Use Your Intuition as a Strategic Business Tool with Catherine Carrigan

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Good day, good day, good day everyone! How is everybody on this glorious Tuesday? It is Shedding the Bitch Radio. I am Bernadette Boas. I am excited that you're with me. And I'll briefly just say hello to Katherine Kerrigan, who's in studio with me today. So for those of you who are listening live and/or you take us with you, you're also going to be able to find this out on our Shedding the Bits YouTube channel, as well as Facebook, sheddingthebits.com, and of course Katherine will be sharing it out as well. So if you want to see our smiling faces and actually have some clothes on with makeup, then go and check out the videos of our radio broadcast out on Shit in the Bitch YouTube channel. All right, so it's a little rainy here in Atlanta, and again, we're not complaining, are we?

Not at all, never.

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You!

Just have a great year. Just have a great season. Just have a great time with us today because we are going to have a good time. So here's our topic of conversation today, and then like we typically do, I'll give you a rich question to think about during our conversation. There'll be some rich tags that you'll be able to use to tweet and Facebook with us, and then we're going to take a short break, come back, and I'll introduce you in more detail, and we'll get into this conversation. So our topic today is really how How to Use Your Intuition to Succeed in Business. We've talked about it before, but our guest has a very interesting and new and different slant on it. So, get ready because your intuition and gut is critical to being your GPS in the decisions that you're making and the things that you're doing, okay? So, it's her philosophy that there are 4 primary psychic gifts: clairsentience, clairsentience, Clear cognizance. Thank you very much. Your prophetic knowing. Okay, I have a little bit of all those things. I just can't, can't pronounce them. The more you understand how your soul communicates with you, the better you can use your gifts to succeed in all aspects of your life, including your career, because we have a lot of career people out there as well as business owners. We'll be talking about the 4 gifts and how to use these gifts to get you ahead. So what are you going to really want to listen for and hear and learn. You're gonna wanna pay attention to how to read the energy in a meeting. So you're at work, you're in your own business, how to kind of feel the energy, read the energy that you're about to attend and/or you're sitting in. How to time your career moves. Ooh, this is a good one. And I would assume we can translate that into business. And are you too soon or are you just in time? I used to have a mentor of mine that used to always tell me, Bernadette, it's just not the right time. Not the right time. And he was right, 'cause then a few months later, I even got a better, bigger thing. Why is it important to trust your intuition when it comes to making decisions in your career and your business? And she had a few other things. I left you with 3 just so you didn't kind of go woo-woo on us. So your rich question that I want you to be thinking about and be grounded in while we're having this conversation, and most likely Catherine, our guest, is gonna answer your question, At the same time, if she doesn't, then that's why Facebook and Twitter and Deborah are there, okay? So be sure you're putting them out there because we will get them as soon as Deborah joins in with us. Okay, so your rich question for today is, what is it about your intuition or gut that you really don't trust in using it to make decisions and things? So what is it about it? Maybe you just don't understand it. And that's why we have experts like Katherine with us today. So what is it about your gut that you need to maybe learn more about in order to trust it as you go make decisions? So hashtag with us. So your hashtag is #intuition, #success, or #shedthebitch, okay? So we're gonna take a brief break, and when we come back, you're gonna meet our awesome guest who is also in studio, as I mentioned. So you're going to be able to also see us as soon as the program's over. We'll make sure it's up on YouTube, and you can go to Shedding the Bitch on YouTube or sheddingthebitch.com or Katherine Kerrigan, which I'll give you all the information regarding her, and you'll be able to view it, see our lovely faces. Smile pretty. And then also share it with friends as well, all right? So we will be back in a minute 21 to dive into this conversation. We'll be right back.

You are listening to Shedding the Bitch Radio with Bernadette Boas. We are inspiring individuals around the globe to discover, confront, and shed their bitches of fear, insecurity, and negativity so they can create the riches in their career, business, and life they deserve. Be sure to check out Bernadette Boas' book, Shedding the Corporate Bitch: Shifting from Bitch to Rich in Life and Business, available on Amazon and sheddingthebitch.com. We also want to thank our sponsors, TSR Consulting, who offers a broad range of tax services for small to corporate size clients. Go to TSRConsulting.com to learn more. And Parker House Virtual Services, who provides virtual assistants and social media support for small to medium-sized businesses. Email Deborah Parker at deborahparker78@gmail.com for more information. To become a sponsor or advertiser on our program, email us at mediarelations@sheddingthebitch.com. Shedding the Bitch Radio airs every Tuesday at noon Eastern time. Be sure to go to blogtalkradio.com/sheddingthebitchradio and follow the program for all of the updates and announcements of our guests and show topics. Now let's return to Bernadette and Shedding the Bitch Radio.

