Clean Your F*cking House B*tch
Our minds are like houses. When they're new, they're empty. As we live our lives we acquire treasures that eventually turn into shit that creates clutter. Some of this stuff is useful, while some of it is simply junk which just creates obstacles for us. What if we could eliminate the nonsense we don't need, and create more room for useful things? Join us on this podcast where we discuss removing what we don't need, implementing beneficial changes to our minds, bodies and souls, to create a life of abundance and fulfillment.
Clean Your F*cking House B*tch
Ep. 114 - How Intuition, Gut Health, And Simplicity Sharpen Your Judgment
A quiet nudge, a tightness in your stomach, a question you can’t shake—those moments aren’t magic tricks. They’re signals. We explore how intuition actually works, why it often shows up as a bodily sensation before a thought, and how to tell the difference between a clear internal no and plain old fear. Nancy shares a recent “interview” that arrived via chat-only messages and stacked up red flags, and we turn that story into a practical checklist for staying open to opportunity without getting played.
We dig into the gut-brain axis and the role diet and stress have in shaping judgment. When your digestive system is overloaded with processed food and your mind is cluttered with noise, subtle patterns get drowned out. On the flip side, when you simplify inputs—cleaner meals, calmer routines, less visual clutter—discernment gets faster and cleaner. We also talk about the skills we lose to routine and constant stimulation, and how simple practices like slow nasal breathing, short meditations, cold exposure, long walks, and better sleep bring your sixth sense back online.
This conversation is grounded, not mystical. Verify recruiters on LinkedIn. Question chat-only interviews. Tally red flags without assuming bad intent. Declutter one room and notice how your breath changes. Pause before major decisions and act from calm instead of urgency. The throughline is simple: clean your mind, body, and home, and you’ll hear your intuition more clearly—and trust it when it matters.
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Hello and welcome to Clean Your Fucking House, bitch, with Nancy, Kevin, and Lou. In our program, we get real about the challenges of life and living. Your mind is the most powerful tool you have to ensure you are on your desired path for success and satisfaction. Yet, from the day you are born, you gradually and subconsciously fill it with tons of useless shit that gets in your way. Why is that? How can you clean that mess up? We'll show you how. Get ready to clean your fucking house.
SPEAKER_01:Hi everybody. Thanks for joining us for another episode of Clean Your Fucking House. Today we're talking about the idea of intuition, um, having awareness to the cues, listening, because intuition doesn't always come from the inside. There's external cues and then trusting. So this surface because I had a situation, I would call crazy situation, but um surface this week and that a scam was um in front of me where I could have shared information and regretted it. But I was aware, I was listening to the cues, and then I trusted my inner self because people around me were excited about the opportunities that existed in this situation, and I had to still listen to myself and trust that it was the right thing to step back. So that may feel ominous. Um, I'll answer whatever questions the boys have and we'll go from there.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I just you know, it's when I think of that word, first of all, it's funny, like the history behind it, at least with my own upbringing, had always been women's intuition. And I remember growing up always thinking, oh, women have a magical power. Like it just seemed I love that. That yeah, the rest the other gender does not. And it It's true. And it, you know, there seems to be a grain of truth to that in many ways. I'm like, is it that you know, uh more often than not, women are more guarded or more car, whatever the case may be. But you know, I just thought funny side note there how for many years of my life, I don't know at what point I finally realized, wait a minute. You too can have everyone can have yeah, intuition. But what I I guess really stuck out about the whole thing is is merely that uh and I think you use the word gut, maybe. I'm not sure if you you did say that, but something in your gut, yeah, just doesn't it and it's weird how you know it's a unique feeling, it's not fear, sadness, just it's like not the other ones that we all feel. It's a unique, I mean it could be fear in some ways, like especially if you were to slip and give that information all of a sudden shit. But it it's just a different kind of feeling, it's its own thing. So it almost feels like uh maybe a sixth sense.
SPEAKER_01:You're so right. Like, as you say that, I'm realizing it was uh a different kind of feeling. It was just a questioning, like what is this real? Could this be true? Does that make sense? Um, in a higher intensity than normal foods that we go through day to day.
SPEAKER_03:And certainly not the ones we typically use. And in the case that you shared, you couldn't because it was a virtual setting. So smell, taste, certainly sight could be part of it, but it again, it's it's a it's a sensation or a feeling that isn't one of the usual ones. It's it's just its own thing. It's it's funny how that works.
