# Decisions Don't Have to Be Perfect to Be Right

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Podcast: [HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design](https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6619382)
Published: 2026-05-15T16:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

You made the decision thoughtfully. You weighed the risks. You trusted yourself enough to move forward. And then the outcome didn’t unfold the way you hoped. Now, suddenly, every future decision started carrying more pressure. More hesitation. More internal reviewing. Because somewhere along the way, disappointing outcomes stopped feeling like experiences…and started feeling like evidence. In this solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet explores what happens when high-achieving women begin attaching identity to outcomes, and how painful decisions can quietly reshape the relationship they have with their own judgment and self-trust moving forward. This is the third episode in the May solo series — Influence with Integrity — and it’s for every woman who has ever replayed a decision long after it ended…not because you were still evaluating the decision itself, but because some part of you was still trying to determine what the outcome meant about you. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com ******************************************************************** Monthly Gathering: I've been sitting on an idea for how to create a space where women can finally show up without the filter, without the performance, and without wondering whether being seen is going to cost them something. A monthly gathering. No faces. No names. No titles. Just voices and honest conversation about what it actually feels like to be a woman navigating this profession. If I built it — would you come? Send me an email with the words “Yes to the Gatherings” and that will be enough for me to know that you’re interested. The YES Reset Community: If yo…

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