#514 How to trust your intuition by tuning out ego & listening within, with Michelle Galoob.

What if the clarity you’re seeking isn’t out there but already within you, waiting for you to listen?

In a world dominated by logic and noise, many people feel disconnected, uncertain, or stuck. This episode dives deep into the often misunderstood realm of intuition, exploring how reconnecting with your inner wisdom can bring clarity, purpose, and peace amidst life's chaos.

• Discover how to differentiate between your ego-driven thoughts and genuine intuitive guidance.
• Learn practical methods to strengthen and trust your intuition—even if you're a lifelong logical thinker.
• Hear Michelle Galoob’s inspiring transformation from rock bottom to spiritual mentor, and how her journey can illuminate your own.

Tap into your inner knowing. Press play and learn how to build a consistent, reliable connection with your intuition starting today. 

˚

KEY POINTS AND TIMESTAMPS:

02:00 - Introduction to Michelle Galoob and the Power of Intuition

03:27 - Hitting Rock Bottom and the Spiritual Awakening

06:50 - The Visit from a Spiritual Teacher and Life-Changing Guidance

09:30 - Discovering the Gift of Intuition and Finding a Mentor

12:49 - Understanding the Difference Between Thoughts and Intuition

15:20 - Battling the Ego: Naming the Inner Critic

18:12 - Practical Tips to Strengthen Intuition

23:03 - Creating Space to Receive Intuitive Messages

24:53 - Recognizing Signs and Validating Intuition

27:55 - Deepening the Dialogue with the Universe and Final Wisdom

˚

MEMORABLE QUOTE:

"Trust in yourself and see how beautiful you are."

˚

VALUABLE RESOURCES:

Michelle's website: https://www.michellegaloob.com/

˚

Join our growing community at MasterySeekersTribe.com, where self-mastery seekers come together for connection and growth.

˚

🎙️ Want to be a guest?

Message Agi on PodMatch: https://www.podmatch.com/member/personaldevelopmentmastery

˚

Actionable insights on personal development, self improvement, self mastery and personal growth for a life of purpose and fulfilment.

˚

Transcript

Agi Keramidas: 0:00

What if the clarity you are seeking isn't out there, but already within you, waiting for you to listen? Welcome to personal development mastery, the podcast that helps intelligent, busy professionals develop self mastery and gain clarity so you can thrive in a fulfilling, purposeful life. I'm your host, Agi Keramidas, and this is episode 514 if you are looking to deepen your connection with your inner wisdom and learn to trust your intuitive guidance. The following conversation explores how to quiet the noise recognise the voice of intuition and build a practical daily practice around it. By listening today, you are going to discover how to differentiate between your ego driven thoughts and genuine intuitive guidance, and also you will learn practical methods to strengthen and trust your intuition, even if you are a naturally logical thinker, if you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure How to tell the difference between your thoughts and your intuition, then this episode is for you before we dive in. If you are resonating with these themes and find yourself at a crossroads, unsure which direction to take, I offer one to one coaching focused on personal growth mindset and reconnecting with your inner compass. My aim is to help you make aligned, confident decisions for whatever your next chapter holds. If that speaks to you, use the link in the show notes to get in touch, and let's talk. And now let's get started today. It is my real pleasure to speak with Michel Galoob. Michelle, you are an intuitive guide, coach and spiritual mentor. Through your readings, workshops and teachings, you have helped 1000s of people reconnect with their inner wisdom, empowering them to access divine guidance and embrace their true potential. You're passionate about helping people reconnect with their inner wisdom, trust their intuition and live with clarity and purpose. Michelle, I am delighted to speak with you today. Welcome to the show me

Michelle Galoob: 2:40

too. Thank you so much for having me. I'm

Agi Keramidas: 2:44

looking forward to exploring intuition, among other things, but let's say, if I had to choose one word for this conversation, it would be intuition, Developing Intuition, trusting our intuition, which are so important before we go there, I understand that you transitioned in your life from a very logic driven left brain, you know, thinker, to becoming an intuitive guide to others. So I would like to hear about the change. I believe there was an encounter or that caused Yes. So tell us about this.

