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2026

Nothing Is Making Sense Anymore (And That’s the Point)

Episode 487

Have you ever looked at your life and wondered why something no longer feels right—even though everything seems to be working?

Lately, Nicole has noticed a fascinating pattern emerging in the Human Design readings she’s been doing. People from completely different backgrounds—entrepreneurs, corporate professionals, career changers, and even those who appear successful by every conventional measure—are all describing a similar feeling. They’re not necessarily unhappy, but they can’t shake the sense that something is shifting beneath the surface.

In this episode, Nicole explores the deeper restlessness many people are experiencing right now and what may actually be driving it. She shares why periods of uncertainty can feel so uncomfortable, why the answers we’ve relied on in the past may no longer provide the same sense of security, and how Human Design can help us navigate change when logic alone isn’t enough.

You’ll hear a thought-provoking perspective on what it means to trust yourself when the future feels unclear. Rather than searching for more certainty, more planning, or more control, Nicole invites you to consider a different possibility: that the discomfort you’re feeling may be pointing you toward a new way of living, deciding, and creating.

If you’ve been questioning your direction, feeling called toward something different, or sensing that you’re standing on the edge of a new chapter without knowing exactly what comes next, this conversation offers a perspective that may change the way you see the uncertainty you’re experiencing.


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Episode 487:


Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Laino, and I’m wondering if you’re having a similar experience to me where things feel kind of different lately. So something I’ve noticed is I’ve actually been doing a lot of human design readings lately, which it’s funny because I don’t really talk about my readings all that much because I have so many other programs and groups that I lead that I don’t advertise my readings right. Really. But I’ve had so many people booking them lately. We went through a period where, because I wasn’t mentioning them, I didn’t really do many of them because I do them for all of our clients in Business by Design. So I’m never like, oh, I miss readings because I do them all the time for everybody who comes into that container. 


But lately I’ve been having all of these outside readings come in, and it’s been really exciting and interesting and fun for me. And one of the things that I’ve noticed is that these have been not my. I don’t want to say normal clients, but, you know, the reading world. Usually I get entrepreneurs, and that still exists, but this was a lot of corporate clients or people who have left or are considering leaving corporate. I still get the entrepreneurs. I still get the people that are kind of like, you know, people who are interested in BBD but they want to try a reading first or something like that, or they can’t afford to join that right away. I get people from our Human Design Lab who are like, I want a reading that goes with this. All of that is great. But I’ve also had. 


I’ve had a lot of men lately too, which has been really fun. I’ve really enjoyed doing those readings because it’s just such a different energy having men get involved with this. And of course, men have been into human design forever, but there’s definitely they are a minority in my world. So it’s been a nice treat for me to have that experience of doing. 


The readings for them. 


And they’ve been receiving them super well. But so while it’s been from all these different walks of life, there is one kind of commonality between all of them. And it’s something I recognize in myself. It’s something I’m recognizing in my clients. And you’re probably feeling it too, which is they’re restless. They are restless. There is. There is something that they feel. And some of them are articulating this very deliberately. Some of them are saying things that indicate this. So I’m kind of deriving it or through my questioning during the reading we’ve landed on this, that they feel something is shifting. A lot of people have felt like that pull to their calling feels so much stronger than it ever has. And not all these people are unhappy per se. 


They’re just, I think, questioning whether the way things are, is the way they want them to be or if those ways feel aligned for them anymore. So there is something deeper happening here. So I’m proud of these people for seeking out a system like human design to help them explore themselves and to kind of. I think it’s a healthy way to engage with sort of the uncertainty that a lot of people are feeling about. About how you feel internally. I’m honored they chose me to do that with. And they got their reading and their minds were bl, which I’m super excited about. But this is the key here. And so in this episode, what I want to break down is what’s really needed to navigate these changes. 


I want to talk about really what’s happening underneath here, and just to get to the heart of why we feel this way right now, and how do we take steps that are productive and even that word productive. You almost have to throw out everything that you know about it. You almost have to throw out everything that you know about everything right now, which is why some people are having a really hard time. I saw a very popular, very strategically known Instagram person, you know, one of those people that’s like, I made a million dollars last month, and then we’re gonna do a million five this month, and, you know, make so much money. And here’s what you do. You write copy like this. 


It’s one of those people, and I’m not making fun of her or anything, but that the type of person she is, she’s not like, let me tell you about the moon phase that we’re in and how to work with your energy. She’s not that person, and she’s a very strategically aligned person. And I read this post that she put up where she talked about how she’s, you know, basically kind of in a dark night of the soul, that she’s questioning everything that she never, ever thought that she would question. You know, she’s got this successful business, everything is working, but suddenly she just doesn’t care like she used to, that she’s thought about burning it all down and she’s, you know, thought about changing everything. And she feels a little crazy. 


But she also feels like she’s like, I know that this, that what I’m feeling is right. I know that it’s true. I know I’m not crazy, but the things I think of doing feel really crazy. Given the circumstances, they don’t make sense. Okay, now this is what we’re getting to. This is the essence of why human design is so powerful, how you navigate this shift. Because that person doesn’t strike me. I don’t know if she does any spiritual work. I don’t know if she has any idea of the changes that are happening. I have no idea. She’s never that I’ve seen shared anything to make us feel like she is into any of this stuff. So she’s just going with what her intuition is telling her, and she’s sharing, you know, what she feels comfortable sharing about that journey. 


