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Who do you turn to first when you have a difficult decision to make?

Your partner? A colleague? A coach? A friend?

Hannah Holt wants you to add one more person to that list: yourself.

Hannah Holt is a speaker, coach, and breathwork facilitator whose work explores the relationship we have with ourselves and how it shapes the decisions we make. Through coaching, breathwork, and immersive experiences, she helps people reconnect with their own voice and become the person they turn to first.

Having worked with hundreds of individuals and supported global organizations, Hannah says she has seen the same pattern again and again: we look outside ourselves for reassurance, validation, and direction, while rarely including ourselves in the conversation.

Her work challenges that pattern.

In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Hannah shares how her own years of chasing achievement and external validation eventually led her to question how she was living, what she actually wanted, and whose voice she was listening to.

That journey now informs the work she does helping others build self-trust, strengthen the mind-body connection, and make choices that feel more like their own.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Why we so easily outsource decisions and look to others for validation
• Hannah’s “pause, ask, listen, choose” framework for self-leadership
• Why self-trust is something we build through practice
• How to tell the difference between resistance and something that genuinely isn’t right for you
• Why entrepreneurs can leave corporate life and still recreate its rules inside their own businesses
• How Hannah combines coaching and breathwork to help people respond under pressure instead of simply reacting
• Simple practices Hannah uses to begin and end the day with greater intention

One of the biggest questions Hannah leaves us with is also one of the simplest.

The next time you need advice, before automatically reaching for someone else, have you asked yourself?

Because becoming the person you turn to first doesn’t mean you stop seeking wise counsel. It means your own voice gets a seat at the table too.

Connect with Hannah Holt: 

https://www.hannahholt.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/hannahhighonlove

Instagram: 

@amyschutte_

Work with us: www.hudsonandco.co