#39 - Human Design for Business: The Missing Piece for Alignment, Sales & Soul-Led Growth With Stef Carlstedt

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything “right” in your business… but something still feels off, this conversation will bring you back to yourself. In this episode, I sit down with Stef Carlstedt to explore how Human Design can unlock a completely different way of building, selling, and leading. We go beyond strategy and into alignment — where your decisions, voice, and energy actually guide your growth. This is about trusting your way, not forcing someone else’s.

Key Takeaways
 ⚡ Why following “proven strategies” can quietly disconnect you from your natural way of building
 ⚡ How your Human Design reveals your unique decision-making, marketing, and leadership style
⚡ The subtle ways misalignment shows up as frustration, inconsistency, or self-doubt
⚡ What shifts when you stop copying others and start building a business that works for you

About Stef Carlstedt

Stef is a Human Design expert and entrepreneur who helps business owners align their strategy, voice, and growth with how they’re uniquely designed. After building a successful but misaligned business, she now guides clients to create businesses that feel sustainable, intuitive, and fully their own.

Resources Mentioned

Stef’s Human Design Report + Audio Series → stephcarlstead.com/hdreport

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

You're about to hear why Steph Carlsted believes human design may be the missing piece in your business. And how understanding the way you're uniquely designed to make decisions, use your voice, and lead can completely shift the way you think about alignment, skills, and growth. If you ever felt like you're doing all the right things in your business, but something still feels off, this episode will give you powerful insights into how your human design can help you make clearer decisions, attract more aligned clients, and build a business that actually works for you instead of against you. This topic feels especially relevant because I know so many of you are building businesses in a way that is deeply intuitive, powerful, and personal. And at the same time, it can be so easy to doubt yourself when you're looking at how everybody else is doing it. What I love about this conversation is that it brings us back to self-trust, individuality, and creating success in a way that feels genuinely aligned. That's why I'm so excited to share this conversation with Steph. Let's dive in. Welcome to the Bolt Expansion Podcast. You are here because you know your business is meant for more. I'm your host, Amei Dros, and this is where you'll learn how to make more money, create transformational offers, and step into your truth as a leader. Through premium strategy, identity work, and my signature method, Millionaire Breathwork. Each week you'll get the strategy and the shifts to expand your wealth, your impact, and your freedom. This is bold expansion. Are you ready? Hey Steph, thank you for joining me on the podcast episode today. For those who are listening, could you give a short introduction? Because I know that you are working with human design, that you're helping entrepreneurs grow their business, but I'm sure you can go a little bit deeper than that. I would love to hear the magic that you bring into this world.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. And so I've been an entrepreneur for 13 years. And I just I've always had it in me that I knew I wasn't met for the normal trajectory of life. And so when I stepped out of corporate into entrepreneurship, I really dove in headfirst and having no clue what I was doing, I built a health and fitness business on the trends and really the backs of the gurus out there, how we're supposed to market, how we're supposed to show up, how we're supposed to use the funnels and the hacks and the tricks. And I slowly died inside that business. I built a big business, but I say I slowly died inside it. And when my dad passed away, I it really slowed me down for a minute to really realize what am I doing? This isn't what I signed up for. I didn't love it at all. My clients were not my people. It was just more of a push and a pull. And it I fell into feeling the same that I did in corporate. And so I completely dismantled that business and found human design in that quiet moment. And that's when I realized that this is a missing piece. When I started reading mine, I understood how I'm designed to build a business. And so I'm reaching back now for the last couple of years. I've been helping people build using their human design in every area of their business. And it's been fascinating and amazing and just such a great journey. I'm loving it so much.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

Amazing. And for those who are listening who are not familiar with human design, could you break that down in a simple way?

