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Emma Shackleton Dunwoody
The Human Design Podcast
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    #565 Your Human Design Strategy Is the Money Map No One Taught You to Read

    2026-09-28 | 36 mins.
    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
    Support the show
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    #564 Matthew James Bailey on Human Design and AI: Can AI Read Your Soul?

    2026-09-24 | 1h 23 mins.
    Human Design and AI came together for me in this conversation with my friend Matthew James Bailey, who has worked in AI since 1996, wrote a playbook on ethics for AI, and spent time in ICU this year fighting for his life. We get into what AI can and can't do for your inner world, why Matthew calls it an artificial intellect, and what happened when he took Maggie for a test drive and asked her about his dream clients.

    This one is for you if you use AI in your business and feel uneasy about how much power people are handing over to it. You'll hear why I see your Strategy and Authority as your built-in truth detector in a noisy world, what Matthew thinks the tech giants have forgotten, and a simple practice he shares to help you feel at home in yourself again.

    What You'll Learn:
    - Why Matthew calls AI an artificial intellect, and what that means for how much you trust it
    - How your Human Design Strategy and Authority help you stay sovereign when everyone else hands their power to tech
    - What Matthew found when he tested Maggie AI on his dream client
    - Why Matthew believes ethics come down to energy and vibration, and whether people choose AI tools based on ethics
    - The hero's journey in reverse, and why an awakening still comes with lessons to learn

    Chapters:
    00:01 - Welcome back, Matthew James Bailey
    01:59 - Matthew's path: AI since 1996, ethics for AI and NASA
    07:46 - Why Matthew calls AI an intellect
    10:26 - The health crisis, the ICU and an hour in an MRI
    13:34 - The 3/5 lesson and Human Design as your truth detector
    21:10 - The Great Hello: presence, joy and innocence
    24:21 - Matthew test drives Maggie AI
    29:18 - Can AI read your soul?
    34:21 - Earth School, the 2027 new paradigm and true abundance
    39:36 - Presence in the body and the power of a declaration
    42:16 - Knowing, and living in two realities at once
    46:45 - Why we rebuilt Maggie, and do people care about AI ethics?
    49:29 - Ethics as energy and vibration (approx.)
    52:19 - The Soul Radiance Tool and quantum computing
    56:35 - Can the powers that be keep up with rising consciousness?
    01:01:38 - Are we already in the existential crisis?
    01:05:58 - The hero's journey backwards, and the heroine's journey
    01:14:28 - Nothing to do, only something to let go of
    01:19:08 - AI gives us back the gift of time, and Gate 55
    01:20:29 - Where to find Matthew
    Matthew's Details:
    Website - https://inventingworld3.com
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/matthew.j.bailey.10
    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/matthew.james.bailey.official/
    Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@inventingworld3.0
    TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@matthew.james.bailey
    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:
    - World Three think tank and Matthew's white papers with Robert Edward Grant
    - Sir Roger Penrose on consciousness and intelligence
    - The Gene Keys and the Siddhi state
    - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (the quote Emma has tattooed on her arm)
    - Anita Moorjani
    - FLFE
    - The Diary of a CEO episode with Mo Gawdat
    - David Hawkins' scale of consciousness
    - Human Design: 3/5 profile, Reflector type, Strategy and Authority, Gate 55 and the 2027 new paradigm
    - The hero's journey and the heroine's journey

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    Get BodyGraphChart here: https://bodygraphchart.com?via=emmadunwoody
    Use the code humandesignpodcast for 30% off for 6 months!
    Support the show
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    #563 How to Make Money According to Your Human Design Type

    2026-09-23 | 25 mins.
    This is the start of my brand new series on money and Human Design, two of my all-time favourite things. If you've ever wondered why the money strategies everyone else swears by never quite work for you, this episode is your answer. The way you're designed to make money is specific to your Human Design type, and once you understand your own energy you stop forcing someone else's model and start magnetising what's already yours.
    In this first episode we stay at the macro level: your type. I walk through how money comes differently to Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors and Reflectors, why gate 55 holds the key to money and energy, and how I made $2 million before I ever built a funnel by following my design instead of the rulebook. This is the foundation for the whole series, so start here.
    What You'll Learn:
    - Why there's no one-size-fits-all money strategy, and how your Human Design type changes the way money actually comes to you
    - How each of the five types becomes magnetic to money (and what blocks each one)
    - What gate 55 teaches about authenticity, energy and abundance
    - How to use your strategy, signature and not-self theme as real-time money indicators
    - The shift from doing to receiving, and why now is the time for it
    Chapters:
    00:00 - Dialling into authenticity for abundance and freedom
    00:17 - The money and Human Design series begins
    02:50 - What two months off taught me about receiving (and the 1.5M downloads we'd been missing)
    06:07 - Why I finally committed to teaching money
    06:56 - How I made $2 million before I ever built a funnel
    08:29 - Gate 55: authenticity is the real money magnet
    10:51 - Money and your Type (the macro level)
    12:21 - Manifestors and money
    14:04 - Generators and Manifesting Generators and money
    17:20 - Projectors and money
    19:25 - Reflectors and money
    21:24 - Using strategy, signature and not-self theme as money indicators
    24:31 - You are the authority
    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 Money, AI & Human Design Mastermind
    The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
    Gate 55 in Human Design (money and energy)
    Claude AI (which I used to research business investment)
    Support the show
  • The Human Design Podcast