Welcome back everyone, we are talking intuition and gut. I love this topic because we all have it and it's a matter of whether or not you listen to it or not. And I tend to tap into it I just don't listen all the time. So our guest is going to help us really understand, uh, what we should be listening for, what it's all about, all that kind of good stuff. So Katherine Carrigan is a medical intuitive healer and author of 5 books, including her 4 Amazon number 1 bestsellers, with 2 new books to be published very shortly, just a matter of time. In addition to working with clients all over the world as a medical intuitive healer, Katherine is also an entrepreneur. Due to her success with her books— that's a good thing— she was invited to start a company teaching entrepreneurs how to succeed in social media at whatissocialmediatoday.com. And due to her success in social media, she just launched healingjewelrystore.com. We're going to talk all about all this, where she sells Tiffany quality jewelry at affordable prices, integrating the knowledge of healing gemstones. So we definitely need to know about that. It's Christmas time, there's gifts to be had. Welcome, Katherine.

Thank you, Bernadette. I really appreciate being here. And for all you listeners out there, if you would like a free 15-minute consult, I offer all my listeners a free 15-minute consult. You can email me at Katherine with a C at KatherineKirrigan.com. Carrigan.com, or give me a ring at 678-612-8816, and I'll talk to you anywhere in the world for free for 15 minutes, and we'll see if we're right to work together.

All right, well, before we get there, and I'll be making those announcements all throughout the program, we wanna make sure we understand kind of what is it that we need to know from her, 'cause 15 minutes, you wanna max out that time, and you wanna make sure it's a good one. And we're also gonna mention her books, and all of her social media handles in order for you to be able to reach out, read the books she currently has, pay attention for the books that are coming, and then of course taking advantage of her, of her vast expertise in that 15-minute opportunity that she is offering. So before we get there to all of that, because there is a lot, help us really understand just you know, maybe from a 50,000-foot level about intuition and gut and how we could be using it in our career or business.

Okay, so first of all, there's 4 primary psychic gifts, and if you're listening, you have a soul, and your soul is always trying to communicate with you. So it's very important when you want to use your intuition that you understand how your intuition works. Now, Bernadette, you use the word gut, which is what a lot of people think of when they're thinking about intuition. Am I wrong? No, you're not. Wrong, but what you're talking about is a gift of clairsentience, which is psychic feeling. Ah, psychic feeling is when you're reading energy. So you can read the energy of a person, you can read the energy of the corporation, you could read the energy of the room. Hands-on healers who put their hands on people read the energy of an organ or a body. So people who are high in clairsentience are very good people people, they have high emotional intelligence. However, all the gifts have an upside and a downside, and the thing about being a clairsentient is that they have a very hard time differentiating between what's my energy and what's your energy.

Oh wow, that's all I would need.

Am I direct, or is it the checkout person that I just talked to?

Oh, mercy.

Right, so they get immersed in the energy and they need to learn how to differentiate. Right.

Well, and before you move on from that, because I think that's a perfect example too, that remember everybody, the energy you put out is the energy you're getting back. So obviously if someone else is sending a negative energy and you allow that in, you know, that could start a snowball, right? So you want to pay attention to your energy all the time and make sure that that energy is not affecting you. Is that right?

Well, one of the things in my book Unlimited Intuition Now that I talk about is different ways to protect your energy. And especially if you're a highly sensitive person, you may have a hard time working in a corporate environment unless you learn how to protect your energy. So in my book, I talk about cocooning, which is a way of getting in your— getting centered and learning how to protect your energy so you don't take up on other people's bad issues.

Yeah, sure, absolutely.

And I've got enough of my own, I don't need anybody else.

Exactly.

So, so it's very important if you are a very highly sensitive person that you learn how to protect your energy, how to stay out of other people's stuff. And if you're a coach, you need to learn how to do that.

Oh, I would definitely think so. Oh my God, could you imagine?

Could you imagine? Otherwise you'd be done at 8 AM. Yeah, yeah, 8 AM on Monday. So when people talk about gut feelings, they're really talking about Clairsentience, which is the feeling gift. Now the next gift, and again, all the gifts have an upside and a downside. The thing about the feeling gift is that it's a slower gift because you still have to interpret it. What does that mean? What is the, you know, the energy coming towards me? Is it going away from me? What are, you have to put words on it. Now the next gift is the gift of clairvoyance, which is the gift of psychic vision. So people who are good at clairvoyance are, these are the interior decorators, these are the artists, these these are the sculptors, these are the visionaries, the people who see ahead and are able to create what they see. Now, one of the things, again, as I said, all the gifts have an upside and a downside. So, one of the downside of being clairvoyant is that you get stuck in your picture. So, if you're clairvoyant and you've been working your whole life at the library and suddenly the library changes or closes, you may have a hard time transitioning to another line of work because you can only see yourself in this one way. Interesting. So when people are clairvoyant, one of the things that helps them is to create two pictures. Oh, I've been a librarian, but I could be really happy running a radio show like Bernadette, or I could be really happy running a dance studio. So they do really well creating two pictures so that they can get out of their stuck picture. Thinking. Now, so clairvoyance and clairsentience are slower gifts. Now, one of the things I'm always talking to my clients about is the slower gifts, the speed thing, speed is just a setting on the washing machine. It's not necessarily better, it's not necessarily worse, but when you want to use your intuition, it's very important that you understand how your intuition works, 'cause if you don't understand how your intuition works, you're gonna get confused, you're gonna get bad information, and you're gonna have trouble trusting yourself and trusting the guidance that you get. Now the next two gifts that I'm going to be talking about are faster gifts. Clairaudient are very good at writing, they're very good at channeling, they're very good at public speaking. They can just get up, open their mouth, and start talking.

