Last week, I hosted one of the most powerful masterclasses I’ve ever shared. And if you haven’t watched it yet, the replay is still available for a limited time. You can get access to that over on my website at https://selfcreationschool.com/yestoyou.

Now in that class, I shared the three biggest mindset shifts and self-honoring decisions that helped me go from rags to riches and experience the kind of success that I’ve been able to create in my lifetime. But I also shared the one missing piece that kept me, and it keeps most women, stuck in a life that feels less than it could be. And it changes everything.

Because when I added that one thing to the success I already knew how to create going from rags to riches, I went from riches to realness. And I finally created the kind of success I actually love waking up to and living out every single day, which I believe is the true success in life.

But here’s what I also know. Even when we hear something that resonates, that lights us up, even when we’re given the secrets of success, we often freeze when it’s time to act. We stall. We shrink. We doubt the very nudge inside us that says, “YES!, this is for ”, “this feels true”, or “YES!, this can work for me too”.

So today, I want to talk about that moment. The moment between clarity and decision. The moment a YES! Nudge shows up and how we all too often mistake it for a no. Because trusting those nudges, my friend, it will lead you to living a life that feels expansive and true.

Let’s dive in.

Welcome to The Self-Creation School podcast, for women who are ready to ditch mediocrity, step up and get more of what they want, and finally say YES! to a life that sets their soul on fire. I’m your host Leanne Letica, Self-Creation Coach, founder of The Self-Creation School AND Queen of YES!. If you’re ready to play life by your own personal rule book, and give yourself permission to say YES! to yourself and your wildest dreams, this podcast is the place for you.

Thanks so much for tuning in. It really is great to have your company for a conversation that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and I feel like it’s time I put my thoughts to air.

A lot of women registered for my YES! to YOU masterclass. Some showed up live. Some caught the replay. Some registered, but didn’t follow through at all. And then there were plenty of women in my world who didn’t register at all.

Now, that’s okay. It’s not for everyone. But here’s what I know after years of doing this work. It’s all too often, not that we don’t want to say YES! to an opportunity, it’s that we become so used to telling ourselves no.

Sometimes it’s because showing up for a conversation like what I offer in my masterclass, it feels too far outside our comfort zone. Sometimes it’s because the life we really want still feels too far removed from what we believe is possible. Sometimes we do say YES! but we don’t follow through. Either we don’t show up or we consume the content, but we never act on it. And then sometimes, thankfully, we say YES! and we act on it even though it feels uncomfortable or unfamiliar.

I’ve been in all of those places at different points in my life, and what I’ve come to understand is this. Every time we say no to ourselves, especially when something inside us is nudging us towards a YES!, we quietly close the door on the life we could be living.

And that no, it usually has very little to do with logic. It has everything to do with our beliefs, our conditioning, our fears, our doubts, our shoulds. And especially with how much we trust ourselves to handle what might happen. Not so much if we failed, but if it all actually worked out.

I talked briefly about paying attention to your YES! Nudges and taking action on them inside the masterclass. But I really feel like it deserves a whole conversation of its own because I see so many women stuck letting their multitude of NO’s override what could be life changing YESES!.

So let’s talk about YES! Nudges.

A YES! Nudge is that internal pull that says, this is for me. Something about this is speaking to me. It doesn’t always come through loud and clear, especially if your YESES! are used to being drowned out by all of your NO’s. But it’s there if you tune into it.

Sometimes it’s that gut feeling you get that says, YES! go for it. Or it can feel like a sense of lightness when you’re thinking about a decision. Or like something just finally clicked into place for you.

It might be feeling emotionally moved when someone speaks a truth that you really needed to hear or feeling pulled towards something without really being able to explain why. It might even show up as being a little emotionally triggered, but in a way that opens something in you, not in a way that shuts you down.

Sometimes it can feel like a flutter in your chest, a tightness in your belly, or even a hit of excitement that feels so intense that you mistake it for anxiety, you mistake it for fear. And that’s the really tricky part because fear and excitement feel physiologically almost identical in our body. But most of us have been wired to read that signal as danger instead of possibility.

