Meeting created at: 22nd Oct, 2025 - 1:02 PM1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:11,120 Nicole Laino: Welcome to Unshakable with Human Design, the show dedicated to helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to flow without sacrificing results. 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:17,440 Nicole Laino: Come here to become an unshakable human and build an unshakable business according to your human design. 3 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,280 Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino. 4 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,200 Nicole Laino: Hello, and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design. 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,360 Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino. 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:34,490 Nicole Laino: And we're just sitting here, the two of us, today, hanging out on what is for you, a Wednesday morning. 7 00:00:34,490 --> 00:00:37,370 Nicole Laino: If you're listening to this, on the day this episode drops. 8 00:00:37,770 --> 00:00:43,290 Nicole Laino: And I have been really feeling called to talk about the bigger picture of a lot of this stuff. 9 00:00:43,290 --> 00:00:52,810 Nicole Laino: And my job is always to show you how human design can help you navigate some of the things in your life, in your business. 10 00:00:52,810 --> 00:00:56,230 Nicole Laino: And let's be frank, if you are an entrepreneur, you. 11 00:00:56,380 --> 00:01:01,500 Nicole Laino: Your life is going to creep into your business all over the place, whether you realize it or not. 12 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:11,740 Nicole Laino: Your shortcomings become the business's shortcomings, your attachments and weird energy becomes the business's weird energy. 13 00:01:12,299 --> 00:01:17,220 Nicole Laino: We bring ourselves into it because we are the business most entrepreneurs are. 14 00:01:17,220 --> 00:01:19,180 Nicole Laino: A lot of them are growing a personal brand. 15 00:01:19,820 --> 00:01:33,090 Nicole Laino: And even if you're not, if you are leading in any way, you understanding yourself and you being able to lead from a place of authority and from integrity. 16 00:01:33,410 --> 00:01:36,530 Nicole Laino: And what I'm talking about is energetic integrity. 17 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:37,850 Nicole Laino: You've heard me before. 18 00:01:37,850 --> 00:01:40,930 Nicole Laino: You know, this show is called Unshakable with Human Design. 19 00:01:41,490 --> 00:01:47,010 Nicole Laino: What does it mean to be unshakable means that you can handle whatever comes your way. 20 00:01:47,740 --> 00:02:03,619 Nicole Laino: It means that you show up no matter what, and you do that from a place of alignment, not a place of force, or you don't want to come at it from a place of obligation, but, like, from a place of joy, of being. 21 00:02:03,619 --> 00:02:04,940 Nicole Laino: Like, this is what I'm here for. 22 00:02:05,420 --> 00:02:06,420 Nicole Laino: I am unshakable. 23 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:09,340 Nicole Laino: There's nothing that I can't handle. 24 00:02:09,740 --> 00:02:24,680 Nicole Laino: Because underneath all of that, these are all core tenants of what you need to be a successful entrepreneur, what you need in order to really be able to lead yourself, not just through one phase of business. 25 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:32,560 Nicole Laino: I think we have this idea that, like, well, you're struggling in the beginning, and then you get a handle on it, and then everything is smooth sailing after that. 26 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:40,810 Nicole Laino: You know, once you start making six figures or once you start making multiple six figures or once you start making seven figures, then all your problems go away. 27 00:02:41,210 --> 00:02:42,330 Nicole Laino: And that's just not true. 28 00:02:42,330 --> 00:02:44,130 Nicole Laino: I'm not at seven figures, so I can't speak to that. 29 00:02:44,130 --> 00:02:50,730 Nicole Laino: One, but from the people I know that are there, they're certainly not sitting in any place where they're like, there are no problems anymore. 30 00:02:50,890 --> 00:02:54,730 Nicole Laino: They're different problems and they're on a different scale now. 31 00:02:54,730 --> 00:02:55,930 Nicole Laino: The stakes are higher. 32 00:02:56,490 --> 00:03:02,810 Nicole Laino: So how do we use human design to navigate this leadership journey? 33 00:03:03,130 --> 00:03:09,590 Nicole Laino: It is more than just understanding your chart, it's understanding yourself. 34 00:03:10,070 --> 00:03:18,630 Nicole Laino: I just taught a little mini program called Answering the Call and it was all about is a journey through the Incarnation Cross, which is your purpose in human design. 35 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:21,190 Nicole Laino: It's your purpose theme, it's your life theme. 36 00:03:21,590 --> 00:03:26,310 Nicole Laino: And it's very interesting for me because I take people through incarnation Cross all the time. 37 00:03:26,390 --> 00:03:31,630 Nicole Laino: In Business By Design, inside my signature program, we do that on a one one basis. 