The Bold Pause: Why I’m Stepping Back to Step Up in 2026
What happens when fear shows up during life’s biggest transitions? In this final episode of 2025, I get raw about the boldest move I’ve made this year: stepping back to move forward.
From relocating my family to Asheville, to leading rapid growth at Cooler Heads, to reflecting on the motto “Be Bold. Be Confident. Be You.”, I share the highs, lows, and lessons that shaped my year.
I close out the season with a powerful reminder: tough times don’t last, but tough people do. Get ready to pause, reflect, and step boldly into 2026.
Must-Hear Insights and Key Moments
Why I am pressing pause on new episodes until 2026
The personal story of moving my family to Asheville and finding “home”
How fear can either hold you back or catapult you forward
The growth and impact of Cooler Heads and scalp cooling technology
The milestone of scalp cooling becoming a Medicare-recognized treatment
My guiding advice to my 18-year-old self: tough times don’t last, but tough people do
How bold moves in dark times can lead to personal and professional breakthroughs
What to expect from Bold Moves, Confident Choices in the new year
Words of Wisdom: Standout Quotes from This Episode
“Fear can either hold us back or catapult us forward.”
“Tough times don’t last long, but tough people do.”
“Bold moves often feel wrong in the moment—but they lead to your greatest breakthroughs.”
“You don’t always see it right away, but on the other side of fear is growth.”
“I’m not done—I’m just pressing pause so I can come back stronger, bolder, and truer in 2026.”
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BLOG TRANSCRIPT
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Courtney Turich: Welcome to Bold Moves, confident Choices, the podcast where we own our path, make fearless decisions, and get real about what it takes to turn bold ideas into reality. Hi my friends. It's your host, Courtney Turich. It is so great to see you all today and I'm going to be the guest for today. You got it. I've got a lot to share.
A Bold Pause: Closing Out 2025
And the big news is this is going to be my last episode for the year 2025. Many might be asked why reality is. I always wanna bring my best, my best self forward for all of you. And I'm also here to be real. And what I'm gonna share is there's been a lot going on in life. You know, I've, I did a big move, moved to my family from Charlotte to Asheville, which is by the way, been one of the best moves we have ever made in our life.
I will tell you it's the first place I have moved where I instantly felt like we were home. Like this huge weight just fell off my shoulders, and that's how I know we made the right move. Funny enough, there was a few episodes back, I think it was episode 26, where I talk about the fear of this move where I was now starting to second guess myself.
Which is so normal. Uh, if we wanted to jump into fear, right, like fear is. It can either hold us back or we can use it to catapult us forward. And it was that moment of reflection of reminding myself, it's not the first time I've gone through a big move, and that's what helped me to process. It's going to be okay.
This is a normal feeling. It's the normal feeling of change that presents itself. That is the fear, the safety net that tries to hold us. Back, but now two months on the opposite side. I am. I couldn't be happier in life and I again know that this was the best decision for my family and myself. So it's fun to share that side of that adventure with all of you.
Big Wins and Bigger Missions at Cooler Heads
Secondly, is. My professional career with cooler heads has gotten really busy, crazy busy, all good stuff, so I cannot complain. To give everybody a little backstory, again, cooler heads. We have a product called Amma, which means Mother and Tamil. Fun fact. But what we do is we help minimize chemotherapy induced alopecia for patients when they're going through a really difficult time in life, and we help them to maintain a sense of self identity and privacy during a really difficult time.
I've been with cooler heads for since before we commercialized. I was part of that plan developing the commercialization strategy. So looking back over three and a half, four years from what we've achieved is incredible. It's actually mind blowing. Has it been a rollercoaster? 1000%. Will it continue to be a rollercoaster?
A million times more. Yes. But you know, I've seen what we've achieved from being one of the solo reps running around in the field to now having a commercial team that encompasses over 14 people that I am helping to facilitate. That's a real pinch me moment. And the people that I'm surrounded with each and every day.
That is why we're having success. Yes, we have a cool freaking awesome product, but at the end of the day, it's the people who are making it happen. We're the patients we're supporting and the mission at hand. We have something really good happening. Secondly. With cooler heads and scalp coin in general, we've learned that scalp coin is moving to a category one Medicare code.
For all of you who do not know what that means, it means that Medicare is finally acknowledging the importance of reimbursing. Something like scalp cooling, which impacts a patient's recovery, their mental wellbeing, the whole person, which goes hand in hand. And once Medicare recognizes something such as scalp cooling, then the private insurance starts to follow suit.
So this is a huge milestone. Huge milestone for our company, for our patients, for scalp cooling in general. So I'm sharing this with you because while we're going through all this rapid growth, this reimbursement aspect to to scalp coin is also putting a lot of extra work onto our team, all for the best, all for a great cause, and I cannot wait to be part of that process to make scalp coin available to the masses.
Tough Times, Resilience, and What’s Next
When I reflect on bold moves, confident choices, I always wanna bring my best self to all of you, to my guests that I am, that I'm hosting, that I'm representing where I'm allowing them to share their voice. I believe in this mission too, of spreading the word of bold moves because when we hear others share those bold moves, it makes us reflect on our own choices and what we're doing in our life, but also.
Helps us to take that risk, to take that step, to move our life forward to that next phase, whatever it might be. Next is what we tell our 18-year-old self. I have loved to hear what people share, what they would tell their 18-year-old self, and as I am discussing this with you. I wanna tell you, mine has always been that tough times don't last long, but tough people do.
That saying for me has gotten me through a lot in my life. I was told that when I was 18 year, well, probably around 16, between 16 and 18 for my high school teacher. And that in itself has gotten me through some really dark times, and I share that because those dark times were typically bold moves that I took.
That didn't feel right in the moment, but on the other end, that's where my life started to blossom. I started to blossom as a profession professional and as a person. So there's so much behind what I still wanna continue to share with you all, but I need to take a pause because when I come back in the new year, I wanna make sure.
I'm a thousand percent. I am showing my best self. I am showing you my guests, their best self, and I'm with them a thousand percent. I also can't wait to share more about cooler heads and how we continue to evolve and grow. There's something really exciting and powerful on the horizon, but. I don't want you to think this is the end because it's not.
I'm gonna come back in the new year. I'm gonna have seasons. I'm gonna make my episode launch in various seasons with some exciting guests to share with you all I wanna walk away to and thank each and every one of you for listening. To my past several episodes, I hope you've gotten something out of them.
I love to hear back from each and every one of you when it has touched your soul or it's helped you catapult to that next big, bold move, move moves. That's what keeps me going. That's what adds fuel to my fire to know that by sharing my voice is helping you. So until next year, I want you to go have an amazing end of year, make this the best, and know that next year's gonna be even better.
So I'm gonna leave you like I always do. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart and I cannot wait to share more, but go be bold, be confident, and more importantly be you. Thank you so much until 2026. Friends, I'll see you then.
