Apr 22, 2026
Podcasts

Why the Best CEOs Trust Intuition Over Spreadsheets — Dana Herrera on Fortunate FISHES

Most CEOs are trained to trust the numbers. But at the highest level of leadership, the defining calls come from somewhere else entirely. Dana joins Fortunate FISHES to talk about the intelligence analytics can't measure.
Fortunate FISHES Podcast

A spreadsheet has never told anyone the full story.

Most CEOs are analytically trained — show me the spreadsheets, the data, the numbers. And for good reason. Data removes guesswork. Data scales. Data defends decisions in a boardroom.

But on the Fortunate FISHES Podcast, Dana Herrera names something most high-performing leaders already know but rarely say out loud: a spreadsheet will never tell you the full story of any situation. The breakthrough decisions at the $100M+ level come from pattern recognition your conscious brain hasn't caught up to yet. That's intuition.

Not the fluffy version. Not manifestation. The kind of intuition that emerges when a regulated nervous system, a clear mind, and an honest emotional read stop competing for the same bandwidth. The kind that shows up when your inner system is coherent enough to actually hear itself.

This episode is for leaders who are ready to stop outsourcing their clearest thinking to dashboards.