The theme that stood out most in this conversation with Isabella, was the importance of intuition in our lives. Isabella spoke about how she has used intuition and finding her inner voice to face her fears, overcome hurdles, and achieve a deep sense of freedom and happiness. At the root of all this is this idea that we don't really need guardrails, we don't need limiting beliefs, and we don't need societal rules to tell us how to be free and happy. On one hand there is something so deeply appealing and logical about that idea. It is something that has transformed Isabella's life and she believes it can do the same for others as well.

On another hand though, there is something deeply troubling about it. We talked a lot about this during the episode, but there is a view that we can't just rely on intuition. Sometimes guardrails or rules are necessary to help save us from ourselves. How do we protect against becoming selfish or destructive? How do we have so much confidence in our own internal intuition to assume we can trust it implicitly? You start to recognize that there is this leap of faith component to it. We have to have faith that we can trust our intuition even if logically we cannot explain why. We have to accept something to be true even if we can't understand it. It was really enjoyable and insightful to work through all of this with Isabella as she was really thoughtful about all of it.

Isabella would be the first to acknowledge that she doesn't have all the answers to these questions and she very much understands the concerns. But all she can say is that given her experience and the work she does (as an author, entrepreneur, and futurist) she has found that trusting her inner voice has led her to much better life. Maybe she summed it best with a quote from one of her favorite movies, Legends of the Fall, "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.”