# The Idea That Won't Let You Go: What a Watershed Idea™ Is and Why It Changes Everything

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Podcast: [Purpose + Profit Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/purpose-profit-podcast-6703831)
Published: 2026-04-14T12:00:00+00:00
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Jess Sato returns to the Purpose and Profit Podcast to explore why certain ideas won’t leave us alone, calling this experience “unfinished purpose,” a costly, gnawing incompleteness that success and busyness can’t quiet. Using the Continental Divide as a metaphor, she describes a Watershed Idea™ as a conviction-driven insight that channels years of lived and professional experience so nothing is wasted and work, leadership, and legacy shift without starting over. She shares three ...

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