Rising Tides Live: 2026 Goals

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Eric reveals how a family health emergency forced him to fall off the map and his plan to start over in 2026.

Hosts Mike Peseglia and Elizabeth Doss fill in for Sean Walsh to discuss setting goals for the new year with community members. The episode features guests Jordan Silverman, a product manager at SpotOn, Eric Farrell, a coach and consultant, and Dean LeBay, a restaurant industry storyteller. Jordan's goals include ensuring a healthy birth for his second child, being a better father and husband, and using AI to tangibly improve restaurant profitability. Eric aims to stop dwelling on a professionally difficult 2025, relaunch his ventures with a clean slate, and narrow his focus by "going weird, not wide." Dean's primary goal is to improve his health through daily walking while continuing to share stories about New Orleans food culture. Elizabeth advocates for setting goals based on controllable metrics, like posting frequency, rather than uncontrollable outcomes like viral views. A key insight is reframing unproductive "doom scrolling" on social media as intentional research for content ideas. The group discusses the value of publicly sharing goals for accountability and the "start, stop, continue" framework for personal audits. An interesting moment arises when Mike uses ChatGPT live to generate motivational rhymes for 2026, inspiring his own goal to explore new AI tools. Dean emphasizes resilience, sharing a proverb about making 200 mistakes a day to learn a language as a metaphor for business growth. The tone is casual, supportive, and conversational, resembling a friendly roundtable discussion among peers. Listeners interested in practical goal-setting strategies, entrepreneurial mindset shifts, and community-driven encouragement will enjoy this episode. Those seeking highly structured, data-driven advice or industry-specific deep dives might find it too broad or informal.

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A practical New Year reset centered on goals and accountability.

Rising Tides Live 2026 starts the year with Mike Peseglia and Elizabeth Doss filling in for Sean Walsh, and the discussion settles into 2026 goals, a post-holiday reset, and the value of saying plans out loud. The segment works because it stays practical.

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A live New Year reset about 2026 goals, accountability, and saying the plan out loud.

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