But a YES! Nudge is often just this quiet knowing. A magnetic draw that you cannot really explain. It’s something that grabs your attention, and then often just as quickly your mind rushes in to explain it away and tell you it’s not for you.

Because that’s what we’ve learned to do. We feel the nudge and then we shut it down. We doubt it. We question whether it’s real. We rationalize it away because it doesn’t fit with our current life, or the role we’ve been playing, or the story we’ve been telling ourselves about who we are and what’s possible for us.

And that right there, that’s the moment that matters the most. Because what women don’t realize is this. We’ve been trained to misinterpret our YES! Nudges as danger signs.

Let me explain what I mean.

We feel discomfort or fear or uncertainty, and we take that as a signal to stop. We assume this doesn’t feel safe, so it mustn’t be right. But here’s what I want you to hear and clearly. Fear of the unfamiliar is not a red flag. It’s just your nervous system reacting to change. The YES! doesn’t always feel safe, but it does feel alive. It stirs something in you, even if it also scares you. It’s not a fear of danger. It’s a fear of change. A fear of growth. A fear of exposing more of who you really are.

That’s what a YES! Nudge actually is. It’s your truth tapping you on the shoulder. It’s your inner voice, your deeper knowing, asking you for your attention. And most of the time, the reason we don’t trust it is because it requires us to shift something. It requires us to risk something. To let go of something we’ve been clinging to, even if it’s no longer serving us. And that is uncomfortable. But it’s also where the magic lives.

I’ve had moments in my life where a YES! Nudge has showed up really clearly, and my very next instinct was to absolutely shut it down and fast.

I’d feel the pull towards a new idea, a big decision, or maybe a completely different direction in my life, and immediately the thoughts would come. “Who do you think you are?” “Oh no, now is not the time.” Or “You don’t know enough yet.” “What if it doesn’t work?”

And if I wasn’t grounded as I am today in my own SELF Wealth — if you haven’t heard me talk about SELF Wealth before, I’m talking about all those things like self-worth, self-belief, self-trust, self-confidence, self-love, and so on — now, if I hadn’t done the work to build my SELF Wealth and in particular my self-trust, I would’ve believed those thoughts. I would’ve taken the discomfort as a sign to wait, to pause, to not move forward.

But what I’ve learned is that when I feel that emotional tug, that intuitive, YES!, even when it comes with nerves or doubt, it’s actually my soul asking for expansion. It’s asking me to take myself seriously, to back myself, to believe in what could be possible if I just let myself follow through.

And I want you to start paying attention to those nudges too. When something keeps calling you, when something lights you up and terrifies you in the same breath, when you hear a message and think, this is exactly what I need right now but then you don’t act on it, that’s a YES! Nudge.

It doesn’t need to be explained, by the way. It doesn’t need to be rationalized. It just needs your attention, and eventually your decision. Because the more you ignore those nudges, the more disconnected you become from yourself. But the more you trust them, the more at home you’ll start to feel in your own life. And honestly, what else are we doing this for, if not that?

Now, here’s where it gets interesting and where most women don’t even realize what’s actually happening. When a YES! Nudge shows up, we don’t always say no directly. We rationalize it. We talk ourselves out of it. We tell ourselves we’re being smart, practical, realistic. But underneath that there’s often something else that is going on.

Because sometimes it’s not that we don’t want it. It’s not that we don’t believe in the opportunity in front of us. It’s that we don’t trust ourselves with it. We don’t trust ourselves to follow through, or to hold the responsibility of what comes next, or to keep choosing ourselves once we’ve said the first YES!.

And so we hesitate. Not because we don’t believe in our dreams or in the idea of saying YES! to ourselves or even in the value of the opportunity that is before us. But because something deeper inside says, what if I can’t handle it? Or even scarier, like I mentioned a moment ago, what if it actually works? Because then what? What would it mean about who you are, about how you live, about what others might think?

This is the internal conflict I see all of the time, and I’ve lived it too. Saying YES! to yourself sounds simple, but it’s a big deal. Because when you say YES! you’re not just opening a new door, you’re also closing the door on all of the old stories you’ve been carrying. The ones that have kept you safe in your familiar but stuck. The ones that tell you you’re not good enough and what you want isn’t possible for you.

