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Building Intuition: The Key To Self-Trust With Sabine Gedeon


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“I’m building that expectation in my intuition that we’re going to figure out whatever the day brings.”

In this episode, Nick speaks with executive coach Sabine Gedeon about her journey in personal development, the importance of subconscious programming, and the role of intuition and self-trust in achieving success. Sabine shares her unique nightly routine of listening to curated books, her focus on building intuition, and the significance of daily practices like journaling and gratitude.

What to listen for:

  • Daily routines help in building self-trust and discipline
  • Journaling is a powerful tool for gratitude and reflection
  • Self-commitment is crucial for personal growth
  • Personal development is a continuous journey influenced by various factors
  • Self-awareness and accountability are crucial for personal development
  • Grief is a process that everyone experiences in different forms
  • Understanding the spectrum of emotions helps in personal healing
  • Identifying core wounds can lead to deeper emotional understanding
  • Self-awareness allows for better navigation through life’s challenges
  • “If you’re three years out from having lost something… and you’re still feeling the emotions as strong… that means that you’re not feeling grief for that particular situation… that is grief that is underneath something.”

    • Grief can sometimes mask deeper emotional wounds that haven’t been fully processed or uncovered yet.
  • Emotional intensity that persists for years might not be about the original loss—it could be tapping into older, unresolved pain.
  • Life events often act as triggers that awaken deeper layers of grief we didn’t even know we were carrying.
  • Long-standing sadness isn’t always a sign of “not moving on”—it might be a cue that there’s more healing to explore.
  • This kind of reflection invites you to ask, “What else is this really about?” instead of staying stuck on the surface story.
  • “I have learned… that things [don’t] happen because I’m doing, I’m physically doing, or it’s the work that I’m doing. I understand that I am part of this larger universe and that I can actually get support.”

    • Sometimes, stepping back and aligning energetically brings more results than over-efforting.
  • There’s power in trusting that the universe (or life, or God, or spirit—whatever you believe in) has your back when you stop trying to control everything.
  • Receiving support—whether divine, emotional, or practical—is just as crucial as taking action.
  • Letting go of the “I have to do it all” mindset can open up space for unexpected breakthroughs and guidance.
  • Real productivity isn’t always about doing more—it’s about being in the right flow and trusting the process.
  • About Sabine Gedeon

    Sabine Gedeon is the Founder of Transformed Leadership Institute and CEO of Gedeon Enterprises, with nearly 20 years of experience guiding leaders in startups and Fortune 500 companies. She combines human-centered principles with tech-enabled solutions to create customized leadership and talent development programs. As an author and Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Sabine is dedicated to empowering leaders at all levels, helping them tackle key challenges in growth and transformation.

    • https://sabinegedeon.com
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabinegedeon
  • https://www.instagram.com/sabinegedeon
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    Nick McGowan (00:06.783)Hello and welcome to the Mindset and Self-Mastery Show. I’m your host, Nick McGowan. Today on the show we have Sabin Gideon. Sabin, how you doing today?

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (00:17.624)Well, thank you, Nick. How are you?

    Nick McGowan (00:19.669)I’m good. I’m looking forward to our conversation. I always enjoy when I get to shoot the shit and just talk to somebody beforehand and there are certain times where I look up and I’m like, man, it’s been like 15, 20 minutes. This could have been part of the episode. So why don’t you kick us off? Tell us what you do for a living and what’s one thing most people don’t know about you that’s maybe a little odd or bizarre.

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (00:40.002)Yeah, so I play a couple of different roles, primarily as an executive coach and a speaker, working with organizations, their leadership, just helping them be better humans.

    As far as something that’s bizarre, I thinking about this, I think probably the most bizarre thing, and you’ll probably appreciate this, is every night I go, I listen to Audible, so I go to bed with a playlist of books that are curated each quarter, and so that is my way of helping me to program my subconscious mind. And I’ve actually been doing this, I didn’t realize that that’s what I was doing, probably in like 2000.

    10 or 12 or something like I was like heavily into church and so I wanted to like learn the Bible and I was like I don’t want to sit there and read the Bible so I used to play the Bible app while I slept as a way to kind of like memorize help me to memorize the scriptures a little bit more it wasn’t until I got into personal development professional development the work that I do now that I learned that like I was literally programming my subconscious so to this day like I can pull Bible quotes

    Nick McGowan (01:26.123)Hmm.

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (01:49.36)I can’t tell you where they are, but they will come to me like in conversation randomly.

    Nick McGowan (01:56.705)I love that. So I think there’s kind of a two part pieces to that. I don’t know how to put that properly, but I think some of that is like a God situation where he’s like, hey, here’s this verse. And other parts of it is just straight up your subconscious mind that’s recalling things. Cause you were filtering that in constantly. Did you, do you remember, I think it was that Bible app, cause that’s the one that Craig Groeschel created like in the mid 2000s, like the Bible app.

    think at one point Samuel L was one of the voices. Did you listen to his voice to help you go to sleep and just read the Bible to you? man. Yeah, just captivated the entire time. Keep going Samuel. Now I’m gonna read Samuel one and two with Samuel’s voice, total nerd. So that is cool. I do appreciate that. I think it’s interesting how we can tie different things into just our way of being.

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (02:26.05)Mm-hmm.

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (02:30.592)I would definitely, I would never fall asleep listening to Samuel L. Jackson.

    Nick McGowan (02:53.781)just by the music we listen to, the shows that we watch, things that we do, et cetera, et cetera. But it’s also, it depends on what we wanna get out of it and who we are. Like I think about it like this, I watch a lot of Criminal Minds, like CSI and stuff like that. And I saw something recently that was like, you watch, what was it? If your thought of relaxing is watching three or four episodes of True Crime, you should probably talk to a therapist. And at first I thought, well, I pay at least three people monthly.

    to help me with things and I have weekly sessions and I’d watch this every night. But I watch it from the aspect of watching people do incredibly tough things and really horrific situations and still keep their cool and they’re calm about it instead of going, well, how did somebody just member somebody like not fan of that, but like what did they do in the aftermath, et cetera. So with the books that you listen to and the things that you’re kind of putting in your mind, are you

    you said it’s curated. are there things you’re like this quarter, I really want to work on these things and you do it consciously, as well as subconsciously. But what are those things?

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (04:00.46)Yeah, so funny enough with the true crime stuff, like I used to be a big like SUV, no, SBU fan, right? And

    Nick McGowan (04:07.273)SvU here.

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (04:09.834)It was like, I was always mesmerized by like how they solved it. Cause I was always trying to figure out who the person was. It wasn’t until like I started going through my healing journey that like once I started going through my healing journey, I couldn’t watch those shows anymore because now I started getting triggered before it was about the cops and how they were going to solve it and everything. And then once I started to do my own work, I started relating to the victim.

    Nick McGowan (04:24.481)Hmm.

    Sabine Gedeon, PCC (04:35.694)in the situation and so like I had to stop that. So kudos to you for being in that space where you could still watch those shows. So for me, when it ...

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