If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by choice — whether it’s small, like deciding on dinner, or big, like changing careers — this episode is your push toward clarity. Decision coach Nell Wulfhart joins hosts Erin Jensen and Bhavana Chilukuri to help untangle what’s actually keeping us stuck. From overthinking to fear of regret, this honest conversation offers practical strategies and mindset shifts to help you finally decide and move forward.
Nell shares why taking action — even imperfectly — is often better than staying in indecision, why most decisions are reversible, and how to build your decision-making muscle. You'll learn how to test your dreams in small ways and how the scariest leaps can be the most worthwhile.
In this episode:
3:13 What a decision coach actually does (and why one session is enough)
5:43 How Nell built her decisiveness—and how you can too: “Decision making is a muscle”
7:15 Why fear of regret stops us in our tracks: “The decision making business is really just the regret-minimization business”
9:08 Overthinking red flags and how to stop them: “Letting the doubt creep into your mind, you could just lose so many opportunities”
12:28 Nell’s tool for overcoming regret: “Learn to separate the decisions from the outcome”
16:01 Nell’s future exercise to help you make decisions
18:41 What to do when your dream doesn’t feel realistic right now
20:52 Why are we risk-averse?
25:00 You’ve made your decision. Now what?
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Nell offers single-session decision coaching designed to help you stop swirling in doubt and start taking action. For more information, visit her website and sign up for her newsletter.
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