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Lead with Your Light: How Empowered Influence Is Redefining Leadership for a New Era

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Leadership is undergoing a profound transformation. 

For decades, leadership was defined by position, authority, and hierarchy, something bestowed on the chosen few. It was about titles, corner offices, corporate, and climbing rungs on an organizational ladder someone else built. Women, especially, were socialized to believe leadership was something “out there”, something earned only after proving themselves flawless, tireless, and selfless. 

But today, the world is shifting. Fast. The old leadership model can no longer hold the weight of our evolving needs, values, and challenges. 

We are entering a new era, one where leadership is not about dominance, perfection, or performance. It is about empowered influence. It is about positive impact. And it is about the natural authority that emerges when you allow yourself to Lead with Your Light. 

This new paradigm isn’t reserved for executives, influencers, or industry icons. It belongs to all of us. Because leadership is no longer something that needs to be developed.   

You were born with it. 

That belief forms the foundation of my work and my new book, Lead with Your Light: Individual Empowerment, Influence and Impact with Human Design (March 2026).  It is also the first of three core convictions I hold at the heart of this new era: 

  1. We Are Entering a New Era of Self-Empowered Leadership.  Everyone Is a Leader

The idea that leadership is scarce is one of the greatest myths holding women back. Leadership is not a certification, a credential, or the outcome of endless self-improvement. It is the essence of who you are: your presence, your perspective, your voice, your energy, and your experiences.  

From the time you took your first breath, you were wired to influence the world in a way only you can. That influence hasn’t disappeared; it’s been hidden under the weight of cultural conditioning, social expectation, and the pressure to fit in. 

In this new era, leadership is not a role. It is a responsibility to show up in your truth, to stand in your values, and to express the wisdom encoded in your design. 

When you stop trying to become a leader and embody the leader you already are, something powerful happens: 

You become magnetic. 

You become clear. 

You become impactful without force, push, or burnout. 

This is the foundation of empowered influence—leadership that flows naturally because it comes from your inner alignment, not external expectations. 

  1. Human Design Shows Us We Are All Unique. 

One of the greatest breakthroughs in the new era is the realization that we are not meant to lead or do business in the same way as everyone else. There Is a right way for you to do business and it is your way. 

Human Design is a blueprint, a map, and a permission slip. It reveals the energetic configuration you were born with your natural strengths, your decision-making strategy, your leadership frequency, your communication patterns, and the environments where you thrive. It shows you the right way for you, not a cookie cutter way, not the expected way, not the socially rewarded way. 

This changes everything for women in business. 

For too long, women have contorted themselves to fit models of leadership and success built for someone else. We’ve silenced our intuition in favor of logic, ignored our rhythms to match someone else’s pace, and chased strategies that drained our energy. 

But when you lead according to your Human Design: 

  • You stop second-guessing yourself. 
  • You stop forcing methods that don’t match your energetic wiring. 
  • You stop diluting your message to sound like everyone else. 

Most importantly, you realize that you are the differentiation your business has been missing.  In a crowded marketplace, strategies don’t stand out. People do. 

Your unique voice, your lived experience, your way of leading is the magnet that attracts your right clients and your right opportunities.  When you honor your design and express your truth, you become unapologetically authentic. And authenticity is the most powerful business currency in the new era. 

  1. Claim Your Right Place in the World: You Were Not Put Here to Play Small

We live in a time when more women own businesses, step into thought leadership, and claim their authority than ever before. Yet so many still feel the weight of invisibility, hesitation, and self-doubt. Not because they lack talent. Not because they lack passion. But because they were conditioned to believe that ambition is risky, power is dangerous, confidence is unfeminine, and visibility is unsafe. This conditioning keeps women playing small because they’ve been taught to shrink. 

But here is the truth every woman needs to hear: 

You came here to make a contribution. The world needs the gift you carry. And you have a right, no, an obligation to take your rightful place.  Your right place is not in a physical location. It is an energetic one, a place you occupy when you stand in your light, share your wisdom, and let your voice be heard. 

This is not about ego. It is about purpose. 

When you claim your right place: 

  • You stop apologizing for your greatness. 
  • You stop dimming your ideas to keep others comfortable. 
  • You stop negotiating away your value. 

