The Human Design Podcast

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:
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:
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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The transits are back. After a month off, I'm joined again by Yvette for the Human Design transits and Lauren for the astrology, and October 2026 is a big one. Coming out of eclipse season, this month is all about slowing down, getting out of your head and into your body, and asking what you actually want to be devoted to.
We get into the splenic gates lighting up one after another (instinct, intuition and evolution), the powerful manifestation window from the 9th to the 14th when almost the whole bodygraph is switched on, the Libra new moon, Venus retrograde in Scorpio and what it stirs up around money, fear and what you're afraid to lose, Mars moving into Leo, and the Mercury retrograde landing late in the month. If you take one thing from this episode: slow down, reflect, and let the old stuff go.
What You'll Learn:
Why the splenic gates switching on make October about instinct, intuition and evolution, not starting new things
The high-energy manifestation window from Oct 9–14, when nearly the whole bodygraph is lit up
What Venus retrograde in Scorpio is really asking you (what are you afraid to lose?)
How the Libra new moon, Mars in Leo and the late-month Mercury retrograde shape the month
How to work with retrogrades instead of fearing them, and why slowing down is the whole message
Chapters:
00:00 — The transits are back: catching up after a month off
01:01 — Lauren's news, and why it's healthy to stop tracking every transit
03:31 — Coming out of eclipse season as a different person
09:10 — Living your life as the business strategy (the new paradigm and AI)
13:21 — Human Design transits: the splenic gates switch on
16:56 — Money arriving from all directions
18:49 — The 30/41 channel: desire, fantasy and visioning a new future
22:37 — Libra season, ruled by Venus in Scorpio
27:57 — The shadow of the spleen: fear and what you're afraid to lose
33:57 — The Oct 9–14 power window: intuition, gate 57 and four motors firing
37:40 — Astrology: the Libra new moon (Oct 10)
42:25 — Mars enters Leo for all of October
46:40 — The T-square through Oct 5: stay in your own lane
50:11 — Venus retrograde in Scorpio (Oct 3–Nov 13): money, values and exes
55:58 — Oct 23: Sun enters Scorpio, the Venus cazimi, and Mercury retrograde begins
01:00:45 — Full moon in Taurus (Oct 26) and finding some ease
01:03:35 — The month's real message: slow down, and what will you be devoted to?

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Get Started:
Join the 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge (open now): https://www.emmadunwoody.com/offers/qA2BTwL9/checkout 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/
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 October transits: splenic gates, gate 30/41 (desire and fantasy), gate 57 (intuition), gate 51 (awakening), Libra new moon (Oct 10), Venus retrograde in Scorpio (Oct 3–Nov 13), Mars in Leo, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio (from Oct 23), full moon in Taurus (Oct 26)
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This is episode two of the Money and Human Design series, and today is all about your Human Design Strategy, the most powerful and most overlooked key to making money in alignment with who you are. You've been taught to go outside yourself for the right money strategy, to copy the expert, the mentor, the guru. The truth is the strategy you're looking for is already inside you, and in Human Design it's literally called your strategy.
I break down what strategy actually is, why your mind keeps talking you out of following it, and exactly how it works for each type: initiate and inform for Manifestors, respond for Generators, respond and inform for Manifesting Generators, wait for the invitation for Projectors, and wait a lunar cycle for Reflectors. Strategy and authority are your two golden bullets, and this episode is where you learn to read the money map no one ever taught you to read.
What You'll Learn:
What your Human Design strategy actually is, and why it's the money map no one taught you to read
The strategy for each of the types, and how each one becomes magnetic to money
Why following your strategy can feel unsafe, and how to drop out of your head and into your body
Why strategy is a felt experience you can already find evidence of in your past
How strategy and authority work together as your simplest path to wealth (authority is next episode)
Chapters:
00:00 — The Money and Human Design series continues: did you take imperfect action?
02:21 — Why Human Design gets overcomplicated, and why you don't need the detail
04:50 — The strategy you're searching for is already inside you
06:41 — Why following your strategy feels unsafe: conditioning and the nervous system
07:58 — Strategy is a felt experience, not a thought
14:02 — Your strategy is the money map no one taught you to read
15:20 — Manifestors: initiate and inform
19:38 — Generators: respond to what lights you up
26:20 — Manifesting Generators: respond and inform
28:31 — Projectors: wait for the invitation, and why self-worth is the money move
35:43 — Reflectors: wait a lunar cycle, your 28-day money runway
39:17 — The train metaphor: how all the types work together
42:17 — Closing
Get Started:
Join the 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge (open now): https://www.emmadunwoody.com/offers/qA2BTwL9/checkout
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:
The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
The Money, AI & Human Design Mastermind
The Barefoot Investor (book Emma recommends for foundational money learning)
Claude AI (which Emma uses to refine her investing strategy)
Episode 1 of the series: How to Make Money According to Your Human Design Type - listen here
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