How to Trust Yourself and Make Clear Decisions | Conversations with Sahar Part 9
Release Date: 08/24/2026
The Courage to Be Wrong | Stop Defending Yourself S26 E35
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Why does admitting you're wrong feel like losing authority? Why Strong Leaders Can Stop Defending Themselves: true courage isn't just speaking up — it's staying open without defending yourself. In this episode, I explore why "I was wrong" might be the strongest thing a leader can say, using the four dimensions of the BEMA™. There's a quieter form of courage that rarely gets named: the ability to hear something uncomfortable without immediately explaining, denying or defending yourself. Defensiveness starts as protection — it keeps our sense of self safe in the moment — but over time it...
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How to Recognise and Live as The Real You | Conversations with Sahar Part 10
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How do you recognise and live as The Real You? In this final episode of the first Conversations with Sahar series, Sahar brings together the central themes explored across nine conversations: self-awareness, logic and intuition, life’s signals, changing relationships, clear communication, action and self-trust. Discover why clarity only creates change when you trust it enough to act. Sahar also introduces the September Unbox A Brighter Future campaign, shares news of her two-week break, and invites listeners to express their interest in a future Arabic series. ► Explore Unbox A Brighter...
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Why Clarity Disappears Under Pressure S26 E34
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Why does clarity disappear under pressure? In this episode, you will learn how stress affects decision-making, intuition, logic and self-leadership, and how to make an aligned decision when urgency, fear or other people’s expectations are influencing you. Pressure can narrow your view until an immediate decision feels like a clear one. But ending the discomfort is not the same as choosing what is right for you. In Season 26, Episode 34 of Unbox The Podcast, I explain how pressure affects the four dimensions of the BEMA™ Methodology: Body, Emotions, Mind and Accountability to Action. You...
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How to Trust Yourself and Make Clear Decisions | Conversations with Sahar Part 9
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How do you trust yourself, stop overthinking and make clear decisions when fear, intuition and other people’s opinions pull you in different directions? In Conversations with Sahar Part 9, Sahar Huneidi Palmer explores why we continue seeking advice when we may already know the answer. Gathering more information can support a decision, but it can also distance you from your own judgement when you are searching for certainty that life cannot provide. Discover how self-trust becomes weakened when you repeatedly dismiss what you recognise, how to distinguish intuition from fear, and why your...
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Why Authentic Leadership Begins With Inner Alignment S26 E33
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You can manage everything well and still be moving in the wrong direction. In Season 26, Episode 33 of Unbox The Podcast, Sahar Huneidi Palmer explores the difference between managing the present and leading towards a better future. Whether you lead an organisation or your own life, authentic leadership requires more than competence. It requires a strategic vision aligned with who you are and what matters to you now. Using the Four Dimensions of Change within the BEMA™, Sahar explains how inner alignment supports clearer direction, meaningful choices and accountable action. She also explores...
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How You Think Shapes Communication | Conversations with Sahar Part 8
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The way someone thinks can reveal who they are—and whether we can trust them. In Conversations with Sahar, Part 8, Sahar Huneidi Palmer shares why this understanding led her to accept her late husband’s proposal, and how a mentor revealed patterns in her own mind that she had never recognised. She explains why communication starts before words and how the BEMA™ dimensions help us identify misalignment, choose a response rather than a reaction, and speak with integrity. What's your preference, horizontal or vertical video? Please let me know. ► Continue with guided meditations,...
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The Courage To Stay Human S26 E32
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Something is quietly shifting. Millennials and Gen Z are going back to vinyl records, physical books, handwritten journals, board games, and printed photographs — and it is not nostalgia. It is intelligence. In this episode, Sahar takes you through her own journey from punch cards and Fortran to the age of AI, and asks the question that sits at the heart of this season: what does it actually mean to be human right now? She explores the science of co-regulation — why we are biologically designed to need each other's physical presence — what research tells us about the measurable...
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Why Knowledge Alone Is Not Enough to Change Your Life | Conversation with Sahar Part 7
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Why is knowing what needs to change often not enough to actually change your life? We have access to more information than ever before. We read books, listen to podcasts, take courses and learn about ourselves. Yet we can understand a pattern and still repeat it. In this episode of Conversations with Sahar, I explore the difference between knowledge and self-awareness, and why you cannot change what you are not aware of. I also explain how my Four Dimensions of Change, the BEMA™ Methodology, can help you look at your Body, Emotions, Mind and belief systems, and Accountability to actions....
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Who Is Leading Your Life? The Courage To Lead S26 E31
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Who is really leading your life? In Season 26, Episode 31 of Unbox The Podcast, discover how self-leadership helps you make clearer decisions, recognise what you can influence and stop allowing other people’s expectations, old beliefs or difficult circumstances to determine your next move. I share how the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait became a turning point in my own life and shaped my work as an Intuitive Life Mentor. We explore why guidance should always return you to yourself, how intuition and logic work together, and why accountability is central to reclaiming your power. Through my BEMA...
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You Are Not Stuck. This Is Why | Conversations with Sahar Part 6
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Why do so many intelligent, capable people feel stuck, even when nothing appears to be wrong? In this episode of Conversations with Sahar, I explore one of the biggest misconceptions in personal growth. Feeling stuck is often not a lack of motivation, confidence or ability. More often, it is a sign that different parts of your life are no longer working together. Using my BEMA™ Methodology, I explain why clarity begins with awareness, how misalignment quietly affects your decisions, energy, relationships and direction, and why trying harder is rarely the answer. When your Body, Emotions,...
info_outlineHow do you trust yourself, stop overthinking and make clear decisions when fear, intuition and other people’s opinions pull you in different directions?
In Conversations with Sahar Part 9, Sahar Huneidi Palmer explores why we continue seeking advice when we may already know the answer. Gathering more information can support a decision, but it can also distance you from your own judgement when you are searching for certainty that life cannot provide.
Discover how self-trust becomes weakened when you repeatedly dismiss what you recognise, how to distinguish intuition from fear, and why your body, emotions, mind, beliefs and actions may send conflicting messages. Through Sahar’s four-dimensional BEMA™ framework, you will learn how inner alignment supports clearer decision-making and turns awareness into meaningful action.
September offers a natural opportunity to review where you are and decide how you want to use the remaining months of the year. If you have been postponing a change you already know you need to make, Sahar’s flagship course, Unbox A Brighter Future, provides a structured process for recognising what is blocking you, reconnecting with your direction and moving forward.
This is the penultimate episode of the first Conversations with Sahar series. After Part 10, Sahar will take a short break and is considering returning with a new series in Arabic. Please leave a comment if you would listen.
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