    #562 Clara Schroeder on Why Nature Calms An Overwhelmed Mind

    2026-08-20 | 58 mins.
    In today's episode I'm joined by Clara Schroeder, ecotherapist and author of Re-Nature, for a conversation about nature, the nervous system, and why time outdoors does far more than clear your head.
    Clara calls it the more than human world, and she takes us through what happens in the brain when we're in it. We get into the neuroscience of fractal patterns and why the predictability of a tree canopy or a wave settles the amygdala, the difference between exercising outdoors and relating to nature, and how she's seen nature connection ease loneliness, low mood and an overstimulated nervous system. She shares her own path through clinical depression and her recovery from a traumatic brain injury, plus the distinction she draws between physiological burnout and the ecological kind, the sort that comes from forgetting where we come from.
    We also talk horses as healers, flow state, and the small daily practices that bring nature in when you live in a city: a nature altar, a colour walk, a moment of presence with your morning cup of tea.
    If you've done all the inner work and still feel wired and disconnected from yourself, this is your reset.

    I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
    Big love,
    Mxx

    Clara's Details:
    Website: claraschroeder.com
    Instagram: @livingwithclarity
    Her book, Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better: available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
    Book updates: @renaturebook

    BodyGraph Chart Software
    Create your own Human Design chart tool with BodyGraphChart! Embed a chart tool on your own website, so you can engage with your leads, grow your business, teach Human Design the way YOU want to teach it and create success!
    Get BodyGraphChart here: https://bodygraphchart.com?via=emmadunwoody
    Use the code humandesignpodcast for 30% off for 6 months!

    OTHER RESOURCES
    Want more on Human Design? Explore the ways to get involved below:
    Get Your Free Human Design Chart: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart
    The Feminine Success Framework: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/feminine-success-framework
    MAGGIE - Magnetic by Design AI: https://meetmaggie.co/
    The HDx Collective: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective
    Human Design Unhinged: https://www.humandesignunhinged.com/
    Secret Podcast: The Human Design Podcast (Off The Record): https://thehumandesignpodcast.supercast.com/
    Instagram @the_human_design_coach
    Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
    Support the show
  • The Human Design Podcast

    #561 Cameron Branch on The 2027 Alien Deception

    2026-08-13 | 1h 11 mins.
    In today's episode I'm sitting down with a fellow Aussie, Cameron Branch, host of The Hard Yarns Podcast, for a wide-ranging conversation about aliens, disclosure, past lives and what it takes to trust your own inner knowing in a very noisy world. Cameron shares his take on what he believes is coming with contact and disclosure, and where he reckons the real deception sits. Then, live on air, I read his Human Design, because underneath the big topic runs a much simpler thread we keep returning to: your authentic self is the answer.
    As a Manifesting Generator with sacral authority, Cameron is built to lead with his gut instead of his mind, and his gate of opinion means he is here to share what he thinks without needing to be right. We get into how you discern truth when the news, social media and even well-meaning experts are all fighting for your attention, why going first gives other people permission to do the same, and what it looks like to come back to your own authority rather than handing it away.

    I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
    Big love,
    Mxx

    Cameron's Details:
    Website - https://www.thehardyarns.com/
    Podcast - https://www.thehardyarns.com/podcast
    Instagram - @thehardyarnspodcast

    BodyGraph Chart Software
    Create your own Human Design chart tool with BodyGraphChart! Embed a chart tool on your own website, so you can engage with your leads, grow your business, teach Human Design the way YOU want to teach it and create success!
    Get BodyGraphChart here: https://bodygraphchart.com?via=emmadunwoody
    Use the code humandesignpodcast for 30% off for 6 months!

    OTHER RESOURCES
    Want more on Human Design? Explore the ways to get involved below:
    Get Your Free Human Design Chart: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart
    The Feminine Success Framework: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/feminine-success-framework
    MAGGIE - Magnetic by Design AI: https://meetmaggie.co/
    The HDx Collective: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective
    Human Design Unhinged: https://www.humandesignunhinged.com/
    Secret Podcast: The Human Design Podcast (Off The Record): https://thehumandesignpodcast.supercast.com/
    Instagram @the_human_design_coach
    Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
    Support the show
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About The Human Design Podcast
The #1 Global Human Design Podcast for women ready to build success on their own terms.Hosted by Human Design expert and business mentor Emma Shackleton (formerly Dunwoody), this is where the personal growth conversation gets real. If you’ve outgrown the hustle, the formulas, and the pressure to keep proving yourself, this is your permission slip to lead, earn, and expand in alignment with how you’re actually designed.Each week, Emma shares powerful solo episodes (think: unfiltered wisdom, grounded strategy, and spicy rants you didn’t know you needed) alongside guest interviews with brilliant minds leading the new paradigm of business, leadership, and success.Inside, you’ll learn how to:Use your Human Design to create consistent income and impactStop outsourcing your power and start making clear, embodied decisionsBuild a business that moves with you, not one that drains youReclaim your energy, magnetism, and momentum (without overriding your nervous system)Emma’s unique approach, Transformational Human Design™, blends HD, behavioral science, the Gene Keys, coaching, and real-life application so you don’t just learn your chart… you start living it.This is where clarity replaces confusion, where alignment becomes your business strategy, and where success stops being something you chase, and starts becoming who you are. Find Emma on Instagram @the_human_design_coach and her website at https://emmadunwoody.com
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