Most people have a sentence they use for a stretch like this, whether it's bad things happen in threes or I'm just in a rough season or I don't know what's going on, I'm just lucky right now. Every one of those puts the cause somewhere outside of you.

It isn't outside of you.

There's a loop running, it has four steps, and it's yours. Once you can see it, you can stop it partway through. And the same four steps that build a bad month build a good one, which is the part almost nobody uses on purpose.

In this solo episode Angie walks through all four, and the flag to watch for so you can step in while it's still happening. Then she turns it around with a client who owns an interior design firm and is unstoppable right now. Seven or eight months ago that same woman was asking where deals even come from. Her market didn't change.

In this episode:

The four things your brain runs, in order, every time it decides something is a pattern

Why the person across the table shifts before you've said much of anything

The exact words that should function as a red flag that your brain has tagged something as recurring

What Angie tells high performers who say they're just lucky right now

The belief to be standing in before the next no arrives, so it stays a one-off

If somebody in your life keeps telling you what kind of season they're in, send them this one.