You rise, not because you’re trying to prove something, but because your soul refuses to stay silent.  You become unapologetically you. 

Leadership as Energetic Alignment, Not Effort 

When you weave these convictions together, a new definition of leadership emerges: 

Leadership is what happens when you are aligned with your innate design, expressing your authentic self, and contributing your unique gifts. It is not something you try to do; it is something you naturally are. 

When you “Lead with Your Light,” you stop chasing influence and start embodying it. You stop pursuing power and start radiating it. You stop performing leadership tasks and start living leadership. This is the path of the new era leader: Not force, but flow. Not conformity, but authenticity. Not authority over others, but alignment with yourself. 

The world does not need more traditional leaders. It needs passionate women with a mission, a message, and the courage to stand in their brilliance. 

The Invitation: Lead with Your Light 

As we move into this new era, the question for women is no longer “Am I a leader?” 

The real question is: “Am I willing to activate the leader I was born to be?” 

Your leadership is already encoded within you, and your influence is already waiting to be expressed.  Your only job is to step forward, claim your right place, and let your light lead the way. The world is ready for the kind of leadership you can provide. 

Are you ready to shine?  

Finally Get Clear on Your Ideal Client and Niche with Human Design

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Nailing down your Ideal client and your niche is probably one of the most difficult things for entrepreneurs to do. Entrepreneurs are talented and can do many things very well. However, to attract clients you need to narrow in on one thing and make it crystal clear in your message to the people you are trying to attract so they will notice you. Marketing for everyone about everything usually gets you nothing! 

This is a make-or-break business step. Yet, we struggle with it because we want to serve everyone. We often suffer from the worry that we will miss opportunities if we talk about just one aspect of what we do. 

The first step we can take to make this critical exercise easier is to break it apart and think of it as two separate things.  

An Ideal Client is who you want to work with, and your Niche is better thought of as how you are here to serve and the problem you solve.  Here’s a breakdown to support you in understanding the difference between the two. 

Your Ideal Client 

Who do you want to work with? The missed element here is who you want to work with. What kind of people do you enjoy? You have the freedom as an entrepreneur to decide that for yourself. It is a choice, and you should make it consciously.  

Who you want to work with should be defined by the qualities, characteristics and values people have. For example, you probably want people that will show up, do the work, pay for your services on time, be engaged, and curious.  It’s more about their values and behaviors than it is about their hobbies, what magazines they read or how many pets they have.  Think of character. 

The best way to define this is to start with who you don’t want to work with.  Perhaps you don’t want to work with someone who doesn’t participate or isn’t present during meetings.  Make a list of the non-negotiable negative characteristics you don’t want in any of your clients.  From your list of negatives, turn the characteristics around to make them positive attributes. These are the non-negotiable traits you want in an ideal client. 

Your Niche 

Trying to niche solely on the characteristics of your ideal clients never gets your focus narrowed in like it needs to be for your messaging to attract your ideal client. This is where the big difficulty lies for most Entrepreneurs going through this exercise and thinking that ideal client and niche are the same thing. 

Your Niche has three parts: the problem you solve, your learned expertise, and your natural expertise which is what makes you unique and establishes why a client would want to work with you over a competitor. 

Your Niche: What Problem Do You Solve? 

Your niche should focus on the problem you solve or the desire you make possible for your clients. The who part of Niche is who has the problem or desire and wants to pay you to solve it, not their personality characteristics.  

What problem do you solve? It needs to be tangible. If you talk about good health, that is too broad. Focus on an aspect of good health like being unable to lose weight, or reducing blood pressure and getting off medication, real problems or desires that are top of mind for people. The best area to look for problems or desires revolves around time, money, health, relationships, security, and convenience.  

Most importantly, the problem must be a problem that is severe and urgent enough that people want to pay to solve it in the immediate future. 

Are you clear on what problem you solve or what desire you help people achieve? Is it severe, urgent and top-of-mind for people? Can you clearly articulate it in simple language the people with the problem use to talk about it? 

Your Niche: Your Learned Expertise 

We all have expertise we learned through formal education or experience. We can share and even teach this expertise to help solve problems. But what you can do doesn’t necessarily define your niche.  Just because you know how to do something and can do it doesn’t mean you want to. 