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Yeah. So a lot of people come to me thinking human design is like another personality test, which is what I chalked it up to with any grams, strength, spiners, myers, briggs, and that type of stuff. But those are all answered from a conditioned mind that has been through upbringing, societal conditioning, the way we're supposed to react. And so is it really you at the end of the quiz, if you will? Human design is actually comprised of your birth information. It is created and comprised of several ancient modalities, including the IC and Vedic philosophy. There's scientific research to back it up now, but it's really based on your time of birth, the day you were born, and the place you were born. And it brings together this beautiful chart. And it looks gibberish to people. And that's why most people put it on the side, which is what I did for far too long. But it really is it's your highest potential when you look at it. And it's teaches you how you're designed to show up in the world, how to move through the world, how people view you on the stage of life, and really all of your strengths and your powers and what you're here to gain wisdom in and what people will pay you for. And that's just the beginning. But it's really when you look at this amazing chart, it's your highest potential.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

And of that, yeah, I've been a little bit diving into Yumi Design a couple of months, not months, a couple of years ago. And I haven't fully used it in my business. So I'm very excited also to see where this conversation is gonna go. Yeah. But what I did with it when I found out about it was first I just read into it a little bit myself. Then I actually had a friend that was giving readings, and I used it as a present for my mother to give it to myself, to my mother, to do a reading together, and then to bring the answers also together to work on our relationship. So for me, this tool is something very dear to my heart because it's actually the first thing that really opened up a big chapter with me and my mom where we finally understood each other because of the charts and because of seeing, okay, this is you, this is me, this is why like she was thinking about me. Like her daughter is so multipassionate, does all these different things, and she couldn't really keep up with it. And then we saw, okay, I'm a manifesting generator and she's a generator, and it just gave a lot more perspective. Could you share a little bit about the four or five different categories that people can recognize themselves in before we dive more into the chapter of business-related human design?

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Yeah. So when you know your human design, typically most people know their energy type, which is the highest level of your design. And then it goes very nuanced underneath that. But that is key to starting there because it is essentially how your energy works and how you're designed to show up. And so we have the manifesting generator, who is you and I both, and we are very multi-passionate. We pivot a lot, we don't finish things sometimes. We skip steps and come back. And it's we're very versatile, and people look at us like, you know, I used to think that I was flaky. Like, why can't I keep, why can't I stick to something? And now I know that's my energy, but we are an energy source, and so we do have the excess energy to do what we love if we're if we actually love it and we're not holding ourselves back from the pivots and the trying different things. The generators are more step-by-step. They are also an energy being. So as a generator, you have the open aura, the very open aura. And so we look at you as the light of the world. If you are doing what you love and loving what you do, you will light everybody else up. And if you're not, you will dim everybody else around you because you have that open aura. And again, they're very much a lot more step-by-step process. They don't skip the steps and pivot as much as manifesting generators do. And then we have the projectors who are very fascinating to work with. They are here to guide and they see people and things better than they than we can see ourselves. So they can go into a room of a bunch of people and feel the energy more than anybody else. They do not have a defined sacral, they are not an energy being. So they need like taking naps is normal for them. They are meant to work efficiently two to four hours on something at the same time, and that's it. So that's just a brief explanation of them. Reflectors are very rare. I've worked with two of them, they're 1% of the population. They're really here to see everything and reflect back to us what the health of whatever they're looking at. So they have every single center in their body graph. When you look at your human design, you some are colored in, some are not colored in. They have every single one on open, not colored in, which means that their environment is so important to them and they can easily shape shift into those. And then we have the manifester who is the initiator of everything. Arufu, the person who created human design, was a manifester. They have bursts of energy to create something new, and then they need to retreat for a while. So then they have the manifesting generators, generators who take what they start and finish it. So those that's just a brief explanation, but it's very, very interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yeah, I know that. I think there's probably a lot of my listeners who are familiar with this to the basic level of it, but I think it's always so good to hear, either hear it again and to be reminded of it, because sometimes we forget, but also to hear how you explain it, because we're gonna go deeper, of course, in your work. So when you connect this to business, how does that translate? I know you've talked a little bit about how it's, or at least I know that you share about this in your Instagram about how the human design can really help you find your way of doing business and how without that, without finding your way, you can be very inconsistent. You might blame yourself, but it's probably more the strategy and how you're showing up as you're building your business. Could you go a little bit deeper into that?

