How I Became a Human Design Reader + Life Catch-Up
EPISODE #34: How I Became a Human Design Reader + Life Catch-Up
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In this episode, Leah shares what warranted her podcast break, TDOY business updates, and becoming a human design reader. She discusses all of the following:
01:07 What Leah has been up to during the podcast break
25:00 HD book
27:28 HD app
33:55 Leah’s background in app development
37:48 Reader network
47:42 Becoming a human design reader in 2024
51:02 Structure of HDM
Leah, 5/1 Sacral Generator, discusses why she took a break from her podcast. She talks about the process of creating a human design app and what new things are going on in her business. Leah explores the topic of becoming a human design reader in 2024 and her reader network. She discusses how using her human design type has helped her create Human Design Mastery and how you can become part of her world.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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I got into human design back in 2017 or 2018 from listening to a podcast, many of you are probably doing right now, listening to a podcast and hearing about human design. And I was so intrigued, and at the time, which also is why I wanted to create an app, is I looked up human design and I looked at my chart and it was so mechanical and there was nothing really out there that appealed to me. It felt just this personality test. And I was , okay, I'm a generator, but there was no , now click to learn about that or what that means. And so I remember I just put it away, and then I did nothing with it. Welcome back to another episode of The Design of You.
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I'm so excited to bring you guys to my podcast studio, which is my office, essentially. I officially turned my office into an entire studio. So what you guys can't see is I've got my phone videoing me. I've got a camera here, a camera here, and I've got I got all sorts of cords and mics and headphones and everything. I honestly don't even know what I'm doing. The podcast, slightly, I'll tell you guys why it's been delayed, but slightly it's been delayed because this has been the biggest learning curve for me ever. Basically, I'm going to take you guys back because we haven't talked since Halloween. That's the last time I put an episode out. I actually put an episode out in November and then took it down because it wasn't exactly what I wanted to say. But I haven't talked to you guys since then. And there's a lot of different reasons. We had a lot of projects that we were closing out and new things that were starting. And I'm going to give you guys all the details and life updates and everything that's happened since then. But one of the main reasons that we didn't do the podcast is because I knew I wanted to bring video to the podcast.
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And I wanted to make sure that when I brought back the podcast, it really was set up and everything was in a really nice format so that any time I wanted to take a video in the future, there would be support for that and we'd have this little set up. And so I basically said, you know what? I'm going to turn half my office into a podcast studio. I'm going to set up these little chairs. You can't see in this view, but I've got another chair for guests, which we'll maybe be starting to do some in-person guests, which I would love to do. And we'll be putting the podcast on YouTube and all sorts of stuff. But I really just wanted to have all of this stuff put together before we brought it back, because I know that a lot of you guys to watch the podcast via video or to watch podcasts in general, not mine, because I've never done it this way. And I also know that reels and getting clips of what the episodes are about is also really important in terms of marketing for myself and my business and my podcast, but also just for you guys to learn a little bit about human design if you can't take the time to watch an entire episode as well.
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So we are back in Better Than Ever. We have a podcast editor manager that we brought on. Thanks to Claudia, she's the one that's going to be editing this right now. And it's funny, I actually set up all my cameras then I was , I have to pee. So that's on camera. So that's really great. And so I had to go and use the restroom. And that part's not on camera, of course, but then I came back. So I'm learning my set up process. And I have to say this is my third or fourth time trying to record this. So I tried to record an episode yesterday. I'd gotten my hair done, which just needed to be done in general, because actually I have photos tomorrow, so I wanted it done for that. And I was , I'm going to record my podcast episode right after I get my hair done. And it was raining out and I was at the hair salon all day, and I woke up really early, which I have to tell you guys something, too. I've been doing 75 hard, and I'll get into it in a minute. But I have been waking up really early and working out.
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And between me, waking up early, working out, it raining, and then getting my hair done for four hours, I got home. And I was , okay, I'm going to I'll just touch up my makeup, come sit down and record this episode. And I just literally had no brainpower. If you are on Instagram, I shared some pictures of the video recording that I took where I'm just sitting there with my hands on my head , oh, my gosh, do I even have a brain? Because I kept talking and telling you guys these updates, and I was just going in circles. And I hate when I do that. And typically when that happens, when I record a podcast episode, I have the ability to just... Because I've always edited some myself or sent them to someone. But I usually will be , take that out. And just with the video, it was becoming so long. And I was , I just need to revisit this tomorrow. So I had a really good night's sleep. I just poured my second matcha for the day. I had lunch with a friend. I'm collaborative or split definition in human design.
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So when I'm connected with people, I work the best. So connected with a friend, gave a human design reading today, which was so much fun. And it was fun because it was with her and her newborn. And I haven't done that in a minute. And so I got done and I came home and I just touched on my hair, made this matcha, and I set up all my cameras, and I sat down, and I feel really good right now. So I am excited to dive into today's episode. So welcome back to the Design of You, the podcast. And I took some time to take some notes. This is my beautiful Magic of I journal, not sponsored, but we'll definitely link their journals down below because they're truly just so beautiful. And I took some notes on just what I wanted to talk about today. This episode is really going to be just a catch-up of us catching up on what I've been up to for the past few months, letting you guys know a little bit about what we've been doing behind the scenes in the design of you, some fun projects that we started, and then just giving you guys a snippet into what's happening in 2024 as far as we can tell.
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And then I want to tell you guys a little bit about my story with human design, how I got into it, and I want to talk about the next opportunity for all of you guys to become human design readers and ways that you guys can use human design in your career or life if you are not already, which I hope all of you guys are. So the last episode we released was in October on Halloween, specifically. And And so much has happened since then. I truly did not mean to take a break for this long. I feel bad that it's been this long because a lot of you have been messaging me , Is your podcast over with? Are you going to bring that back? And the podcast is absolutely not over with. I am, of course, bringing it back right now. I honestly had no intention of this break. Even if you talk to T, my social media manager, she'll tell you that we had plans for every single week into the end of the year and then into the beginning of the year. Again, every time that I was getting ready to sit down and record, I just was hitting a little bit of a wall.
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And I think that's because I had a lot of other projects happening. And then I just was hitting this place where I knew I wanted to bring the podcast back in such a bigger way that I almost needed a pause. Instead of just recording an episode one week and then the next week, all of a sudden, it's , now we're doing video and it's this whole thing. I just needed a pause from it. And I think that's just a really great thing to remember if any of you are feeling burnt out or you are just not showing up into something the way that you would to, or if you're feeling not as excited about something as you typically are, just take a break from it because I truly feel When we take a break, we give ourselves an opportunity to just refresh and rethink about things. And this is totally unrelated, but related in a way just on that comment is, I was recently thinking about my corporate job that I worked for four and a half years, and I was thinking about just the different projects and stuff that I was doing.
