Midlife by Human Design: Reinvention, Purpose, Perimenopause, Wellness, & Mindset for Midlife Women

Lori Lisai, Human Design Teacher, Speaker, Coach, & Retreat Leader
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Midlife by Human Design is the podcast for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and midlife reinvention who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves and start deeply trusting themselves. Hosted by Human Design teacher and coach Lori Lisai, this podcast blends Human Design, personal growth, mindset, energy management, spirituality, and midlife wellness to help women come home to themselves, make aligned decisions, and create a life that finally fits who they are becoming in the second half of life. If you're asking: What is Human Design, and how can it help me? Why do I feel so different in my 40s or 50s? Is this perimenopause? Why don't I feel like myself anymore? Why doesn't the life I built fit anymore? Why am I suddenly questioning my career, marriage, or purpose? How do I stop people-pleasing and trust myself? Why is making decisions so hard now? Is it too late to reinvent my life/change careers/leave my marriage/move my home? What's my purpose now that my kids have left home? Who am I now? Why doesn't the life I built fit anymore? Why does everything feel off, even though nothing's technically "wrong?" Why do I feel so restless? you're in the right place. Despite what you've been told, midlife isn't a crisis to survive. It's an invitation to rediscover who you are beneath the expectations, roles, and responsibilities you've carried for everyone else. Through Human Design and honest conversations about identity, perimenopause, menopause, and purpose, we'll explore how to navigate this season with more clarity, confidence, self-trust, and joy. I'm your host, Lori Lisai, a Human Design guide, coach, former educator, and fellow midlife woman who's passionate about helping women stop outsourcing their authority and start living in alignment with who they were always meant to be. Human Design gave me permission to trust myself, and now I help other women do the same. It's time to shed the shoulds and be who you came here to be. Each week, we'll explore topics like: * Human Design for beginners and beyond: Energy Types, Strategy, Authority, Profiles, Centers, Channels, Gates, planetary placements, and practical ways to apply your chart in everyday life * Human Design through the lens of perimenopause, menopause, relationships, parenting, purpose, and personal growth * Midlife reinvention, identity shifts, empty nesting, career pivots, and discovering what's next * Energy management, nervous system support, mindset, and self-care that actually restores you * Archetypes (like the Wild Woman phase you're stepping into), spirituality, intuition, astrology, and grounded wisdom that helps you make confident, aligned decisions Whether you're discovering Human Design for the first time or you've had your chart for years, this podcast will help you move from confusion to clarity, from self-doubt to self-trust, and from simply getting through midlife to creating a life that feels deeply authentic. If you've been wondering where your spark went and how to get it back, you're in the right place. Here, we dream bigger (or learn how to) and remember that midlife is the opportunity to finally be your authentic self. Each episode is part teaching, part coaching, part reflection, part permission slip—with practical tools, honest conversations, relatable stories, and the occasional well-placed F-bomb. If you're ready to trust yourself, embrace reinvention, and create a life that feels deeply aligned, welcome to Midlife by Human Design. 🎧 Connect with Lori: 📬 Get Wild Woman Wisdom in Your Inbox My newsletter for Human Design transits, astrology, midlife reflections, & offerings I don't share anywhere else. 👉 lorilisai.com/#newsletter 📥 Get your free Human Design chart & Resources Download your Human Design chart, the Human Design Mini Guide, and the Perimenopause Survival Guide 👉 https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 📱 Follow Lori on Instagram + Threads Where midlife meets real tal

  1. 2d ago

    135. Human Design Chart Explained: Make Sense of Your Chart for Midlife Reinvention

    Ever look at your Human Design chart and think, "Okay… but what the hell am I actually looking at?" What are all those shapes, colors, lines, and numbers?  In this Human Design 101 episode, we're going back to the basics so you can understand what you're looking at when you pull up your chart, what all those shapes and numbers mean, and where to start experimenting. And there's an important piece here: Human Design isn't meant to become another system that tells you who you're supposed to be. It's an experiment. Your chart gives you places to get curious, try things out, and notice what actually helps you come back to yourself. Key takeaways: Why your Human Design chart may look different depending on where you get it What those nine shapes in the bodygraph represent Where the gates and channels come from, and how they create the color in your chart What those four arrows at the top are telling you about your design Why your exact birth time matters more than you might think What the different arrow directions can reveal  Why there is no "better" Human Design chart, and what that means for your experiment How all of these pieces start to come together when you're making big midlife decisions If you've been listening to the podcast and still feel like you're "lost in the sauce" when you look at your chart, this episode is a good place to start. 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Not sure what kind of support you need? Book a chat: https://calendar.app.google/XvaVioiS2V9bdQTZ6 🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