And all of that, every single bit of it, that’s what makes YES! feel so terrifying, even when it’s the right thing. Even when it could lead you to a life you dream of experiencing.

But here’s what I want you to consider.

What if the fear you’re feeling isn’t a NO? What if it’s just evidence that this matters to you? That you’re standing on the edge of something that’s asking for more of you, yes, but it’s also offering more to you than you’ve been allowing.

And what if the only thing standing between where you are now and where you want to be is your willingness to stop rationalizing your way back into your comfort zone and start trusting yourself to handle whatever it is that comes next?

Because here’s the truth. You can handle it. You’ve already handled so much more. You’ve navigated hard things. You’ve done the inner work to bounce back. You’re more ready than you think to handle anything that comes your way. But you’ll never fully know that until you start saying YES! not just in your mind, but in your actions.

So let’s talk about what it really means to trust yourself through this unknown, because that’s what it all comes down to. You don’t need more proof. You don’t need more research. You don’t need a sign from the universe, or a perfect plan with every outcome accounted for.

What you need is permission. Permission to trust yourself enough to say YES!, even if it’s not all mapped out yet. Self-trust isn’t about certainty. It’s about believing that even if this doesn’t go the way I hope, I’ll handle it. And let’s be honest. What if it actually goes better than you imagine?

Most women have spent so much of their lives preparing for disappointment, for rejection, for things falling apart. We play out the worst case scenario in our heads over and over, and we call that being prepared. But how often do we prepare ourselves for expansion? For ease? For everything actually working out beyond our wildest dreams?

Preparing for more joy, more freedom, more fulfillment, it kind of feels irresponsible, almost indulgent. Like we’re not allowed to expect things to go well. Like we’ll jinx it if we even entertain the thought. But listen, preparing for what could go wrong doesn’t really protect you. It just conditions you to expect less from your life.

Trusting your YES! Nudges means daring to believe you could actually be right about yourself. That your vision matters. That your desires mean something. That you’re allowed to want what you want and follow it without apology, no matter how it turns out. And no, it doesn’t mean that everything will be perfect. It won’t be. But it will be yours. And that’s what makes it just so powerful.

I can think of so many times when saying YES! felt truly terrifying.

Like recently, when I said YES! to working with another business coach this year after my last coach loved my ideas so much, she went and took them to the market without me. Like the first time I shared publicly on this podcast something that felt really vulnerable and deeply personal.And like the decisions I made to sell up my life in Australia, leave my family behind and move to the other side of the world. A decision that went against the grain of everything people expected of me.

Every single time I had to choose myself without a guarantee. And what I’ve learned is this. Real growth doesn’t come from knowing that everything will work out. It comes from deciding that you will, no matter what happens.

So, if you’re waiting for the right time to feel confident enough, or qualified enough, or certain enough, or ready enough, let me lovingly say this. It’s not coming.

The only thing that builds confidence is choosing yourself again and again and again. The only thing that creates certainty is action. Not thought, not waiting, not perfect planning, but action. And the only way you really can live the life you want? It’s to stop asking fear for permission.

That’s what trusting your YES! Nudges is really all about. It’s about choosing the version of you that’s been whispering for more and giving her the lead, even if your voice shakes and you are inside the quake.

So, if you’ve been feeling that YES! Nudge lately, maybe it’s around your next step, maybe around a decision you’ve been avoiding, maybe even around listening to the masterclass or joining me inside The YES! Factor for 12 life-changing weeks, but you’re talking yourself out of it — I want to gently invite you to tune in again.

By the way, the YES! to YOU Masterclass replay is going to be available for a short time for free. And what I share in it could be the exact nudge you’ve been waiting for. That one missing piece that changed everything for me, it could change everything for you too.

But here’s the thing. The masterclass alone won’t change your life. Listening to this podcast won’t change your life either. Only you can do that. Only you can choose to say YES! and take action on the things that resonate with you. On the things that call you forward into the life you want. Only you can decide to back yourself.

The question is, are you willing to trust that YES! Nudge? Are you willing to trust yourself to take action on it?