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And why I was thinking about it is because we are building a human design app, which I've talked a little bit about here and there, but we have officially started that. And I'm going to dive into where we're at with that and everything and what you guys can do to get involved. But when I worked my corporate job, I was thinking back to because I used to run a development team and work in development IT. And I was thinking back to just different projects I did. And I'm now being so removed from it. I quit my corporate job years ago. Being so removed from it, I can think of ways that I would approach work now if I could go back. I also was thinking about this with college and just generally in school. I would be so much more excited for certain classes. And I would do things so much differently if I could go back in time. And so if you ever take space away from something, you may have that feeling where all of a sudden you can revisit it in a new energy, in a new light, and have a new way of thinking about it and going about it.
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So that's how I really feel about the podcast. I feel there's an entire new process, and it's really nice to have some support here because one of the things that I've also used my human design in is realizing that I am someone who really does... There's so many things that I love in my work, but there are things that I don't love. And it's so important for me as a generator to do things that I love doing. And the best way for me to be able to show up in things that I love to do is to delegate the things that I don't really love to do. And part of what I don't doing is all of the back-end work of my podcast. And if you're listening and you're , Yeah, there's so many things in my life that I don't doing, but I don't really have the means or the capability to to offload that to someone else, I completely understand. Take baby steps because I think with business, specifically, and in life, there's so many ways that we can just get some help or make things more fun for us.
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So again, whether that's taking a break or reading a new book on that subject or that specific category in whatever capacity that is and just re-approaching it in a new way. For example, I don't really putting my clothes away in my drawers, but the other day I bought this drawer organizer and I had so much fun organizing that, and now I'm really excited to put my stuff back in my drawers. So that made it more fun for me. So if you're a generator, a manifesting generator, or just in general, this can be great advice is, if there's something in your life you don't doing, How can you make it more fun? And if you can't make it more fun, how can you get in more support or delegate things for that task for other people to do that may enjoy doing it more than you do or are okay with having that energy exchange of being paid to do something? So that is how I'm feeling with the podcast. I now have an editor, a manager, someone who's going to help me really behind the scenes. And that way I can show up consistently because I know a lot of you guys enjoy the podcast and want to hear me more consistently.
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I know I personally enjoy it because if I didn't enjoy it, which I was wondering at one point if that was going to be the case, and that's not. I do enjoy it. So that's why I'm bringing it back. So happy to be here. And then right after the last episode, we had just wrapped up my live course that I taught on human design called Human Design Mastery, which was my live six-week human design reader training course, which learned so much teaching and had a blast. I love all of the 46 beautiful women that went through it. I truly felt I created new friendships afterwards, and it really taught me so much and really allowed me to show up in a new way. I've never fully taught that. And so that was just huge for me and really just changed a lot about the way that I approach work and is really changing the way that I share about human design because Now that people are learning from me and sharing about it, I care to hold a lot of integrity around the human design system, which I always have, but even more so now than ever, because there's so many voices emerging in the human design space.
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And I know that when I first got started in human design, I didn't know everything. And that's the truth. And so now that I've been years into this, I feel I know a lot about human design. I know a lot about the different voices and how people share about human design. And so I care very deeply about the language and how things are translated and who's translating them and why and just what's going on behind the scenes. If you're , okay, what the heck is she talking about? What is even this? And that's a whole conversation for another time that I actually I was trying to share a little bit about in November, but it didn't come across the way that I intended it to in this episode that I recorded and released and then took down basically an hour later. So that all said, I just had so much fun teaching in that live course. But we did learn that six weeks is a little intense, and some people really d it, and some people were , way too much. You know what it is? It's human design is so complex, and it's a lot to just take in within six weeks.
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You definitely need at least 12 weeks And you need space. So again, going back to that space conversation that I mentioned earlier is taking space after you learn or absorb something new. Your brain can only mush so many things inside of it. So it's really great to just have these little breaks. So in that course, I had so much fun and the women loved it. We had really great reviews from everyone who went through it. We had a giant survey feedback form that everyone filled out to share a little bit more about their experience. And so what I've been working on the past few months, mostly, is really taking all of that feedback and integrating it into Human Design Mastery. I wanted to make Human Design Mastery even better than it was. And we also wanted to release it as a self-paced course, which I'm so happy to say that now there are over 90 students inside of HDM since we launched the self-paced version, which was on Black Friday. So that's incredible that there are over 90 people now inside of Human Design Mastery that I get to teach and work with. And if you're not sure what Human Design Mastery is, I have linked down below the link to all the information about it.
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And I'm going to talk a little bit about ways to get involved in our live versions of HDM, which we're continuing to do here in a little bit. But it's just been really special to turn the live course into a self-paced course, welcome so many new people in, work on the course. It's still not ... I have these huge for it, and it's still not in the full dream state, which I think is a great thing because you never want to release something. You never want to release something and just be , that's it. You know what I mean? You always want to improve. And so we have so many fun plans, but it's a really great, amazing course, and we have gotten the best comments and the best reviews and testimonials on it. So I'm really, really, really proud of that. So it's just been a dream come true. So we released the self-paced version right on Friday. And between there, I had my 28th birthday, which I cannot believe that I'm 28. Sometimes I feel I'm 55. I definitely feel I'm an old soul. And I've been told that by a lot of intuitives that I've lived many, many, many, many lives, and I deeply feel that way.
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I always feel I have little cracks of wisdom that I'm not quite sure where I developed those. But at the same time, I'm , How am I 28? Wasn't I just 21 yesterday? And so it's so funny how you can have these moments in in your life where you're , How am I already this age? How am I already this old? But also it's , But how am I not older than that? I'm really trying to live a little bit more in the moment, which has been a struggle for me most of my life. And I am definitely trying to just get better about that, specifically with work. I just hired a new business coach, which I'll maybe share a little bit about throughout the next few episodes and stuff. But I feel just hitting 28 and being , why, I have just a couple of years left of my 20s, which is crazy because I think I was just also 18 the other day. And how did I already go through almost all my 20s? And I'm also entering my Saturn return. So just a really... I don't know, just every birthday, I feel it's a little bit bittersweet, but it was a really beautiful birthday.
