WITH ANDREA CRISP
How To Trust Your Intuition
AND DISCERN YOUR SOUL’S CALLING
Have you been feeling a quiet nudge that something in your life is ready to shift—but you can’t quite explain what it is or where it’s leading?
In part two of The Call series, Andrea explores the relationship between intuition, discernment, nervous-system safety, and soul alignment. This episode is for the woman who senses that there is more available to her—in her relationships, work, business, or inner life—and is ready to listen more closely to the wisdom already within her.
IN THIS EPISODE
Andrea shares why an intuitive nudge is not always an immediate instruction to act. Intuition may offer the insight, but discernment helps us understand whether that insight is ours to follow, how it applies to our lives, and when it is time to move.
She also explores how conditioning can make it difficult to trust ourselves. The expectations we inherit from family, school, culture, faith, and past relationships can sound like truth—even when they do not reflect who we are or what we genuinely desire.
Through the lens of Human Design, Andrea invites you to become more familiar with your unique strategy and authority, so you can make decisions with greater clarity, confidence, and alignment.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
The difference between receiving an intuitive nudge and discerning what it means for you
How old conditioning and approval-seeking can disconnect you from your own truth
Why your nervous system may resist an aligned change simply because it feels unfamiliar
How creating safety in the body supports clearer, more grounded decision-making
How Human Design can help you understand your unique way of accessing inner knowing
Why you may not need more information—you may simply need more space to listen
A NOTE ON INTUITION AND DISCERNMENT
We often think trusting intuition means acting immediately on every thought, feeling, sign, or “download” that comes through. But intuition and discernment are distinct—and both matter.
Intuition can bring a sense of knowing, a gentle nudge, or an awareness that something is shifting. Discernment asks: Is this true for me? Is this mine to act on? Is now the right time? Do I have the energy and capacity to move with it?
When you allow yourself to pause, ground, and listen without rushing into action, you make space for a deeper kind of self-trust to emerge.
RELEASING WHAT IS NOT YOURS
Many of us were taught, directly or indirectly, that there is a prescribed way to live, work, relate, or succeed. We may have learned to seek approval before making a choice, follow the path others expect of us, or silence the truth that feels most alive within us.
Part of returning to your calling is gently recognizing what you have outgrown. It is allowing yourself to ask: Is this truly my belief, my desire, and my way forward—or is it something I learned to carry?
Deconditioning is not about rejecting your past. It is about meeting yourself honestly in the present and making room for the life that is asking to be lived through you.
THE ROLE OF YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
Change can feel uncomfortable even when it is deeply aligned. Your nervous system is designed to seek familiarity and may interpret a new way of being as unsafe simply because it is different.
As you begin to make choices rooted in your own truth, it can help to slow down and create safety in your body. This may look like taking a breath before responding, giving yourself time to feel into a decision, resting, journaling, or coming back to the question: What feels grounded and true for me right now?
You do not need to force certainty. You can build trust with yourself one aligned choice at a time.
CONTINUE THE SERIES
This is part two of The Call, a three-part series exploring the inner knowing that guides us back to our soul’s purpose, truth, and alignment.
In the next episode, Andrea shares how to move forward with courageous boldness when you know your soul is calling you into something new.
SOUL REFLECTION
Where in your life are you looking for more proof, permission, or outside validation?
What might become possible if you gave yourself quiet space to listen to what you already know?
ABOUT ANDREA
Andrea Crisp is a certified coach, author, and guide supporting intuitive women in reconnecting with their inner knowing so they can live, lead, and create from a place of deep alignment.
Her work weaves together nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, mindset, and energetic practices—creating space for women to expand into greater ease, clarity, self-trust, and authentic expression.
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PRODUCTION
Original Music and Production By Stephen Crilly
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I'm really excited about today's episode because we're beginning a three-part series about
something that I think so many of us experience, whether it's in your life or in your business or
just really in the impact that you want to make in your life. And we don't always have the wording
for it, but it's what I refer to as the call. And the call is the inner knowing that there is
something in your life that you are made for. There is something that you are created for here on
this earth, your soul's purpose. And you may be in this place in your own life where you feel like
something is shifting. And there is this feeling that there is definitely more for you,
more in your life, more in your business, more in the expansion that you know is happening.
