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Looking back on 2024 and my goals for 2025

Sharing a lil recap from the year and what I’m working towards in 2025. 

Hi friends! Happy NYE! Any plans tonight? We’re eating Indian food and setting off fireworks in our pajamas. No crazy plans and I’m so glad lol. I’m excited to call it an early night and head out on a family hike in the am!

It’s funny because I thought the last year of the Pilot’s military career would be the LONGEST year of my life. I thought it would be a painfully slow drag to the finish line. The reality is that this year flew.by. I can’t believe that he’s wrapping things up, he changed command, and we’re getting ready for his retirement ceremony at the end of the month. Lots of huge changes ahead.

This year was a year of glorious travel, fun moments with the kids (who are growing up way too dang quickly. Liv will be 13 next week!!!), friend time, events, family time at home, time in nature, and a huge year for my healing journey. I celebrated one year symptom-free last year from eye issues and auotimmune symptoms and feel so thankful to have had a year where I really dialed in my routine and have felt the absolute best I have in years (decades???). I created a free ebook here about my auotimmune journey and things that helped me if you’d like to check it out!

Looking back on 2024 and my goals for 2025

Here’s a recap of some of the big moments from the year:

Personal and travel:

We went to the annual Fighter Wing awards banquet

to San Diego for Jeremy’s 50th!

I finished the CBO protocol!

to Vegas for a blast with friends

dance competition season with Liv,

singing with the symphony

back to San Diego and Disneyland with the fam

P started playing club basketball and absolutely crushing it

I attended the Biohacking Conference with Giselle which was one of my favorite wellness conference experiences so far

had the most incredible trip to Sevilla, Spain

A couple of weeks in Hawaii and a stay at Aulani

The kids went back to school

I attended the Reimagining Health Summit and got to meet so many of my IHP colleagues and friends in real life

Betsy and I did the Lagree instructor certification workshop

We took a Disney cruise #5 to the Bahamas and celebrated P’s 9th birthday

I celebrated the big 4-0 with a spa day at Miraval with some of my closest friends

the Pilot’s Change of Command after three years as commander

and a beautiful holiday season packed with holly jolly fun. 

The Pilot also shaved his mustache 😉

Professional recap:

From an Integrative Health Practitioner standpoint, this was a year filled with learning, expansion, and client success. It was so amazing to see their wins, and I reviewed over 100 lab tests this year! I was a 100-day challenge winner for EquiLife in October (#7! Woop!) and a Top Five IHP Champion winner last spring. I was also invited to be a part of the Centurion program and a three-month training with 15 other IHPs and EquiLife faculty to take our lab analysis to the next level. From there, I was able to start to read labs for EquiLife clients in addition to my own.

Reimagining Health Summit Recap

I feel so blessed every day to be a part of this company with an incredible mission and the inspiring people behind it. I can’t wait to see what IHP has in store for the next year!!

I feel superstitious saying this, but the blog had the best ad revenue year that it’s had in at least 5 years. My SEO team has been hard at work behind the scenes, and we’re really starting to see the results of their efforts. It’s still my goal to publish fun and personal posts around here (the types that I would love to read), in addition to SEO-driven and helpful content, because that’s what drives new readers to the blog.

The podcast continued to do well, but it’s one of my goals to put more energy into the pod, publish more episodes and grow in the new year. Another goal is to post more on LTK, because I love sharing outfits and gift ideas.

Sponsorship-wise, I worked with one company this year that I admire and love: NOW Foods. I’m so grateful for their continued partnership and to continue to work together in 2025. I receive sponsorship offers every day, but decline almost all of them because they’re for companies and products that don’t align with my values, or sell products that I don’t use or don’t like. I’ll never promote a company on the blog that I don’t 100% love and support.

I’m also thankful for affiliate partners, including Nutrisense, EquiLife, IHP, Sakara, HigherDOSE, Danger Coffee, Organifi, OneSkin, ButcherBox, Aviron, Canopy, Somavedic, Air Doctor, Vivarays, Pvolve, and to all of you who shop through my links. It directly supports our family (and helps keep this little blog running), and I appreciate it so much. I also started working with Oliveda and Lifewave this year; two companies that I’m extremely excited about!

This month was the last month of Fit Team workouts because we’re designing my new signature program. It’s a 6-month program including functional lab testing, supplements and protocols, and personalized recommendations to help you feel your absolute best. It’s basically the culmination of everything I’ve learned, used with my own clients, and also with myself to dramatically transform our health and energy levels. I can’t wait to share with you in early February!

Personal and health goals:

My health goal is to continue to work on the habits that make me feel my best, like quarterly detoxes, smart supplements, restorative practices, dialing in nutrition, walks, workouts (I like a mix of strength training, barre, spin, Pilates and hot yoga), and stress management. My goal is to minimize toxins where I can, replenish deficiencies, and continue to use functional lab testing as an amazing tool. I feel proud of myself for taking charge of my health and getting to the root cause of what I was experiencing, and also for the ability to share everything I’ve learned along the way. 