Or they're just big mouths who just like, you know, need all the attention on them. I'm not speaking of anyone in particular.

Yeah, now the people who are high in clairaudience Their downside is that because they get information so, so quickly and it comes right out, one of their downsides is that they can be too blunt. They want blunt, whereas the clairsentient people who are just totally tuned into the energy and the people around them— I've never seen a clairsentient client intentionally or even inadvertently hurt someone, right? Where the clairaudient people go That shirt just does not look right. That is just so wrong. And then, you know, suddenly everyone's faces fall and, you know, other people pick up on they've just really hurt people without maybe even intending.

Right, right.

So the other downside of the clairaudient, because clairaudience is literally reception of vibration and words, is the clairaudient people frequently have trouble differentiating between what are their thoughts and what's their soul guidance. But one of the ways you can tell when you're clairaudience is— and this is very counterintuitive— is if you are thinking about something and it comes in really, really fast, that's your soul guidance. And what we're usually taught as people is we're usually given the message, slow down and think about it.

Right, right, right, right.

Slow down and think about it.

Right.

Well, if you're clairaudient and it's boom, comes in, right? That's your guidance.

Well, I'll be honest, I, um, I'll tell a lot of my clients that we'll do what's called popcorn brainstorming.

Yes.

And the first thing that comes to your mind is most likely the truth.

I agree.

Sitting at the very tip. Now, I don't study, you know, what Katherine studies here. Mine's more from practicality, from years and years and years of experience, and, you know, seeing it within myself and other people. Is that Is that what you're talking about too? Yes.

Oh, okay, cool. But the people who are clairsentient and the clairvoyant, they do need to take their time, you know, they need to like really ruminate and because they need to give themselves time to feel the energy, right, feel the energy of the situation and make sure that it's not someone else's energy, it is indeed their energy.

Exactly. Therefore, then they'll trust it and that the energy is right for them.

So it's really important that you understand what, how you're gifts work, and part of this is understanding your normal speed, right?

Max.

Yeah, whereas other people, again, the slower people, again, it's just a speed setting on the, on the, on the washing machine, but when they come to a decision, it's going to be real solid decision.

Got it.

Now the fourth gift is clear cognizance, and that's my gift. That's the gift of prophetic knowing. When you have that knowing gift, You just know stuff. I'm always laughing because sometimes people will ask me questions about stuff I frankly know nothing about. I give an example. One time a client of mine wanted to buy a house, and I was tuning into the house, and all of a sudden I started talking about the roof of the house in Colorado, which of course I'd never seen. And I was just—

and you're not in Colorado, you're here.

And I'm not in Colorado, I'm in Atlanta. And I'm talking about roofing. And I'm just laughing because I know nothing about roofing. And that's how I know it's my guidance, because I don't know anything about roofing.

Okay, so what happened?

Well, I was like, okay, well, it's an okay house, but you know, there's a problem with the roof, and you have to get that checked out, you know, before you buy it, and then make a decision about—

That is That is just so fascinating to me how people get— and you know, I do— would you say all of us have some?

Everyone has a soul.

Well, yes, that's a good point. Thank God.

I want to say to you, you have a soul. If you're listening, you have a soul, and your soul is always trying to communicate with you. And even if you're doing business, you're still having a soul experience doing business. And so the more that you learn to listen to your soul and really understand about how your soul is trying to talk to you, the more on track you can be.

Right.

And the more on purpose you can be and the more successful you can be. I mean, believe me, I use my gifts about everything. When to go shopping, psychic shopping, that's fun.