I was taught accounting in college. I can do it. I’m even good at it but I don’t want to be an accountant.  So, if someone comes to me looking for help to balance their books or do their taxes, I do not want to leverage my learned experience there. That is not my niche. 

Most of us have many skills and can make a business out of several of them. How do you choose? I see many entrepreneurs choose based on what they can do. I think this is another place where we get confused about niche. 

Choose your problem-based niche around your purpose and business genius, something you want to do, are passionate about that you are naturally an expert in.  

There are many parts of your Human Design that give you insight here. Your Energy Type, Profile, Centers, all give us clues. For example, Energy Types show us that. . . 

  • Manifesters can make transformations that really change people and are natural at helping people that are ready to transform. 
  • Generators go deep and help people gain mastery. They are great at helping people break through plateaus. 
  • Manifesting Generators are great at bringing things together and can help people make sense of things. 
  • Projectors have potent insightful advice and can be a huge help to people that are ready to listen. 
  • Reflectors encourage people to step into their higher purpose and can help people see themselves as if looking into a mirror. 

We find a lot of information to help with niche in the Centers in the Human Design Chart. Our defined centers are areas where we have consistent energy. Each center brings different natural energies we use every day that define what we are experts in such as clarity, ideas, direction, and strategy. We also see how we naturally support our clients, and how we are designed to best deliver this expertise whether it be through teaching, coaching, guiding, mentoring, etc. All give clarity into how we solve the problem we solve, our niche. 

Your Niche: What Makes You Unique, Why You? 

The third part of niche has everything to do with your purpose, business genius and the natural talents you have. 

To uncover your natural talents, we look at your Business Genius (your conscious Sun), who you are designed to naturally attract (your conscious Venus energy) and your core values.  

For example, my conscious Sun is in Gate 8.6 Uniqueness. I am here to foster individualism and authenticity which aligns with my core values of freedom, honesty, and respect. My Venus energy is Gate 51. Clients are drawn to my ability to create breakthroughs around the freedom to be themselves.  

These aspects of your Human Design can help you better define your niche, how to talk about it, and get clarity around the people you want to attract and serve.  Create your niche by leaning into who you are. 

The Importance of Business Alignment & How It Leads to Success

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We talk a lot about alignment and authenticity as a path to business or career success. But what does it mean to be aligned and why is it important? 

Business alignment has two parts:  

  1. The first is the container you operate inside of or the business structure. (Alignment) 
  2. The second is how you operate and respond inside that container. (Authenticity) 

Both must be a good fit with who you are, your values, and allow you to be and express your true self so you can operate at your peak potential. When you are operating at your peak potential, everything becomes easier, you are more creative, expressive, more attractive, and you get more done! 

The Aligned Business Container  

The number one reason people are unhappy or don’t feel successful at work is that the container doesn’t respect and honor their values and who they are as a person.  This is true for business owners and career professionals alike. 

The business container (structure) of your business or place of work includes the culture, the people you work with, management philosophies, and the business rules and systems around the work you do.  

Some businesses are formal, have a lot of rules and protocols, strict business etiquette, even a formal dress code. Other businesses are more casual, open, and collaborative, fostering camaraderie and teamwork. There is no right or wrong business container but there is a container that is right for you and any employees you have or want to attract. 

As a business owner you have more say over the business container because you create it. But there can still be parts of your container that are not supporting you or even blocking your success because you created them based on what you were taught or how you were told business should be rather than on your values and your Human Design. 

Whether you are a solopreneur or have a larger business, you have created a business container to operate in and all the aspects of it. If it is not a container that supports you, being you, allows for your creativity, honors your core values and allows you to show up and shine your light, you will have difficulty finding success because your environment prevents you from being yourself, sharing your gifts, and living out your soul purpose. 

How You Operate and Respond in Your Business Container 

The second part of business alignment is how you show up and operate in your business container.  Quite simply, can you be your true self in your business container, or do you feel like you must act like someone else or wear a mask to hide the real you? 

Your business container should be a safe environment where you can rise to your highest potential. It should support and encourage you to be authentic. It should be a place where you are free to explore, learn, and experiment. It is only through that journey of exploration that we can find our true self and make our contribution to the world. 

So, the big question to ask yourself about Business Alignment is: 

Is Your Business Container Blocking the Abundance You Deserve Because It Isn’t Aligned with the Way You Are Designed for Success and It Doesn’t Allow You to Be Authentic? 