38 00:03:31,630 --> 00:03:37,030 Nicole Laino: In the business readings that I do for those people in there, I do it for business readings that people buy from me. 39 00:03:37,030 --> 00:03:40,050 Nicole Laino: Just a la carte off the website, I watch this. 40 00:03:40,050 --> 00:03:47,330 Nicole Laino: But in Business By Design, I have you for a year, so I'm working with you through that process and I see the transformation that happens. 41 00:03:47,490 --> 00:03:59,890 Nicole Laino: And I think that's the real benefit of having done this for a long time and worked with so many people, is I can look at people and I can spot them in the problem and I can tell them, I promise you, this gets better if you listen to me and you do this thing. 42 00:04:00,290 --> 00:04:01,970 Nicole Laino: And it isn't usually an action. 43 00:04:02,210 --> 00:04:05,250 Nicole Laino: It's a. I want you to shift your perspective here. 44 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:07,590 Nicole Laino: I want you to lean back a little bit. 45 00:04:07,590 --> 00:04:14,870 Nicole Laino: I think you're forcing and I've seen it so many times that I can say with certainty and authority, I need you to trust me here. 46 00:04:15,510 --> 00:04:25,750 Nicole Laino: So really being able to use human design to navigate something like purpose, what I see is a lot of people inside this program, you know, they get stuck in the intellectualizing of their chart. 47 00:04:25,750 --> 00:04:29,510 Nicole Laino: They get stuck in the intellectualizing of their human design. 48 00:04:29,990 --> 00:04:36,530 Nicole Laino: But I was telling them all, I was like, you know, Stephen Covey has a really famous quote, you know, begin with the end in mind. 49 00:04:37,090 --> 00:04:40,370 Nicole Laino: And I was telling them, I'm like this answering the call program. 50 00:04:41,090 --> 00:04:51,730 Nicole Laino: It's an activation to think that I'm going to take you through your entire purpose, I'm taking them through the whole thing, but that you're going to be there and you're like living your purpose and you have no problems. 51 00:04:51,730 --> 00:04:55,250 Nicole Laino: After two weeks, I wish I could make a real promise like that. 52 00:04:55,490 --> 00:05:08,870 Nicole Laino: Most of us are not even close to there, but we get initiated into these next level version of ourselves, these next iterations and evolutions of our own process. 53 00:05:08,950 --> 00:05:14,150 Nicole Laino: And our own evolution and change and our own transformation in our journey. 54 00:05:14,710 --> 00:05:29,030 Nicole Laino: For me, you know, what was interesting for me was looking at, you know, and this is what I mean about the big picture, because we look at the purpose, and a lot of people will look at the incarnation cross, and they'll be like, okay, tell me what my purpose is and tell me how I get there. 55 00:05:29,350 --> 00:05:33,790 Nicole Laino: And then some people who are a little bit further along will say, okay, I get that this is my purpose now. 56 00:05:33,790 --> 00:05:38,230 Nicole Laino: I just need to know what it means a little bit and how do I work this into my offers. 57 00:05:38,790 --> 00:05:40,030 Nicole Laino: And I'm hoping. 58 00:05:40,030 --> 00:05:45,110 Nicole Laino: It seems like we've had a really amazing group of people in the Answering the Call program. 59 00:05:45,510 --> 00:05:51,410 Nicole Laino: And I do think that they're starting to get this, and I truly hope that they all do, because they. 60 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,840 Nicole Laino: What we're doing is it's not about intellectualizing it. 61 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,680 Nicole Laino: It is about becoming somebody different through the process. 62 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:13,000 Nicole Laino: If I go back to when I first encountered my incarnation cross five years ago, and I looked at it and I read it, and I was very confused, very overwhelmed, and I just didn't see how that could be me. 63 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,520 Nicole Laino: There were little glimpses of it. 64 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,480 Nicole Laino: But it's funny, the things that stood out for me then are not even close to the things that stand out for me now. 65 00:06:20,150 --> 00:06:21,270 Nicole Laino: And I created these. 66 00:06:21,430 --> 00:06:30,910 Nicole Laino: We sold these individual Incarnation cross reports to people who opted them for the program, and I ran one for myself. 67 00:06:30,910 --> 00:06:38,950 Nicole Laino: Like, I looked at my own incarnation cross report, and I read it again, and I looked at it and I was like, oh, wow. 68 00:06:39,430 --> 00:06:41,590 Nicole Laino: It's so different to me now. 69 00:06:42,070 --> 00:06:47,270 Nicole Laino: It is my understanding of it, but understanding isn't an intellectual understanding. 70 00:06:48,110 --> 00:06:50,990 Nicole Laino: Understanding is like, in my bones, I've become somebody different. 71 00:06:51,470 --> 00:06:59,710 Nicole Laino: That when we use human design to understand ourselves on a deep soul level, then we're unshakable. 