How Do You Become An Intuitive Decision-Maker?

Shoshanna French's goal is to cultivate wildly successful leaders through the practical power of intuition. As the founder of Simple Spirit, a keynote speaker and coach to NFL leaders, Broadway and television stars, million and billion-dollar business founders, CEOs, and business professionals, Shoshanna French generates unpredictable and profound results for leaders who are looking to develop deeper connections to their purpose. Here’s a summary of our conversation on last week’s Wake Up! With Haley.

HG: Give us something in your personal or professional world that is going really well right now that you feel some gratitude around.

SF: The creation of a new curriculum with some collaborators where we're kind of focusing on communication, leadership, and well-being.??

HG: Can you tell us a little bit about what your superpower is and how you have the ability to help us be able to do that?

SF: One of my biggest superpowers is the ability to take something that's super complex and make it simple so that it's easy to learn. And the thing that really interests me is intuition. Intuition is just the ability to understand or know something without any prior experience. And so my superpower is to be able to teach people how to trust this inner knowing they have. And when we are trusting our intuition, it unleashes our ability to be out there fulfilling our purpose and helping people, and making the impact we want to make.?

HG: We've got a couple of terms that are going on right now around ‘quiet quitting’ and the ‘great resignation’ and a lot of it comes from a place of burnout. Do you actually think it's possible to have true success without this burnout feeling?

SF: It's going to require not just people quietly quitting, but stepping away from that experience of overwork which leads to burnout. It's also going to take people’s understanding of what their purpose is. People have to see how they fit into a group or culture and then within the greater company. So when they do that, it is possible to both do great at their job but also be able to fulfill their purpose simultaneously. Being burned out is really that innate sense of ignoring what feels right or what feels good and that's a big part of intuition. People are not going to just all of a sudden quit because they discover their purpose. For a lot of people, the purpose is an intrinsic being. It doesn't have to do with what you're doing. When people discover, what is their sense of being that they want to be in the world and they're in touch with that, there are lots of vehicles for the fulfillment of it.?

HG: Give us a little bit of background or understanding of how you do this through your business and intuitive coaching.?

SF: A lot of people are experiencing a certain level of success within either their own business or the business realm. Not for them as business owner, but inside of a job. And mostly what they're present to is the sense that they should feel really fulfilled. What I find is in one of the four areas: health, relationship, community, or work, there's some sense of dissatisfaction or unhappiness. So we start there. We do a lot of discovery, conversation, and introspection about what is it that we actually want, and why is it that we're going for things that we don't actually want. Why have we been putting up with things we don't want? And then how do we go after what it is we really desire? It's a combination of how people think and then the actions that they're doing in their life and then intuitively tapping in. I have a test that I designed to help people so I can meet anybody and understand how their intuition works. It’s called the intuitive blueprint. From that, we back out to say, what are practices to help you recognize how it works? How do you use it in every area of life? And no matter what kind of decision you make, how do you become an intuitive decision-maker??

HG: Tell us just a little bit more about your blueprint process. How did you create it and what that experience feels like?

SF: I was curious about the intersection between practical life and this sort of spiritual practice. I started to ask myself this question years ago. How do I train anybody to trust their intuition? How can you use intuition anywhere, anytime, about anything? And it came to me that just like all of those personality type tests, intuition is like that. So I begin to wonder what kind of questions there could be. There are two parts of intuition. One is called your external orientation. It's the way that you connect to others. And then the other one is called your internal translation. It's the way that your body acknowledges whatever you're picking up. Everybody translates in one of those four ways. And then there are ways in which we connect to the outside world, either more emotionally, mentally, or physically oriented. However, what it looks like for you specifically is slightly different because you have a different upbringing, a different culture, and maybe a different religion you practice that actually affects how your intuition works. If you could trust every decision you made without having to do a lot of second-guessing or dealing with a lot of self-doubt, that's sort of the gift of what intuition does.

How do you trust that and then apply it to every area of life? But when things get really hard and there's a lot of challenge, trusting your intuition in those moments is more difficult.?-Shoshanna French

HG: When you are working with executives or business owners, how do you support them in training their teams? What are some of the things that you do to really help train the teams and plug in to their employees and those growth models?

SF: I look at where the disconnect is. Sometimes it is a matter of communication. I have not met an organization yet where communication miscommunications aren't present. There are things that we think we're communicating well or hearing what someone heard well and it doesn't happen. So communication is one thing I focus on. The other thing is I actually train teams on intuitive decision-making. So empowering members of a team, wherever they are, to communicate when something doesn't feel, sound, or look right, or they just know this isn't the right choice. That is an essential piece of how I train teams. So if you have at the very top the leadership trusting their own innate sense of inner knowing or their gut, and then you have the team operating the same as well, then you have this cohesiveness plus this communication. Those two things together tend to powerfully create teams that are making fewer mistakes but also are effective.?

It really creates an alignment between the entire organization and the people. When someone like Shoshanna comes into an organization and does these communication courses and coaching from the very top throughout the entire company, We are always a little remiss in remembering the impact that the individuals also take home.?

To learn more about Shoshanna and how intuitive coaching can help you, visit her website: https://simplespirit.com/business-mentoring/.?