But the people who are doing this work, even people who are doing this work and have been doing it for a long time can still get shaken by this stuff. I want to be really clear about that. Human design does not mean that you have it all figured out. Even though you know that 2027’s coming, even though we know that these themes are all changing. Knowing is just the mind feeling comfortable. Oh, yeah, I know. Okay, cool information. I feel safe. It makes my one line feel super held when I know stuff, but it doesn’t make me actually any more safe. And it doesn’t make me immune to the human feelings, which are the changing energies and how it is quickening and changing and shifting so rapidly where we are getting very close to this shift point. 


So with the clients that I have and what I really want to say here is that the essence of human design is. And I’ve said it a million times, but I think when you put it in context, it’s like, oh, that’s what she means. And even for me, who I do this, it’s clicking for me even more. It’s like, oh, shit. This is really what it was all about. This is it. So what it was all about, what it is all about, why strategy and authority is so important, why living your design is so important. It’s because nothing’s going to make sense. Nothing is going to make sense. The world is Turning upside down. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Like it’s all shifting and everything is changing. So what happens when everything changes and nobody feels safe anymore? 


Well, if you look to your mind to make sense. Sense of it, and I don’t mean to make this sound catastrophic, because the truth is no. Nobody knows what’s actually going to happen. And I’ll paint a little bit of a picture of what I see as far as the framework, right? Everything is frameworks. It’s all just looking at things from, like, here’s sort of the ways these things could play out and a frame to look at it through. But all of those specifics within that frame could change and will. I’m certain of it. But, you know, nothing is going to change unless we start listening to something other than our mind. Unless we let go of the need for things to make sense. Here’s something I need you to know. If you’re uncomfortable now, it means you’re waking up. 


And even if you’ve been doing this work for a while, like I have been, it doesn’t make you immune to it. We all still have space to wake up. And nobody has ever done this before, but that is what’s happening. We’re waking up to the fact that maybe all the things that made sense to us before weren’t really real. We’re already seeing, you know, the veil come down on so many things. We’re seeing the truth behind a lot of stuff that we thought was so safe. We thought it was so supportive of us. We thought it was good natured. And it was all just some of the most awful things that none of us could even like where you looked at some of the conspiracy theories and was like, yo, it couldn’t possibly be that bad. And it’s like, no, it kind of is. 


Holy shit. It’s even worse than we thought, you know. But in 2027, the game is changing. And I don’t mean that we’re going from checkers to chess. I mean we’re going from chess to particles or some other game that no one’s ever played before, no one’s ever seen it before. The board is different, the players are different, the rules are different. And so when you look at it and you look at the new game through the lens of how you played the old game, you probably are going to lose. And you’re going to, you know, you’ll be like my son when he gets super frustrated and like, you know, throws the game off. Like, I hate this game. That’s what it feels like. But if you wake up, it’s like the Matrix. 


If you wake up and you are conscious to just what is happening and you don’t look to control it, and you can sit back and trust what you feel, trust your strategy and authority, trust your design. You surrender to it. The minute you try to control it is when you realize that you never had control in the first place. And, oh, boy, does that feel terrifying. But if you can surrender into your process and let that carry you and let it show you. And now is the time to do that, by the way, because before we get the new game board, it’s almost like we’re getting previews now. We’re getting little previews, little glimpses of what this game is going to look like. 


And you can start to try to figure out how to play that game, but it’s not going to be through trying to figure out how to play that game like you played the last game. Now is the time to go into your process and really commit to it, to commit to your human design process so you can surrender to something that greater than your intellect. Where we’re going requires us to be open to things being different, like radically different. So to be asleep, as I’m understanding it now, because I had a very different perspective on it when I found human design several years ago, I have a different perspective on it than I had even a year ago. And I was like, oh, you wake up to your purpose. You wake up to this. That’s part of it. 


But really being asleep is looking at everything within the confines of everything that we’ve always known. The current governments, the current structures, the corporate structure, public schools, all of these things that are radically shifting and, you know, and thinking that everything has to fit into the structure that has always been there, rather than saying, maybe we could dream it all up again. If were all just following something bigger, then what made us feel safe for the last 400 years? We learned a lot. If it all came down, could we build it back better if we actually looked at everything with fresh eyes and a beginner’s mind and allowed our mind to be an idea tool like it’s supposed to be, and follow what we really feel called to? What if we all have a job that’s greater than any profession we could have? 


In this old paradigm that you get everything you want? If you could just let go of the idea that you had to make sure it was also perfectly planned out, you knew you’d be safe. And I get it’s not easy That’s. It’s hard to say I trust, but this is why I can’t even say I totally trust. There’s fear there. It’s like, oh, shit. It’s like it’s. Stuff’s really changing. Things are really moving fast. I really feel these shifts. But the years that I’ve spent giving myself over to this process allows me to trust in something other than my mind. I have made many moves just because they felt right and I felt them through a process. 


