Human Design IRL

Carly Arbuckle
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As a Human Design Medium, I've noticed that ONE tool helps more than anything else when it comes to understanding their BodyGraph chart - real life examples.  Why? It helps them get past the jargon and into a lived experience they can relate to.  Here's the thing. Most of the charts and people that are most readily available to relate to are famous people. And...even though we may have their accurate chart, we're only able to relate to a FRACTION of how it shows up because, well, for most of them, we never experience the version of them that exists beyond public image.  This podcast changes that. Human Design IRL is a podcast by real women, for real women, about real (badass) women who are passionate, soulful, and spiritually connected.  Every episode I'll introduce you to one of them, and together, we'll explore how their Human Design shows up in everyday life.  You'll get a feel for what all the Human Design types, energy centers, gates, channels, profiles, incarnation crosses and beyond ACTUALLY look like through the lens of their story. 

  1. 3d ago

    Mediumship + Emotional Waves with 2/4 Manifesting Generator Diana Firth

    Intuitive guide, medium, and author Diana Firth joins Carly for a conversation about feeling everything. HD peeps! Heads up - this episode is mediumship heavy. :) We walk through Diana's chart as a 2/4 Emotional Manifesting Generator, including an ADHD diagnosis back in 1978, holding it together through 9/11 in New York City, and a lifelong pull to bring people together. Then her dad, who passed in February, comes through with a message only she would recognize. 00:01:38 The 4 line need for deep relationships, and growing up with ADHD as a girl00:06:06 Bicycle face, and why imposter syndrome may not be a real condition at all00:14:51 Open head and open root: why Diana absorbed everyone's urgency after 9/11, then crashed00:19:54 The tribal circuit, Channel 37-40 (Channel of Community), Channel 6-59, and the Channel of Discovery00:44:13 Emotional authority, the emotional wave, and Gates 6, 30, and 55 in the solar plexus00:58:39 The 2 line hermit, the genius to freak channel, and why 2 lines need others to name their giftsDiana Firth is an intuitive guide, medium, and founder of Simplify with Di, helping women quiet the noise, trust their inner voice, and connect to divine guidance. Her memoir is Love Doesn't Pay the Bills. Gate and channel definitions read on air are from bodygraph.com. The Gate 55 description at 00:55:50 is from Jamie Palmer's Human Design Gate Strengths. Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

  2. Oct 29

    Cold Digestion + Conviction with 1/3 Generator Sarah Tolson

    Send us Fan Mail Psychic medium and Reiki master teacher Sarah Tolson, a 1/3 Generator, joins Carly to explore her undefined throat, open heart center, and the channel of conviction (34-10). Sarah shares becoming a mom at 17, translating complexity at work, and her cold digestion. Plus: the difference between responding and waiting for the invitation. Sarah Tolson is one of the warmest, coziest presences I know... and this conversation proves it. Sarah is a psychic medium, Reiki master teacher, mom, and 1/3 Generator. We met through our dear friend Nicole, and I could talk to her for hours. We start with her undefined throat. Sarah is the person in every meeting who hears where two people are talking past each other and translates. Then we get into her open heart center, and Sarah shares the story of becoming a mom at 17, the aunt who gave her marriage a year (they just passed 25 and a half), and the Channel of Conviction that kept her going. We also untangle a frequent point of confusion in my readings: Generators respond, they don't wait for the invitation. Spirit also had me bring up her cold digestion... and it turns out she knew why! In this episode: 00:00 Cold open: "We're not gonna let her be right" 01:11 Meet Sarah Tolson 03:42 The puzzle piece analogy for open centers 05:56 Undefined throat: gates 8, 12, and 62 07:56 Translating complexity at work (and the nickname "Artie") 12:12 Where Sarah's self-awareness comes from 15:05 The 1/3 profile: data, patterns, and experiments 16:56 Double Aries, Pisces moon, and the open heart center 20:17 Seventeen, pregnant, and the aunt who gave them a year 22:52 Channel 34-10, the channel of conviction 25:09 "That's your kid?" 27:15 Channel 27-50 and nurturing what you create 29:26 Using open centers as a tool, not as truth 31:21 Open head, undefined Ajna, and the gate of ideas 33:08 Responding vs. waiting for the invitation 39:37 Variables: digestion, environment, and perspective 43:15 Cold digestion IRL (and the pizza) 49:07 Incarnation cross: going deep and finishing what she starts 53:02 Where to find Sarah Gate definitions courtesy of bodygraph.com. Links: Sarah's website: https://groundedharmonywellness.com Sarah on Instagram: https://instagram.com/groundedharmonywellness Grounded In Spirit podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grounded-in-spirit/id6796888952 Jess Locke, Channel types in Human Design: https://wholeandunleashed.com/human-design/channel-types-in-human-design/  Gate definitions: https://bodygraph.com Book your reading: https://humandesignmedium.com Ready to know more about your design and connect to your spirit team…check out our programs or book your Angelic Human Design Reading at humandesignmedium.com To learn more about my personal programs, visit: www.humandesignmedium.com/personal-programs You can use code PODCAST to receive $111 off a 'Personal Program Basics Package' Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

