EP 192 - Intuition Over Strategy: A Real Story of Self-trust, Detachment, and Overflow

There’s a moment in every entrepreneur’s journey where your body whispers a full-body yes… and the world responds with a loud, logical no.

This episode is that crossroads - the place where intuition meets conditioning, where self-trust meets other people’s fear, and where your frequency quietly demands: we move now.

Jessica takes you behind the scenes of auctioning her first home - the decision she ignored for an entire year because logic, strategy, and other people’s scarcity convinced her she “should wait.”
 And how finally trusting her sacral response cracked open a deeper lesson about intuition, timing, emotional detachment, and overflow.

Inside this episode, you’ll hear:
 ✨ the real cost of ignoring your inner yes
 ✨ what self-trust looks like in real time (hint: it’s not calm)
✨ the difference between logical certainty vs energetic certainty
✨ how detachment creates space for wealth, timing, and overflow
✨ why fear disguises itself as “logic” and how to stop falling for it
✨ a behind-the-scenes look at the emotional rollercoaster of auction day

If you’ve ever delayed a decision you knew was right, second-guessed your intuition, or let someone else’s fear interrupt your frequency… this episode will feel like a deep, grounding homecoming.

Sacred Moments & Searchable Topics
[00:01:10] What happens when you override a full-body yes
[00:10:25] Logical certainty vs energetic certainty
[00:17:40] How fear disguises itself as “logic”
[00:24:15] Emotional detachment as the doorway to overflow
[00:31:50] Behind the scenes of auction day

