Episdoe 447:

Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Laino, and we’re here, just the two of us, today, and we’re going to be talking to our projector friends, or we’re going to be talking about them. Maybe you’re not a projector, but you’re interested in this because you got a projector husband like I do, or you got a projector kid like I do, or you have a projector mom like I do, or maybe you work with projectors like I do. I am surrounded by projectors. If you haven’t even. My dog’s a projector. I have two dogs. One’s a reflector, one’s a projector. I’m surrounded by projectors in my life, and I’m fascinated by. By the projector population. I have seen them in all walks of life. I have seen them with all different levels of energy. 

I’ve seen how diverse the projector population is. And I wanted to do an episode. What we’re going to do, this is going to be a quick one. We can get you in and out of here pretty quick. Because what I’m going to say is going to be like, we’re going to get in and get out. We’re going to just really hit it right from the start. But there’s like, a real truth about projectors and what’s really holding them back, right? There are some wildly successful projectors out there. In fact, as you know, if you are a projector, if you’ve been following human design for a while and you’ve done any sort of reading, what you probably know, at bare minimum, is that is their signature is success. Projectors are here to be successful. I’m a manifesting generator. 

I am here to be at peace and to be satisfied, not necessarily successful. Peace and satisfaction will probably give me good things in life, give me more to feel satisfied by, but success not guaranteed. The only one of all the types that is wired for success, that it’s part of their makeup, it’s part of their destiny. It’s what they’re here for. It’s what makes them aligned. It is what makes them like, because your human design signature, what it’s telling you is like when you are bang on with this signature, you are on the path of where you belong in this life. The only type whose signature so their path in life, the green light of everything is whether or not they are successful, they feel successful, is a projector. So why are so many projectors struggling? 

Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about. I’m going to talk about what really is holding most projectors back. So if you’re a projector and you don’t feel successful right now, I’m going to talk to you a little bit about what I see. The number one thing that I see that’s holding projectors back. Okay, before we get started, I do want to mention that if human design interests you, if human design and meshing it with your business, if conversations like this one, if you saw the title to this episode and you were like, I need to listen to that. Whether you’re a projector or you’re not, and you were drawn in by this, then I have something that’s like a great, like perfect next step for you. 

If you’re looking to like, if you’re like, I want to really incorporate this, but I don’t know how. We’ve created something called the Human Design Authority Lab. What this is, this is human design for business. So all of that, like everything that I talk about on this show, but put into a membership so it’s super affordable. And what we’re doing in there, our mandate in there and our mission in there is to help you be to take more aligned action, to be in your signature more, to be doing things that will make you successful regardless of your type. So how do we do that? Where we’re keeping you in alignment with who you are and who you’re meant to be, but we’re also keeping you out there in the world where people can see it. 

So if you’re a projector, are you putting yourself out there so that you are getting recognized by people so you feel successful and you’re not bitter? Are you a manifester? So you’re following what vision you have and you’re really putting it out there. So we’re covering all of that. That is what the whole purpose of this membership is. We’re doing monthly masterclasses with me where I’m hosting a brand new masterclass every single month where I’m going to give you a new topic, we’re going to dive into some other aspect of human design and business and bringing it all together and then we’re going to have co working sessions and all these cool things to help you actually implement it in the world. We’re not interested in helping you, just learn more about human design, although there will be plenty of that. 

We’re interested in putting you into action around human design and putting yourself out there. Because too many of us, I find too many people are waiting for somebody to knock on their door and be like, excuse me, does somebody who teaches breathwork live here? They think that people are just going to find them without putting anything out. And that has not been my experience. Usually we have to tell people what we do. We have to put ourselves out there. And if you want the big success and you want people to be finding you and you want to put your magic out in the world, that’s really what it is. Living your purpose in this life is showing up for it. And that’s what this membership is going to help you do. Find the authority in you put it out in the world. 

Okay, so if you’re interested, this is something that everybody can afford. We’ve made this super duper affordable and it’s going to be highly valuable. So if you’re Interested, go to nicolelaino.comlab or go to Instagram. DM me the word lab on Instagram. I’m icoleno official and we’ll send you the details there. We have founding member pricing right now. It’ll never be cheaper than this again. So this is the time to get in. Okay, super excited about this. Okay, let’s talk about projectors now. Projectors for everybody who doesn’t know projector. What makes you a projector is that you do not have a sacral center defined. You do not have a motor to the throat. Those two things will make you a projector. But you have at least two centers defined. You have at least one channel in your defined. 

So you’re not a reflector with a completely open chart. You’re not a manifestor because you don’t have a motor to the throat and you’re not a generator or a manifesting generator. Because you do not have a sacral center defined. It makes you a projector. It means that energy is something that is not yours. As far as like how you initiate things, the way that you take action is going to be you’re waiting for other people’s energy to kind of guide it. Okay, so most common knowledge about projectors is that and all non sacrals. But manifestors are sort of in a category of their own because they are motorized, they are here to initiate. They have more energy than like a reflector, necessarily more. And none of it is consistent. But they have had a little more power. Right. 