How you are divinely designed to achieve abundance is encoded in your Human Design in something I call your Business Success Path. You have a unique way of being in business just like you have a unique way of being in life.  

Your Human Design Business Success Path is the authentic you when it comes to business or career. It is also the fastest and easiest way to align yourself and use that alignment to get in the flow of more clients, more abundance and less overwhelm. 

Following someone else’s path for success may stand in the way of your business breakthroughs to growth and success. When we look at how you are responding in your business container, we can discover areas where you are not in alignment with it that may be blocking your success.  

Your Business Success Path is already encoded inside you and to use it you simply have to re-awaken it.  ‘You’ve had the answer all along, my dear’ and it holds the answers about how you came here to make a difference.  

  • It holds key information about your business genius 
  • How you are divinely designed to make a positive impact 
  • How you can become more visible and your brand message 
  • How you create authentic communication and what you should be highlighting in that communication  
  • What attracts clients to you 
  • Your leadership style and what clients look to you for 
  • How you are divinely designed to grow and scale your business so you can make more money. The Universe wants you to be abundant! 
  • How to balance your life and stay out of overwhelm 
  • How to become ready to step into your next level of success  

You already know how to be abundant by being your authentic self. Your Human Design Business Success Path is a roadmap to success. 

When you align with your Human Design Business Success Path and start running your business in a way that matches the way you are divinely wired, it’s like magic. 

Things become easier, overwhelm melts away and business flows.  But we have been conditioned to make business harder than it has to be. 

Your Human Design Business Success Path helps you discover the businessperson inside you. Do the inner work to be sure you are living in the highest potential of this energy. If you are operating in the shadow of any of your energies, investigate why.  

The first place to look is in your business container. Is there some artificial constraint or inherited culture or belief that prevents you from aligning and being you?  Is there some place where you are hiding or settling? These are clues that your business container is holding you back. 

You can create or tweak your business container to support you and line up with your values and the way you are divinely designed. Not only can you, but this is the only way to achieve true business alignment. Give yourself permission to break from the cookie cutter models, to do things your way, and create a business container with a culture, rules, systems, and people that encourage you to soar!  It takes a little courage to break free of the business rules we have been conditioned to run our businesses by, but it is worth taking that entrepreneurial risk because it is the fastest path to success. 

How To Use Your Human Design to Fulfill Your Business Vision

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As a heart-centered entrepreneur, you have a vision for your business and the impact you want to make through it in the world. If you are like most entrepreneurs, you have no shortage of creativity, ideas and make lots of plans but making those plans a reality is where business gets hard.   

Implementation of those ideas is the key to success.  You must take action to make things happen. You are taught to put yourself out in the world through speaking, social media, blogs and articles, launches, emails, webinars, videos and the like. These are all great vehicles for reaching your audience and serving them.   

The information and training you can obtain to help you understand how best to use these tools is readily available.  There are templates, scripts, and “done for you” solutions to help you.  You use these tools the way you have been taught to but often you still don’t reach your goals and make the big impact you want to make.  

What is the missing piece?  

You are. You must inject your core essence into every action you take and every word you write or utter.  People need to see, hear and feel your why, your values, your passion, and your genius. Using a template or a script written by someone else holds their essence. It is a great starting point, but you must enhance it to include your essence or run the risk of sounding like everyone else who used the same template. 

The good news is that your essence is clearly laid out in the Business Success Path of your Human Design. 

The Business Success Path in your Human Design 

The Business Success Path in your Human Design captures your essence in four areas: 

  1. Impact: How you can best create a powerful impact by being seen, heard and recognized for your natural gifts as your authentic self rather than the self you have been taught to be. 
  2. Growth and Abundance: How you can best tap into growth of clients, money and success in a way that is aligned with who you truly are and how you are wired to operate. 
  3. Balance: How you can move through the ups and downs of business with grace, releasing overwhelm, and without losing yourself in chaos. 
  4. Transformation: How you can best step into your next level of success with more ease and confidence. 

Your Impact Essence 

Your Impact Essence is about your VISIBILITY and reveals qualities about yourself you can leverage around how you should show up in the world to be most effective, to be seen powerfully as your true self. This is an important piece of building know, like, and trust to break down the barriers people may feel around doing business with you before they even get to know you. 