72 00:06:59,710 --> 00:07:05,630 Nicole Laino: There's nothing we can't handle because we get how we operate and who we are and what we're here for. 73 00:07:06,270 --> 00:07:07,870 Nicole Laino: Begin with the end in mind. 74 00:07:08,670 --> 00:07:13,710 Nicole Laino: The incarnation cross should be this, like, North Star guiding light. 75 00:07:13,710 --> 00:07:25,990 Nicole Laino: Of like, okay, I'm going in this direction kind of similarly, if you were following the North Star, if you were sailing a boat on the open sea, you know, you don't know if there's an island there. 76 00:07:25,990 --> 00:07:26,430 Nicole Laino: You don't know. 77 00:07:26,430 --> 00:07:30,150 Nicole Laino: You're like, I'm just gonna go in this direction and trust that this is the right way. 78 00:07:30,630 --> 00:07:36,790 Nicole Laino: Until something else comes across my path and tells me differently or tells me that there's another course that I should be taking. 79 00:07:37,510 --> 00:07:45,910 Nicole Laino: That's how you have to treat it like it's some far off thing that you're just saying, I trust that this is in the general direction of where I'm supposed to be going. 80 00:07:46,470 --> 00:07:53,750 Nicole Laino: If I go back to five years ago when I first encountered my cross, I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing. 81 00:07:53,750 --> 00:07:55,230 Nicole Laino: And I did ask those questions. 82 00:07:55,230 --> 00:07:56,070 Nicole Laino: What should I be doing? 83 00:07:56,070 --> 00:07:57,510 Nicole Laino: What should my offers be? 84 00:07:57,910 --> 00:07:59,430 Nicole Laino: What should my brand be? 85 00:07:59,670 --> 00:08:03,750 Nicole Laino: How can I work this language into my copy? 86 00:08:03,750 --> 00:08:06,790 Nicole Laino: Because that's what I thought human design for business was. 87 00:08:06,950 --> 00:08:10,550 Nicole Laino: I'm going to take this information and I'm going to weave it into my copy. 88 00:08:10,630 --> 00:08:13,590 Nicole Laino: Then I'm going to be magnetic and then people are going to come to me. 89 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:15,400 Nicole Laino: And that's partially true. 90 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,480 Nicole Laino: You might find some of that works. 91 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,960 Nicole Laino: Sometimes we can take some keynotes from our design. 92 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:25,160 Nicole Laino: They open up just enough of us to start to get excited about something. 93 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,560 Nicole Laino: We're starting to speak our authentic language. 94 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,800 Nicole Laino: We are starting to put ourselves out there. 95 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:31,640 Nicole Laino: Sometimes it gives us permission. 96 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:33,919 Nicole Laino: So we can see a little jolt from that. 97 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:41,799 Nicole Laino: We can see some magnetism, we can see some reaction and response from the outside world that we've been looking for, which is wonderful. 98 00:08:42,460 --> 00:08:47,660 Nicole Laino: But what we don't want to do is we don't want to make it a formula. 99 00:08:48,060 --> 00:08:49,820 Nicole Laino: And that's what a lot of people do. 100 00:08:50,060 --> 00:08:51,500 Nicole Laino: So I did that in the beginning. 101 00:08:51,580 --> 00:08:58,179 Nicole Laino: I absolutely went and tried to formulaically put together my brand based on my incarnation cross. 102 00:08:58,179 --> 00:09:01,980 Nicole Laino: Okay, well this means this, okay, 26, the gate. 103 00:09:01,980 --> 00:09:02,460 Nicole Laino: 26. 104 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:07,060 Nicole Laino: Gate 26 is a transmitter, it's a messenger, it is strategy. 105 00:09:07,060 --> 00:09:08,950 Nicole Laino: So I'm going to be strategic. 106 00:09:08,950 --> 00:09:10,630 Nicole Laino: You know, I'm going to teach people strategy. 107 00:09:10,630 --> 00:09:12,150 Nicole Laino: I'm going to blend strategy and energy. 108 00:09:12,230 --> 00:09:13,670 Nicole Laino: That's what my cross is. 109 00:09:14,070 --> 00:09:15,110 Nicole Laino: And that's true. 110 00:09:15,590 --> 00:09:18,710 Nicole Laino: Those are aspect of my chart. 111 00:09:18,870 --> 00:09:24,790 Nicole Laino: So I have the 64th gate and the 63rd gate on the conscious side, which are highly inspirational. 112 00:09:25,350 --> 00:09:27,910 Nicole Laino: These are very consciousness driven gates. 113 00:09:28,470 --> 00:09:37,190 Nicole Laino: So we've got that energetic ethereal side of possibility and potential and all of that and consciousness. 114 00:09:37,810 --> 00:09:48,210 Nicole Laino: And then on the other side we have the 45 and the 26, which are very tribal and very hierarchical and strategic and very much associated with business. 115 00:09:48,850 --> 00:09:55,330 Nicole Laino: With my limited experience with design and with myself and with really trying to grasp for answers. 