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Yeah, for sure. So human design is the missing link for business growth if you're struggling. It the we tend to follow everyone else outside of us. And human design brings us home into how we are actually designed to build. None of my clients walk away with the same business. And that's very fascinating to me as a manifesting generator. And so when we are looking at our business, it is really important to understand some of us don't are not going to thrive on social media. Some of us will thrive on social media, some of us are meant to market and speak in a completely different way than someone else. Our your design tells you your marketing strategy, how to, what your offer needs inside it, how your voice is meant to be heard. Those are and those are just a few things, but there's also you also have fears that are hiding in your chart that we don't know are there. And that's what sometimes it's blocking us. But it's not, this isn't just about thinking positive and being authentic. This is really diving deep and shutting out the noise of everyone else around you so you can find your true, your true way because it's not like anybody else.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

I love that. And what you're saying, I don't think it's only connected to the main energy types, right? It's also connected to the more in-depth details of the human design charts. So maybe you, I don't know if the listeners will fully follow this if they're not deep into human design. But could you give some hints of where to look in your human design? What is the first thing you check with your clients?

SPEAKER_01 11:59

Yeah. So I will, I'll try to ground it as much as I can. It's my vibe of Tribe and My Human Design is very, they need to be grounded in what I'm saying, and they need to feel safe before they're going to buy with me. And so when I first start looking at a human design chart, energy type is important, yes, but it's not the most important profile. It's actually very important. There's actually 72 true profiles. So we look at that, and that's really how you're designed, how people view you on the stage of life and what people need from you. So, for instance, I am a three-five manifesting generator. And so for me, trial and error and failing forward more than anybody else is what I need to lead with. And I, when I realized that about myself, it was great that I'm meant to fail more than most people. But it's become such an awesome experiment, especially with as a manifesting generator. And so people need to know, see that I'm a trial and error. And then they look at me on my line five as this is the person that can save, this is the person that can help me. And there's a lot of different, a lot of different profiles. So that's just an example, but it's really how people view you on the stage of life. And with within that profile, it also goes into how you're designed to really show up in your business. And then we have you what we call your vibe of tribe. And that's the second thing I look at, and it's really the slip, the slice of humanity, if you will, that you are designed to market to. And this isn't really going to be the only people you help, but it's very fascinating because I have a line one vibe of tribe, and a lot of people that come to work with me are line ones. And so it it just you're meant to market in a specific way. So let me give you an example. So, for instance, my line one, I need to market in sharing all the details. They need to know FAQs, they need to know reviews, they need to know testimonials. They ask so many questions because they just need to go deep before they're gonna trust me. Some people have a vibe of tribe of line one or four, where they just need to know they're gonna be a part of a community. Community and network is everything to them. So just those two see how different they are. But unfortunately, we've been taught to market in a specific way to a blanket of people. And it's we're when that happens, we energetically are bypassed by the people we're designed to help.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Yeah, I also work with my clients in a way that I give them not one approach, but I give them one of my clients described it once as a big buffet of all the different types of strategies that they can pick from. But it almost sounds like when they know their human design and there are certain elements on their chart, it would be so much easier and faster to actually say, oh, this part of the buffet fits you and this part probably doesn't. Because with me, I always tell my clients, try it, see how you feel. We can change it to match it better for who you are, but they still need to try it and go through it. Do you already see that with your clients that when they use the human design try your strategies, that immediately they get like faster results than other people would have? Because I know you've also worked before without it.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

