About this episode

In this episode, Amber De La Garza discusses the importance of trusting your gut in business decisions and how to navigate decision-making effectively.

Trusting your gut in business decisions isn't reckless. It's your expertise distilled down to a feeling. So why do so many business owners keep overriding it? In this week's episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast , I'm wrapping up the Decision-Making series with the one thing no framework can hand you, and it's been with you all along. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why The Real Problem Was Never About The Decision ✔ How Seeking More Opinions Can Actually Work Against You ✔ The Difference Between Preparation And Outsourcing Your Own Authority ✔ What To Do When You Can't Explain Why You Just Know ✔ The One Question That Cuts Through Every Decision You've Been Avoiding ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, visit AmberDeLaGarza.com/419 P.S. If you haven't grabbed the free Balanced Decision-Making Matrix PDF yet, it's the complete framework from Part 2 of this series, with decision timeframes, real business examples, and Power Sheets to help you apply it immediately. No opt-in required. Download it free at AmberDeLaGarza.com/DecisionMaking And... If this series revealed that the patterns keeping you stuck go deeper than one decision…

People in this episode

Host: Amber De La Garza

Topics covered

• decision-making
• business intuition
• trusting your gut
• authority in decisions
• overriding instincts

Keywords

• decision-making
• business decisions
• gut feeling
• expertise
• authority
• opinions
• preparation
• discovery call

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