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935: Your Intuition Was Never Wrong, You Just Weren't Taught How to Read It

December 1, 2025

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  • Intuition is an innate birthright that is often suppressed by the need for external validation and safety, requiring a deconditioning process to reclaim it. 
  • Effective decision-making involves balancing three intelligences—spirit (intuition), body, and mind—with spirit needing to be prioritized first. 
  • True alignment in business and life manifests as effortless flow and the right cues aligning, whereas forcing things often indicates misreading the timing or the necessary steps. 
  • The profound impact of the guest, Sheetal Story, on the host's life is highlighted by the host's willingness to undertake a difficult journey to meet her. 
  • The relationship with the guest is characterized as deeply supportive, consistent, and instrumental in helping the host uncover valuable insights ("gold underneath all of the mud"). 
  • The episode concludes by encouraging listeners to share the conversation with others who might benefit from the insights on trusting intuition and building a supportive business. 

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Sponsor Read: Morgan Stanley
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(00:00:01)
  • Key Takeaway: Money conversations are often awkward, but the ‘What Should I Do With My Money?’ podcast makes them approachable by featuring experts who break down large costs into actionable steps.
  • Summary: Money is frequently a difficult topic, even for those who feel financially stable. The featured podcast helps demystify money by offering expert advice on managing multiple large life expenses simultaneously. Listeners can find practical, step-by-step guidance for complex financial situations.
Jenna Kutcher Introduction
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  • Key Takeaway: Jenna Kutcher’s philosophy centers on trading hustle for purpose to build a business that supports the desired life, emphasizing living well alongside success.
  • Summary: Jenna Kutcher transitioned from a small start to a seven-figure business run from home. Her focus is on providing strategies, systems, and steps that convert effort into tangible results and impact. The goal is achieving clarity and confidence in a business that feels as good as it looks.
Guest Introduction and Intuition Block
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  • Key Takeaway: Guest Sheetal Story helps entrepreneurs overcome blocks by addressing unprocessed grief, limiting identities, and fear that drowns out inner knowing.
  • Summary: Many entrepreneurs struggle with trusting themselves after ignoring gut feelings or being told they were wrong. Sheetal Story, a Psychic Medium and Astrologer with business acumen, works with stuck or burned-out entrepreneurs. She focuses on clearing deep-seated blocks like unprocessed grief and fear to restore self-trust.
Rebuilding Self-Trust
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  • Key Takeaway: Rebuilding intuition requires deconditioning the self from external validation, as we are trained from childhood to prioritize connection over authenticity.
  • Summary: The inability to trust oneself often stems from being conditioned to seek external approval, leading to an identity built on external worth. Intuition simply knows, but the mind judges it based on frameworks designed for safety. Reconnecting with intuition is fundamentally a process of deconditioning external influences.
Three Intelligences Model
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  • Key Takeaway: Humans possess three intelligences—mind, body, and spirit—which must be prioritized as spirit (intuition) first, body second, and mind third for optimal guidance.
  • Summary: The mind’s primary job is safety, often keeping one stuck in the past, making it a poor guide for entrepreneurial creation of something new. The body provides real-time feedback, but trauma can make it feel unsafe, pushing reliance back onto the mind. Spirit, or the electromagnetic field, stores wisdom and energizes the system, serving as the true North Star.
Misreading Intuitive Cues
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  • Key Takeaway: A perceived ‘wrong decision’ is actually a missed lesson; aligned action, guided by intuition, results in effortless flow where all necessary elements align perfectly.
  • Summary: When an intuitive desire doesn’t materialize with ease, it means the cues were misread, not that the intuition was wrong. For instance, moving to a new location requires not just the desire but also the alignment of job offers, housing, and timing. Effortless flow is the indicator that the universe is green-lighting the path.
Guest’s Spiritual Backstory
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  • Key Takeaway: Sheetal Story suppressed her spiritual gifts in childhood to fit in, only to have them return later, leading her to formal training in astrology to understand the phenomena.
  • Summary: Growing up in Canada as a first-generation East Indian, she hid her ability to see energy and spirit to appear ’normal.’ After university and starting a family, these gifts returned, causing distress until an astrologer confirmed her abilities. This led to a six-year journey to become a certified professional astrologer.
Divine Timing vs. Pushing
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  • Key Takeaway: Divine timing dictates that aligned opportunities will organize themselves with ease, contrasting with the mind’s tendency to force action prematurely.
