Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

My gut feeling saved my life

22 Feb 2025 · 2 min

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In this personal testimony, Jason Wasser, LMFT, recounts a formative childhood experience where a mentor told him he was a natural leader who would follow his inner compass even when it contradicted the crowd. At age 15, that inner voice urged him to decline a hang‑out with his best friend Scott. Within an hour, the friends in the van were shot, and Scott was killed. Wasser describes moving through survivor’s guilt, recognizing the persistent intuitive voice, and reflecting on how that gut feeling has continued to guide him. The narrative blends vivid recollection, emotional processing, and a broader message about trusting intuition as a protective, leadership quality.

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If you do what they do, you're going to have what they have. You told me you want to be like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. They don't do that. And so he let me sit in it. And then obviously, this is a beautiful psychological trick because my 11-year-old consciousness said, no, I don't choose it. And then he said to me, and this is still, it's still Rings true. He said, you're a leader, and you're such a leader that if everybody else is going left but something in you says go right, you'll do it anyway. Now I know you're going to be a boy. I know you're going to do stupid stuff, but you're such a leader that if something does not feel right, you will not go into it. Well, that was 11 when he said that to me. At 15, my best friend Scott called me to hang out. And do what we always did. And something in me said, don't go. And my buddy was like, oh, you're gonna be a little beep? And I'm like, yeah, man, I'm chilling tonight. He's like, all right, I got shotgun then. Well, we hung up the phone, and within one single hour of me hanging up that phone, everybody in that van, blue 1997 Astro van, Everybody in there was shot, and Scott was shot in the head and died. And so after I moved through the survivor's guilt and all the other stuff that was there for me, I started to realize that that voice, that intuitive hit, was always there.