116 00:09:55,410 --> 00:09:59,570 Nicole Laino: At the time I was like, well, strategy and energy, that's what it is. 117 00:09:59,970 --> 00:10:03,490 Nicole Laino: And at the time I was teaching people how to write content on Instagram. 118 00:10:03,910 --> 00:10:04,750 Nicole Laino: That was what I was doing. 119 00:10:04,750 --> 00:10:06,150 Nicole Laino: I was like, this is how you write content. 120 00:10:06,550 --> 00:10:13,830 Nicole Laino: This is how, you know messaging content that sells all of that was all I did before human design and the other stuff that I do now. 121 00:10:14,230 --> 00:10:19,990 Nicole Laino: And if I had left it there at strategy and energy, that was all I could take in at that point. 122 00:10:20,230 --> 00:10:23,030 Nicole Laino: That was the best I could do with what I was given. 123 00:10:23,110 --> 00:10:31,200 Nicole Laino: There is so much depth, more depth to my chart, to my incarnation cross, to the fact that I'm a 5:1. 124 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Nicole Laino: All of that came through a gently walking the path of allowing these energies continue moving in alignment, living by my design, paying attention, contemplating gently, not in a way where I'm forcing answers and allowing these things, these flowers, to bloom in their time and to trust that they will. 125 00:10:55,850 --> 00:10:59,770 Nicole Laino: And the more that I trusted and the more that I expanded. 126 00:11:00,170 --> 00:11:06,090 Nicole Laino: Because recognize when you are thinking really hard and you're trying to make something work, you are contracting. 127 00:11:06,090 --> 00:11:08,250 Nicole Laino: You are in a state of contraction. 128 00:11:08,570 --> 00:11:11,250 Nicole Laino: Your energy is contracting, your body is contracting. 129 00:11:11,250 --> 00:11:12,730 Nicole Laino: You're trying to figure it out. 130 00:11:12,890 --> 00:11:16,730 Nicole Laino: You have just narrowed the pathway for things to come to you. 131 00:11:17,130 --> 00:11:26,780 Nicole Laino: We want to widen it and start attracting versus repelling things and not leaving enough room for the things that we want to drop in both inspiration and materially. 132 00:11:26,860 --> 00:11:27,260 Nicole Laino: Right? 133 00:11:28,140 --> 00:11:30,700 Nicole Laino: So I learned to walk this path. 134 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:32,380 Nicole Laino: I learned to decondition. 135 00:11:32,460 --> 00:11:37,820 Nicole Laino: So I wasn't in the shadows of my incarnation, cross gates and the rest of my design. 136 00:11:38,220 --> 00:11:39,100 Nicole Laino: I was in that. 137 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:40,780 Nicole Laino: So why am I not living my purpose? 138 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:41,900 Nicole Laino: That's the better question. 139 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:43,500 Nicole Laino: Not how do I work it into my business. 140 00:11:43,660 --> 00:11:46,140 Nicole Laino: It's how do I overcome these problems? 141 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:48,540 Nicole Laino: How do I overcome these shadows? 142 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:50,700 Nicole Laino: How do I live in these gifts? 143 00:11:51,410 --> 00:11:52,610 Nicole Laino: The answer is you do the work. 144 00:11:53,090 --> 00:11:55,330 Nicole Laino: And most people don't want to do that. 145 00:11:55,490 --> 00:11:56,530 Nicole Laino: They don't know how. 146 00:11:57,170 --> 00:11:59,010 Nicole Laino: And quite frankly, I didn't know how. 147 00:11:59,010 --> 00:12:04,850 Nicole Laino: It's how what I've put together for my clients and for myself started with. 148 00:12:05,330 --> 00:12:12,370 Nicole Laino: But what I do for my clients, I am using my tools to help them decondition. 149 00:12:12,930 --> 00:12:18,610 Nicole Laino: And we're working in EFT and NLP and breath work and visualizations. 150 00:12:19,290 --> 00:12:20,770 Nicole Laino: Human design is just the map. 151 00:12:20,770 --> 00:12:23,930 Nicole Laino: And you've heard me say that probably a million times at this point. 152 00:12:24,090 --> 00:12:25,410 Nicole Laino: Human design is the map. 153 00:12:25,410 --> 00:12:26,410 Nicole Laino: It's not the treasure. 154 00:12:26,570 --> 00:12:27,890 Nicole Laino: The treasure is in you. 155 00:12:27,890 --> 00:12:38,650 Nicole Laino: And the map shows you where to go to look for the doors that might be locked, keeping your treasure from being seen, felt and experienced by you and the outside world. 156 00:12:39,370 --> 00:12:41,370 Nicole Laino: Everything that you want is on the other side of you. 157 00:12:41,930 --> 00:12:44,650 Nicole Laino: Everything that you're trying to get to is on the other side of you. 158 00:12:44,990 --> 00:12:58,750 Nicole Laino: And if you start using human design as a way of opening yourself up rather than figuring yourself out, you will find that all the things that you are trying to make happen start actually happening. 159 00:12:59,230 --> 00:13:00,749 Nicole Laino: But there's work involved. 160 00:13:00,749 --> 00:13:02,750 Nicole Laino: There is a path you must walk. 161 00:13:03,470 --> 00:13:08,550 Nicole Laino: And that path involves different things for different people and at different levels. 162 00:13:08,550 --> 00:13:09,710 Nicole Laino: It requires different things. 