Harnessing Intuition and Resilience for High Performance Leadership with Jennifer Watson

In this episode of the Happy Wealthy Show, host Neo welcomes dynamic speaker and coach Jennifer Watson. Jennifer delves into the importance of intuition as an essential leadership trait and how it can guide decisions that align with our soul purpose. She emphasizes the necessity of emotional regulation and maintaining a high-frequency state to harness this intuition effectively. Sharing her journey from being an elite athlete to overcoming debilitating mental health challenges, Jennifer highlights the integration of holistic healing methods. Together, they discuss strategies for shifting emotional states and improving productivity by reducing mental and emotional residue. The conversation extends to exploring resilience, not as mere grit and endurance, but as enhancing one's capability and vitality during adversities. Jennifer offers actionable tools to practice intuition, fostering resilience, and improving overall well-being for personal and professional growth.

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Jennifer Watson: Intuition, all it truly is at bottom line is it's your antennas to people, places, and opportunities that are aligned for you to bring into what I call your soul being, your soul blueprint, your soul purpose, whatever that is. That's why clearing out and getting healthy here and getting clear on who you are and fanning your frequency is so necessary because intuition struggles to find things for you if your emotions are all over the place. This is why I always say moving into a powerful frequency emotional state is necessary for intuition 

Neal Neo Phalora: Hi, welcome to the happy wealthy show today. I have an extraordinary guest today. Her name is Jennifer Watson. She is a dynamic speaker and without any further ado, I just want to jump into it. Jennifer, can you tell the audience just who are you? 

Jennifer Watson: Oh gosh. Yeah. That's, you know, we have such long stories sometimes when we've lived a long time, but I have to say at my core, I just love to be a part of people's healing journey. You know, so many people are in a state right now feeling like they're backdooring it. If I can use my gifts as a speaker, as a coach consultant to help really, I call it kind of that top level leader, really get it, really have vitality and really heal things from the inside out.

I truly believe they can show up more powerfully in the impact they're creating. The life they want to create and also we need good people doing good things. So if I can help support leaders really heal and create vitality so I can show up powerfully, that is my jam and I'm all about it. 

Neal Neo Phalora: I love that.

One of the things I often say to people is that, you know a healer by the fact that they're choosing the healing. They chose it for themselves. Let's back it up a bit, right? This didn't happen overnight. What was it? Because usually when we do the work, we're operating from a place that we're taking care of a wound. So can you tell us a little bit about that? 

Jennifer Watson: Absolutely. You know, it's funny. I'm kind of, I'll call it the typical high performer. I've been a high performer my entire life. I just love to master everything in my life and so many people that are drawn to me want the same. I was a really high level athlete and was a two time all American at Wisconsin Madison.

The reason why I mentioned that I got so many accolades and so much applause, and so I started really connecting my worth, my significance to doing well in being perfect and the best at everything. The reason why I mentioned that is that's what kind of became my self implosion, where I went through a period with looking really great on the surface, but behind, I was really suffering from debilitating, I mean, debilitating depression and anxiety to the point where I was in PT school once I got out of my undergraduate work where I was really tanking. I really had to step forward in my truth and really dig in research and begin my own journey of realizing, which I know you get this, what true wellness was mental, emotional, spiritual, and how I could really tap into that.

In a different way than what I was learning from a traditional form of care, by the way, not knocking traditional care, but my journey really led me to integrate an alternative care and it stepped me into my first PT practice where I got to help people heal from the mind, body and soul. I was probably coaching before it was called coaching at my brick and mortar practice and I saw high level athletes to clients with cancer to military with PTSD and just working with them in a holistic manner and seeing them getting better was just my heart's joy. It was my journey of making myself better. And now I get to do that on stage and yes, consult and coach really high performing leaders that really want to create true vitality, not just physical, but mental and spiritual and realize, wow, when you have that on game over in so many areas of your life, including the impact and the business you want to create. If I get to do that for my own journey of healing, like I said, I love doing that and I'm continuing to be humbly evolving and learning new things to go to my next level of health and ultimately my life.

Neal Neo Phalora: Wow. You talk about healing, your background in PT, I think one of the things that you and I click over is understanding the body keeps score. That 80 percent of your mindset is below the neck. We can't just simply use Will and determination, motivation to say we're going to overcome our past, who we were, or to heal as you keep putting it.

So give me a little bit of insight, like what you learned as a PT, working with people in the way that you did, and how does that relate to our ability to heal or to move forward? 