I don't go shopping, so that's not a problem. But I think it's very fascinating. And you just kind of answered a very kind of confused state of being that I was in a couple of weeks ago. I'll make it really short, but I want to see if maybe you guys can help relate as a result of this, because this is what's coming up for me as a result of this conversation. Is I went to a speaker— my Speakers Academy group. We meet on a regular basis, and it's basically, you know, to continue working and up your game and practice and all that kind of good stuff. Shout out to them. Everybody in our speaker lab. Anyway, so we did this kind of this speaking circle. Long story short, we really were just asked to get up and just be, and to also be with everybody in the room. Long story short, you had about 3 to 4 minutes to get up, and you could just stand there and look at everybody and stare at them, which is very uncomfortable to me, and/or you could just get up and tell a story, or get up and share something, whatever the case might be. Well, the next thing you know, I'm really taking taking serious the one criteria of really taking in everybody in the room. And that's really uncomfortable for me. I make great eye contact with people in meetings and speaking things, but I even explained to them in my 3 minutes how uncomfortable I was because I wasn't just using them as an audience or as a business meeting of professionals to look at, which I can stare at them all day long if it means I'm going to get a deal or if I'm going to you know, solve a problem or whatever the case might be. This was to see them, to truly see them and let them see me. And I am still working the shedding process of shedding the bitch, to shed my walls and exteriors and whatnot. But I felt them all of a sudden going, you know, away. And I heard a voice in my head just saying, trust it, just continue to trust it. And the next thing you know, I really fought back crying, although I did let a little bit come through. And one of the women in the, in the audience, they asked afterwards, there was only, uh, 12 of us in this circle. She kind of said, she said, Bernadette, I've known you for 8 years. This is the first time I've ever seen you, and I think you've seen me. And I, I felt that too. Now, is that any part of this? Because it— okay, kind of, I don't like it, but I'm gonna make a couple comments.

Okay, when you heard that voice, okay, giving you direction that was your soul speaking to you. Okay, wouldn't you agree?

I definitely totally agree. Absolutely.

Now you brought up something really else really important, which is that when we are highly stressed, you can't hear your guidance. Okay, what's happening is that when you're in fight, flight, or freeze, when you're in survival mode, your, your, your brain locks down. You go into the reptilian brain and you're not hearing your guidance. Ah, so one of the things that's really important in order to get your guidance is that you be open. You be open. So what you were practicing with those ladies was you were being open, right? You're being open to yourself, you're being open to them, you're being open to whatever was going on in that moment.

It's true, it's very true. Okay, very uncomfortable.

One of my clients that I worked with for many years, she does leadership training with horses.

She uses horses and works with executives and teaches them how to be better leaders. Very cool.

So she developed this personality test for— and I did it. She said, please do this for me. It was like 99% open. So because to use your intuition— and people pay me $150 an hour from all over the world to like read what is— you have to be open to what is, and you have to be be okay with what is.

Right. Interesting.

So when you want to get your guidance, if you're in fight, flight, or freeze, you're going to be in your ego mind, which is what you talk about, right? You know, that false evidence appearing real, right?

Okay.

And you're not going to be hearing your guidance, right? So you've got to get centered and be open. And be open, right?

I am trying. I work on that regularly. That is a huge element. Of everything I've been working on without knowing what it really was. I ran into Catherine. I'm so pleased I ran into Catherine walking my neighborhood. We're walking our dogs, we start, start talking. She really literally lives 5 houses away from me. We've met, we've seen each other for years, never really have talked, and it was godsend, as I call them. Um, I want to remind everyone, speaking of being open, So she's offering this 15-minute free consult with her. Be sure you're open when you go and make that phone call to her, and not when you reach out to her and say, I want to schedule it, but that would be good too. But at the same time, make sure that you're open, right? You want, you want them coming very like not questioning or suspicious.

I can read it where, however it is. Okay, you don't need to feel any way to be open.

I still want you to be open and maximize the, the value from her because she's She's awesome. So, to get your 15-minute consult from anywhere in the world, so don't worry because we have a large Australian and Asian listenership, you can call 678-612-8816, 678-612-8816, or email Catherine at CatherineCarrigan.com. Now, I'm going to get a lot of questions about this because people ask me. The 678 is a local number. Do you use Skype or something?

Yeah, I use Skype and I use Zoom. On Skype, it's Catherine Kerrigan, all lowercase, C-A-T-H-E-R-I-G-A-N, all lowercase, Catherine Kerrigan.

And we'll get this all on our website and whatnot.

Yeah, and if you go to CatherineKerrigan.com, all that information's there. I also use Zoom video conferencing.

Great, great. All right, so now can they, because they don't wanna call you, they might email you, can they Skype you a note to you?

Absolutely. Saying the same thing?

Absolutely fabulous. So do that, do that. Then I also want to mention that you need to be following her on Twitter, and it's @CSCarrigan is her handle, C-A-R-R-I-G-A-N, CS Carrigan. And at the same time, her Facebook page is Author Catherine Carrigan. And while you're there, also go to Amazon and check her author profile page out, Catherine Carrigan, and you'll see— let me have your books, and then we got to take a short break, but then you'll— and you'll see a number of her number one bestsellers that she has out there, and you're definitely going to want to check them out. And from what I can tell, there's DVDs and there's, um, paperback. So whether you like to listen or you like to read, um, she's got all the options for you. All right, so we're gonna take a short break. We're gonna come back, and when we do, we're gonna really dive further into then how do you use your intuition in your business and/or your career to make decisions and all that kind of good stuff. Alright, we'll be right back.