So I know I can make those type of decisions again and I can follow something that has led me to something better than I could have planned before. So I have built the trust that’s going to allow me to continue to trust in that mechanism versus going to my mind and trying to make it all make sense. Now I have a logical head gate in my incarnation Cross. So I absolutely love to figure things out and really would love to be certain. I really would love to have a plan. 


But I catch myself in those moments where I’m relying on that, where I’m trying to figure out how do I make this feel like I know it will all work out and I just have to surrender and say, you just have to trust the process and trust that you’ll either get the result that you want or the lesson that you need. There’s something bigger at work here. Humanity is about to officially enter its damn the man era. It’s time to think outside of the box and trust something that you maybe have never trusted before or really give yourself over to it. 


I think that is the challenge right now, is for us to trust in something that in a big way, like, what if you made it your number one priority to trust your strategy and authority to follow your design without attaching a result to it. I’m going to follow my design so I can get X. Because the truth is, anything is up for grabs. I was just thinking about, you know, like, you could contemplate a whole new world unfolding before us. What if we don’t need money? What if that’s where we’re going? I don’t know. What if, you know, we do go back to a more quieter type of life and we don’t need as much. What if we do get conscious leadership? I think that we still have a role to play in making it happen. 


So we have to let go of tribal connections, of purely tribal loyalties. You know, I’ve talked a lot on this show about the gate of loyalty and how loyalty has been the way, and I think about that through the context of the good part of loyalty. And I get nostalgic for it because I’m like, I don’t want to. It hurts me to think of humanity letting go of the loyalty, of taking care of each other and caring whether people are, like, yanked off the streets and taken away from their families and their baby dies at home because nobody cared that they said that they had a child at home when they took them away. Like, it hurts me to think that we don’t care about people like that the loyalty of humans doesn’t matter. 


But the more I think about that, the more I am convinced that there’s a little bit more of a collective thing to that maybe that’s a little bit more collective energy of saying that we have to care about everyone, not just the people who look like us, who sound like us, who grew up where we grew up, who agree with our worldview. So part of me, I’m coming around because I have been a big, you know, like, don’t lose the channel of community. We have to care about each other. And I still believe that. But I think it’s very funny. As the 4037 transited through the nodes, what did we see here in America? We saw those. The ice raids which have. Thankfully, they’re still happening, but they quieted down for a bit. That was a big thing. Right. 


Where do your loyalties lie right now that we’ve come off of that? Extreme news coverage on that. Still happening, but it’s not to the level that it was before. The aggressiveness of it has come down a bit. Not completely, not enough. But to me, I have been like, oh, the pure tribalism of supporting somebody just because they look like you or they. They support the same people you support. And this real tribalism rather than being individuals. Yeah, we could let go of that. The loyalty. Could the tribal loyalty. Blind loyalty based on tribal connections and tribal affiliation? Yeah, I could bury that in 2027 and feel pretty good about it. I invite you to ponder all of this, contemplate all of this. 


And I invite you to really dig into your process to build trust in it now, when the stakes are low, to build trust in it now. Don’t try to put a. You know, like, I want to use my design so I get lots of clients or so I attract followers. Let that be the byproduct of you following your design. This is what screws so many people up with human design. I really want to save you right now. Take the. So I can piece off of it and Just follow your design to find out who the hell you really are. And I promise you, all the other stuff will fall into place. You will start attracting what is correct for you. It is a byproduct. It is not the goal. When you treat it as the goal. You’re not really following your design. 


You’re following a desire. And a. A goal is attached to your mind. It’s. You’re not really in the process you’re trying to control. And I’m not saying you can’t get what you want. I’m just saying that’s probably not how you’re going to get it. Okay, I think I shared everything I wanted to share here. I’m gonna leave you with that. I threw a lot at you today. A lot of concepts and my own thoughts and things in there. I don’t even know what I’m gonna call this episode as I’m recording it. If you would like to sit down with me for a reading, I am enjoying these a lot. Please DM me “Reading” on Instagram. I’m @nicolelainoofficial. Or go to nicolelaino.com/readings. It’s in the work with me section of my website and it’s all linked up in the show notes for you. 

We have a NEW HD membership community where you get ALL of our monthly HD Masterclasses included and so much more!! It is all about creating alignment, action, and consistency in your business with Human Design. To join The HD Authority Lab at the special Founding Member rate, click the link here: http://nicolelaino.com/lab orDM Nicole “Lab” on Instagram for info.

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If you want to sit down and have me walk you through your chart, you can absolutely do that. Or if you want to join us in the Human Design Authority lab where we are working with you on living your design every single month for a very low fee, then you can join us there. DM Me Lab on Instagram. Or go to nicolelino.comlab and you can get all the info there and sign right up. All right, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you. And 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. 

We have a NEW HD membership community where you get ALL of our monthly HD Masterclasses included and so much more!! It is all about creating alignment, action, and consistency in your business with Human Design. To join The HD Authority Lab at the special Founding Member rate, click the link here: http://nicolelaino.com/lab orDM Nicole “Lab” on Instagram for info.

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