Jennifer Watson: Oh, it's such a powerful question. One of my favorite phrases is, yes, the body keeps the score. But my favorite phrase is, the body decides, the brain executes, the body decides, brain executes. This is messed up you guys, which is okay. Like been there, done that, wrapped around that tree 20 times. When this is not in alignment with what you desire, you're not going to get better in wellness, let alone everything else you desire in your life.

As a PT and now as a coach consultant, I often talk I know you and I talk a lot about is how to change energetically. the frequency, the resonation, the energy that's in your body. Now you guys, for all of you that are like energies, we want you guys energies, neither created or destroyed. We utilize energy every day.

When you push someone, they push back. Like that's energy. Like we're all energy. If you want to say more looking at restrictions, the body where we hold physical and emotional trauma, fine, but it's still energy. When we learn to release it and learn ways to really heal. Any of our old patterns or old physical emotional traumas, we then get to be in our highest frequency.

One of my programs is the High Frequency Leader because I truly believe when you heal the things the body holds on to, the physical, emotional, and spiritual traumas, and release that, and now your true self. You get to shine that with your unique gifting and learn how to do that consistently, no matter the environment.

That's what makes you the powerful leader that can actually make a million dollars during 2020. I opened my first practice in 2008 class, you guys. And because I learned these concepts that I'm giving you today, I made six figures the first six months we were open during a time when people were like, you can't do that.

You're going to fail. You're going to all this stuff. Well, I had learned how to heal the stuff I'm talking about, and actually fan my unique frequency, my unique gifting by getting out of the weeds into my lane when stuff hit the fan, when things got hard. So Teaching people how to not only heal mental emotional trauma we keep in the body, but how do then you keep yourself there?

How to expand your frequency when life still continues to be lifey. We both know this, you know around the next corner, another thing's going to happen in your business. big or small or a personal thing or financial thing or relational thing. Once we heal some of this stuff, you have a higher resilience, greater capacity and capability handle more.

We also want to teach you how to stay in that frequency. One of the big things I saw and I heard on a recent podcast there was research done by neuroscientists, scientists, practitioners, coach consultants, and they found the number One thing that made the difference between someone being successful or not was emotional regulation, emotional regulation.

Neal Neo Phalora: You're talking my language here. I saw that podcast and it was a brain surgeon. Um, and Lewis Howes said it, but yeah, brain surgeon and a neuroscientist said that the most important skill we can learn is emotional regulation. For those of you listening who are like, okay, come on, Jennifer, Neo, we're talking about this frequency woowoo crap again, right? They don't understand. We know scientifically when you smile you release Hormones when you feel elevated you release hormones you when you feel low when you're in cortisol when you're in fight or flight you go into a cell danger response.

We can no longer separate The mind and the body. There is a level of mind in all parts of the body and we now know that physicists are showing that. You are the frequency that you feel frequently, and understanding that adage is the unlock we're talking about.

I had the privilege of connecting with somebody who was in a mastermind who Elon Musk was guesting in. In this mastermind, he showed me a chart. One of the primary things they focus on is their frequency level. He's like, he's not available for the lower emotions, for the low ideals, for certain kinds of talks and resonance.

Neal Neo Phalora: I'm just telling you guys, people who are doing it right, this is what they're practicing. This is what they're doing. 

Jennifer Watson: It's so interesting because when I say to people, if you don't understand this, go to a party. What I mean is you guys all feel it. Whether you feel someone kind of tension and stress and you kind of move away from them.

Someone that seems, wow, I really like them. They're really in themselves or confident you guys. That's energy. That's them being in their frequency, how they get it is by a lot of different tools. The number one is that emotional regulation, because we often talk about mindset, how to get there, but getting in your body where the emotions are held is moving the Saran wrap off.

That frequency of the confidence, that energy can be there. And what you just said, side tangent, Neo is real. One of the ways to figure this out is be around people that make you feel good. You're like, what is this energy? Start getting used to what that feels like in your body versus when you're around lower level energy that makes you feel stress or angry.

You guys, again, just starting with something basic to be aware of it and then use some of the tools that maybe we'll go through today to help you start navigating some of that lower level emotion. But at the end of the day, be around great people that you want to be like, because that environment is going to help you start being aware of how to fan yours, among other things we can share with you.



Neal Neo Phalora: I think you said something really pivotal there that I hope people are hearing is that this is a practice. This is an art. This is a thing that you do over time and you have to learn to curate it. You wouldn't go to the gym one day and lift a couple 50 pound barbells and go, okay, I'm ripped.