Michelle Galoob: 3:28

Yeah. So I used to have a business, fashion business in London, actually. And then after that, I worked for a nonprofit, nine to five, and I got to a point my life that I felt like a little bit stuck, disconnected. I didn't feel like what I was doing was what I came here to do. I was stuck between what I felt like I should do and what I wanted to do. And I had, I had financial blockages, blockages in so many different areas of my life that I really felt like I hit a rock bottom. I was, I was really at my lowest point now, before being at this lowest point, I used to ask my friends for help and you know, like, what do you think I should do? But I'd never really got clarity. And at this point, when I was at the rock bottom, whatever their advice was wasn't enough for me. It didn't help get me out of this hole. So yes, I was a very left brain thinker, very like what you see is what you get right here, right now. I didn't, I didn't, even though I was spiritual, I didn't really believe that there was a world beyond that could help me, so I basically had nowhere else to turn. I begged the universe for help, and I was crying. And I know I'm not the type to cry usually, but I was crying. And begging, saying, Please, please, universe, help me. I really, I just give me answers. I don't know how to get out of this hole. And so one night before I was going to sleep, yeah, this, that was the night that I begged my spiritual teacher, who had passed away, appeared at the foot of my bed, and I see him, and I'm freaking out because I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is I can't believe I'm actually seeing him, and he starts talking to me. So at first I thought I was dreaming. I thought I was making this up. And I'm looking around and I'm like, No, I'm totally awake. I see my husband sleeping right there next to me. I'm looking around the room. I see everything in the room, and I cannot believe that he's there in front of me. And he starts talking to me, and he says, I heard what you asked me for, and this is what you need to do, and basically gave me a solution to every single one of my problems. So it was like, I felt like I saw the light. I saw the light. It felt. I felt so comforted. I felt so taken care of. I felt that I had all the answers at that point, and I felt so much clarity and lightness so that I was out of the hole. So obviously it was so magical that I wanted this to happen again. So a few months after that experience, I started to hear voices in my left ear, just overnight, and it felt like it was, felt like it was my thoughts. It felt like I was thinking a whole bunch of things and but I realised in time that it was actually I was receiving messages and guidance, even though at the time I thought I was schizophrenic, I thought that really it was. It was an overload of thoughts. That's what I thought. I couldn't tell the difference between the two. I couldn't tell if it was guidance or or here I am thinking. So I confided in one person because I was embarrassed. I felt something was wrong, and she told me. She said, You know, I don't think you're schizophrenic. I don't think you're crazy. I think that that that something's opened up for you, that your third eye might be open, why don't you go see this tarot card reader that I know and see what she says. So I said, Okay, I'll go. So I go to the tarot card reader, and the first thing, the first card that I pick, is the card for seer, which is the seeing card. And she says, you know, you know you came here to channel for people in this lifetime. You have the ability to see. I was like, Really, what do you mean? And she said, Well, you know, your third eye is open, and this is, this is what you came here to do. I said, Well, how am I going to get into this? I don't even know how, because us logical thinkers always trying to think about the how, how. But how are we going to do it like, how is that going to happen? And she said, you know, in two months, you're going to meet a teacher, your teacher, she comes from a foreign land, that's all she told me, and you're going to meet her, and she's going to be the one that's going to teach you everything. So I took it with a grain of salt. I Two months later, nothing happened. It was probably the very last day of March, which is the when she told me that that it was going to happen. I happened to get into the car with my husband, who was on the phone with a healer from Argentina because his brother was sick, and he was looking for somebody who could do some remote healing. So I get into the car, and I'm like, who, you know, Who you talking to? He says, oh, you know, I'm talking to this healer for for my brother. And I suddenly, I got all the signs, all like goose bumps in my body. And I said, this woman, I put her, I put them on mute, and I said, this woman's gonna be my teacher. She's gonna be the one who teaches me. He's looking at me like, What are you talking about? I said, No, you'll see. You'll see. Anyways, few seconds later, this healer says out loud, she says, who just got in your car with big brown eyes? And then I was like, what? And my husband's like, kind of freaking out. And he says, Oh, my wife just got. In the car. And then she stops talking to him altogether, and she says, Do you know that your third eye is open? I said, you know, I've heard it before, but okay. She said, Listen, I'm coming to LA next week, and I have to meet you, so I go meet her at a coffee shop. And she's bawling. She starts crying, and I got a little uncomfortable. But then she said, You know, I asked my guides told me I needed to come to Los Angeles to meet somebody, and now I know that person is you. So I'm like me. What are you talking about, she says, I've been instructed that I need to teach you everything I know. And that was the beginning of my journey. I did not really want it, because I was still very much business minded, you know, career driven, not not really into this spiritual world. Let's put it that way,