Impact also speaks to your EXPRESSION or your communication superpower and how you are designed to powerfully express yourself. This is key to putting your essence into your marketing and your messaging. 

Impact also gives you insight into your IMPRESSION or how others perceive and receive you naturally, what they feel about you without you trying to create a persona that equates to wearing a mask.  This is the first impression you make. First impressions can be lasting so it is important to understand yours, put your best foot forward, and make sure it is authentic.  Again, think build trust. 

Finally, impact shows you your LEADERSHIP, meaning the key to your notoriety and visibility on a larger scale. What are you naturally known for? What do people naturally look to you for? This is an intrinsic quality and has very little to do with what you do but everything to do with how you are. 

Your Growth Essence 

Your growth essence is how you are naturally wired for abundance. And yes.  Everyone is wired for abundance.  It encompasses your BRAND or how you can communicate your authentic self through your business and inject more of you into your business identity through the spoken and written word.   

Your growth essence helps you understand your ATTRACTION or what clients see in you that they are drawn to naturally, so you don’t have to keep pushing and hustling in a way that doesn’t feel good to attract clients. 

It also gives you insight into EXPANSION and CAPACITY and any blocks you may have about receiving more money, growth, or success that may be getting in the way of growing and scaling your business. 

Your Balance Essence 

Balance is all about sustainability, yours and your businesses.  Most businesses don’t make it past the 5-year mark.  The essence here is around handling the ups and downs you will experience in your business while staying authentic and keeping the overwhelm at bay. 

The Balance Essence speaks to your true CENTER to help you stay the course and your STRUCTURE so you can create a container for your business that supports you and your energy type no matter what. 

Balance encompasses FLOW to help you stay in the ease and flow and self-regulate your emotions to stay on a steady course. 

And finally, Balance gives insight into your soul PURPOSE to help you understand your bigger “why “so when your business suffers ups and downs you can keep your bigger mission in view. 

Your Transformation Essence 

Change is constant and a necessary part of growth.  As you step into your next level of success, you need to change to grow into the next level as much as your business does.  The Transformation Essence helps us navigate change.  It includes your ANCHOR or what you can hold on to as a constant as you navigate the changes you make to get to the next level. 

It shows you your INITIATIVE or how you are designed to make moves that your authority tells you are the right moves and how to manage the resistance you may feel.   

There is a component of PERMISSION here, a quality within you that you can use so you can become a powerful stand for yourself and your ideas. 

And REBIRTH because every change should be recognized as a death of something you are moving on from and a rebirth into something new. This quality can help you clear away the old and move through the process more easily. 

As you can see, the Success Path in your Human Design helps you inject more of yourself into your business, positions you for growth, and helps you navigate your business with ease, grace, and flow.  Tapping into this information through a Success Path Reading helps you identify your core essence but like every other tool, applying it to your business, releasing the conditioning around how you have been told to be and taught to do business, and embodying who you truly are without exception will help you bring your business vision into reality. You have all the answers and the means in the Success Path in your Human Design.  

Three Human Design Strategies to Help your Business Thrive

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All business owners want their businesses to thrive, and they work hard to make that happen. They do everything they are taught to do, told to do. But sometimes, despite their best efforts, they don’t get the desired results. Has that ever happened to you? There is a good reason why. I see many business owners pick strategies and tactics that go against who they are and how they are naturally wired to operate. The result often leaves them wondering what went wrong or whether they have what it takes to have a business.  

Everyone is wired for abundance and success. 

Human Design shows us that we are all unique and are divinely wired for abundance and success. There are many ways your Human Design can serve as the roadmap for ease, flow, and abundance. When you follow your design and understand how your clients are designed it can help your business thrive.  

Strategy 1:   Build Deeper Client Relationships  

Human Design Energy Types and the Profiles are powerful tools to help you understand your clients, how they are wired to operate and how they learn and process information so you can serve them in a way that resonates with them. They will feel seen, heard, and understood by you, which will deepen your relationship and help them feel like you are exactly the right person to help them.  

Both the Energy Type and the Profiles are printed on the left side of the Human Design Chart. You don’t need to decipher any of the numbers on the body graph to get this information. Here is an explanation of the types and the profiles. 