It's like, no that's not going to happen. And the same thing is true for curating this idea of frequency and magnetism. Like you said, don't you want to be that person in the party people are like, I need to meet that person.

You don't even know why. And we know this, the ability for us to have frequency, you can walk into a room and all of a sudden you're like, what's going on in here? You could feel that it's heavy or depressed or something is going on. Tapping into this power is our superpower, because at the end of the day, if our state of being, our body state of being is going to be subjective on how we can accomplish things, then wouldn't you want to be able to tap into that and curate it to your advantage.

Jennifer Watson: I work with so many leaders and they come to me as business leaders with all these systems. Their team, they're like, we're just not connecting with our team. We're not hitting our bottom line. I don't know what's going on. Often we start with what you're talking about, learning how to fan your frequency and shift an environment to your favor. That's an influential leader. And you guys, I'm not talking about manipulation. I'm talking about you're doing something that you want to get your team, your environment on board. When you use your frequency to shift a room, communication gets different. I've literally shifted my frequency from a not great space to a good space.

And I didn't make a sales call an hour earlier than when I shifted into a better state, I made the sales call. It was the exact same quote system that I use. You guys, this stuff is real. You can literally create an environment that feels safe to people, that feels high energy, that feels comfortable, that feels inspiring in your communication, your communication with your team sales, who you want to affect in the world, what kind of clients you want to bring in.

You will be able to do that when you step into your unique identity, because at the end of the day, the world needs your unique frequency, not Neo's, not mine. It needs yours and the right people, places, opportunities, desire to come to you. It makes business and life really easy versus all those high performers out there.

I did it. You guys doing 20 things a day, push, push, push until I self imploded versus knowing I'm good enough without being perfect high performance and just fanning my frequency. Business has gotten a lot easier for me and I'm an entrepreneur and it's not for the faint of heart. But I'm telling you Stepping to what Neil and I are talking about healing things and going from within and letting the body decide brain execute Things just start coming to you and then you can respond to it versus wrangling things in and making things harder than they already are. 

Neal Neo Phalora: I would like to talk about that shift. It's very easily seeable like in a football game. You're down by 20 points and the other team scores a touchdown and everything starts to slide the other way. It feels unstoppable now, even though the team is down. So it's that shift. Let's talk a little bit about what you do in terms of these tools, because how does the rubber hit the road? Because people are listening. They're like, okay, maybe you're buying in, maybe you get it.

That that frequency actually curates what comes into your environment. What are some simple things we could do, the listeners can do right now and start to shift that if they want to start practicing this? 

Jennifer Watson: That's such a powerful question. It's funny. I started doing this, even when I was in track and I didn't realize it was making a framework of how to do it by moving and shifting into more powerful state.

Whatever you're feeling, not judging it. I don't care if you're angry, have anxiety about something. It may be a small email that triggered you or maybe something bigger. It doesn't matter. Just honoring. That you're having it not shaming it. Because what that does you guys this is a big piece That just cycles you down further down the hole. So whatever you're feeling even if you have to say this out loud you guys i'm honoring it in Just saying out loud what I'm feeling, okay?

Next you need to pause. I literally had a entrepreneur say, I'm paying you how much to tell me to pause for five minutes. I'm like, yeah, I am. When you pause with the yucky motion and just sit. I often say sit staring out a window at a blank wall, allow your body just hang. What you're saying to your brain and body that it's okay to quote have this emotion instead of running from it. How many of us use our phones or run out the door and avoid it? What happens the body goes? Oh, this isn't safe and pulls it back in. Then the problem repeats itself. The emotion repeats. Versus, I've honored I'm feeling this. I'm not judging it.

I'm staring at a blank wall. Blank walls are important to stare at or out in the outdoors. Why? Because we don't need more on your brain to process. We just wanted to hang out and process what it's currently trying to process. When you pause for five minutes, it allows the brain and body goes she thinks it's safe to hang with this. Guess what starts already happening. It's just like eating bad food. It ultimately gets through your system. Same through the emotion with nothing else. It starts processing it. It just starts moving through just by sitting for five minutes, you already start shifting just a little bit.

As you do that, guess what happens next? Get up and move a little bit. Now you're going to ramp up the emotion kind of going through a little bit more. Again, you notice I'm not saying any other solution to the problem. You're just moving a little bit more, the emotion through by moving, going on a fast walk.

Sometimes I'll dance for two minutes. Guess what happens. You sit down and start journaling because what's now being activated is your creative zone because it feels it can do that now for a solution because you've calmed it into a state that feels safe.

