For ambitious women, learning to trust your gut is one of the most underused leadership skills, and this episode shows you exactly how to start.
Host Amanda Goetz sits down with Aycee Brown, a psychic medium, astrologer, human design expert, and author of Embody Your Magic. Aycee spent years in corporate sales, where people asked for the data behind her instincts.
Now she advises founders, CEOs, and executive teams on bringing intuition back into how they lead and make decisions. She walks you through simple ways to rebuild self-trust at work and at home, and explains how to tell whether that knot in your stomach is your intuition or your anxiety talking.
You’ll also learn how to use astrology and human design as practical tools rather than belief systems: to understand where you naturally shine, why you might feel stretched thin in a role that asks you to be good at everything, and how managers can build teams around people’s real strengths. Plus, Aycee shares the story of how she landed her book deal in 30 days, and why she says manifestation only works if you’re honest about what you actually want and willing to take action.
Whether you’re leading a team, weighing your next career move, or just tired of second-guessing yourself, this conversation will help you trust the voice you’ve been ignoring.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:37 What ambition means to Aycee now
04:00 A near-death experience at four and where her intuition began
06:44 Hiding her gifts through high school and college
08:58 Does every woman have intuition?
11:31 Building intuition when your workplace demands data
13:52 Intuition vs. anxiety: How to tell the difference
16:19 Using astrology as a tool for work
19:25 What a birth chart reveals about how you lead
21:43 Timing your next move without waiting on the stars
24:43 Human design 101 and the five aura types
28:01 Manifestation, alignment, and Aycee’s book deal story
31:45 How Amanda manifested her husband
33:16 For the skeptics: these are tools, not belief systems
36:04 Why every company needs spiritual tools
38:07 Rapid fire: Astrology at work edition
40:55 Where to find Aycee
Key takeaways
Every woman has intuition, but life, family belief systems, and corporate culture teach us to stop trusting it when we can’t prove it with data.
You can rebuild self-trust through low-stakes tests, like noting how a coffee shop or meeting feels, writing it down with the date, and checking whether you were right.
Intuition is quiet, calm, and immediate, while anxiety is loud, fast, and future-paced, spinning out a domino effect of “what ifs.”
Astrology and human design are tools for self-understanding rather than belief systems, and they can show where you’ll naturally excel at work.
Instead of expecting employees to master all 20 items in a job description, leaders get better results by focusing people on the strengths they’re naturally built for.
Manifestation starts with telling the truth about what you actually want, then taking aligned action so you’re ready when the opportunity arrives.
Rushing to the next promotion often signals that you haven’t slowed down long enough to ask whether you really want it.
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