You are listening to Shedding the Bitch Radio with Bernadette Boas. We are inspiring individuals around the globe to discover, confront, and shed their bitches of fear, insecurity, and negativity so they can create the riches in their career, business, and life they deserve. Be sure to check out Bernadette Bernadette's book, Shedding the Corporate Bitch: Shifting from Bitch to Rich in Life and Business, available on Amazon and sheddingthebitch.com. We also want to thank our sponsors, TSR Consulting, who offers a broad range of tax services for small to corporate-sized clients. Go to TSRConsulting.com to learn more. And Parker House Virtual Services, who provides virtual assistance and social media support for small to medium-sized businesses. Email Deborah Parker at deborahparker78@gmail.com for more information. To become a sponsor or advertiser on our program, email us at mediarelations@sheddingthebitch.com. Shedding the Bitch Radio airs every Tuesday at noon Eastern time. Be sure to go to blogtalkradio.com/sheddingthebitch Shedding the Bitch Radio and follow the program for all of the updates and announcements of our guests and show topics. Now let's return to Bernadette and Shedding the Bitch Radio.

Welcome back everyone, we are here with Katherine Carrigan and she is talking to us about how we can use our intuition within our business to be successful, help us make decisions, and help us do all those kind of things. I'm going to steal this from you. Alright, so how can our listeners use their intuition in order to read the energy in a room?

Okay, so let's say you've got a meeting coming up, and let's say you've never been to the place where the meeting's been held. Maybe you've never even met the people that you are going to have a meeting with. So part of what you need to do in order to use your intuition well is focus. So what I do is I focus on the place where I'm going to have the meeting, and what I do is I project my energy into that space. Okay, so the first thing I might do is feel the energy of the space.

Your desired energy?

No, I'm reading what is.

Okay. Oh, what is.

I'm reading what is. Okay, so let's say that, let's say I Well, I'll give you a good example. Years ago, I was in Charleston with my mother in June when it's really hot. It was 100 degrees out, very hot, and, but my mother and I had tickets for the theater that night. So I was trying to decide what do I need to wear to the theater. What I did was I projected my energy into the theater, and what I figured out was that it was going to be quite cold. So what I did was, even though it was 100 degrees out, I wore long white jeans, a jacket, and a shawl, and I got to the theater and it was freezing. So one of the things you can do to read the energy in the room beforehand, you project your energy, you focus on the meeting, and you start by maybe feeling the energy of the room, feeling the energy of the people who are there. Now the reason I talk First about feeling, the clairsentient gift, is that the feeling gift is frequently the easiest gift for most people, the average person, to open up. Okay. So then I might use my clairvoyance and I might say a little prayer and ask to be shown images or symbols of anything I might need to know about that meeting. Now, the thing about an image or a symbol, it could be an object from nature. For example, you might see a hawk flying overhead or a feather lying on the street. So when you get that symbol, you still have to interpret it. And another thing you can do is say a little prayer and ask your guides, because you're, you're still a spiritual person having a business experience, to let you know anything you need to know about that meeting. Ahead of time. So you may suddenly know things, you may hear things. It's like, remember to bring your raincoat, or watch out for this person, you know, this person's really angry, this person's really upset. But basically, in a nutshell, you get centered, you project your energy, you focus, you say a prayer, and you ask to your angel guides to let you know anything you need to know ahead of time about the meeting so that you can be prepared. And it's very, very helpful so that that way when you get there, you know what to expect.

Right.

You know, you're prepared on all levels and you're not surprised by what comes up.

Well, that's the key thing. It may not happen the way you heard or felt, but yet you're prepared to respond to it.

Yes.

So that's the real practical—

way to use your intuition in business.

And okay, so I'm going to translate that to, say you're going into a meeting to go over your performance review or ask for a raise or a promotion or to go into a meeting where you're not comfortable. I work with a lot of customers, a lot of my clients, they're going up the corporate ladder and as they're going up they're getting a little bit more and more intimidated by the the level of people that are around them, and so that would be good. A conference or maybe even a social outing. So I deal with some people that aren't really good with small talk, so they want to, you know, they feel uncomfortable in social settings with, especially in the business environment, so they could use that prior to going into that.

Interesting.

Yeah, very interesting.

So if you go into a room and you don't know anyone, Well, then just say a little prayer and ask your guides to direct you to the people that you most need to meet.

Right, okay, that's right. Actually, for all you business owners, you know I always talk about having a goal for everything that you do. So when you go into a business meeting or a social setting, state that goal, and then, yeah, who do I need to meet? Who do I need to meet today?

Yeah, and again, you may not know. Maybe it's something— they have a piece of information for for you, right? Maybe it's an opportunity, maybe it's a warning, right?

But just maybe it's a love up. Yeah, maybe it's a love up.