In that order, I'm telling you, if you do this all takes five to seven minutes. If you just start doing that, you start being aware of the feeling, you start naming it, you start allowing the body to process, you start coming up with creative solutions, then you're craving the process of doing this, not running from it.

In game over, you start getting out of what I call rumination of emotional hell. You guys have sort of rumination of emotional hell and what that does, it Steals your productivity. If you don't move that through, because if you think you're getting through the rest of the day, well, you're not.

Neal Neo Phalora: One of the things I want to touch on is if you're not hearing what Jennifer saying right now, this is a productivity hack. This is something I very much believe in. Jennifer and I, when we met, we have so many synchronicities. I could Pretty much let her speak what I needed to say.

She talked about safety. She talked about emotional regulation. She talked about attunement, like letting the emotion alchemize the energy of motion moving forward. It's really important we do all these things. What I don't think people completely get about this is that emotions are what happens 90 seconds after hormones are released Yes, feelings are the stories about those emotions you develop over time and those live in the body 

I don't care how burly how strong you are, you don't get to just check out of feeling those things. Those are autonomic. They're happening before you're thinking. The body feels and then the brain thinks. We always think about it in the reverse order.

In fact for all of you out there are so convinced that you can make decisions without emotion. The sensory input for the body actually goes through the feeling center first before it's thought about. And so it's what, Neville Goddard said in his books, it's think feeling, right?

There is no thinking without feeling. This is the thing that used to drive me nuts in corporate America in my past life in boardrooms, everybody's like, we're going to make this decision logically, we're going to use a rubric and SWOT analysis.

Then three fourths of the meeting would always be, how's the marketing going to feel? How's the client going to feel? How are we going to get them emotionally so they'll buy? Buying decision is emotionally based and then justified with logic. And what Jennifer gets up on the stage to do is get people in touch with that as a two times TEDx speaker, right?

And say, look, If you guys want better business results, you got to get present with how you feel and how your clients, your employees feel. And most importantly, how your customers feel. 

Jennifer Watson: Yes. I love that you just said that because sometimes when I talk to people, they're like, Oh, you're a mindset coach.

I'm like no, what I'm saying is what. I love what you had with the clarity between feeling and emotion and feeling is actually the physicality of it manifesting what you've been backed up in believing about something.

So many entrepreneurs come to me and men and women, like I got to press down that emotion and deal with that later. I'm like, I know you guys think that don't direct decisions from emotions, but that emotion is driving the bus every single day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I want to push back a little with people that are pretty successful because a lot of people like, well, doing it this way, Jennifer, actually, I've been successful. I'm like, okay, on the days that you're feeling higher energy, less stress, just kind of in your flow and jam.

Do you get more done? Well, yeah. Do you have more energy by the end of the day? Well, yeah. Are you less cranky with your wife at the end of the day? Well, yeah. Do you feel yes, check, check. So think about it, could you do this and keep suppressing till your body finally self implodes and then you have to stop or Or what you just said, optimize your productivity and performance and feel even better at the end of the day and make more powerful decisions and create a culture where everyone wins.

When you start with feeling and emotion and move through that, then shift the mindset, then get creative on your solutions. I've literally cut team meetings in half for people I work with because of what you just said, Neal. Everything is done backwards in meetings when you do it this way, you accelerate problem solving, you create team connection and safety in game over for any problem that comes at you guys externally or internally.

Neal Neo Phalora: It's so good. And that is what I'm really talking about. I like to use this analogy. We're like a cell phone. We go to sleep, our operating is just like your phone goes to sleep. In the morning you wake up and all of a sudden it's crap and you get right back into your thinking. But the thing I don't think leaders understand is that we have like our phones, we have thousands of apps running in the background.

That's how thousands of things we've got married to mentally, emotionally, spiritually. We don't know they're there and you're trudging through cement. What if you could start to swipe those closed? Productivity is not measured by another freaking measurement or timetable or all those things. Productivity is measured by how many things can I actually subtract so that I have full presence and productivity on what matters and what you discover in this process. What Jennifer is helping lead people through and the way she works with corporate environments and leaders is like, let's swipe some of those damn things close so that you can actually have more weight, more flow.

Pivoting a little bit into this chemistry of resiliency. How do you define resiliency? This seems like a lot of people talk about it, but what is it, actually? 

