The Secret To Making Hard Decisions: Minimize Regret & KNOW You’re On The Right Path

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with one of the top, most highly sought after career and executive coaches, Megan Hellerer. We dive into exactly how to live the most authentic and fulfilling life possible. She shares key tools we can all start using today such as the four omens, the aligned action formula, “haywalts”, and an inner navigation system calibration exercise. This episode will help you tune out the noise and get clear on what’s actually right for you. Plus, we’ll share how to practice making aligned choices in small ways, how to embrace uncertainty with confidence, and how to start walking a path that feels good even if you can’t see the finish line ahead. In this episode, we get into: Decision-making frameworks Directional mindset vs. destinational thinking The scientific method for life Overcoming the fear of wasting time Warmer vs. colder test Career fulfillment Relationship decisions & so much more For more from Megan Hellerer, find her on Instagram @meganhellerer, online at www.meganhellerer.com, or check out her book called Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. Use our discount codes from our highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: AG1: visit drinkag1.com/LIZMOODY and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. Thrive Market: visit ThriveMarket.com/LIZMOODY and get a $60 FREE gift today & 30% OFF your first order The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 349. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You said that there's four questions that we can ask ourselves for making decisions.
0:04.0	Can you share what those are?
0:05.0	Another sort of shortcut, magic-busting question that you can always ask on decision-making is
0:11.0	how can we practice becoming more tolerant of uncertainty in our lives?
0:15.0	Uncertainty means possibility, potential, opportunity.
0:19.0	It means something different than what you're doing now. Are there external
0:22.9	signs that maybe we're going down the wrong path? Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody
0:27.8	podcast. I know I have a great interview to share with you when I keep referencing things that I
0:33.0	learned in it after the interview. And this is one that I cannot stop talking about. It has one of the best decision-making frameworks that I have ever heard. And you are going to hear it today. And you're going to be like, wow, that's really interesting. And then you're going to see how applicable it is as it comes up over and over and over in your life, in your friend' lives, in your family's lives, in the next
0:54.7	few weeks and months, and then you're just going to be like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.
0:57.9	This is an absolutely life-changing, game-changing decision-making framework.
1:03.6	If you feel stuck, if you have hard decisions to make, if you have easy decisions to make,
1:08.3	if you're struggling to find your own voice amidst all of the societal
1:12.2	shoulds, if you cannot stop glamorizing the paths not taken, if you want to figure out the best
1:17.4	place to live or the best career, or if you should break up with your partner, this episode is for
1:23.7	you. Our guest today is Megan Heller. She is a Stanford graduate. She is an ex-Google executive,
1:29.3	and she's the author of Directional Living, a transformational guide to fulfillment in work and life.
1:35.8	She is a world-renowned career coach who is responsible for many names that you have definitely
1:40.8	heard of, figuring out their best life path to take. And she has been featured
1:45.5	everywhere from Vogue to Oprah to the Wall Street Journal. Megan, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so
1:51.5	much. I'm so excited to be here. I'm so excited to have you here. We're going to dive into
1:55.6	so many different frameworks for coping with uncertainty for making hard decisions. So I want to start off with
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