The HD Your Biz® Show - Human Design for Business with Jamie Palmer

In this seventh and final episode of the Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer explores the shores environment — the most liminal, most threshold-dwelling, most nuance-oriented of all six environments in Human Design. If you have a shores environment, this episode is going to explain why you have always lived at the edge of things, why either/or frameworks feel genuinely wrong in a bone-deep way, and why the clients who experience the most profound shifts with you are the ones who arrive at exactly the right threshold moment — the ones who are standing at the edge and need someone who knows how to inhabit that space to stand there with them.   The Shores Environment: Native to the In-Between The shores environment is the sixth and final color in the environment variable — the last of the three circumstances. The metaphor is extraordinarily rich: a literal shore is the space where land meets sea, where neither has won and both are fully present. You see this at sunrise and sunset — where day meets night and neither has resolved into the other. At the vestibule of a house — the threshold between inside and outside. Where a valley begins its ascent into a mountain. Anywhere two distinct states are meeting without yet resolving. For shores people, this threshold is not just a metaphor. It is their actual orientation to the world. They are native to the in-between. They think in thresholds. Their work is to help others stand at the boundary between what was and what might be — to feel the possibility of the crossing before committing, to see the horizon that was invisible when they were deep inside one side of the situation. The Both/And Orientation as Methodology The defining intellectual and experiential orientation of shores people is the both/and. They resist either/or — not because they are indecisive or lacking in conviction, but because their environment genuinely lives in the space where both sides are simultaneously present and real. The threshold does not choose land or sea. It holds both. That is its nature and its gift. This both/and thinking is the shores person's methodology — their process, their deepest contribution. It shows up in how they work with clients: holding the tension between where someone is and where they are going, rather than rushing the resolution. Helping the client feel the legitimacy of both sides before committing to the crossing. Sitting with the caveats, the qualifications, the genuine complexity of a situation rather than flattening it into a clean answer. And it shows up as a real, practical challenge in marketing — because most content platforms reward confidence and clean declarations rather than nuanced exploration. Most algorithms prefer certainty. Most copywriting frameworks assume a clear problem and a clear solution. The shores person who tries to operate within these frameworks often feels like they are lying, even when nothing they have said is technically false. The Nuance Challenge and How to Work With It Rather than trying to eliminate the nuance — which never works for shores people and always produces content that feels wrong — the most effective approach is to lean into it strategically. Ask the question that opens the threshold rather than declaring the answer that closes it. Invite the exploration rather than prescribing the destination. Propose the both/and so clearly in your content that the right clients — the ones who are at the threshold moment, who need someone to hold the in-between with them — recognize themselves immediately. Jamie uses James Clear as an example of someone whose public communication has shores-like qualities: he consistently proposes questions and frameworks for exploration rather than declaring conclusions. His content invites the reader to stand at the edge and look, rather than telling them what they will see when they get there. That quality of invitation — of opening rather than closing — is the shores person's natural marketing language. Referral Marketing and the Pre-Primed Client Given the challenge of communicating shores nuance to a cold audience who does not yet understand the threshold work, referral relationships are often the most powerful marketing strategy for shores practitioners. A client who arrives via referral from someone who knows the shores person's work is fundamentally different from a cold-traffic lead. They have been pre-primed. The person who sent them already understood the threshold quality of the work and identified that this specific person is at the right moment. Referral partners who understand the shores person's work and can identify the threshold moments in their own clients are essentially a precision targeting system — far more accurate than any algorithm, because they are operating from genuine knowledge of what the shores person does and genuine discernment about who is ready for it. Multiple Modalities as Strength Shores people have a distinctive capacity to bring multiple modalities together without forcing them into a single unified system. This is not a lack of focus or a failure to niche down. It is the shores environment at work: holding two or more things simultaneously without collapsing them into one. The both/and methodology means that a shores practitioner might work with somatic awareness and strategic thinking, or with emotional processing and practical planning, or with multiple healing modalities — not because they cannot choose but because the threshold work requires holding multiple orientations at once. Owning this capacity — communicating it as the methodology rather than apologizing for it as complexity — is one of the most important identity shifts for shores people in business. The Transfer State: Shores to Kitchens The transfer state for shores is kitchens — and the pattern is recognizable once you know what to look for. When shores people go into transfer, they stop holding the threshold and start forcing action and creation. They commit prematurely to one side or the other. The both/and collapses into either/or, and the shores person rushes to a conclusion or a solution before the exploration is complete. The signal: over-commitment to a single direction before the threshold has been fully honored. Rushing to create, to produce, to make a decision when the situation is genuinely still in the in-between. The intervention: return to the question. What is still unknown here? What does this situation need to stay in the threshold a little longer? When the shores person returns to that orientation, the transfer resolves.   Key Insights From This Episode •       The both/and is not indecision — it is the shores person's methodology, their process, the space where their most powerful work happens •       The nuance challenge is not a problem to fix — it is a design feature to work with: ask the opening question rather than declaring the closing answer •       Referral relationships are shores people's most powerful marketing channel because they deliver pre-primed clients at the right threshold moment •       The transfer state is kitchens: forcing action and creation before the threshold is honored. Return to the question — what is still in the in-between?   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction to shores environment 1:03  —  Shores as a circumstance — the sixth color 2:08  —  The shore metaphor: literal and figurative thresholds 3:24  —  Holding the in-between: both/and orientation 4:35  —  The nuance problem in marketing — and why it is actually a feature 5:39  —  Proposing questions, not declaring answers 6:45  —  Referral marketing for shores people 7:56  —  Multiple modalities as a shores strength 8:30  —  Transfer state: shores to kitchens   Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —   https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

In this sixth episode of the Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer dives into the valleys environment — the fifth color in the environment variable and one of the most relationally sophisticated orientations in the entire system. If you have a valleys environment, this episode is going to explain why one-way relationships and passive-audience business models leave you feeling genuinely depleted, why the actual physical vibration of a voice tells you something essential about whether a client is right, and why the depth and quality of exchange you create with the right clients is unlike anything most other environments naturally produce.   The Valleys Environment: Frequency and Acoustic Orientation The valleys environment is the fifth color and one of the three circumstances in the environment variable. Its core themes are frequency, acoustic orientation, connection, reciprocity, and the exchange of resources. Valleys people are tuned to frequency in a very literal way — the actual quality of sound, the vibration of a voice, the energetic current of a conversation tells them something essential that no amount of written content alone can communicate. This is not metaphor. It is the way the valleys person's nervous system actually navigates relationships and opportunities. When something sounds right — when the frequency of a person, community, or platform resonates — the valleys person can plug in deeply, resourcefully, with their full capacity present. When it does not sound right, no amount of strategy or discipline will make the connection feel nourishing. Why One-Way Is Not Sustainable One of the most practically important things to understand about the valleys environment is that one-way exchanges are not sustainable. Any business model requiring continuous giving without genuine reciprocal exchange will drain the valleys person faster than almost anything else in the system. This is not about selfishness. It is about how the valleys nervous system is designed to operate. The valleys person is built for exchange. Their nervous system tunes itself to the frequency of the other, calibrates based on what comes back, and makes decisions about depth and direction based on the quality of the return signal. When the return signal is absent — when the valleys person is broadcasting to a passive audience that never sends anything back — the system has no data to calibrate from. It is like trying to navigate with half the instruments missing. Formats that allow genuine back-and-forth are far more sustaining for valleys people than those that require purely solo performance. A podcast with guests rather than solo only. A live group container with real participant engagement rather than a passive course. A community with genuine interaction rather than a membership where the host produces content for an audience that consumes it silently. Acoustic Orientation and Platform Strategy The acoustic orientation of the valleys environment has direct, practical implications for platform strategy. Audio and video formats outperform written-only content for valleys people — not as a matter of preference but as an environment requirement. The valleys person who produces only written content is communicating without their frequency, which means the most magnetizing thing about them — the actual vibration they carry — is absent from the exchange. Podcasting, particularly in interview or conversation formats, is one of the most naturally aligned platforms for valleys people. Live calls and group containers where participants can actually be heard. Video content where the viewer experiences the valleys person's energy and frequency rather than just reading their words. These formats put the acoustic orientation to work in the way the environment is designed to use it. Intimacy, Connection, and the Right Client Valleys people build businesses with a particular quality of intimacy. They know their clients. They check in. They keep a pulse on what is happening in their communities. They are genuinely interested in the frequency of the other — not as a strategy but as an authentic expression of how they move through the world. This intimacy shapes ideal client selection profoundly. The right client for a valleys practitioner is not just someone who needs what they offer. It is someone who arrives already carrying a frequency that makes the exchange worthwhile — someone who brings their own energy, their own insight, their own resource to the relationship, even if what they bring is simply their full, engaged, resonant presence. The extractive client — the one who takes and takes and never arrives with anything of their own to contribute — is particularly costly for valleys people. The drain is felt acutely, in the body, in a way that is unmistakable. The Transfer State: Valleys to Markets The transfer state for valleys is markets — and this is one of the more subtle transfers to recognize from the inside. When valleys people go into transfer, the reciprocal orientation and the seeking of frequency shifts into a more withdrawing, guarded, over-selective energy. The valleys person becomes too picky to show up anywhere. They go quiet in a way that feels protective but is actually numbing — disconnecting from the very exchanges that would restore them. The intervention is targeted: find one community, one conversation, one exchange where the frequency is even slightly right, and plug back in there. Not everywhere. One place. Let the right frequency do its work of reconnection.   Key Insights From This Episode •       Acoustic orientation is real and practical — valleys people communicate most powerfully through audio and video because their frequency travels with their voice •       One-way broadcast models are genuinely unsustainable for valleys environments — reciprocal exchange is a design requirement, not a preference •       The right valleys client brings their own energy to the exchange — extractive clients are disproportionately costly for this environment •       The transfer state is markets: over-selective, withdrawing, numbing. The fix: one connection, one right-frequency exchange, plugging back in   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction to valleys environment 1:09  —  Valleys as a circumstance 2:13  —  Frequency, vibe, acoustic orientation 3:23  —  Reciprocal exchange as a business requirement 4:26  —  The plug in and plug out rhythm 5:27  —  Marketing through community and intimacy 7:00  —  Keeping a pulse: the valleys check-in style 7:45  —  Podcast guests and reciprocal formats Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —   https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

In this fifth episode of the Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer explores the mountains environment — teaching from lived experience as a mountains person herself. If you have a mountains environment in your Human Design chart, this episode will explain why your best work happens from a place of spaciousness and altitude, why being plugged in all the time slowly erodes the very quality of perspective that makes your work extraordinary, and why the clients you are most here to serve are not the ones at the starting line but the ones who are ready for the next elevation.   Mountains as a Circumstance: Still Non-Negotiable in Your Marketing The mountains environment is the fourth color in the environment variable — the first of the three circumstances. Unlike caves, markets, and kitchens, mountains is not a condition. It does not send the nervous system into crisis when absent in the way conditions do. It is more like a coming-home feeling: deeply nourishing, restoring, orienting — something you return to regularly because it brings you back to yourself. However — and this is one of the most important things in this episode — when it comes to your business and your ideal client magnetization, you should treat the mountains environment as a non-negotiable anyway. Because if you do not communicate the mountains theme in your marketing and positioning, you will attract clients who are expecting work at ground level. And then both parties are stuck: you cannot give them what they expect, and they cannot receive what you are naturally designed to offer. Elevation, Standard-Setting, and Perspective The three mountains themes that run through everything are elevation, standard-setting, and perspective. Elevation — taking things to a higher level of thinking, possibility, and quality. Not louder, not more, not faster. Higher. Standard-setting — raising the bar, holding a different standard for excellence, refusing to settle for what is merely adequate when something genuinely extraordinary is possible. And perspective — seeing from the 10,000-foot or 30,000-foot view, where patterns that appear as chaos up close become readable, where paths that seem invisible from within the density of the situation reveal themselves clearly. These themes need to run through every aspect of a mountains person's business like a spine through a body. Present in the copy, in the offers, in the discovery calls, in the client experience, in the pricing, in the aesthetic. When they are present, the right clients feel them immediately — like a breath of fresh air, as Jamie describes it. When they are absent — when the mountains person has drifted into their transfer state — the work loses its altitude, and everyone involved feels the difference. Spaciousness as a Non-Negotiable Mountains people are, by design, sensitive to space. The physical space around them needs to feel expansive and uncluttered. Their schedule, their client load, and their commitments need to have enough white space for them to consistently return to the altitude that produces their best work. When mountains people overload their calendar — when they say yes to too many clients, commit to being on every platform constantly, or fill every gap in their schedule with more work — the altitude drops. The perspective flattens. The work becomes reactive rather than visionary. They are spending so much time in the valley that they lose the view from the top. This is one of the reasons mountains people often do their most aligned work in longer-form formats: books, long-form essays, podcasts with depth and space between episodes, comprehensive courses that allow full expression of a perspective. These formats honor the spaciousness requirement rather than fighting it. Positioning, Pricing, and the Right Clients The work that mountains people do is bespoke, elevated, and differentiated. It is not designed to compete at the same terms as high-volume, always-on practitioners. And the clients who are right for mountains people are not beginners — they are already capable, already competent, already successful by some measure, and ready for the next elevation. They are looking for someone who can stand on the mountain with them and show them what is visible from up here. Mountains practitioners who position and price their work at ground level — who try to be more accessible, more foundational, more beginner-friendly than their environment actually supports — are in their transfer state. The work that comes from that position is not bad. But it is not the work the mountains person is most here to do. And the clients it attracts are not the clients who will be most transformed by what the mountains person actually has to offer. The Transfer State: Mountains to Caves The transfer state for mountains is caves, and Jamie knows this intimately from her own experience. When a mountains person goes into transfer, the elevation drops and everything becomes about foundation, safety, and basics. The marketing starts to emphasize things that are grounded, accessible, fundamental — not because those things are wrong, but because they are not the mountains person's primary gift. The pricing drops to be more accessible. The content becomes about the basics of an industry rather than the elevated perspective that is the mountains person's actual contribution. The signal: a feeling of shrinking down, of competing at ground level, of trying to be more foundational or more accessible than your actual work requires. The intervention: get back up. Find physical elevation if you can. Reconnect with the perspective — ask yourself what you see from up here that nobody else is saying, and start there.   Key Insights From This Episode •       Mountains is a circumstance but should be treated as non-negotiable in marketing — because not communicating the elevation means attracting ground-level clients •       Spaciousness is not a luxury for mountains people — it is the condition under which their most extraordinary work becomes possible •       The ideal client for a mountains person is not a beginner — they are someone who is ready for elevation and can receive the altitude •       The transfer state is caves: going foundational, shrinking down, lowering prices to be accessible. The intervention: reconnect with the view from up here   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction to mountains environment 1:28  —  Circumstances vs. conditions: what this means for mountains 2:51  —  Core themes: elevation, standard, perspective 3:53  —  Sensitivity to space and spaciousness in business 5:27  —  Marketing and platform strategy for mountains people 6:25  —  Bespoke, elevated, differentiated positioning 7:23  —  Long-form content and books as mountains-aligned strategies 8:32  —  Transfer state: mountains to caves   Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —   https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

