What Happens When You Follow Your Gut in Business

You've felt it before. That gentle nudge that says pay attention to this. The pull toward something you can't fully explain yet. The full body yes that shows up before your brain has time to talk you out of it.

That's your intuition. And you should pay attention.

Most people ignore it. They wait until the timing is better, the plan is clearer, or the path makes more sense on paper.

Here's what I know after a decade of growing—your intuition is never wrong. And what happens when you follow it will surprise you every single time.

Let me tell you about the time following mine changed my entire career trajectory in the best way.

The Moment in Bali That Started It All

If you've been around here for any amount of time, you've heard me talk about Bali. Magical things happen on that little island—like the time a monkey put its sweet little hands on my eyelids and opened them, both literally and figuratively. But that's a story for another day.

While traveling and living abroad, I attended coworking meetups with other expats, both men and women from all over the world, who were trying to run a business from their laptops in beautiful places. The 4-Hour Workweek by Time Ferriss was wildly popular at this moment in time.

It was wildly incredible, and also very challenging.

Everyone in those rooms was thinking in different languages, building for different audiences, and focused on different parts of the world. I didn't have anyone I could relate to. I couldn't put my finger on what was missing but knew something was.

And then one night, scrolling Instagram, I found it.

A group of women in Oklahoma building businesses together in a shared space, cheering each other on, showing up for each other every single day. My friend Mickie Lara had just joined this coworking space and watching it from the other side of the world, something lit up in me immediately.

It looked like such a welcoming, intentional community. And even from thousands of miles away, it was possible to feel it.

That feeling? That was the nudge.

What the Nudge Looked Like

What's really interesting is where that nudge took me.

A few nights later, still in Bali, I had a vivid dream.

In it, I was in a large room surrounded by women who felt like friends. They were hanging around, talking and laughing over green juice. I had an office in the back of the space, a place of my own inside something that was clearly bigger than just me.

At the time, I envisioned a yoga studio with a little coaching room tucked off to the side. That was the version of the future I could picture for myself.

So naturally, I assumed that when I returned to the states, I'd one day own my own yoga studio with a juice bar in the front of it where women could gather after class.

That's what my dream had shown me.The funny thing about nudges is that you don't have to have the full picture in clear view to take the next, right step.

What Saying Yes Made Possible

Several months later, I came home and joined The Collective—the coworking space that had stopped my scroll back in Bali.

Ownership was never on my radar. A brick and mortar was never part of the plan.

But there was a knowing inside me that planting myself in that room mattered, even without being able to explain why.

Within my first week as a member, I hosted a workshop, landed two new clients and booked a speaking gig.

One week.

The room created the conditions where it could happen, and it will for you too. Proximity to the right people changes what's available to you. You plant yourself. You stay. And doors open that you couldn't have anticipated.

What Following Your Gut Actually Requires

Here's what nobody tells you. Following your gut means showing up before you have the full picture. It means saying yes to the room before you know what the room is going to give you.

That's hard when you're running a business, raising a family and trying to make every decision count. The second guessing is loud. The logical brain wants a plan and a guaranteed outcome before it signs off on anything.

But the nudge doesn't work that way.

The Full Body Yes

Almost two years after that dream in Bali, I had the opportunity to purchase The Collective. It was a full body yes for me.

The moment the opportunity presented itself that dream vividly flashed through my mind. I hadn't thought about it in years.

My intuition told me it was never a yoga studio. It was always this.

Here's what still blows my mind. At any point, had membership been a no, the opportunity to own it never would have come up.

You can't walk through a door you never stood in front of.

Every door that opened came from the decision to keep saying yes. Yes to membership. Yes to hosting that first workshop. Yes to showing up in that room week after week without knowing where it was taking me.

What This Means for You

You don't have to have the whole vision to take your next step.

Sometimes building something significant starts with a single decision to plant yourself somewhere and see what grows. To say yes to the room. To keep showing up even when you can't see where it's going yet.

When you feel that gentle nudge, the one that feels like a full body yes, keep going. Keep putting yourself in the room. Keep showing up and connecting. Because doors are opening right now that you can't even anticipate yet.

The nudge is ready. The question is whether you're going to follow it.

If you're ready to start trusting yourself and following the nudges that are already trying to lead you somewhere, let's work together.

Learn more at https://themindherco.com/coaching.