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HD Profile 1/4 Investigator Opportunist

Episode 363

What happens when you blend deep personal expertise with powerful, natural connection? In this episode, Nicole Explores the 1/4 profile in Human Design—the Investigator Opportunist—and what makes this combination so uniquely powerful. If you’re someone who’s driven to know why and also craves meaningful relationships to bring your work into the world, this one’s for you.

Nicole breaks down the harmony between the 1 and 4 lines, showing how this profile creates a grounded yet connected approach to purpose and success. You’ll hear how the personal destiny of the 1/4 plays out in business and life, and why alignment between these two energies is essential for things to feel like they’re actually working. She also shares why this is one of the rarer profiles—and what makes it so special.

Nicole also explores the subtle ways this profile can get stuck: hiding your expertise, holding back from community, or feeling unsure how to show up authentically. Through stories, insights, and practical guidance, you’ll start to see how shifting just a few things can unlock real momentum.

Whether you’re a 1/4 or simply want to understand the people in your life more deeply, this episode will leave you with a clearer picture of how Human Design can offer both clarity and traction—especially when it comes to showing up fully as yourself.

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Episode 363

Hello and welcome to Unshakeable With Human Design, everyone. I’m your host, Nicole Lano, and we are back with episode two of our profile series. We are gonna be talking about all 12 profiles. Every profile will get its very own episode here on this show. I hope you join me for all of them because it’s so interesting to dive into all of the profiles to understand what our kids and our partners and our friends are because it.

Gives so much flavor to life. Your profile is such a key component in living in alignment with your design. And ften what we find is one of the first places that I’m looking, when someone tells me, when I do readings with people, I ask them, where are they facing resistance in life? Tell me about what’s going on with you.

So I can start looking at the chart with an idea of what they are struggling with. Where might they automatically, where might they be out of alignment? And I can start to pull that in when I’m prepping the reading. And one of the first things that I’m looking for is, are they out of alignment with their profile?

And the reason for that is because being in alignment with your profile is either going to create this beautiful harmony in your life where things just feel like they make sense because it gives you. A process for understanding how you get through life along the path of your purpose, and also who you are here to be, what people respond to in you.

So we’re talking about our businesses, and I teach your profile as your brand. This is a core component of your brand voice is how you show up, and there’s certain characteristics that are definitely by each of the lines, by themselves. But when we put these profiles together into the individual profile where we get the 12 different profile combinations, we get even more flavor than if we look at them, oh, I’m a one line and a four line.

Right. So that’s what we’re gonna be diving into here. But it can show us so much. It can tell us what’s maybe wrong in our process or what’s holding us back in our own process. And it can also show us just what’s gonna make us magnetic to people, what’s going to feel really true for us. It can help us see maybe why some things have not worked for us in the past that have worked for other people, but when we tried to do them, they just didn’t fit.

Sometimes that’s a process of us going through misalignment to find our alignment, to find the shifts. That’s often where we find our path is by recognizing that we’re on the wrong one. So I hope that you listen to these episodes in the profile series, and you’re listening for some of that process, and you’re asking yourself questions.

Am I following that? Is that something that I am doing? Am I allowing that to come through in my life? And if not, how can I shift that? So this is gonna be a really impactful series. There will be 12 episodes. We’re gonna be together for a while with this one. We’ve talked about the lines on this show before, but we have not talked about the profile specifically until this series.

So I’m really excited to be doing this with you. If you love it, we have a contest running right now. If you share this episode or any episode during the series, and you can do this multiple times, by the way, not just once. Share a little screenshot or something about the show, about the episode, why you love it, why people should listen and help us get the word out by sharing it in your Instagram Stories.

And tag me, please. I’m at Nicole Leno official, and you will be entered in to win a human design reading with me here on the show. The last one we did was with Christie Wild. Oh. Goodness. That was several months ago. We’ll link it up in the show notes for you, but that episode you’ll hear she got so many ahas and really got so much value from that, and it was a completely free reading that she won just by sharing this show on her page.