The Five Energy Types 

  1. The Manifestor has initiating energy. Manifestors are here to get the ball rolling by inspiring others into action, leading change, and getting things started. They can be driven, powerful and impulsive. They are creative and don’t like to be told what to do. They have bursts of energy, but their energy is not sustainable. They need periods of rest. They are starters and may prefer to move on to the next new idea before completing the first one.
  2. The Generator has magnetic energy. Generators are here to respond to work they are passionate about and master it. They draw the ideas in and build them into reality. They are energetic, self-aware and have sustainable energy for work and life. They can get frustrated and quit prematurely. They have less success when they try to initiate. They love yes/no questions which help them get clarity and gives them something to respond to.
  3. The Manifesting Generator has fast acting energy. They are Generators, the builders of the world and are here to work and become masters of their work. They are energetic multitaskers and have sustainable energy for work and life. They are extremely fast and may skip steps. 
  4. The Projector has penetrating energy. Projectors are here to guide and direct others. They intuitively see the potential and blocks in people and understand how to correct them. They are insightful and need periods of rest as they do not have sustainable energy. They may offer their insights by blurting them out causing their insights to are ignored. They need to wait for the invitation to contribute.
  5. The Reflector has mirror energy. Reflectors are wise observers and reflect back to humanity how we are doing. They are enthusiastic, sensitive and unique, making up less than 1% of the population.  They need time and to be in the right place with the right people. They do better in groups.

The 6 Profile Lines: How We Learn and Process Information 

The 6 Profile Lines help us understand how people learn and can help you deliver information in a way that is better received by your client. Each person has two of the lines. 

  • Line 1 needs information and likes to investigate and research. They need data to get clarity. 
  • Line 2 needs alone time to process things. They know their natural talents and enjoy getting feedback and recognition that calls them out to share their wisdom. 
  • Line 3 is an experimenter. They are all about trial and error. They learn by trying things and seeing the lessons in the result. 
  • Line 4 is a connector. They learn through their relationships, and they are built for deep and intimate ones. They are natural networkers and thrive in groups. 
  • Line 5 is a visionary leader. They can look at something and see a solution no one else sees. They need time to reflect on the lessons they have learned. 
  • Line 6 is a role model. Early in life they are experimenters. In midlife they contemplate what they have learned and later in life they become wise sages for others. 

Strategy 2:   Use Human Design in Your Sales and Marketing Copy 

Your marketing and sales speak should address the buyer in each energy type. When you use elements that speak to each of the types, you will improve your sales and marketing results. Let’s look at each of the types as buyers. 

  1. A Manifestor buyer is a quick evaluator of opportunity and will respond quickly based on what their intuition or their gut is telling them. Make your marketing inform the manifestor. 
  2. A Generator responds to Yes/No questions so all sales speak should start with a question. It gives Generator Buyers something to respond to. Next give them a sign that this is the right thing for them by helping them to see themselves in scenarios.  
  3. The Manifesting Generator is a Generator with fast acting energy. Manifesting Generators can skip steps due to their speed. A long sales letter is probably lost on a Manifesting Generator.  They are just moving too fast.  
  4. The Projector Buyer needs to be invited into what you are doing. Use the word Invitation in your sales speak.  Projector Buyers are intuitive and can see through inauthenticity. You will turn them off if you don’t take the time to build a trusted relationship.  
  5. The REFLECTOR has mirror energy. Reflector Buyers are all about relationships and do better in groups. They require clarity so make sure to build the relationships and give them enough detail so they can find the clarity they need to decide.  

Strategy 3:  Align With How You Are Wired to Operate 

Finally, follow the strategy for your energy type. That is how you are naturally wired to operate for success. Manifestors should inform others what they are doing. Generators and Manifesting Generators should respond not initiate. Projectors should wait to be invited to share their insights. Reflectors should share their feedback when the time is right. 

When you follow your Human Design, live authentically, and align your business with your design, you can find your unique path to abundance and you, and your business can thrive. 

5 Ways Your Human Design Can Improve Your Visibility

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When we think about visibility, we think about being seen. Visibility is a critical component of client attraction.  Most business owners spend a great deal of time working on visibility as part of their marketing by posting on social media, writing articles, doing videos, speaking live, participating in summits and webinars, and placing ads. But being seen is only the first step to achieving visibility.  Your business must also be notable, make a positive impression, and successfully communicate your message to make an impact. It is about being noticed and remembered not just being seen. 

