Episode 482:

Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Laino. Welcome, everybody. So have you been noticing anything change about your drive, the way that you see things, the way that you want to show up in the world? Over the last couple of months, has something changed? Certainly since the beginning of 2026, maybe like February through April, that March period where things have shifted. And I know it was a bit chaotic in those first couple of months, that first quarter, and then rolling into the second May, we got some stability and now it’s going to get shaken up again. But I want you to check in with yourself right now and just see, like, has something shifted? Are you noticing something different? A different pull, a different calling, or just a call to do things differently? 

So something happened last week that I wanted to have a conversation around it here on the show because I have been feeling the need to do things a little bit differently as well. So I try not to follow a lot of human design people online, but then it is interesting to see what other people are talking about. I no longer worry. I didn’t follow them in the past because I was worried I would copy. And I don’t worry about that anymore because I really, I’m not at all impressed with what I see. I’m not at all taken in by what I see other people doing. I really don’t think I run the risk of it infecting what I am here to talk about. 

So I have looked and I do see what’s happening and I want to talk about it, and I want to talk a little bit through my process here. I’m a manifesting generator, so everything for me is going to be in response. And it’s almost like if I cut off my exposure to some things, then maybe some things I am supposed to be in response to. So I have been feeling this. The questions that I asked you at the start of the episode are questions I’ve been asking myself. Like, things feel different. I feel different. I feel like I’m being called to say different things, to speak about the same things in different ways. I feel called to shift this conversation, at least the one that I control, the one that’s on my platforms. So this show instagram substack. 

Wherever it is that I’m showing up, I feel like there needs to be a change in the way that I’m speaking about things. Not that the things I’ve said before aren’t still valid. I’m not taking anything back necessarily, but I feel like me here and now. As we get closer to 2027, we have Uranus in Gemini, which is all about change in ways of communication, in messages, in actual methods of communication. So maybe we pick up new platforms. Maybe a new platform comes out. Who knows what’s coming? 

But as these changes happen, as I see 20 as an era of at least what it’s supposed to be now, remember all of these eras, the cross of planning was a time for us to master certain skills, to master certain abilities, to live through the challenges of the time, the gifts of the time, to have that experience, take what we can with us, take those lessons. But then the time will change. And when it changes, I believe if you were to wrap it all up in a word of what 2027 is meant to teach us, I think it’s meant to teach us sovereignty. I think it is meant to teach us what it means to be a true individual. So I think it’s natural, of course, again, because I’m always trying to be honest with you here. 

I don’t know if my predictions or if my interpretations of these things. You might have a different word for 2027. You’ll be like, it’s not about sovereignty. Okay? That’s my reflection on it. So there are many truths. This is mine. What I share here is what I know to be my truth now. And it doesn’t have to be your truth. This is just something for you to respond to. If you’re a generator. It’s something for you to take in. It is something for you to have in your experience, and then for you to develop your own thoughts, opinions, and maybe judgments based on it. 

So for me, 2027, as I’m going through these changes, as I’m feeling these different polls and these different call to shift and change to me, as I contemplate it, I’m like, I guess that would make sense, that I want to say more things that just feel really true to me. And what I will call myself out for is sometimes saying things in a way that I know will get the attention that I want. I know that will sell. And I don’t say anything that’s not true. And I always do add my little caveats in there, where it’s like, I’m telling you that this is not because I don’t want to be manipulative, but in order to get seen on these platforms, you got to have a hook or people don’t stop and they don’t listen. So you’re not going to get heard. 

So it’s weird. There is this, like, bit of playing the game that I think my own Uranus in my first house, right on my ascendant, is like, the days of you conforming to this stuff are over. And this happens with me at a certain point, things become repulsive. And talking about things in certain ways that I have talked about them in the past. It’s like, yeah, I believed that I was in alignment with that. I felt fine with that. But now I’m like, that’s not at all what’s exciting to me anymore. That’s not the part that I think is fun anymore. So I’m not lit up by it. So it’s very hard for me to talk about it because I’m a manifesting generator and I have no desire to push through anymore. Doesn’t light me up. 

And I’m here to follow what lights me up. So to me, it says that the path is being lit in a slightly different direction. Still talking about the same things. I’m just going to talk about them in a different way. So we are in a place where there’s a lot of hyperbole around human design and a lot of manipulation around it. And for some of you know that I launched the Integrated Human Design certification. If you’re listening to this, on the day that this drops, we’ve started officially this week. No one can join anymore. So I’m not peddling it at all. But I did these info sessions while doors were open so people could ask me questions. I could tell you about the program and all of that. And someone asked in there. 

