Didn’t Expect That!

by | Mar 2, 2026

Didn’t expect that! Written by MaryBeth Hyland

How to Overcome Fear and Step Into Your Fire Horse Energy

If you haven’t picked up on it yet, I’m kinda going all in on the Fire Horse?? vibes. And the energy that’s followed has been nothing short of thunderous.

You see, I kicked off the week in Minnesota delivering a keynote on “Discovering Your Authentic Self on Purpose,” and that became the jet fuel that propelled the first domino of day-after-day of massively impactful experiences.

  • ?First, I had a divinely guided experience with my Lyft driver, Hassan. You can read about that here and notice that the Lyft CEO commented when I wrote about it?!?

MaryBeth Hyland with Lyft Driver Hassan

  • ?Next, I had a transformational keynote experience with the amazing humans at St. Cloud Financial Credit Union. We went deep, fast, and left with tangible ways to know and live your values at work on purpose. With feedback like, “I thought this was going to be a boring corporate event, but your talk was life-changing!” You can read more about that here.

MaryBeth giving keynote at St. Cloud Financial Credit Union

  • ?Then my Fire Horse meditations became my highest-played tracks ever! They were the #1 Google search results, and new energy was horsepowered to our page. Here’s that track ?.

Fire Horse Energy

  • ?I gained the most ever participants, donations, and followers as a result of my livestream with our horses to celebrate the ?? and ground in that energy. You can join my next one here.

MaryBeth's Livestream

  • ?And within moments of being grounded back in AZ, I was asked to……Give the same keynote to another team.
    …Write the forward for a soon-to-be best-selling book.
    …Be the keynote speaker for another organization this summer.
  • ?Plus I was being flooded with win after win from my coaching clients doing the work and experiencing what it’s like to take their power back.

But then, like I tend to do after a good momentary high on abundance…I flipped into fear and scarcity. ?

Focusing on what wasn’t working well and ruminating about it.

Protecting my hell by dropping the incredible accomplishments and abundance that were flowing just moments before. And replaying old stories, patterns, and wounds of how I wasn’t “good enough” or “doing enough,” or “further along by now.”

And right around that time, a foster dog whom we re-named “Buddy Love” came into our lives in a big, sad, beautiful way.?

You see, Buddy Love is very sick, but still has so much love to offer. He is back in the clinic now with hopes he can become stable enough to return, but we don’t know.

Buddy

It resurfaced all the wounds from our cat dying slowly in our home this (exact) time last year. Reminding me of just how challenging it is to love and care for a sweet, innocent being who is deeply suffering.

Buddy made me look at my own suffering that I was choosing. Because for me, it’s a choice. Not a medical condition.

And if I really want to get back on this fire horse vibe, I need to realize that a fire horse can’t be stuck in a stable. She’s going to burn that stable down and ride into freedom! ?

So if you’re like me and you want to remind yourself that you’ve got the power to change your thoughts and your energy now, listen to this ?:

2 minute meditation

Tell me: how are you being held back by old, broken records of fear, and how can you set yourself free this year? ?

If you’re not sure how to change but you’re ready, reply to this email and I’ll do my best to give you a resource that can serve you. I personally check and reply to every single on.

Let’s stop old patterns that don’t serve you and ride into freedom together!


P.S.

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☝️The Fire Horse and Abundance practices above are the perfect example of the type of energy we’ll infuse into your routine each day. Check it out and see what’s possible. ?

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