SPEAKER_01:That's a great intuition. Oh, sorry, Kevin. That's a great intuition that you have right there.
SPEAKER_00:That I love hearing that. I was looking up the the like gut, the gut thing, like gut instinct, right? Because I was thinking about how maybe people feel or experience intuition differently. And for me, I've never really correlated it with an actual feeling in my gut area, but I guess it's like literal. Like we have 500 500 plus million neurons embedded in our gut lining. And so situation triggers sensory or emotional cues, your unconscious brain and nervous system detect patterns, those signals funnel through the gut brain axis. Your gut generates a sensation, tightness dropping, fluttering, warmth. Your conscious mind receives it as a feeling, not a thought.
SPEAKER_01:That's amazing. But that doesn't surprise me, Kevin, because right now, really, when we think about health and wellness, what's coming forward is this gut health. And you need to be kind to your gut first, and your body will follow. And I think there's so much more to it than I know and understand for sure.
SPEAKER_00:What an awesome takeaway. Because I I agree. Like a lot of the health stuff is now coming down to gut health and microbiomes and your entire environment, your digestive environment. And then you think about like I do Lou, you mentioned sixth sense, and I firmly believe that we have lost the ability through um like not practicing. Yeah, you know, and everything is so literal and physical here, but I I think we can expand even beyond that. I was actually listening to a podcast about the third eye last night, um, and it was super intriguing. It was talking about like fluoride and water. Whenever you talk about like um pineal gland calcification, the con the topic of fluoride comes up, and there's like naturally occurring fluoride and then synthetic, which I didn't even know until last night. But all of our diets and everything influences how we feel. I think most people have come to terms with that and like trying to make you know small diet, um small consumption adjustments in their diet. But what you just made me think of, Nancy, is like we lost this ability to utilize this sense that we have. And I have so many stories where I knew, like literally felt like I knew what was gonna happen, and it turned out to be correct. But through shitty eating and and horrible diet, we lose that ability, and no wonder we feel lost. If that's a sense or an ability that we are inherently supposed to have as human beings, we're just it's like going around being blind almost.
SPEAKER_01:Well, we're killing it. Like what I think very literally when you say that is the feeling of the heaviness when I eat a lot of processed foods, right? And so then my whole gut feels heavy, and that's because it's working so freaking hard to digest all the extra processed stuff that the body doesn't need to remove and get rid of so you can get the nutrient, and it's ridiculous. And so your body's sharper and more in tune when you don't eat all the extras that we don't need.
SPEAKER_03:What exactly does the gut start?
SPEAKER_01:Is this like I think it starts in your stomach? I don't know. I that's a good question.
SPEAKER_03:It's one of those words where it's not like um you know, arm, leg, where you can literally equate it to a body, an appendage or a part. Like I'm like, where does it start at the navel?
SPEAKER_01:Or I'm gonna say gut.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna say stomach, but Kevin can give us an stomach and downward, okay, all the way to the end. Okay. You know, Kevin, that the whole thing about the whole thing about us losing certain abilities always brings to mind for me the fact that I believe we're born with those abilities. And as children, and as you may have both of you, either experienced or observed, or seen in videos, whatnot, like situations with children having these experiences that adults just don't see or can't relate to. You know, I mean, uh a ghost or a spirit of somebody is probably one of the most popular um uh situations that are that I've seen depicted, but it just goes beyond that to me, in that children I think have the all of what they're born with, they may not be fully developed, but they're there. And then as you share it over time, either through diet, stressors of life, the type of conditioning that exists in society with respect to many institutions, physical activity, learning, etc. It just seems like it's yeah, either an unexercised muscle or um, like the appendix, I guess it becomes not necessary or whatever the you know, yeah, atrophies. Yeah, atrophies, perfect word.
SPEAKER_01:There you go.
SPEAKER_03:And I'm like, man, it'd be so awesome to regenerate that, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah, I believe you're right. It is there for all of us, and we should be more mindful in our day-to-day experiences of what's around happening around us.
SPEAKER_03:And maybe that's where it comes up is in where it's absolutely necessary. In other words, say you're about to cross the street and you just have this feeling that a car's coming around the corner. You know, I'm sure both of you may have had something like that. Um, and you and you stop, you know, something, whatever makes you stop. And it could be any kind of situation, but those kind of things, it it just feels like it's an external force or something going on that kicks in to gear that sixth sense.
