320: Why Intuition Matters More Than You Think

In this gripping episode of Immigrantly, Saadia Khan sits down with Mory Fontanez, intuitive coach, author of “Higher Self: Reclaiming the Power of Your Intuition”, and daughter of Iranian immigrants, to dig into the messy, fascinating truth about our inner voice. Their conversation moves from the personal to the cultural to the global: what happens when fear masquerades as intuition, how immigrant stories shape the way we listen to ourselves, why Western culture sidelines instinct while Eastern traditions revere it, and what it means to reclaim your higher self in a world designed to keep us in fear. Saadia pushes Mory on whether fear can sometimes be a gateway to clarity, shares her own anxieties as a Muslim immigrant in America, and asks whether intuition might be the key to building compassion in a fractured world. Mory, in turn, reveals why intuition is never wrong, how leaders quietly rely on it to make billion-dollar decisions, and why saying your gut instinct out loud migh...