forgot that one. So that's one of mine.

Oliva:

Wait, now my brain's gone blank and I know I had a really good last one. Sorry.

Jordan:

Sorry.

Oliva:

No, it's not your fault, that's my brain.

Jordan:

Honestly, thank goodness that your that author's name was Carly, or else I would have never thought of Carly Fortune, and it would have been after I closed out this podcast that I would have been like, no.

Oliva:

Whoa, yeah, I forgot that one. Um my days, Olivia. You know it was in your brain. You know it was two seconds ago, because you got excited when Jordan lit up about it. No, it's gone. I'll think of it at some point, but she's she's gone from the memory. I mean Quick Ones is like the good bo is it the good boy exception, I wanna say, by Aaron Moore. That one comes out the sequel to well not sequel, but next one after the bad boy rule, which was really good. Okay, I didn't read that one. The bad boy rule is a very fun um bad boy, good girl. They have to share an ice cream together. He's a hockey player from a broken background. She is from a very well-to-do family, but like is trying to stand up to them kind of vibe. She's a very fun point.

Jordan:

No, poor boy rich girl. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Oliva:

But it was done really well.

Jordan:

Fair. Okay. So I before we end this episode, I really want to ask you because I feel like this is the perfect last question. I should have said that I was going to ask you this before, but I just thought of it now. Um, what was like your number one or like number two? Like you can give me like a handful, but what were your what was like your top read of the year? You could give me a handful, but I kind of want like the top of the tippity top, top.

Oliva:

Oh, yeah, yeah. I can give you the top of the tippity top, but I can't just give you one because that's physically impossible for me.

Jordan:

I have two myself, so okay.

Oliva:

So one would obviously be Yours to Lose and Not Your Girl by Samantha Brynn. The first two in the Boston Heart series. Oh my god. Utter perfection, obsessed with them. Capri by Indy Valentine. 100% up there.

Jordan:

Okay, you say some of yours now, and then I'll add the last couple of mine. Okay, so my top two books from 2025. So if if you get anything from this episode, please read these two books. And the first one being Sunrise on the Reaping by Susan Susan Collins? Susanna Collins. I don't actually know, but it's Hey Mitch's story from like the Hunger Games, and I love it so much. It's like it hurts, but it like is so good. And I'm so excited for the movie to come out in November. Like I literally cannot wait, and it's gonna be brutal, and I'm so excited. And then my second one is Enchantra by Kaylee Smith. I honestly I understand maybe like Phantasma is for you, maybe it's not. I don't know, but I think Enchantra is even better than Phantasma and can stand on its own. So you do not need to read Phantasma, and it's essentially a ready or not homage. And I did not know this movie existed, but I finished the book and I needed more. And then when I saw Kaylee post that it's a ready or not homage, and then I watched the movie, I was like, oh my goodness, obsessed. So I wish I could if I could read Enchantra for the first time again, I um that would be amazing.

Oliva:

Did you see the new collector's editions that came out? They're stunning. I know that's on my list to pick up because it is simply gorgeous.

Jordan:

But I also love the covers of the paperback, I think those are stunning too.

Oliva:

Yes. Both editions will be on my shelf.

Jordan:

No question, right?

Oliva:

Yep. Yep, I loved that this year. Um, Half Light Harbor, Samantha Young, is another one on my top because it's the best romantic suspense I've ever read. And Trouble by Megan Hawley.

Jordan:

Wait, okay, now that you said those, I feel like I have to add two more for like summary. Like, I would still say Sunrise on the Reaping and Enchantra were my top, but I'm gonna add Carly Fortune's Every Summer After and One Golden Summer for like summary reads and like contemporary romance because I love the Floric Brothers so stinking much, and I love both of those stories. And I understand that every summer after might not be for everybody, but it was for me and Charlie Floric is everything. So one golden summer is everything, and I just uh like I feel like maybe though those would be like my top four books.

Oliva:

Yeah, I think I think that's a solid top four for me. I mean, you could ask me tomorrow and it's a different one, but I again with 2025 being this weird reading year, those are like my oh, I loved those. Those are incredible. Think about them all the time books.

Jordan:

I like it. I like it. Well, I feel like that's the perfect ending to this episode.

Oliva:

It really is. We nailed it. Look at us go.

Jordan:

We did. And thank you so much for coming on the podcast with me again, Olivia.

Oliva:

Oh, of course. I hope we've given people ideas to like goals and what they're doing with their reading year and like whatever point they're listening to this. You know, you just know that you can start over at any point.

Jordan:

Yes, agreed. And if you're listening to this in the beginning, like hopefully you have some ideas on maybe some goals you want to set for 2026.