'2026: Our New Authority After the Surrender' with Ali Brown – Reward Podcast Episode 42

WOW. At the end of 2025, there was a collective experience many high-level women quietly went through. It was a final surrender that arrived without permission, often without witnesses, and minus a clear storyline. But what looked like collapse—exhaustion, illness, emotional release, or forced stillness—was not a weakness…

**It was clearing the way for our reassignment.**

Now, in 2026, awareness is no longer the work. The work at this moment is what we do *after* we know.

For the last several years, our work WAS the awareness. In fact, on this show we covered many times topics in this category: naming misalignments, surviving burnout, questioning old definitions of success, and admitting when a chapter was over. 

But now that era is complete.

In this 2026 kickoff episode of Reward, Ali Brown explores what emerges on the other side of that surrender: authority without performance, leadership without consensus, and decisions made without the need for validation. 

The women Ali works with in The Trust and as private clients are no longer explaining, waiting, or negotiating with outdated versions of themselves. They are moving… because clarity has already moved through them.

If you feel calmer, cleaner, and less available for what once consumed you—this episode will name exactly where you are now. 

And then, learn more about The Trust and Ali…

• Curious about The Trust — our modern, premier network for 7+8-figure women entrepreneurs? Sign up for our Spring 2026 Invitation Call happening on Tuesday January 27 at 1PM ET.

• Learn more about Ali Brown and how to work with her personally. 

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