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Transcript

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Welcome to Resource with Jessica Reed. This is the podcast for visionary entrepreneurs who are here to build a thriving business and luminous life, fully resourced from the inside out. Here we unlock the magic of inner alignment, emotional mastery, and energetic strategies, so you can lead with clarity, confidence, and ease. This is your space to shed what no longer serves you, embody your highest potential, and expand into the next evolution of your business and soul's work. You are meant for more, and it all starts here. Have you ever had a full body? Yes. You know that like full body sacral response that you just cannot ignore, but then you let other people's logic or their opinions or their scarcity, fear-based mindsets talk you out of something. Well, this was me last year. So I had the response last year to sell my first home. So we haven't lived in it for a few years and it has been an investment for a little while, and I had the response, then it was time to sell it and I didn't do it. And this year I trusted myself. Now there's no plan for what to do after selling it. No plan for investment yet. Just a sense of self-trust. And last Saturday, we auctioned that property. The results were amazing. But even though I don't know what is around the corner, I have every bit of satisfaction in my body that I have done the right thing. Now if you have ever questioned your intuition or second guessed your timing or felt scared to let go of what feels safe, then this episode is definitely one that you're going to listen to because I am going to talk about how ignoring your inner, yes, every time you ignore it, it costs you your relationship with your self trust. What self-trust actually looks like in real time. And no, it's not all like calm and peaceful. And we're also gonna talk about why detachment is the real doorway to overflow in your business, in your wealth, in your life. I know last week's episode we were talking about emotional detachment in our business. We're gonna talk about detachment today from money, from things. So let's get into a little bit of the story. First of all, when I was 21 years old, I bought this particular house. Now I had no idea how I was gonna pay for it. I had a$40,000 a year job, and I was like, am I even gonna be able to make the mortgage repayments? I genuinely did not know, but I did it anyway. Now, I have always generally been someone who feels something in their body. And then moves. I feel the yes. I generally sleep on it, and then I move. Okay. Now, the times that I have done that, every single time I have done that, I didn't over calculate. I didn't overthink. I just had this inner knowing in my body that it was all gonna work out. But I also didn't know all of the ins and outs and what was coming on the other side. So I actually trusted my sacral response before I knew that's what was happening. I trusted my frequency before I had the language for it, and so that's exactly what I did with this house. I had no idea how I was gonna pay for it. I had no idea what was gonna happen, but I went all in because I trusted myself. And thankfully, at that point in time, not too many people were in my ear. Because actually as I reflect and I think about that, you know, would I have trusted myself to that same level? Maybe. You know, I think about when I was 14 years old and I decided that I was going to write, choreograph, and produce a musical. Had the feeling wanted to do it, did it. Um, we rehearsed that for a few months and then sold 200 tickets to perform it. And yeah, I was 14. I'm thinking about any time, any time. It's just that feeling and then I move ahead. But I would be really curious, and obviously this is only like a question'cause I can't go back and relive anything, but I would be really curious. How I would've responded had there been a lot more doubt and fear put in my mind at that point in time. Okay. I'd like to think for a lot of these things, I still would have lent into that self-trust because I cannot even begin to explain what that feels like within me. It's just a knowing and that knowing makes me take steps. Which is also really easy when you're doing things on your own as well. So obviously when you're in partnership, when it involves children, when there are other moving pieces, if you've got a business partner, all of those types of things, it is really hard if, one, they're in a scarcity mindset or two, they don't have that same level of self trusts, or they want that level of control, they need that certainty to move forward. But what I really took away from this auction, and I even said this in the car on the way there, I really took away the fact that every single time I have made a decision in my life and didn't know what the outcome was gonna be in terms of what was next. So for example, last year, people were saying to me, don't sell your house if you don't have an investment plan. Don't sell it if you don't know. Like what's the next, what's the next investment? Where are you gonna put that money? Like what are you doing with it? Oh, okay. Like I didn't have a plan, so then I doubted, and like I said, I thought about it all year and I felt awful in my body all year for ignoring. And so I literally said, every time I have made a decision and I haven't known what's on the other side, everything's worked out really well. And I have so much evidence of that. Like I said, the musical when I was 14. Deciding to, I don't know, sell new dramatics at 12, leaving school when I was 16 years old, like that was a big deal. Obviously there was a lot of fear and scarcity and judgment and questions, but I trusted what I was doing. Now, if I did not take that step, I will. Let me give you a little bit of a universal ripple effect here. If I did not leave school. Two weeks before my year 11 exams, I would not have started working and managing the bistro that I was working at. I was already working there, but I would not have started working there full time and managing it. I therefore would not have then met my partner now of 21 years. I would not have this potentially. I potentially would not have had all of the same experiences that I've had my children, the house that we currently live in, the business that I have started, like all of this ripple effect, thinking about how I ended up in each place, and then the next place, and then the next pivot. Then the next pivot. Would I have ended up here? I don't know. I could be doing what chat GPT told me the other day, which was to write erotic novels. I dunno, who knows? Maybe that would've been my career path. That's a, that's a story for another time. My point is, I have always trusted my leap when I left my long-term secure job and decided to start a business, guess what, I was 23 then. And you know, 23, 24, 23, I think. But do you know what? I didn't know what that business was gonna be. I just knew I wanted a business. So I left my job, wait till the thing dropped in, started the business. If I didn't have that event business and then have that lesson from that as well, I'm, oh, that honestly has fast tracked my money mindset. So I think about everything, not going back to the thing I was on maternity leave from when I built this business. You don't