The Intuition Strategist Podcast

In this episode, I’m joined by Leslie Forde — founder and CEO of Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs®, author of Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs, and the researcher behind the longest-running study of its kind on the pandemic’s impact on work, care, and wellness. We dive into Insight, the I in my VIEW framework, and how Leslie turns data and perspectives into tools that help organizations fix the systems that hold working parents and caregivers back.

* How Leslie’s own burnout became the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs after sketching her idea on a piece of paper

* 85 calls in six weeks: how conversations with HR leaders shaped her employer framework

* Making invisible data visible so organizations can act on what they’ve long sensed

* Writing a book as a creative, healing act, and how the two-and-a-half-year process sharpened her thinking

* What comes up when Leslie interprets her own Corporate Tarot Cards® reading, live on the show

Stick around to the end for a bonus pen-nerd moment, when Leslie and I discover we have the same writing instrument preferences (my favorite pen is a 0.7 Mitsubishi in black ink, for the curious). 🖊️

Learn more about Leslie’s work:

Website: MomsHierarchyOfNeeds.comBook: Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs TimeCheck app: timecheck.momshierarchyofneeds.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lesliefordeInstagram: @moms_hierarchy_of_needs

Learn more about Intuition Strategy at IntuitionStrategist.com

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In this episode, Leah is joined by Erin Davis — founder and lead inclusion strategist of Erin Davis Co. in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Erin is an award-winning strategist, speaker, and advisor with over twenty years experience helping executive teams, boards, and communities create environments where people can contribute fully.

We dive into Values, the V in the VIEW framework, and how telling the truth about whose values shape our systems creates value for everyone.

* Why better systems start with the courage to tell the truth, and how the truth changes depending on where you stand

* How Erin decides what evolves, what gets protected, and what she won’t compromise as her work meets politics and pushback

* Debate versus dialogue, and how Erin’s Connect Cards help leaders bridge differences

* The curb cut effect: how designing for more people creates value for everyone

* What comes up when Erin interprets her own Corporate Tarot Cards® reading, live on the show

Learn more about Erin’s work:Website: ErinDavisCo.caLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erin-davis-coErin’s Podcast - Unapologetic with Erin Davis: https://www.erindavisco.ca/unapologetic-podcast Connect Cards: https://www.erindavisco.ca/shop/connect-cards

Learn more about Intuition Strategy at IntuitionStrategist.comBook your free 15-minute Clarity Blueprint at ClarityBlueprintWithLeah.com

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This week, Leah steps back to connect the season’s first three conversations — with Bobbie Carlton, Khalil Smith, and Tracy Litt — and reveals the through-line running underneath all of them: discernment.

Each guest was practicing a different phase of the HIT framework, at a different scale, in a completely different field. Together, they show what it actually looks like to hear, interpret, and trust your intuition in real time.

* What a decade of people stopping you on the street can teach you about timing your gut

* The art technique that explains why one piece of feedback should never change your mind

* Why “I’m not ready yet” might be the wrong question to ask yourself

* The skill showing up across boardrooms right now, and why organizations like Ernst & Young are putting real money behind it

* What’s next as the season turns from HIT to the VIEW framework for decision-making

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In this episode, I’m joined by Tracy Litt — visionary founder of The School of Becoming, creator of The Choice Method, and someone mid-transformation herself: launching a second company to bring her IP directly into corporations and organizations. We dive into what it actually means to live in trust, why readiness is a decision and not a feeling, and what it looks like to build something that doesn’t depend on you being in every room.

