The Human Design Podcast

November 2026 transits are here, and I’m back with my beautiful transit crew, Yvette Mayer on Human Design and Lauren Hansen on astrology, to walk you through everything coming your way this month. We start with what Venus retrograde stirred up for each of us in October (my month completely cracked open), then map out November week by week so you know when to pause and when it’s go time. 
This is a big one, my friend. We’ve got Mercury and Venus stationing direct on the same day, a powerful mid-month alignment in the gate of yes, a full moon that could bring some surprises, and a run of sacral gates heading straight into the biggest revenue season of the year. If you’re planning a launch, a Black Friday offer or just want to stop saying yes to the wrong things, listen to this before your calendar fills up. 
What You’ll Learn: 
Why the collective is finally leaving months of emotional definition, and what that frees up for you
The mid-month window when Mars, Jupiter and the South Node line up in gate 29, and how to choose your yeses wisely
What the new moon in Scorpio and full moon in Gemini are asking you to let go of
How the sun gates (44, 1, 43, 14, 34 and 9) move us from intuition into action and revenue
When the energy shifts around Black Friday, so you can time your offers and your shopping

Chapters:
00:00 — Welcome back, Yvette and Lauren
00:37 — My Venus retrograde breakthrough
04:23 — Lauren reads my chart: the Venus cazimi and Uranus
08:48 — Yvette’s month and splenic season
12:12 — Lauren’s month: retrogrades in Scorpio and Mars in Leo
18:02 — November in Human Design: from duality to mutation
21:03 — Gate 1 and creativity during the retrogrades
22:29 — Gate 29: Mars, Jupiter and the South Node line up
24:51 — Collective emotional definition ends, 34-20 and reflector energy
27:36 — Timing Black Friday and Cyber Monday
29:02 — November astrology: no Earth, and Scorpio season ruled by Mars in Leo
33:26 — The triple conjunction: pick your battles
36:30 — Mercury and Venus station direct on the same day
38:20 — New moon in Scorpio
42:16 — The sun enters Sagittarius
44:54 — Full moon in Gemini with Uranus
51:17 — Lauren’s chart and the 34-20 channel
56:06 — Mars enters Virgo
01:03:00 — November sun gates: 44, 1 and 43
01:06:46 — Gate 14 and the sacral yes
01:10:21 — Gate 34 and revenue season
01:12:26 — Gate 9: focus and determination
01:15:27 — Wrap up
 

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Guests:
Yvette (Human Design transits): https://www.yvettemayer.com/
Lauren (astrology): https://www.astrobetch.com/
Resources Mentioned:
The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
Key November transits: gate 44 (Nov 1–5), Mercury cazimi (Nov 4), gate 1 (Nov 6–11), new moon in Scorpio (Nov 8), gate 43, Mercury and Venus station direct (Nov 13 US / Nov 14 AU), Mars, Jupiter and South Node in gate 29 (approx. Nov 15–22), gate 14 (Nov 17–22), Sun enters Sagittarius (Nov 21/22), gate 34 and the 34-20 channel, full moon in Gemini with Uranus (Nov 24 US / Nov 25 AU), Mars enters Virgo (Nov 25), gate 9 (from Nov 28)
Mars retrograde in 2027 (Jan 10 to Apr 1)
Gene Keys by Richard Rudd (gate 43, the creative rebel)
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Motherhood and creativity are at the heart of this one, and I loved every minute. Lauren LoGrasso is back on the show, and she’s lived a whole lifetime since we last spoke. She got married, walked away from her corporate podcast job, built a business that out-earned her salary within a month, and welcomed her son Leonardo. We talk about matrescence, the identity shift nobody prepares you for, and how burning out on weekly consistency taught her to stop doing things just because she “should.” 
This one’s for you if you’re a mum, you want to be one, or you’re a creative woman who’s been told her career dries up once the baby arrives. Lauren has noticed a pattern across hundreds of her guests that flips that story on its head. We get into creativity and AI and the creative debt you might be carrying. Then I pull up Lauren and Leonardo’s Human Design connection chart and share what I’d look for in any child’s chart. 
What You’ll Learn: 
Why so many women hit their greatest creative and career success after having kids
How matrescence reshapes your identity, and why that can fuel your work
What “creative debt” is and how to start paying it down, even in the newborn fog
How to work with AI in a way that keeps your own creativity alive
What to look for in your child’s Human Design chart, from authority and profile to their unique timing

