Have you ever had those situations where you got that funny feeling in your stomach?

Like your gut instinct is trying to tell you something.

Well, that's what this episode is all about, is how to trust that gut instinct and what to do about it.

Marketing your business is for you, the business owner, who has a product, a service, or a message

that you believe in. My name is Stu McLaren, and each week we'll take a behind the scenes

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I want to talk to you about something that does not get discussed very often when it comes to decision making in business. And it has to do with

trusting your gut, trusting your intuition. And the reason that we don't typically talk about this is because there's

not really a lot known about this. But it can feel kind of wishy-washy, right? Like, it can feel kind of

like, well, I don't know, because I don't really know much about it. Like, is it like this woo-woo thing?

Like, I don't really know if trusting my gut is something that I really want to talk about or, you know, especially in public.

But I can tell you this, that there have been more times than not when I have made a conscious decision to trust my gut that has helped me make way more progress because I trusted my gut, because I trusted my intuition.

And this kind of came up for me in two different scenarios.

Number one, recently, Trisha, who is in my Impact Mastermind, made a post in our group where she

was talking about a scenario where she hired somebody and immediately right away knew that it was the wrong hire to make.

And so she had that feeling in her gut where it was just like, this is not a good fit.

And this is going to create all kinds of problems.

And to her credit, she recognized it.

And instead of shying away from it, she stepped into it.

And she had a hard conversation with

that person. And yes, it cost her several thousand dollars because literally she did this at a team

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