Jennifer Watson: I love this topic and love what Neal first just said about productivity and performance. We need to change how we view productivity and performance. He said it no better than I could have. That was such a powerful summary, Neal thank you for mentioning that because it's such a big thing for leaders right now, they want performance, they want productivity. In the way that you do go about it is about taking things out and then getting really potent in quality with the things that are going to be the big dominoes for your organization and your life. As far as resilience, my TEDx is coming out and it's all about the chemistry resilience and I will say I am challenging what I consider the unhealthy way we look at resilience and that I'm stepping into inviting people into a healthier way of looking at resilience.

I'll back up. What do most people think of when they think of resilience? Often we think of press down, push through, grit through, discipline through hard times, try to just stay above water, you're probably not going to feel that good, maybe not be that successful, just kind of gut through it. We think that's what resilience is.

It's just trying to make it through things. And that's a global assumption. I think everybody feels that, but That's what a lot of people think. And then what we do, we check it off, put a little feather in our cap and go, we got through it. We're strong. I'm going to argue that's actually not strong at all.

Your body starts tanking when you go about press grit through pressed on the emotions. What I will say and what my new definition of resilience is, I work with a lot of people that yes, agree with this, and I'm just stepping through with this TEDx revealing the three steps that create a healthy resilience, but at its core, what is healthy resilience?

I truly believe it is about increasing Your body and your mind, capability and capacity to handle adversity, challenges, and change. And actually two things, create vitality in the process and accelerate your success during hard times. That is true, healthy resilience, everyone.

I believe it needs to change because at this point we just are trying to get through things and not be overly successful, maybe kind of tank in the background with wellness. Whereas I truly believe resilience when you increase the capacity and capability of your mind and body to handle hard times. Let's just be honest, everyone we're going to have that with your business owner a lot. You learn you can be more vital during hard times and you can be more successful. And guess what? Guess what? Your brain and body actually desires some challenges, desires adversity. If you know the proper framework to make it rise, but it requires us to change our definition from this definition, increase our capability and capacity so it can handle the challenge and keep you vitally well and actually be successful. People are doing this, you guys. This is why we had people becoming millionaires in 2020. This is why I could become successful in 2008 crash because I understood this concept and now I'm ready to bring it to the world.



Neal Neo Phalora: So we didn't talk about this topic of resilience have recently defined that for some people as well, because people define resilience as this sort of bro culture, you know, get shit done, 10 X everything, you know, and it's not that. 

And studies have shown very clearly that no offense to the David Goggin fans out there, but you can't just be hard on yourself. Being hard on yourself is not a long term sustainable or what actually creates long term success. It is celebration, it is resilience, it is emotional regulation, it is self care. Those things, like celebrating yourself, practicing the higher frequency emotions. This sort of perverse submission how much, if I can just hate myself a little bit more, I can motivate myself. That culture is dying. And I'll just tell you, it's a culture that I used to be in as a high performer too.

It'll absolutely wreck your health. You will pay for it. Life tends towards healing, and if you don't pay into it, it will keep withdrawing. At some point you'll start to lose your mental freedom, your emotional freedom, your time, your precious relationships. And I'll tell you, my high value clients they have all lost the regress of the dying because they have accomplished something but at severe cost. You just can't buy that back. 

Jennifer Watson: It's so funny. You mentioned David Goggins because when I was coming up with this talk I had Past athletes, high performers, challenge me. I love that stuff.

What you just said, I'm like, you guys, I've done the old high performance way. I've done the 20 things, burn myself to the ground, grit, press through, press down. And it worked for a quote a while until I self imploded. In what you just said is true. And that's why I've shifted into mind body brilliance.

I've shifted into higher health of frequency of your body, giving you guys tools to do that because the longterm when you're working, I'll call this, the long game, that type of approach will not work. You guys, we have like he said, research on it. We have anecdotal stories, even in our own life.

I know you do. All of you have the anecdotal stories. There's a better way. Talk is coming out. We have three different tools that help you start doing that in a more powerful way. And by the way, if athletes would start using this, I believe there'd be an acceleration of performance beyond what they're doing because they're taught.

The push, pull, that's where I, that's where I grew up. 

Neal Neo Phalora: I don't think we've even talked about this before, but I have coached some really wide diversity of business, not even business life cases, right?

One of them was a Olympic triathlete hopeful. He was trying out very, very high performance athlete. I was speaking at a business conference and his mom came up to me and she was like, Hey, I don't know if you're really heavy into neuroscience and mindset. I said, yeah. She's like, my son broke his ankle. It's completely healed. It's completely rehab. It's very functional, but he can't run anymore. He's in his head. Wow. And I'll just tell you, I did not grow up as an athlete. I'm now more athletic than I've ever been. But I never run a triathlon, but we went through pound by pound. I had him visualize. I'd tell me every bit of the run. What is he thinking? And in four and a half months. He had the fastest running time of his life and we did it by visualizing by celebrating by increasing his frequency, all those things. It's not something I throw out on my webpage. But low key, I've worked with other athletes in different ways because it's a real thing.