In this fourth episode of the Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer dives into the kitchens environment — the third and final condition in the environment variable system, and one of the most creatively alive environments in all of Human Design. If you have a kitchens environment, this episode is going to explain why your best work has never followed a clean linear path, why temperature — what feels hot and what feels cold — is your most reliable business compass, and why the clients who experience the most profound transformation with you are the ones who were willing to get in the kitchen with you.   Kitchens as a Condition: The Fire You Actually Need Kitchens is the third condition in the environment variable system. Your nervous system genuinely requires the quality of space described by the kitchens environment in order to feel regulated and hold space for transformation in others. When you are creating in cold — producing content on a platform that no longer carries any heat, delivering an offer whose creative charge has burned out, showing up in formats that feel like going through the motions — your capacity to hold space drops. Not because you have lost your gift. Because you are trying to cook without fire. This is the most important reframe for kitchens people: the creative flatness you feel when you are out of alignment with your environment is not a motivation problem. It is an environmental mismatch. The solution is not to push harder. It is to find the heat. Alchemy, Action, and the Commercial Kitchen Metaphor The core themes of the kitchens environment are alchemy, action, transformation, creativity, and synthesis. The metaphor of a commercial kitchen is one of the richest in Human Design. Think of the precision and collaboration of a real professional kitchen: stations with specific functions, people working in proximity, each contributing their part to something none of them could produce alone, a chef who knows where the heat lives and uses it with extraordinary intentionality. And mess — real, necessary, creative mess — because making something genuinely new is never a clean process. The kitchens person who tries to present their work as tidier than it actually is loses the very quality that makes their alchemy extraordinary. The mess is not a problem to apologize for. It is evidence that real transformation is happening. Temperature Sensitivity as Business Intelligence One of the most distinctive characteristics of the kitchens environment is temperature sensitivity. Kitchens people have an internal thermometer that reads the temperature of situations, opportunities, platforms, and creative directions. Something feels hot — the signal to move toward it, to engage, to let the creativity ignite. Something feels cold — the signal to step back, to wait, to let that direction cool off and redirect attention to what is currently warm. In business terms, this temperature reading is extraordinarily reliable. The kitchens person who trusts their thermometer will find themselves naturally gravitating toward what is genuinely alive — and the work that comes from that aliveness carries a quality that content produced by obligation simply cannot replicate. The clients who are right for kitchens practitioners feel this immediately. The heat is part of what they are being drawn to. Conversely, the kitchens person who ignores their thermometer — who keeps producing content in a format that has gone cold, showing up on a platform they feel no heat toward, delivering an offer that has lost its creative charge — produces work that tastes flat. No strategy will fix that. The Coworking Element and Creative Community Kitchens people are not designed for isolation. They need proximity to creativity — to people who are in the act of making something. This is not a preference. It is an environment requirement that must be built into the business model. Formats that bring people together in the creative act — coworking sessions, live group containers with genuine participation, events and gatherings, collaborative experiences — sustain kitchens people in ways that purely solo work cannot. Jamie illustrates this with her own children, who both have kitchens environments: they instinctively sit near each other when creating, wanting to stick their fingers into what the other is making, wanting to be near the process even when they are working on something of their own. That instinct — honored and built into the business model — becomes one of the most powerful things a kitchens practitioner can offer. The Transfer State: Kitchens to Shores The transfer state for kitchens is shores — the threshold environment of exploring and questioning without necessarily committing. When a kitchens person goes into transfer, the alchemical action stops and a creative freeze sets in. They are perpetually at the planning stage. The ideas are there but the heat to act on them is absent. They are observing the water rather than jumping in. The intervention is to get hands into something — anything — that feels even slightly warm. Let the creative act reignite the process rather than waiting for perfect conditions to arrive before beginning. The heat does not precede the action. It often follows it.   Key Insights From This Episode •       Temperature sensitivity is not a personality quirk — it is the kitchens environment doing exactly what it is designed to do •       The mess of the kitchens creative process is evidence of real transformation, not something to apologize for •       Coworking and creative community are environment requirements for kitchens people, not nice-to-have additions •       The transfer state is shores: creative freeze, perpetual planning. The fix is not more planning — it is getting hands in something warm   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction to kitchens environment 1:04  —  Kitchens as a condition 2:00  —  Themes: alchemy, action, creativity 2:58  —  Coworking and creative proximity 3:57  —  Commercial kitchen metaphor: stations and collaboration 5:12  —  Marketing and striking while hot 6:39  —  What feels hot vs. cold: temperature as business compass 7:57  —  Transfer state: kitchens to shores Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —   https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

In this third episode of the Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer dives into the markets environment — the second of the three conditions in the environment variable system. If you have a markets environment, this episode is going to explain why you are naturally selective about what you offer and when, why your enthusiasm for platforms and formats seems to shift unpredictably, and why trying to force consistency across every season of your business always ends in something that feels flat — or, if pushed long enough, genuinely nauseating. Markets as a Condition: The Requirement Behind the Pickiness The markets environment is a condition — a non-negotiable nervous system requirement. When you have a markets environment and the conditions of that environment are not being honored in your business, your nervous system activates. The detail sensitivity goes into overdrive. The discernment that is normally one of your greatest assets starts to turn inward in uncomfortable ways. The nausea that Jamie describes — that literal, physical sense of wrongness when something has gone out of season — is your body's clear signal that your environment conditions are not being met. Understanding markets as a condition reframes the whole question of consistency versus seasonality. You are not inconsistent. You are seasonal. And there is a profound difference between those two things. Discernment as the Organizing Intelligence The single most important reframe for markets people is this: your discernment is not a flaw to manage. It is the organizing intelligence of your entire business. Every business decision — what to offer, who to offer it to, how to deliver it, when to retire it — should pass through the filter of your discernment. That filter is extraordinarily reliable when it is trusted and catastrophically costly when it is overridden. Markets people notice everything. The quality of light on a sales page. The slight shift in language between one email and the next. The energetic difference between a client who arrived via referral and one who came through a cold ad. This detail sensitivity shows up in their marketing as a particular quality of precision that other environments rarely match — and the ideal clients of a markets person are very often similar: discerning, detail-oriented, sensitive to quality, ready to invest in exactly the right thing rather than the first thing that comes along. Seasons: The Most Misunderstood Part of the Markets Environment A season for a markets person is not necessarily spring, summer, fall, or winter — though it can include those rhythms. A season is any period of aliveness with a particular thing, followed by a period where that thing no longer tastes right. A season might be six months. It might be two years. It might shift more quickly than that during times of significant change. The markets person has an exquisite internal sense of when something is in season and when it is not. The platform that was completely alive three months ago has gone cold. The offer format that produced extraordinary results last year no longer fits. The content style that felt natural and easy has become effortful. These are not arbitrary changes. They are the markets environment doing exactly what it is designed to do: curating, discerning, selecting the highest quality option available in this moment. The liberation in this understanding is enormous. When a markets person says 'I am only offering this for this season,' that is the literal truth. It is not manufactured scarcity. It is an accurate description of how they work — and for the discerning, detail-oriented clients who are drawn to markets people, that authenticity is magnetic rather than alarming. Platform Strategy and Format Flexibility Markets people need options. Not as a preference — as an environment requirement. Any platform or content strategy that locks you into a single consistent format with no room for variation is a platform that is working against your environment's fundamental needs. Instagram offers natural alignment because of its multiple format options: stories, reels, feed posts, carousels, close friends lists. YouTube is another strong match with its flexibility across long form, short form, and written content. The question to ask of any platform is: can I move between formats here based on what feels alive to me right now? If the answer is no, that platform is going to produce the off-season feeling — and the content that comes from it will carry that flatness regardless of how good the strategy behind it is. The Transfer State: Markets to Valleys The transfer state for markets is valleys — the environment of connection, frequency, and reciprocal exchange. When a markets person goes into transfer, the discernment and selectivity of their high expression shifts into a seeking of connection and validation that is not quite right for them. They show up in community spaces looking for something they cannot quite name. They stay on platforms and in business structures that have clearly gone out of season because they are afraid of the revenue gap that change would create. The signal: forcing. The intervention: trust the season. If something no longer tastes good, it is out of season. Release it.   Key Insights From This Episode •       Markets is a condition — when the seasonal needs are not honored, the nausea is your nervous system, not a motivation problem •       Discernment is the organizing intelligence of your business — every decision should pass through it •       Seasonality is authentic urgency — when a markets person says they are only offering something for this season, that is literally true •       Format flexibility is a nervous system requirement for markets people, not a preference   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction to markets environment 1:07  —  Conditions vs. circumstances recap 2:23  —  Markets people: picky, discerning, seasonal 3:33  —  Seasonality and how it shows up in marketing 4:30  —  High detail orientation in markets people 5:40  —  Platform flexibility as a requirement 6:40  —  Authentic urgency: offers that are genuinely seasonal 7:51  —  Customization and discernment in client delivery   Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —   https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

In this second episode of the Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer dives deep into the caves environment — the first of the three conditions in the environment variable system. If you have a caves environment, this episode will explain why the quietly curated, simple, carefully vetted approach you have always been drawn to in your business is not a limitation or a lack of ambition. It is your design. And leaning into it fully is how you build the most powerfully transformative client relationships of your career.   Caves as a Condition: What That Really Means The caves environment is the first color in the environment variable, and it is classified as a condition — which means it is not optional. It is a non-negotiable requirement for your nervous system to feel regulated enough to hold space for others. Think of it like air and water: not a preference, not a nice-to-have, but a fundamental need. When that condition is not met in your business, your nervous system activates — and what you market from an activated nervous system attracts clients from that same activation. This is why understanding caves as a condition matters so much. It reframes the entire conversation about how you build your business. You are not choosing simplicity because you are not ambitious enough for scale. You are choosing simplicity because your nervous system requires it in order to do the work you are actually here to do. The Core Themes: Hardscape, Primitive, Safe, and Secure The metaphor of the cave is exact. A cave is hardscape — ancient, solid, unchanging. It does not shift with trends. It does not reinvent itself weekly. It is what it is, and what it is is reliably, fundamentally safe. The caves person is here to hold that quality of space for their clients: a container that is unshakeable, a process that is direct and clear, a relationship where the client knows from the first interaction exactly what they are stepping into. People come to a caves environment practitioner because they want to move from a place of weakness or instability to genuine, lasting strength. They are not looking for flair or innovation for its own sake. They are looking for solid ground. And when the caves person is fully in their high expression — when the simplicity and safety of their environment is honored and communicated clearly — they attract exactly those clients with extraordinary consistency. Building a Caves Business Ecosystem What does a caves business actually look like? Both literally and figuratively, the caves person's business ecosystem needs to be built around vetting, simplicity, and control over who enters their world. Literally: a workspace that is secure, contained, and free of unexpected intrusions. A physical environment that communicates stability rather than chaos. Figuratively — and this is where the real business design happens — the caves person's digital ecosystem needs to reflect those same qualities. This might mean a private Instagram account where followers must request access. A private podcast. A primarily referral-based or application-based intake process. A single, clear offer with one gateway into the world rather than multiple complex entry points. These are not restrictions imposed from outside — they are the caves person honoring their genuine need to know who is in the room before the work begins. Caves people do not like surprises. Surprises are genuinely dysregulating. Marketing contexts that are inherently unpredictable — public comment sections, cold outreach, open enrollment launches to large anonymous audiences — can take a caves person out of their high expression very quickly. The business structure that protects against this is not overly conservative. It is environmentally aligned. What Caves People Need to Communicate In the client magnetization process, caves people need to communicate one thing above all else: the safety and solidity of the space they hold. The copy on the website, the language in the discovery call, the structure of the onboarding process — everything should say: when you come into my world, you will know exactly what to expect. The ground is solid. There are no surprises. The clients who are right for a caves person are looking for exactly that. They are not looking for a high-energy, trend-responsive, constantly-evolving experience. They are looking for something they can trust absolutely. When the caves person communicates from that truth — clearly, simply, without over-elaborating — those clients find them with remarkable ease. The Transfer State: Caves to Mountains The transfer state for caves is mountains, and it is one of the most recognizable transfer patterns in the environment system. When a caves person is in transfer, the solid, secure foundation gives way to forcing perspective — trying to be more visionary, more elevated, more expansive than the caves environment actually supports. The marketing starts to look like performance. There is a frantic quality. The caves person starts launching things or trying to operate at a scale that does not have the foundational solidity that is their actual gift. The signal: franticism. The feeling of rushing, of trying to prove value, of being more than you are. The intervention: simplify. Come back to what is solid. Vet the next person carefully. Remove something from your plate rather than adding to it. The cave will be there when you return to it.   Key Insights From This Episode •       Caves is a condition — a non-negotiable requirement, not a preference — and treating it as one changes everything about your business design •       Simplicity is not a limitation for caves people — it is the entire strategy, and the clients who are right for you will feel the safety it communicates •       Vetting is not elitism — it is the caves person protecting the container so the work can be what it is supposed to be •       The transfer state is mountains: forcing, frantic, performance energy — the signal to simplify and return to the cave   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction and overview 1:10  —  Caves as a condition: what this means for nervous system regulation 2:17  —  Core themes: hardscape, primitive, safe and secure foundation 3:17  —  Marketing and vetting: how caves creates a safe digital ecosystem 4:30  —  Belonging, safety, and physiological needs as business prerequisites 5:44  —  Simplicity as strategy, not compromise 7:02  —  What caves people need to communicate in their client journey 8:04  —  The transfer state: caves transfers to mountains Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —   https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