And there is this nudge, this divine nudge that maybe you can't always explain,
but you know, you definitely can't ignore. And I know this call because it is something that I've
experienced in my life. It is something that I continue to return to. And it is also something that
I am living right now. And it feels very, very true to me.
Now, there are things in my own life and business that are shifting, that are changing, that I'm
evolving. Some of it's because I'm growing personally. Some of it is because I feel like I'm
returning more to the essence of who I am and how I was created to do this business and maybe got
lost along the way. And I see the things that I'm doing changing. And sometimes it's a bit scary,
but I know that I want to live and I want to create from a place of soul alignment.
And I want to share with you some of these changes, not just because I feel like,
you know, I have to share everything that's going on, but because I really feel called to express
myself in a new way. So over the next few episodes. We're going to explore what it actually means
to be called. And yes, I do believe that we all have a calling.
We all have a sole purpose. And in the first episode, we're going to talk about what happens when
you feel like you hear the call. Maybe this is something that you've not experienced yet. Maybe
this is something that you felt has been very significant in your life the whole way along.
For me, I felt called many, many years ago and the iterations of my soul calling have been
different, but we're going to talk about when we feel called, how it shows up, why we resist it.
and how we can start to recognize the moments when our soul is really trying to get our attention.
It's that God nudge. It's that little bit of discernment that is like pointing us in a different
direction. In the second episode, we're going to talk about how to discern that call and how to
really lean into our intuition, how to know if we're in that fear space or if it's that we're just
been so conditioned to do life. business a certain way. And perhaps why we might not want to lean
into that divine guidance and how we can lean more into it. And then in the final episode,
we're going to talk about what it takes to actually answer that call. Because hearing it is one
thing, knowing it is another, but actually having the courage to really pursue your soul calling,
to really move into that calling is something that I feel that sometimes takes a lifetime.
but how can we start to move that along faster? And of course, I'm going to weave in spirituality,
better human design, my own life experience into this conversation, because I believe that these
things give us an opportunity to understand how we're uniquely meant to move through life,
how we can co-create the things that we desire, how we can make decisions, how we can trust
ourselves, and how we can trust God. But ultimately,
For me, this conversation goes much, much deeper than just human design.
It's really about my soul's calling and the evolution that I have gone through to get where I am
today and about the trust that I've had to lean into, not just in myself,
but into God and in listening to that divine wisdom. and about being able to truly follow the path
that's unfolding for me. And hopefully this inspires you and encourages you to take those steps
when you cannot see what the path looks like before you and it feels very uncertain and very
unknown. So if you've been feeling that something is shifting in your life, if you've been sensing
that you are called to something that feels really beautiful but maybe even a bit scary then i know
exactly how you are feeling and i just want to say that i'm so excited to walk along this journey
with you so we're in this series called the call and i hope that it inspires you to really lean in
to your soul's purpose. Welcome to the Soul Aligned Podcast. My name is Andrea Crisp. I'm a coach,
author, and guide, and I support intuitive women in reconnecting with their inner knowing so they
can live, lead, and create from a place of deep soul alignment. My path has been one of unraveling,
of releasing old identities, healing patterns, and learning to trust the wisdom within.
This space is an invitation to return to yourself, to explore the inner work, the nervous system,
the energetic shifts that allow your life to unfold with more ease, clarity, and truth. So let's
take a breath and begin. Hello, friend. I'm so glad that you are joining me for this first episode
in the series called The Call. And this series really was born out of something that I feel has
been really coming forth in my own life, coming forward for me. And it's really kind of going back
to the calling. that i feel on my life and what that looks like and i want to share from a place
that you know as i'm living it out you know in real time the term call may be something that you're
familiar with. Maybe you grew up in an environment where you heard words like that being used. Of
course, I grew up in a church context. And so for me, we really heard about a calling being
something that was God given, you know, something that we really leaned into. Now just to jump
right in the call that we all feel on our lives can feel very different. And it doesn't necessarily
have to show up one way or another, it can show up when you're a kid, it can show up when you're a
teenager or in your twenties, thirties, forties, doesn't really matter when it shows up. But the
truth of the matter is, is I really believe that we all have a soul's calling.