  3. Oct 22

    Wine Friends, Scorpio Moons, and Belonging IRL - 4/6 Manifesting Generator Adriana Keefe

    Send us Fan Mail Adriana Keefe, The Human Design Priestess and a 4/6 Manifesting Generator, joins Carly (4/6 Projector) to compare notes on sharing the same profile. They get into the four line beyond "networker", the effect of middle school on a four line with ADHD, friendship buckets, wine varietals, the six line's three life phases, the defined G center, and gates 6 and 59. Content Note + Trigger Warning: From about 28:11, Adriana talks about past abuse and suicide attempts. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (US) to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. In this episode: (05:09) Why "networker" never fit, and the four line as a heart-led leader (07:17) Middle school, rejection, and trying to belong (09:45) Friendship buckets: why only a few people get the deep version of you (10:33) Labels, becoming a priestess, and the defined G center (15:08) Same profile, different type: the four line as a Projector vs. a Manifesting Generator (18:54) What kind of wine are you? (24:50) The six line's three life phases (31:14) "Even best friends, even husband… you still don't really know all of me" (33:24) Gate 59 and the 6-59 and 27-50 channels as a birth canal (36:39) Six lines as the oldest of old souls (42:10) Quiet leadership by just living Find Adriana: Website: https://adrianakeefe.com Instagram: @adrikeefe The No BS Human Design Podcast: https://thenobshumandesignpodcast.buzzsprout.com Spiritual Kinks, with co-host Lindsay Robinson https://open.spotify.com/show/47y7rVAd8ZGLgJsrVaOAAU Ready to stop wondering about your spiritual gifts, what your design means, who is on your Spirit Team, and how all that can add EXPONENTIALLY more ease to your life? -->  https://humandesignmedium.com Gate and channel definitions read on air are from bodygraph.com. To learn more about my personal programs, visit: www.humandesignmedium.com/personal-programs You can use code PODCAST to receive $111 off a 'Personal Program Basics Package' Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

    Wine Friends, Scorpio Moons, and Belonging IRL - 4/6 Manifesting Generator Adriana Keefe

  4. Oct 16

    "I am Enough" and Learning Through What DOESN'T Work | 6/3 Emotional Manifesting Generator Clare Brussel

    Send us Fan Mail Clare Brussel, a 6/3 Emotional Manifesting Generator, has lived in nine states and worked jobs from Apple to oil distribution, but now she can OFFICIALLY say she works full time in choral music. Carly and Clare, friends since age 14, explore her Gate 38, why groups energize her when one-on-one drains her, and a life theme of changing a community just by being in it. In this episode: (06:21) Why a Manifesting Generator's life is a constellation, not a path (08:13) Gate 38 and the Channel of Struggle: why Clare can't fully enjoy something she didn't fight for (19:07) Clare's built-in safeguard for emotional authority: "I just lose interest" (25:26) Why one-on-one voice lessons drain her and a whole choir lights her up (27:10) Good tired vs. frustrated tired (34:35) The 6/3 story: failing at opera on the way to choral singing (37:40) Helping kids get past the fear of looking dumb (40:08) Clare's incarnation cross: a catalyst just by showing up (44:03) "I am enough" Follow Clare's groups: Skylark Vocal Ensemble: https://skylarkensemble.org UpperValley Baroque: https://uppervalleybaroque.org Ensemble Altera: https://ensemblealtera.org Ready to know more about your design and connect to your spirit team…check out our programs or book your Angelic Human Design Reading at https://humandesignmedium.com Gate and channel definitions read on air are from bodygraph.com. Incarnation Cross information read on air is from Brynja Magnusson's Incarnation Cross: A Guidebook of Purpose Archetypes From Human Design and the Gene Keys.  Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

