Re the person who wanted to become a speaker: I don’t think intuition was involved here. She honestly didn’t know about the field. You are right: she might have been able to develop a local speaking and training business. It’s not easy because organizations keep wanting new and different speakers. She could certainly try.

An intuitive decision is generated by the human subconscious mind only to arrive at conclusions that are strictly designed to benefit the person ONLY. The key is that the rational mind has no involvement in intuitive decisions, whatsoever. Intuitive decisions cannot be explained or justified. They just happen. But they are virtually always the right decisions for the person. But others frequently dislike them.

Gavin DeBecker said it best. “Human beings are the only mammals that will override their own god given self-preserving instincts.”

The premise of career coaching is that humans cannot really see or understand themselves. Just like humans cannot see their own face. The coach provides a clear accurate, non-judgmental mirror into the five core ingredients that make up who we are. Once a person discovers these core ingredients through coaching, then the person will have the understanding and purpose to go out and gather the additional outside information he or she wants to complete their decision process. But random information or advice without the clear knowledge of deep purpose gained only through intuition is valueless.

Even your example about the parent who wanted to become a speaker, but her intuitive choice told her not to leave her surrounding area supports the intuitive decision process. You contended that she needed to get information from other speakers to realize her restrictions. Why? Those are the rules and conditions created by others, which restrict her intuitive decision. She could certainly create her own conditions to speak only in her chosen area, by creating her own different local culture to meet her own intuitive standards.