Because that’s what this is all about. Saying YES! to you, saying YES! to what you want, saying YES! to your own voice, your own wisdom, your own life. Even if it doesn’t all make sense just yet. Even if your knees are knocking in, your stomachs doing somersault. Because listen, that YES!, that is what really could change everything.

So, if you haven’t watched the masterclass yet and you’d like to, go to https://selfcreationschool.com/yestoyou and give yourself the gift of hearing that conversation. You don’t have to do anything else just yet. Just show up. Just let yourself hear it.

And if you’ve already watched it, maybe this is your sign to go back and watch it again. But this time, not as the woman who’s still unsure. But as the woman who is ready to trust her, YES!. As the woman who really is committed to saying YES! to YOU.

And I’ll leave that link in the show notes for you in case you would like to go and take a listen.

But before I close out this episode, I want to leave you with a couple of questions that you can reflect on. Because this isn’t just about listening, it’s about choosing.

I want you to take a moment to think about what YES! Nudge are you currently ignoring? What story are you telling yourself about why you can’t say YES! to it yet?

And then ask yourself this. What might be possible if you stopped waiting for the perfect moment and started trusting yourself to handle whatever comes next when you say YES!? Because YES! Nudges are invitations to the life you actually want.

And remember, fear isn’t always a stop sign. It’s a signal you’re entering territory that matters. You don’t have to be fearless to move forward and say YES! to the life you want. You just have to be loyal to the greater potential of you.

My friend, choosing day one instead of one day starts with listening to you. And there’s a version of your life that exists on the other side of this YES!, but she can’t show up and that life won’t show up until you do.

Let me bring you back to the very heart of this conversation and let’s wrap this up.

You are allowed to want more. You are allowed to change your mind. You are allowed to outgrow what no longer fits. You are allowed to back yourself even when no one else gets it. And you are absolutely allowed to say YES! to the life that calls to you.

Saying YES! isn’t just a moment. It’s a way of living. It’s how you honor yourself. It’s how you take up space in your own life, not just for what you have to do, but for what you desire to do.

So, if something inside of you has been stirring while you’ve been listening to this episode, if something has been pulling at you whispering that this is your time, I want you to know that it’s not just wishful thinking. It’s not just another passing feeling. It is a YES! Nudge, and you get to trust it.

Listen, the life you keep imagining isn’t going to create itself and the woman you want to become isn’t waiting in the future. She isn’t a question. She’s inside you right now. She’s just waiting for you to choose her. For you to say YES! to her. And that choice, it starts with a YES!.

So whether that YES! looks like watching the masterclass, reaching out for support, having an honest conversation with yourself, or finally taking the first step forward towards something you’ve been putting off for far too long. Let today be the day you tune into your nudges and say YES!. Not one day, not maybe later, not when everything feels perfect, but today.

Say YES! to the woman you are becoming. Say YES! to the life you want to wake up to. Say YES! to the nudge that could change everything. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to stop standing in your own way. Because the more you trust yourself, the more remarkable life becomes. And you, my friend, you are made for a remarkable life.

As this episode goes to air, I’ll be on my way to the Netherlands for a short break. Something that’s only happening because I trusted my YES!, I backed it with a decision, and I took bold action that was well outside my comfort zone.

That’s the kind of life you get to build when you learn to trust your YES!. Not a perfect life. Not always a predictable life. But a life that feels like yours and that makes you feel alive. A life that’s full and rich and real and deeply lived. And one way more often than not, the most magical things become yours to experience.

So wherever you are today, whatever YES! is whispering to you, I hope this episode helps you listen. And more than that, I hope it helps you respond. The only thing standing between where you are and where you could be is whether or not you’re willing to say YES!.

I’ll be live from the Netherlands next Wednesday, and I do hope you will join me.

Until then, be the woman who says YES!

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Head over to https://selfcreationschool.com/yesblock and take my FREE 60 second quiz to find out what’s standing in your way today and I’ll send you my Self-Creation Shift process for shifting it.

That’s https://selfcreationschool.com/yesblock. I’ll see you there.