Exactly.

You know, direct me to who I need to meet right now.

And I also want to say, because, you know, although I've learned meditation and I am Christian and I'm very faith-based and I go to church, a lot of our listeners are not. So prayers, look at them in any way you want. If it's an affirmation, if it's just a statement. So don't get all like wigged out if we're talking you know, saying a prayer. It's really going inward, and even if you don't believe in a higher being of any kind, define it the way you want it. I think what her point— Catherine's point is just talk to yourself and kind of ask for what it is that you want the universe to create. Yeah, what we want to do is get our ego out of the way. Now, I have a—

I did a tap at Brown University. I have a high level of education, but we have to acknowledge and humbly admit that there's a limit to what you know. —right, yeah, there's a limit to what I can know. However, if I ask for guidance, I can be directed at a much higher level, right?

I mean, and it's a— all these, these 4 primary psychic gifts that you're talking about, since they're part of us, we might as well use them. Absolutely. As opposed to just kind of like not wanting to pay attention to it, you know. But I'll be honest with you, and many of my listeners are kind of very staunch to professionals like I once was. You know, if you had told me 7 years ago, I won't even go 8, which is when I left corporate, I'll go even 5. If you had told me 5 years ago that I'd be tapping into what I call my woo-woo side of me, I would have told you to go fly an effing kite. Okay, but what if it makes you more money?

No, no, no, no, I'm all on top of it now. What if it makes you more Correct.

Yeah, agree. Absolutely. And not only that, but what if it made you more like what I felt in that meeting was more connected to people, more like, yes, I was more exposed, but yet, you know what, I still was standing there, no one killed me or shot me or, you know, told me I was horrible or whatever the case might be. So why not? I always tell our listeners that, you know, we have one life to live, it goes really, really fast. So why not kind of, you know, slow down or speed up, because I don't know how to slow down, but you know, at least find the tools, find the resources, find the people that are going to make you the fullest individual that you can be, and then you can take that to your, you know, your life, your work, your career, your business, whatever the case might be.

Absolutely.

I mean, I'm still working on it. I'm, you know, I'm thinking I'm going to be working on until the day they nail me in a coffin and stick me in the dirt. I want to always be growing and learning and—

Okay, well, here's another way of looking about this. Okay, you're going to go on a trip. You can take a VW bus or you can take the Ferrari. So the way I think about my intuition is that it allows me to take the Ferrari. Why not? And again, I've written 4 Amazon number 1 bestsellers. My new book should be out today tomorrow.

Sweet.

So again, you use these gifts for everything. This is practical, right?

It's highly practical, right? Okay, and remember, Katherine Kerrigan, and she's offered you a 15-minute free consult from anywhere in the world. You can, and especially for our large global audience, you can even Skype with her to say that you want this 15-minute So you can Skype with her to Catherine Carrigan, and then you can email her at Catherine— Catherine@catherinecarrigan.com. You can go to just CatherineCarrigan.com and get all the friggin' information that you want, and you'll see all of her books and all kinds of great resources and information. And she also allows you to call her at 678-881-6 if you are local in the US. And want to reach out to her that way. But you can also make sure you're following her on Twitter. She's @CFKerrigan, and on Facebook it's Author Katherine Kerrigan. When we get back, we're going to take another short break. I'm going to kind of soothe my throat. But when we get back, we're going to actually— I wanted to learn more about her books. They are 4 of our number 1 bestsellers, so she's got a lot to say, and it's meaningful and impactful to the to the people that are leveraging those books, and then learn about the two that are coming out and how you might be able to get on a list or get notification of when they're available. Okay, so when we get back, we're going to continue talking intuition, how to use it in your career, business, and life. We'll be right back.

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Welcome back everybody. I am in studio, or I should say she's in studio with me, Katherine Carrigan, and we are talking healing and intuition and really how can you kind of tap into that when it comes to career moves, business decisions. Maybe it's even life, life questions or issues that you're having. How can you kind of really tap into that? I want to remind you to go to katherincarrigan.com and learn all about her. I want— we're gonna be talking right now about her books and a couple that are coming out, but then I really want to get into how can you get out— how can you use your intuition and what it is that we're talking about to really get out of bad deals? Maybe you've made a faux pas. I hate saying the word— well, failure I really hate, but mistakes, we all make them. But how can you kind of reverse that or make change to that? And can— how can we use both our head and our heart heart to really kind of guide us in, in our everyday life. So first off, tell us about your books. We have, we have Unlimited Intuition Now in the studio with us. We have Banish the Blues. Okay, this one, people, because this time of year is tough for people, and going into a new year is tough for people. Some of us look at it as a great opportunity for a new beginning. Others really kind of go into a shell because it's a very emotional timeframe. So check that one out. And then what else do we have over there? We have Unlimited Energy Now, and then her book, which is what we've been promoting and posting online, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness. So what are the books coming out and when can we— or where should we be going to look for that?