  • Summary: When launching a project, the initial intention, energy, and astrological timing permeate the container, affecting outcomes. A failed launch, like the guest’s first membership, provides data on what was shaky, such as unprimed audience or shaky energy. Pushing against divine timing leads to the scenic route, while alignment brings ease.
Meeting and Soul Remembrance
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  • Key Takeaway: The meeting between Jenna Kutcher and Sheetal Story at a conference felt like a soul’s remembrance, confirming an intuitive pull to connect.
  • Summary: Jenna Kutcher felt an immediate, strong connection upon meeting Sheetal Story, describing it as a soul’s remembrance, despite initial etiquette training advising against engaging with talent. Sheetal Story had intuitively known Jenna was meant to be at the conference based on a prior reading with the event organizer, Ashley. This serendipitous meeting marked the beginning of their mentorship.
Navigating Transition and Identity Loss
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  • Key Takeaway: The 12th house year in astrology represents a necessary, albeit painful, cocoon stage of disengaging from old identities that cannot enter the next life phase.
  • Summary: Transition periods, often symbolized by the 12th house in astrology, involve the painful dissolution of aspects of one’s identity, friendships, and passions. This process is purposeful, stripping away conditioning to reveal the core spirit, or ‘gold,’ underneath the layers of external influence. Understanding these cycles prevents feeling like one is ‘going crazy’ during reorganization.
Learning a New Way of Being
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  • Key Takeaway: The ’new way of doing business’ Jenna Kutcher sought was not a strategy but an embodied feeling and way of operating rooted in divine feminine energy.
  • Summary: Jenna Kutcher attended a retreat expecting notebook strategies but found the learning centered on nervous system resetting and feminine energy, which felt uncomfortable due to her masculine, force-based operating style. The realization was that the transformation was a shift in being, not just a new tactic, softening her approach to align with her emerging humanitarian side.
Releasing Judgment and Finding Gold
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  • Key Takeaway: Grief accompanies all transformation, stripping away conditioning (the mud) to reveal the soul’s true nature (the gold), which is where intuition resides.
  • Summary: Buddhist tradition illustrates that protective layers (mud) can hide the true, valuable core (gold) until an external event cracks the surface. Grief acts similarly by removing layers of conditioning from caregivers and society. Trusting intuition is the soul’s compass, and abandoning it leads to the painful scenic route instead of ease-filled abundance.
Activism and Self-Ownership
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  • Key Takeaway: True self-ownership means refusing to self-judge harshly to preempt external criticism, thereby removing the magnet that attracts negative judgment.
  • Summary: Jenna Kutcher recognized a pattern of self-criticism so severe that it preemptively canceled her before others could, a defense mechanism from her past. Sheetal Story affirmed that this pattern is no longer available, as true power comes from leading with love rather than fear. When one is convicted in their true nature, external opinions lose their power to manipulate or hurt.
Guest’s Offerings and Evidence Building
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  • Key Takeaway: To strengthen intuition, individuals must actively build a ‘book of evidence’ by journaling both successful intuitive hits and instances where going against intuition provided lessons.
  • Summary: Sheetal Story offers an intuition activation meditation to help listeners strengthen their inner voice, noting its positive impact on Jenna Kutcher’s transition. She advises creating a journal to document outcomes from following or ignoring nudges. This evidence-building process helps move reliance away from the mind, which seeks to ‘get it right,’ toward trusting the soul’s direction.
Expressing Deep Gratitude
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  • Key Takeaway: Deep relational connection transcends transactional interactions, validating significant personal effort.
  • Summary: The guest’s request was perceived as deeply heartfelt and non-transactional, allowing the host to feel their genuine connection. The host expressed profound gratitude and love, affirming the value of the relationship. This connection was deemed worth significant personal sacrifice, including a difficult drive in severe weather.
Affirming Guest’s Impact
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  • Key Takeaway: The guest serves as a consistent guide, helping to reveal inherent value hidden beneath difficult circumstances.
  • Summary: The host expressed a desire to dedicate significantly more time to the guest’s wisdom, indicating the depth of their influence. Meeting the guest at a conference in Canada was a pivotal moment leading to this impactful relationship. The guest consistently helps the host uncover the ‘gold underneath all of the mud’ and navigate challenging periods.
Call to Action and Closing
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  • Key Takeaway: Listeners are encouraged to share the episode to help other entrepreneurs find necessary inspiration and actionable steps.
  • Summary: Listeners are asked to share this episode of The Goal Digger Podcast with anyone who could benefit from the conversation. The show aims to equip entrepreneurs with tools to build a business that supports their life goals. Listeners are reminded to follow, share, and leave reviews to help others discover these conversations when they need guidance most.