Here’s What I Learned.
Last week, I was supposed to host an event.
Breaking the Bias: Women’s Wealth Edition — a free workshop at Bias Brewery with Bobby Schmidt and Kristen Hook. We’d been planning it for weeks. People had registered. They’d submitted questions. We had answers prepared.
Then a winter weather advisory hit.
Now, we live in Montana. Bad weather is part of life here. We don’t normally cancel things because wind is predicted. But the schools cancelled. Then every other local event started cancelling. And then my brain did what brains do — it went to work.
Here’s the thought model that played out:
The circumstance was simple: a talk scheduled during a winter weather advisory. My thought? Is there even going to be bad weather? We live in Montana. Bad weather is just… Thursday. But the other presenters were questioning it. I didn’t feel confident about it. I felt confused. Unsure. And when you feel unsure, you know what you do? You stall. You refresh the weather app fourteen times. You text your co-hosts. You wait for someone else to make the call.
We postponed at 9:30 PM the night before. A late cancellation. Still feeling unsure.
And then?
The weather was fine.
No storm. No power outages. No ice-covered roads. Just a regular Montana day. We cancelled for nothing.
I want to tell you I handled this gracefully. That I shrugged it off and said oh well, these things happen. But the truth is, my first instinct was to feel regret. We should have waited. We overreacted. We let people down for no reason.
Sound familiar?
If you work in healthcare, you make decisions with incomplete information every single shift. You triage based on what you know right now — not what you’ll know in two hours. Sometimes you call it right. Sometimes the thing you were bracing for doesn’t show up. And sometimes you have to sit with the discomfort of having made a decision that, in hindsight, looks like an overreaction.
That’s not failure. That’s decision-making under real conditions.
Here’s where the second thought model came in — the one I actually coached myself through:
They are advising that there is bad weather. We made the best call we could with what we knew. We’ll never know what would have happened if we hadn’t cancelled. So now what?
And “now what” turned out to be the interesting part.
Instead of spiraling, we got to work. We rescheduled. We looked at the event and asked: how do we make this even better? We added bonus offers for everyone who attends. We turned a cancellation into a reason to show up.
The circumstance didn’t change — the event was still cancelled. But the thought shifted from we messed up to we made a call, and now we get to make the next one. That shift moved me from guilt to something that actually felt good — anticipation. For an even better event with even more to offer.
This is the work. Not getting it right every time. Not having perfect information before you act. The work is making the best decision you can, letting go of the one behind you, and putting your energy into whatever’s next.
You do this at work every day. The question is whether you let yourself do it in the rest of your life, too.
That thing you’ve been stalling on — the conversation, the financial decision, the goal you keep pushing to next month — you’re not going to have perfect information. You’re never going to feel fully ready. And if you wait for the uncertainty to clear, you’ll be waiting through a storm that might never come.
Speaking of which — the rescheduled event is happening.
Breaking the Bias: Women’s Wealth Edition Wednesday, March 18th | 6–8 PM | Bias Brewery, Kalispell
Same conversation about the identity shift that changes how women build wealth. Same great questions from registrants — with answers ready. And now, everyone who attends gets an exclusive bonus offers from us.
Two hours. Free. If you were registered before, we’d love to have you back. If you’re new, even better.
And if you’re reading this as a Logan Health employee — coaching is already part of your benefits. You don’t need to wait for an event. You can book a session with me directly. Schedule here.