Agi Keramidas: 11:01

but you accepted the calling, and that's I did, and this is here we are now. Yeah, that's great. I let me ask you straight away, because you did say at some point something I found very interesting. You said that you were hearing voices that you were not sure whether they were just an intense stream of thoughts. And that's really what I want to ask you about the difference between our thoughts and what comes from our mind, the rational mind or the primitive mind, or any part of the mind, thoughts, versus the voice from the intuition. I hope my question is clear now,

Michelle Galoob: 11:50

yes, yes, I totally, I totally get it so, so intuition is always the first thing that comes to your mind, the first thing that drops in. So you receive it in many different ways. It could be hearing like I had. Can see, you can feel. Sometimes you just know things. You get goose bumps, tingles. You may get messages in your dreams, or see repetitive numbers or animals. So there are many different ways we receive it. Now, the issue is, is that when we receive it and then we've put our logical spin on it, we will never it's basically like you've thrown the message away. The message from the universe is you might as well go put it in the garbage, because you've put your spin on it, you've analysed it, you've put your logic into it. That those are your thoughts. Intuition is, is the the pure guidance that you're receiving without any logic. So what I do is, when I receive guidance, or at least this is what I did at the beginning of my journey, is I would write down what I what I received, you know, I would just write it down and then put it aside. I would not try to analyse or figure it out. And then two days later, I would look back at my little journal where I wrote that down, and I would ask for guidance. I would say, you know, you showed me an image of two birds. What did they mean? What were these? What did these birds mean? And then later, your guides will maybe share with you what that meant, instead of you trying to figure it out. So another method that I would use is I would give my ego, because the ego when as soon as the ego gets in to the picture again, message is in the garbage. So I gave my ego a name, a really ugly name. I named her. Her my ego's name is Gertrude. Okay, so Gertrude, she likes to to insert herself into into the equation. So, for example, when I was, you know, when I do sessions for people, I remember at the very beginning of my journey, I did a session for somebody who she was in her 70s, and I saw her flying out of an aeroplane. You know, when I was when I was doing this reading for her, I saw her flying out of an aeroplane, and I told myself, do not Gertrude said, do not tell her anything about her jumping out of an aeroplane, because you're gonna look like a fool. That is ridiculous. A woman in her mid 70s is not going to jump out of an aeroplane. Don't be ridiculous. So Gertrude was telling my higher version of myself not to say anything because she didn't want to look stupid. Yeah, and um. Hmm. Anyways, eventually I did. I shared it with her at the very end of our session. I said, Listen, this is I keep seeing this image. Doesn't make sense to me, but here you go, and there was a real battle. So your thoughts and your ego will always have a battle with, with the universe and with with the true guidance. So, you know, there was a battle, and then eventually I surrendered. I said it, and the woman starts crying, and she says, You know, I used to, I used to go skydiving in my 20s. And this message is very it, basically, it was the missing piece of the puzzle. So had I let my ego get in the way, I she would have never got the full scope of the message. So this, this is, that's a good tip. If you could all come up with an ego ego name for yourself, and you'll recognise the difference between the two.

Agi Keramidas: 16:04

It's very, I think it's very useful to name it, or I've heard of picture in it as the something really, you know, Agi, you said you use the word battle, that it is a battle between the two, let's say sides or voices, or how do we trust and how do we win the battle? That is my my question because it is, it implies some difficulty. It implies, from my point of view, some awareness of what's going on. First of all, yeah, give us some method or a tip, or something practical, apart from, you know, naming the go, but something else that we can perhaps cultivate in order to to be better equipped to win that battle that you mentioned. Okay,