Yes, for sure. Well, 100%. It's skipping that step. Funny thing about me is that I am I have the core for the life's work of the new era of the sleeping phoenix. So I was meant, it literally says in my chart, I was designed to build something big, burn it down, and build with what actually works and help you skip the steps. Literally what it says. And that's what I'm doing. And so that's why I'm I'm meant to trial and error so much, because I'm meant to help pull everybody else in and help them skip those steps. That's just my chart. I am meant to lead this. And so when I found that out after I had started this, I was like, wow, you when we start to listen to your decision-making process and your human design, you're guided every way. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Yeah, I remember when I did the personal reading, so not business related. A lot of people who were in my field were also working with it at a time. And a lot of them were like, oh my God, I changed my whole life after reading this chart. And to me, I read it and it was more this like confirmation because I was doing almost everything from the chart. And I think with business, it's probably the same. Like when you right now feel very lost in your business and you're like, I'm doing something wrong because it's not working, then it sounds like this is an amazing tool. But also, if you've already implemented and you're still doing it, it's probably still that permission slip which you're explaining just now with the recognizing yourself and your past in your whole chart.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Yeah, it's a huge permission slip because I've had, I would say probably 25% of clients I work with come to me already having been living in their design, but they didn't realize it. They just got gained access to themselves. A lot of them are the are 50 plus. So there's a whole that's a whole nother thing with the Chiron return in your human design when your 50 plus era is very fascinating. Mine is double three five, so I meant to trial and error even more, which is fascinating. But yeah, it's it does. It just really helps you stay grounded and knowing that your way is the only way for you.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

I'm listening to all of this and I get, oh my God, how would this be for me on my chart? And I actually have my chart, but I can imagine that the listeners will also be like, okay, but what is this for me then? So maybe we can throw a bit more examples in. Of course, you have yours. I know, for instance, from my profile line is five one, which is yours yours was three five, right? So it's completely different already, but there's a sim similar number. So how does that compare to yours? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

And so let me also first just clarify this because remember when I said there's energy type and there's profile, there's depth. So everybody that I worked with is has a completely different chart out of the 3,500 people that have gotten their charts. I have not seen the same one. So when I'm telling you this, there is also something called definition. So for me, I have a single definition. So I don't need collaborations, I don't need to be in networking circles to gain access to what I'm designed to do here. Some people are triple split where they need lots of networks, lots of collaboration, lots of so it all, there's so many nuances and colors, which is so fascinating. But so, yes, as a five-one, one of my clients is a five-one generator. And you are really looked at, you're projected upon a lot, probably for the answer. And a lot of people, and it unknowingly sometimes. And so with line fives and on your conscious side, it's really important for you to be able to discern what's yours to hold and what's not. And then you have you, so you're looked at as the savior, the I have the answer. Then you have the line one on your unconscious side, which is again my vibe of tribe. So it's funny that we're talking. So you like to go deep and understand things before you will move forward. And this is on your unconscious side. So sometimes we don't see it and recognize it. But that's the cool part about human design, is you can really see, oh, this is where I'm holding myself back. So when you have a line one in your profile, a lot of times you like to go deep and study, but you want to feel safe before you move forward. And so the shadow part of that is staying in the study mode and not moving forward. And so that's a big part of line ones, is they want to feel safe and grounded before they're moving forward, but they need that fine line of, okay, but I need to take that action, especially as a business owner, because all businesses have to have a line three in them, which is trial and error, like regardless. So yeah, that's just a brief explanation of yours.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Yeah, yeah, I recognize some of the things, but also the things that I've worked through. Like I recognize them and then I changed things and now they're different. Even uh, yeah, people seeing me as the savior, which I think for those listening, amazing that you're hearing this because I am not, I'm not your savior. It's really like this dynamic between the I always compare it to this drama triangle with the savior, the the victim, and the what's the other one? This triangle? It's the dynamics between the savior. Oh, it's the one that attacks. So the you have the savior, the the victim, and then the other one. I forgot the name now. And you can choose to be in the drama triangle and you can choose to fill one of those roles, but you can also step out of it and take back your own power and not put yourself in a position of I'm the victim, I need a savior, or I'm being bullied, or whatever. And that's something I've worked really hard on with my messaging, which in the last couple of years, in the last three years, is especially I've moved away from the pain point marketing because I noticed how much that was attracting the people that needed that savior. And I was not willing to be that for them because I really believe in personal power and radical responsibility. And that's also when people hire me and they do tend to fall more in that category. I am probably not the best coach for them because I'm not gonna play that game. I'm stepping out of it and I'm letting you rise in your power. That's the gift that I'm giving them.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Yeah. So that's a lot of your discernment that you've already gained access to, which is really cool. And not everybody has that and has evolved in that way. But yeah, and then within that, you probably have something, you have a message you're here to share in a specific way. So it probably has something to do with helping people rise to who they are designed to be or who they are created to be, and they have the power within them. So I'd be really interested to see what your message is and what your locks and keys are of the new era and the old era, too.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