There was someone who came on and asked me the question of, is there anywhere in my chart that will say whether I should do this or not? Is there something in my chart that would tell me that the certification is right for me? And I want to make very clear, I am not at all calling this woman out. This is not about her. I am not faulting her at all. I don’t think it was a bad question. I think it was a very reasonable question for the way that people talk about this stuff. Because I’m calling out the industry and the way that we speak about human design, about astrology, about all of these. 

Her question was very in alignment with what we are Seeing online, because I’m sure there was probably a human design practitioner who would have said, yeah, I can tell you if that’s in your chart. Oh, you have gate 11. You’re meant to teach. That’s a teaching gate. And I don’t mean that you can’t see things in the chart. Of course you can. And what I want to break down in this episode is what human design is really here to do. How I teach it, why I teach it this way, and how does it. The business and interpreting a chart for a business, how does that really work? So that’s what I’m gonna attempt to do in this episode. Okay, I’m gonna break that down as best I can, and I’ll share with you how I guided this woman to whatever her decision was. 

I don’t even know because at the time I’m recording this, we haven’t closed cart. I don’t know if she’ll join. My instinct says probably not, but she might. I don’t know. It’s not about that. What I really wanna do is I wanna talk about what human design is really here to do. So this is what I told her, and I shared this on Instagram. And it got a decent response in the sense that people received it well, for the most part. But let’s talk about it. So what is human design really here to do? And I want to talk to you about the concept of inner authority and outer authority. Of course, you hear us talk about strategy and authority. Strategy and authority. Strategy and authority. Well, what does that even mean? Why is it even important? 

We know that it’s our decision making, but there’s a layer beneath that I think gives us the context for this and why authority is so important. And what we’re here to do with human design. It’s here to bring you back to something. So the whole premise of human design is that humans are conditioned and we are conditioned by the outside world, that it’s outer authority that we have given our power away to, that we look at the outside world. We look at coaches, gurus, parents, teachers, politicians, organizations, rock stars. Whoever it is that has perceived authority out in the world that we respect, we then give them our authority. We are conditioned by this. And this can be very overt. Like I just said, you might listen to somebody and be like, yeah, I agree. 

Or it can be more covert, where it’s something that, you know, if you are a really open person. So if you have a lot of open centers, you might be internalizing the society stuff. Your parents Stuff the people who are close to your community. You might be taking all of that in and have absolutely no idea that’s not you. So the whole concept of human design is based on this idea that we are giving our authority away to the outside world. And what human design is designed to do is to bring you back to yourself. And the core way that we do that is through giving you back your inner authority. Take the power away from the outer authority. How does the outer authority work? Outer authority works through the mind. Your mind says, ooh, that person, I like them. 

Oh, that rock star is super cool and I want to be like him. And I agree with those thoughts, I agree with those things. And it’s the mind. The mind is the most conditioned thing that exists for us because it’s literally that filter where all of our beliefs sit. It’s where it all congregates. And it becomes that filter that we filter every decision through when we make decisions with the mind. So it’s why we take the power away from the mind and we put it in the body someplace. We put it in a process for you. And even if you don’t get it, perfect human design, what it does is it breaks the pattern. It is the pattern interrupt. So we all know that we need to break our limiting beliefs, right? 

Because if we operate in accordance with our beliefs that we’ve always had, we will get what we’ve always gotten. Because the beliefs are going to drive. Drive the behavior. If I believe a certain thing is not safe, I’m never going to do it. My mind won’t let me, right? So in order to get something new in life, in order to shift things, in order to change ourselves, we have to change the way that we think. Change your thoughts, change your life. Right? You know, in the Wayne Dyer book, change your thoughts, change your life. Easier said than done. We have to have enough presence to know that the beliefs are there. We have to have a new way of interacting with the outside world because most of our thoughts are unconscious. 

So when we have unconscious thoughts that are driving our behavior, it’s very difficult for us to know when we’re even making those decisions. So there was a whole craze for many years of like, changing our thoughts, of becoming mindful, of trying to rewrite our limiting beliefs and to change the way that we think. All valid, all good. Not pooing or bad mouthing that at all. But it’s limited because it’s still the mind. And the mind is a cunning trickster and can Certainly figure out ways to, you know, it knows us, it is us. So when it wants to keep us safe, it has very cunning, covert little ways of pushing our buttons and getting us to do what it wants to keep us safe. That’s how it works. 