SPEAKER_01:It's weird for me because in this instance, so what this is for our listeners is that I was um approached, but through email, um, for a job interview that sounded like a great opportunity. And in the way that the interview was set up, it seemed odd to me, but I thought, well, I'll just show up and things will unfold. But in the way that it showed up, it was all going to be on Teams chat. I wasn't meeting a person, they weren't going to call me, there was no video. And this is a huge I I I didn't think of it as a red flag. I thought, okay, you need to stretch outside your comfort zone. Maybe things happen, you know, new in different ways. This was the first interview. Maybe this is how things happen these days because third parties are involved in this process. It really was a question mark for me. Um, but I decided to roll because I felt like I needed to be open to new ideas.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It's a shame though that it you you know, actors like that are really um giving a bad name to the legitimate headhunters, recruiters, and people out there who are like whenever we're approached, that you know, it doesn't even have to be a sixth sense, it's a just an immediate uh-oh, someone's approaching me. Is this legit or not? Right.
SPEAKER_00:I have no confidence in myself. No one would ever approach me.
SPEAKER_03:It's almost like we're at a point where you can't trust anything or anybody, you just always, you know.
SPEAKER_00:So that I was I was gonna ask, and that's a good segue into my question of like at what point, like, how do you know or how can you identify or prevent getting into the mindset of like things always happen to me and I gotta be on high alert all the time. And like you mentioned, the whole car thing, people live in fear of everything, right? To where they never want to get out of their comfort zone and they assume the worst of every person and every opportunity and all this stuff. It's like a slippery slope to this negative world view. And so, how do you like what are your guys' thoughts when I say all of that? And how do you differentiate?
SPEAKER_01:And it's interesting that you say that because um, in an exercise class yesterday, of course, my story was shared, and then one of the women had all this. I'm using the word panic. She might not have been that extreme, but for her son, oh my gosh, he's a college grad, he's looking for work. How's he getting no not to be? Like, how can the kids trust? She bunned, you know, really rolled with this. And it was like, wait a minute, step back. I will say two-part answer to that from one for me, there's due diligence that we all should do in things. Like, we need to be um do the checks and balances. And my check before this interview was that I did not look at this person's LinkedIn profile. Often I do, this time I didn't. And this profile had a in her about section, it had a thing that said to interview candidates. If you're approached in this way with this format, this is not me, this is a scam. And I would have read and seen that and been aware. So not to let fear win, right? Because you're exactly right. That's where people go. That's what this person did immediately. And we can't let ourselves live that way. We have to own what are the due diligences that we need to do.
SPEAKER_03:I believe it or not, I actually always give people the benefit of the doubt. Um, I don't always have that sense that someone's coming at me with a certain agenda, all that. It really depends on how it's done. And what I mean by that is just a friendly conversation with someone. I'm usually the first one that'll say hi to someone on the street. They'll look at me crazy, like, who the fuck are you talking to? You know, we're in Chicago here. You don't just say hi to people on the street. You want something. I'm the I'm the very social outgoing extroverted type that will be a dollar here.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And yeah, and that's why I think I have all the people always asking me for money. I I gave it once or twice and now they expect it every time. But the thing is, it you like Nancy, you know when the red flag goes up, and it may or may not involve a monetary thing. And what I mean by that is um on TikTok, Facebook, any of the social media platforms, there's a lot of those actors and uh with the same agenda, meaning approaching you with an opportunity, whatever the opportunity is. So, of course, you get them approaching you in first that friendly manner. Hey, how's it going? Where you from? I noticed whatever, and wanted to say hi. And it's always starts friendly, and I'll say hi. Hi, hello, back and forth. All of a sudden it says it gets to a point where it's not this obvious, but it's very close to it. For$197, if you send that to me within the next 48 hours, you'll get yada yada yada, and I'll show you how to pick the best stocks in the market, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, yeah, you kind of know what's going on here. So block. But um, it it it all it, you know, the flag goes up at some point. And then as I mentioned, not always tied to something like that. That that's a very obvious one, and you know, the even the scammers have learned not to be that obvious. But there's your gut tells you a word choice, a sentence, and I'm not even gonna say say accents. Uh-oh, it's a foreign country accent. This must be a scam. Okay, I'm not even gonna go there.