I just had this incredible idea to look at my chart together because you guys, listeners of the bold expansion podcast, you might know a thing or two about me by now. And it might resonate more when you hear Steph talk about me and my charts, and then also how I feel about that. So we're gonna do that really quick. We don't have a lot of time to dig into this, and like Steph said, there's so much that you can yeah, take out of someone's charts. But just to give you a little feel of how this can relate to your business and also how it already relates to what I have been building with world expansion, with my business pleasure and selling. So, yeah, Steph, can you talk to me about my charts? Yeah, I will have it to be looking at my phone because I have it on here.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

But yes, okay, so you, yeah, you're a five-one manifesting generator. And the one thing that I'm noticing is you have you are very defined in your points of view, your Ajna center is all about your points of view and your beliefs. And then you come down to your throat center, you have a superpower into there. So you have beliefs and you know what you want to say, you want to share it. And so you're very strong in that. And then you have your G center is defined too. So you have access to your direction in life and your and where you want to go, your self-identity at all times. Then you have your the sacral, which is defined. So you have this, oh my gosh, I know what I want to do. I know what I want to share, I'm gonna share it. And that's really powerful because when you have these centers that are colored in, you really it you have access to them at all times. So if you're listening to this and you're looking at your chart and you have specific centers colored in, that means that you do have access to this at all times within you if you're living in alignment with your design. Okay. If you have Centers that are not colored in, these are the places you're here to evolve in and really what people will end up paying you for. And so that's really fascinating too. And if you have open centers which have zero numbers colored in and they're just completely white, that is your greatest evolvement here on Earth. And so that's a really fascinating thing to know. You do have the emotional solar plexus undefined. And so for you, it's going to be easy for you to amplify other emotions around you. And so when you're when someone's feeling excited, it's going to be easy for you to feel excited. When they're feeling upset, it's going to be easy for you to take that on. And that's one thing that you're here to evolve in and hold true into your own emotional state, if you will. And yes, you have the you have several superpowers. So you have a superpower going from your points of view to your throat. So again, uh with you, your business is going to be like podcasting this is key for your business because people need to hear your voice more than undefined throats. They need to hear your points of view, especially because you have that attached to your communication center. So you are yeah, I'm trying to you're lit up like a Christmas tree in your throat. And so using your voice in any area. When I have clients like this, we get them on podcasts, we do voice notes to clients, we do voice notes and emails. Anywhere you can get your voice into your business is going to be transformative because you carry that power. And then you have a the a superpower going from your G Center to your sacral. So you know where you want to go in this world and you got the energy to do it. And so you don't need anybody else to help you with that, right? You have that access within you, and that's a big superpower for you. And so when people don't have when people don't have defined sacrils and they have an emotional, let's talk about this. You have uh I'm I can't see on here, but do you have a sacral authority? Do you know?