In this opening episode of the seven-part Ideal Client Design with Human Design Environment Series, Jamie Palmer introduces the Human Design environment variable — one of the most practically powerful and most consistently overlooked pieces of the entire Human Design system when it comes to building an aligned business. If you have been doing the work of learning your type, your strategy, your authority, your profile, and your defined and undefined centers, but your ideal client attraction still feels inconsistent, effortful, or off — this episode is the missing piece.   What the Environment Variable Actually Is The environment variable lives in the bottom-left arrow on the design or body side of your Human Design chart. It is part of the four variables — alongside digestion, cognition, and motivation — and it operates at the color level, which means it is working at a very specific, nuanced frequency that most people never examine in practical depth. Here is the core insight: your environment variable describes the quality of space — both literal and figurative — that your nervous system needs in order to feel regulated enough to do your best work and hold space for the transformation of others. This is not about decorating your home office. It is about the fundamental energetic frequency you hold in your business, your marketing, your content, and your client relationships. Why Environment Determines Who You Attract After four years of observing patterns with clients, Jamie has seen this repeatedly: when coaches and practitioners are in the high expression of their environment — when the literal and figurative space of their business aligns with the theme of their environment variable — they attract clients effortlessly. The marketing flows. The work feels right. The client relationships are deeply satisfying. When they are not — when they are operating from the transfer state of their environment — the clients they attract are not the right fit. The work feels hard. The boundaries feel blurry. The marketing does not land. Not because anything is strategically wrong, but because the foundational energetic space has not been established. The principle at the heart of this is simple: what you market from, you attract to. The quality of space you hold — in your content, your copy, your discovery calls, your client experience — communicates something to your potential clients before they have read a single word. When that quality is your high expression, the right people feel it and orient toward it. When it is your transfer state, the wrong people feel it and orient toward that instead. Conditions vs. Circumstances: The Most Important Distinction in This Work There are six environments in Human Design: caves, markets, kitchens, mountains, valleys, and shores. And they are organized into two categories that every coach and practitioner needs to understand deeply. Environments one, two, and three — caves, markets, and kitchens — are conditions. This means they are requirements. Non-negotiables. Your nervous system must have this quality of space in order to feel regulated. Think of them as biological needs: you can go without them for a while, but not sustainably and not without significant cost. Environments four, five, and six — mountains, valleys, and shores — are circumstances. Deeply nourishing, optimal when present, something you return to again and again as a source of renewal. But not a requirement in the same urgent way. Think of them like a perfect sunny day: wonderful, ideal, energizing — but not something your nervous system treats as an emergency when it is absent. This distinction has enormous practical implications for how urgently you need to prioritize your environment, how you design your business structure, and what the consequences are when your environment is not being honored. The Transfer State and Your Business Every environment has a transfer state — the environment the body defaults to when optimal conditions are not being met. Jamie discovered this pattern four years ago and it has been one of the most clarifying frameworks in the ideal client work ever since. The six transfer states are: caves to mountains, markets to valleys, kitchens to shores, mountains to caves, valleys to markets, and shores to kitchens. In each case, the transferred state is almost never the space from which the most aligned client work happens — and when you market from the transfer state, you attract clients who are resonating with that transferred frequency. Learning to recognize your own transfer state — in your body, in your marketing, in the quality of clients who show up — is one of the most powerful diagnostic tools in this entire system. A Note on Arrow Direction One of the most common points of confusion around the environment variable is the arrow direction. The bottom-left arrow in your chart can point left or right, and many practitioners have been taught to focus heavily on this directionality. Jamie's perspective, developed from four years of applied work with this variable, is that the theme of the environment color matters far more for practical business application than the arrow direction. The arrows in the Human Design chart — particularly on the design side — move quickly with small changes in birth time, and over-indexing on direction rather than theme can actually distract from the deeper work.   Key Insights From This Episode •       Your environment variable is not about your decor — it is the foundational frequency of your entire business ecosystem •       What you market from, you attract to — the transfer state produces the wrong clients, not because of strategy but because of energetic mismatch •       Conditions (caves, markets, kitchens) are requirements; circumstances (mountains, valleys, shores) are deeply nourishing but not emergencies •       The environment variable is the first piece Jamie examines when building an ideal client map — it sets the tone for everything else   Episode Timestamps: 0:00  —  Introduction and series overview 1:21  —  What the environment variable is and where to find it in your chart 2:50  —  How environment connects to nervous system regulation and ideal client attraction 3:55  —  The transfer state — what happens when your environment is not honored in business 5:19  —  Environment as a vibrant thread through your entire business ecosystem 6:20  —  The Human Design Client Compass book and building your ideal client map 7:21  —  Why arrow direction matters less than environment theme   Resources Mentioned: •       Human Design Client Compass Book — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client with Human Design Workshop (live + on demand) — idealclienthumandesign.com •       Ideal Client Practitioner Training — idealclienthumandesign.com •       HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training — hdinthewild.com •       Free Environment Variable Workbook —  https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/icasampler

  In this episode, Jamie Palmer shares personal insights and reflections as she transitions into the new lunar year, the year of the fire horse. She discusses her journey of deconditioning and setting boundaries, emphasizing the importance of creating space for personal growth and expansion. Jamie reflects on her experiences as a three-five emotional projector, highlighting the challenges and realizations she faced while implementing boundaries in her business. She notes the difference between clients who seek to extract energy and those who genuinely value her work. Jamie also discusses the significance of recognition for projectors and the importance of pursuing work that brings purpose and meaning. She encourages listeners to embrace their unique design and deconditioning process, offering guidance on how to navigate these personal and professional transformations   Main Topics Covered Personal Growth and Boundaries: Jamie discusses her journey of personal growth, focusing on the importance of setting boundaries and the challenges she faced in doing so. She reflects on the reactions from others and the impact of these boundaries on her energy and business  Projector Experience and Recognition: Jamie explores the nuances of being a projector, emphasizing the importance of recognition and the difference between energy-giving and energy-taking interactions. She shares her insights on how projectors can navigate relationships and business decisions  Deconditioning Process: The episode delves into the concept of deconditioning, with Jamie sharing her experiences and the layers involved in this ongoing journey. She highlights the importance of embracing the process and finding meaning in the journey rather than viewing it as a destination  Business and Personal Development: Jamie discusses her business strategies, including the development of new products and services like the HD or Biz Catalyst report and the Synergy chatbot. She emphasizes the importance of aligning business practices with personal design and desires    Chapter Title: Introduction and Intentions Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the podcast, sharing her intentions to discuss personal insights and reflections as she transitions into the new lunar year. She mentions her preparations for scaling her business and the foundational tasks she has been completing. Timestamps: Start: 00:02, End: 02:00  Chapter Title: Personal Retreat and Boundary Setting Summary: Jamie discusses her decision to take a break from calls during December and January, likening her experience to a lobster shedding its shell. She reflects on the importance of setting boundaries and the varied reactions she received from others. Timestamps: Start: 02:01, End: 06:00  Chapter Title: Human Design and Personal Insights Summary: Jamie explains her human design as a three five triple split projector with emotional authority. She shares insights about her personal challenges and the importance of recognition in her work, emphasizing the difference between extractive and reciprocal relationships. Timestamps: Start: 06:01, End: 12:00  Chapter Title: Patterns and Client Relationships Summary: Jamie identifies patterns in her client relationships, noting that those seeking to extract knowledge often resist boundaries. She reflects on the importance of equitable recognition and the challenges of maintaining boundaries. Timestamps: Start: 12:01, End: 18:00  Chapter Title: Decision Making and Business Strategy Summary: Jamie discusses her decision-making process, influenced by her human design, and the importance of pursuing meaningful work. She shares her approach to client selection and the necessity of marketing in her business model. Timestamps: Start: 18:01, End: 24:00  Chapter Title: Embracing Depth and Deconditioning Summary: Jamie talks about embracing depth in her work and the ongoing process of deconditioning. She shares her journey of gaining confidence and the importance of not rushing the deconditioning process. Timestamps: Start: 24:01, End: 30:00  Chapter Title: Projector Experience and Recognition Summary: Jamie reflects on the projector experience, emphasizing the need for reciprocal recognition and the challenges of being a fifth line. She discusses the importance of setting boundaries and the impact of her recent deconditioning process. Timestamps: Start: 30:01, End: 36:00  Chapter Title: Synthesis and Future Plans Summary: Jamie shares her plans for future work, including writing and sharing her synthesis. She discusses the importance of finding joy in the journey and the continuous nature of personal and business growth. Timestamps: Start: 36:01, End: 42:00  Chapter Title: Conclusion and Offerings Summary: Jamie concludes by inviting listeners to explore their own design and offers resources for further support. She highlights her Catalyst report and Synergy chatbot as tools for business development. Timestamps: Start: 42:01, End: 48:00     Visit My site: jamielpalmer.com Order your Book: https://www.jamielpalmer.com/human-design-for-business-book/ Download your chart: https://www.jamielpalmer.com/download-your-human-design-chart/   _______________________________________________________________ (00:02): Lessons from a three five emotional projector. So today's podcast is going to be a little off the cuff. I want to share some ahas in some insights and some just reflections as we step into the new lunar year, the year of the fire horse, and out of the old energy and kind of the process that I've experienced in the last few months. So one of the things that I've been doing behind the scenes is really just like dotting my i's and crossing my T's and essentially prepping to scale, prepping to expand, prepping to bring more people into my world, essentially. And I, in order to do that, I have had some foundational things, air quotes that I've needed to finish or complete or gain clarity around or establish some boundaries around or whatever it is. And so it's been a journey to say the least. (01:43): And it's really wild because one of the things that I did is that gave myself permission last year when early in early 2025, I gave myself permission to not have calls when I would have these periods of time where there'd be lots of people who didn't show up. And so around the holiday season, periods of time in the summer, and I told myself I would give myself that space. And what I didn't realize was one, this crazy journey that the house remodel that I did took me on, but conversely how much I really needed that space in December and January to just retreat and take some time to myself and essentially shed a layer. I always like to talk about the lobster when I talk about the deconditioning process in that a lobster has to get so uncomfortable in its shell that it sheds, it goes into retreat for a period of time, it grows a new shell, and then it's ready to come back into the world with other people. (03:17): And I'm coming out of this period of retreat where I've regrown this new soft shell of a lobster that gives me more space to expand because I'd been in this very uncomfortable place for quite some time, probably for the better part of last year. I felt just very uncomfortable in, I'd felt I'd outgrown things and I was either committed or I needed to finish or whatever it was. And in this reflection, one of the things that I decided to do was to essentially uphold a boundary. It was a boundary that I had always talked about implementing, but never actually took the steps to do it. I was just like, it's okay. I was just kind of willy-nilly about it, for lack of a better term. (04:26): And so I decided to implement this boundary, and it was pretty wild because I got this wide array of reactions around it. Some people were super supportive, some were very angry, some were projecting on me. It was a wild experience, and it made me really notice as a, I'm a three five triple split projector with emotional authority for those who don't know. So my solar plexus is connected to my heart via the 37 40. My root is connected to my spleen via the 38 28, and then my ajna is connected to my throat via the 1762. So one of the things that I started to notice come out in myself was my 37 40 and that 37 40, I've gotten better at managing my 37 40, but it is a place where I carry deep, deep conditioning and deep, deep lowercase T trauma about being too much, or I'll just, as I always like to say, suck it up and do it myself. (06:11): It was kind of wild because I been very generous with people for a very long time around this. And I was just like, I can't, it doesn't make sense for me to keep doing it is literally costing me money every month to keep doing this. And I could feel my 37, 40 getting into that space where it was maybe going to explode. And it dawned on me in this time, I had known pretty intuitively, instinctively for quite a long time that I needed to do this, that it was exhausting me, it was draining me. And ultimately I knew in implementing it via my 28 38, that it was going to be a struggle. It was going to be a fight, and I was fully prepared for it because when you're implementing a boundary that people have been benefiting from, it doesn't typically work out well when you're changing that, people don't necessarily like that. (07:33): So as I went through this process in this winter break, I didn't work from, or I shouldn't say I didn't work. I worked, I didn't take calls from roughly the first week in December till the last week in January. And it was actually kind of funny too. The very first day I was supposed to be back, there was a huge snowstorm here. We had two feet of snow and I ended up having to cancel the calls, which means that I didn't actually start taking calls to the first week in February. So I had almost two months in being in my own aura. And that's always been very catalytic for me. That's