  2. Oct 5

    134: Venus Retrograde Pt.2: What TRULY MATTERS to you in midlife? Human Design Gate Transits + Midlife Reinvention

    In part 2 of this Venus Retrograde episode, Lori dives into Gates 50 and 32--where Venus spends the second half of her retrograde cycle. Where have your values shifted without you even realizing it? What still has staying power in your life, and what doesn't? Tune in for a walk through the important themes of these gates and some journal prompts to help you navigate this important cycle. Key Takeaways: What your beauty standards might reveal about conditioning versus your own values How to recognize when something has genuinely run its course Why "success" doesn't necessarily mean doing something for the rest of your life How to use Venus retrograde for reflection, curiosity, and those one-degree pivots What your Human Design chart can and cannot tell you about your next move How the Venus cazimi could offer a moment of clarity 🔗 Next Chapter Summit October 5-8, 2026: https://heatherrussell.co/the-next-chapter/?sc=0t9M5HkX 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Not sure what kind of support you need? Book a chat: https://calendar.app.google/XvaVioiS2V9bdQTZ6 🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

  3. Sep 28

    133. Venus Retrograde, Midlife & the Urge to Change Your Life, Your Look or Your Relationship

    When you're already questioning everything in midlife, Venus retrograde arrives to deepen that reflection. October 3-November 13 is a time for consideration of the midlife challenges you've been facing around Venus themes. And when we look at this period through the lens of the specific gates, we get an even deeper understanding of what's going on with beauty, love, relationships, and the things we hold near and dear to our hearts.  Key Takeaways: Venus Retrograde themes Venus in Scorpio: what's it mean and how does it impact you?  Venus retrograde in Gate 44 to start: all about patterns Venus retrograde in Gate 28: what struggles bring meaning?  Journal prompts for each of the gate transits 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Not sure what kind of support you need? Book a chat: https://calendar.app.google/XvaVioiS2V9bdQTZ6 🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

  4. Sep 21

    132. What If You Don't Actually Want to Change Your Life? How to Tell the Difference Between True Desire and What's Underneath for your Midlife Reinvention

    You want to quit your job. Leave your relationship. Move somewhere warm. Start a business. Change your body. Blow up your life and start over. And maybe you really do need a big change. But before you make one, there's another question worth asking: What do you actually want to feel? In this episode, Lori Lisai explores the underlying desires beneath those big midlife urges.  Human Design can help you sort through the desire, conditioning, and midlife chaos so you can make decisions from your own authority rather than reacting to what you think you're supposed to do.  In this episode: The question to ask before making a major midlife change Why "when I have X, I'll feel Y" can reveal what you're really seeking How Human Design authority can help you discern your next move Where conditioning may be influencing what you think you want How to experiment with one-degree pivots When a big change really may be necessary The goal isn't to talk yourself out of what you want. Your desires matter. The goal is to understand what they're telling you so you can move toward the life you actually want, one decision at a time. 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Not sure what kind of support you need? Book a chat: https://calendar.app.google/XvaVioiS2V9bdQTZ6 🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