So what I'm telling you guys is Jennifer and I and Flex intended are leading the pack in terms of this is the new evolution of healing and performance in our society. And those people, those elite performers, like the Elon's and the Tim Cook's, they're tapping into this. Yes. And you need to too.

Jennifer Watson: And you guys, at the end of the day, like, People are suffering and I'm talking from all backgrounds, but high performers in leaders and business leaders included. They did a research study in 2023 that high performers and business leaders were in the top three in acceleration to depression, anxiety, and yes, suicide.

You guys, this is real. The suffering we have, whether you're just stepping into frequency, energy, the body keeps the score, how to release that so you can fan and visualize and emanate the things you desire and bring the right people, places, and things. And you're just tapping into this.

I'm going to encourage you to be open to listening this way, because we all see it. We all continue and see to continue people doing the same thing over and over again. And our world is hurting you guys. This is why I said, what did Neo say at the beginning? What I love to do, I want to help you guys get there faster.

I want you to heal your body. Your body is so very, Brilliant. Let it now be brilliant for you, but you have to listen to the communication it's giving you and then give it the right frameworks to start healing and then accelerating vitality in all the things you desire in your life. It can be that easy if you're willing to step in and do the work and be curious about looking at resilience and high performing in life abundance differently.

This is an amazing tool and we have a lot Frequency we can give out to the world if you know how to master it in a healthy way. 



Neal Neo Phalora: Let's pivot a little bit. One of the things you said made me think of this. I've always really been amazed and there's a couple of videos I like to scroll on, but one of them is people who do incredible athletic things like when they're parkouring. I've always been amazed to see okay, running back is running for his life and then can just all of a sudden turn around and the ball is right there and it's not practice.

It's more than that. I listened to a life changing podcast several years ago, I think it's might be one of the first 10 or 20 episodes of Tim Ferriss podcast, but he had on Josh Weiskin. Josh Weiskin was a grand master in chess, went on to be multiple championship and in martial arts.

But what he did is that he started teaching people to use their gut, and he started training Wall Street people to use their gut to know when to make the buy. We're talking about that feeling of flow that I've had many times in life as a child, of being connected to everything and everyone.

So it becomes this intuition or as you say gut leadership. How the freak do we tap into this? Everybody talks about this, Jennifer, how do we actually get there. 

Jennifer Watson: Yeah, it's so funny because I talk about this a lot with my coaching clients, besides shifting emotional states and really creating integrity in your body and mind.

The next step, what I call the next level leadership trait I'm asked this all the time. What would you consider the top three traits that the leader of today needs in the number one, every day of the week and twice on Sunday is intuition. For those of you that are like, what is it totally? I mean, you've all had it where you're like, gosh, I felt my gut.

I should have, should not have done something. We've all accessed it at some point. It's just like we were talking about with emotions, it's learning to tap into it significantly all the time with daily decisions. The reason why intuition is so important, which by the way, everybody, this is not woo woo. It lives in several areas of our body.

One of them, the anterior insula of the brain, one of the big areas of the gut, but there's areas of the body we have found that are connected to what we call our inner brain. Unique wisdom that each of us have. And there's certain ways you can activate it more when you're trying to create decisions that are aligned with you.

Intuition, all it truly is at bottom line is it's your antennas to people, places, and opportunities that are aligned for you to bring into what I call your soul being, your soul blueprint, your soul purpose, whatever that is. That's why clearing out and getting healthy here and getting clear on who you are and fanning your frequency is so necessary because intuition struggles to find things for you if your emotions are all over the place. This is why I always say moving into a powerful frequency emotional state is necessary for intuition. To get clear that the end of the day, it's really, it lives in each of us uniquely. We describe it differently. It is connected to our innate wisdom that allows us to make decisions.

Not only that keeps us safe. You guys back in like caveman days, like, wow, that bears there. I better run. 

Neal Neo Phalora: Oh, yes. Let's touch on that. You just said my favorite topic about intuition. For all of you that are married to the religion of information, of which we have too damn much these days, right? Let me just ask you a question, those of you listening.