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I had a lot of fun. And shortly after that, I was in Scottsdale for a little bit. If you guys don't know, I live in Newport Beach. So Scottsdale is just five, six hour drive from me. We drove there to visit some of my stepmoms family for Thanksgiving. And then I got to meet up with Tiana, who is our content manager here, social media manager, which I do have sad news. Tiana is going to be leaving, and I don't know if I'll be rehiring someone or not yet. So I will keep you guys posted. We're still obviously in each other's lives and will continue to be. It's definitely not because she wanted to leave. We're really sad, but she's got bigger and greater things going on in her life. So I'm really proud of her. So that's another, I guess, update as of recent. But yeah, so that again takes us to where I just was with Black Friday, releasing the self-paced version of Human Design Mastery. And what else is in here? Shortly after that, we were in Charleston. So at the beginning of December, one of our dearest friends or a couple of friends that Zander and I have, they got married.
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Actually, the guy that introduced Zander and I, who's a childhood friend of mine and one of Zander's best friends, that's whose wedding we were So very cool. I'm going to tell the story of how we met and a bunch of stuff related to that in an episode at some point. But yeah, so we went to their wedding in Charleston, and here's what's really funny. I thought that I wanted to move to Charleston. I had this random dream and kept saying to Zander that we were going to move there. So we took an entire week trip to Charleston. And it's not that I don't Charleston. I definitely think it was the wrong time of the year. I think Charleston is very much of a place you want to visit in the warmer Again, we were there in December, and it's already a warmer climate, but it was chilly and it was rainy a lot of the days that we were there. I don't really feel I got the full Charleston experience with, I don't know, all the history tours. I feel when I look up videos of Charleston And a lot of it's on the water and lots of seafood.
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I think that I was there in this phase of wanting to feel really healthy, but then having this wedding and celebrating and then also wanting to... I don't know. My brain just wasn't fully in it. But I think ultimately it just didn't feel in alignment for me. One of the big things for me, obviously, I'm in human design. I do a lot in the spirituality space. Wellness is a big part of my life. If you guys have been with me since my Moongirl Plate days, I don't know if you guys know this, but I used to have a little food Instagram called Moon Girls' Plate. I only had a little over a thousand followers. Most of them were family friends, but some random people. And a lot of you guys follow the design of you. And I'm sure you guys have trickled into my podcast, maybe. I don't know. But I'm really into wellness and things that as well. So I didn't really feel Charleston had that wellness scene that I was looking for. And again, I don't know anyone really that lives there, so I could be completely wrong. So if you live in Charleston and you're , Girl, we got it all, then let me know.
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But yeah, Z and I, the one day, we were door-dashing and we were just trying to find something healthy to eat because we had just been eating so much between the wedding and just on your on your on vacation, you, of course, indulge. And we just could not find anything that honestly was healthy other than Chipotle. And so I just was , I don't know. It's really hard for me to move somewhere and not feel I have that health and wellness scene. So where I'm at in Newport is really great because I'm not quite in LA, which I because LA has a lot of traffic. But I'm close enough where there's lots of events and really cool things happening there and really cool things happening where I live. Lots of people care about their health and wellness in California, which is so cool to live here because that's everyone's mindset. There's not very many people who don't have a workout routine or some health and wellness routine in their life. And I love that because I think it's important and people are happier because of it. And the sun always shines. Who doesn't love that?
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But why I thought we were going to move or potentially that was an option is because... And it still could be an option, so I don't want to fully write it off, but Zander is going to be going back to school, most ly in the next year or so. And there might be a move there. We could also just stay in Southern California, which I would be thrilled about, but It just depends on if wherever he gets into school. He's going to be in school for about three years, so we're going to, I guess, settle for a little bit wherever we go. So we'll see what happens. So a little bit more of an update. And then, I guess shortly after Charleston, we went back to Ohio for Christmas, which is where we are both from. And that was so fun. I truly will always go home for the holidays. I can't imagine spending the holidays without my family in both of our And my niece and nephew, my nephew is seven and my niece is... She's three. She's going to be turning four soon. And she's just at the funnest age. And they're just both at fun ages for the holidays.
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So watching them open presents. And I truly feel it's so sad being away from your younger members of your family, younger members of your family, I guess. Yeah. Because they're just growing so much. And so you miss out on so much of the growth that takes place. So I I went all out for Christmas this year and got them some really cool stuff. And I just was really excited about it. And it was so fun just seeing the reactions and everything else. So it was really cool to be home. But shortly after that, let's see what else. It was New Year's Eve. We did low-key stuff New Year's Eve, and then it was the new year. And one thing about me is I'm a big New Year's girl. I love New Year's resolutions. I love setting them. I love goal setting in general. I love challenges. One thing about me is I'm going to do the medical medium challenge. I'm going to do , Whole 30. I love just learning things about myself. And I always do, even if I fail challenges, I always learn a lot about myself in terms of why did I fail that or why didn't that work?
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So I did a little challenge in... I started a challenge at the beginning of this year, which is 75 Hard, which I think I'm going to do an entire episode dedicated to 75 Hard once I'm finished. And I'm excited for that because I think you guys are going to learn about 75 Hard in a new light and in a way that you probably haven't heard before, because my experience is not what you think in terms of how I feel about it. And to give you guys an insight, if you're not familiar with 75 Hard, it's basically 75 days of no drinking. You have to follow a diet, which is up to you and mine. I've just been doing no gluten, two workouts a day. One has to be outside, and both workouts have to be 45 minutes at least. And then a progress photo a day, and then reading 10 pages of a book per day. So I'm going to tell you guys my experience. Sandra is doing it with me at some point in an episode. But just for the time being, just to give you a little snippet, it is not what you think.
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And it's made my life a little bit worse, which I feel most people say it makes their life amazing, but I cannot wait for it to be over. I'm not going to give up, but I certainly am ready for it to be over. I think I'm on day 50 or so. My last day is March 16th. So when this podcast comes out, it will be a different day. But Yeah. I can't wait to just share a little bit more about that. And I'll do a question box. You guys can submit some stuff that you want to know about 75 Hard on Instagram. So stay tuned for that. I'll make sure to share it both on my personal page and the Design of You page, which I've been doing that a lot, too, if you've noticed. A lot of you guys are , I want to know more about you and who you are. And I actively was trying to get myself off of my Instagram, the design of you as an Instagram, because I really just wanted that to be different from my personal life. But so many of you keep saying you want to hear more about my life.