Michelle Galoob: 17:09

so one of the most important things is not to have an attachment to the outcome. So let's say you ask a question like, is this person my soulmate? You want that person to be your soul mate? You are putting all your energy and all your intention into getting the outcome that you want. Okay, there has to be a surrender. There has to be a I totally trust that I'm going to receive the answer, even if I don't like what I'm getting. And then you let it go. That's why I really feel like when you when you want to ask a question, take yourself out of the equation. Imagine you're asking for your best friend or or your identical twin brother or sister. I also have a name for my identical twin, my imaginary identical twin, because it's easier for me to ask for her, as opposed to for me. So that's what I would do. Okay, what would I is, is this person the best person for my twins? Highest good you have to ask better questions, detach from the outcome, and then you will receive the answer. Intuition is received. It's not thought of, okay. So for example, if I, if I asked you right now, what colour is my sweater, you would look straight at me, and you would have the answer right there be able to tell me, though that's that's your brain. But if I told you, what do you feel like I need to change in my life? What? What do you feel like I need to work on spiritually? You would never just be looking at me. You would either close your eyes, you would look away, and you would receive the answer, yes. That is the difference. The ego, the thoughts, is right now, right here, right now. Intuition is received. So it may take a there may be a delay in receiving that may take time. It doesn't just come immediately. But when it does come, you don't think about it. It just needs to be pure so no second guessing. And a lot of times intuition might feel like you're making it up. It feels like imagination. So a lot of people I know say, Well, I feel like I imagined it all. Well, it's not really true. Well, how do I know if it's true? So how do you know you let you let it go and you just trust, trust in the first thing that you. Received. Thank

Agi Keramidas: 20:01

you. I like very much the concept of receiving, because there is, I think, a certain Can I call it internal posture that you you have when you receive, that it is not the same. So it is something to for everyone you know, to ponder on and meditate on how that it is a subtle difference, but I think it's quite clear, you know, when it is received, as you said. So it's a great word. And I will also mention, once again, you said earlier, and I believe it is very useful practice when intuitive thoughts, let's call them, that arrive and you receive them to write them down. You used, you said that the moment they get interfered with with the logical mind or the ego, it's they're not the same anymore. You said, therefore the garbage bin. So, yeah, I'm just reiterating this because I think it's a beautiful, useful practice to write things down. I had done it in the past, not lately, but perhaps it's a good opportunity for me to restart doing it and keep some of those. The word downloads came to my mind. But it is, you know, it

Michelle Galoob: 21:29

is, that's what, that's what I always say, downloads. It's a nice, it's very

Agi Keramidas: 21:33

digital lira word. Why not? If it is, you know, the analogy that there is the cloud that's there, and, you know, our phone is the receiver. In a similar mind, we receive the again. Here's this word again, receive. It's, it's very appropriate. So thank you for that.

Michelle Galoob: 21:54

But in order to receive we've got to have quiet around us. Yes, you cannot receive a message when you're, like, stressed about your day and thinking about your to do list, and you know, driving your kids from this place to that place, you know you have to to create some quiet time in your day, like, whether it's meditation, doesn't have to be a meditation, listening to white noise, the sound of rain, taking a long shower, going for a long drive. There are so many things that we can do that's not the typical meditation. You know. Can do so many different things. We could wash the dishes, and suddenly you get 20 downloads. But you've got it. You've got to do these practices every day, and train your body to to be open at those times. So, so you do it, you're consistent every time, a day, every day. Let's say, at 630 in the morning to 645 you do one of those activities. You're training your your body, because your body is the receiver of intuition. You're training your body to know, okay, this is when she's the most open, and that's when your your guidance will come through.

Agi Keramidas: 23:12

What are some signs that one can look for, that you know, in a way, let's say, reassure or reinforce, because that logical part of us is part of us. So what are some signs that we can see or experience and say, Okay, this is can I say this is working, or this is progressing, or I'm writing, I'm on this path of trust in my intuition.

Michelle Galoob: 23:44

Well, you can always ask your guides to show you a sign. Okay, so this is, this is what I do. So I'll say, like, if I'm on the right track, show me, you know, show me a hummingbird today, or give me a sign that it's not a good idea. So you can ask your signs for something, your signs, your guides for something specific, in terms of a sign, and I, trust me, you will be able to be guided in that way. Okay, so you won't know at the beginning. You've got to just keep practising. It's like a muscle. You'll build it. Yes, you need, sometimes you might need validation from somebody else to say, oh my gosh, yes. Oh, I can't believe you said that. That's so true. Or, you know, so after it's, it's, it's really like going to the gym and building this spiritual muscle, this intuitive muscle, you know you need to just work on it. You'll get validation once, you'll get validation twice. Eventually you'll start to trust. But again, it's the first thing that comes to you. So write it down. Put it aside. Go back to it later, and most likely those will be the right answers for you.

Agi Keramidas: 25:06

You also used the word surrender earlier. You said about detaching from the outcome. And these are also, I find very useful approaches or concepts to approach this whole intuition thing, because our ego does not like surrendering very much. I suppose it's in many ways, it's the exact opposite of it's holding on with everything it's got. Michel is there? You know, we have discussed about quite a few things about intuition. I would like to ask, let's say someone listening right now is certainly way past the let's say the states that I'm not sure what my intuition is, so they have a pretty good understanding, and can distinguish the voice of intuition and follow the guidance. What is one something I don't want to define it. What is something that you would tell them right now? Is there something that comes up for them?