And we tend to think about them that way, like manifesto. They do what they want when they want to, and they don’t. When they don’t feel like it, they don’t do anything at all. That’s like an aligned manifestor. And then we have reflectors where they have this, you know, just almost like a completely different life experience every day. Like, every day is just this new bag of whatever is happening. And it’s like, oh, and. And it’s so much about how they feel. And they’re taking in so much from, like the outside world. They’re like sampling the life buffet all the time. And then we have these projectors. And most of the time, when you’re reading about human design, there’s this stigma, incorrect thinking or something about that. Projectors don’t have energy. Bullshit. Projectors have plenty of energy. 

In fact, some of them are some of the most energetic people that I know. What projectors don’t have is sustainable energy. So that feeling of like going and going and going. They need breaks. They need to preserve their energy more than put it out. But it doesn’t mean that they can’t put things out. So when I say. And I titled the episode, you know that this is going to be about what holds most projectors back. So if you’re a projector, what you might be experiencing, and I’ve seen this a lot with clients and people that I’ve worked with, both privately and in business by design, where I’m working really closely with people. You know, we have weekly calls, we’re in telegram together. I’m working really closely with them where I can see their patterns. And that’s my job and that’s what I want. 

And I see what happens is that when something doesn’t work for a projector or something stops working, like, we’re seeing a lot of things shift in the business market right now. We’re seeing strategies that once worked not working as successfully as they did at one point. And the minute a projector starts to not feel successful, then that’s the snowball. You start to not feel successful as a projector. You’re putting out. Even if you’re not bitter, the bitterness is like, it’s not working. It’s not working, it’s not working. There is that desperate energy that when projectors have that it’s not magnetic. It’s repelling. It will be something that people are not. They’re not seeking you out, doesn’t mean they won’t like you anymore. But we don’t want to be liked. 

You want to be recognized, you want to be asked, you want to be invited, right? Well, they’re not going to ask you if you’re in that kind of energy, especially if you do some sort of guidance work. If you are a coach, if you are an energetic service provider where they’re looking to you for like, you know, for comfort or to make them feel better or to help them through something difficult, if they’re sensing that you are in a difficult place and you can’t guide yourself through it, then energetically what they’re picking up on is like, you’re not the person to help me with this. You gotta be clean. That’s why you need to take care of yourself. But what happens as we see some of these things? So that’s, I guess there’s two things that we’re gonna be talking about. 

Cause that wasn’t it. That wasn’t the number one thing. But when projectors start to not feel successful, that has a knock on effect in their life. So as a projector, you kind of have to find ways to feel successful. How do I feel good about me right now? How do I feel awesome about me? And you really have to make that a top priority. But what happens here? So what I was getting at was as things change, as things shift like they are in the market right now and people are having to change their strategies, shift the things that they’re doing, maybe rewrite something that you have been using for a long time. Right? That was feeling kind of cushy, kind of easy, kind of simple. Like you had a system and a projector loves a good system. 

They love a good reliable thing that just feels manageable. The minute a projector gets that, it’s going to feel like, oh my God, like everything is working and all is right with the world. And the minute it stops working, that’s where the success can start to feel far away and like they’re not connecting with it. And then this is the thing that stands in the projector’s way. This is what I see crumble. So many projectors is it’s not the amount of work that they have to do, it’s their perceived idea of what they can handle. Because there is so much talk about projectors and them not having sustainable energy and you know that they need to rest and they need to do all of these things. You notice I don’t really say that stuff on this show. 

I speak about it very differently because I don’t want that language in the heads of my listeners and the people that come to me for human design guidance, because that’s not the game. And the reason I can say that, because when you hear other people say this stuff or you see stuff on Instagram, I’m gonna get on it here a little bit. Those are not people that have been doing this very long. These are people who are reading out of a book and taking something out of a book and putting it on a page or saying it on their podcast to you. They haven’t observed all of these people. They haven’t seen it out in the world. They haven’t lived it long enough to know how this stuff really works. Projectors are not tired all the time. 

But what can tire a projector out is the fretting over the amount of work they perceive or think they have to do. And then they get in their heads about, well, I can’t do that because I’m a projector. I can’t do that because I’m a projector. I can’t do that because I’m a projector. Yes, you can. You just can’t sustain it for long times. And you need to build in enough time so that you are not stressing yourself out. You can’t have tight. And I don’t like saying can’t. I don’t like that word. I think that it creates more problems than solutions, buddy. That tells you know, it has to be some way or it can’t be another way. They’re too definite. They’re too finite. What we want is space in all of this. It could happen any way you want. 

