{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"I Have a Story For You","title":"The Decision-Making Skill Women Are Told Not to Trust (And How to Use It)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2220,"description":"This episode is for women who make difficult decisions for a living but find themselves stuck when the decision could alter the next decade of their lives.\nThis is not a conversation about abandoning logic or treating every feeling as fact.\nIt’s about intuition as accumulated information.\nPattern recognition as leadership.\nAnd the self-authority to act on what you perceive before someone else confirms it.\nWHAT’S NAMED HERE\n• Why you can make difficult decisions for other people and still become stuck when the decision is your own\n• Why more analysis and pros-and-cons lists will not help when you are answering the wrong question\n• How to tell whether a strong internal signal is fear—or information your conscious mind has not yet articulated\n• Why intuition and logic are not opposites, and how to use both when the stakes are high\n• How memory, pattern recognition, and contextual processing contribute to directional leadership\n• Why intuition may be subconscious knowledge surfacing through emotional and bodily cues\n• Why you may see where a situation is heading before anyone else does\n• Why recognizing the right direction is not enough for influence—you also need the self-authority to act before someone else confirms it\n• How even the right choice can become a trap when you make it for the wrong reasons \nWHAT THIS EPISODE CHALLENGES\nThe belief that only what can be explained numerically deserves to influence a decision.\nThe habit of waiting for someone more senior to validate what you already see.\nThe idea that intuition and rigorous thinking are opposing forms of intelligence.\nA LINE THAT HOLDS THIS EPISODE\n“Female intuition is real. It is valuable, and it is a crucial resource that we women have been told to ignore.” \nCONTINUE THE CONVERSATION\nJoin my private list: Sonja’s Inner Circle\nReceive private essays and decision frameworks that help you identify what a choice is really asking of you—so you can stop circling, avoid expensive detours, and move forward...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LX0Or8GmDDdUfCe0zo1OkkRcPtLTbGsZ7OzZrrxNTac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZGYx/ZWU4MDU2YTkxNTBi/ZmM2MTU3NzdiYTA0/YmNiYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}