Your 100-Day Glow Up Map (Audit + Checklist Included)

How to turn the last 100 days of the year into your most joyful, confident, and put-together season yet (and stop waiting for New Year's)

You know when a single reel just changes your brain chemistry?

Last year, I saw one that said,

“If your last glow up was when you got your braces off in middle school, that’s on you.”

No-nonsense. Convicting. Life-changing.

I then spent an entire five-mile birthday walk with my bestie having a full wake-up call/business meeting about it.

We turned that moment into a one-year experiment: what happen if we actually schedule our glow up?

Not another “I should be better” kind of year. The “I’m done being sloppy with my potential” kind of year.

And it worked. The results were ridiculous — 30 pounds down, hair color reinvented, confidence and business tripled, wardrobe cleaned, joy restored.

But the biggest lesson?
It didn’t need to take 12 months.

As Parkinson’s Law states, tasks will expand to the amount of time that you give them.

With focus, accountability, and systems, you can do it in 100 days.
So now I’m rebuilding this into a system that you can use for yourself— and this post is the exact map.

If you listen to my The Last 100 Days Sprint series on the Made Good podcast, this is your starter pack.

If you’ve never heard of it, this stands alone as your full 100-Day Glow Up Plan.

Here’s what I’ll be sharing Inside This Week’s Article: “Your 100-Day Glow Up Map”

• Why your late 20’s are the ideal time for a glow up (you are not past your prime)

• My step-by-step guide to mapping out your 100 Day Glow Up in an hour or less

• A Glow Up Audit to find what’s holding you back and where to focus your energy first

• A guided Holy Hour full of journal prompts to dive deep and make visible progress in 3 months

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💎 Why Your Late 20s Are the Perfect Time to Glow Up

No one tells you this, but your late 20s are secretly the best time to transform.
You’re not lost anymore, but you’re not locked in either.
You finally know what works for your body, your schedule, your friendships, and your sanity.

Here’s why it’s the most strategic era to plan your glow up:

1. You actually know yourself now.

You’ve done your trial-and-error — minimalist, maximalist, clean girl, chaos.
You can tell the difference between what you think makes you look good, feel good, and what actually aligns with who you are and the life you want to live. You’re more focused on what colors and styles suit the body God gave you, how to eat and move to feel like you’re thriving, and you have yeaaaars worth of lessons to pull from.

2. Your standards are higher.

Your late 20s are when you get to enjoy the fruit of a fully developed frontal lobe (and suddenly you realize that mom was right about almost everything). Who you spend time with, what you do with your evenings, and what you’re filling your mind with need to earn a place in your life.

3. You can afford the right kind of effort.

You’ve learned what’s worth your time.
You have a rhythm now. And you likely have a little more stability.
One haircut, one grocery swap, one walk with a friend can change the whole vibe. You find yourself saying things like, “buy cheap buy twice” when shopping, “I’d rather pay for my peace” when buying flights, and calculating the ROI on invites out. You know what your time and money is worth more than ever. You often look back on all the money you wasted so carelessly in your early 20’s and wonder why youth is wasted on the young (why was I dropping entire paychecks on Forever21’s Black Friday sales??)

4. You’ve grown enough to know that effort ≠ vanity.

For Catholic women, a life of virtue is usually their primary focus, but somewhere along the line I’ve noticed an undercurrent that virtue means you shouldn’t care at all. I took this Glow Up Year as a reframing of sorts, making sure that I focused on being a good steward of the gifts the Lord has given me. This also means reassessing how I’m showing up and presenting myself to the world. Last year was full of travel and networking events and realized just how rare it is for people to meet a young, faithful, practicing Catholic that genuinely LOVES being Catholic. I realized just how important it is to be a good witness - in my speech, actions, and presentation. Effort became a form of excellence.

Vanity vs. Virtue Check

Ask this for anything time, energy, or money-heavy:

• If no one noticed, would I still do it?

• Does it bring order and peace — or obsession and anxiety?

• Would I be proud to explain the intention behind it?

5. You’ve stopped waiting for permission.

You don’t need someone to validate that it’s time to take yourself seriously.
You just do it, because life is too short not to. No one is going to call you and tell you everything that you’re capable you are of acheiving your dreams and becoming the woman you want to be. No one is going to knock on your door and say, “Today’s the day!!! Let’s do all the things you’ve been saying you’re going to do!”.

Your life is your own and it is far too short to sit around dreaming, waiting, or even worse, scrolling watching other people live their best life.

Translation: You’re not “past your prime.” You’re just at the first age where you can actually enjoy it. Consider yourself finally qualified to glow up intentionally.

And if you’re in your early 20’s, this is the perfect time for you to lock in and live your life on purpose instead of waiting for the magical day where all your ducks are in a row.

📝 The Starter Pack Checklist

To make this Glow Up easy, I put together a checklist of everything you can start knock off your list this week — body, beauty, environment, and the small routines that make you feel put-together again and get some quick wins under your belt.

It’s short, practical, and designed so you can literally print it, tape it to your fridge, and start crossing things off.

I’ll drop it this week in the Subscriber Chat, ready to download and print.

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✨ The Glow Up Audit

Your honest mirror moment before the next 100 days.

How to use this

• Block off 45–60 minutes.

• Grab a notebook, candle, and your beverage of choice.

• Be brutally honest — this isn’t about self-criticism, it’s about clarity.

• Bonus points if you do this WITH your Glow Up Buddy so you can externally process and share your thoughts live