  5. Sep 14

    131. Are You Overreacting, or Is Your Body Trying to Tell You Something? Human Design, Menopause & Emotional Waves Pt.2

    What if the feeling you're having is real... but it doesn't necessarily mean you need to do something about it? In Part 2 of this series on Human Design and emotional waves, Lori Lisai explores what happens when emotional energy intersects with perimenopause and menopause. Hormonal changes can heighten sensitivity, change our reactions, lower our tolerance for b******t, and make it harder to recognize what is actually happening in our bodies. Human Design doesn't explain your hormones, but it can give you a framework for understanding your body's patterns and your own decision-making process. Lori digs into the difference between having a defined or undefined Solar Plexus, how emotional waves can amplify the meaning we attach to everyday situations, and why a mood doesn't always need to be fixed, explained, or turned into a decision. Most importantly, she gives you a simple process for figuring out what the hell is actually going on: • What are you experiencing physically in your body? • What meaning are you immediately giving that sensation? • Is this yours, or are you picking up someone else's energy? • If you have emotional authority, where are you on your wave? • Do you need to communicate right now, or do you need to wait? You'll also hear practical examples of communicating your needs to the people you love, allowing yourself time before making big decisions, and recognizing when a recurring feeling deserves deeper attention. Your body is communicating with you. The work is learning how to listen without immediately turning every sensation into a story. If you're ready to understand your own Human Design and how it intersects with what's actually happening in your life, that's exactly the kind of work Lori does with women in private readings and coaching. 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Not sure what kind of support you need? Book a chat: https://calendar.app.google/XvaVioiS2V9bdQTZ6 🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

  6. Sep 7

    130: Your Feelings Aren't Always the Whole Story: Midlife Decisions, Emotional Waves and Human Design Pt 1

    You feel a certain way and that must mean something, right? Maybe not..exactly. Today, Lori dives into the difference between feelings and emotions, the four types of emotional waves and how to discern well enough to make the big decisions that come as a part of midlife.  The goal isn't to dismiss your emotions or convince yourself that what you're feeling isn't real. It's to develop enough awareness to separate the physical experience of emotion from the story your mind creates about it and, if you have an emotional wave, learn to recognize where you are within that wave.  Key Takeaways: The actual differences between emotions and feelings  The four different emotional waves: Source, Tribal, Individual, and Collective Why knowing where you are on your emotional wave can change the way you approach big midlife decisions How to start tracking your emotional wave alongside your menstrual cycle, menopause symptoms, or other changes in your body 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Not sure what kind of support you need? Book a chat: https://calendar.app.google/XvaVioiS2V9bdQTZ6 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai Homework: Pull up your Human Design chart and look at your Emotional Solar Plexus. Is it defined or undefined? If it's defined: Which emotional channels do you have? Do you have one wave or multiple waves? What does your emotional high feel like in your body? What does your low feel like? What thoughts tend to show up when you're at each point in the wave? Start tracking it.  Bonus: track where you're at in your cycle and how your body feels alongside it.

  7. Aug 31

    129. Dolly Parton's Human Design: What Her Chart Can Teach Us About Midlife Reinvention

    Today, Lori honors Dolly Parton by exploring several pieces of Dolly's Human Design and what they can teach us as midlife women about energy, creativity, self-trust, identity, experimentation, and working with the limitations life gives us. Dolly was a Sacral Generator with the 3-60 channel of Mutation, and Lori explores the incredible creative force that can emerge when we learn to work with our own energy and cycles rather than constantly pushing ourselves to produce. From Dolly's unapologetic approach to her appearance and persona to her willingness to experiment, learn, evolve, and become a role model through her lived experience, this episode is an invitation to look at your own Human Design differently.  Key Takeaways: *How are you using your creative life force? *How are you using your authority? *How can limitations help your creativity? *How Dolly's sense of humor helped her deflect criticism *What Dolly teaches us about an undefined G center   🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport   Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

