Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

Human Design and identity work start with a pattern a lot of ambitious women know by heart. You step up for a big launch or a week of reels, and then you snap right back to where you were. More effort rarely changes it, because the action was sitting on top of an identity that never moved. Nicole looks at why the next level of you can feel like a threat even when you want it badly, through her own years as an actor, when a character felt far safer than walking on stage as herself, and through the Wall Street identity she had to loosen to build a business around Human Design. She also gives three steps for moving beyond the identity that's keeping you small, along with the piece that lets them last. It's for coaches and healers who show up everywhere and still feel like they're hiding, and for anyone who left corporate and found her confidence didn't leave with her. In this episode Actions are only part of leveling up. The identity underneath decides whether you can keep going once you get there. There's a reason the next level can register as a threat, even when it's exactly what you've been asking for. Showing up more often won't do much while the fear of judgment underneath it goes untouched. Your Human Design G Center changes how an identity shift happens for you, and a defined G and an undefined G need different things to get there. You don't have to finish healing before you're allowed to act. Leading From Identity with Human Design guide (free) To download the free Leading From Identity with Human Design guide, go to nicolelaino.com/shift or DM Nicole "SHIFT" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!

If selling feels icky to you, a better sales script won't fix it. The script is often part of what feels off. What gets far less attention is the energy you bring into every launch and every sales call, and what happens to that energy when a yes turns into "not now." In this episode, Nicole looks at the energetics of sales through her own launches, where the same workshop and the same marketing brought in $90,000 one time and a fraction of that another. She also tells what she did the morning a deadline passed without a yes she was sure of, and why she wouldn't let it settle into a no. It's for coaches and service providers who sell on calls, and for anyone whose results swing without a change in strategy. Key takeaways The same launch, run the same way, can bring in wildly different results, and the reason usually has little to do with the marketing. You need a process for a sales call, and chasing the perfect script is a big part of why selling starts to feel icky. Hope and "it's done" can feel close. They lead to very different mornings when a yes goes quiet. Some of what keeps a sale stuck sits deeper than affirmations can reach. Coming to your Human Design chart hoping it will validate you changes what it can do for you. Human Design Deconditioning Guide (free) Download the free Human Design Deconditioning Guide, newly rebuilt and expanded, at nicolelaino.com/decondition or DM Nicole "DECONDITION" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!

Reading a Human Design chart for the first time can feel like learning another language, and the usual first thought is that you'll never have time to learn all of it. You don't need all of it to start using it. You need to know what you're actually looking at and where your attention pays off first, whether you ran your chart last week or you've been experimenting with it for years. In this episode, Nicole puts her own chart on screen and gives the orientation she opens every reading with, the one that people who have studied Human Design for years tell her they've never heard explained that way. It's built for experimenting with your chart, with a clear order for where to look and a case for leaving some of the most tempting parts for later. What you'll learn Every Human Design chart has two sides that don't know the other exists, which explains that push-pull of wanting something part of you won't get on board with. Some of what's on your chart may not feel like you at first. It's still yours. Being defined somewhere doesn't guarantee it's healthy, and the gap can point to where you were taught to play small. The white space on your chart is where conditioning gets in fastest, and with a little discernment it's also where you get wise. Gates and channels are the first thing everyone wants to dig into, and starting there slows you down. Human Design Deconditioning Guide (free) Download the free Human Design Deconditioning Guide, newly rebuilt and expanded, at nicolelaino.com/decondition or DM Nicole "DECONDITION" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!

Manifesting feels different this year, and Human Design has more to do with why than most people realize. Neptune moved out of Pisces, where the whole manifesting wave of the last decade lived, into Aries, and the coaching world swung with it. The feed went from "tune in" to "just take action," and a lot of people started wondering whether the energetic stuff was ever real. In this episode, Nicole makes the case that it never stopped working, that "action is everything" is just the newer illusion, and that the same thing sits under both: trust. She tells on herself along the way, with a belief she still carries that has nothing to do with confidence, and lays out how Human Design builds trust in yourself instead of trust in your circumstances. What's discussed: Neptune moving from Pisces into Aries is why manifesting fell off the map in the coaching world this year, and why "it's all action now" is the newer illusion. Real manifesting has two parts. Most people practice one, overcorrect into the other, and never do both at the same time. The greatest obstacle in your business is you, and your unconscious only has two ways of running it. Trust that only shows up while the money is coming in runs out the first slow month, and Human Design is built for the kind that doesn't. Affirming a million-dollar business while something in you answers "you have bills" is the whole problem in one picture, and affirming harder never touches it. Go Deeper with Nicole & HD: Human Design Deconditioning Guide (free): Download the free Human Design Deconditioning Guide, newly rebuilt and expanded, at https://nicolelaino.com/decondition or DM Nicole "DECONDITION" on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial/ HD Authority Lab:The HD Authority Lab is Nicole's Human Design membership for entrepreneurs: monthly Human Design workshops, a monthly Q&A with Nicole, co-working sessions, and a growing library of Human Design resources, all built around creating alignment, action, and consistency in your business, for a fraction of the cost of her other offers. To join, go to http://nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram for info. Readings: To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to https://nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit https://nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!

Repeating a pattern you already healed is the most common thing Nicole hears from people using Human Design to decondition. The same money fear, or the visibility wound you'd worked through, starts to contract right after you'd opened it up, and it reads like proof the work didn't take. Nicole is almost seven years into her own deconditioning and still meets old wounds at new levels. This episode is about what the pattern coming back actually means, and the simple framework she uses to follow any trigger, down to a pair of her husband's socks on the kitchen floor, to the belief sitting underneath it. In this episode: The pattern you already worked on showing up again is the clearest signal you have about where your next level is gated. "New level, new devil" has it slightly wrong, and the correction changes how you meet the whole thing. Expansion works like athletic training, which is why one money course or one visibility breakthrough was never going to cover the rest of your life. Knowing your Human Design chart is still just awareness, and awareness on its own changes nothing. A four-step way to take any trigger, however small it seems, and find out what it is really aboout Human Design Deconditioning Guide : Download the free Human Design Deconditioning Guide, newly expanded and including Nicole's STEW framework for turning any trigger into your next level, at https://nicolelaino.com/decondition or DM Nicole "DECONDITION" on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial/ HD Authority Lab: If you'd like Nicole's help on your Human Design journey join her membership!! It is all about creating alignment, action, and consistency in your business with Human Design. To join The HD Authority Lab click the link below or DM Nicole "Lab" on Instagram for info. http://nicolelaino.com/lab Readings: To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to https://nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit https://nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: - Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!