Michelle Galoob: 26:20

It's connecting to their higher selves. It's asking, asking the universe to help. It's creating and beginning a dialogue with the universe. So even if it's speaking out loud, and it might look, you know, speaking out loud and saying, Hey, guides, I need help with this, this project, I need help with this podcast. Can you give me the right words to to share with my my guest I need help with, with my kids. I'm not sure which school they should go to, so you want to start a dialogue as as as you would be talking to anyone else, you have to know that your guides are like, they're like waiters in a restaurant. Okay, your guides want to serve you, and so you need to ask for help. So, and I always share this with my clients. You know, if you if you went to a restaurant and your guides were your waiters, and they said, Hey, what? What would you like today? Most of us would say, Well, no, no, it's okay. I don't want to bother you. Don't want to bother you. I know where the kitchen is. I'll just go make the food myself. And if your guides are like the waiters, they'd be like, but we're getting paid for this, like we're here to serve you. I don't understand why you're even in the restaurant. This is, this is what I would recommend for the listeners to start a dialogue. Just ask for help. Don't have so much ego that you think that you can do it yourself. Don't feel alone because you're not alone. There is so much support in the heavens for you, you know it's, it's and it's accessible. So that's really what I would recommend. If you want to deepen your your intuition and your your connection to the universe, start talking to your guidance.

Agi Keramidas: 28:24

That's great. Thank you. And I loved the analogy of the, you know, the waiters in the restaurant. It's very It helps me. You know, having that visual, I think it will for anyone listening or watching this, that is visual. I think that will very much be helpful, Michelle, before we start wrapping up this very insightful conversation, where do you want to direct our listener who wants to continue the journey with you and find out more

Michelle Galoob: 28:59

amazing so I'm on Instagram, so my my handles at Michelle Galoob, or my website, which is Michelle galoob.com I also have an online platform, like an online community on school that's s, K, O, O, L, and it's called intuitive mastery.

Agi Keramidas: 29:24

Michelle, I have two quick final, quick questions that I want to ask you also. And the first one is, what does personal development mean to you?

Michelle Galoob: 29:38

I love this question. Okay, so personal development, to me, means really getting to know who you really are, getting in touch with the core, your essence of who you are. Because when you know who you are, and you start to really. Uh, step into your shoes of why you came here and and what your gifts are and who you really are, you become a magnet to draw in everything in your life. So so it's really about like recognising and acknowledging your gifts and seeing yourself for the the beautiful soul that you are, as opposed to all your accomplishments, or what you feel like you haven't done yet, it's nothing to do with that. It's really to do with with who you are at your core, in your essence, that is going to bring the magic into your life.

Agi Keramidas: 30:46

And hypothetically, if you could go back in time and meet your 18 year old self, what's one piece of advice you would give

Michelle Galoob: 30:55

her? Oh, boy, my 18 year old self. My 18 year old self was living in Switzerland at the time, and she was very shy and and she had very little confidence. So I would tell her to really look at how many people she actually made, made their day and brightened up their their life, just by her being, not by the way she looked, or any of that stuff. I would tell her to trust, trust in herself and to see how beautiful she is. Michelle,

Agi Keramidas: 31:38

I want to thank you very much for this conversation, I believe there were many useful, practical, insightful things, especially about intuition, that were discussed. So I really appreciate you for sharing that. I want to wish you all the very best with your life, both personal and your mission, I will leave it to you for your final parting wisdom,

Michelle Galoob: 32:09

your guidance is there. Just just quiet your minds, listen, trust what you're getting. Know that you have all the support in the world and and allow your life to flow. Get Yourself Into flow when you allow the universe to show you the way it is much better way than the way that you thought of originally. So let the universe guide you so that you can navigate this life with ease.

Agi Keramidas: 32:48

Thank you for listening to this conversation with Michel galub. I hope it has given you a fresh perspective on how accessible and powerful your intuition truly is when you learn to listen and trust it. If you have been resonating with these conversations and feel like you are at crossroads in your life, I offer one to one coaching to help you gain clarity and step into your next chapter with confidence. If that sounds interesting, reach out to me via the link in the show notes, and let's chat until next time. Stand out don't fit in.