So. If you would like something like that, all you have to do is do the same thing, share it on your Instagram, tag me so that I can collect you. I can collect that entry for you, and then we will announce the winners after the series is over. Okay, so let’s dive into the one. Four profile. We’re gonna talk about the one four today.

Our last episode was on the one three profile, the investigator martyr. Now we’re gonna go to the investigator opportunist. Now, this is also part of the right angle crosses. This is a personal destiny. What that means is this has to do with this person’s destiny. If you are a one four. Or if you are a right angle cross, when you look at your incarnation cross on your human design report or on your human design chart, you say incarnation cross.

And then it’s either gonna say right angle, cross of, and then whatever your cross is, or left angle, cross of, then the cross. Or it’ll say, juxtaposition, cross whatever it says. If it says right angle cross. Then that means you have a personal destiny. And what personal destiny really means is that this is about you.

This lifetime is not about cleaning up old karma or anything from past lives. It’s not about the other. Your destiny is not tied to your connection with other people. Your destiny is tied to your own process and your own discoveries here in this life they have to do with you. So different than somebody like me who I’m a five one.

I have a left angle cross. So my destiny has to do with other people much more than it has to do with myself. And we get the right angle, left angle. It’s really based off the profile. That’s how we determine that. So one four, if you are a one four, you will have a right angle cross. You will have a personal destiny.

But here’s what’s different. From you versus what sounds like almost the same thing, right? The one three, both have ones. One is in the front, which is the conscious side, but we have instead of the three, we have the four. Here’s what makes this different. First of all, this is what we call a harmonic profile.

The one and the four are harmonic lines. In the last episode, I talked about the different lines and how they stack up on top of each other. The visualization that we give for that is a house. You have a house with two floors. The first floor has the first line, the second line on top of it, the third line, and then you’re at the ceiling of that first floor.

Then on the second floor, the floor of the second floor is the fourth line. Fifth line and then the sixth line. And the sixth line is almost sitting on top of it, like hovering above almost. Now, what’s interesting about this and what makes it harmonic is the first line is the first part, the bottom of the first floor, the foundation of the first floor.

The fourth line is the foundation of the second floor. So we get this harmony because they are connected that way. They are steps, they are three steps away from each other. In the stack. What that gives us is we get two lines that are super grounded, the one in the four. They really love a good foundation, both of them.

Now, what we mean by harmonic, that might sound like this is an easier profile to have. I won’t say that any profiles are easy. I’d say that they are yours, and if you’re living in alignment with them, life will feel a lot easier. If you are living out of alignment with it or rocking the boat in one of the ways where you are out of balance, where maybe the one is leading or the four is leading, or you are in the shadow of one or both of your lines, life will feel harder.

Harmony does not necessarily mean harmony in your life. That doesn’t mean that it can’t, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that. What it means is that these are energies that can go together very easily, and they’re very linked. One thing I’ll say about one fours is these are usually super grounded people.

These are people who can really center themselves, but that comes with, again, the alignment. The alignment of usually being an expert in something which is that investigator side. And then also though having social aspects. So unlike the one three, where it is a very much a personal process where the one and the three are both in that personal end of the trigram, that lower floor is about you.

The second floor is about other people in that house analogy. So the one and the three are both doing, they’re doing their own thing. But you have one now in the lower house, the lower trigram, and now we have the four that sits in the upper trigram, which is when we start to reach across the aisle, which is when we start to reach out to the outside world and say, oh, I want to connect with you.

I need you. I have something to offer you. So what are you offering? You’re offering what you are interested in, in have cared to investigate and have dug into as a one you now have it to offer to the people through your four. Okay. So it can easily work in harmony, and I’ve worked with someone fors again.

These are rarer profiles. The one, four, the two five, the three, six, the five two, the four one, and the six three are all these like bridging profiles where is a very short period of time for people to be a one four. A much bigger amount of time. Many hours will go by, usually I think it’s like a two hour window or something, that you would become like a one four, whereas you could have like almost a whole day to be a one three.