A reason why we're put here on the earth is to fulfill that soul calling.
Now it doesn't always show up as this like lightning bolt, you know, all of a sudden one day you
just know what your calling is, but sometimes it does. Sometimes it just shows up.
And you have this like instant knowing that there is something more for you and you feel like you
know exactly what that looks like. And for me, there were definitely those moments in my life where
I felt a call. to move in a certain direction. And I felt a call that really I have come back to
over and over again. And even when I've just gone off course, I seem to always come back to my
call. And that's something that I'm feeling right now in my own life. Now, if I back up.
you know, the many years that I have been in the coaching industry. It has been since,
oh gosh, like 2011 is when I actually got certified as a coach, but in 2014 is when I really
launched my business full time. So it has been a long journey for me and has been many twists and
turns along the way. And if you've listened to the podcast for any length of time, and you know
that this podcast first started as the Courage Cast and then became the Soul Aligned Podcast,
you'll know that I've had so many different things shift and evolve in my own life from a major
faith deconstruction to really coming back to a place of really trying to understand how
spirituality and God and faith worked, you know, in tandem with the work that I'm doing.
And this is still something that is a work in progress for me but the call has always been the same
for me. And something that I have felt has really been something that's like a through line for me.
It has helped me when I have felt like I'm not sure what to do. It has helped me when I'm
wondering, why am I doing this? Why am I continuing to pursue this work?
And it really is about understanding and discerning the call on my life. Now,
maybe for you, it shows up as like this inner knowing, this like whisper that feels really
congruent to the life that you're leading. Maybe it is in this like knowing that something has to
change or shift in your life and you feel like, okay, I'm moving and I'm shifting paths.
It comes in many different ways and we definitely do not have to have it all figured out. I think
if we did have it all figured out, then what would be the point of being here on the earth? It is
really about being in process and being on the journey. And I really think that if you're in the
business to make an impact in the lives of others, then it is something that you really are going
to lean into. And when you are leaning into that call, like your soul's calling,
you are. going to always know to come back to that place. And I know for myself,
I felt like there was something shifting in my business back about the end of 2025.
And I had had some really beautiful programs running. I was running a five month mastermind called
Align and Empower. I was doing Aligned Money, which was a eight week program all about really
leaning into the nervous system regulation and how we can create more abundance in our lives.
And then, of course, I was doing one on one coaching and all of these things were amazing. And I
absolutely loved what I was doing, the work I was doing. But I definitely. felt like there was more
to the expansion in my business. And so I decided that I was going to take some time and I was
going to lean into what that looked like. Now, in full disclosure, this was not a linear path for
me by any stretch of the imagination, but I started to really dive into my human design and I
started to look at different things in my human design. But in the midst of that, I also...
started using chat gpt that was kind of when i started using it for my business and i'll just tell
you right off the bat I started chat GPT everything and AI became my best friend.
I was asking it questions about things that I should do in my business. Of course it had great
answers. It was telling me all of these things that were so in alignment with the work that I was
doing and I was getting really excited and I was starting to think, oh my gosh, this is definitely
the path that I want to go on. I could see how I could scale my business in new and exciting ways.
And of course I was also talking to friends who were scaling their business and doing things in
their business. And I was just feeling like, yeah, this is definitely where I'm headed and how I
need to start moving forward. And I'll just say this, as great as that was,
it was not what I was meant to do. So even though I was following that path and I was moving in
that direction and I was wanting to shift the name of the podcast, which was something that had
been well in the works at that point, and I was wanting to shift some of my offers and the way that
I worked, I was trying to follow a blueprint that was created based on what an AI knew of me.
and not in full soul alignment with who I am. So in hindsight,
what seemed like a really great idea, which was turning to chat GPT to discover how I work and what
things I needed to do to grow and evolve in my business actually ended up taking me on a path that
was really long and not where I wanted to go and very frustrating at times until I finally ended up
about eight months later back. where I had started, which was okay.
