Episode 7

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1st Jul 2025

Trust Your Gut: When Consistency Becomes Performance

What happens when you break a promise to yourself and discover it was the most aligned thing you could do? Michelle gets raw about ditching her 30-day challenge and why your intuition might be smarter than your strategy.

Episode Summary

In this unfiltered solo episode, Michelle explores the gap between intention and alignment after missing a day in her 30-episode challenge. Drawing wisdom from Richard Branson's success secret and her own body-based knowledge, she dismantles the myth that consistency without integrity equals success. This is essential listening for Gen X women ready to stop performing for algorithms and start trusting their authentic voice for real transformation.

Key Takeaways

• Consistency without integrity is just performance – Learn when to honor your "no" over external expectations

 • Your body is smarter than your brain – Discover how to read the physical signals of alignment vs. resistance

 • Successful leaders trust their instincts – Why intuition trumps strategy in sustainable success 

• The path of alignment is never crowded – Embracing the lonely courage of following your gut

 • Space-holding over fixing – The transformative power of being truly heard without judgment

Timestamps

[00:00] Unscripted intro: Showing up messy and real

[01:00] The deal I broke with myself and why it was right

[04:00] Richard Branson's success secret: Trust your instincts

[07:00] Why we outsource our intuition to everyone else

[10:00] Integration pause: Where are you overriding your gut?

[11:00] Your body knows truth - learn to listen

[13:00] Offering space to be heard, not fixed

[16:00] The unglamorous path of authentic alignment

Resources Mentioned

• Erin King's interview with Sir Richard Branson 

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Keywords: transformation, Gen X women, authentic living, personal growth, voice reclamation, identity shift, life rebuild, nervous system healing, self-care boundaries

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For people who know exactly what they need to do but keep finding reasons not to.
The podcast for people tired of being told to heal, optimize, and “do the work” when the real work is admitting what you already know but refuse to act on.

Hosted by Michelle Burke, keynote speaker and author who doesn’t inspire people to feel better. She exposes what high-performers hide behind: self-awareness replacing action, resilience enabling tolerance, and growth as another way to avoid deciding.

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