SPEAKER_00 25:19

What is a sacral authority? I know about what you said about the emotional center that I feel other people's emotions. That's very clear to me. I want to see other. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

So sacral is that the that's the authority is your decision-making process. So sacral is gut when you're go. So that's my guess, but I can't see down here. So if you have a sacral authority instantly in your gut, yes or no, this is right, this is wrong. And that's one thing I work on my clients with immediately because it's very easy for people to get off track when they're building their business and gaining that access to the part of your body that has your decision-making process. Some people have emotional authorities, which means that they are designed to wait. The term sleep on it is best exactly. Yeah. And anytime I am on a sales call and I know someone has an emotional authority, I do not make I don't really talk to them at all about let's are you ready to get signed up right now? Because they're not designed to make decisions right now. So we follow up through email. Some people have a lunar authority, which means that if you're designed to make really big decisions every 28 days. So that is a huge piece of business growth because we are inundated every day with do it this way, do it that way. And so it's just really important to understand that.

SPEAKER_00 26:39

Yeah, I definitely have the gut one. Yeah, I remember. Okay. And it's also something that like sometimes I'm annoyed by because I know it's a yes or a no, but sometimes I don't agree with it. And then I try to argue, but I already know. So then in the next days after that, I'm just getting on board with it myself and basically selling the idea to my current self because I feel like the yes or no comes more from the higher self.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Oh, yeah, for sure. And when you gain access to that part of you with your authority, you don't second guess yourself anymore. And I become so okay with who I am and how I'm designed to build that it just second nature. I don't really let any other influences outside of me make the decisions. And then yeah, so though that's just oh, okay. I'll go over really quick your vibe of tribe too. You have a line two vibe of tribe, and for you, your people care about aesthetics. Okay. So your people really are going to are there, it's it matters. Like the aesthetics of what they're seeing, what your community is like, that matters to them. They also are called the hermit. And so line twos need to be in a if you're gonna have a container, there needs to be something where they can retreat and study them by themselves and be alone because when line twos have alone time, they that's when their mind comes on board, that's when their clarity comes up, and that's when they have the aha moments. It's when we are trying to teach everything right then and there, and they don't have anything to go hermit away with. So does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 28:20

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm also thinking like a lot of the things you're mentioning from the throat, from all the things like it is already integrated in my business. And even this, I have an integration week in my program, in my mastermind, my signature offer, where once a month I choose an integration week for myself where I'm not actively coaching only if I feel the space. But then also it creates this space for them. Hey, this week there's no coaching. Let me trust my own intuition, let me trust my own power and move with that and do the things like whether it's choosing a rest week for themselves or going into the vault, which wears all the materials already that I created over the last five years. So, yeah, there's a lot of those different touch points as well.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

That's huge, yeah. And they really do need that just safe space, that quietness. And yeah, so that's that's just a brief overview of your line two, also. But yeah, at the end of the day, you are you are have already listened yourself a lot. A lot of people are struggling in why isn't this working for me? Why do I feel so misaligned? You have a self, uh high self-theme and a not self-theme in your chart. And for my mine is satisfaction and not self-theme is frustration. So some people have bitterness, some people have anger. If you're going to bed feeling that not self, then you're misaligned in your design somewhere. So yeah, it's very fascinating. And obviously, we can go a lot deeper, but I will Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