Episode Summary: In this episode of the HD or Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer welcomes Mary Clavieres, a client, friend, and newly published author. Mary discusses her latest accomplishment, the publication of her book "Mind Body Connection Unlocked." The conversation delves into Mary's work in executive coaching and advisory, focusing on helping leaders align more closely with their human design. Mary shares her journey of integrating and embodying her human design over the past few years, highlighting the importance of the deconditioning process. The discussion also covers the challenges and insights Mary experienced while writing her book, including the importance of maintaining one's authentic voice during the editing process. Jamie and Mary explore the nuances of recognition and projection as projectors and the significance of having a body of work that stands apart from the individual. The episode concludes with Mary offering advice to aspiring authors and sharing where listeners can find her book. Guest Highlights Background: Mary Clavier is an executive coach and advisor focused on helping leaders and professionals align more with their true selves. She emphasizes the importance of the mind-body connection and is a self-projected projector in human design. Key Contributions: Mary shares her journey of integrating human design into her life and work, her deconditioning process, and how she uses human design in her coaching and book. She also discusses her experience of moving from the US to France and how it influenced her personal transformation and writing.  Timestamped Chapters and Sections Chapter 1: Introduction and Guest Introduction Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the podcast and welcomes guest Mary Clavieres, a client, friend, and newly published author. Mary shares her recent accomplishment of publishing her book, "MindBody Connection Unlocked." Timestamps: Start: 00:02, End: 00:58 Chapter 2: Human Design and Personal Journey Summary: Mary discusses her work in executive coaching and the importance of human design in her life. She explains her journey of understanding and integrating her human design over the past few years. Timestamps: Start: 00:58, End: 03:57 Chapter 3: Deconditioning Process Summary: Mary and Jamie delve into the deconditioning process in human design, discussing its challenges and the importance of practicing and embodying one's design. Timestamps: Start: 03:57, End: 05:42 Chapter 4: Writing the Book Summary: Mary shares her motivations for writing her book, the personal transformation she experienced, and how her human design influenced her writing process. Timestamps: Start: 05:42, End: 08:14 Chapter 5: The Projection Field and Recognition Summary: Jamie and Mary discuss the concept of the projection field in human design, the challenges of recognition, and how having a body of work like a book can create a separation between the individual and the work. Timestamps: Start: 08:14, End: 12:48 Chapter 6: Writing and Editing Process Summary: Mary describes her writing process, the challenges of editing, and the importance of maintaining her voice in the book. Jamie shares insights on different types of editors and the importance of authenticity in writing. Timestamps: Start: 12:48, End: 30:03 Chapter 7: Mindset and Final Thoughts Summary: Mary talks about the mindset challenges she faced during the book writing process and offers advice to aspiring authors. Jamie and Mary conclude the discussion with final thoughts on the book and its availability. Timestamps: Start: 30:03, End: 35:53   Main Topics Covered Human Design: The discussion covers Mary's journey with human design, including her deconditioning process and how she incorporates it into her coaching and book. Book Writing Process: Mary shares her experience of writing her book, including the challenges of editing and maintaining her authentic voice. She discusses the importance of self-awareness and staying true to oneself during the writing process. Recognition and Projection: Jamie and Mary discuss the dynamics of recognition and projection in their work, particularly as projectors in human design, and how having a body of work like a book can create a separation that allows for more authentic recognition.   Order your Book: https://www.jamielpalmer.com/human-design-for-business-book/     Website: https://www.maryclavieres.com Book link: https://www.maryclavieres.com/book IG: https://www.instagram.com/mary.clavieres LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-clavieres-19917a7/   ***Complete Transcripts Below***  Jamie Palmer (00:02): Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the HD or Biz podcast. I am your host, Jamie Palmer. And today we have a very special guest with us, a client, a dear friend, and a newly published author, Mary Clavier. Mary Clavieres (00:22): Hi Jamie. Thanks for having Jamie Palmer (00:23): Me. Hi. So tell me what's going on with you? You got some big news? Mary Clavieres (00:29): Yeah, all the things. Latest big milestone accomplishment is publishing the book, MINDBODY Connection unlocked and yeah, it's been a ride. I mean, because been on it with me. Jamie Palmer (00:46): Yeah. Well tell everybody who you are and the work you're working on and obviously your human design. Mary Clavieres (00:58): Oh yeah. Great. Good that you mentioned human design. I might not have said it. So my work in the world right now is primarily focused on executive coaching and advisory and supporting leaders and professionals with showing up in more alignment than perhaps they have been in the past. And with that under the umbrella of opening or unlocking your mind body connection, I think, and maybe this is some of what we'll get into, but it's so powerful when you can learn how to get out of your mind and back into your body to really work from that place. And so for my human design, I'm a three five self projected projector. And I guess those are the main things because self projected already tells you the authority too. Jamie Palmer (01:58): Yeah. So tell me, we've been working together now for what, a couple of years. So tell me a bit about your journey so the listeners can hear kind of your process of going from knowing your human design to integrating it and embodying it and Absolutely. On the road to becoming it. Mary Clavieres (02:29): Yeah. So when I first started with you, yeah, I think it was a couple years ago when I first started, I signed up because I wanted to learn more about myself and my design. I knew my design already, but I really wanted to go deeper with the information. And I mean, to be honest, your content has no comparison anywhere else. So I said, okay, I want to go deeper and learn this for me and then also for my family. It's funny because when I signed up for HD Wild, I thought, okay, I'm going to use it for me and use it for my family. I have no plans to use it with other people. And then here I am two years later using it with other people, just how it goes, so, so when I first started, it was really very much from that perspective. And then probably, I don't know, six to nine months in, I said, okay, let me try doing some readings for other people. Just something I love so much and couldn't stop Speaker 3 (03:32): Talking Mary Clavieres (03:32): About and seeing and wondering about with people and all of the things. So I started with readings and then it kind of evolved from there that now I've incorporated it into my coaching and incorporated it, not directly, but as a tool within my book and some of those other ways. So it's definitely evolved over Jamie Palmer (03:57): Time. And talk to me about if you feel comfortable, your deconditioning process. I think that that's something that I know I talk about, but I don't think that the collective human design space talks about enough. I think they tend to glamorize it and use it as a shiny term, but not actually what does that look like? Mary Clavieres (04:29): Yeah, yeah, I agree. And it's one thing to know your design and then there's a whole other to actually be trying and taking the steps to living it, Jamie Palmer (04:39): Practicing it, right? Mary Clavieres (04:41): To practice. Yeah, exactly. And uncovering different things in different moments. Even if I, I'll just take my authority, for example, being a self projected projector, I knew that it means you have to speak out loud to yourself. I knew that it means it's about how the information is coming out, but over time, what I learned is that it's also how it feels in my body, that process of being in my body and then exiting my body through my voice. It's kind of hard to explain, but I have, there's this felt sense in my, let's say, heart space or really even above the heart between the heart and the throat. And so then after practicing for a while, I came to realize, oh, that's actually where I get the feeling. So stuff like that, it doesn't all happen at the same time. You learn in different parts and pieces. Jamie Palmer (05:42): Yeah, I love that. And I think that too ties into so much of the work that you're doing in the book that you wrote. Mary Clavieres (05:49): Yeah, true. Yeah, because it's really, for me, discovering human design and then the process of living it has been a big thing for me with, there's other things too, of course, but a big part of me connecting back with my body and really letting that drive things more than my head. Speaker 3 (06:10): It's Jamie Palmer (06:10): Like, Mary Clavieres (06:10): Get out of the head. Jamie Palmer (06:13): Yeah. So tell me a bit about what prompted you to write a book. A big endeavor. Mary Clavieres (06:27): Yeah, it's a big endeavor. It is. So I feel like it's probably layered as most things are. One part of it is that I had a writing practice for a long time. I had been journaling for many years,

From Knowledge to Embodiment: The Missing Piece in Your Human Design Journey Originally aired on the HD Your Biz Podcast - Catalyst Experience Welcome back to the HD Your Biz Podcast! As we step into 2026, I'm bringing you behind-the-scenes content from my Catalyst Experience membership—a space dedicated to supporting you in building a life and business at the intersection of your design, desires, and lifestyle. Today, I want to address what I see as the biggest gap in how people approach Human Design, especially when building a business: the difference between knowing your design and actually living it. The Knowledge Trap Here's what I see happening constantly: People come to Human Design for business work and they know their design from a headspace perspective. They know: "I'm a 4/6 Projector" "I need an invitation and recognition" "I'm a Generator - I need to respond" "80% certainty is a yes for my emotional authority" But here's the problem: This is all still coming from the mind. When you think "I have 80% certainty, I'm at emotional neutral" - that's not how it actually works when you're embodying your design. When you think "I have an invitation, great, now I can give advice" - that's still mental processing, not embodied knowing. What Embodiment Actually Looks Like When you truly live in your body and become one with your design, you don't have to think: "Do I have an invitation?" "Do I have the felt sense of emotional neutrality?" "Am I at 80% certainty?" You can actually feel it in your physical body. Let me share my own journey with this. My Emotional Authority Evolution When Human Design found me on Instagram, I discovered I was a 3/5 Projector with emotional authority. I learned that "if you're at 80%, that's a yes or a no." At that time, I knew with 80% certainty I didn't want to keep doing my marketing agency. But I kept waiting to get to 100% certainty - which was never going to come. Understanding that framework was incredibly helpful at the beginning. That validation was powerful. It helped me make the decision to leave my agency. But here's what I know now, years into my deconditioning journey: I cannot even remember the last time I said to myself, "I have 80% certainty, therefore this is a yes or no." Instead, I know the felt sense of emotional neutrality in my body. I have a trusting relationship with my body where I know: What a "yes" feels like in my body What a "no" feels like in my body What recognition feels like What being projected on feels like I don't need to be in my mind analyzing "oh, there's a negative projection." I can feel it. That's the difference between knowing your design and integrating, embodying, and becoming your design. Living Design in Real Time: My Family Example I see this every day in my household. We live and breathe Human Design, not as a concept, but as an embodied practice. My Manifester Son: My oldest son, Z, is a Manifester. His energy can be pokey, sometimes catalytic, even a little triggering - not in a negative way, but in that way where I can feel his Manifester energy calling me into something new. I don't need to think "Oh, you're a Manifester. You're initiating." I just embrace it and ask: "What are you seeing that I don't see?" My 4/1 Son: Every morning, because we integrate Human Design in our household, I know: here's the 4/1 kid who needs information. "Here's the 411 you need to know about today. You keep me informed, I keep you informed." It works symbiotically, without needing to reference his chart every time. My 2/4 Quad-Split Son: I know my other child is a 2/4 quad-split. Right now there's a transit that's affecting him, and I know his feelings and emotions are really big. I don't need to go "oh, you're transit X, Y, Z." I know I need to hold space. I can feel it. I don't even need to look it up. The Messy Middle: Getting From Head to Body Here's what nobody tells you: Moving from knowledge to embodiment is sloppy at first. I remember making that shift from asking myself "Do I have 80% certainty?" to trusting the emotional neutrality in my body. It was hard. I made mistakes. But once I got through that stormy period and came out on the other side, I had an entirely different relationship with my body. I could move with so much more ease, so much more resonance. I didn't hit as much resistance. It's the same with any part of our design. My Manifester son is learning to initiate authentically. Over the past few months, I've watched him really step into "I'm going to initiate at basketball." He's crushing it. He's had to navigate some challenging dynamics with his teammates. But on the other side, he's emerged as this confident, strong kid who's leading - not the biggest kid on the team, but fast, coachable, and unafraid to initiate. The Challenge: Moving Beyond Conditioning Here's the thing about us adults: We're conditioned. My children don't necessarily need me to tell them to "do their design." But we adults? We've been conditioned for decades to operate in ways that don't align with who we actually are. When it comes to building a business at the intersection of your design, desires, and lifestyle, one of the biggest challenges I see is this: People believe they should build a business in X way. "I've got to do a course." "I've got to do a mastermind." "I've got to do [insert homogenized thing here]." They spend six months building that out, and they're still shrinking their Human Design to fit into that business model. Your 2026 Invitation As we step into this year, I'm inviting you to pick one part of your design and commit to moving from knowledge into integration and embodiment. I would look at either your Strategy, your Authority, or your Type - these are foundational pieces of your chart. Pick one and ask yourself: "How can I move from knowing this intellectually to feeling it in my body? How can I trust it a little bit more?" Get out of the mind. Get into the body. Watch how resonance unfolds for you. Because here's what happens when you do this work: You stop using excuses. You stop "shoulding" yourself. You get out of perfectionism. You embrace yourself. You step into your power. You take up space. You aren't afraid to pursue the thing inside of you. You give yourself permission to do the work your future self will thank you for. The Practice Space This is my mission: To support more people in truly embodying their design in business so they can build businesses where they don't have to shrink. Because when you're building from embodied alignment - not from what you think you "should" do - everything changes. The integration, the embodiment, the practice of your design? That's where the magic happens. That's where growth happens. That's where change happens. And yes, you'll mess up along the way. It will be sloppy. It will be hard. But the moment you come out on the other side, you'll have a relationship with your body and your design that allows you to move with ease and resonance. Ready to Go Deeper? If you want support in building a business at the intersection of your design, desires, and lifestyle, I invite you to: Join the Catalyst Experience - Our life and business alignment membership with incredible offerings coming in 2026 Order a Catalyst Report - Get personalized insights into your design for business Both available at humandesignyourbusiness.com What part of your design are you going to work on moving from knowledge to embodiment this year? Share in the comments or reach out - I'd love to hear from you. To your integration and embodiment, Jamie Palmer