Last week, I hosted one of the most powerful masterclasses I’ve ever shared. And if you haven’t watched it yet, the replay is still available for a limited time. You can get access to that over on my website at https://selfcreationschool.com/yestoyou.

Now in that class, I shared the three biggest mindset shifts and self-honoring decisions that helped me go from rags to riches and experience the kind of success that I’ve been able to create in my lifetime. But I also shared the one missing piece that kept me, and it keeps most women, stuck in a life that feels less than it could be. And it changes everything.

Because when I added that one thing to the success I already knew how to create going from rags to riches, I went from riches to realness. And I finally created the kind of success I actually love waking up to and living out every single day, which I believe is the true success in life.

But here’s what I also know. Even when we hear something that resonates, that lights us up, even when we’re given the secrets of success, we often freeze when it’s time to act. We stall. We shrink. We doubt the very nudge inside us that says, “YES!, this is for ”, “this feels true”, or “YES!, this can work for me too”.

So today, I want to talk about that moment. The moment between clarity and decision. The moment a YES! Nudge shows up and how we all too often mistake it for a no. Because trusting those nudges, my friend, it will lead you to living a life that feels expansive and true.

Let’s dive in.

Welcome to The Self-Creation School podcast, for women who are ready to ditch mediocrity, step up and get more of what they want, and finally say YES! to a life that sets their soul on fire. I’m your host Leanne Letica, Self-Creation Coach, founder of The Self-Creation School AND Queen of YES!. If you’re ready to play life by your own personal rule book, and give yourself permission to say YES! to yourself and your wildest dreams, this podcast is the place for you.

Thanks so much for tuning in. It really is great to have your company for a conversation that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and I feel like it’s time I put my thoughts to air.

A lot of women registered for my YES! to YOU masterclass. Some showed up live. Some caught the replay. Some registered, but didn’t follow through at all. And then there were plenty of women in my world who didn’t register at all.

Now, that’s okay. It’s not for everyone. But here’s what I know after years of doing this work. It’s all too often, not that we don’t want to say YES! to an opportunity, it’s that we become so used to telling ourselves no.

Sometimes it’s because showing up for a conversation like what I offer in my masterclass, it feels too far outside our comfort zone. Sometimes it’s because the life we really want still feels too far removed from what we believe is possible. Sometimes we do say YES! but we don’t follow through. Either we don’t show up or we consume the content, but we never act on it. And then sometimes, thankfully, we say YES! and we act on it even though it feels uncomfortable or unfamiliar.

I’ve been in all of those places at different points in my life, and what I’ve come to understand is this. Every time we say no to ourselves, especially when something inside us is nudging us towards a YES!, we quietly close the door on the life we could be living.

And that no, it usually has very little to do with logic. It has everything to do with our beliefs, our conditioning, our fears, our doubts, our shoulds. And especially with how much we trust ourselves to handle what might happen. Not so much if we failed, but if it all actually worked out.

I talked briefly about paying attention to your YES! Nudges and taking action on them inside the masterclass. But I really feel like it deserves a whole conversation of its own because I see so many women stuck letting their multitude of NO’s override what could be life changing YESES!.

So let’s talk about YES! Nudges.

A YES! Nudge is that internal pull that says, this is for me. Something about this is speaking to me. It doesn’t always come through loud and clear, especially if your YESES! are used to being drowned out by all of your NO’s. But it’s there if you tune into it.

Sometimes it’s that gut feeling you get that says, YES! go for it. Or it can feel like a sense of lightness when you’re thinking about a decision. Or like something just finally clicked into place for you.

It might be feeling emotionally moved when someone speaks a truth that you really needed to hear or feeling pulled towards something without really being able to explain why. It might even show up as being a little emotionally triggered, but in a way that opens something in you, not in a way that shuts you down.

Sometimes it can feel like a flutter in your chest, a tightness in your belly, or even a hit of excitement that feels so intense that you mistake it for anxiety, you mistake it for fear. And that’s the really tricky part because fear and excitement feel physiologically almost identical in our body. But most of us have been wired to read that signal as danger instead of possibility.

