Hi Friend,

What do you do when your gut is telling you to leave a job you love and absolutely nothing about that makes logical sense?

That’s exactly where my guest this week, Melanie Stevens, found herself. Melanie spent years in human resources at a charity in the UK, in a role she genuinely enjoyed, with great colleagues and a steady, well-paid, secure position. By every practical measure, life was good. And then came what she calls “the nudge”…a quiet, persistent feeling that it was time to go, even though she had a mortgage, a career she’d worked hard to build, and every reason to stay put.

In our conversation, Melanie shares how she wrestled with that pull for about eighteen months — trying to bargain with it, reduce her hours, talk herself out of it — before she finally trusted it and left to build a spiritual teaching practice. Today, she teaches online courses to students in 94 countries.

What struck me most wasn’t the leap itself. It was what she said about what happens after you leap, and it doesn’t immediately work. When her new path didn’t bring in enough income at first, she never once thought about going back. Instead, she asked a better question: not “did I make a mistake?” but “what adjustment is being asked of me here?” That reframe — that a roadblock isn’t proof you chose wrong, but a sign something else is needed — is something I think a lot of us in transition need to hear.

We also talk about why our minds and our intuition so often pull in opposite directions, how to redefine what “abundance” actually means when you’re weighing a change, and why the scariest decisions are often the ones our whole body is quietly saying yes to. I share a bit of my own story too — leaving teaching, the guilt of “wasting” a degree, and the strange relief of finally trusting the decision even when it didn’t add up on paper.

If you’re standing at the edge of a change you can feel but can’t quite justify, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Listen to the full episode above. You can find Melanie and her free resources at melanie-stevens.com.

I’d love to hear from you! Hit reply and tell me: have you ever felt a “nudge” you couldn’t explain? Did you follow it?

— Jenny

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