Why You Struggle to Follow Through on Good Advice

You've gotten the advice. You understood it. You agreed with it. And then you didn't do anything.This isn't a motivation problem. It's a resistance problem — and resistance is never random. It's always pointing at something.In this episode, I'm sharing something I've been sitting with. I coached a woman I'm calling Sara — a six-year entrepreneur who built her CPG brand into Nordstrom, Barnes & Noble, and the Ulta Beauty MUSE Accelerator. Her business had stopped generating enough income and she needed a job. She came to me because she couldn't find the words to make people see what she'd built.We recorded the session. The plan was to publish it. And then she reached out and said she wasn't ready.Sitting with her decision got me thinking about the session itself — and I have to be honest: I wasn't satisfied with how I coached her. Not because of the resistance I met. But because I didn't do enough to help her see things differently. And if you can't see things differently, you won't do things differently.So this episode is what I wish I'd given her more of in the room.I break down the 5 patterns of resistance I see most often — in clients, in the women who write to me, and honestly in myself — and what each one is actually trying to tell you.We cover:→ The Deflection: why you name your values instead of what you actually want→ The Blur: why you can't see your own experience clearly even when it's extraordinary→ The Grief Resistance: why you keep returning to the feeling instead of moving toward the solution→ The Identity Resistance: why reframing your story feels like erasing it→ The Core Wound: the question underneath all the other questionsThe companion Substack post goes even deeper — and paid subscribers get a 7-day exercise plan that turns every insight into a daily practice: https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/what-your-resistance-is-trying-to