  5. Oct 8

    1/3 Projector Kellie Donoghue: Projector Mom, Manifestor Baby IRL

    Send us Fan Mail Carly talks with Kellie Donoghue, her friend since 6th grade and a 1/3 Splenic Projector. They cover waiting for her Manifestor baby's invitation, leaving a role that was built for a Generator when she felt burnt out and misaligned, what HER signature of success feels like as a Projector, the 26-44 and 10-57 channels, outer vision, and Gate 57, that comes with hearing patrol good enough to make her a one-woman alarm system. Carly has known Kellie since 6th grade, back when their French teacher called her Madame Bijou for the rings on every finger.  In this episode, Kellie shares how her 1/3 Projector design shows up in everyday life: the blue light that shows up for her soul pup, Cyrus, within the first ten minutesletting her seven-month-old lead, and helping only when he asksthe oil and gas job that felt like putting on a different face every morningwhy success feels like every day, not bonus timethe Angel card that answered the question she asked in her head, not the one she said out loudstaring at white walls in a house built to face away from the woodshearing something drop from a different floor of the houseThey also talk about lending other people her defined ego center, why “empowered” is her most-used word at work, and what it means to stand in front of a forest feeling excited instead of terrified. Stay tuned to the end for a little bonus live HOLY sh*t moment from Spirit.  In this episode: (00:00) 6th grade, Madame Bijou, and a 1/3 Projector(02:32) Happiest outdoors(03:43) A blue light and Cyrus(05:48) Manifestors, huskies, and lone wolves(10:27) Projector mom, Manifestor kid(12:00) Variables and nonspecific manifestation(15:02) A guide, not a manager(16:53) The oil and gas “mask”(18:10) What success feels like for a Projector(24:31) The card that knew(29:46) Helping people trust their gut and find their voice(32:14) A defined ego: “never made me question whether I was a good actor”(35:23) The 26-44 Channel of the Intermediary(39:05) The 10-57 Channel of Perfected Form and outer vision(40:26) White walls in the woods(48:23) Gate 10, Gate 57, and being present(51:16) Excited or terrified in front of the forest(53:18) A Splenic superpower: hearing everything(55:16) Puzzle pieces(57:50) A one-woman alarm system(58:54) Cyrus, one more timeMentioned: Nicole Pope’s episode of Human Design IRL, another 1/3 Projector. Ready to know more about your design and connect to your spirit team so you can feel grounded and confident in who you are? Check out our programs or book your Angelic Human Design Reading at humandesignmedium.com. Channel definitions courtesy of bodygraph.com. Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

  6. Sep 30

    4/1 Emotional Manifestor Lyla Fischl | Tarot Cards, Color Theory, Clairsentience, + DIY Vinegar

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when a Manifestor who wrote her master's thesis on color theory sits down with her Human Design chart? Carly has known Lyla since freshman year of high school. In this episode, Lyla shares how her 4/1 Manifestor design shows up in everyday life: the yard work she's fired up to start until someone else needs to sitthe "Mary Poppins purse" she carried in high schoolthe colors that vibrate on an ugly PowerPointthe tarot deck she's painting, built on color and the elementsapplying to grad school in New York on a whim, then letting her dad knowThey also talk about what it feels like to be 2% of the population with no example to follow, and why "holding your breath" might be a Manifestor's sign that something's off. In this episode: (01:22) Lyla's tarot year: the Hierophant(03:00) The undefined G center and choosing your identity(06:06) Why the Manifestor aura is polarizing, not repelling(08:12) Anger and peace as the Manifestor signposts(10:47) Informing, the lightning bolt, and running out of steam(17:27) The Mary Poppins purse: anticipating needs as a skill(21:50) Outer vision and a thesis on color at auction(23:49) "Have you seen how these two colors vibrate?"(26:03) A tarot deck built on color and the elements(27:07) The rare 4/1 profile: the Opportunist Investigator(31:53) Holding your breath vs. exhaling(41:32) The 13 papers New Year's ritual(43:22) Nonspecific manifestation and why vision boards stress her out(47:18) Clairsentience and learning clairaudience from the birds(50:51) The Channel of Struggle: doing ALL the laundry(55:43) Grad school in New York, on a whim(59:46) Where to find LylaConnect with Lyla: Instagram and TikTok @lylabsart Channel definitions courtesy of bodygraph.com. Profile description from The Definitive Book of Human Design by Lynda Bunnell and Ra Uru Hu. Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