  8. Aug 24

    128. Who Am I Now? College Drop-off, Mothering, Human Design & Midlife Reinvention

    Who are you when the role you've spent years building your life around begins to change? Midlife can bring a strange combination of grief, freedom, excitement, and uncertainty. Kids leave home. Careers shift. Relationships evolve. Our bodies change. And suddenly we're left asking a question we may not have had to ask in decades: Who am I now? In this episode, Lori explores the identity shifts that come with midlife and the temptation to immediately fill the empty spaces with something new. Instead, she invites you to slow down, feel what's ending, get curious about what's emerging, and use Human Design as a tool for reconnecting with your own energy, authority, desires, and sense of self. You don't have to have your next chapter figured out. You just have to be willing to meet the woman who's emerging. Key Takeaways: What happens when the identity you've spent years building your life around starts to change? How can something be exactly what you wanted and still break your heart? Who might you discover when you're no longer defined by the roles you've been playing? What does your future self have to teach the woman you are today? Could not knowing actually be the beginning of something really good? What does Human Design have to do with figuring out who you are now? How the Pisces eclipse and Uranus square can help redefine your next chapter Episodes Mentioned: Episode 118: Feel the Feels: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-118-your-feelings-arent-the-problem-your/id1754592104?i=1000771756156 Episode 75: Momancholy/College Drop-off: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-75-momancholy-college-drop-off-support-for-midlife-moms/id1754592104?i=1000723408581 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/ixrVLRRQVJior7kg6 🔗 Book a Midlife by Human Design session: https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Connect with Lori: Instagram @lorilisai Threads: @lorilisai

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Midlife by Human Design is the podcast for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and midlife reinvention who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves and start deeply trusting themselves. Hosted by Human Design teacher and coach Lori Lisai, this podcast blends Human Design, personal growth, mindset, energy management, spirituality, and midlife wellness to help women come home to themselves, make aligned decisions, and create a life that finally fits who they are becoming in the second half of life. If you're asking: What is Human Design, and how can it help me? Why do I feel so different in my 40s or 50s? Is this perimenopause? Why don't I feel like myself anymore? Why doesn't the life I built fit anymore? Why am I suddenly questioning my career, marriage, or purpose? How do I stop people-pleasing and trust myself? Why is making decisions so hard now? Is it too late to reinvent my life/change careers/leave my marriage/move my home? What's my purpose now that my kids have left home? Who am I now? Why doesn't the life I built fit anymore? Why does everything feel off, even though nothing's technically "wrong?" Why do I feel so restless? you're in the right place. Despite what you've been told, midlife isn't a crisis to survive. It's an invitation to rediscover who you are beneath the expectations, roles, and responsibilities you've carried for everyone else. Through Human Design and honest conversations about identity, perimenopause, menopause, and purpose, we'll explore how to navigate this season with more clarity, confidence, self-trust, and joy. I'm your host, Lori Lisai, a Human Design guide, coach, former educator, and fellow midlife woman who's passionate about helping women stop outsourcing their authority and start living in alignment with who they were always meant to be. Human Design gave me permission to trust myself, and now I help other women do the same. It's time to shed the shoulds and be who you came here to be. Each week, we'll explore topics like: * Human Design for beginners and beyond: Energy Types, Strategy, Authority, Profiles, Centers, Channels, Gates, planetary placements, and practical ways to apply your chart in everyday life * Human Design through the lens of perimenopause, menopause, relationships, parenting, purpose, and personal growth * Midlife reinvention, identity shifts, empty nesting, career pivots, and discovering what's next * Energy management, nervous system support, mindset, and self-care that actually restores you * Archetypes (like the Wild Woman phase you're stepping into), spirituality, intuition, astrology, and grounded wisdom that helps you make confident, aligned decisions Whether you're discovering Human Design for the first time or you've had your chart for years, this podcast will help you move from confusion to clarity, from self-doubt to self-trust, and from simply getting through midlife to creating a life that feels deeply authentic. If you've been wondering where your spark went and how to get it back, you're in the right place. Here, we dream bigger (or learn how to) and remember that midlife is the opportunity to finally be your authentic self. Each episode is part teaching, part coaching, part reflection, part permission slip—with practical tools, honest conversations, relatable stories, and the occasional well-placed F-bomb. If you're ready to trust yourself, embrace reinvention, and create a life that feels deeply aligned, welcome to Midlife by Human Design. 🎧 Connect with Lori: 📬 Get Wild Woman Wisdom in Your Inbox My newsletter for Human Design transits, astrology, midlife reflections, & offerings I don't share anywhere else. 👉 lorilisai.com/#newsletter 📥 Get your free Human Design chart & Resources Download your Human Design chart, the Human Design Mini Guide, and the Perimenopause Survival Guide 👉 https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 📱 Follow Lori on Instagram + Threads Where midlife meets real tal

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