How did the people in Egypt align a pyramid Within one tenth of a degree to north, south, east, and west. How do people in ancient societies, like my own people in Indian societies, know about all these centers of intelligence that now are being proven by science? Yes. How did Einstein, with no cell phone or anything, from some Almost unearthly plays come up with the theories of relativity and E equals MC squared?

What we're saying to you is you are missing an Entirely huge portion of your gifts your wellness your wealth Your ability to solve big problems in life by not tapping in To that thing that is inside of us and for any of you who like data There was many studies, but one of my favorite is that they set cards out. They were high risk, high reward. I'm simplifying it for the sake of time. Sure. Low risk, low reward. It took the brain 50 to 80 draws to figure out that I shouldn't draw from high risk, high reward, because over time I'm gonna lose a lot more. I'm not gonna build up, but the body, actually, the sensors on the body after seven to 10 draws started freaking out.

Over the high risk high reward deck,

Jennifer Watson: isn't that crazy? This is what I'm saying You guys it's just like the emotions and if you're wondering how to start tapping into it everybody your intuition We all have felt it what it feels like in our body how I describe it versus Neil will be a little different But learning when the body's saying yes, yes And no, no. It's something, by the way, I teach in my frameworks. I actually have this patent, but seven levels deep of intuitive mastery, because a lot of times we don't always trust it, the higher risk and the bigger problem versus going to the grocery store and saying, that sounds good. I teach people how to start with something really basic and sort of tuning to what the body's saying to say yes and no to, and then we work our way up to more complex.

And by the way, we make it complex, but more complex layers of problems and decisions you need to make but I'm telling you what Neal just said we think of intuition for severe safety and high risk things. But it's there to evolve our society you guys each person that like research shows us We didn't have language you guys we were humans were first around like There's in a way that we evolved way before systems and frameworks came out.

So we have dormant at that. And by the way, intuition is very light. It's not going to sit there and force itself on you. It's back to that sense of sensing the body. If you don't use it, as we all know you'd lose it. But it starts with you understanding what that sensation feels like with light things.

It's going to be gentle and you're going to be able to expand it more as you tap into it more and get on the mat and practice it from small to bigger situations. And I'm telling you from intuition for decision making, intuition for having a hard conversation with a client or a staff member. You start reading people's body language and their intuition. You start talk about an environment shifting your favor. You start using your intuition every aspect of your life. You start seeing things happen in a more aligned way because you're using your inner wisdom. For that experience.

It's huge and it's subtle and you've got to get on the mat and try it with basic things. That's what I encourage people to start with and then work your way into a higher level. We get a little more complex with some of the things I work on with clients, but it's a start to get on the mat and say, I'm going to start trusting what my innate wisdom says.

First, shift my state, get the emotions out, get the saran wrap off. Let's get back to who I am in my inner wisdom. And let's start making choices from there. And I'm telling you guys, The Oprah's the Elon Musk is yes, this is what they do. They've taken all their information and looked at intuition and they all have said, I finally make my final decision from an intuitive state because they get the gift, they get the power of aligning with the right intuition.

Neal Neo Phalora: We have evidence of this as we wrap this sort of topic up. I just say we have evidence. I've helped people with buying a 60 million luxury home builder. I've, I was part of commercial real estate for a period of time. I've done big deals back in my corporate days.

And you know what, when people say, what do you think about a deal or think, you know what, mostly they say feels right or didn't feel right. And even if people go. You know what I don't think so. Really, what they're saying is it doesn't feel right. But what I can say is this is such a powerful force.

Even Gary Vee at the last Aspire conference, which I threw up a video about this recently, he said I don't need this science, but he said in the next few years, in our lifetime, we'll show that the gut is the first brain, the very first brain. For those of you out there, if you want to, and I'm sure Jennifer has some too, if you want to start developing your intuition, take playing cards and just start sitting with it.

And intuition is not some big booming voice. It's also not all your scarcity and fear that people think it is. It is a little uncomfortable nudge. And you have to be able to be quiet and centered enough to feel it. And just say, okay, is this next card going to be a heart, a spade, a diamond?

See how many times you're right. You're not guessing. That's also not intuition. It's a gentle piece of information. I'll just tell you, it almost is wicked when you get into flow, how you can predict what the next card will be. It's kind of crazy when you start doing it, but it's a skill that's honed.

Jennifer Watson: And it's something else you guys too. We're probably not going to have time to go into this today, but being a practitioner by trade. One thing that also helps you too, is getting your gut physically healthy. I used to do a lot of work with diets. Because you guys, you have a whole, without going into detail today, a whole ecosystem in your gut.

