The Human Design Podcast

Emma Dunwoody
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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 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 impact Stop outsourcing your power and start making clear, embodied decisions Build a business that moves with you, not one that drains you Reclaim 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

  1. 1d ago

    #553 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Freedom in Restriction

    This is The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions, a live, intimate coaching experience with members of my private HDx Collective. In each session, we decode the energetic patterns holding them back and unlock the identity shift required to lead, scale, and succeed in alignment with their Human Design. These sessions are by application only and exclusively available inside the HDx Collective. 👉🏼 Join The HDx Collective here to apply for your own breakthrough session: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective In today's episode, I coach Elese, who is moving through a separation and living under a court order that dictates where she and her daughter can be, right when everything in her is built for freedom. Elese is a 6/2 Emotional Manifesting Generator. We unpack why a Manifesting Generator who needs freedom above almost anything feels a court order in her whole body, and why the line two energy running all through her chart resists being told where to live and how. We get into the reframe that actually shifts something, moving from "how long until this is over" to "how do I meet these needs now," and using Gate 50 in her culture to honour her values and her connection to country even inside the restriction. In the second half we turn to work, the nonlinear path of an MG who has built more than one career, and the real question sitting under "employment or my own thing," which is what the thread is and why her design points to building something that is hers and taking it into other communities rather than shrinking inside a group. If you have ever been stuck in a situation you did not choose and cannot change, quietly waiting for it to be over before you let yourself live, this one is for you. 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 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

  2. 3d ago

    #552 The Weekly Wrap: Your Repelling Aura Isn't Rejection

    In today's episode I'm bringing you the Weekly Wrap, and I'm starting with a human design cheat sheet on aura mechanics, because the manifestor "repelling" aura gets a lot of bad press and I want to clear it up. Repelling isn't rejection. If you're a manifestor, your aura is doing exactly what it's meant to do: moving the people who aren't your people out of the way so you can inspire the ones you are here to inspire. I run through all five auras so you can feel the difference, from the magnetic pull of the generator and manifesting generator, to the deep seeing of the projector and why that gift is only yours to give when there is an invitation, to the curious, sampling aura of the reflector. If the original human design language has ever made you feel like there is something wrong with you, this one is for you. From there it is a proper wrap. I share a simple reframe from the mastermind about focusing on the shadow of your defined channels instead of trying to decondition everything. I invite you to look back at who you were ten and twenty years ago and really take in how far you have come. I get into Barbault's Basket, an astrological configuration some are reading as a relaunch after the contraction of the last few years. And I talk about why building business in alignment matters, and the shift from the masculine model to the feminine one. 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 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

  3. Jul 6

    #551 The Weekly Wrap: Your HD Strategy Changes Everything

    In today's episode I am talking about your strategy, and why it is one of the most important pieces of your Human Design for coming into alignment. Your strategy comes from your type, and it is not the endless memes about what your type supposedly says about you. It is a practical tool. When you live in alignment with your strategy and your authority, you decondition, things become more effortless, and you start moving in flow instead of force. I walk through the strategy for each type: initiating and informing for manifestors, responding for generators and manifesting generators, waiting for the invitation for projectors, and gathering data over time for reflectors. I also get into the distinction between how a generator and a manifesting generator work with response, and why informing matters so much when you have a motor connected to your throat. This is your Monday Weekly Wrap, so I also share what I am loving right now, the money, AI and Human Design mastermind that is lighting me up, what I am learning about lucid dreaming, and what is going on behind the scenes in the business this week. 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 👉🏻 Claim your spot here and enter the Threshold with me into the New Paradigm **As mentioned within this episode: #95 How to De-Condition with Human Design Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-human-design-podcast/id1467241622?i=1000504308278 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rk5EX4NWblNpB0xiHB5C2?si=9f3e4dc4df94400b 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

  4. Jul 2

    #550 July 2026 Energy Update: You Can't Put It Back in the Box

    In today's episode I am joined by Yvette Mayer, our HD Transits Expert, and Lauren Hansen, our Resident Astrologer, for the July energy update. July lands in two halves. The first is slower and more internal. We are carrying the shadow of Mercury retrograde and sitting in Gate 62, so expect pressure, a pull towards the fine details, and your body asking you to slow down, with a fast, fiery undercurrent from Mars conjunct Uranus running alongside it.  The second half fires back up into throat centre gates and communication energy, with Mercury going direct on the 23rd. Running underneath all of it is Jupiter moving into Leo opposite Pluto. Buried desires and old shadows are surfacing whether you want them to or not, and you cannot put it back in the box. We get into what that opposition is asking of you, the Aquarius full moon on the 29th, and how to meet the parts of yourself that come up. 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 Lauren's Details: Website: https://www.astrobetch.com Instagram & TikTok: @astrobetch Yvette's Details: Website: https://www.yvettemayer.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yvettemayer_ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@humandesignformarketing Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humandesign4marketing Podcast: https://www.yvettemayer.com/podcast 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