So what human design does is it takes the power away from the mind and it puts it in the body. So that pattern interrupt alone of just saying, oh, well, I make decisions like this. So even in the beginning, when it’s really rocky, even in the beginning when you like, am I in response, Am I this? And that’s still the mind. And someone like me will try to get you out of that practice. But that’s where it starts. We start with just, we have to do it a new way. It’s like learning to ride a bike or some new vehicle that we have never ridden before. It’s going to be messy in the beginning. We’re not going to get it right away. It’s not going to be right away. So what do we do? We have like that messy period. 

But that messy period is us training ourselves to go to something else, to a different mechanism than to just make a pros and cons list, weigh the options and make a decision. Right? So this is us building our inner authority. So according to human design, what it’s telling you is it’s like inner authority is going to bring you back to yourself. You’re going to stop being other people. Because that’s what human design would say, that because you are conditioned, all of this openness is taking in other people and you’re actually becoming that other person or all the other people. You are just this amalgamation of all the things you’ve ever experienced, internalized, and haven’t gotten rid of. That would be a nutshell statement, I suppose, for how this all works. 

Now, what human design is going to do is it’s going to get you to the deconditioning, is getting rid of all of that, actually working through, making decisions as yourself. So you’re no longer in alignment with that conditioning. And after seven years of deconditioning, because that’s when cellular turnover happens. After seven years of deconditioning, you are no longer anybody else but yourself. You are 100% you, is theory here. Okay? So human design is meant to wake you up to being yourself when this happens, when you are truly the master of your own domain, when you are truly in alignment with your own inner authority. And you’ve heard me say this, something that I have said that is part of My marketing. But it is true. When you have inner authority, then and only then can you have outer authority. 

This is a human design statement. When you have inner authority, when you are master of your own domain, then and only then will you have the ability to truly have outer authority. That’s worth anything out in the world. You will see the world clearly. You will have a message. And it doesn’t have to be a message that you’re sharing with the masses. That might not be your path. I don’t know what your path is. And this is really what I’m getting to, that it’s through this process of remembering or reacquainting with our true selves, waking up, seeing the world the way we are meant to see it. And we can’t see it until we get rid of all the other stuff we have been carrying, all the other voices, opinions, thoughts and perspectives. 

You can’t have your own perspective until you get rid of everybody else’s. Formulate your own that comes from your inner authority. Following inner authority means you’re not following the outer authority. You’re not following other people’s stuff. You’re not in alignment with that anymore. You are truly you. Now you have something to say. Now you have something to bring to the world that is uniquely yours. And when you wake up to that, then and only then can you have the ability to have outer authority in the world where you have that thing to say prior to that it’s not really yours, is what the system would tell you. So having said all of that, when I am in this info session and this lovely woman asks me the question of, like, can you look at my chart? Tell me if I’m supposed to do this? 

Am I supposed to do your certification? I had to respond that the chart isn’t a crystal ball. That’s not what it’s meant to do. So if I were to answer that question for her, what I did was I tried to guide her back to her own authority. The woman was a manifestor. And I told her, as a manifestor, you really have to know if this is in alignment with your mission in life. Is this the impact that you want to be making? And only you can answer that. I can’t guide a Manifester anywhere. I can only guide them back to themselves in their own process, and I can give them their power back. Because the minute a manifester starts asking the outside world, they diminish the fastest. Because they’re the ones we are all supposed to be inspired and initiated by. 

They are the ones that do the big thing. We see it, we go, oh, wow, now generators have something crazy to respond to. And now they’re off building other stuff because this one person pushed in that one direction. I can’t tell a manifester where to push. I can only guide them back to their own process so that they can make that decision as themselves, for themselves, for their mission, for their impact. That’s all I can do. Because if I were to answer that for her, that would be me taking her inner authority. I would become that outer authority. I would be taking away her sovereignty. I’d be helping her make that decision. And that’s above my pay grade. It’s a hard job to have because we do want to help. We want to help people. 

And you might be saying, nicole, you teach human design for business. So how does this branding stuff fit in? And the authority matrix and all the other things that I teach and do, I still stand behind them? Of course I still stand behind them because I don’t teach them as a prescriptive method. And it frustrates a lot of people. People would really like me to tell them what they are here to do, what their message is, what it’s supposed to be. And my answer. There are some people that get really upset with me. Like, I’m paying you and why won’t you just tell me what it is? Or why won’t you tell me where to look? And the way that I teach this stuff is when you study yourself. I love this statement. We become what we contemplate. 

So if you contemplate the outside world, you become the outside world. If you contemplate yourself and you contemplate your gifts, and you contemplate what you’re here for, and you contemplate your incarnation, Cross, without an agenda. That’s the key. You can’t have an agenda. You can’t contemplate your incarnation, Cross. So you can go and do the right thing tomorrow. That’s not how it works. Oh, how I wish it did. Because, man, would that be easier. And that is what people are selling. People are selling people the magic pill. People are selling people. Like, I can look at you and tell you how you make money. I can just look at your chart and tell you how you make money. 