Amazon. So my new book, which should be out literally either today or tomorrow, is called Get Ready to Win the Game of Social Media.

Get Ready to Win the Game with Social Media, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

You know, too many of us just take everything so seriously, and you think about it like if you and I were going to play a card game, well sometimes you win, sometimes I win, but if you play the game, you're going to get better at it. Right. If you don't play the game, you're not going to get better at it.

Yeah, true.

So you got to look at social media like a game, and when you look at it like a game, sometimes you get followers, sometimes you lose followers. Sometimes people respond to what you have to say, sometimes they don't. Right. But the more that you look at it like a game and look at it just like, now I'm going to another level, now I've got another 10,000 Twitter followers, now, you know, and so on. You're going to take this game attitude. So Get Ready to Win the Game of Social Media is for people who are wanting to wrap their head around how does this work, what is the mindset that's going to actually succeed. So as you know, Bernadette, because you talk about it in Shedding the Bitch, being successful is a mindset. Absolutely. Absolutely. When you get that mindset correct, When you get your head wrapped around it properly about being successful, you can be successful at anything, right?

You have to believe that you will and that you can.

Yeah, so you can take that mindset into literally any operation and succeed. So she's preaching our—

she is— what is that term? I'm so bad with those type of things. I always try to quote people and whatnot, and I'm just horrible at it. Yeah, but she's preaching to the choir, isn't she? Yeah, because our Shed the Bitch community, we know we have to get our mindset on right. So yeah, that's why we love Kathryn Kerrigan. Yeah, she's our newfound friend and now yours.

Yeah, you've got to shed the bitch to get your intuition, right? Yeah, that's true.

That's what you talked about, is that you have to kind of like, yeah, you know, be open and get rid of all that junk in order for you to really hear. Yeah, feel. Let's say heal or feel. Yes. Vision, see, hear, and then know. Yeah, prophetic knowing.

Yeah, and even when you shed the bitch, you stop seeing things as good and bad. I know that's kind of advanced thinking.

No, no, no, no, but yeah, it's true.

And there's no bad guys and good guys, okay? You're just having an experience, right? And some people are signposts, right? Because they're really showing you what you're reflecting out in the world. Yes. Right? Because it's about what's the experience going on inside you is the experience that you're most likely going to experience. Absolutely. So when I'm in that success mindset, then I'm attracting that, I'm magnetizing that to me.

See, you know, people, every expert we have on, and I don't care if we're talking money, I don't care if we're talking mergers and acquisitions, if we're talking relationships, divorce, sex, we're talking, you know, your career. It all comes down to them always telling us that we need to have an empowered mindset in order to maximize the riches in life that we want. Thank you very much for that. All right, back to our talk about intuition and, and how to use your psychic gifts to really kind of get out of sticky situations and make really good decisions. And at the same time, remember, KatherineCarrigan.com, look up her books, go to Amazon, her author profile page will show all of her, her books and her themes of what it is that she talks about. Okay, all right. So how do you do— how does someone say they really did a major faux pas, mistake, bad deal, whatever the case might be, okay, how can they kind of get out of their own way about it?

I love talking about this because we all make make mistakes. I'll give you an example of this. Several years ago, I asked my guidance. I heard about this seminar series, and I, and I asked my guidance, should I do this? I don't ask should I questions. I don't say, can I lie down in the middle of the road? Yes. Can I eat a hot fudge sundae? Yes. I ask highest best interest question.

Say that one more time. Highest best interest. Highest best interest question.

Is it in my highest best interest to ride, lie down in the middle of the interstate? What would Is it in my highest interest to eat a hot fudge sundae? Probably not.

Oh, come on, Bernadette, you like it!

Exactly, exactly. Okay, is it in— so anyway, I asked my guidance, is it in my highest interest to take these seminars? And I got no. Did I listen to my own intuition? I'm just giving an example because we all make mistakes. We all do.

This is part of the human experience. Absolutely.

And I remember the— so I signed up anyway. I spent my money, and I remember the first seminar I did this, it was like I could have just slapped myself, right? Because I made a mistake. So mistakes are part of human experience, even those of us who are intuitive. All right, but here's how you deal with a mistake. So we have to understand, again, that even though you're doing business, and even though you're making money and being successful, you're still a soul. Having a spiritual experience. So what you do is you ask your spiritual guides, show me the way, show me the way, show me the way, how do I get out of this? I'll give you another example. I remember years ago I made a mistake in business, and when I asked my guides to show me what had happened, what I saw was a vision of myself myself and I've been walking through the forest and there was like this trap and I'd fallen into a pit. Okay? We can all relate because sometimes you feel like you're in a pit. And so what I did was I— my major power animal is a snow leopard. So I visualized myself on the back of a snow leopard and I visualized myself leaping out of the pit. So in that example, I used my visual gift and I literally envisioned myself leaping out of the situation. Okay, so, but again, to review, when you've made a mistake— not if that happens, when it happens— when you, you say a prayer and you ask your guides, however you want to call them, your angels, your spiritual guides, your guides, say, show me the way, show me the way out of this. Because sometimes things are so complicated, or again, you feel like you've fallen into a trap You can't logic your way out of it. Like, there's no logical way to get out of it. But if you ask your guides to show you the way— I mean, that's really the simplest way to ask your guides, show me the way— then you can, again, you will be led to the people, you'll be led to the opportunities.