Jamie Palmer, the host of the HD Your Biz® podcast, opens the episode by sharing a personal update about her life, particularly focusing on a significant home remodel project that began on her birthday, May 29th. She explains the challenges and experiences of converting a two-family home into a single-family home, including dealing with contractors and living out of a duffle bag due to the construction. Jamie also reflects on the emotional journey of staying with her parents during the remodel, which provided healing insights into her childhood and family dynamics. Main Topics Covered Home Remodel Experience: Jamie discusses the extensive home renovation project, the challenges faced with contractors, and the emotional impact of living with her parents during the construction. Family Dynamics and Healing: She reflects on the healing experience of witnessing her father's interactions with her children, which provided new perspectives on her childhood. Business Updates and Future Plans: Jamie outlines her business goals, including the development of human design for business and ecocentric human design divisions. She emphasizes her focus on creating and teaching, with plans to launch new training programs and certifications. Human Design in Business: Jamie talks about the importance of integrating human design into business practices and her vision for setting industry standards. Upcoming Programs and Offerings: She announces upcoming live experiences, training programs, and updates to existing offerings, such as the HD or Biz Catalyst report and the Business Design with Human Design program. Detailed Breakdown Key Takeaways Home Remodel Experience Quote: "We can do hard things." - Jamie Palmer (06:30) Context: Jamie discusses the challenges and learnings from her home remodel project, emphasizing resilience and the unexpected difficulties in dealing with contractors. Family Dynamics and Healing Quote: "It was or has been so healing for me to witness and just see or reframe the way in which some of the things that happened in my childhood went down." - Jamie Palmer (12:45) Context: Jamie reflects on her time spent with her parents during the remodel, highlighting personal healing and understanding of family dynamics. Business Vision and Human Design Quote: "I truly believe I have helped to shape the human design for business industry for certain." - Jamie Palmer (30:10) Context: Jamie shares her vision for the future of her business, focusing on human design and its application in business, and her role in shaping the industry. Future Plans and Business Strategy Quote: "I am going to focus on from now through 2026, creation and synthesis, creation and synthesis, making the best possible tools that set the standard in the HD industry." - Jamie Palmer (01:20:30) Context: Jamie outlines her strategic focus on creating and synthesizing tools and resources for human design and business, aiming to set industry standards. Actionable Advice Embrace Challenges: Jamie emphasizes the importance of resilience and adaptability when facing unexpected challenges, such as those encountered during her home remodel. Reflect on Personal Growth: She suggests using personal experiences, like family interactions, as opportunities for healing and personal growth. Focus on Core Strengths: Jamie advises doubling down on one's strengths and passions, as she plans to do with her focus on creation and teaching in her business. Leverage Human Design in Business: She encourages integrating human design principles into business strategies to create more personalized and effective business models. Timestamped Chapters and Sections Chapter 1: Introduction and Personal Update Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the podcast and shares a personal update about her home remodel project, which started on her birthday, May 29th. She discusses the challenges and experiences of converting a two-family home into a single-family home, including dealing with contractors and living with her parents during the renovation. Timestamps: Start: 00:02, End: 15:30 Chapter 2: Reflections on Family and Healing Summary: Jamie reflects on her time spent with her parents during the summer, highlighting the healing experience of witnessing her father's interactions with her children. She discusses the impact of her childhood experiences and the importance of understanding family dynamics through the lens of human design. Timestamps: Start: 15:31, End: 25:45 Chapter 3: Business Updates and Future Plans Summary: Jamie shares her business updates, including her vision for the future of human design in business. She discusses her plans to create a human design school, develop training and certification programs, and focus on creating and synthesizing content. She also talks about the importance of aligning business models with human design. Timestamps: Start: 25:46, End: 45:10 Chapter 4: Upcoming Programs and Offerings Summary: Jamie outlines her upcoming programs and offerings, including the HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training Program and the Business Design with Human Design Live Experience. She emphasizes the value of these programs and the opportunity for participants to gain certification and access to business tools. Timestamps: Start: 45:11, End: 01:05:20 Chapter 5: Conclusion and Call to Action Summary: Jamie concludes the podcast by encouraging listeners to engage with her programs and reach out if they have questions. She expresses excitement about returning to regular podcast content and the upcoming launch of the Ecocentric Human Design Podcast. Timestamps: Start: 01:05:21, End: 01:10:00 Episode Summary: In this episode of the HD Your Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer provides a comprehensive update on her personal and professional life. She begins by sharing her experiences with a significant home remodel project that started on her birthday, May 29th, transforming her two-family home into a single-family residence. Jamie discusses the challenges faced during the remodel, including dealing with contractors and living out of a duffle bag due to construction dust. She reflects on the emotional healing she experienced while staying with her parents, witnessing her father's interactions with her children, and reevaluating her childhood experiences. Jamie transitions to discussing her business endeavors, focusing on her work with human design for business. She outlines her vision for creating a human design-informed industry, setting standards, and developing educational resources. Jamie plans to expand her offerings with training, certification, and licensing for her programs, including the HD Client Compass book and the Ideal Client Workshop. She emphasizes the importance of building businesses aligned with human design and shares her plans for launching new programs and certifications. Jamie also introduces the concept of ecocentric human design, aiming to separate her business into two divisions: HD or Biz University and Ecocentric Human Design University. She discusses her commitment to creating tools and resources that support individuals in integrating human design into their businesses and lives. Jamie concludes by inviting listeners to engage with her offerings and providing details on upcoming programs and experiences. Related Links: HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training Program: hdinthewild.com Business Design with Human Design Live Experience: businessdesignwithhumandesign.com HD Your Biz Catalyst Report: humandesignyourbusiness.com Ecocentric Human Design Podcast: Available for subscription on podcast platforms. Calls to Action: Enroll in the HD Wild Ecocentric Human Design Training Program for a comprehensive one-year training on human design. Join the Business Design with Human Design Live Experience to learn about business models for the future and participate in Jamie's writing process. Purchase an HD or Biz Catalyst Report for personalized business guidance aligned with human design. Subscribe to the Ecocentric Human Design Podcast for updates and new content. Reach out to Jamie for questions or to enroll in her programs, especially if interested in offerings with lower investment levels. *** Complete Transcription Below ****   Jamie Palmer (00:02): Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the HD You Biz podcast. I am your host, Jamie Palmer, and I am very excited to chat with you today and give you a long waited, much anticipated update. And so it's been a minute. It's been a minute since I've posted on the podcast and there's actually a good reason behind that. I am doing a very large, or we started a very large home remodel project on May 29th, my birthday. And essentially we are turning our two family into a one family, and it has been this very crazy, very wild experience for me. (01:09): I wanted to come on here and just one, share a bit about that experience. Two, give you some kind of updates, happenings, and how to work with me this fall and things that I am making happen behind the scenes that may impact you. So first, let's start with the home remodel. So right around this time last year, my husband and I, we decided that we kind of had to make some choices about our house and we have a two family, or we had a two family. And where I live, we had this new LED law and we had been sort of passively looking for a house. I wouldn't say we were actively looking for a house, but for those of you who have followed me for any sort of time, no. Last summer I gave my oldest son my office, we didn't have enough space or my youngest son, my office, and we only have one bathroom. (02:28): And I homeschool the kids and I work from home and we were outgrowing the house. And so there's this lead law. So we had tenants in place and they had been there for the entirety of the time that we own the house. We were actually the third owners with the same tenants, and essentially we had to pass this thing. So

In this episode of the HD Your Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer discusses the evolving landscape of business, emphasizing the need for adaptation and evolution in the face of changing times. Jamie highlights the decline of traditional business models, such as funnels, and the importance of moving away from homogenization towards customization. She stresses the significance of understanding human design and integrating it into business practices to create a regenerative business. Jamie introduces six fundamentals necessary for thriving in this new era: depth, mastery, resonance, dividends, congruence, and regulation. She elaborates on each fundamental, providing examples and insights into how they contribute to building a sustainable and successful business. Jamie also touches on the role of AI and automation, the importance of emotional and nervous system regulation, and the need for individualization and customization in business strategies. The episode concludes with a call to action for listeners to assess their strengths and weaknesses in these areas and consider ordering an HD Biz Catalyst report for personalized guidance.    Chapter 1: Introduction to the New Era of Business Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the podcast and discusses the changing business landscape, emphasizing the need for adaptation and evolution in business practices. Timestamps: Start: 00:02, End: 05:00 Chapter 2: The Death of Traditional Business Models Summary: Jamie discusses the decline of traditional business models like funnels and the importance of customization over homogenization in the post-COVID world. Timestamps: Start: 05:01, End: 10:00 Chapter 3: Fundamentals of the New Business Era Summary: Jamie outlines six fundamentals necessary for thriving in the new era of business: depth, mastery, resonance, dividends, congruence, and regulation. Timestamps: Start: 10:01, End: 45:00 Chapter 4: Individualization and Customization Summary: The importance of individualization and customization in business is discussed, highlighting how these approaches lead to better outcomes. Timestamps: Start: 45:01, End: 50:00 Chapter 5: Invitation to Self-Assessment and Catalyst Reports Summary: Jamie invites listeners to assess their strengths and weaknesses in the fundamentals discussed and introduces the HD Biz Catalyst reports for deeper insights. Timestamps: Start: 50:01, End: 55:00 Chapter 6: Conclusion and Call to Action Summary: Jamie concludes the podcast with a call to action for listeners to order the HD Biz Catalyst reports and thanks them for tuning in. Timestamps: Start: 55:01, End: 57:00   Maint Topics Covered Changing Business Landscape: Jamie discusses the evolving online business environment, the decline of traditional methods like funnels, and the need for businesses to adapt to new consumer expectations. Human Design in Business: The importance of integrating human design into business practices to create a customized and congruent approach. Six Fundamentals for a Regenerative Business: Depth: Having a deep understanding of one's field to preempt client needs and scenarios. Mastery: Achieving a level of expertise that allows for effortless execution and innovation. Resonance: Creating a strong connection with clients through vulnerability and authenticity. Dividends: Focusing on long-term activities that compound over time, rather than seeking immediate gratification. Congruence: Aligning actions and behaviors with personal values, design, and desires. Regulation: Managing emotional and nervous system regulation to navigate business challenges effectively. Individualization and Customization: The shift towards personalized business approaches to improve client outcomes. HD Biz Catalyst Reports: Jamie promotes the HD Biz Catalyst reports, which offer customized insights into leveraging human design for business success. Actionable Advice Adaptation and Evolution: Embrace the changing business landscape by moving away from homogenized methods and towards personalized, human-centered approaches. Depth and Mastery: Develop a deep understanding and mastery in your field to anticipate client needs and innovate effectively. Create Resonance: Build trust and connection with clients through vulnerability and authenticity, sharing your beliefs and experiences. Focus on Long-term Dividends: Invest time and resources in activities that will pay off in the long run, rather than seeking immediate rewards. Align Actions with Values: Ensure your business practices are congruent with your personal values and desires to maintain authenticity. Regulate Emotions: Develop skills to manage and regulate your emotions and nervous system to handle business challenges with resilience. ***** Complete Transcription Below***** Jamie Palmer (00:02): Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the HD or Biz podcast. I am your host, Jamie Palmer, and I am excited to jump in to the new era of business, the shifting tides of the current landscape and how to build a regenerative business congruent to your design. So I think it's been a minute since I podcasted and I will do an update as to what's been happening for me behind the scenes at a later date. I don't need to bore you with my home remodel and the other things that are happening in my life. But one of the things that is becoming more and more and more prevalent for me is the fact that the landscape is changing. Business landscape is changing. The online business landscape is changing. It's been changing for the last five years. And I have been saying for quite some time that it's time to adapt. It's time to evolve, it's time to embrace the HD revolution. It's time to lean into customization and move away from homogenization. And for me, I'm watching and I'm looking at the landscape and I am seeing people who supposedly air quotes, have these big businesses and they are just burning them to the ground. (01:54): I'm seeing people just throw offer after offer, after offer at the wall to see what sticks, dicks, and ultimately the things that used to work are no longer working. And the reality is it's easy to blame and point the finger at the economy or the maturing online business space or the fact that we've all gone nose blind to pressurized selling or as I like to say, nervous system activation selling. But the time is here to adapt. The time is here to evolve, and I am continuing to watch things that have been tried and true and worked for ages, stop working. I am witnessing the death of the funnel. And I think we have to remember that people love to buy, but they hate to be sold. And I think that in our post COVID world, everyone has tried to have a business or a side hustle or many people have tried to have a business or a side hustle, and quite frankly, the delivery was lackluster. (03:22): There's a lot of things, but the reality is we cannot pretend anymore that this is not happening. And I've been naming this since I started this new iteration of my business in right around this time of year. In 2021, I launched my very first business design with human design workshop and then the HDU Biz Program in the fall. And quite frankly, most of my life, I've always kind of been before my time watching, witnessing, noticing, naming, adapting, changing, evolving. And I see these things, I see them happening. I see what the collective is missing and what's needed and how things are shifting. And I pay attention to this. And the reality is we have been living in unprecedented times and we continue to live in unprecedented times. (04:20): The homogenized world is collapsing. We see it in the school systems, we see it in corporate culture, we see it in the online space. And the reality is we want things faster, easier, quicker. We want to treat the symptom, but we don't want to have to deal with the root of the problem. And the reality is we're burnt out, we're tapped out, we're exhausted, our nervous systems are fried, and we're just go, go, go, go all the time. And I firmly believe that things are falling apart, so better things can fall together. And as a three five projector, I think I am uniquely positioned to hold space during this time. I tend to thrive when things are in chaos. And I know for many people, especially when I think about this through the lens of human design, that things falling apart is triggering challenging, polarizing hard and uncomfortable on good days, change is uncomfortable on a good day and it's near impossible when you're dysregulated, when your nervous system is dysregulated. (05:37): And for me, part of the work I believe that I am here to do is to support people in embracing a whole self era of business and businesses. You as a business owner and an entrepreneur are going to need to adapt or you will end up extinct. And this is in part due to the consumer, whether the consumer is another business owner or a consumer from not a business owner perspective, they're smarter, they're more educated. We have access to more information than we've ever had before at our fingertips, and yet we have more knowledge than ever. Yet I believe we lack more integration and embodiment than ever. We have a focus crisis, we have a dopamine addiction, and ultimately we lack the grittiness and sticktuitiveness to gain the necessary steps for mastery and embodiment and evolution. (07:08): We want it yesterday. And ultimately we're moving into times where people buy from people they trust, which has always been the case, but it's going one step further. I believe there has to be this level of resonance and congruence and people have to be able to see their story in you while also having you meet them where they are and customize what's going on for them. And I think having strong and clear boundaries, practicing what you preach, actually being emotionally and nervous system regulated is going to be a big part of what's to come in business. And the reality is we are not g