163 00:13:09,710 --> 00:13:27,990 Nicole Laino: But the thing that I find so amazing about human design is that, well, right now, you know, fast forward, I read my incarnation cross description and the report that we generate and that we do with from our data, created a report for myself and I read it and I'm like, oh my God, I'm living it. 164 00:13:28,470 --> 00:13:31,510 Nicole Laino: And I haven't looked at it that way in a really long time. 165 00:13:32,070 --> 00:13:35,990 Nicole Laino: And when I started this journey with it, I did not know what I was building. 166 00:13:36,390 --> 00:13:51,280 Nicole Laino: All I knew was that by digging into those, the 64th gate and the 63rd gate, by looking at what my purpose is, I started to realize that business wasn't the only thing. 167 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:55,920 Nicole Laino: That there was a consciousness piece, that there was a spiritual piece. 168 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,720 Nicole Laino: There was something about showing people a new way. 169 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:06,880 Nicole Laino: There was something about educating people about what was really important, that it was more than just this tribal stuff on the other side. 170 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:07,740 Nicole Laino: Right? 171 00:14:07,980 --> 00:14:15,980 Nicole Laino: So what that did was that gave me the courage to drop or put in the background the thing that was actually making me money. 172 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:18,300 Nicole Laino: Strategically, it did not make sense. 173 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:35,290 Nicole Laino: Strategically, this was a very scary move for me, was to stop putting content writing and business building and all of that stuff out front and now become like a human design, deconditioning energy first business. 174 00:14:36,170 --> 00:14:48,930 Nicole Laino: Especially because I'm not a priestess, not in the traditional sense of the word, although I'm starting to recognize my own experience and relationship with that as a Virgo and as this Scorpio moon. 175 00:14:48,930 --> 00:14:52,170 Nicole Laino: Like, it's there, but I don't come across that way. 176 00:14:52,410 --> 00:14:59,240 Nicole Laino: I'm not like, dressing all witchy and showing up, talking about, you know, my guides and my angels and. 177 00:14:59,390 --> 00:15:00,750 Nicole Laino: And I'm not knocking that at all. 178 00:15:00,750 --> 00:15:02,030 Nicole Laino: That's just not who I am. 179 00:15:02,910 --> 00:15:04,910 Nicole Laino: That would be inauthentic for me. 180 00:15:05,150 --> 00:15:05,550 Nicole Laino: No. 181 00:15:05,790 --> 00:15:07,470 Nicole Laino: I'm a 4526. 182 00:15:07,470 --> 00:15:10,750 Nicole Laino: On that unconscious side, I can inspire the hell out of you. 183 00:15:10,750 --> 00:15:16,510 Nicole Laino: But there's also going to be structure and strategy and tactics and leadership behind it. 184 00:15:16,910 --> 00:15:17,870 Nicole Laino: That's who I am. 185 00:15:18,350 --> 00:15:21,910 Nicole Laino: I discovered that and I've been able to embody that. 186 00:15:21,910 --> 00:15:23,190 Nicole Laino: And I'm still working on it. 187 00:15:23,190 --> 00:15:24,430 Nicole Laino: By the way, I ain't done. 188 00:15:24,870 --> 00:15:27,350 Nicole Laino: This isn't me talking to you from the top of the mountain. 189 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:31,710 Nicole Laino: I'm not an ascended master and I don't present myself like that. 190 00:15:31,710 --> 00:15:34,990 Nicole Laino: I am a flawed human being who's on this journey. 191 00:15:34,990 --> 00:15:35,830 Nicole Laino: Just like you. 192 00:15:36,390 --> 00:15:48,310 Nicole Laino: But what I am is I am devoted to this path of walking in alignment with your purpose and not treating it like a destination. 193 00:15:49,030 --> 00:16:02,240 Nicole Laino: And I am devoted to educating people about what I believe to be the important things, the truly important things to living a life that feels like yours so that you are a sovereign being. 194 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:10,320 Nicole Laino: When I read those words before, when I first learned about human design, I was like, so I can help people. 195 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:11,840 Nicole Laino: It's the cross of dominion. 196 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:18,600 Nicole Laino: I'm here to help people have dominion over themselves so that they can be sovereign beings and reach a new level of consciousness. 197 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,090 Nicole Laino: And I was like, what? 198 00:16:20,810 --> 00:16:22,330 Nicole Laino: I teach content writing. 199 00:16:23,290 --> 00:16:23,690 Nicole Laino: What? 200 00:16:23,930 --> 00:16:32,410 Nicole Laino: But what there was truth was I was like, I do know that there's more to this because there's more to this for me because I'm confused and I'm stuck in my head and I'm having trouble. 201 00:16:32,730 --> 00:16:36,250 Nicole Laino: And when I just try to use the strategy piece, it's not working. 