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One of you specifically told me that I have a really great gossiping voice, which I cracked up about because I didn't ever think that before, and I am not quite sure what that means. But they're , I just feel you could just tell us juicy gossip, and I just would listen to anything that you say. And that is just hilarious to me. Anyway, I'm sharing more stuff there. I'm doing a double share thing. So I guess stay tuned or just follow one of those pages to get on board with that. And let's see what else. Some other big things happen as I'm going back through my list here. I should have mentioned that I got a book deal on my birthday, which was insane. And I have to share a little bit about the fact that I, with this book deal, came out of nowhere, but I actually ended up denying it. But then shortly after, universally, as we know, if you guys listen to my 12-Step Manifestation episode, which if you haven't, you should, it's the best episode on podcast, I believe. I'll link that down below as well. Truly, when we say no to things that don't feel in alignment for us, we really open the door for things to come in that are truly in alignment for us.
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So when we say yes to things because we're nervous or scared or because it's going to make someone else happy, we actually say no to ourselves and no to opportunities that were meant for us. And so I got this book deal on my birthday, which I felt was so serendipitous and so amazing. And I felt so excited about it. So I was , okay, I'm excited. I'm a generator, so I'm , this is good for me. But then I just kept having this feeling something's not right. And I ended up circulating the deal with just some people. And ultimately, they were , Do not sign this. This is not a good deal. So I'm so glad I trusted myself. And I just said, I'm going to pass on this. And I ended up, I was , I'm going to write a book proposal in 2024. I'm going to just spend some time really crafting a really beautiful proposal, and I'm going to send that to some agents. And then I'll just work with... I'll do the formal book publishing process, which I'm learning so much about because I knew absolutely nothing about that until the past few months.
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And what happened is a few months later, actually, while I was in Charleston, I got an email from a way bigger publisher and really a publisher that I admire now. I didn't know who they were initially, but so many of their books I recognize. And so I really have... I guess I've admired from afar. And they asked, Have you ever thought about writing a book? I'm , Yes, I actually just finished writing a little proposal for this other publisher. And so we've been working back and forth and we just landed a deal not too long ago. I think I can share that. I don't actually know if I can share it or not, but I've already shared it quite a bit. I'm going to be doing a lot of writing in the next few months. Pretty much this year is going to be a lot of writing for me because we are also releasing an app, which, again, I mentioned earlier, and I know I mentioned in another episode, I think I did back in May because May or June was when we initially started this project, but we put a little bit of a hold on it because if you know anything about app development, one, it's expensive, and two, it takes a lot of time and energy, and it just wasn't the right space.
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Again, back to that manifestation episode, I talk a lot about, again, saying no and being tested and making sure that things are in the right place at the right time. And how really I manifested that, too. Yeah, at That just happened. And we were going to get started then. But again, it just wasn't the right time. And so in December, I finally sent a note to the two girls that are helping me build the app, which I'm very proud of because there's a lot of men in tech and no hate to men at all. But it's really cool to have women doing things that most... Usually, you see men doing. I'm just very proud to hire two just brilliant, beautiful ladies to help build this thing. And really, my business is fully supported by women other than I just hired a male business coach. But my business has been fully supported by women for so long, and that's so cool. But yeah, so I sent an email in December saying, Let's get started first of the year. And so we did. And I'm recording this on February 21st, I think it is. Yeah, it's the 21st.
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And we are officially at the phase of we finish the creative ideas, the creative direction of the app, which I can't wait for you guys to see. I don't even know what it looks because we just have done little prototypes, but we have still so much to build. And I guess the other creative process will go in hand with the development process. But it's going to be really cool. It's going to be un any app you've seen before. There's really only a few prominent human design apps that exist. And so we're really trying to take what's really great about a lot of these other apps that exist, but then put it into a way that really feels our brand. Of course, it's my voice and the way that I write and talk and speak about human And so we've got some really cool ideas, and I just can't wait to flush it all out. And here's the thing that I want to tell you guys. You guys have the opportunity to be a part of the app in two ways. The first way is if you have an idea for the app, I'd love to hear from you, completely anonymous.
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So down below, you'll see App Suggestion Box, and that is a link that takes you to my website. And we put a little form there that you can submit any ideas that you have for this app. So if you're , I really want to see a connection chart. So I really want to learn about this, or I really want to have a place to do X, Y, Z or whatever it may be, I really want to hear exactly what you want. And please tell me everything. If you're , Oh, my gosh, this is so silly. I want you to either submit 85 million different things in that box Just literally be , this idea, this idea. Just hit submit. I would literally love that. And that would make me squille with joy. Or if you just have a giant paragraph of things, what I'm trying to say is just really honestly put every single thing that you can think of inside of that because we will take those suggestions very seriously. And yeah, I'm just so stoked to bring this app to you guys. Again, I don't have a timeline for it at all. And when I do, I'll let you guys know.
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And here's the other two ways. There's one other way and actually two other ways that you guys can get involved. So the second way is I am sharing a lot about the app on Instagram. And so I know I've already mentioned my Instagram today, which most of you guys are there in general. I would love if you guys could go on on Instagram and just start paying attention to my stories because I'm going to be sharing all sorts of things with the app and asking for your help. So we just did one a few weeks ago. We had the icon that's for my body graph. I didn't know if it should be a cluster of these little shapes from the body graph, different centers, or if it should be a little icon of the body graph. So basically, I am just asking for you guys, do you A or B? Do you this or that? And so you guys have a chance to be really involved not only through this suggestion box, But also just on Instagram, just helping vote for what features you or what things you better versus the other.
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And so this is going to be a really collaborative process. And that makes me really excited, too, because it will feel one big, beautiful collaboration of my community, which I have to also just say I'm so grateful for all of you guys being here because even though my podcast was on a break for the past three months, my community grew to over 42,000 people, which is insane on Instagram. I'm still in shock that that's even the amount of people that are tuned into human design and my work. The other thing that happened is so many of you joined my newsletter. So our newsletter grew a ton. And so I haven't been sending a lot of emails because I typically do in cadence with my podcast, but I'm just so happy to have more of you there. And yeah, so that's just wanted to say, even though this podcast hasn't been happening, so many of you guys have grown into my community. And I also should say that so many of you continue to listen to the podcast. My podcast was still in the top 100 for spirituality a few different times in the past three months, and I get emails when that happens.