The Human Design Chart has a lot to say about visibility.  There are five aspects of your Human Design that can assist you in achieving your visibility goals.  Your Human Design holds insight into how you can unlock your natural visibility, how you are wired to make an impactful expression, your natural image as seen by others, your notoriety, what people will remember you for, and your style of communication. Understanding these aspects of your Human Design can help give you an edge as you work on your business visibility.  

The 5 Aspects of Visibility in Your Human Design 

1. The Sun: Your Natural Visibility Superpower 

You have a natural way of being that makes you more visible when you show up in that energy. Your natural visibility superpower can be found in the gate that resides in your conscious sun.  If you look at your chart, this is the first symbol on the right side of the body graph (☉). The gate that resides in your Sun represents about 70% of your personality including the secret sauce, or superpower, you possess to “unlock” your natural visibility.   

Each gate’s energy has a high expression and a low expression.  If you show up in the highest expression of your sun’s energy, people will naturally notice you. All you must do is show up authentically! 

For example, my sun is in gate 8.  Gate 8 is Fulfillment or Authenticity.  My superpower as defined in this gate is Uniqueness.  When I show up with originality, I will be noticed.  When I show up in the lower expression of this energy, which is imitation, or copying others, I will be much less noticeable.   

You can print out your Human Design Chart on my resource page at https://NancyOKeefeCoaching.com and there are several free resource online that explain the energies in the gates for Human Design.   

2. The Planet Mercury : Your Most Impactful Expression   

We look to the Human Design gate that resides in the planet Mercury ☿   on the right side of the body graph to increase our ability to be heard.  Mercury rules Communication.  This energy helps people understand why they should listen to you.  This is an important aspect of how we get people’s attention and how we connect with them.  There is a genius here, a way of expressing yourself that will draw people to you.  You only need to express this genius by being in the highest expression of the energy you have in Mercury.   

For example, my Mercury is Gate 23, the gate of Transmission.  The highest expression is simplicity, the lowest is over-complicating.  My most impactful expression is when I make things simple by looking at the bigger perspective and breaking things down to make them easier to digest. This is when my communication is most impactful, and I am most visible. 

3. AC Rising :Your Image. 

Your rising sign, or the planet that was on the eastern horizon when you were born is where the energy of your image lives.  This is a little tougher to get at as it is not listed on the standard Human Design Chart, but you can find it in an astrology chart. The planet here gives us insight into how others perceive us.  When you show up in the highest expression of this energy, you will be perceived as either an expert, a friend, a mentor, or a leader.  

4. Mid-Heaven: Your Notoriety: What You Are Known For

Mid-Heaven is another point from astrology in Human Design.  It gives us insight into the business benefit people will see in you, or your special sauce. The mid-heaven point is at the 12 o’clock point in your astrology chart.  Your notoriety might be your originality, your experience, or the solutions you come up with.  Speaking of these characteristics or using them in what you talk about will help people to see alignment between the energy they feel from you and what you say and do.  This helps build trusted relationships and helps others see how you can help them.

5. The Throat Center: Your Communication Style

The throat center in Human Design is the source of our communication and expression.  The previous aspects we discussed give us insight into what we can do to show up as our best, authentic, and most impactful selves.  This is important so you can be seen and heard with the greatest impact naturally.   

The throat center helps us understand more about how we do it.  The throat is how we express ourselves, build connections, relationships, speak and move into action.  If your throat center is defined, meaning colored in on your chart, then you have a fixed way of communicating and a consistent tone to your voice. People with defined throat centers are confident communicators.  They speak clearly about any of the centers that have a direct connection to the throat center with the red and or black channel lines. 

If your throat center is open, meaning it is white and not colored in on your chart, you are able to absorb and amplify other people’s communication energy in addition to having your own.  You are very good at speaking for the group and the tone of your voice is not consistent and may be more expressive. People with an open throat can speak too much trying to be heard or hold back and not speak at all. 

Having an awareness of your natural visibility and staying authentic and in the highest expression of your energies will help to naturally help you be seen, heard and clearly visible.