Continue to practice Spanish! This year, I started working with a tutor from Italki to brush up on my skills, and since we’re heading back to Spain this year, I’d love to have more confidence with Spanish. (I minored in Spanish and can understand it perfectly but am not 100% confident speaking it.)

Go back to Bible study. after dropping out in the spring. I had just started working with EquiLife clients and was so excited to do as many calls as possible! Now that I know how to work the platform a bit better and can block out Bible study time, I’d like to make it a priority again.

Continue to be the best mom, wife, and friend that I can be. I want the people in my life to know how much I love them, and to lead with a grateful, patient, loving heart each day. Some days are harder than others lol, but a morning gratitude check-in really impacts how I feel for the rest of the day.

I’d love to hear about your year and your goals! What’s something you’re proud of from this past year, what are you working on right now? Do you have any health goals? Travel plans? I want to hear it all!

Have a happy and lovely New Years and I’ll see ya soon!

xoxo

Gina

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This Ultra-Rare Porsche 911 ‘Remastered’ Could Sell For Over $1 Million

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The 993 series marked the last production Porsche 911s powered by the marque’s historic air-cooled boxer flat-six, which are beloved by nearly all gearheads and, therefore, extremely collectible. They’re so coveted that even models with aftermarket customizations can resell for seven figures…so long as they’re fabricated by Gunther Werks. The Huntington Beach, California-based firm doesn’t just remake but “remaster” the heralded sports cars by upgrading them inside and out.

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The one seen here, on-offer from RM Sotheby’s, is one of just 25 993 Carrera-based coupes built by Gunther Werks—the outfit has also done limited runs based on the 993 911 Turbo and the Speedster layouts. While taking great care not to disrupt the model’s iconic core form, Gunther works refitted the donor car with swaths of carbon fiber panels and a custom suspension comprising JRZ adjustable coil-overs with remote reservoirs, custom rear control arms, uprated anti-rollbars, lightweight uprights, and a front strut brace.

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Though purists claim the stock engine verges on perfection, the 3.6-liter flat six-cylinder also gets the Remastered treatment by Rothsport Road and Race in Sherwood, Oregon. The company pumps up displacement substantially to 4.0 liters and installs race-spec equipment, including two-stage MoTec engine management, individual throttle bodies, and a custom intake design based 996-series Porsche 911 GT3’s. Rothsport’s handiwork results in a drastically boosted output clocking in at 435 horsepower and 312 pound-feet of torque, up from the 270 hp and 243 pound-feet of torque generated 3.6-liter unit. Gunther Werks also goes to work on the interiors, outfitting 80 percent themselves and replacing the other 20 percent with modern Porsche equipment.

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Though this 1995 Porsche 911 Remastered by Gunther Werks debuted quite recently at the 2022 Quail: A Motorsports Gathering to wide acclaim, it’s aged like fine wine. RM Sotheby’s expects the car to sell for between $900,000 to $1.1 million, a big uptick compared to the original $778,888 commission cost. Alongside this pristine Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing, it’s one of just a handful of vehicles that could go for over $1 million at the auction house’s upcoming Arizona sale on January 24, 2025.

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Longines Unveils Conquest Heritage Watch For Year of the Snake

The Year of the Snake deserves a watch befitting the charm and elegance of the snake itself, does it not? Luxury watchmaker Longines certainly thinks so, nodding to the Lunar New Year with a striking new Conquest Heritage special-edition timepiece.

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The year of the snake also carries with it hopes for a bright future, one fittingly symbolized by the exclusive timepiece, one bearing a custom caseback designed by Chinese artist Wu Jian’an. Limited to an even more fitting 2,025 pieces, the dial’s fiery red design at once evokes passion and elegance.

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In stunningly intricate fashion, the caseback itself reinterprets a story (“Stealing the Immortal Herb”) from the famous Chinese tale “The Legend of the White Snake,” nodding to East Asian heritage while also proudly displaying the “Conquest” moniker in script font.

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Of the caseback, the nearly two-century old watchmaker said Jian’an’s reinterpretation “conveys wishes for harmony and prosperity, while also reflecting Longines’ commitment to blending tradition with innovation.” As for the watch itself and its functional yet refined specs, the watchmaker said the 40mm stainless steel timepiece nods to 1950s vintage styles while at the same time “incorporating traditional East Asian elements.”

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The Conquest Heritage ticks along thanks to the Longines L888.5 caliber movement within, featuring a mechanical self-winding mechanism and a 72-hour power reserve. The Conquest collection at large dates back to 1954, “evoking a spirit of daring and creativity.”

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A handsome textured black leather strap contrasts fashionably with the vivid red dial of this special-edition watch, a classically cool style that brings with it “a touch of sophistication and elegance” for the occasion at hand. For an agreeable $3,150, it seems there might be no better way to toast good fortune in the year ahead than with this stylish new watch.

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