So the probability of you landing in that spot and having your chart be that profile is much greater. If you’re a one three or a two-four, there’s a lot more one threes and two fours than there are one fours. The one-four sits in the middle. Now, I haven’t worked with tons of one fours because there are fewer of them, but I have worked with some and what I have noticed with One Fours is that they usually have a pretty strong expertise and that’s usually that works very much in their favor.

And the four, if they have gone out and done what the four is meant to do, which is to network and to have a network and to nurture their community. That doesn’t have to be a community that they run. It just has to be a community that they are part of. In fact, a lot of fours don’t run any sort of community, but they are connectors within groups.

They have no problem calling somebody that they haven’t spoken to in 10 years ’cause they just have that energy where they just don’t lose people. If a four has gone through life nurturing both of these aspects of themselves, usually what I see is things moving very quickly and pretty easily for them.

Life tends to unfold really naturally through that four line process. The opportunity comes through people. I look at it instead of Investigator Opportunist. I look at it like the connected specialist. They’re experts in something and they’re so well connected that they don’t have to market their expertise.

That tends to happen for them. So this, again, it’s that personal destiny. If their destiny doesn’t have to do with other people, but how they get out in the world absolutely will come through other people and their ability to nurture that network. But if they’re in the shadow of one of these, if they’re a one that is hiding away.

Taking too much time for solitude, then they might not be allowing that unconscious fourth line to do its thing. If they’re a four line, who is afraid of getting hurt, if they have maybe been hurt as a child, and this is something that I’ve seen with one fours, they can carry what people said, what people did, how they have been wronged, how they have been hurt in the past.

They can carry that forever and to their detriment. So what that does is that a lot of times we’ll keep them from fully trusting energetically. This is why some of the one fours that I’ve worked with, once we start to break down that wall of how they’ve been energetically holding back from people, because on the surface it doesn’t look like they are.

They are social, they are active, they’re out there with people. It’s working. But this is where you can do some emotional work on opening up at four and suddenly like the flood gates open and all the opportunity starts coming through, but they have to be an expert. They have to show what they know and what they are an authority in.

’cause the one is an authority and that one is sitting out front. If they don’t have confidence in that, then they’re probably not going to be leaning on that network the way that they need to in order for this profile to do its thing. But this is, honestly, it’s one of those profiles that I see move very quickly.

Some famous one fours. Jerry Seinfeld is a one four. I think he’s a real great example of what one fours. Look like he is an expert. You see, he’s such a craftsman. If you’ve seen, he did a documentary a while back. I don’t remember. I think it was like a comedy special that showed some behind the scenes and they showed all of his notes out on the floor, like they had his old notebooks out and I think they made photocopies of all the notes that he had made and it covered like a whole like section of a street.

He’s a craftsman with the way that he works a joke with the way that he builds. His comedy routines is so one line. It’s like a formal and creative all at the same time, which is so much a one line process. The one line is creative. It needs to create, it needs to exercise its expertise in some way. Now that can be in visual artistry.

That can be Jerry Seinfeld, where you are a comedian and you’re crafting jokes, or you’re writing stories, or you’re writing a television show. It can be lots of things, but it’s not a two line, which we’ll get to the two lines. In the next episode, we’re gonna jump into the two. Four, very different from the talent of the two.

One is a craftsman. The one is mastery over time and always goes deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. Ones aren’t born experts at things. One’s become experts at things. Anybody who has a one line is probably connected to the things that they wanna investigate. That’s where it comes from. That’s how your purpose gets lived out, is by investigating things.

A two is not going to investigate things. They’re very, not very interested in any of that. To tell you the truth, doesn’t mean that they don’t like to learn. It’s just that’s not how their purpose gets lived out. But for a one line, you’ve got to investigate. You have to, or it’s just not gonna work. Like Jerry Seinfeld came up through the clubs and worked the comedy circuit and met people, and ultimately met his great collaborator.