In this episode of the HD Your Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer delves into the importance of speaking the language of potential clients using human design principles. [00:02] Jamie discusses the common challenges faced by experts who struggle to transition from a one-to-one practice to a one-to-many model, often due to their reliance on referrals and their use of technical language that potential clients may not understand. [00:37] She emphasizes the need for experts to adopt a marketer's approach by meeting clients where they are and speaking in terms that resonate with them. [03:06] Jamie uses human design as a framework to illustrate how experts can translate their expertise into language that potential clients can relate to, thereby improving their marketing and sales efforts. [07:05] She also provides a detailed explanation of how the nine defined centers in human design can support clients and offers practical examples of how to apply these principles in business. Jamie concludes by inviting listeners to join her Ideal Client Workshop for a deeper dive into these concepts. [18:06] Calls to Action Join the Ideal Client Workshop to learn more about translating expertise into client-friendly language. Ideal Client Workshop Leave a review for the podcast to provide feedback on the content. Jamie Palmer's new book: "The Human Design Client Compass" Get on my list to receive early access bonuses.  Chapter 1: Introduction to the HD Your Biz Podcast  Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the podcast and sets the stage for discussing how to speak the language of potential clients using human design. Timestamps: 00:02 - 01:00 Chapter 2: The Struggles of Experts in Business  Summary: Jamie discusses the common challenges faced by experts in transitioning from a referral-based business to a broader market.  Timestamps: 01:01 - 05:00 Chapter 3: The Difference Between Experts and Marketers  Summary: Jamie explains the distinction between experts and marketers, emphasizing the importance of speaking the client's language. Timestamps: 05:01 - 10:00 Chapter 4: Using Human Design to Connect with Clients Summary: Jamie uses human design as an example to illustrate how experts can better communicate with potential clients by avoiding technical jargon.  Timestamps: 10:01 - 15:00 Chapter 5: Translating Expertise Through Human Design  Summary: Jamie outlines how to use defined centers in human design to translate expertise into language that resonates with clients.  Timestamps: 15:01 - 25:00 Chapter 6: Practical Examples and Client Stories Summary: Jamie provides practical examples and client stories to demonstrate how to apply these concepts in real-world scenarios. Timestamps: 25:01 - 35:00 Chapter 7: Invitation to the Ideal Client Workshop  Summary: Jamie invites listeners to join the Ideal Client Workshop for deeper learning and practical application of the discussed concepts.  Timestamps: 35:01 - 40:00 Chapter 8: Conclusion and Call to Action Summary: Jamie concludes the podcast, encouraging listeners to leave reviews and tune in for the next episode.  Timestamps: 40:01 - 41:00 Actionable Advice Speak the Client's Language Avoid using technical jargon and instead use language that resonates with potential clients' experiences and problems. [06:51] Identify the First Problem You Solve Focus on the initial problem you solve for clients and use that as a starting point to communicate your value. [18:01] Use Defined Centers as a Translation Tool Leverage the defined centers in human design to translate your expertise into terms that are easily understood by your clients. [04:59] Meet Clients Where They Are Understand the level of awareness of your potential clients and tailor your communication to meet them at their level, whether they are problem-aware or solution-aware. [17:37] Continuous Learning and Adaptation Engage in workshops and training to refine your approach and stay updated on effective strategies for client communication and business growth. [18:06] Defined Center Strengths Visual  Complete Transcription Below ******* Jamie Palmer (00:02): Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the HD or Biz podcast. I am your host, Jamie Palmer, and I am super excited to talk to you today about speaking the language of your potential client using your human design. So one of the things that I experience most frequently with clients who come into my world is that they are often in this space of they have the expertise. They've often tried to launch a course or a program and it's often fallen flat or it hasn't gone as well as they thought it would be, or they're fully bucked out in their practice, right? They've got a one-to-one practice and they want to start to transition out of that one-to-one practice. But ultimately, they are struggling to sell when the business isn't coming from a referral because primarily their business has been by referral or people actively searching for the thing that they have to offer. (01:21): And so when we think about this, I kind of think about this as there's two camps and there's overlap in those two camps. So we have the expert whose business is primarily developed through referral or people actively searching for the thing that the expert has and or there's these people who are experts who are looking out of the marketplace going, I'm more qualified than this person who's doing X, Y, Z, and I need to transition my business into more of a one to many model because these people who aren't as qualified are having more success than I am. And maybe it's coming from a place of fomo, but oftentimes it's also as a result of like I want to scale too because kind of running out of time. And so the problem that I have found, and one of the things that I support a lot of my clients with is this. (02:28): Am I wearing my expert hat or am I wearing my, for lack of a better term, marketer hat? And if we think about this in our own industry, it's really easy to look out at the industry and see that experts tend to speak their expertise, they speak the language that they know so well, the stuff that they can kind of do in their sleep that they take for granted that they're brilliant at. And then there's marketers. Marketers are really good at selling, but they aren't necessarily as good as the delivery aspect. They probably won't get you the same transformation as an expert would, but the problem is the expert doesn't, their language doesn't necessarily translate to the potential client. And so the potential client goes to the marketer because they're speaking the language of the potential client. And so I want to first just name that it's important to understand that this does not mean that you're doing any sort of bait and switch. (03:50): However, I'll use human design as an example here. If I show up to an event and people don't know what human design is and I start talking about strategy and authority and defined and undefined centers, I might as well be speaking a foreign language. And I think this is often what happens to people who have a level of depth and expertise. This is just their normal language. And ultimately, unless you are getting a client by referral or a client who's already done the research and the homework to understand that language, or at least have some understanding of that language, the potential client's going to go to the person who's speaking their speak. And so let's continue with human design as an example, right? So say you are having an issue where you are feeling like you have imposter syndrome. And if I'm saying, look, we can use your human design, solar plexus, this, that, the other, your defined centers or your undefined centers, and I'm talking all in this human design lingo and I'm saying we can use that as a way to treat your imposter syndrome. (05:19): And I'm spewing all this human design language to you. The person's probably not going to buy from me unless they were a referral. And if they were a referral, they're going to buy from me because they trust the person who referred them and they know that that person got the results or that referral that introduced The two is like, is it trusted source? And they're like, yep, I'll just hit the I believe button. Whereas if it's not by referral or it's via a sales page, if I'm talking all about how your defined and undefined centers can give us a compass to determine why you have imposter syndrome, and I'm talking about being in detriment and honoring your strategy and authority, if I'm not selling to someone who's human design aware, I might as well be speaking a foreign language. And so one of the things that marketers air quotes for lack of a better term, do really well, is they meet that client where they're at and they say things like, if you're tired of feeling insecure, if you're tired of walking around feeling like you're going to get found out that you aren't the expert that people think that you are, we can help. (06:51): And here's how that is an entirely different way to sell to that person because I am removing my technical language with whatever expertise comes with that. And so the thing that we really want to understand or I want you to understand is that if you want to sell to more people, and I believe most of us want to sell to more people to make a bigger impact, if you want to sell to more people, you have to actually speak the language of what your potential client is talking about. And one of the things that people always comment and say to me, they're like, well, Jane, how did you get inside my head? And it's because I've been doing this work for so long with entrepreneurs in general, it will be almost 22 years in September that I've been working exclusively with entrepreneurs and startups, and I've been doing the human design stuff now for almost studying for six years and doing it with clients for five years. (07:58): I have he

In this episode of the HD Your Biz Podcast, host Jamie Palmer introduces listeners to the HD Your Biz Catalyst experience, a program designed to help individuals leverage their human design in business. [00:55] Jamie shares insights from the Catalyst experience, discussing the importance of creating a sustainable and regenerative course or group business model. [11:09] She emphasizes the need for a clear, focused approach, starting with a single signature offering and iterating based on feedback. Jamie also highlights the significance of understanding the reality of building a course business, including the necessary ingredients, optimal pricing strategies, and the importance of consistent marketing. She provides practical advice on how to navigate the transition period, manage time effectively, and ensure the course meets the needs of different learners. [19:31] Jamie concludes by encouraging listeners to consider their passion for teaching and creating before committing to a course business model. [45:48] Calls to Action & Related Links: HD Your Biz Catalyst Report: humandesignyourbusiness.com  HD Your Biz - Catalyst Experience: hdyourbiz.com Sign up for the three-part business design series via the link in the show notes.  Business Ecosystem Builders Planner: learn.jamielpalmer.com  Reality Check Resource:   Actionable Advice Focus on One Signature Course: [15:31] Commit to developing and refining a single course offering rather than spreading efforts across multiple programs. [15:58] Understand the Reality of Course Creation: Be prepared for the time and effort required to build a successful course, including the initial lack of profitability and the need for continuous improvement. Develop a Robust Sales Page: Ensure your sales page is comprehensive and takes potential clients on a journey, addressing their needs and concerns effectively. [38:44] Consistent Marketing: Maintain regular marketing efforts to build and engage your audience, ensuring a steady flow of potential clients for your course. [44:42] Evaluate Your Passion for Teaching: Reflect on whether you genuinely enjoy teaching and creating content, as these are critical components of running a successful course business. [44:31] Timestamped Chapters and Sections Chapter 1: Introduction to HD Your Biz Podcast [00:26] Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the HD Your Biz Podcast and shares her excitement about the Catalyst experience. [00:36] Timestamps: 00:04 - 02:00 Chapter 2: Overview of HD Your Biz Program [07:20] Summary: Jamie discusses the evolution of the HD Your Biz program and the introduction of the HD Your Biz Catalyst Report. [07:20] Timestamps: 02:01 - 05:30 Chapter 3: The Catalyst Experience [05:25] Summary: Jamie explains the Catalyst experience, its purpose, and how it helps business owners leverage human design in their business. [06:07] Timestamps: 05:31 - 10:00 Chapter 4: Ingredients for a Course Business Summary: Jamie shares the necessary ingredients for creating a successful course business, including mindset, planning, and pricing strategies. Timestamps: 10:01 - 20:00 Chapter 5: Building and Marketing Your Course [44:59] Summary: Jamie emphasizes the importance of balancing course creation with marketing and provides tips on how to effectively sell your course. [44:31] Timestamps: 20:01 - 30:00 Chapter 6: Optimal Pricing and Iteration [41:19] Summary: Jamie discusses how to determine optimal pricing for your course and the importance of iterating based on feedback. [43:37] Timestamps: 30:01 - 40:00 Chapter 7: Commitment and Consistency [16:45] Summary: Jamie highlights the need for commitment and consistency in teaching, creating, and marketing a course business. Timestamps: 40:01 - 50:00 Chapter 8: Reality Check and Audience Size [51:15] Summary: Jamie provides a reality check on audience size and expectations for course enrollments. [51:17] Timestamps: 50:01 - 01:00:00 Chapter 9: Conclusion and Next Steps Summary: Jamie concludes the episode and previews the next topic on business models that aren't courses. [10:50] Timestamps: 01:00:01 - 01:02:00   ****** Complete Transcription Below ****** Speaker 1 (00:04): Are you ready to tune up the definition in your life and business using your unique human design blueprint? If you want to activate your business genius, build a life on your terms and spark more joy, abundance, and flow, then stay tuned. I firmly believe that if each one of us can embody and become who we are meant to be, the world will be a better place. I am your host, Jamie Palmer, and this is the HD Your Biz Podcast. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the HDU Biz Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Palmer, and I am super excited to give you a taste of the catalyst experience today. Today I'm going to be sharing a recording from the private podcast of the HGU Biz Catalyst experience. This is a new, well, it's not really new for those of you who've been around for a minute, that the HDU Biz program was the first program I launched when I started this iteration of my human design and business. However, the HDU Biz program, I continue to tweak and hone and make it the best possible experience for those who enter into it. (01:40) And today I'm going to give you a taste of what that's like, and I'm giving you a taste of what that's like because I also think one of the things that I've become aware of, so last year, last October, I launched what's called the HD or Biz Catalyst Report. And essentially it is a report for you to leverage human design in your business and it's tailored to your design and it's essentially like a resource for you to print out and have at your desk and used for website copy and business offers and all these different aspects of your chart and yourself. It is part human design, it's part human design and business, but it's a resource. So I launched these back in October and I've written a couple of hundred of them since then. And if you're interested in ordering one, you can check them out at human design your business.com. (02:53) And I've written a couple hundred of these by now and the, we asked some questions about what do you want more of? What do you want less of? What do you want your life to look like? So many of the people in the onboarding, a plethora, like an overwhelming amount of people, said that they wanted a course or some sort of leverage business model. And it got me to thinking, okay, all these people want a course or a leveraged business model. And simultaneously there was a lot of like, well, I don't necessarily like to market or I don't necessarily like to teach. And it got me thinking that why? Well, one, why does the online business industry sell us on the belief that the only way to scale our business or to build our business is to have have a course or have to have a group program? (04:05) Two, it got me to thinking that what most people want is a lifestyle business, a business that supports their lifestyle. So many people, and this is me too, so many people want to work 25, 30 hours a week, five hours a day, and then have time and space to live the life that they want to live. And while you absolutely can do that with a course or a leverage business, you can also do that working. And this is not like, I don't want to go on a tangent about that. What I do want to say though is that I think there is a mismatch in the collective belief around what it takes and what's necessary to actually build a course or leverage business model, particularly if you want to have one that's $500,000 a year or a million dollars a year, what that actually takes and what you actually have to endure or grow through or go through in order to make that happen. (05:25) And so today, I'm going to share with you the ingredients necessary for a course business, and I'm going to share some examples of things that have happened with me with my clients, kind of like the mindset that you need in order to actually create the foundation for a course group or leveraged model, because I believe there is this massive expectation gap or expectation mismatch between what people think needs to happen versus what actually needs to happen. And so what I am doing today is sharing one of the podcasts from my Catalyst experience so that you can one benefit from that information, but two, experience a bit of content from the HD Biz Catalyst experience. And if you feel called, we're also going to give you a taster, a teaser, a sampling of this three part business design series that I'm doing. Inside that, I'll put the link in the show notes. (06:48) So if you want to sign up and get the other two parts of this, you can do so because we're only sharing this one part publicly. So I'll put that link in the show notes if you want to join me in either the Catalyst report, which you can get at HT human design your business.com, or if you want to join me in the Catalyst experience because the Catalyst experience, how do I want to talk about the Catalyst experience? The HD Biz Catalyst experience is the next iteration of my HD or biz program based on the feedback I've gotten from people in the last couple of iterations is they don't necessarily want to listen to me drone on about all the different types, profiles, center circuitry and stuff that doesn't apply to them. They also don't really want to hear about different stuff that isn't relevant to where they're at based on the ethos of their year. (07:50) And then they wanted to be able to have more accessibility to my brain. So in this H two B, the Catalyst experience, I created what I am calling an individualized, custom and transformative experience, and I really believe that the future of business is individualized. And so what I have done inside this program is we or I, my team and I, we give clients a private podcast feed with all of their human design elements. Then we have kind of the gr