But a YES! Nudge is often just this quiet knowing. A magnetic draw that you cannot really explain. It’s something that grabs your attention, and then often just as quickly your mind rushes in to explain it away and tell you it’s not for you.

Because that’s what we’ve learned to do. We feel the nudge and then we shut it down. We doubt it. We question whether it’s real. We rationalize it away because it doesn’t fit with our current life, or the role we’ve been playing, or the story we’ve been telling ourselves about who we are and what’s possible for us.

And that right there, that’s the moment that matters the most. Because what women don’t realize is this. We’ve been trained to misinterpret our YES! Nudges as danger signs.

Let me explain what I mean.

We feel discomfort or fear or uncertainty, and we take that as a signal to stop. We assume this doesn’t feel safe, so it mustn’t be right. But here’s what I want you to hear and clearly. Fear of the unfamiliar is not a red flag. It’s just your nervous system reacting to change. The YES! doesn’t always feel safe, but it does feel alive. It stirs something in you, even if it also scares you. It’s not a fear of danger. It’s a fear of change. A fear of growth. A fear of exposing more of who you really are.

That’s what a YES! Nudge actually is. It’s your truth tapping you on the shoulder. It’s your inner voice, your deeper knowing, asking you for your attention. And most of the time, the reason we don’t trust it is because it requires us to shift something. It requires us to risk something. To let go of something we’ve been clinging to, even if it’s no longer serving us. And that is uncomfortable. But it’s also where the magic lives.

I’ve had moments in my life where a YES! Nudge has showed up really clearly, and my very next instinct was to absolutely shut it down and fast.

I’d feel the pull towards a new idea, a big decision, or maybe a completely different direction in my life, and immediately the thoughts would come. “Who do you think you are?” “Oh no, now is not the time.” Or “You don’t know enough yet.” “What if it doesn’t work?”

And if I wasn’t grounded as I am today in my own SELF Wealth — if you haven’t heard me talk about SELF Wealth before, I’m talking about all those things like self-worth, self-belief, self-trust, self-confidence, self-love, and so on — now, if I hadn’t done the work to build my SELF Wealth and in particular my self-trust, I would’ve believed those thoughts. I would’ve taken the discomfort as a sign to wait, to pause, to not move forward.

But what I’ve learned is that when I feel that emotional tug, that intuitive, YES!, even when it comes with nerves or doubt, it’s actually my soul asking for expansion. It’s asking me to take myself seriously, to back myself, to believe in what could be possible if I just let myself follow through.

And I want you to start paying attention to those nudges too. When something keeps calling you, when something lights you up and terrifies you in the same breath, when you hear a message and think, this is exactly what I need right now but then you don’t act on it, that’s a YES! Nudge.

It doesn’t need to be explained, by the way. It doesn’t need to be rationalized. It just needs your attention, and eventually your decision. Because the more you ignore those nudges, the more disconnected you become from yourself. But the more you trust them, the more at home you’ll start to feel in your own life. And honestly, what else are we doing this for, if not that?

Now, here’s where it gets interesting and where most women don’t even realize what’s actually happening. When a YES! Nudge shows up, we don’t always say no directly. We rationalize it. We talk ourselves out of it. We tell ourselves we’re being smart, practical, realistic. But underneath that there’s often something else that is going on.

Because sometimes it’s not that we don’t want it. It’s not that we don’t believe in the opportunity in front of us. It’s that we don’t trust ourselves with it. We don’t trust ourselves to follow through, or to hold the responsibility of what comes next, or to keep choosing ourselves once we’ve said the first YES!.

And so we hesitate. Not because we don’t believe in our dreams or in the idea of saying YES! to ourselves or even in the value of the opportunity that is before us. But because something deeper inside says, what if I can’t handle it? Or even scarier, like I mentioned a moment ago, what if it actually works? Because then what? What would it mean about who you are, about how you live, about what others might think?

This is the internal conflict I see all of the time, and I’ve lived it too. Saying YES! to yourself sounds simple, but it’s a big deal. Because when you say YES! you’re not just opening a new door, you’re also closing the door on all of the old stories you’ve been carrying. The ones that have kept you safe in your familiar but stuck. The ones that tell you you’re not good enough and what you want isn’t possible for you.

