Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

November 2026 brings an inner compass that's louder than anyone else's advice, and the Human Design and astrology transits hand you the timing to follow it. If October cleared out more than you planned, the pull you feel now may point somewhere quite different from where your business is headed, and this is the month that backs you for moving toward it. Nicole and astrologer Christina Luna read the month together and make a strong case for resting before you build, with the dates worth planning around. Christina brings Scorpio season's take on the commitments you can't buy your way out of, and Nicole tells the story of a Venus retrograde surprise that left her able to hold more. Christina's very precise late-November appointment turns into the month's most useful metaphor, with a few good jokes along the way. What's discussed Resting through early November sets up the strongest window of the season for building what you want long term. The commitment you can't buy your way out of is often the one doing the most to change you. For one day this month the whole world runs on the same life-force energy, and not everyone will enjoy it. An hour with the part of your life you've been avoiding can be the most productive hour of your month, as long as shame stays out of the room. One aligned step toward the direction pulling at you does more than months of thinking about it. Known and Paid by Design (10-day challenge) To register for Known and Paid by Design, Nicole's 10-day challenge to get known and paid, go to nicolelaino.com/known or DM Nicole "KNOWN" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Christina Luna Christina hosts public gatherings and announces them on her Instagram at @lunation.live. Find more of her work at lunation.live and on YouTube at @Lunascopes. Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!  

When you're the one doing the selling, the client work and the marketing, every piece of content you make has to earn its place. Posting every day and chasing a new hook each time is an exhausting way to find out whether it does. Nicole runs a business that brings in over $300,000 a year with a team of two, and her sales come from two pieces of content a week. She shares what changed after she tried to run an eight-figure coach's playbook on her own, and why your Human Design is a better guide than anyone's blueprint. It's for the woman who thinks better in long form than in hooks and wants her content to bring in clients. What you'll learn Likes and sales come from different kinds of content, and it pays to build for the sale first. Someone else's playbook usually comes with the team they built to run it. If you think in long form, you may be closer to an efficient content system than you realize. A forgettable long piece becomes forgettable short pieces, no matter how well you repurpose it. Two pieces of content a week can keep you visible on four platforms. Known and Paid by Design (10-day challenge) To register for Known and Paid by Design, Nicole's 10-day challenge to get known and paid, go to nicolelaino.com/known or DM Nicole "KNOWN" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!  

Human Design can help you write marketing copy that actually sounds like you, and most of the raw material is probably sitting in your phone already. Ask a really qualified coach or healer what she does and you'll usually hear a list of certifications, which is a big part of why people who could use her don't lean in. Nicole gets into why the thing you're best at is so often the thing you explain worst, and where the words that sell your work are already hiding. She uses her own 5/1 profile to show how the praise you keep hearing connects back to your chart. It's for anyone who has stared at her bio for an hour, or who feels a little weird charging for work that comes easily to her. What's discussed Leading with your credentials is one of the fastest ways to lose someone who was ready to buy. The words that sell your work were probably written by someone you've helped, and some of them may be sitting in a text from years ago. A small, specific result can sell harder than a big general one. Smoothing it out is how copy starts sounding like everyone else's, AI-written or not. What people keep coming to you for usually lines up with something in your Human Design chart. If charging for it feels strange because it comes so easily, you may be looking right at your genius. Known by Design (10-day challenge) To register for Known by Design, Nicole's 10-day challenge to get known and paid, go to nicolelaino.com/known or DM Nicole "KNOWN" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!

Human Design and identity work start with a pattern a lot of ambitious women know by heart. You step up for a big launch or a week of reels, and then you snap right back to where you were. More effort rarely changes it, because the action was sitting on top of an identity that never moved. Nicole looks at why the next level of you can feel like a threat even when you want it badly, through her own years as an actor, when a character felt far safer than walking on stage as herself, and through the Wall Street identity she had to loosen to build a business around Human Design. She also gives three steps for moving beyond the identity that's keeping you small, along with the piece that lets them last. It's for coaches and healers who show up everywhere and still feel like they're hiding, and for anyone who left corporate and found her confidence didn't leave with her. In this episode Actions are only part of leveling up. The identity underneath decides whether you can keep going once you get there. There's a reason the next level can register as a threat, even when it's exactly what you've been asking for. Showing up more often won't do much while the fear of judgment underneath it goes untouched. Your Human Design G Center changes how an identity shift happens for you, and a defined G and an undefined G need different things to get there. You don't have to finish healing before you're allowed to act. Leading From Identity with Human Design guide (free) To download the free Leading From Identity with Human Design guide, go to nicolelaino.com/shift or DM Nicole "SHIFT" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!  

If selling feels icky to you, a better sales script won't fix it. The script is often part of what feels off. What gets far less attention is the energy you bring into every launch and every sales call, and what happens to that energy when a yes turns into "not now." In this episode, Nicole looks at the energetics of sales through her own launches, where the same workshop and the same marketing brought in $90,000 one time and a fraction of that another. She also tells what she did the morning a deadline passed without a yes she was sure of, and why she wouldn't let it settle into a no. It's for coaches and service providers who sell on calls, and for anyone whose results swing without a change in strategy. Key takeaways The same launch, run the same way, can bring in wildly different results, and the reason usually has little to do with the marketing. You need a process for a sales call, and chasing the perfect script is a big part of why selling starts to feel icky. Hope and "it's done" can feel close. They lead to very different mornings when a yes goes quiet. Some of what keeps a sale stuck sits deeper than affirmations can reach. Coming to your Human Design chart hoping it will validate you changes what it can do for you. Human Design Deconditioning Guide (free) Download the free Human Design Deconditioning Guide, newly rebuilt and expanded, at nicolelaino.com/decondition or DM Nicole "DECONDITION" on Instagram at instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial Human Design Authority Lab To get support embodying your Human Design, including monthly workshops and a monthly Q&A with Nicole, join the Human Design Authority Lab at nicolelaino.com/lab or DM Nicole "LAB" on Instagram. Readings To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!