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Learning to trust your intuition starts with one quiet voice that keeps tapping you on the shoulder, the one telling you to reach out, sign up, say no, or finally start the thing you keep saving for someday. In this solo episode of Aligned & Abundant, I'm sharing how to build self-trust and follow your inner knowing in a way that feels safe, simple, and really doable.
I start with the question I hear most from clients: how do you know whether it's your intuition or just your mind making things up? I'll walk you through why your intuition is quiet, calm, and neutral, why it keeps coming back no matter how long you ignore it, and how fear sounds completely different. Fear is loud and urgent and loves a worst-case scenario. Your intuition simply shows you the next step, not the whole staircase.
I also open up about my own nudge to leave the public school classroom after nineteen years. I loved my students and my colleagues, and still the pull kept returning until it felt like I was living Groundhog Day. When the choice was finally made for me, I started the business I had always dreamed of and the podcast I'd been thinking about for three years. The biggest lesson from that chapter is that clarity came after I started moving, not before.
From there, we look at the four ways we talk ourselves out of our own guidance: timing, money, what other people will think, and the sneakiest one, "who am I to do this?" I call it the committee in your head, and I explain why it always votes for staying the same. Familiar feels safe to your nervous system, even when it isn't what's best for you.
Then we get practical. Self-trust is built the same way trust with any person is built, through small kept promises. I share how tiny yeses rebuild that trust, how to shrink a big nudge down to one honest step, and the very real story of my TikTok daily channeled message challenge, including the day 12 moment that surprised me, the day I skipped, and how my community helped me restart.
You'll leave with a simple practice for the week: a nudge list, plus one small action taken within 24 hours. And a permission slip to trust yourself before anyone else agrees with you.
I'm also sharing details on my New Jersey retreat with Casey Taton, host of the Inner Spark podcast, happening November 5–7. If something flickered when you heard about it, I'd love for you to listen to that.
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