God, what is it that you want me to do? What is in alignment?
What is in soul alignment for me and my business? Now, this big shift for me happened back in June
when I attended Her Legacy Live. And it was a really beautiful full day event put on by Sarah
Lambert. Now, she had a guest speaker named Kathleen Cameron. And there was one question that she
posed to the room. specifically to me. And the question was,
what are you pretending not to know? And the answer was like,
just shot out of my mouth so fast. And it was that I know God. Now,
backing up to, you know, probably, I guess, 2020,
2021, when I started really in my faith deconstruction.
I had been a pastor, I had been a worship leader prior to that, and I had been a faith-based
coach. And when I started my own faith deconstruction, it was like almost everything that I knew no
longer was what I subscribed to. And I really was questioning so much about the faith context in
which I had grown up and the conditioning around the religious aspects of faith and around
Christianity. And so for me, I really took like a hard left when I was in about 2020,
2021, all of that. I just really had to like pivot big time in my business.
And I kind of went on a spiritual journey. Now, this felt very different for me because I had been
always faith-based and now I was kind of moving into that spiritual side and not really sure how
anything was really fitting together. And it felt clunky and it felt like, oh, how can I talk about
God when I'm not really talking about faith from a Christian perspective? And how can I talk about,
you know, our soul's purpose when I really don't know how all this works together?
And I was questioning so. many things. So I had decided to just really stop talking about it
altogether. And this was a time in my own life where I was asking so many questions.
So of course, I didn't really want to be always sharing things publicly or what I was going through
or how I was navigating life. But what never changed for me was how I felt about my relationship
with the divine. Now, the way I talked about it changed, the wording that I used changed,
but how I felt about my relationship to God really never changed.
There were many, many different things. about the theology that I no longer subscribed to,
but my own relationship to God stayed very much intact. And so I had built a business based on
helping women to connect with themselves and to connect to God. And all of a sudden I was,
you know, thinking, how in the world am I going to talk about business in this context when I'm not
talking about God anymore? And so there was a huge gap of time in which I was really unclear how I
was going to be doing this. When I got to June of this year and Kathleen Cameron asked me this
question, it really hit home for me because it. it caused me to really come back to why I started
my business to begin with and how maybe I had gotten off course or maybe I was on course the whole
time. Maybe this was part of my soul's evolution to get to this point, but basically for me to have
a better understanding of how to share God and spirituality and faith in a way that more people can
resonate with whether you come from a church background or a non-church background whether you you
subscribe to spirituality or you subscribe to something completely different and and I felt like I
was uniquely positioned to be the person to share from this place like we can have a relationship
with the divine, God, the universe, however we want to term it, and we can simultaneously be a
spiritual individual. So whether you attend church or you don't attend church,
whether you have a different faith than maybe someone else listening to this podcast,
that there will be things that resonate with you because We're talking about how your soul
evolution is here and what that soul's purpose is.
And I firmly, firmly believe that it is in connection with the divine and what.
Whatever that context looks like for you, for me, I say it's God, that our soul's purpose is really
about connecting on a greater level with God and the calling that is on our lives.
And I think it's a part of your life and a part of mine as well. Now,
for me, this really means letting God lead the way and trusting that I don't have to know
everything. And I felt for such a long time that I absolutely had to know everything.
And now I'm like, you know what? I don't have to be perfect. I don't have to have all the answers.
I just am on a journey that is evolving and I'm evolving in the process.
And so are you. So if you are someone who has a business or you're making an impact in the world,
it is totally okay. If your soul is evolving, if you are evolving in the process,
and if you're learning to lean into your own calling. And for me,
it was about understanding that I could trust myself in a new way,
that having desires was okay, that it was okay to co-create what it is that I want and manifest
and bring into being all of the things that I really and truly desire in my life. And also to trust
my own intuitive nudges and how I am created and how we are each uniquely created to do that.
And so It's really about incorporating all of that into my life, into my relationships,
into my finances, into my business, and taking what I have learned,
taking all of those experiences, taking those soul nudges and the downloads that I get every day
from being in connection with God and being able to share that here with you.