In this episode of the HD Your Biz Podcast, host Jamie Palmer shares five invaluable tips for navigating business growth during turbulent times, all while keeping your unique human design in mind. With over 22 years of experience in the business world, Jamie delves into the importance of staying calm, making informed decisions, and leveraging long-term strategies. She discusses the global shift from the cross of planning to the cross of the sleeping phoenix and how this impacts business dynamics. Jamie also highlights the significance of understanding what you can control, identifying opportunities in the chaos, and letting go of rigid expectations. Tune in to discover how to double down on your strengths, regulate your nervous system, and be a beacon of hope in challenging times. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, this episode offers practical advice and inspiration to help you thrive in any economic climate. Navigating Business Growth: Tips for handling business growth during turbulent times, including staying calm, making informed decisions, and focusing on long-term strategies. [04:58] Global Incarnation Cross Shift: The shift from the cross of planning to the cross of the sleeping phoenix and its implications. Control and Influence: Understanding what aspects of business and life one can control, influence, and what is out of control. Opportunities in Turbulent Times: Identifying opportunities in connection, community, transformation, and technology. HD Biz Catalyst Experience: Introduction of the HD Biz Catalyst experience and the HD Biz Bot synergy. [08:47] Letting Go of Expectations: The importance of flexibility and being willing to pivot in business plans. Doubling Down on Strengths: Focusing on strengths and defined centers during challenging times. [17:50] Being a Beacon of Hope: Embracing abundance thinking and holding space for hope during difficult times. [19:16] Related Links Catalyst report: https://humandesignyourbusiness.com/products/hd-your-biz-the-catalyst-report-human-design-for-business-report-blueprint HB Your Biz Catalyst experience: https://hdyourbiz.com Human Design for Business Book HD Gate Strengths Book Ideal Client Workshop LIVE HD Wild - Human Design Training Program Download Your Chart Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview Summary: Jamie Palmer introduces the podcast and the topic of navigating business growth during turbulent times, emphasizing the importance of human design. [00:02] Timestamps: 00:02 - 02:30 Chapter 2: Understanding the Global Context Summary: Jamie discusses the global changes and the shift from the cross of planning to the cross of the sleeping phoenix, explaining its impact on business and individual empowerment. [00:51] Timestamps: 02:31 - 06:00 Chapter 3: The Importance of Control Summary: Jamie emphasizes the importance of understanding what you can control, influence, and what is out of your control, and how this understanding can help in business growth. Timestamps: 06:01 - 10:30 Chapter 4: Identifying Opportunities Summary: Jamie talks about finding opportunities in turbulent times, focusing on areas like community, transformation, and technology, particularly AI. Timestamps: 10:31 - 18:00 Chapter 5: Letting Go of Expectations Summary: Jamie advises on the importance of flexibility, letting go of expectations, and being willing to pivot in business strategies during challenging times. [14:51] Timestamps: 18:01 - 24:00 Chapter 6: Doubling Down on Strengths Summary: Jamie discusses the importance of focusing on strengths and defined centers in human design, rather than trying to decondition undefined centers during turbulent times. [17:48] Timestamps: 24:01 - 28:00 Chapter 7: Being a Beacon of Hope Summary: Jamie encourages listeners to be a source of hope and positivity, holding space for abundance thinking and navigating through the dark night of the soul. [18:42] Timestamps: 28:01 - 32:00 Chapter 8: Conclusion and Call to Action Summary: Jamie concludes the podcast by encouraging listeners to stay true to themselves and their design, and provides information on how to work with her. Timestamps: 32:01 - 34:00 Show Notes Episode Summary In this episode of the HD Your Biz Podcast, host Jamie Palmer discusses five essential tips for navigating business growth during turbulent times, with a focus on leveraging human design.  Jamie emphasizes the importance of staying calm, making informed decisions, and avoiding rash actions.  She highlights the significance of understanding what you can control, influence, and what is out of your control. Jamie also explores the opportunities that arise during challenging times, such as the importance of community, the potential of AI and tech, and the growing interest in health and wellness among younger generations. She advises listeners to let go of rigid expectations, be flexible, and double down on their strengths and self-care. Jamie concludes by encouraging listeners to be a beacon of hope and to embrace their authentic selves.  -------------------- Full Transcription Below -------------------- The Full Transcription - Navigating Change & Turbulent Times with Your Human Design In Mind Jamie Palmer (00:02): Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the HD Your Biz Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Palmer, and today we are going to be talking about five tips for navigating business growth during turbulent times with your design in mind. So I think it's really important to name that I've been in business for almost 22 years now, and I have navigated lots of crazy change in the world in my own business, and we are living in turbulent times, let's just call it what it is, right? The global collective waters are choppy and a big part of that if you are into human design, you may or may not know that our global incarnation cross is changing from that of the cross of planning to the cross of the sleeping phoenix, which I'll talk about more. But think about it as the cross of the sleeping Phoenix is here to set up systems that work for everyone. And the cross of the sleeping Phoenix is all about, in my opinion, in a very distilled down manner, my individual way of doing things, right? It's not about the system, it's about being empowered as an individual. And when you think about that in context to what's happening globally, it makes a lot of sense. And like I said, I'll do a podcast on that in the coming months about that change. But really I want to stay focused on how can we continue to get business growth during turbulent times? (02:12) For me, I truly believe there is often great opportunity when there are globally choppy waters to handle and to navigate. And as a three five, I'm like, huh, this is my time. Let me step up and support people because I don't know, just for me, like I said, I see great opportunity, but the reality is we cannot panic during times like this. We have to remain calm and grounded. We cannot make rash decisions. We have to make informed decisions with our strategy and authority in mind. We cannot trend hop or think short term. We really have to embrace more longer term thinking. We have to double down on what's working for ourself and what's proven in our business, and then also be thinking about how can I incorporate what's next? And I think this is a time that it's really easy to be on focus, but we have to almost be hyper-focused during those times or times like these. (03:23) And we cannot let our emotions run the show. Instead, we have to process our emotions, and we cannot let the global narrative control us. For me, I'm a big fan of taking all sides in of the global narrative, and I think we have to put down doom scrolling and be really mindful of what we consume. And so when we think about this, I want you to think about the first tip as understanding what you can control. And when we think about leveraging our designs and we think about building a life in biz, at the intersection of our design, our desires, and our lifestyle, we have to remember what we are responsible for and what we can actually control. And I kind of think about it like three buckets. There's what we can control, there's what we can influence, and then there's out of our control, we can control our reactions, our emotions, our response. We can control what we can consume. We can control what we hold space for or not. We can control our actions and our focus. We can control our boundaries. We can control caring for ourselves, we can influence what's happening around us, the key parties. (04:58) We can influence our business growth by still continuing to show up during these times. There's lots that we can influence. And then there's stuff that's completely out of our control. We cannot control what the media is saying. We cannot control the actions of others. We cannot control the stock market. We cannot control egg prices, but we can take responsibility and control over our reactions to those things. And so I really want you to take inventory of what you can control, what you can influence, and what's out of your control. And if it's supportive to you, write down, make a list of each one of those things and really leverage that to your advantage because it's really easy for our nervous systems to get very dysregulated during times like this and have a hypo or hyperactive response, which then often leads us to making rash decisions in our businesses or reactive decisions that just ultimately don't serve us longer term. (06:13) Okay? The next thing I want you to thinking about, what is the opportunity here in these turbulent times? What do you look out at the industry or the collective and say, oh, this isn't working for people anymore, and how can I incorporate some of that in my business? What might I need to change, adjust, or modify in my business approach? What's going extinct and what's coming for me? I'm seeing tons of opportunity in good old fashioned connection in commun

Welcome to another episode of HD Your Biz - Human Design For Business! In this episode, Jamie delves into the intricate details of open and undefined centers in Human Design. She discusses how these centers interact with defined centers when working with others, and the impact of energetic residue and conditioning. Jamie emphasizes the importance of looking at oscilating between the parts of the human design chart and the the whole chart rather than focusing solely on individual parts.  In this episode Jamie discusses the significance of understanding how different elements of Human Design synthesize to create a unique experience for each individual. Tune in as we explore the nuanced dynamics of Human Design and its implications for how we interact and operate in various environments. ------------------------------------ Primary Topic: Understanding Open and Undefined Centers - The difference between open and undefined centers - How working with someone with a defined center can impact energy - The role of mirroring in open and undefined centers -------------------------------------- In this episode of "HD Your Biz - Human Design For Business," Jamie Palmer and the HD Wild Student, Hannah Carey discuss the interplay between defined, open, and undefined centers in human design, the parts don't exist without the whole thinking,, and how they impact interactions and conditioning. They also delve into the importance of considering the whole chart rather than making assumptions based on individual elements. Here are the key takeaways: 1. The impact of open and undefined centers on energy exchange: They explore how open and undefined centers act as mirrors and discuss the potential for energetic residue from others. 2. The significance of defined centers in shaping behavior: The hosts share their personal experiences and observations about the influence of defined centers on conditioning and behaviors in familiar settings. 3. Nuances in conditioning and identification with centers: They touch on how the presence of gates and lines in undefined centers may affect individual identification and conditioning. 4. The importance of looking at the whole chart: The conversation emphasizes the necessity of considering the entire human design chart and its interconnected elements rather than focusing on individual aspects. 5. The limitations of solely focusing on specific parts of human design: They stress the importance of not overlooking the holistic approach to human design and highlight the shortcomings of exclusive focus on individual parts of the design without recognizing their interactions in the overall framework. ------------- Questions to consider with defined, undefined and open human design centers------ 1. How does having defined or undefined centers impact the way we interact with others in a business setting? 2. What are some strategies for managing and clearing the energetic residue from interactions with others, especially in the context of business relationships? 3. How does having multiple gates in an undefined center impact personal conditioning and identification with those centers? 4. What are the potential implications of being in high expression of defined centers versus having undefined or open centers in a business environment? 5. How can human design be utilized as a tool for understanding and improving interpersonal dynamics within a business or team setting? 6. In what ways can human design help individuals navigate and overcome potential challenges related to conditioning and energy management in the workplace? 7. What are the limitations of solely focusing on individual parts of human design, like type, profile, or definition, without considering their interaction within the whole chart? 8. How can human design be effectively integrated into team dynamics and decision-making processes within a business setting? 9. What are the risks of oversimplifying the complexities of human design and its implications for business and leadership? 10. How can an understanding of human design contribute to more harmonious and effective collaboration among team members within a business context?   -------------- Links -------------- Human Design for Business Book HD Gate Strengths Book Ideal Client Workshop Human Design Line Experience Business Design with Human Design  HD Your Biz HD Wild - Human Design Training Program  Human Design Shop Download Your Chart

In this episode of HD Your Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer delves into the mindset and approach needed for staying focused on long-term projects in business. Drawing from personal experiences and insights, Jamie explores the challenges of sustaining enthusiasm and self-trust while working on substantial undertakings, such as writing a book or creating a curriculum. She emphasizes the importance of aligning with one's values and thinking about future impact in order to maintain commitment and progress on these projects. Key Topics: 1. Overcoming "Glittery Object Syndrome": Discusses the tendency in business to prioritize quick wins over long-term projects and highlights the need to shift focus to endeavors that yield enduring dividends. 2. Breaking Down Projects: Encourages breaking down big projects into manageable phases, milestones, and tasks, enabling consistent progress while avoiding overwhelm. 3. Empowering Self-Trust: Emphasizes the significance of connecting with the underlying purpose of the project and trusting in the timing and impact, reinforcing the idea that the project is larger than oneself. 4. Leveraging Individual Design: Explores how understanding personal design traits and utilizing them effectively can enrich the process of completing substantial projects, including creating sacred time for focused work. 5. Embracing Identity and Milestones: Underlines the importance of aligning with the identity of the project, celebrating milestones, and incorporating the undertaking into one's core identity to sustain commitment and progress. -------------- Time Stamp ------------- 00:00 Focus on long-term projects and enduring commitment. 03:44 Leverage book content for blog, SEO, social media. 09:28 Belief in self, connection to purpose, timing. 11:55 Share work snippets for feedback, give context. 15:58 Focus on important tasks, celebrate milestones achieved. 18:02 Embrace project identity to build successful habits. ------------- Questions to Consider with Your Own Long Term Projects 1. As a business owner, how do you stay committed to long-term projects without the instant gratification of quick wins? 2. What are the potential drawbacks of solely focusing on short-term, quick win tasks within your business, and how can you overcome this mindset? 3. How can breaking down large projects into phases and milestones help to maintain focus and progress in the long run? 4. What strategies can you employ to maintain enthusiasm and self-trust while working on large projects, especially when not receiving constant feedback from others? 5. In what ways can you leverage your personal values to fuel your commitment to long-term projects within your business? 6. How can you balance the need for immediate feedback and progress with the patience required for larger, long-term projects like writing a book or creating a new curriculum? 7. What tactics can you implement to create and maintain a habit of consistent progress on long-term projects, even when facing doubts or challenges? 8. What role does a mindset focused on the future play in sustaining motivation and commitment to large-scale business endeavors? 9. In what ways can you tap into your personal strengths and unique traits, such as the ability to focus or the drive for mastery, to propel forward with long-term projects in your business? 10. How can you integrate moments of celebration and acknowledge milestones within the journey of working on long-term projects, and what impact can this have on your commitment and progress? -------------- Links -------------- Human Design for Business Book HD Gate Strengths Book Ideal Client Workshop Human Design Line Experience Business Design with Human Design  HD Your Biz HD Wild - Human Design Training Program  Human Design Shop Download Your Chart

In this "Life & Biz Updates" episode of the HD Your Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer provides a personal update and shares the challenges she faced in her business recently. She delves into the experience of having her work stolen and the impact it had on her professionally and personally. Through this difficult experience, she gained valuable insights and decided to make positive changes in her business, focusing on offering depth, nuance, and expertise. Key Topics: 1. Ethical challenges in the online industry: Jamie discusses the ethical issues she faced when discovering that her work had been plagiarized by another individual selling it as their own content. 2. Personal growth and resilience: She shares the internal battle she went through and how the experience taught her valuable lessons about herself, trust, and protecting her business. 3. Business evolution and positive outcomes: Jamie reflects on the positive changes that emerged during this challenging time, including the decision to publish the human design gate strengths book, create licensing agreements, and align her programs with deconditioning support. 4. Future plans and offerings: She shares upcoming programs and initiatives, such as HD Your Kids, Business Design with Human Design Live, and the addition of deconditioning support in her business programs. 5. Message of gratitude and resilience: Jamie expresses gratitude to her audience, shares her appreciation for their support, and reaffirms her commitment to continue podcasting and offering impactful content to her community. -------------- Time Stamps -------------- 00:00 Episode covers life update for interested audience. 04:29 Overcoming internal struggle, changing perspective, personal growth. 08:46 Creating impactful work attracts both learners and opportunists. 11:58 Adapt to change or face extinction. Ethical concerns. 13:17 Embrace compassion and expertise to build success. 16:20 Highlighting decision-making aligned with strategy and authority. -------------- Links -------------- Human Design for Business Book HD Gate Strengths Book Ideal Client Workshop Human Design Line Experience Business Design with Human Design  HD Your Biz HD Wild - Human Design Training Program  Human Design Shop Download Your Chart