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So I was just blown away that we were able to We'll do that without being here. So thank you guys for being a part of this community. And I hope that you guys want to get involved with the app. And there's one other opportunity. So I will be doing at some point for a version 2 of the app, a kickstarter, which a lot of you guys are on the waitlist for updates about the app already. And so if you'd to get updated on when you can actually be a bigger part of the app in terms of if you guys want to donate to the project. And what happens is if you donate at certain levels, you'll win a reading with me. And this isn't anywhere written down yet. So there's not anywhere you'll be able to find this initially. But if you can get on that waitlist, which we'll link down below, it will just be called app waitlist. You'll get updates to your inbox about the app when it gets close launch. And we'll be looking for beta testers. We'll be looking for first-time users inside of it to get your feedback. And you'll also have an opportunity, again, to donate to the project if you really believe in it and you really want to see a feature in there.
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So of all the things I've talked about, I'm so very excited, of course, for teaching so many students. And I actually have one more thing that I want to share as well. And I'm so excited for the book. I'm the most excited for the app because if you guys know my story, you I know that I used to work for, as I mentioned earlier, I used to work for a company and I used to work in development. So my job was a... It was called the Agile Release Manager was my title. But I really served a product owner. And then I was a Scrum master part-time for about six months before I officially left my corporate job to do what I do now. But when I was doing human design and working that job, I wanted to build an app so bad. That was my dream. And I can even remember sitting in my apartment. Z and I moved to Columbus, Ohio at one point. I remember sitting in there and building this document and writing all of this stuff about this app that I wanted to do. I was , I have a table of , this is what I in these apps, and this is what I don't in these apps.
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And this is who I can talk to about this. And I had conversations with so many people, and I talk a little bit about this in the Manifestation episode, too, where I literally was having conversations with anyone I knew. I was calling old coworkers, asking them about... This was , shortly after I was calling them, right after I left my corporate job, asking them about who should I talk to? What do I need to know if I didn't already know it? And it just was something I wanted to do so bad. And I was really forging this project. But as a generator, it's not good for me to force things to happen. And that's what it started to feel . So I had to just say, you know what? I've talked about this enough. The universe and Almighty, whoever, goddess, God, whatever is in the sky, they know that this is something I want to do. My spirit guides have heard me say it enough that I just have to trust that it's going to happen regardless. And so I took back and just said, you know what? I'm going to focus on something else.
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And then that's when the girls came into my life who were helping me build the app. So I worked in development And I really just wanted to build a human design app. It was just a huge part of what I wanted to do. And again, I was creating so much friction in my life trying to make it happen. And usually when that happens, it's just a sign that you have to take a break and just trust that it will all come into And it did. And then now it's at the perfect place. And I'm just so excited because it feels it's bridging my two worlds. I went to college for... My degree in college was in strategic communication and interactive media studies. And if you're , what the hell is interactive media studies? It's basically this program that my university has where you can choose your track. Mine was interactive business. And so you could be a graphic designer. You could do... There's all sorts of tracks, but classes And the classes that I took under that were graphic design, digital branding, social media marketing, agile release management. So agile framework, game design. I did a whole class on, I was telling Sarah, Ralph this the other night, randomly, about how to archive documents in digital libraries and just all sorts of things.
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And I took coding classes in CSS and JavaScript and in HTML. So I know a little bit about coding, and that's how I ended up landing, ultimately, my Fortune 500 job and doing what I did. And I was really great at the communication piece of my degree with my double major. So I love doing that. I'm great at it. And I love human design. So it's I've always had these two worlds of this strategic communication, development, marketing, I guess, tech side of me. And then I also love human design, and I love spirituality and wellness and all the things. So it's really a beautiful marriage between two worlds. And we'll do a whole episode dedicated to the podcast when it comes out. But I'm just the most excited, truly the most excited for this. And so here's some things. There's one other thing that I want to announce for you guys, and that is that if you haven't seen, if you're not on my Instagram or my newsletter, we launched a reader network. So I mentioned that there were 46 amazing, beautiful women that went through the live course of Human Design Mastery. And then we also welcomed...
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There's over 90 of you now between that and the self-paced course, which everyone that was in that live course is now in the self-paced course. And everyone in the self-paced course also has the opportunity to be a part of any future live round at no additional cost. But something that we heard from so many people moving through the course was, they were asking about sharing on Instagram and marketing their businesses. And so we had so many questions around, how can I take... How do I do human design? How do I get clientele? And so many of my students didn't want to have to... They wanted to just do human design. They wanted to give readings. They want to change people's lives, but they don't want to have to become social media managers and have to become influencers or create reels and carousels about human design, which I fully understand because that's a lot. That's half of what I do in my business is creating human design content, which I find so enjoyable, but it's a lot. And so especially with the algorithms and the sea of just things out there. So people were , we'd love to just use the platform that you've built and use the community that you have and start reading for people there.
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So we launched a reader network, which was also such a learning curve for me. So between the podcast, equipment, editing, and teaching new students, and learning about publishing and everything else, and well, I already knew a lot about app development. But we decided to release or we decided to create a reader network. And so you guys now, if you are interested in getting a human design reading from someone other than me, that's someone I hand selected. So not every all 90 students. There's only about eight croles right now that I have hand selected that I know personally that I truly love and I vouch for their human design knowledge. And all of them have to go through a pretty extensive list of things to be able to be listed on my website. So if you are interested in getting a Human Design reading, you now can just browse a few readers, and they're a lot cheaper than me. So the other really great thing about this network is that these readers are way less expensive to book a reading with and just as great as I am. And that's on purpose. I've got a lot of big projects happening this year, and I wanted to spend less time doing one-on-one work and one-on-one coaching and one-on-one reading so I can focus on my writing about human design and creating this app and just more ways for you guys to just enjoy it and get more in touch with my community because HDM is also a giant community of girls and men, too, that I am now communicating with.
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So there is now the Design of You Reader Network So if you go to my website and hit Book a reading, actually it'll be linked down below. You can browse a few of my hand selected readers. And again, I want to just say a little bit about how I chose these readers because I think that's important. Each of them had to pass a human design assessment, which was a lengthy exam that I put together. They had to pass that and they had to pass that and they had to have an 80 % or above. And then the other thing is that they had to submit an application for this, which is another application of human design knowledge based on those questions. And then they had to submit a video of a reading that they did and/or five testimonials from people that they have done readings with. And so we vetted everything inside of this little network of people to make sure that they're really great readers. They've absorbed the content that I've taught them, and lots of them have taken other human design courses and have tons of certifications or degrees and really amazing things.