Chapters:
00:00 — Motherhood and Creativity: Breaking the Stereotype
00:39 — Intro
00:48 — Welcome back, Lauren
01:40 — Lauren’s last 18 months: marriage, Leonardo and leaving corporate
03:52 — Lauren’s design and the baby boom happening right now
06:28 — Matrescence and the identity shift of becoming a mum
07:49 — The postpartum reality nobody warns you about
14:21 — What creativity really is
15:31 — Creativity and AI: where it helps and where it hurts
22:28 — How busy mums and entrepreneurs can access their creativity
27:48 — Lauren’s podcast burnout and permission to stop publishing weekly
32:13 — Feminine success and why women don’t need to grow like men
40:10 — Why women have their greatest creative success after kids
43:32 — Lauren and Leonardo’s connection chart
47:11 — Parenting a child with emotional authority
51:06 — What to look for in your child’s chart: authority and profile
56:05 — Gate 15 and honouring your child’s timing
59:37 — Strategy, direction and a quick recap
1:01:08 — Where to find Lauren
 
Work with Lauren LoGrasso:
Website: LaurenLoGrasso.com (book a free discovery call via the contact page)
Creativity coaching and podcast consulting, from start to finish
Substack: Lauren LoGrasso (writing about matrescence)
Instagram: @laurenlograsso
Podcast: Unleash Your Inner Creative, on all podcast platforms
Lauren’s music, available on music platforms

Get Started with more Human Design:
Get your free Human Design chart and Visionary Archetype: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart
Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/
Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/
 

Resources Mentioned: 
Maggie AI
Unleash Your Inner Creative podcast
We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle and Unlocking Us with Brené Brown (shows Lauren has produced)
The goop podcast
FLFE and the scale of consciousness
Abraham Hicks meditations and rampages
Matrescence
Connection charts
Gate 15, the Gate of Extremes
Incarnation Crosses: Cross of the Sphinx and Cross of Revolution
Line 1 and Line 5 profiles, and the 5/1 profile
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Human Design Authority and money is where my experiment gets really practical, and today we’re going there. This is episode three of my Money and Human Design series, so if you’re just landing here, go back and start with money and type, then money and strategy, and come back to me. I’m walking you through how your authority, your body’s built-in way of making decisions, becomes your power seat for every money choice, from the big investment calls to the tiny everyday ones. 
This one is for the woman who’s been handed the story that money belongs to a small club of people who aren’t her. I share the week I slipped into an old scarcity pattern while chasing a savings goal, the small and slightly counterintuitive decisions that pulled me out of it, and what landed in my account afterwards. Then I go through each authority so you can feel what a correct money decision looks like for you. 
What You’ll Learn: 
Why your authority is your ultimate permission slip to take back the power seat with money
How to tell the difference between your conditioned mind and your body’s guidance when money is on the line
Why the small money decisions matter as much as the big ones, and how they build trust in yourself
What a correct money decision looks and feels like for your specific authority
How to use expert support and AI to learn about money without giving your power away

Chapters:
00:00 — Your Human Design is your ultimate permission slip
00:54 — Welcome to episode three of the Money series: authority as your permission slip
03:01 — Why authority is so underestimated in the Human Design world
05:24 — What authority is: moving decisions out of the conditioned mind
07:46 — How we override our authority (and why you’ll say no more often)
10:07 — Why authority matters so much for money
12:35 — Setting an intention and letting your authority guide you to the right people
14:34 — Small decisions and the savings-goal story
19:01 — The authority hierarchy: how to find yours on any chart
19:37 — Emotional authority and money 
22:22 — Sacral authority and money 
24:37 — Splenic authority and money 
28:25 — Ego, self-directed and mental projector: the sounding-board authorities
32:07 — Staying the authority in your money story 
33:37 — Learning about money with AI as your running buddy 
35:26 — What years of trusting my authority with money taught me
37:54 — How your body feels is your money frequency
 

Get Started with more Human Design:
Get your free Human Design chart and Visionary Archetype: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart
Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/
Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/
 

