If it’s the first time you have stumbled upon me and my business, you may not know that I started as a health coach years before becoming a business coach. Because of my humble beginnings, I learned to trust the process (which is hard to do sometimes). Trusting in my journey allowed me to master listening to my body and follow my intuition.

Allowing my intuition to guide me in my business

I don’t like the word “hustle.” It may seem like I contradict myself when I say I have a day job on top of running my six-figure coaching business and being a mom to three kids. Still, I don’t feel the hustle and exhaustion, and it’s because I made it into a lifestyle that feels peaceful to me and easy.

If something starts not to feel easy, I take a step back and ask myself what's going on? My most significant sign that I’m overworked is if I get sick, don’t feel too well, or if there’s random pain in my body. For the first couple of years, when I was doing many open-close launches for my program, I would get sick every single time I would launch, and I never get sick, so I was baffled by it. I'm always at home, and my kids bring home germs from school and whatnot, but I would never get sick. But whenever I launched, I'd always get sick. Whenever I overbooked in podcast interviews, I would sound like a nasal queen on my interviews, and I didn't realize that was my body telling me you need to slow down because this is not what you want.

So I always try to keep things simple, and if it doesn't feel easy, I'm not doing it. I don't care if a seven-figure coach told me to do it or it's in this PDF or program that I have to do it. If it doesn't feel aligned with where I'm going and what I want to be now, I'm not doing it.

I've happy to rebel against those things because I know it doesn't feel right. When you're little, your parents teach you not to do something if it doesn’t feel right, so it's like you have to tap into that when running a business. Otherwise, you're going to be that crazy hustler who doesn't know if it's morning or night anymore because you’re sitting in your office all day. That's not what I want, and that’s not what I want to teach my kids how to make their dreams happen.

Here’s how I guide my clients on how they can do the same for their business:

For example, let's say they're launching their first group program, and I have them go through a program of mine to establish that successfully. Then they have it printed out, and they're ready to go, and then they dive in. They're like, “Oh, where do I even start? This feels hard.” I ask them, “How can you make it easy? How can you pull from “easy” and apply the things that will work for you?”

Because there's no right or wrong way to do anything, it’s going to all come down to what feels suitable for you. So even if my clients have my program to go through, they can still take away things from it that don’t feel aligned for their business and lifestyle, and I hold space to guide them through it.

Trusting your gut instinct

Trusting your gut instinct is another big thing that can help you use your intuition as an introvert. This may sound weird, but I always trust my morning gut.

So if I have something to decide in my business, whether it's running a webinar three times next month or if I should hire this person, I am not going to decide while I'm sitting in front of my computer because I’m in that “I need this” mode. So you want to just sit with it. You can journal about it or pray or whatever mindful thing you can do.

We have our bedroom in the basement, and I always have a conversation with myself as I walk up the stairs when I come up in the morning. First, I express gratitude to God, and then I tap into that thing I’ve been pondering and have a follow-up conversation with God about whether or not I should go ahead with it. If you ask for an answer and push it off and keep debating with yourself, you're not going to get those good hits anymore because you're not listening and trusting that the first answer is the right one. So take that first answer that you get, which is your gut instinct. Your morning intuition is so fresh and not influenced by anything else; that’s why I trust it the most.

My clients hired me not to direct them on what to do but to help them listen to themselves (even if they don’t know it yet). If you're sitting there in a room by yourself, and you need to decide on your business right now, you need to be able to consult with yourself first because that is all that is ever going to matter.

How do you trust your intuition as an introverted entrepreneur? Share your best advice below!