Dave KashenStartup CEO Coach / 2x founder

The Whole Body Yes #consciousness #psychology #mindset

12 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A introduces the Conscious Leadership Group’s “whole body yes” framework, which suggests that genuine agreement arises when the mind (head), emotions (heart), and intuition (gut) all align. While emphasizing that intellectual analysis should not be dismissed, the speaker argues that seasoned human investors often rely on a subtle, subconscious pattern‑recognition that surfaces as gut feeling. This intuition complements rigorous due‑diligence and, if ignored, can be a missed opportunity. The conversation contrasts this human element with purely quantitative, algorithmic investing, noting that the latter may eventually dominate but currently human intuition remains a valuable component of successful investing.

There's a notion from the Conscious Leadership Group of a whole body yes, which the way they describe it is like your head says yes and your heart says yes and your gut says yes.
Mm-hmm.
So, I think that might be just a nice clean way to think about it. It's not that you ignore your intellect that says no, right? If your intellect is like, this is a bad company, I shouldn't invest in it. Unless for some reason you have this really strong gut feeling that you should, then if you talk to any any investor who's been investing for a long time successfully, they will tell you there is unless it's a purely quant algorithmic and I'm sure more and more that'll happen with AI. But human investors, there is some intuition, there is some gut feel. Everyone that I've heard speak about it, it's like yes, you have to do your work, but also there's some. Like there's some, maybe it's just subtle pattern recognition that's just too subconscious for us to understand, but it manifests as an intuition, a feeling. And so I think we ignore that at our peril.