And all of that, every single bit of it, that’s what makes YES! feel so terrifying, even when it’s the right thing. Even when it could lead you to a life you dream of experiencing.

But here’s what I want you to consider.

What if the fear you’re feeling isn’t a NO? What if it’s just evidence that this matters to you? That you’re standing on the edge of something that’s asking for more of you, yes, but it’s also offering more to you than you’ve been allowing.

And what if the only thing standing between where you are now and where you want to be is your willingness to stop rationalizing your way back into your comfort zone and start trusting yourself to handle whatever it is that comes next?

Because here’s the truth. You can handle it. You’ve already handled so much more. You’ve navigated hard things. You’ve done the inner work to bounce back. You’re more ready than you think to handle anything that comes your way. But you’ll never fully know that until you start saying YES! not just in your mind, but in your actions.

So let’s talk about what it really means to trust yourself through this unknown, because that’s what it all comes down to. You don’t need more proof. You don’t need more research. You don’t need a sign from the universe, or a perfect plan with every outcome accounted for.

What you need is permission. Permission to trust yourself enough to say YES!, even if it’s not all mapped out yet. Self-trust isn’t about certainty. It’s about believing that even if this doesn’t go the way I hope, I’ll handle it. And let’s be honest. What if it actually goes better than you imagine?

Most women have spent so much of their lives preparing for disappointment, for rejection, for things falling apart. We play out the worst case scenario in our heads over and over, and we call that being prepared. But how often do we prepare ourselves for expansion? For ease? For everything actually working out beyond our wildest dreams?

Preparing for more joy, more freedom, more fulfillment, it kind of feels irresponsible, almost indulgent. Like we’re not allowed to expect things to go well. Like we’ll jinx it if we even entertain the thought. But listen, preparing for what could go wrong doesn’t really protect you. It just conditions you to expect less from your life.

Trusting your YES! Nudges means daring to believe you could actually be right about yourself. That your vision matters. That your desires mean something. That you’re allowed to want what you want and follow it without apology, no matter how it turns out. And no, it doesn’t mean that everything will be perfect. It won’t be. But it will be yours. And that’s what makes it just so powerful.

I can think of so many times when saying YES! felt truly terrifying.

Like recently, when I said YES! to working with another business coach this year after my last coach loved my ideas so much, she went and took them to the market without me. Like the first time I shared publicly on this podcast something that felt really vulnerable and deeply personal.And like the decisions I made to sell up my life in Australia, leave my family behind and move to the other side of the world. A decision that went against the grain of everything people expected of me.

Every single time I had to choose myself without a guarantee. And what I’ve learned is this. Real growth doesn’t come from knowing that everything will work out. It comes from deciding that you will, no matter what happens.

So, if you’re waiting for the right time to feel confident enough, or qualified enough, or certain enough, or ready enough, let me lovingly say this. It’s not coming.

The only thing that builds confidence is choosing yourself again and again and again. The only thing that creates certainty is action. Not thought, not waiting, not perfect planning, but action. And the only way you really can live the life you want? It’s to stop asking fear for permission.

That’s what trusting your YES! Nudges is really all about. It’s about choosing the version of you that’s been whispering for more and giving her the lead, even if your voice shakes and you are inside the quake.

So, if you’ve been feeling that YES! Nudge lately, maybe it’s around your next step, maybe around a decision you’ve been avoiding, maybe even around listening to the masterclass or joining me inside The YES! Factor for 12 life-changing weeks, but you’re talking yourself out of it — I want to gently invite you to tune in again.

By the way, the YES! to YOU Masterclass replay is going to be available for a short time for free. And what I share in it could be the exact nudge you’ve been waiting for. That one missing piece that changed everything for me, it could change everything for you too.

But here’s the thing. The masterclass alone won’t change your life. Listening to this podcast won’t change your life either. Only you can do that. Only you can choose to say YES! and take action on the things that resonate with you. On the things that call you forward into the life you want. Only you can decide to back yourself.

The question is, are you willing to trust that YES! Nudge? Are you willing to trust yourself to take action on it?