  7. Sep 21

    Signs from Spirit + Sacral IRL with 6/2 Generator Autumn Grimes

    Send us Fan Mail Autumn Grimes — psychic medium, heart healer, and creator of the What Finds You? app — is a 6/2 Generator. She and Carly unpack why her first 30 years felt like trial and error, why her 2 line means other people spot her gifts before she does, and what sacral authority feels like in a real decision. You'll leave better able to tell a gut yes from a should. Autumn has been one of Carly's closest spirit sisters since they met working on Julie Jancius's team of healers, and this conversation catches her right at the hinge point of her 6/2 profile: turning 31, stepping off the trial-and-error years and onto the roof. They map her chart against a life she's already lived — the pipeline job she took at 18 because someone told her she'd be good at it, the services she recently deleted off her own website, and the moment she stopped performing for people who preferred her people-pleasing. In this episode: (00:03:28) Shark or dolphin — why a Generator strategy and a Projector strategy chase the same dream in opposite directions (00:06:17) The three acts of a 6 line profile: the experimental first 30 years, the roof from 30 to 50, and why 6 lines don't bounce back from failure the way 3 lines do (00:13:42) The 2 line as the natural — your design side holds gifts you can't see, so other people have to name them for you (00:18:23) Autumn cuts her offer menu down to almost nothing, and Carly reads it as Generator conditioning finally releasing (00:22:09) Her incarnation cross and the Channel of Preservation (50-27): a purpose built on nurturing that collapses the second it becomes self-sacrifice (00:24:33) The bonfire — how sacral authority actually spends energy, and what overriding a gut no costs you by noon (00:29:05) The What Finds You? app, and why Carly calls AI an assistant, not an advisor (00:36:01) Garfield the cat, a purple penguin, and asking for signs as validation rather than instruction About Autumn: Autumn Grimes is a spiritual mentor, Angel Reiki master, and psychic medium behind Awaken With Autumn. She and Carly are both graduates of Julie Jancius's Angel Reiki Mediumship School. Her What Finds You? app helps you log the signs you're receiving and find the patterns in your own universal language. Find Autumn:  What Finds You? app — whatfindsyou.app (three-day free trial)  Website — awakenwithautumn.com Mentioned in this episode:  Human Design definitions from bodygraph.com Incarnation Cross: A Guidebook of Purpose Archetypes : From Human Design and the Gene Keys by Brynja Magnusson  Ready to know more about your design and connect to your Spirit Team so you can feel grounded and confident in who you are? Check out our programs or book your Spirit-Led Human Design Reading at humandesignmedium.com Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

  8. Jul 12

    Marketing That Fits Your Energy: 6/2 Mani Gen Jess Parvin

    Send us Fan Mail Jess Parvin is a soul purpose coach and holistic business mentor for women soulpreneurs. In this episode of Human Design IRL, host Carly Arbuckle explores Jess's chart — a 6/2 manifesting generator with emotional authority, a fully defined spleen, and an undefined G center. Topics include strategy and authority, responding and informing, marketing by design, and alignment vs. purpose. 00:06:31 – How a projector and a manifesting generator co-created an event (and what each type brought)00:16:46 – Soulful selling: building a marketing plan around your human design, not generator-style hustle00:20:08 – Strategy and authority explained: how you move through the world vs. how you decide00:24:53 – Emotional authority, the sacral center, and the mani gen strategy of responding and informing00:31:42 – Jess's fully defined spleen, gate 34, and waiting out the emotional wave (the 24-hour rule)00:45:43 – Alignment vs. purpose — and why your undefined G center doesn't mean you don't know who you areJess Parvin is a soul purpose coach and holistic business mentor helping women soulpreneurs build businesses in alignment with their human design — find her at jessparvin.com. Ready to know more about your design and connect to your spirit team so you can feel grounded and confident in who you are? Check out our programs or book your Angelic Human Design Reading at humandesignmedium.com. Subscription software source of all Human Design definitions read aloud is bodygraph.com , per default settings, unless otherwise noted. To learn more about my personal programs, visit: www.humandesignmedium.com/personal-programs You can use code PODCAST to receive $111 off a 'Personal Program Basics Package' Ready to know more about your design with your Spirit Team on speed dial to provide even deeper insight? Book Spirit-Led Human Design Foundations Program at humandesignmedium.com.

    Marketing That Fits Your Energy: 6/2 Mani Gen Jess Parvin
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As a Human Design Medium, I've noticed that ONE tool helps more than anything else when it comes to understanding their BodyGraph chart - real life examples.  Why? It helps them get past the jargon and into a lived experience they can relate to.  Here's the thing. Most of the charts and people that are most readily available to relate to are famous people. And...even though we may have their accurate chart, we're only able to relate to a FRACTION of how it shows up because, well, for most of them, we never experience the version of them that exists beyond public image.  This podcast changes that. Human Design IRL is a podcast by real women, for real women, about real (badass) women who are passionate, soulful, and spiritually connected.  Every episode I'll introduce you to one of them, and together, we'll explore how their Human Design shows up in everyday life.  You'll get a feel for what all the Human Design types, energy centers, gates, channels, profiles, incarnation crosses and beyond ACTUALLY look like through the lens of their story. 

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  • Creator
    Carly Arbuckle
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Carly Arbuckle
  • Show Website
    Human Design IRL

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