SPEAKER_01:I'll say there's legitimately people with foreign, but there's something there's well, that's funny that you say that too, because there was the the follow-up interview was a phone call, and there was, but the person didn't sound they didn't sound as educated as I would have anticipated. So you're like, this is this just the the red flags were piling up.
SPEAKER_03:Um especially if you're going for a mechanical engineering job or something.
SPEAKER_01:Well, sure, because that's what I'm doing. But again, listening and and and tallying, right? All the things all the way through. It's like, okay, that's one more thing. This is a question, and not to be judgmental, but just to be aware. We have to be aware. Because it could have been okay.
SPEAKER_03:And that's now let me ask you this because I'm like, this is my fear. You notice that the older people tend to be hit hardest by that uh thing. Is it that they lose their intuition? Is it that they just uh are overly friendly? I'm like, you know, are we gonna get to a point where our guard we just don't know? I'm like, my mom, I'm like, how the can you fall for someone? You get a phone call, someone says, Um, your child's in jail, send me 5,000 or whatever, kind of like or you're a prince. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah. But with that, right? Um, it's funny you mentioned we're just so aligned today, Lou. It's almost like intuitive. But I was reading, I was wondering, like, how can we work on on building intuition? How you know what are the limits of it? What can it do for us? And as you were saying that, I was reading that most people don't lack intuition, they're flooded with mental chatter, emotional projection, and stress response responses that drown it down. And it made me think of our fucking podcast, clean your fucking house, right? And so people that don't put in work over years and years and decades and just do all the bullshit, it's no surprise that you get, you know what I mean? Because you're just compounding it over the years and years. But if you put in the work and some of the ideas that came up freaking just eye-opening for me because I fell off some of my normal stuff, but breath work, slow nasal breathing, meditation or stillness, cold exposure, long walks were some of the ideas that came up. And I like for me right now, I'm like, okay, I fell off on a handful of those things that I used to do very, very consistently, and I need to get back on it. But it's really just clarity through calmness, right? And I think I know the three of us can relate, maybe our listeners too, but even when the world is crumbling around you and you enter this mental and emotional stillness, and then it's not this super reactivity, but this general knowing and understanding of the direction, the actions to take in that event. Like it's just you can, I don't know, you connect to it through a different means. Yeah, love that.
SPEAKER_03:You know what I picture in terms of say life's journey as you're describing the fact that we lose it by one word that comes to mind, say is routine. It just makes me think of uh the term rat race that has been, I don't know if that's still a thing that if people call it the rat race, but the you're getting on the freeway is loaded with cars going in both directions, bumper to bumper, just this, and you may have seen this in cartoons, the constant flow of traffic, north and south, say, just a very simple visual there. Your car is getting on that freeway and it just blends in with the other cars, and all of a sudden you're stuck in that flow, and then you go through life and forget to either get off or forget to pull over, take a break, forget to pull into a rest stop, whatever the case may be. And I know some folks may uh it may be a stretch for them to connect these simple exercises with bringing back some of that mental clarity and sixth sense that we are now talking about here, but it is as simple as that. Just stop. I mean, literally stop and take a breath, if anything.
SPEAKER_00:I think a big one, too, that wasn't mentioned that I've been thinking about a lot for various reasons, but just the general state of your home environment. It's I'm kind of flipped upside down still from moving and fixing and all the unexpected bullshit that's popping up in our house. But when you walk into someone else's home, and like depending on the situation or environment, there's a heaviness that you can kind of feel, you know, shit's everywhere, and like worst case scenario, like a hoarder situation where there's just kind of channels like a path carved through things, right? And I feel like there's this old energy that is attached to all of that when we don't purge things we don't need or donate things, or you know, like it's so heavy. And so imagine the rat race, or you're driving, you do get off the freeway and you go home, but then you're surrounded again by things, it's like there's no space for you, there's no a like space to breathe deep. It's you know, it's just hectic. And so that would be for anyone that's listening. That you know, where do I start? You know, if your home is full of clutter, try to clean something, just chip away room by room, and just do one room at first and feel what it feels like to have that space and organization and cleanliness, and then see how you feel go from there, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, simplicity really is a great de stressor. I know the more I collect, the more that's cluttered.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that just adds to stress and uh and then moving too is like IO, like all the things that like we had a lot in storage, and we're I'm like, oh, I forgot like some of it's cool, like pictures or whatever, right? Like artwork or something that we bought in a different country or whatever. Then some of it's like I've been living for years without this shit. I don't need that, you know what I mean? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and in general, when we think about it, a hundred years from now, we'll all be gone, all of this material stuff, you know. What is it really about? Yeah, we're all gonna die. Yeah, I mean, the whole aspect of just collecting material things has always been uh for me, uh you know, I don't I don't that's how I choose to live my life is I don't choose to have I I never went down a path, and could I have maybe, you know, I don't know. It's possible, anything is possible for any of us, but going down a path of wanting to be you, you know, multimillionaire and have boats and houses and all this kind of stuff. For me, it's just about living a full life. But you know, so and and that doesn't necessarily equate to clutter, but it just um it can when you it can.