It's called the microbiome. There's billions of microorganisms and bacteria in your gut that are also connected to intuition and go throughout your entire body. When your gut is healthier, like physically, and eating better, and cleansing it, and doing cleanses throughout the year, which I do this also, because it's a space where intuition lives.

It's going to allow your intuition among other things that having a healthy gut do, including boosting immunity and other things that will help with energy. So that's just something I want to mention to you guys is practicing it, but I'm a big believer that mind, body, soul work, right? Getting healthy. So the gut can be healthier to house a lot of things, including intuition.

It'll help you get more expedient and faster at trusting intuition. I'm a big believer in that. When I start getting mentally healthy and clearing up my gut. It helped me not only with depression, but helped me with intuition and making better decisions that were aligned with that because my integrity of my system was improved.

Neal Neo Phalora: Awesome. Awesome. Well, as we wrap up here, I just want to ask you a few rapid fire questions, and then we can talk about ways that people can connect with the amazing work you do. So what is the favorite comfort food for Jennifer? She's sitting on the couch. What is that? 

Jennifer Watson: Oh my gosh. I'm a health care advocate, but I'm going to say it anyway. Ben and Jerry's chubby hubby. I'm an ice cream person. I don't keep ice cream in my house a lot because I will be a person that goes through an entire pint of Ben and Jerry's and I can do it. 

Neal Neo Phalora: We all are there. None of us are perfect. All right. What do you wish you would have known 20 years ago. Drop a piece of knowledge from where you're at now. One of the big things I want for this podcast is for people to leave with something that absolutely is helpful. If you're talking to 20 year old Jennifer, what would you let her know?

Jennifer Watson: Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Don't be anybody else but that and when you can figure that out sooner than later and step into that courageously every day Despite what other people think or find out who you are and be that person I hit a lot of years behind success and what I thought people needed me to be as a leader as a Sister as a dot whatever and I'd tell you when I figured out who I was and was crazy Stepping in it and being it on purpose Things changed.

Neal Neo Phalora: Wow. Wow. And I always love little quirky facts about people. We'll kind of end on this before we talk about, um, what you do. Um, rodeo clown. Really? 

Jennifer Watson: You know, it was funny. I had eight weeks off between my second and third year of PT school. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to be a practitioner for a long time.

And that's intense. And I'm gonna do something totally random and something to be really fun. And I can be outdoors. And my older sister lived in Colorado. And I started looking at dude ranches and someone needed a kid's counselor and a rodeo clown one summer. And I'm like, game on. And I have to say it was pretty good at it.

Neal Neo Phalora: Yeah. I'm pretty much game for a lot of things. I'm not sure that rodeo clown is really my jam. 

Jennifer Watson: It was more of a modified rodeo. So it wasn't like huge bulls coming out of you. I would say I sprained my wrist a couple of times, but I came out alive and it was. It was definitely a fun experience and it challenged me in a different way.

So it was really fun. 

Neal Neo Phalora: I love that. We are multitudes, my friend, and so are you. Speaking of multitudes, tell us a little bit about like how people can work with you, where they should find you if they want to know more. 

Jennifer Watson: Absolutely. I work with people in a few different capacities. One, I'm a speaker by trade.

If you're looking for someone even at your next event or when I say event, I mean big event, whether it be a workshop that you desire for your team or retreat that you're having, I love to dial in some of the stuff and go deeper with teams in small to large events. Also I work with people from a coaching to consulting and coaching being more one on one with the leader consulting, maybe the higher tier leaders together.

I do have a group program where you guys can come into and learn from other next level leaders that are in similar spots as you wanting to raise the level. So my one on one and group programs are pretty popular as well as getting consulting for me for bigger businesses that want me to come in and do workshops for them.

And I'd love to speak across the country. Those are ways to just have me come in and support you, your team, your event and connecting with me. We can kind of go through what's going on and see what might work for you out of all those different scenarios. As far as where to find me, I'm the most active on Instagram and LinkedIn.

So Instagram is the Jennifer Watson and I do answer my own DMs. So if you're interested on follow up questions to this podcast or interested in, you know, just having a chat about how I can support you, just Connect with me there. And then LinkedIn is Jennifer Watson. So we'd love to hear from all of you and how this podcast landed for you.

And of course, you're to support you further if needed.

Neal Neo Phalora: Awesome, Jennifer. Thank you for being on the happy wealthy show. Remember that being wealthy, the most important part of that is absolutely being happy that is truly wealthy. Thank you, my friend.