* Why “readiness is a decision, not a feeling” changes how you take action

* Inside The Choice Method: notice the pattern, regulate the nervous system, choose from who you’re becoming

* What comes up when Tracy reflects on her custom Corporate Tarot Cards® reading, live on the show

* Trust as a discipline — why an idea can simmer before it’s time, and how strategy fits into intuition

* Turning inward work outward: building a company (or a culture) that can run without you in it

Learn more about Tracy’s work:Instagram: @thetracylitt LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tracylittlesterWebsite: TheSchoolOfBecoming.comThe Choice Method: TheSchoolOfBecoming.com/the-choice-method

Learn more about Intuition Strategy at IntuitionStrategist.comBook your free 15-minute Clarity Blueprint at ClarityBlueprintWithLeah.com

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In this episode, I’m joined by Khalil Smith — author of The Performance Culture: A Roadmap to Creating Thriving Workplace Cultures, a leader with three decades building high-performing workplaces, and someone with advanced degrees in both business and conflict resolution. We dive into how to interpret the signals all around you — in your networks, your culture, and your own experience — and turn years of data into your next confident move.

* Why “we’re good, how do we get even better” is the real question at Khalil’s career stage

* How to harvest data from your network before you need it

* The discipline behind real interpretation: staying curious even when you think you’ve already found the truth

* Both/and in practice: loving who you are while working to become more

* What comes up when Khalil interprets his own Corporate Tarot Cards® reading, live on the show.

Learn more about Khalil’s work:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/khalilsmithBook: The Performance Culture: Go Beyond Buzzwords to Lead Teams That Win

Learn more about Intuition Strategy at IntuitionStrategist.com

Book your free 15-minute Clarity Blueprint at ClarityBlueprintWithLeah.com

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2.1 Building Community with Innovation and Intuition feat. Bobbie Carlton

On this episode of The Intuition Strategist Podcast, Leah Goldman is joined by guest Bobbie Carlton of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights and Innovation Women. Together they explore the role that hearing your intuition plays in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, through Bobbie’s experience as a community builder and event host.

Bobbie shares her experience and how early internet and social media shifts revealed the power of individual reach and led her to build community-based platforms supporting startups and increasing women speakers. She discusses renewed demand for in-person events, including a partnership with Boston’s Museum of Science to run three Innovation Nights events in 2026, and a successful pilot of “Speaker Friends Live,” which produced extensive photos and videos for speakers’ sizzle reels.

Using Corporate Tarot Cards® to explore next steps of her recent event, “Speaker Friends Live”, Leah and Bobbie explore how the cards provide insight to resource constraints, pricing realities, and the decision to run additional iterations before scaling or licensing the event format.

You can find Bobbie Carlton and Innovation Women at innovationwomen.com.

Learn more about Intuition Strategy at IntuitionStrategist.com

Book your free 15-minute Clarity Blueprint at ClarityBlueprintWithLeah.com

00:00 How to Trust Your Gut

01:30 HIT Framework - Hear

02:47 Show Intro And Welcome

04:06 Meet Bobbie Carlton

04:47 Buttons And Community Origins

07:23 Fax Machine Epiphany

09:36 From Innovation Nights To Women

12:21 Return Of In Person Events

16:26 Speaker Friends Live Pilot

18:50 Crossroads And Big Question

21:49 Corporate Tarot Cards® Reading

27:10 Innovation Ideas And Learnings

31:08 Resources Costs And Scaling

38:35 Pricing And Community Demand

41:07 Where To Find Innovation Women

Season 2 of The Intuition Strategist podcast is coming soon!

In season 1 of The Intuition Strategist podcast, we covered many of the fundamentals of Intuition Strategy® and what it means to lead in a VUCA world: Volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. We explored the roots of Intuition Strategy®, and you got a primer on the tools that make your intuition actionable.

In season 2, you're not just hearing Leah Goldman teach Intuition Strategy®, you'll also be learning from real leaders as they live it. Every conversation this season traces back to a piece of the Intuition Strategy® Operating System: what it actually looks like to trust your gut, to make fast, confident decisions, and to get aligned results. And we get dispatches from out in the leadership field. What happens when both intuition and strategy are tested by real ambiguity, real crossroads, real life.

If season one was the map, season two is hearing the stories of people walking it. Season two comes out in September, and I am so excited to share the new season, rich conversations, and Corporate Tarot Cards® readings with you.