SPEAKER_01:It can, because then there's the pressure of like if you have a boat, you need to use it and you have to store it and you have to have things to do, you know, with it. And like I know someone with a motorhome, I always call it a motorhome. It's really much larger and more extravagant than that, but uh RV. And then it it it becomes a burden, it can become a burden. And so what starts as a good thing can turn into something else. And um I have generations of collectibles from you know, prior generations in my mom's side of the family. And I started to pull out and let go, and I found that I have these internal ties that I can't let go of things, and I've chosen because I need my physical space cleaned back up, and like they have to just freaking be packed back up and shoved back in the closet because I this is causing angst, but I can't seem to get rid of.
SPEAKER_00:I think part of me wonders like, and I've gone through stages where you know I was unhappy and I was correlating it with certain a certain variable in my life, whether job, relationship, whatever. And then I realized that I just wasn't where I needed to be, and I wasn't putting in the work that I required to even think clearly about things. So some of those actions I mentioned earlier would also be like a good starting point to getting yourself to a more grounded, um, more clear mindset to be able to even make big decisions. I always try not to make big, big decisions until I feel like I'm in that space. Yeah, you know, where I'm thinking because emotions are strong, right? Like it's very easy to be influenced over how you're feeling in a moment. Yeah. Um, but oftentimes, you know, oftentimes that passes pretty quickly.
SPEAKER_01:The feeling, but I love that you said that. You kind of reinforced for me another dumb situation I was in this week, I'll say.
SPEAKER_00:Oh no. Um goes, oh no.
SPEAKER_01:I um so I'm looking for work, right? And I have the opportunity to be working with a career coach. And so I'm updating my resume. Next will be my LinkedIn profile and the resume. We did this review together. I made all these updates, I sent it to this coach, they sent it back with all of these suggestions. And I was, as you were talking, I was thinking some people would have just taken those suggestions and said, you know, click, click, click, the the Google Doc does it for you. You can just accept it and it will do it. And and I saved it overnight. Like I could have just taken it when I first saw it and just checked them all off and accepted them. I had to wait until my mind was clear in a space where I could read what I was editing, follow it, feel aligned. And you made me feel better about that, Kevin, just because that's my clear mind time and space to be okay with the decisions I'm making and not just feel like I have to do it because it's in front of me at the moment.
SPEAKER_00:That's awesome. I mean, I've got to two wins on the week.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Got yourself out of two sticky situations.
SPEAKER_01:All right, we'll call them wins.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Ta-da. You're ta-da list.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I love that the how-to really just brought it back to the things that we're grounded in and know every time that we always come back to. Like having awareness, but giving yourself if you don't like but you feel something to just do, take a deep breath. Give yourself a moment to think. I I we could all do those things more on the regular, we'd be more at ease every day.
SPEAKER_03:And we certainly need that break now and then. I mean, just again, not being stuck on that highway of routine and mindless thinking, or uh, you know, just going through the motions. Yeah. Let's bring back some of that intuition, shall we? Well, okay. So Nancy shared with us a couple of great wins, and uh we're very happy that she was able to get through that recent uh situation using her woman's intuition. Uh, we hope we hope you all enjoyed this particular episode. Uh, we really enjoy coming up with these topics. Um, sometimes they're a little bit just generated off the cuff, but that's you know the best way to do it, I think. In any event, we hope you will join us for our next episode. Bye for now.