202 00:16:36,970 --> 00:16:40,570 Nicole Laino: And I'm working so hard, but I'm not getting where other people are getting. 203 00:16:41,050 --> 00:16:42,530 Nicole Laino: There's a different path for me. 204 00:16:42,530 --> 00:16:43,530 Nicole Laino: There's something else. 205 00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:47,410 Nicole Laino: By following that path for myself, I started to. 206 00:16:47,410 --> 00:16:49,970 Nicole Laino: That was where I went into EFT certification. 207 00:16:50,370 --> 00:16:53,010 Nicole Laino: That was where I got my NLP certification. 208 00:16:53,010 --> 00:16:53,970 Nicole Laino: That was where I started that. 209 00:16:53,970 --> 00:16:55,730 Nicole Laino: And that's where I found human design. 210 00:16:56,450 --> 00:17:03,570 Nicole Laino: If I never started going in that direction, if I never started following, I didn't know it was my cross at the time. 211 00:17:04,210 --> 00:17:11,890 Nicole Laino: But by following something that was true to my cross, I discovered human design, which became the path forward. 212 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:13,720 Nicole Laino: That I don't think I know. 213 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:18,400 Nicole Laino: I wouldn't discovered or be in the place where I feel the way I do about who I am and what I'm here for. 214 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,200 Nicole Laino: And that is where authority comes from. 215 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:32,080 Nicole Laino: When you show up and you're able to speak from a place that people go, I believe that from her, I believe she's authentic in this. 216 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:33,120 Nicole Laino: I believe that. 217 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:34,320 Nicole Laino: I know I have that problem. 218 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,440 Nicole Laino: And I think she's the one who can help me solve it. 219 00:17:38,010 --> 00:17:40,970 Nicole Laino: I think she's the person that can guide me through this. 220 00:17:41,530 --> 00:17:51,770 Nicole Laino: You don't have to have a perfect message, but you do have to have something that feels like it resonates beneath the words and that you've lived it. 221 00:17:52,090 --> 00:17:55,450 Nicole Laino: I have lived the journey of my cross, and I still am. 222 00:17:55,930 --> 00:17:59,130 Nicole Laino: There's so much more to it than just the words on the page. 223 00:17:59,530 --> 00:18:10,770 Nicole Laino: It's embodying them, embodying this energy that is yours and embodying the gifts of it and not the shadows. 224 00:18:11,250 --> 00:18:12,850 Nicole Laino: We have to decondition. 225 00:18:13,250 --> 00:18:27,810 Nicole Laino: We have to face those shadows or we attract with those shadows, we live in them and our world is on a frequency and we're experiencing a reality that is equal to the shadows and not to our gifts. 226 00:18:28,370 --> 00:18:41,180 Nicole Laino: For me, that looked a lot like living in a lot of confusion and never knowing what I was going to do and not able to commit to things because I was so confused all the time and always wondering is this the right thing to do? 227 00:18:41,180 --> 00:18:41,740 Nicole Laino: Maybe not. 228 00:18:41,740 --> 00:18:50,300 Nicole Laino: And second guessing myself and my unconscious side wanted so badly to go and do what it naturally can do to be strategic. 229 00:18:50,620 --> 00:19:02,980 Nicole Laino: But because this head center stuff on my conscious side was making me so confused and making me run in all different directions and not commit to anything because I was so scared I'd get it wrong. 230 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:09,940 Nicole Laino: Sometimes I would hide and sometimes I would manically take action with absolutely no intention behind it. 231 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:14,740 Nicole Laino: Just so afraid of standing still because I was afraid something wouldn't happen. 232 00:19:15,460 --> 00:19:19,140 Nicole Laino: But now I live in those gifts most of the time. 233 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:22,340 Nicole Laino: And first of all, it's so damn fun. 234 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,180 Nicole Laino: It's really fun to learn about yourself at this level. 235 00:19:27,050 --> 00:19:29,850 Nicole Laino: To know what makes you tick, to know what sets you off. 236 00:19:30,330 --> 00:19:34,250 Nicole Laino: And if you are an entrepreneur, that is not optional. 237 00:19:34,970 --> 00:19:45,530 Nicole Laino: The level that you are able to rise to is going to be directly related to your ability to manage yourself, understand yourself and course. 238 00:19:45,530 --> 00:19:46,050 Nicole Laino: Correct. 239 00:19:46,050 --> 00:20:04,840 Nicole Laino: When you fall into a shadow, which we all do, when you end up a shadow in a shadow that you are able to shift quickly, what is the time between went over into the shadow and you were able to shift back or shift yourself back into alignment, how quickly can you do that? 240 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:13,320 Nicole Laino: That is the difference between a 50k year, 100k year, a 300k year, a 500k year. 241 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:20,320 Nicole Laino: It's going to be about your ability to make those decisions and to shift yourself so that you are making decisions in alignment. 