always know what's on the other side. And that's what I've really, really learned to trust myself with. I feel like there is just such a difference. Well not feel like there is, there's just such a difference between logical certainty and energetic certainty. And I really want you to feel into when was your first big leap? The one that logic said No, the one that everyone was like, oh, what are you doing? That doesn't make sense, but your gut was like, no, we're doing this. Did you not do it like I did last year or did you listen? So when I think about all of the times that I have built that trust within myself, I also think about a lot of times that I broke that trust by ignoring my intuition, by ignoring my sacral. But when I then fast forward, you know, to now 37-year-old me. Who's getting that same gut feeling? Sell the house. It's time. Close the chapter, and then I ignored it, ignoring it last year with all of everyone's noise, scarcity, all of the logical reasons, you know, the economy, the all of the logical reasons, all of the fear-based reasons. That people were projecting onto me. And not just immediate people, but everyone seems to have an opinion on something like, oh my gosh, you've probably experienced this in your business too. Like everyone has an opinion. Um, not always said with love. Sometimes they are, but we just don't need them. We don't need them all, and we need to be really confident within ourselves so that we then trust our own. So then I ended up overriding my body. And I created this, this static in my frequency, more anxiety, more procrastination, more confusion, more overthinking, hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of overthinking this thing that I'd actually already made a decision on. Do you know fear? Fear comes disguised as logic, but it's still fear. Now I just say, I literally just say. You can take this, do it too. I say, do not talk logic to me. I don't know how this is gonna work out, and it's fine. Do not talk logic to me. So last weekend I went through the auction process. Have you ever auctioned a house? Holy Molly. That was an experience. We had such a quick campaign. It was about two and a half weeks, and then we went to the auction day. And there was so many people there. I think we ended up with five registered bidders and we're hiding away in the room and there's the window open so we can listen. And I'm on the bed thinking I'm gonna pass out one minute. Then I'm looking out the window the next, and then it stalls. And then we had stalled below reserve. So they came in, they said, oh, you know, what do you wanna do? He said, look, how about their strategy was to pass it in at that they, to see if anyone then was like, oh, no, no, um, you know, I don't want it to be negotiated with that person. I wanna be the negotiator. So they'd start the bidding again. And then as they went out to do that, we had a late bidder come and register. So we're halfway through the auction. And this woman came in and she registered and then all of a sudden within the next like five minutes, it's gone from where it had stalled to up to up to up to on the market, to up to up to sold. I was like, oh my gosh. But do you know what's so funny? Actually, I'll share a video, I'll share a reel on Instagram. I'll share a video with you guys of me behind the scenes. The moment I think I've got a video of the moment it went on the market, I'm like five, 5,000. Then we're on the market. Um, and then it goes on and I'm doing this weird little punch air punching. Just excitement, but do you know what's really Yeah, it's really interesting because for someone with such a sensitive nervous system, my nervous system was lit, but I also felt this sense of peace as well, and that's how I know that it was a good decision. I, and honestly, I really enjoyed auctioning something. I was like, oh, when are we auctioning the next one? Like, let's do it again. Let's do it again. But there was something that actually, a bigger piece too that I will just say that was the reason why I think within myself, when other people put doubt into me, that I then doubted, and that's because it actually took me quite a few months to even think about emotionally detaching from that house. And from that thing, it's like, oh, you've got an investment property. You don't wanna let it go. Oh, you've got this. But then also, oh, I bought it when I was 21 and Kiya was born there. And Cleo, my little dog who passed 12 months ago, now, you know, she was there for her whole life. And like all of these things, it's like, oh, you know that emotional attachment. But then I, I actually, I've done a lot of detaching, to be honest, over the last 12 months from business outcomes. Um, probably more than 12 months now actually, but business outcomes from money, from things, from possessions, and what I've realized is the act of detachment is how you open space for overflow. So as I think about wrapping up today's episode, I want you to take away how you are trusting yourself. Do you know what your Yes no actually feels like? Do you move forward if you have a yes? Do you allow other people's scarcity mindsets, their fear, their projections, and their perceptions? Do you let all of that then cloud your judgment cloud the trust that you had within yourself every time? I've trusted my body before my brain life and universe have literally like Mi me, mi me, met me midair every time I've tried to logic my way through. I've ended up in scarcity every single time, and so I just really love reflecting on that. And I would love to hear from you. Tell me about your relationship. With self-trust and with making those decisions doing the thing. Tell me what that looks like. Does it differ from business to life? Because I know mine did full trust in my business. Not so full trust in life. Self-trust is a relationship, rather in relationship or out of relationship with it. And in different areas of my bus, different areas, sorry, I was in and different areas. I was out. So come and tell me about your relationship with self-trust and what you've taken away from this episode, and also, have you ever auctioned a house before? What an adrenaline pumping experience was that I just feel like I was on some episode of the block and like peeking out the window having a sneaky cake in everyone who was bidding. All right. That is it for today's episode of Resource. I will be back in your ears next week. You know, guys, we have some really, really exciting episodes coming up with some absolutely phenomenal guests, including a panel who are coming to join me to predict, uh, next year's trends in business. Which is just gonna be amazing. We have a fantastic million dollar human design expert coming through soon. So many different pieces. I'm so excited and oh my gosh, episode 200 is coming up and just wait to see what we have planned for that. Alright, I will see you next week back here on Resourced. Bye for now. Thank you for tuning into resource with Jessica Reed. If today's episode spoke to you, I'd love for you to share it with another soul led entrepreneur who is also ready to rise. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and stay connected because when you are deeply resourced, you become unstoppable. Until next time, my friend, stay resourced. Stay radiant and trust in the magic that is you.