  5. Jun 29

    #549 The Weekly Wrap: Growth Through Joy, Not Shadow Work

    In today's Weekly Wrap I'm talking about growing through joy instead of shadow work. There is a place for shadow work, inner child work and inner parenting, and I'm not throwing any of it out. But I've had a hunch for about 18 months that landed properly this week, when someone told me they now choose their growth from joy rather than from the work. I sat with it, because it named something I'd drifted away from. For a few years I was growing through play and through what lit me up, and lately I'd slipped back into hunting for the block, the broken bit, the thing to fix. This is me coming back to joy as the way forward. From a human design view, growing through joy is simply alignment to your design. It's following your strategy and authority, your obsession, your creative urge, the thing that feels good. I bring this into business too, because whatever you keep your focus on is what you create more of, so the better question is not what's wrong, it's how can I have more fun here. I also bring back a short human design segment on type, share what I've loved this week, and give you the certainty mantra that shifted my energy on the spot. 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 Join the waitlist for the Money, AI and Human Design Mastermind: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/money-mastermind-waitlist 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

  6. Jun 25

    #548 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Done Fighting for Peace

    This is The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions, a live, intimate coaching experience with members of my private HDx Collective. In each session, we decode the energetic patterns holding them back and unlock the identity shift required to lead, scale, and succeed in alignment with their Human Design. These sessions are by application only and exclusively available inside the HDx Collective. 👉🏼 Join The HDx Collective here to apply for your own breakthrough session: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective In today's episode, I coach Margarita, who is doing work she loves and believes in, yet keeps feeling alone in her business and worn down by a year that promised ease and delivered hit after hit. She is done fighting, and what she wants now is to protect her peace. Margarita is a 1/3 Manifesting Generator. We unpack why feeling alone in business is so common right now and what is actually closing out as the old paradigm falls away, what her design says about whether she is built to go it alone or to lead best in partnership, and why going back into corporate on her own terms could be a stepping stone rather than a step back. We get into why pressure is the fastest way to push a visionary away from the work she loves, how to build certainty when everything feels up in the air, and why peace is not a nice-to-have for her but an actual signal of alignment. If you have ever felt like this year keeps asking you to armour up when all you want is to soften, this one is for you. 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 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

  7. Jun 23

    #547 The Weekly Wrap: We Manifest Who We Are, Not What We Do

    In today's Weekly Wrap I'm taking you through what's been alive for me this week, and it starts with a line that stopped me in my tracks: we manifest who we are, not what we do. That one came from Colette Baron-Reid teaching her art of manifesting inside HDx. Whatever we practise feeling, we become. So if I keep telling the stories of the challenge, that's the frequency I'm broadcasting. The work is choosing to practise the feeling of all the good that's already here. From there I get into a few things I've been sitting with. Expanding your capacity to receive in the small, everyday spends, not just the ones with a productive purpose. Trusting your knowing as a muscle you build through consistency. The quiet power of softening into the present moment instead of always being the strong, independent one who holds it all. I also share what I'm relearning from The Big Leap on upper limits, my honest thoughts on AI after a Mo Gawdat conversation on the Diary of the CEO, and a big lesson on never giving your power away to a modality, even one you love. 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 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

  8. Jun 18

    #546 Hope Pedraza on Why Burnout Isn't About How Much You're Doing

    In today's episode I am joined by Hope Pedraza, a functional medicine practitioner who blends human design with functional health. Hope works right where your energy and your physical body meet, and she has a real knack for showing how the two map onto each other. We get into burnout, and the reframe at the heart of this conversation: burnout isn't about how much you're doing, it's about the energy behind the doing and who you're being while you do it. We talk about the difference between burnout and functional burnout for sacral beings, how each one actually shows up on your labs, and why your undefined centres so often hold the clue to what's going on in your body.  Hope shares why she starts with minerals as the foundation, how the root centre ties straight to your adrenals and hormones, and why the blanket "it's all about your gut" messaging is doing us a disservice. This one is for the visionaries who are done forcing and ready to listen to what their body has been telling them all along. 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 Hope's Details: Instagram: @thehopepedraza Website: hopefulandwholesome.com Podcast: Hopeful and Wholesome https://inbalance.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1186104 (use code EMMA to get it for free) 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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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 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 impact Stop outsourcing your power and start making clear, embodied decisions Build a business that moves with you, not one that drains you Reclaim 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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  • Creator
    Emma Dunwoody
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    552
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Human Design Podcast
  • Show Website
    The Human Design Podcast

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