And it’s true there are themes in the chart those exist, but it’s not for me to tell you now this is what you have to go do. That’s me taking away your inner authority. That’s me taking away your power. My job is to give you back your Power. That’s what human design is here for. So it makes me sad and mad when I see people taking that away. And then I see people what they’re doing. People are so happy, they download the report and it tells you who you are. And all this. Like, if you’ve ever gotten one of my reports again, they’re not prescriptive. They are meant to give you a lot of context. Like, when I do my business readings with people and I give them a business reading report as a contemplation guide. 

And that contemplation guide, it’s me giving context and my view on these different placements they have and the positions in their chart and kind of molding that together for them so they can see, like, okay, well, you have gate 36 in your Mercury. So here are some contemplation points for you to sort of swim in. Like, that’s always how I see it. Like, get in the pool with this stuff and just like, immerse yourself in it. And eventually you’ll see that it’s seeping through your skin, it’s getting in there. You just might not know it right away. But when I see these people that put out reports and things like that, where it’s telling you should have this kind offer, here’s what this is. And people are so happy. 

They’re just like, it told me what I was supposed to do, and it gave me a full outline for my business and my funnel and this whole thing in like 20 minutes with AI and I’m like, of course that feels good because you gave your authority away to the thing. And who needs human design? That. It’s just. You just want to do something, then that’s fine, you can do that. But it’s not human design anymore. It’s not. At its core, it’s the antithesis of what human design is meant to do, which is wake you up to yourself, make you the master of your own domain. Make every decision in your life comes through the strongest sense of truth that you have. And that gives you something uniquely special to add to the world. 

This whole idea that we are all parts of a greater whole. You have a role in this play, this grand play of life. All the world’s a stage, and we are but players. We are. We are but players. And if you are not playing your role, this play needs that role. We didn’t write the character for no reason. But if you are playing the role that somebody else gave you, it’s for you to discover. It’s just like in Acting. When I acted, you have to discover that character yourself. My coach could tell me things about a character, but that’s not how it works. The coach and I would sit down and we would do character development and we’d talk about, like, what did they go through and who are they? Why? Because it has to be in my body. 

It has to be a truth that I walk on stage with. It can’t be just information. It has to be real or the performance is shit. And I have no interest in giving a shitty performance on a regular stage. And I really have no interest in giving a shitty performance on the stage of life. And I don’t have any interest in helping other people do that either. My goal is for every single person to be whatever that unique expression of them is in this life. And I never know what that will look like for them. I will say, all I can tell you is it has something to do with these things. Here’s how I read this chart. Here’s the areas that seem like they will be challenging to you. That’s why my readings are very interactive. We talk back and forth. 

We go back and forth. And my goal is for them to see their process, see themselves clearly, get that contemplation wheel turning, and then send them on their way. And if they want to work together and they want help being guided on that process, I will do that. But the way that I guide you is through guiding you back to your process, showing you where you step out of it. That’s what a human design guide’s job is. That’s what it is. And I hope that these changes mean, like, the changes that we’re feeling 2027, all of the changes with, like, all of these outer planets changing sign and giving us new themes for the collective. I really hope that people are more drawn to this because I think that there are a lot of questions about what the future will look like. 

Will we even need some of the things that have been so important? Will we have the same relationship to money and wealth and all of these things as time goes on? I don’t know. Story for another time, Conversation for another time. But I hope that people are pulled more to the real aspects of this work and not just the things of, like, what it can do for them. In your business, human design can help you because it’s a byproduct, you living as yourself and having this outer authority, whatever that is. Money is a byproduct of that. Success is a byproduct of that. You making progress in your life. We have so many people that come into business by design, and they come in with one goal and they end up moving in another direction because it feels better for them. 

So that has to be on the table for people’s lives to change, for people’s paths to change. And that’s what their inner authority is driving them to. And I see those people have such greater confidence in all aspects of life. Even taking that step, it’s like, wow. Yeah, I realized I didn’t really want any of that stuff in the first place. I want something so different. And now I feel totally in alignment with moving in that direction. That’s freedom. So I think I’m gonna leave this episode here. I said a lot. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope it gave you some food for thought. Send me a message on Instagram if something struck you. I’d love to hear what you thought about this. And yeah, just have a wonderful rest of your day and I hope to see you in the next episode. 

Remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human. So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design. We’ll see you next time.