242 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,840 Nicole Laino: And if something doesn't work, you're able to shift quickly. 243 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,600 Nicole Laino: This is how you become a nimble human being. 244 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:32,320 Nicole Laino: This is how you're able to move and make all of those changes in expansion and not contraction. 245 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,760 Nicole Laino: This is the energetic and the strategic game together. 246 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:50,230 Nicole Laino: And I don't even know what I'm calling this episode because I started recording and just kind of wanted to come on here and talk about that journey of purpose and how it is irreplaceable. 247 00:20:50,950 --> 00:20:53,510 Nicole Laino: I believe in an entrepreneur's journey. 248 00:20:53,830 --> 00:20:56,790 Nicole Laino: Maybe if you have a job you could get by without it. 249 00:20:57,430 --> 00:21:04,230 Nicole Laino: I think life is a lot less fulfilling and I see more and more people wondering what their purpose is. 250 00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:06,230 Nicole Laino: We're wondering what the hell are we here for? 251 00:21:06,870 --> 00:21:08,150 Nicole Laino: Why am I doing this? 252 00:21:08,630 --> 00:21:14,070 Nicole Laino: We want to feel like we are making something out of this life. 253 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:20,320 Nicole Laino: And a lot of times we take our gifts for granted, and we think that things have to be the way that they are. 254 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,520 Nicole Laino: And the truth is, we have a lot more control over it. 255 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,240 Nicole Laino: But sometimes we just have a narrow way of thinking about things. 256 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:43,890 Nicole Laino: But if you are on this entrepreneurial journey where you want to create your life and that's what you're doing, make no mistake, as an entrepreneur, you are moving from the world of the matrix of I have to play by the rules of the corporate job game. 257 00:21:44,450 --> 00:21:46,690 Nicole Laino: And you are shifting over into the like. 258 00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:52,050 Nicole Laino: I create my own possibilities, my own opportunities. 259 00:21:52,450 --> 00:21:53,810 Nicole Laino: I create my money. 260 00:21:54,450 --> 00:21:55,970 Nicole Laino: This is very advanced human. 261 00:21:56,129 --> 00:21:58,530 Nicole Laino: Not because entrepreneurs are better than anybody else. 262 00:21:58,530 --> 00:22:00,210 Nicole Laino: No, we picked a harder game. 263 00:22:00,690 --> 00:22:09,360 Nicole Laino: It isn't the game where you get to just, like, wake up in the morning, your alarm goes off, you go and you punch the clock, and you do the job that you were told to do. 264 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:16,240 Nicole Laino: Maybe you do it really well, maybe you don't do it so well, but either way, when you show up for showing up, you get paid. 265 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,760 Nicole Laino: That is the regular game, and that's fine. 266 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,160 Nicole Laino: I've played that game, too. 267 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:29,360 Nicole Laino: I don't particularly love rules, and I've always felt like my journey was somehow going to end up working for myself. 268 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:30,720 Nicole Laino: I think I always knew that. 269 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,440 Nicole Laino: I'm a 2644 channel of surrender. 270 00:22:33,830 --> 00:22:34,710 Nicole Laino: We don't like rules. 271 00:22:34,710 --> 00:22:35,910 Nicole Laino: We don't like bosses. 272 00:22:35,990 --> 00:22:37,750 Nicole Laino: We tend to be difficult to tame. 273 00:22:38,070 --> 00:22:39,910 Nicole Laino: And this just felt more right for me. 274 00:22:40,230 --> 00:22:41,190 Nicole Laino: But you know what? 275 00:22:41,590 --> 00:22:45,910 Nicole Laino: It demanded so much more for me than a job ever did. 276 00:22:46,390 --> 00:22:48,790 Nicole Laino: I worked 60 hours a week on Wall Street. 277 00:22:49,030 --> 00:22:54,670 Nicole Laino: I worked my ass off, and I was a dedicated employee for a long time. 278 00:22:54,670 --> 00:23:02,330 Nicole Laino: And then I still showed up, and I still did a great job, but I was dying inside because I really did not feel aligned with it anymore. 279 00:23:02,890 --> 00:23:08,890 Nicole Laino: But I did that, and I worked really hard. 280 00:23:09,450 --> 00:23:12,330 Nicole Laino: And when I say to people, you know, I worked 60 hours a week. 281 00:23:13,210 --> 00:23:14,810 Nicole Laino: It was the days of the BlackBerry. 