I love that this is a little taste, and also for the people that know me, so they can also see a little bit of me in that. And yeah, also like sometimes you are already on that path, and there's a lot that's already laid out, but then still that confirmation, like for me, receiving this from you feels really good because I know myself, I know how I'm showing up for my clients, and I also sometimes doubt because I'm looking at other people. And this really helps me focus again. Okay, actually, yeah, how I build my business works for me. And one of the examples that came up for me is the throat center. Like, I know I have a very powerful voice, also because I use it not just for the strategy, but also as a breath work facilitator for my clients, where I'm, I don't know, when I step into a room, especially the in-person events, also the ones that I record, but especially in person, I just feel that something speaks through me and it's beautiful and powerful, and it's some like a feeling that I almost cannot describe. I even used to have it with sales calls where I had like this shivering going down my spine where I just said things that I wasn't supposed to know about the other person. And now I'm not doing sales calls anymore, but I do still use a lot of voice notes in the DMs because I think it's a very important touch. And I think for everybody to feel the energy, but it's interesting to hear that it's even more so for me. Yeah. Within the mastermind, I have different touch points that I've created where I used to have the mastermind with voice notes in Slack, where I was teaching more in that way. But it was also quite, I would say, exhausting at some point because there was a lot coming my way. And now there's a little bit more of a boundary, which is something that I learned to integrate as well. I think also because I'm picking up on so much emotions and I want my clients to do some self-coaching and some processing before they dump whatever is alive on me and really get the best from me and not just put a lot of stuff on me and let me figure it out, but really bring it in high quality to me. But then for the people that are in my 12-month container, and especially the ones that are with me one-on-one, they get the Voxer support, which is an audio app for coaching as well. And then for the the general community, I also integrated a Telegram community because the school community, this is a lot of names of tools right now, doesn't really allow voice notes, but I missed that. So I already realized that and I put it in Telegram for the whole community. And when I feel inspiration, I just want to share that with my voice and give them a mini podcast and a mini training. So it's very interesting to already see, yeah, this actually works for me. How is that for you when you started to discover this? What was the first big thing, or maybe a few, you've mentioned a few already, that you already changed in your business and in your approach, how you worked with your clients when you figured out how important human design was?

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Oh my gosh, so many things, right? The biggest thing is that my first business, I gave everybody the same blueprint to build their business and that I use, right? And I did a huge disservice to 95% of them. So that's one thing is I don't go into any session knowing having a plan of I have a general idea, but this is exactly what we're gonna do because every single business is different, every single person's design is different and they will react. If I do, if I have to do frameworks and stuff like that, some of my clients will just shrink and be like, it's not grounded enough. It's just too much. And so I just look at their chart before I go in, and so I can I know what they need from me specifically. And so that's a big one. And then also just allowing myself to be me and show up in the way that I'm designed to and how my voice is supposed to be heard. I have the the spontaneous speaker gate, the gate of the now in my conscious son. So that's a huge part of me. If I try to plan, script, write down notes for any session I have, any podcast I'm on, anything I host, I will shrink my gifts. It's spontaneous speaker gate is just comes out of me more than other people. If I like I said, if I'm sit standing on a stage and I try to have a script, I will just fall flat. Anytime anybody asks me to speak, I will not write a script because I know that about myself. And it's yeah, it's just allowed me to be me and be okay with that and know that not everybody's gonna resonate with me, but we're not here to resonate with everybody.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

And when you were saying this about how everybody has their own way to approach things, but also to bring your own voice forward, what came up for me is AI and how a lot of people in the industry right now are completely obsessed with using ChatGPT, with giving their power away when they're writing content and actually misusing it, abusing ChatGPT, I would say. I would love to hear how you think about this and if for different clients who have different advice on how to use AI.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Yeah, and so AI is a powerful tool, right? And it's one that we don't want to not use at all because this is where the world's going. And but you have to figure out how to use it with your actual self. And because you can tell the people that just word vomit copy paste AI all day long, right? You can I can pick up on that. It's energetic. And that's why I will never be a clone AI like video like this, because you lose that energetic power and your people will not resonate. It's not gonna work. It will fall flat. And what I do is I have I have probably 10 trained bots that are turned off from the internet that are trained in one's trained in superpowers of human design, one's trained in your profile, one's trained in your energy type. So it's very much it's not taking anything from the internet. That's why I've had people look up their human design on Chat GPT and it was wrong. So like just yeah, no, learn how to train it. And I put all my voice notes, all my podcast episodes into it so it knows it's me, right? It's me. And then I train my clients on doing that too. So it's a very powerful collaboration partner, but it can't be the be all end all. It does, it comes up with ideas that I'm like, holy cow, yes, let's do that.