It’s how you structure things. But what I see with a lot of projectors is there’s so much anxiety that they haven’t cleared from the past. They haven’t gotten over the trauma of the times where they’ve run themselves into the ground. They. And I say this with all the types. I’m a manifesting generator. I have to go through. Like, we also have to remember, like, we’ve grown since the last time. We’ve done a lot of things. But as a manifesting generator, I’ve got tons of energy, but I’ve also wasted that energy and not used it correctly in the past. So that thinking of tying it to a time when I was out of alignment, like, that doesn’t serve me. And I’ve had to do Work to unwind those feelings and feel those feelings and move on from them. I have to regulate after that. 

So for projectors, a lot of times it’s just them thinking that things won’t work. I can’t do it like that. And then they start to not feel like success is possible. And therein lies the problem. And that’s where, you know, I’m like begging them, please come see me, because we can work this out. We can create something that feels supportive for you, that feels doable for you, and a system that is sustainable for you. Do I suggest that projectors do nine day launches like I do and do them every six to eight weeks? No. I’m a manifesting generator and that was too much for me. It’s too much. Could you do it once if you wanted to kick things off? Sure. But you would schedule some real downtime after that and we would really work how we structured that whole thing. 

So you had lots of time in between and you had like, that’s the only thing you’re doing that day. There’s nothing that you can’t do. There’s only ways that you can run yourself into the ground or ways that you can support yourself. And there’s choices that we make, understanding what your energetic capacity is and what will make you feel successful and all of that. So it’s the way that we approach these things. There’s never, it’s never the thing, it’s how you structure the thing. I always say that, like people ask me all the time, I’m a projector, can I have a podcast? Of course you can have a podcast. 

In fact, I highly recommend it because there is no better place to put your wisdom, which is how projectors draw people in and get them and magnetize them to them is through things like, you know, longer form content where you can really build rapport and a connection with your audience. So yes, absolutely, projectors can have that. Are you going to do three episodes a week? Probably not. That probably won’t feel great. Maybe it will. I don’t know what you’re like, but we want to make these decisions not from fear, but from true alignment and understanding. Like, this is how I want to be recognized, is how you can put yourself out there and then you make choices. Do you do a weekly podcast, but then you’re making sure that you’re structuring your week. 

Time management is one of the most important things for a projector because it isn’t about the time, it’s about building in enough time between things that you’re able to recover and recharge. Like, I don’t have to do that as much as a manifesting generator projectors do, but they get in their head that I can’t do that because that’s going to drain me. That’s the thing that’s killing your success. That’s the thing that is holding you back. You have to let go of those preconceived notions and be open to looking at things with fresh eyes. Deal with any small t trauma you have from times when you did not listen to your body, because that’s probably what happened in the past when you burned out is you didn’t stop when your body said stop. That’s the danger. Are you wiser now? 

Do you have somebody in your corner who can call you out about when you are not paying attention to what your body is telling you and telling you to rest? Are you not building in time to. To take care of yourself? All of these things are going to help you be successful. Projectors can do anything the rest of us can. But you’re probably just going to do it more efficiently and elegantly than the rest of us, which means you don’t have to take as much time as it takes me to do something potentially right? So projectors, the big headline is don’t limit yourself. Don’t limit yourself. 

You can do anything if you are listening to your body and your body signals, if you are creating enough space to allow yourself to rest and recharge, if you are stopping and slowing down long enough to feel into things so you actually gain wisdom so you can be recognized for it, those are the priorities. I would love to see projectors shifting into in 2026. And if you are one of those and you want to join us in, I mean, if you want real guidance, business by design is for you. But if you want to jump in and start to really work with this and use the Human Design Lab like a gym to really get in alignment with who you are, where you’re putting your wisdom out there and taking action in a way that’s in alignment for you. Join the Human Design Lab. 

We would love to have you in there. It’s the Human Design Authority Lab. Just go to nicolelaino.com/lab you can get the info there and join right there at the founding member price or go to instagram. I’m @nicolainoofficial. DM me the word lab and I’ll send you all the info there. All right. I hope you love this episode. This is a quickie. Wasn’t as quick as I thought it would be. We we spent a little bit more time, but I hope that you got value out of it. I hope you projectors feel empowered that you can do anything in 2026. The world is your oyster. 

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You are just going to be like a complete and total Nazi about your time and although that’s a really bad word to use right now, but you’re going to be so strict about your time and preserving your energy that you don’t let anything override it. No conditioning, no thoughts, no coach, nobody. You listen to you. You will find that success finds you when you shift into this. Okay, so I hope you loved this. I hope this empowered you. I hope you join the lab so that we can work together inside there and I get to see in the master classes and co working sessions and all that fun stuff. But 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.