And Larry David, that’s where Seinfeld came from. One Fours are not meant to do it alone. I. A one three might be able to get away with that. A one four. It’s about the connection. It is about the opportunity that comes through connecting with people because you don’t know what other spark that person is going to add to the fire.

You’ve already lit. You don’t know where they’re gonna carry your message. You don’t know where they’re gonna carry you. So fours are just naturally collaborative and they have to be. Another famous one for is Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein. We obviously know who he was and how brilliant he was, but if you think about it, he was an out of the box thinker for very rooted in science, but always thinking out of the box, changing the way that we viewed science and processes within the scientific community.

He had to think out of the box that comes from a mastery of the one, and then the ability to say, okay, I’ve mastered this. Now we can get creative with it and make something new or think about things in new ways. Another famous one for is glorious Steinem. There aren’t tons of them. They’re out there. But there’s fewer of them than there are of the one threes because of that probability factor.

But these are big personalities. These are people that take up space in the world and they do it through really connecting with other people. But you have to allow, everything in this profile series is going to be about how are you balancing the one in the four? How are you balancing the conscious. With the unconscious, how are you balancing the personality side with who you just are In your essence?

Are you holding one of them back? Are you in shadow of one of these? If you are, you’re probably gonna experience resistance and friction in your life. You’re gonna wonder why your purpose isn’t really unfolding for you, and the first place to look. This is where I’m looking. I’m looking here, and then I’m looking at your type and I’m figuring if you are using your energy properly, are you really showing up?

Like Jerry Seinfeld, he’s showing up as a manifester and he absolutely shows up as a manifester. One for Manifester absolutely fits with who we know in the public eye of Jerry Seinfeld. He has friends forever and ever and ever. He has comedians in cars where he goes around with other comedians in his network, in his community, and he showcases them.

It was a huge show for him after Seinfeld, I think he does it completely his way, very manifester. I. He does not like to be told what to do, and he very much has this energy of a boss. He’s very much in charge. So this is how we start to piece these things together. The profile starts to tell us where might we make some subtle shifts or where might we find a shadow that if we started to lift it into the light, we could start to see things really change as a one four in your business.

It’s going to be so important that you are really digging into an area of expertise for yourself. That you are really daring to investigate the things that you care about and that you are connecting with other people and you are not lone wolfing it ’cause that will hold you back. So I hope you found this helpful.

If you want the guide, we have a free guide for you. It’s called X Factor by Design because your profile is absolutely about channeling and connecting with your unique X factor. This is the thing that can help you stand out from everybody else in your space. We have a free guide for you. Just DM me the word X factor on Instagram, and we will send you the guide.

And if you wanna go deeper with profile. Deconditioning your profile to know what the shadows are of each of the profile lines and how we can decondition this fast. We have another thing for you. I’ve released for the first time ever, I am an EFT practitioner. EFT is tapping emotional freedom technique.

The reason that so many of us say affirmations and try to change things like our relationship with our human design profile, and we do it from a mind and cognitive level. We don’t really see the change. We feel like we’re doing the work, but it isn’t working. Oftentimes. The reason for that is because we don’t connect to shadows at a thought level.

We connect to them at an energetic level. That’s why they keep coming back. The emotions or the glue holding you to a shadow pattern in your life for the first time I’m making. My EFT tappings for all of the profile lines and also for all of the human design types. I’m making them available individually for purchase and all you have to do to get the link for that is DM me the word tapping on Instagram.

I’m at Nicole Leno official. DM me that we’ll send you the link where you can go over and you can purchase any of those from the store. You can purchase them individually so you can just buy the ones that relate to you. Okay? If you wanna change fast tapping is. Absolutely the best tool that I have found to decondition quickly.

This is the work that changes people’s lives. So I hope that you try it out. I hope you at least take a look at it. If you have any questions, you can DM me on Instagram. I’m happy to answer them for you. But I hope you love the series. I hope you’re enjoying it. I hope you tune in for the next one, or we’re gonna dive into the two four profile.

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

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