282 00:23:14,970 --> 00:23:16,970 Nicole Laino: I slept with the BlackBerry under my pillow. 283 00:23:17,210 --> 00:23:18,650 Nicole Laino: I was working all the time. 284 00:23:18,810 --> 00:23:20,970 Nicole Laino: They're like, wow, that must have been really hard. 285 00:23:21,450 --> 00:23:32,150 Nicole Laino: It was demanding and hard at times, but entrepreneurship, so much harder because I have to confront me at every level. 286 00:23:32,790 --> 00:23:33,910 Nicole Laino: I have goals. 287 00:23:34,470 --> 00:23:37,270 Nicole Laino: We are hitting our goal for 25. 288 00:23:37,270 --> 00:23:43,990 Nicole Laino: I'm very grateful to say my goal for next year is going to require a new level from me. 289 00:23:44,710 --> 00:23:45,830 Nicole Laino: It's going to require. 290 00:23:45,830 --> 00:23:49,550 Nicole Laino: And what's interesting is at this point, I Look at my purpose. 291 00:23:49,550 --> 00:23:54,730 Nicole Laino: And I'm like, it is so demanding of me now, where it's like, you're here now. 292 00:23:54,730 --> 00:23:55,890 Nicole Laino: You know what it is. 293 00:23:55,970 --> 00:23:57,650 Nicole Laino: You know what you're here to do. 294 00:23:57,970 --> 00:24:00,290 Nicole Laino: You know how you have to show up. 295 00:24:00,610 --> 00:24:02,210 Nicole Laino: There's no excuses anymore. 296 00:24:02,690 --> 00:24:03,970 Nicole Laino: You cannot play small. 297 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:08,210 Nicole Laino: And I play a pretty darn big game compared to a lot of people. 298 00:24:08,770 --> 00:24:22,890 Nicole Laino: But where I am going requires an even bigger, much bigger level from me, a much bigger level of belief, a much bigger level of commitment, and a new devotion to my purpose. 299 00:24:23,450 --> 00:24:25,370 Nicole Laino: I have to answer the call again. 300 00:24:25,850 --> 00:24:27,130 Nicole Laino: We don't answer it once. 301 00:24:27,290 --> 00:24:37,050 Nicole Laino: We answer it over and over again until we are the embodiment and the physical representation of our purpose walking around in the world. 302 00:24:37,930 --> 00:24:49,530 Nicole Laino: So I'm going to say we have a secret podcast where I lay out my whole aligned and profitable framework of how you can build a business in accordance and in alignment with your human design. 303 00:24:50,090 --> 00:24:54,330 Nicole Laino: What this journey really looks like of building a business that's centered around your purpose. 304 00:24:54,730 --> 00:24:57,490 Nicole Laino: Just DM me the word secret podcast on Instagram. 305 00:24:57,490 --> 00:25:00,890 Nicole Laino: I'm icolenofficial and we'll send you the link. 306 00:25:01,290 --> 00:25:04,490 Nicole Laino: Or you could go to the show notes and we have it linked up for you there. 307 00:25:04,970 --> 00:25:06,970 Nicole Laino: But I hope that you enjoyed this. 308 00:25:07,210 --> 00:25:14,030 Nicole Laino: I hope that you loved the episode and that this inspired you to answer the call, because we all have a calling. 309 00:25:14,590 --> 00:25:18,430 Nicole Laino: We all have a purpose, and it's calling to you now. 310 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:26,350 Nicole Laino: And if you're listening to it and you are intellectually trying to find it, I'm challenging you to listen with your whole being. 311 00:25:26,910 --> 00:25:28,510 Nicole Laino: Work on it with your whole being. 312 00:25:28,670 --> 00:25:33,870 Nicole Laino: And if you want help with that, then please reach out, because that is what I do. 313 00:25:34,350 --> 00:25:39,790 Nicole Laino: I help people answer their call every day and to do the work so that they're able to. 314 00:25:39,790 --> 00:25:48,590 Nicole Laino: And it gets easier and easier, and those goals become easier and easier to reach because you're not in the way anymore, and you're driven by your purpose. 315 00:25:49,230 --> 00:25:50,710 Nicole Laino: So just reach out to me on Instagram. 316 00:25:50,710 --> 00:25:51,590 Nicole Laino: Feel free to DM me. 317 00:25:51,590 --> 00:25:54,830 Nicole Laino: I'm icolenofficial if you have questions about that. 318 00:25:55,230 --> 00:25:56,430 Nicole Laino: Yeah, and we'll leave it there. 319 00:25:56,670 --> 00:25:58,270 Nicole Laino: Thank you so much for being here. 320 00:25:58,270 --> 00:25:59,390 Nicole Laino: I appreciate you. 321 00:25:59,630 --> 00:26:05,390 Nicole Laino: And remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human. 322 00:26:05,710 --> 00:26:08,430 Nicole Laino: So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design. 323 00:26:08,510 --> 00:26:09,550 Nicole Laino: We'll see you next time. 324 00:26:10,190 --> 00:26:16,510 Nicole Laino: If you love this episode and you're a fan of the show, please show us the love on itunes, Spotify, or wherever you're listening to the show and leave us a review. 325 00:26:16,670 --> 00:26:24,070 Nicole Laino: And if you'd like to connect with other entrepreneurs on their human design journey, join our free Facebook community, Human Design for Entrepreneurs. 326 00:26:24,070 --> 00:26:32,990 Nicole Laino: Go to nicolelaino Me Podcastlinks to join the group, book a human design reading with me or access our free human design resources. 327 00:26:32,990 --> 00:26:33,950 Nicole Laino: We'll see you there.