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Some of the girls They do Reiki. Some of the girls are in social media. Some of the girls are astrologers as well. So we really wanted a place where you can book a reading with someone that I have trained, someone that I trust, that I hand selected and chose, and that is vetted really greatly and at a deep level. And they have different skill sets and interests and specialties that you can book with if you have a specific thing you want to learn in human design. Each one has their reading, and then there's a little add-on. So You can add on a 10-minute Reiki healing, depending on if that's person certified in that, or you can add on some Gene Key stuff. You can add on a little bit of an astrology integration. One of our girls does variable deep dives. So there's lots of different options. So go in there and see what girl you resonate with and book a reading with them. They are so excited to meet all of you. Their calendars are wide open and you can still book a reading with me. I'm still there. I'm just a little bit more expensive because my My time is spread out a little bit thinner these days.
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And it even will be more because I should also let you guys know we're getting a puppy, which I'm going to talk about in a second. So you can still book with me. My just time is limited, and so there's not as many spots on my calendar. And I can't wait to meet you guys. And my readers can't wait to meet you if you want to get to know them. Each of them has a little snippet on my Instagram and a highlight called readers. But each one has a profile page, so you can click through and learn a little bit more about their stories, see some photos of them, see what their body graph is, which I know is important. A lot of people want to see what their charts look . And you can also see their specialties, what languages they speak, what time zone they're in. And you can also click to their socials and learn more about them. You could send them an email if you have a question. So lots of ways to get in touch. And I'm very excited to have that network. So I want to talk a little bit about my story of how I became a human design reader.
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And then I'm going to share a little bit about my course that's coming up. And I also want to share just why I think learning human design can be so great for anyone in any profession. So I became a human design reader. And I'm sharing this story because I just shared this today. I had lunch with a new friend, and I shared a little bit about how I got into human design, which if you want the full just length of that story, go to the first episode of my podcast and you'll hear all of this in way more detail. I need to relisten to it because it's been a minute since I've listened to it. So I'm , I wonder if there's anything that isn't said there. But I think most of it's covered. But I got into human design back in 2017 or 2018 from listening to a podcast, many of you are probably doing right now, listening to a podcast and hearing about human design. And I was so intrigued And at the time, which also is why I wanted to create an app, is I looked up human design and I looked at my chart and it was so mechanical and there was nothing really out there that appealed to me.
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It felt just this personality test. I was , okay, I'm a generator. But there was no , now click to learn about that or what that means. And so I remember I just put it away and then I did nothing with it. A few years later, I'm on Instagram and there is an influencer I follow who's sharing about human design. And she's , I had the most incredible reading and oh my gosh, it was so great. And so I was , oh, wow, that's really cool. And I remember hearing about human design years ago. And I go and I book a reading with the girl that she mentioned, who is AleZander Cole, by the way. Love her. She was on the podcast and talked about generators with me because we're both 5'1 generators. I think she's emotional, though, and I'm sacral. And she's really great to follow on Instagram, if you don't already. But so between the time that I booked the reading and had the reading, it was maybe a week, and I bought the Definitive Book of Human Design and just totally geeked out. I was , I am obsessed with this.
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And then I looked at my chart online and there were so much more out there that existed about human design, thanks to Jenna Zoe. And I was just so into human design. I literally texted Zander saying, This is going to take over my whole life. And at the time, I thought that this was just going to be something I did on the side, which is such a great thing. If any of you guys are listening and you're , I want to do something spiritual I want to help other people. I want to impact their lives. I want to talk about human design or astronomy, and I want to make money doing it. Human Design Mastery is a great way to be able to... That program, my program, Human Design Mastery, is a great way to be able to learn human design to do so. But for me, I just was geeking out and I learned so much about it. And then I decided to announce it on my Instagram. I shared it with people, talked about it. And then next thing you know, it's my coworker and then my co-worker's brother, and then that person's co-worker, and then their grandma, and then their mom.
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And so it literally was this trickle effect of people wanting to book sessions with me. And then I slowly realized that I loved doing human design, and I only wanted to do that. And so every time I was sitting at my corporate job, I was basically trying to do human design readings or working on my human design stuff constantly and studying it. And I fully just knew it was what I was going to do the rest of my life. And so that's a very high level view of my story on human design and how I got into it. And there's a lot of things in that story, too. So you have to listen the first episode of my podcast where I talk about how I was definitely tested by the universe between there and how I fully got into what I'm doing and what it took to get me to actually make that decision because it wasn't something that happened overnight. Let's talk about becoming a human design reader in 2024 as we talk about those readers. And here's the thing, every single person that goes through human design mastery has the opportunity to be a part of this network.
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So the girls right now are ones that I knew really well and that reach out to me that I felt really connected to. But every single person inside of Human Design Mastery has the opportunity to be able to now become a reader on my website if they go through, obviously, the different steps to do so. Each of you listening to this, if you have an interest in human design and want to become a human design reader this year, or even if you're , I don't really want to become a human design reader or be listed anywhere, I just want to know everything about human design because I have a big family, or I'm a life coach, or I'm a I manage people, or I'm a leader, or I may... Literally anything, anyone in any degree can get to know human design and it will impact your life. If you are interested in learning a little bit more about human design, perhaps mastering the system, becoming a human design master, you guys should really look into human design mastery. I mean, I'm not just saying it's the greatest program out there because I created it.
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I truly do feel that. One of the questions that I've gotten three So many times in the past month, I had two emails come through from people asking me, Where did you learn human design? Who did you study with? And I actually have an entire section in HDM for the just acknowledgement of my sources. And here's the thing, it's everywhere. So I've taken courses with the International Human Design School, their video courses online. I've read lots of their teacher manuals and all the different content that they have on Jovian Archive. I have read pretty much all the human design books. I mean, all of them are on my shelf right now. The Book of Lines by Chetam Parkin. We've got the Human Design Book by Chetam Parkin. Again, we've got the Definitive Book of Human Design by Ra Ruhu and Linda Munal. We've got the Love Book by Ra Ruhu. I have The Circutry Book, Gene Keys by Richard Rud, the Human Design Workbook by Karen Curry- Parker, Abundance by Design by Karen Curry- Parker. I've got Pure Generators, Rachel's Human Design, The Modern Guide to Human Design. I've got her book. I've got literally everything that you can...
