Your brain is trying to protect you but it's also, unfortunately, making things up about your customers.

In this solo episode, Nikki takes a therapy homework assignment (yes, really) and turns it into one of the most practical frameworks she's found for explaining why client experience design goes wrong at the thinking level, not the execution level.

Before you can design a better client experience, you have to notice the stories your brain is generating about your customers. And some of those stories? They are not the truth.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Why fortune-telling feels like prudence but is actually just a fancy way of avoiding experiments (and the one-star review analogy that will stick with you)
• The moment Nikki's therapist handed her a worksheet and she had a slightly horrifying realization about her business
• Why the loudest complaint in your inbox is almost never the thing that actually needs to change
• What mind-reading looks like in a team meeting, and what happens when you actually go talk to five customers instead
• The replacement behaviour for each trap, because noticing the pattern is not the finish line

If your business keeps wondering why things aren't clicking, this episode is probably the conversation you needed to have.

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