A lot of the work that I'm really leaning into now is not only, you know,
sharing those subconscious shifts and the mindset ways in which we can,
you know, identify those old limiting beliefs and really shift them, but how we can.
can decondition from the ways in which we learned how to live life.
And a lot of that comes from human design and how we can really shift our energy and call in what
we want. And that's through manifestation and how we can lean into our faith and into that divine
God calling in a whole new way.
For me, this is really about bringing it all together and allowing myself to truly lean into the
calling that I have been here my whole life to share with you.
And I want to share something that was really interesting because it is something that I have
really seen manifest in my own life. And it's really cool because it comes from human design and
I'm going to share with you. So I'm going to look it up here on my iPhone. if you will bear with me
for a moment, but it's found in your human design chart. And for me,
it's the incarnation cross. And so my incarnation cross, this is really about where we find what
our soul's purpose is and what we're here for. And for me, my soul's purpose,
this is what it says in the neutrino app for me, your purpose is centered around your innate
ability to tap into your intuition. and perceive the truth of a situation with remarkable clarity
and immediacy. You possess a natural gift for reading people, understanding their needs and
desires, even before they are fully aware of it themselves. Your energy is highly attuned to the
intuitive realm and you may even be able to receive guidance from higher sources such as angels,
spirit guides, or the divine. Your intuitive abilities allow you to perceive the energy and
vibrations of people and situations in the moment, providing you with valuable insights and wisdom
that can guide your actions and decisions. You are here to be a source of guidance and support for
others, drawing upon your intuitive gifts to help them navigate the challenges of life with clarity
and purpose. Your direct and no nonsense approach to communication is highly valued.
as it allows you to cut through the noise and distractions of daily life to get to the heart of the
matter. For example, you might be drawn to careers in counseling, coaching,
or spiritual guidance, where your intuitive insights can help others find direction, clarity,
and through your wisdom and guidance, you can inspire others to tap into their own intuition and
live a more authentic and fulfilling life. Now that is my incarnation cross.
And I'll tell you what, when I... that I was like oh my gosh this gives words to what I have been
feeling and what I have been experiencing. and it really opened me up in a whole new way because
this was my call. This is the calling that I have on my life. Now,
it showed up well before I read that. It showed up in ways when I was a 15-year-old,
and I felt this call on my life to help other people, to be able to share with people through
music. It showed up when I was teaching. It showed up when I was pastoring.
It showed up when I became a coach. And as I've grown and as I've evolved in my life,
the different iterations of how I have been able to outwork my calling have really been able to
come to the forefront. So I'm making this declaration right now that I am leaning more into my
calling. I'm leaning more into sharing that intuitive guidance into helping you reconnect with who
you are, with your calling and how that outworks in your life. And some of that's going to be
through doing the subconscious reprogramming. Some of that is going to be through understanding the
energetics. Some of that is going to be through learning how to. create a life that you truly love.
Some of that is going to be through the embodiment work. And some of that's going to be through
understanding how you are meant to move in the world and your energy is meant to move in the world
using things like human design or the Enneagram or how you show up for yourself,
your relationships, your clients, and how you're making a bigger impact in the world.
So as we move through this series called The Call, we're going to be talking about how do you tap
into that inner wisdom? How do you understand what that discernment is? And how do you take those
really bold, courageous steps to move forward? So today I want to leave you with one soul
reflection. And if you are feeling called towards something, but you just haven't fully
acknowledged it yet, or you just feel fearful of it, or you feel like you are resisting moving into
it, I want you to get honest with yourself about where are you being called into something that is
more in alignment with what your soul is calling you towards. And you may really be on the path of
moving in this direction already. it may be one little thing that feels off that you're like,
you know what, Andrea, if I just really leaned into this, then I feel like it would be more in
alignment with who I am meant to be and what my soul is meant. to do here on this earth.
In the next episode, we're going to be talking about how to discern your intuition and really tap
in to your inner guidance. And I want to say thank you for being here with me today, for walking
this path with me. I hope that it encourages you and inspires you. And if it has supported you,
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