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Every book that exists out there, we have all of the ceremonians decks and books I own. And I love every single one. I've taken courses with Jenna Zoe. I've taken courses with Erin, I've taken courses with Karen. So there's just an array of my knowledge is from all of these teachers. Jess Field truly have done a lot with my human design knowledge. And so instead of you having to take all of those courses, you can just take Human Design Mastery, which is a blend of really everything that I have all of my knowledge, and of course, has my own flavor to it. I'm a 5'1, and so one of the gifts of being a 5'1 is universalizing things, universalizing messages, and being able to come up with new concepts and ways of thinking. And people either love it or hate it. But there's a lot of ways that I approach human design that I think is a little bit unique and different than everyone else. And some of it, some people do talk about things in different ways that I share as well in my own work. So I find I'm a blend of the the top human design and the source human design.
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And I a little bit of everything. So that is what's really great about human design mastery is because you get a course because I haven't really described the structure of it. So if you join today, which you can right now inside, there's a link down below, And you can join and immediately you'll get access to modules. There are 15 modules total, plus bonus lessons. And the modules have videos, they've got PDF slides, they've got resource linked, any podcast episode related to articles linked. So you have this really amazing resource house, but then all the information just provided to you, and you can listen to it or watch it. You also get this exclusive community. So all of the 90 plus students inside of HDM are inside this community. One of my One of my students was asking about how to see different intuitive powers or intuitive gifts inside your human design chart because she had someone who she was doing a reading with who was interested in that subject. So we talk a lot about so many different things. And the community is great because that gives you a chance to interact with me, ask me specific questions for sessions you have coming up.
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You have this ability to connect with all of my students who are wondering the same thing. And so it's just a really great community. And it's incredible. We do a live Q&A every month, which is something that's new that we're going to be starting. And so you get this self-paced course, and then you have an opportunity to join every single live round in the future. And you don't have to join the live rounds if you don't want to. But each live round has its own community, too. So our next live round will be on March 27th is when it starts. And so you can enroll today and also enroll in that live round. So what happens is you'll enroll. If you enroll today, you'll get access to the self-paced course. You can start learning everything right now if you wanted to. But also then starting on March 27th, we'll get together for three hours once a week for 15 weeks. And so you'll have a chance to sit with me, go through the content live, learn everything, then go and apply that to clients or your life or anything else for a week, and then come back to the next thing.
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And then if you're , I can't remember what they said, then you have the self-paced course. And then you have the community to ask even more questions, whether that's the entire community of everyone and all who's taken any live round or is in the self-paced or just your specific cohort that's in this live round. So we really wanted the course to be something where you can jump in, you can learn anything you want about human design, and then also have this ability to go through live and interact with people in a more conversational format. So I'm very excited to bring that to you guys. So we'll link all of the information down below. And if you're not really sure about human design mastery, but you're really interested in learning how to read a human design chart, we have a free master class coming up, and I will also have that link down below. So this will be a free class, probably two or three hours as well, maybe less than that. I'm not quite sure yet. I haven't fully gone through the class specifically. I'm in the process of putting the slides together. But once I put those together and go through, it's going to be a pretty lengthy master class that you can take on how to read a human design chart.
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And the purpose of this is if you're just curious about human design, is This is going to be a really great free class for you to join to learn a little bit more for your own life. So that is also linked down below if you'd to join that free class and get to meet me and ask me some questions live as well. And then, of course, I'd I love to have you in Human Design Mastery. So what I want people to know is anyone can do this. I think you guys have heard my episode or you've heard me talk about my psychic mediumship journey, which is a big part of my life and something that I brought to you all earlier this fall, which I know so many of you want to hear more about, and we'll do a dedicated episode to what's up with that journey. Spoiler alert, there really hasn't been a lot happening because that work requires sacred space, and I haven't created that sacred space for it. And the times I haven't and did that energy work, I haven't felt good about it. So I've decided to put it away for now.
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But I got in a human design and just decided that this became my whole world. But so many of you, I know you have a desire to do something spiritual, again, to help people. And human design is such a great way to be able to do that and make a living doing it, too. So human design readings typically range anywhere from $100 to $600. I've even seen people charge which I don't think that that's necessary. That's a little bit crazy. But I will let people have the energy exchange that they feel is that makes the most sense for them. So if any of you guys are interested in becoming human design readers, it's a really great way to be able to impact lives and learn about yourself along the way and do something really fun and fulfilling that you can make a living out of. And so that's something that I think is just really powerful about human design in terms of doing it for a living, along with It literally will change your life. It will allow you to step into your purpose and allow you to understand your gifts and how to work with your energy so that you know if human design mastery or becoming human design reader is right for you.
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And human design can be such a great It's a great thing for so many professions. A lot of the girls in my program are nutritionists. We've got some girls who are astrologers. We've got some girls who are in real estate and guys, too. There's mostly girls in it right now, and that's who I end up communicating a lot with, but we do have men going through it. So if you're a guy listening, you would love it, too. But there's all sorts of different professions in there. We have a graphic designer who joined because she wants to merge human design with graphic design. We have life coaches, we have directors, leaders, just so many different professions of people learning human design and applying that in their everyday lives or their world. And again, some people are , I don't want to use human design professionally at all. I just want to use it for my family. And that's amazing, too. So So it really can be such an incredible thing. And we provide so many resources inside of Human Design Mastery for you. So we have the ability to learn how to give readings, how to talk about human design to people who are skeptical about it, how to do specific types of readings depending on what people are interested in, whether that's for purpose, for twins, for groups or families, for workshops.
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We also have insight on to how to run your human design business. If you want to run charts and have software links somewhere on your site. We have insight on how you can market yourself based on your human design. We also have insight on just other tools for your practice, what are email tools that you can use? What are great ways What are tools to help support your social media? If that's something you're interested in or if you want to be a part of our Reader Network. And we also work with how to price readings. What happens if this happens in a session? Our Reader Network specifically has a whole library We have resources on what to say if there's a cancelation, when to increase your prices, what are good and bad reader etiquette or practices, what's a follow-up email I can use. We have all these incredible resources available. And it's just really fun. If you are interested and called to being a human design reader in 2024, join the master class below on how to read a human design chart, and then consider human design mastery. We've got payment plans. You don't have to pay at all today.