Because that’s what this is all about. Saying YES! to you, saying YES! to what you want, saying YES! to your own voice, your own wisdom, your own life. Even if it doesn’t all make sense just yet. Even if your knees are knocking in, your stomachs doing somersault. Because listen, that YES!, that is what really could change everything.

So, if you haven’t watched the masterclass yet and you’d like to, go to https://selfcreationschool.com/yestoyou and give yourself the gift of hearing that conversation. You don’t have to do anything else just yet. Just show up. Just let yourself hear it.

And if you’ve already watched it, maybe this is your sign to go back and watch it again. But this time, not as the woman who’s still unsure. But as the woman who is ready to trust her, YES!. As the woman who really is committed to saying YES! to YOU.

And I’ll leave that link in the show notes for you in case you would like to go and take a listen.

But before I close out this episode, I want to leave you with a couple of questions that you can reflect on. Because this isn’t just about listening, it’s about choosing.

I want you to take a moment to think about what YES! Nudge are you currently ignoring? What story are you telling yourself about why you can’t say YES! to it yet?

And then ask yourself this. What might be possible if you stopped waiting for the perfect moment and started trusting yourself to handle whatever comes next when you say YES!? Because YES! Nudges are invitations to the life you actually want.

And remember, fear isn’t always a stop sign. It’s a signal you’re entering territory that matters. You don’t have to be fearless to move forward and say YES! to the life you want. You just have to be loyal to the greater potential of you.

My friend, choosing day one instead of one day starts with listening to you. And there’s a version of your life that exists on the other side of this YES!, but she can’t show up and that life won’t show up until you do.

Let me bring you back to the very heart of this conversation and let’s wrap this up.

You are allowed to want more. You are allowed to change your mind. You are allowed to outgrow what no longer fits. You are allowed to back yourself even when no one else gets it. And you are absolutely allowed to say YES! to the life that calls to you.

Saying YES! isn’t just a moment. It’s a way of living. It’s how you honor yourself. It’s how you take up space in your own life, not just for what you have to do, but for what you desire to do.

So, if something inside of you has been stirring while you’ve been listening to this episode, if something has been pulling at you whispering that this is your time, I want you to know that it’s not just wishful thinking. It’s not just another passing feeling. It is a YES! Nudge, and you get to trust it.

Listen, the life you keep imagining isn’t going to create itself and the woman you want to become isn’t waiting in the future. She isn’t a question. She’s inside you right now. She’s just waiting for you to choose her. For you to say YES! to her. And that choice, it starts with a YES!.

So whether that YES! looks like watching the masterclass, reaching out for support, having an honest conversation with yourself, or finally taking the first step forward towards something you’ve been putting off for far too long. Let today be the day you tune into your nudges and say YES!. Not one day, not maybe later, not when everything feels perfect, but today.

Say YES! to the woman you are becoming. Say YES! to the life you want to wake up to. Say YES! to the nudge that could change everything. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to stop standing in your own way. Because the more you trust yourself, the more remarkable life becomes. And you, my friend, you are made for a remarkable life.

As this episode goes to air, I’ll be on my way to the Netherlands for a short break. Something that’s only happening because I trusted my YES!, I backed it with a decision, and I took bold action that was well outside my comfort zone.

That’s the kind of life you get to build when you learn to trust your YES!. Not a perfect life. Not always a predictable life. But a life that feels like yours and that makes you feel alive. A life that’s full and rich and real and deeply lived. And one way more often than not, the most magical things become yours to experience.

So wherever you are today, whatever YES! is whispering to you, I hope this episode helps you listen. And more than that, I hope it helps you respond. The only thing standing between where you are and where you could be is whether or not you’re willing to say YES!.

I’ll be live from the Netherlands next Wednesday, and I do hope you will join me.

Until then, be the woman who says YES!

Hey, want to know what’s stopping you from saying YES! to you and a life you love?

Head over to https://selfcreationschool.com/yesblock and take my FREE 60 second quiz to find out what’s standing in your way today and I’ll send you my Self-Creation Shift process for shifting it.

That’s https://selfcreationschool.com/yesblock. I’ll see you there.