Okay, but I'm gonna get— try to get practical about this. Yes, because again, you know, I can imagine some of my, you know, listeners just sitting there going, but how? Like, how do I do that? Because I have that question every once in a while. It's just kind of like, I'm trying, I'm really trying to be open, I'm trying to let go, I'm trying not to blah blah blah, whatever the case might be. So you said that you made this mistake, you made this mistake, you purchased the seminar program, and you Could have slapped myself. No, no, no, no. But then you said that you, um, you asked your guide for to figure out— no, you first said, is this in my highest best interest? And it said no. And you said, and it said no. When did that come? How did that come? What kind of manifested in you? Because some people are like, okay, I can sit here in a quiet room and ask this question, what am I expecting? Is it really no, or is it more like something else?

Great question. So that goes back to what we were talking about in the beginning. You have to understand how you get information. You may feel the information. So for example, if you're clairsentient, if you think about an opportunity, your own personal chi is going to sink. So if you think about doing a deal and you feel dark, you feel depressed, you feel hopeless, like, ah, you feel heavy, then it's not for you. Okay, if you think about a deal and you feel excited and drawn to it and it's exciting and invigorating, then it's a yes.

So how does one though, how does one take— because I would think I can manifest, I can manifest artificial responses. So I really want this this microphone. It's not in my best interest to have this microphone. And so I might go out there and say, is this in my best interest, my highest best interest to have this microphone? And even though it's saying no, maybe my gut, like, you know, that I get a physical. Okay. I often get physical. So you're using ClairSentiment? I use— okay. And then, um, I will kind of get a— like, I call them my God speaking moments because I'll get my hair— hairs will rise up, chill. And, um, but can I artificially manifest that because I really want this microphone, even though my true soul is saying no?

Okay, that's a great question. So my feeling is— yeah, that's okay, it's a great question. So when we have a lot of anxiety, you're not listening to I put it real, real simply, okay. So when, when you are listening deeply at the soul level to what your soul is prompting to you to do, you're going to have clear conscience. You're going to— it's just going to be like a sunny day. It's going to be clear. When you're confused, if you're confused, you're not in your goodness. One of my clients years ago who was a great businessman man who didn't consider himself to be intuitive. He said to me, Catherine, if it's not a definite yes, it's a no. So if you're thinking about something and it's not like, oh my God, I've got to do that right now, it's a no.

Ah, alright, that's a good way to do it. Yeah, that's a good way to do it.

Yeah, if it's not like, oh, I've got to run out today right now and sign up, it's like, it's a no.

Wow, we could like talk about this forever, but we have about a minute and a half left. So I'm just going to remind everyone, and we're going to have this conversation again. We're going to have her back in the studio, and remember, we're also videotaping this, so we're going to post it full interview, but we're also going to splice it up so you can kind of come back to it in bits and pieces anytime that you want to. But we'll also make sure we have Kathleen back onto the program, getting you ready maybe for 2017 as a way to just kind of Ah, let it all go. So, but I do want to remind you, she has some books coming out. She has 4, 5 already, 4 of which are bestsellers. So please go to katherinecarrigan.com, go to Amazon and look up Katherine Carrigan. You'll see her author profile and all of her books. She's offering to everyone that responds a 15-minute complimentary consult from anywhere in the world. World. So don't give up on that opportunity. So you can Skype your desire to want to schedule something with her at Katherine Kerrigan. You can email her at Katherine@KatherineKerrigan.com. You can even call her at 678-612-8816 and say, I'm very interested in your 15-minute consult, and then she'll work with you to get it scheduled. All right. I want to thank you so much.

Oh, thank you.

This has been fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. Yes. And I really appreciate the time. Thanks. So next week we're going to be kind of wrapping up the year, talking finances, but in a good way. So she's a financial therapist and she's going to help us kind of get our head on straight when it comes to our money. And we're going to be, we're going to be wrapping up the year with some goal setting We'll have Ask Bernadette the first Tuesday of January, the new year, and I just want to make sure that you guys are getting what you need in order to create the riches in life that you deserve. Alright? So be back here next Tuesday at noon Eastern time for another episode of Shedding the Bitch Radio, and a shout out to Deborah Parker out there of Parker House Virtual Services. And tap into her should you need anything from a virtual assistant and social media perspective. Alright? Everybody have a great day. We'll talk to you soon.

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