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If you're inside the US, there are really low payment plans through Affirm. And then we also, if you're outside of the US, we've got some payment plans, not as low as the Affirm payment plans, unfortunately. Whenever that is allowed to happen in other countries, we will immediately be implementing it. But I do have some smaller payment plans available for those of you that are outside the US. And you can send me. I want to just say, please send me an email. A lot of you guys have been asking me some really important questions in the DMs, and unfortunately, I just don't have the time to get to everyone's DMs these days. And I feel really bad when people send me a message to my personal page and they're , Hey, I sent you a message on your other page, or they send me an email and they're , I've been DMing you, and I'm , I'm so sorry. Or I open a DM and I'm , It's from two months ago, and it's a It's a very important question. I'm , I'm so sorry, just I don't have the capacity to get to everyone there.
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And I'd love to be able to, and hopefully someday we'll have that capacity. But really, the best way to reach me is email right now. But yeah, so if you have any questions on that, if you want the payment plan information, send me an email, leah@thedesignofyou. Com or support@thedesignofyou. Com. You can access both down below. And I would love to just talk to you and see if you have any questions about anything. Of course, inside the How to read a chart masterclass, I'm there to answer your questions, too. And then last but certainly not least, I want to just say, again, if you're called to being a human design reader, the other opportunity we'll have this year is, again, you can join the self-paced course whenever. But if you want to be in that live round coming up starting March 27th, we'll try to do another live round this year. My plan is to do one to three rounds a year, but I don't have dates yet. And I don't want to commit to dates quite yet because I don't know what the second half of my year is going to look quite yet.
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It's not fully shaped out. So we'll know as time goes on, but we'll definitely do more live rounds. It's just a matter of when. And I'm thinking the next one will be most ly September, October. So that's another They're an opportunity for you to look forward to. But if you're , Yeah, I want to join now, but I can't join this live round because I have a really busy summer, end of spring, early spring, summer time, then you can join this Health Pace course and you have the ability to literally be a part of any live round in the future. I will send you a no. And inside your community that you get immediately, there will be a page for you to indicate whether you want to be a part of a live round or not. And you'll get first come, first serve. You'll get put on the email list. You'll get notifications to put the Zooms on your calendar and you'll get put into the special community. So just to give you guys some insight into ways that you can work with me and expanding your human design knowledge. You know what else we have going on in 2024, it's honestly a mystery to me because I've got lots of ideas and I have really fun stuff that I want to do inside of the design of you that I can't share right now because they're just ideas.
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I don't know that I'm doing them and I don't want to get you guys excited about something that doesn't happen for a long time. Learned my lesson with in the past. But right now, it's just we're working on building a really incredible app for you all that you guys can be a part of. So get on the Instagram, give me all your suggestions. There's a book coming, and the book won't actually be out until the end of 2025. So we're just writing it right now. So that's something to look forward to. And you can join our Reader Network or meet our readers. And we'll be doing more stuff on Instagram and more stuff with the podcast. So I hope some of you tuned in on YouTube because that's That's where this will be. And then, of course, this episode audio is on Apple podcast. And hopefully, we'll be sharing some fun little snippets from today's episode. But I just want to say thank you again for letting me have some space away from this. I don't even have to say thank you. So much of being a business owner is feeling you have to do things a certain way.
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And one of the things that's so great about human design is it teaches us that you don't have to do things the way that other people do it. There's no special formula. It's what you feel called to. And so I get to take a break from my podcast if I want to, if it's no longer working for me and I need to refresh it. And I get to go full force at it if that's what's exciting to me. And so that's what feels really good right now. And I'm really glad I took a break and I'm happy to be back, and I'm happy to be back in a new way. So thanks for just sticking around and learning a little bit about how I shape my life based on my human design. We'll be back next week and hopefully every week after that, as much as this starts to work for me. And I want to show you guys if you guys are watching a video in the next few weeks, I will be having a brand new family member in my life, which will be a brand new puppy. We are naming him Ruper, I think.
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And he's a cute little Frenchie, which is a very fun story that I'll share, very unexpected story, essentially long story short, which I'll tell you guys the story in another episode. My neighbor's dog had a puppy or had puppies unexpectedly, and they're really freaking adorable, and we're getting one. So I will have to share him on an upcoming episode. And I can't wait to do that. So until then, love you all. Thank you so much. If you enjoyed this episode, feel free to share it with a friend. If you're , you listen to this with a friend or family member, send it to them to know that we're back. If they may have not seen that yet, let them know. And if you love this podcast and you love hearing from me, it would really mean a lot if you could leave a review, rate, write, review whatever platform you're on. I know that that's annoying when you hear people talk about that on different podcasts because I'm an avid podcast listener and it can be annoying. And honestly, it's called Ghost Listeners or Ghost Followers, people who subscribe to your content that don't engage or leave reviews.
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That happens a lot. And I'm guilty of doing that to a lot of people. But I'm trying to get better about rating and reviewing because I know how much of a difference that makes. Truly, if you have friends that have businesses, whether it's a podcast or Instagram, it means so much just or comment or anything. Leaving a review, though, specifically on a podcast is how podcasts grow. This podcast can't reach people unless there are ratings and reviews. And you're probably , okay, well, then that's not my problem. And it's not your problem But it's huge. So if you really do enjoy listening to this and you're just, I guess, a ghost follower, just take the time at some point in 2024 for any of the podcasts you listen to to just leave a review and write something because It allows that person to show up because I can't show up unless I feel people enjoy what I'm doing. That's not true. If I enjoy, I'll do it. But you guys will feel that and enjoy it, too. But it helps me show up a little bit more. When I know that you guys care and are looking forward to an episode, I want to show up so much more because I love that.
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I want to make you guys feel good because it makes me feel good. And also it's just a way that this podcast reaches more people, aka it hits more charts and then it shows up in people's feeds a little bit more. So that's just a little behind the scenes on how podcasts work and also what it's to be a business owner and just have support for things that you put your literally entire life into. You risk everything and put your whole life and heart and soul into. And I put everything into the design of you. So thank you for those of you that do that. And if you haven't yet, it would mean literally everything to me. And if you have some constructive feedback, just send me an email with that, too, because that also means the world to me. So I'm going to stop now because I'm just going to keep going. And I love you all. Have a beautiful 2024. I can't wait to chat with you. Send me a message or a DM or a comment or something on how your year is going and what you'd to see. If there's something specific you'd to see on the podcast, we'd love to hear from you because I'm trying to come up with episode ideas for you guys now that it's all video too, which is so fun.
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So I already have some really cool things in mind that I think you guys are going to love, but I'd love to hear specifically what you really want, and we'll try to bake those in. So thanks again. I love you all and have a good morning, evening, afternoon, whatever it is, wherever you live and whenever you're listening. Bye.