In this episode of the HD Your Biz podcast, host Jamie Palmer discusses the concept of the emotional wave in human design. She explains that nearly 50% of the population has a defined solar plexus, which operates on an emotional wave, meaning clarity comes over time and decisions are never 100% certain. There are three types of emotional waves: the tribal wave, the individual wave, and the collective wave. Each wave has its own characteristics and ways of operating. Palmer emphasizes the importance of not resisting these waves, but rather allowing them to pass and not identifying with the emotions they bring. She also discusses the concept of emotional neutrality and how it can be achieved. She concludes by encouraging listeners to join one of the HD Wild Open Houses for more discussions on human design. 00:00 Emotional waves vary based on human design. 04:54 Physical touch can dispel tribal wave. Energy sensitive to others' needs. 09:03 Emotional energy creates waves of destruction. Surrender. 11:40 Live in the moment, embrace new cycles. 16:19 Naming and understanding emotions helps kids cope. 20:41 Understanding and navigating emotional waves effectively. 21:59 Sample experience inside HD Wild program, teaching. Visit my Site: jamielpalmer.com Order your Book: https://www.jamielpalmer.com/human-design-for-business-book/ Download your chart: https://www.jamielpalmer.com/download-your-human-design-chart/ _________________________________________ (00:02): Hello and welcome to the HD Your Biz podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Palmer, and today we are talking about the emotional wave. Okay? So nearly 50% of the population at any given time is going to have a defined solar plexus. And if you're lucky to be born in the past year or two, you more than likely will have a defined solar plexus. We'll probably actually see that number statistically speaking go up simply because there's so many outer transits that are in the solar plexus. I digress. Anyway, we have to understand that the defined solar plexus operates on an emotional wave. This means that there is no knowing in the now. Clarity comes over time. And for me, when I learned this in human design, this was one of the first pieces that I found out about in human design. This was the piece that I couldn't unsee when human design found me on Instagram and having emotional authority, having a defined solar plexus means that you're never going to have 100% certainty that any decision that you are making is correct. (01:32): And so 80% or 70 to 80% is a yes or a no. Consequently, and the reality is most of us right at least 50%, and again, that number oscillates a little bit, but it's almost always at least 50%. Sometimes it'll be more than that. Right now, because of the fact that the 36 has been engaged for very long period of time, we're going to see a lot of emotional manifesting generators being born. I know this. I have several clients that have had babies that are emotional manifesting generators because of that 36. So we have to understand that when you have a defined solar plexus, you operate on what's an emotional wave, and there are three types of emotional waves and then the source of all emotional waves. So the emotional wave originates out of the sacral and the 59 and goes through the six and pours out into the solar plexus. (02:35): And I hate to break it to you folks, the energy in the chart moves in a specific direction. It doesn't move whichever way we want it to. So caveat there. So that 59 6 is the literal stream of all the emotional awareness center. So if you have the 59 6, you get to experience all of the emotional waves. And that 59 6, Though it most often operates like the tribal wave, just a little bit softer edges. It can experience all emotional waves. And if you have a gate, if you have a defined solar plexus with a gate, you'll experience a wave. If you have an undefined solar plexus with a gate, you'll experience a wave. If you have any individual circuitry, you'll operate on an emotional wave because individual circuitry, even if you have it undefined solar plexus only ever here is according to where it is in its emotional wave. That's why you have to say things to folks with lots of individual circuitry. Lots of times this is because the individual, we need the individual to survive. Anyway, I digressed. (03:45): So let's get back to this, right? So we've got the source of all waves, which is the 59 6. Then we have the tribal wave. And the tribal wave is what I would call the ratcheted up wave. It operates in three peaks. So the first peak or the first wave is a smaller wave, and then it erupts and it dissipates. And the second wave is bigger. It erupts and it dissipates. The third time it explodes and then it resets. The tribal wave operates in the 37 40 and the 1949. So if you have either one of the two of those energies, you will experience an emotional wave that is the ratcheted up wave. The thing to understand about the tribal wave, I always like to think this is the waves that build up with an incoming storm. We get a big rainstorm, the waves, as the wave starts to come closer to shore, they start to get bigger. (04:49): And for me, we have to understand touch, physical touch can help dispel this wave. This energy here though is often telling us something about our needs. Oftentimes when we think about the tribal wave, we have to remember the energy. It's tribal. And so when we have tribal energy, we have to understand that this wave is sensitive to the needs of other people. And so oftentimes it ratchets itself up because of the fact it's sensitive to needs of other people. And it often gets frustrated often because it forget to take care of itself and make sure its own needs are met. But we have to understand that that's how this energy operates. Either way, this energy is here to be sensitive to what other people need. I have the 37 40 and the 49. And so in my agency, I remember I would end up doing stuff myself because I didn't want to cause a lot of drama with people. (06:12): So I'd hire somebody, they were supposed to do X, they didn't do x, I would say, Hey, you need to do this. And then they wouldn't do it. And then I would be like, fine, I'll just do it myself. But internally I would be having this really, really hard time with that. And so we have to understand that one of the best things tribal, the tribal wave can do is articulate itself to say, Hey, look, you're doing this. I'm doing this. We're both contributing to the collective. You need to uphold your end of this bargain. And that's literally how this energy works. And so we have to understand here that emotional neutral can be achieved by touch. It can also be achieved by articulating itself and making sure one, its own needs are met, or two, renegotiating the bargain like you said you were going to do, acts you didn't do, acts like, let's figure this out. (07:09): Okay, so that's the tribal wave. Then we have the individual wave. And the individual wave is the 2212 and the 39 55. So this energy one, stress eat. So when this energy is stressed, it often will use and binge eat sugar to manipulate its mood, constantly seeking out the perfect mood, but it often operates in highs and lows. This can be the most even keel of all of the emotional waves. However, I find that folks who are in the low expression of this energy tend to be dramatic, provocative. There's always drama going on, often very noisy in terms of what's going on in their world. And when they're in their high expression, they're often more even keeled because this energy operates in peaks and valleys. I always like to think about this as in its optimal expression. This is the energy of the waves of a hurricane. We don't have a whole bunch of hurricanes every single year. Or maybe you're in a place where you don't even have hurricanes where I live, we don't have that many hurricanes. There'll be one every once in a while. But this energy needs to understand that it has to be in the mood to do things because it operates in high highs and low lows. (08:44): And we have to understand that these are people who are melancholic by design. Melancholy is with every single individual gait, and it's even more exaggerated in this 22, 12, 39, 55. So this energy one needs to be in the mood. And two, this energy will also leave a massive wake of destruction behind it when it's not in the mood. It can be choppy and turbulent and provoking dramatic events and unpredictable. And I always like to say really leaving a wake of destruction or a wake of damage behind it, I would call this emotional sloppiness. And so we have to understand that regardless of which wave we have resisting said wave will only make it worse. If you've ever been in the ocean, if you resist a wave, you'll often get pulled under longer. Versus if you surrender to the wave, you'll often be able to navigate it with more ease. (09:53): The wave is kinder to you, if you will. And so we have to understand that this individual wave, it operates in peaks and valleys because constantly trying to search for the perfect mood. That's why people with this energy will stress eat sugar. They're trying to manipulate their mood. They're trying to get out of this place of melancholy to this one where they're in a high right? And so it's important to understand that the solar plexus is a motor and an awareness center. So all of the time when we have a motor and awareness center, this energy presents as nervousness. And these are people who when they're not in the mood, will cause a lot of drama. I mean, I'm fairly certain Mariah Carey has Gate 22, and if you think of her big diva energy, you don't want to mess with her when she's not in the mood. (10:52): And then lastly, we have the collective wave. So the collective wave is the 41 30 and the 36 35. And I like to think of this as the a hundred foot wave or the tsunami. This has the highest highs of the human expe

In this episode of the HD Biz Podcast, Jamie Palmer discusses the concept of the projection field in human design. She explains that the projection field in human design is often misunderstood and delves into its mechanics, particularly how it operates in a second line versus a fifth line. Palmer explains that the six lines in human design make up the 12 profiles, each with its own unique characteristics and roles. She emphasizes that second lines should only answer projections from those in their inner circle, as answering projections from outsiders can lead to depletion. For fifth lines, Palmer explains that they are often not seen for who they truly are, but rather for how they can benefit others. She advises fifth lines to be willing to put their reputation on the line for what they believe in. Palmer concludes by inviting listeners to join her in a six-hour audio course where she dives deeper into these concepts. 00:00 Welcome to HD Your Biz Podcast, discussing projection field. 06:17 Trusted second line answers inner circle projections. 09:52 Understanding 2nd Line Projection in Human Design fdynamics: depletion and nourishment. 13:18 I Ching, Chinese medicine influence on human design. 17:21 Maintain authenticity and boundaries for peace. 19:02 Understanding the 5th line Projection Field in Human Design 22:51 Disruptive 5th line seeks to be attractive. 27:03 Understanding projection, setting boundaries, and embracing self-awareness. 28:15 Energy dynamics explained, 6-hour audio course available. Join The Line Experience  Join the HD Wild Open House to learn more about the program => https://learn.jamielpalmer.com/courses/hd-wild-open-house Order the Book => https://hdbizbook.com Transcription below:  (00:02): Hello and welcome to the HD Biz Podcast. Today we are talking about the projection field. So one of the things that I think is commonly misunderstood in human design is really how the mechanics of the projection field work. What is it? What does it mean? How does it operate in a second line versus a fifth line? How is it impacting you as the person projecting on somebody else? And so today I'm going to really dive into those mechanics. But before I dive in, I just want to explain that when we talk about the lines in human design, and there are six lines that make up the hexagram. They go one through six. The six lines make up the 12 profiles. And oftentimes you probably heard the metaphor, or maybe you haven't, but we talk about this in the HD Wild program that the first line is the foundation. (01:06): The second line is the first floor or the window on the first floor of the house. The third line is the stairs between the first floor and the second floor. The fourth line is the foundation of the second floor. The fifth line is the window on the second floor or the attic window, and then the sixth line is the roof. That's where the saying being on the roof comes from the sixth line. And so we have to understand that that first line is here to establish a foundation. The two shows us what's possible with that foundation. The three experiments with it and pokes holes in it. The fourth line externalizes it and the fifth line goes and disrupts it and says, Hey, this isn't going to work for everybody. Here's how we can do it better. And then the sixth line says, you know what? (02:00): I think there has to be something more here. There's an objective way to do this. Let me be of counsel. Let me test my other word lead in the sixth line. But we have to understand that it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and then the cycle starts again and the lines are harmonious. The first and the fourth line have foundational themes. The second and the fifth line are both projected. They're showing possibilities. The third and the sixth are testing, experimenting. Well, the sixth line doesn't really experiment, but it's like showing us there's more here. And so they share themes. And when I teach profiles, we spend 12 weeks on profiles. So we spend an entire semester going through the profiles. And the reality is what I'm going to teach and talk about today is really going to distill this down. But one of my students asked me the other day, what's the difference between the second Line projection field and the fifth line projection field? (03:01): So I'm going to explain that and I'm also going to explain how it might be impacting you if you are not a second or a fifth line. If you are sitting there and you're projecting on somebody, vice versa if you are somebody that's being projected on. So we have to understand that that second line sits on the first floor of the house and we can see into the house, we can see into the first floor of a house. Whereas that second floor window, we can't really see that. And I always think of Beetlejuice comes to mind, it's going to date my age, but I used to watch that show as a kid, and the two main characters in Beetlejuice would sit in the second floor window and the teenage daughter would look and be like, I see people up there. And there was an air of mystery about it. (03:50): And that's really how the fifth line projection field operates. So we have to understand that the profiles impacted by this are the 2 4, 2 5, 5 2 6 2 for the second line. And then for the fifth line, it's the two five, the three five, the five one, and the five two. I'm not going to get into the difference of say a two five versus a five two today. That is not what the intention of this is. I'm just going to explain how the projection field works. So we have to understand that if you live in the projection field in general, you are not seen necessarily for the whole of who you are. You are seen for how you can benefit the other person. And so oftentimes we have to understand, particularly with a projected line like the two or the five, these are people who are have or have an air of uncertainty around other people, almost inherently, right? (05:00): Second line children are often told, oh, you're so talented at this. Go do this thing. And it ultimately doesn't end up working out for them. I always like to think of my two four son and one year we had him play soccer, and I'm like, you're so good at soccer, you should play at soccer. And in hindsight, it was me projecting on him. And the funny thing is that most of the season he convinced his coach just to sit on the sidelines because he wasn't actually interested in playing soccer. He just wanted to chill. That was not what he wanted to do. And we have to understand that when it comes to that second line projection. Second lines have to actually answer projections that help them feel nourished. So themes that I like to use for this are what helps you feel nourished versus what helps you feel depleted. (05:53): And we have to understand that that second line, When they get projected on or recognized for something that they are naturally talented about, they want to make sure that they're answering that projection or that call from somebody in their inner circle, from somebody that's a friend, somebody that they've let into their world. If you're in a second lines world, that means that you are trusted. And the second line in general is only ever here to answer projections from those in its inner circle. And when it answers projections from those who are outside of its inner circle, it will often feel depleted because we have to remember the second line is not here to necessarily explain their process. They are here to simply show up, allow us to witness them, and as a result, we are transformed. And so when we think about this dichotomy, and I'm sure the second lines that are listening in their headphones are like, oh my God, I would guarantee that they can think of a time when they answered a projection from somebody else. (07:13): Because what happens is I always like to imagine every second line has this almost force bubble around them or they live in this snow globe. The environment is super important for a second line. And what happens is, is that somebody will come in and they'll look at that second line and like, oh my goodness, you're so talented at X. And mind you, the second line's like, okay, they're never really ever sure that they're actually talented or know the things that they know. They can't often explain how they know the things that they know. And ultimately the second line's democratic, it's happy to just introvert away in its own little bubble. And so when a second line gets projected on by somebody who isn't in that inner circle of theirs who isn't a trusted advisor, essentially, oftentimes they'll become incredibly depleted by said projection because the projections more about the other person and how that second line can help that person. (08:29): Then what the second line is actually interested in doing, and second lines, they will nurture and cultivate their talents. They will develop those things that they are naturally talented at, but they have to choose to do it because second lines aren't necessarily motivated in the traditional sense of the word. And ultimately what happens, they become incredibly depleted and then they don't necessarily feel safe to step out into that projection field when they've answered the wrong projections. And so that is one of the key things to understand for those second lines. They're not here to answer every projection. So strategy and authority obviously become very important here. And who's actually giving me this projection? Who's projecting on me and what are they projecting that I am good at? And I always like to think about this is when a second line gets projected on, especially by say a stranger or someone who isn't in their trusted circle, it's almost like their snow globe gets shaken. (09:39): Their whole world can get rattled, especially once they've answered the wrong projection. And so understanding this dynamic, I have found to be incredibly helpful for those who are second lines. And we hav