Part 3: What Makes Me Different From a Robot?

Our bodies hold intelligence that machines can’t mimic. 

And yet, that doesn’t mean we always follow it…

Years ago, when I was an assistant coach at Northeastern, I applied for a job at another university without telling my head coach.

On paper, it felt like a smart move, and I justified it six ways from Sunday. It was strategic, sensible, no big deal.

But something felt off, even before the head coach of the other school called my boss directly.

My coach approached me gently, but honestly: it didn’t reflect well that I hadn’t said anything to him before applying.

And in that moment, I felt it – I had ignored the wisdom that my body was trying to share with me. 

This is why I teach my clients to understand and access the three “brains” of the body – the full system of somatic knowing that underpins embodied leadership.

The head: logic, language, analysis

The heart: emotion, values, connection

The gut: instinct, intuition, boundary

We like to believe we’re thinking creatures who sometimes feel. But in truth, we’re feeling creatures who happen to think (occasionally and often in retrospect).

There’s a measurable delay (up to 7 seconds!) between when your body initiates a decision and when your conscious mind catches up. Meanwhile, the vagus nerve carries more data from your body up to your brain than the other way around.

This is what makes human intelligence different from artificial intelligence.

AI can ask good questions: “What does your gut say?” “What would your heart choose?”

But it cannot feel the answer for you. It cannot metabolize contradiction. It cannot navigate the lived tension of head, heart, and gut pulling in different directions, and still make an integrated, soul-aligned choice.

When a client tells me, “I don’t know what my gut is saying,” I often ask them to notice what they’re subtly arguing for. What they’re trying to get me (or someone else) to validate. What outcome they’re quietly hoping for.

Because your gut has a way of speaking even when you’re convinced you’ve silenced it.

Like Amy Schumer says: you choose the friend you want to call based on the advice you want to hear – which means, deep down, you already know what you want.

The real question becomes: What part of you is asking? And what part already knows?

If you’re standing at a career crossroads, trying to make a decision that looks logical on paper but doesn’t feel quite right, pause for a moment.

Get still. Listen deeper. Your body already knows.

Only you can sense what’s right – and that’s exactly why your humanness is the greatest intelligence you have.

If you’re navigating a decision that looks good on paper but doesn’t sit quite right in your body, that’s where my work begins.

In 1:1 coaching, I guide high-achieving professionals back to the kind of intelligence no machine can replicate – your own. Using the Embodied Intelligence Method™, we access the clarity that lives in your system already, so your next move isn’t just strategic, but deeply self-honoring.

Feel the difference of a decision that’s aligned from the inside out.

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