Because intuition without action is just a daydream. You'll hear the Intuition Strategist back in your feed soon!

In this episode of The Intuition Strategist, we explore what it really means to trust your gut and how to make intuition not just personal, but powerful in your leadership.

We’re breaking down the HIT Framework: Hear, Interpret, Trust.

This is the tool I use across all of my work with individual leaders and executive teams to strengthen intuition as a reliable data source—especially in uncertain, high-stakes environments.

You’ll learn:

* Why intuition is not the opposite of logic. It’s fast, embodied logic built from experience

* How to hear the signal beneath the noise (and what blocks it)

* Why interpretation is essential—and how tools like Corporate Tarot Cards® can help you decode what your gut is saying

* What it means to trust your inner advisor and take aligned action without needing external proof

We also dive into how intuitive leadership shows up in strategy tools you already use—like SWOT analysis, risk matrices, and strategic planning—and how to bring your whole self to decision-making in a VUCA world.

Plus, what collective intuition feels like in the boardroom and the conference room, how teams align when they listen beneath the surface, and why every leap you take strengthens your signal.

Whether you're navigating a crossroads or making everyday decisions, this episode will give you a grounded, actionable way to tap into your intuitive intelligence—individually and collectively.

Mentioned in this episode:

* Ep 17. From Separation to Integration: Why Connection is the New Strategy

* Ep 5. Building Trust in Your Gut: Foundations of Intuition Strategy

* Ep 9. The VIEW Framework: Slow Down, Tune In, Decide

Reflective prompt: What decision are you sitting with right now? What would it look like to trust the feeling underneath it—just a little?

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In this solo episode, I go back to the beginning - to my 40th birthday, a salt cave, and a moment of quiet that showed me why I do this work.

Connection has always been at the heart of my life: connecting ideas, people, disciplines, languages, frameworks. From consulting rooms to campfires, sorority to strategy decks, I've spent my whole life translating between worlds. And now, through Intuition Strategy®, I’m blending business and personal, logic and intuition, structure and spirit.

This episode kicks off a new series exploring the full framework of Intuition Strategy—Trust Your Gut, Make Decisions, Get Results—and why it's not just a toolkit for business, but a model for aligned living.

We cover:

* Why I believe connection is the root of clarity

* How to translate business tools like OKRs, SWOTs, and strategy maps into personal tools

* Why the wall between “personal” and “professional” is crumbling—and what to do with that truth

* The role of actionable intuition in shaping your next chapter

* What it really means to be whole (and how that shows up in my Corporate Tarot Cards®)

Ready to strengthen your intuition?

Join the waitlist for my upcoming Hear Your Intuition Bootcamp—a 5-day experience to quiet the noise and begin hearing your own inner guidance system.→ Sign up for the waitlist here

Connect with Me:

Website: intuitionstrategist.comLinkedIn: Leah Goldman

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In a world that tells women selflessness is the pinnacle of womanhood, asking for what you want can feel radical, but it’s actually the foundation of a fulfilling life.

In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Kelly Donahue — integrative life coach, positive psychology practitioner, change leader, and founder of Badass Moms. We dive into how to trust yourself, redefine success on your own terms, and create a life that feels spacious, joyful, and fully yours.

👉 Want to learn more about the Career Crossroads Framework we talk about in this episode? Download the free guide here: https://pages.intuitionstrategist.com/careercrossroads-episode16

In this episode, we cover:

* The life-changing power of asking for what you want

* How to rebuild your definition of success—and reject hustle culture

* Creating your own “team” in work, motherhood, and life

* Why fun isn’t frivolous…it’s essential

* Trust as the foundation of both intuition and leadership

* What happens when strength becomes the complication (via Kelly’s Corporate Tarot Cards® reading!)

Links and Resources:

* 🎁 Download the free Career Crossroads Guide

* Follow Kelly on Instagram: @kelly.badassmoms

* Learn more about Corporate Tarot Cards®:corporatetarotcards.com

* Visit The Intuition Strategist online: IntuitionStrategist.com

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