Resources Mentioned:
Free Human Design chart at emmadunwoody.com (sends you to the authority episode for your design)
Money, AI and Human Design 21-Day Challenge
Previous episodes in this series: Money and Human Design Type, and Money and Human Design Strategy
The individual authority episodes on The Human Design Podcast
Gene Keys, including the Pearl sequence
Channels mentioned: 34-20 and 37-40
Claude and ChatGPT as tools for learning about money (not for sharing your financial details)
Episode 1 of the series: How to Make Money According to Your Human Design Type - listen here
Episode 2 of the series: Your Human Design Strategy Is the Money Map No One Taught You to Read  - listen here
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This one took me somewhere I've been fascinated by and a little scared of for years: past life regression. My guest is Boris Walter, a psychotherapeutic consultant who has guided over a thousand hypnosis sessions and who stumbled into this work almost against his will. I share my own past life experience that shifted a lifelong behaviour pattern instantly, and then Boris takes us right into what this work actually is.
We get into what past life regression really is (and why hypnosis isn't the scary mind-control thing the movies sold us), the case that almost made Boris quit, how he spoke to an entity coming through a client and helped shift a whole family lineage, why our gifts get shut down in childhood, and the pattern he sees across every single session: judgment waiting to be resolved into love. It's deep, a little wild, and exactly the kind of conversation my community lives for.
What You'll Learn:
What past life regression actually is, and why hypnosis isn't the loss of control we fear
How Boris accidentally fell into this work, and what a thousand-plus sessions taught him
The case that almost made him quit, and the ethics of what clients should and shouldn't remember
How healing a trauma in one lifetime (or one ancestor) can shift an entire lineage
Why our intuitive gifts get shut down in childhood, and how to reclaim them
The pattern underneath every session: judgment waiting to be resolved into love
Chapters:
00:00 — Welcome, and my own past life experience that changed everything
04:13 — Boris's story: from fly-in fly-out welder to psychotherapy and hypnosis
07:42 — How his clients led him into past life (parallel life) work
13:43 — What past life regression actually is, and the fear around hypnosis
20:42 — The responsibility of holding this sacred space
24:28 — The case that almost made him quit: the recording that went wrong
31:33 — What he learned, and the psychic who gave him "the marking"
39:43 — Speaking to the ancestor: healing an entity and a whole lineage
49:25 — How our gifts get shut down in childhood, and reclaiming them
56:06 — The pattern across 1,000+ sessions: judgment, forgiveness and truth
01:07:00 — The bigger picture: polarity, fear and the state of the world
01:19:00 — Judgment, spiritual bypassing, and meeting people where they are
01:24:34 — Final message: you only ever meet yourself
01:29:18 — Where to find Boris
01:34:08 — The council, and the "blue flame" message about his gift
Work with Boris:
Boris Walter, psychotherapeutic consultant (book a 1-hour or 3-hour session): https://borisfwalter.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boriswalterofficial
More Human Design Resources:
Get your free Human Design chart and Visionary Archetype: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart
Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/
Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/
Resources Mentioned:
Boris Walter: https://borisfwalter.com/
Ainsley McLeod (past life intuitive, mentioned by Emma)
Matthew James Bailey (ethical AI, past guest mentioned by Emma)
Hard Yarns podcast (where Emma first came across Boris)
The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
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I've been deep in money, investing and AI lately, so I brought in someone I've followed for years: Tori Dunlap, founder of Her First $100K, author of the New York Times bestseller Financial Feminist, and host of the number one money podcast for women in the world. Tori does money with a middle finger up to the patriarchy, and this conversation is a masterclass in why your financial power is your freedom.
We get into how Tori saved her first $100K and became a millionaire by 27, why money is a learned skill and not something men are magically better at, the high earner trap that catches women making great money, why you need to keep some of your own money in any relationship, the two-step mistake that leaves people thinking they're invested when they're not, and why the best investors actually look like women: patient, generous and self-aware.
What You'll Learn:
Why money is a learned skill, and how women are conditioned to give their financial power away
How Tori saved her first $100K, and the autopilot savings habit you can start today
The high earner trap: why making good money can leave you with nothing to show for it
Why you need your own money in every relationship, and the yours/mine/ours approach
The two-step investing mistake that leaves money sitting in financial purgatory
Why patience, generosity and self-awareness make women excellent investors
Chapters:
00:00 — Welcome, and why I wanted Tori on
01:52 — Tori's story: the dark night that started Her First $100K
06:31 — Why women are conditioned to give their money away
10:41 — Should couples combine finances? The yours/mine/ours rule
13:15 — Financial abuse, and why you need your own money
20:08 — Can young people still build wealth today?
23:56 — How Tori saved her first $100K, then quit her job
28:06 — Tips for women in business and later in life
29:00 — The high earner trap
31:05 — Money shame, and who "deserves" to be wealthy
38:59 — Building a values-led business (rest weeks, paid leave)
46:01 — What successful investors actually know
48:03 — The two-step mistake, and "Rose's" retirement story
50:47 — Why the best investors look like women
52:58 — Tori's free money-plan quiz
Learn from and work with Tori:
Tori Dunlap, founder of Her First $100K: https://herfirst100k.com/
Tori's free personalised money plan (6-question quiz): https://herfirst100k.com/quiz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herfirst100k

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Get Started with more Human Design:
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Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/ Subscribe to Substack for the full
Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/
Resources Mentioned:
Financial Feminist (Tori's New York Times bestselling book, and her podcast)
Her First $100K Stock Market School: https://her-first-100k.kit.com/e987c8a090
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