SPEAKER_00 35:53

So that's yeah, and I think it's very important to know how to use it. I think what you mentioned about closing off the energy from yeah, everything else and it's still being really you. I think that's super important. I'm working on creating something similar for my clients, of course, not about human design, but about all my work. And yeah, that's really where the future is to use it as something that amplifies, but not something that takes away your power. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, and what do you feel has been your biggest breakthrough in your business after changing with human design? You've gave us some examples, but is there one moment where you saw, okay, now I've doubled my revenue, I have found more soul aligned clients? Like when did you really start to notice, hey, this is working?

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Oh gosh, yeah. I think the biggest thing was the soul-aligned clients and the people that I know that I'm meant to work with. And just my first business, I felt the tugging and pulling and grinding and hustling and frustration, and I don't feel any of that. I do a lot in my business every day, but I don't feel any of that because it's all been created through my design. So I think that was the biggest thing for me was I looked back a year for a year ago and I was, I was like, wow, I have completely used my design in my business, and it actually feels really good. It's not meant to, yes, we have to work hard in our business, but it's not meant to feel exhausting and frustrating and and having bitterness towards it. So I think that was the biggest thing for me was just okay, I actually love entrepreneurship now. It's not something that I am like, gosh, maybe I should go back to corporate.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Yeah. I love that. Yeah, I don't use human design as the tool, but I build something very similar on similar prints principles where my business is also called pleasure in selling. And it really comes from this part of it's not meant to feel hard and shameful or frustrating or anger, and it's meant to feel effortless even when your calendar is full. Like I've just had, I think, two weeks where I definitely stretch my capacity and me with that because I really feel good. Like it's not like I'm like, oh my god, what did I do? I really wish I spent my time differently. No, I am in love with the business that I'm building, with the clients that I'm serving. And yeah, it's amazing if someone is a bit off the reel and then can find human design to bring them back into that. So yeah, amazing. I'm very excited about bringing that together in business as well. What would you say would be your bold expansion in one year from now? If you see what you're building, what you're working towards, yeah. Where do you see all of this going?

SPEAKER_01 38:29

I am actually meeting with someone next week who is starting an elementary school here in town. And she was thinking about getting Myers Briggs. She wants to create it based on every child's strengths, and she was wanting to get Myers Briggs, and I said, no, you need human design. And so I'm meeting with her. My mission is to get this into schools, into far beyond business. It's much needed. And the way we're teaching kids and the way that we are doing things cannot sustain anymore. And so that's my big bold expansion is to get this far beyond where it's at.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

Oh, I love that. Okay. And if anybody is listening right now and they're like, okay, yeah, I would love to get started with using human design in my business. What would be the first step? Where do they find you? I know you already mentioned ChatGPT not being the right place, which I 100% agree with. I've been doing that with astrology and human design just because I was using ChatGPT, but then it also gave me the wrong data. And I know from some friends as well that they didn't notice in the beginning. So, where do they need to go if they want real outputs based on their human design?

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Yeah, so my so stephcarlstead.com slash HD report, and hopefully we can put that in the show notes because my name is spelled weird. But yeah, so what you get is amazing and it will start you on the path. You have your chart and then you'll have a 12-page PDF that explains your energy type and profile and business. And then I created a 10-part audio series where I take you through major pieces of your design so you can see how this is going to change business. Because my mission here is to not, I don't want you to, I have interesting, I have the life's work, like I said, of the new era. So I'm here to lead this new way of individuality. And I don't want you to just take your chart and throw it on the shelf like I did, because that's what happens when you look at it and it's you don't you can't make sense of it. So going right into the 10-part audio and the PDF is what I want people to do for free so they can start to see how this is gonna change everything.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

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