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435: 2026 & The Year of the Fire Horse · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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Nicole Laino: Come here to become an unshakable human and build an unshakable business according to your human design.
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Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: Hello, and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design, everybody.
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Nicole Laino: Oh, my goodness, I am so happy to be here with you guys.
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Nicole Laino: I am so excited for this episode.
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Nicole Laino: I have been looking forward to doing it for quite some time, actually.
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Nicole Laino: This is going to be an episode on 2026 and the year of the Fire Horse.
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Nicole Laino: Now, inside business by design and inside my own business.
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Nicole Laino: We are in hardcore planning mode right now.
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Nicole Laino: We are in hardcore getting our ducks in a row, getting our shit together, for lack of a better term, for 2026, because that's what this time is.
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Nicole Laino: And you may have been feeling that actually, like, just cosmically, you might have been feeling like beginning of December was maybe a little bit hard for you to get things done.
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Nicole Laino: It didn't really feel like the energy was supporting lots of action.
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Nicole Laino: You might have felt like cocooning a little bit.
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Nicole Laino: And then you may have around maybe the 16th or so 17th century, started to feel that energy ease up a little bit and start to feel like, ooh, I feel like I can move again.
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Nicole Laino: Well, now is the time to start laying the groundwork for what's coming in 2026.
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Nicole Laino: Now is that time.
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Nicole Laino: So we are hardcore in this inside business by design.
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Nicole Laino: I'm loving.
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Nicole Laino: I have clients writing to me in our telegram chat that they're, like, getting their launches ready and they're starting to already plan and get some of their material ready, which is so exciting for me to see them kind of not frantically taking action, but preparing.
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Nicole Laino: So when they're in it in 2026, they actually feel like they can handle it all.
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Nicole Laino: In fact, they can take on extra things because they're not going to be scrambling to make a lot happen.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so I'm super excited about this.
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Nicole Laino: We are closing out.
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Nicole Laino: 2025 was the year of the Wood Snake.
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Nicole Laino: We actually did a whole episode on this and I told you how you can properly close out the Year of the Wood snake in episode four.
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Nicole Laino: 33.
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Nicole Laino: That was just last week on Monday, I believe it was.
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Nicole Laino: So I go into it in detail of the things that you can do to properly close out 2025.
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Nicole Laino: And don't worry, you have until the Chinese New Year.
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Nicole Laino: You don't just have until the end of this actual calendar year.
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Nicole Laino: You have till the Chinese New Year rings in on February 17th.
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Nicole Laino: So this 2025 year, we talk about this in that episode, that it was a year, hopefully that allowed you to see to the heart of what's going on in your world and in the world around you, what needs to stay, what needs to go.
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Nicole Laino: This was like the year everybody's journal got, like a major workout.
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Nicole Laino: We were working through a lot of things and things felt uncertain a lot.
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Nicole Laino: Things probably didn't.
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Nicole Laino: Didn't work the way that they used to.
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Nicole Laino: You might have found that you had to change a lot of things or maybe let some things go.
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Nicole Laino: And that's good because that's sort of what the element of wood is about.
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Nicole Laino: It's like a clearing, it is a turning over.
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Nicole Laino: Right?
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Nicole Laino: So this coming year, so if you want to know more about the Wood Snake year, go back and listen to that episode, because I went into it in depth.
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Nicole Laino: This one is going to be dedicated to the year we are going into, the year not just of the horse, but of the fire horse.
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Nicole Laino: The horse is at home in the fire element.
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Nicole Laino: This is very different energy than wood snake energy.
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Nicole Laino: This is a Yang year.
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Nicole Laino: So when we think about yin and yang, you know, everybody remember, especially if you grew up in the 90s, everybody had like a tattoo of a yin yang.
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Nicole Laino: The yin yang, it represents the masculine and feminine.
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Nicole Laino: It represents these two sides of that polarity of, like, the universe that one side Yang energy imposes, penetrates, is forward and action oriented, and one side recedes and receives and is more passive in its nature, more introspective versus more outward.
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Nicole Laino: So this is an outward year.
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Nicole Laino: We have a fire element and then we have a yang animal.
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Nicole Laino: So if I had a prediction, I would say that this is the year that for those who are ready.
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Nicole Laino: And by ready, I don't mean that you have everything done.
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Nicole Laino: And I mean you've had something on your heart.
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Nicole Laino: Like you've been saying, I'm going to get seen this year.
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Nicole Laino: I'm going to make it happen this year.
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Nicole Laino: Like, this is going to be my year.
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Nicole Laino: If you've been saying that for a while and you've been doing the work, but it hasn't really come to fruition, meaning you haven't seen the results for some reason.
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Nicole Laino: Something got lost in translation.
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Nicole Laino: You had more to figure out than you thought you did, or you held yourself back in the being seen, visibility, branding category.
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Nicole Laino: So if you were like, you know, this is the year that I'm going to launch my podcast, and this is the year I'm going to like, really build my brand online.
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Nicole Laino: I'm really going to allow myself to be seen if you have said that and not fully followed through.
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Nicole Laino: My prediction is that this is the year that it's going to happen for you as long as you get out of your own way.
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Nicole Laino: And this is a year of getting out of your own way.
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Nicole Laino: So let me break down Horse and Fire and then we're going to go into some of the elements of it.
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Nicole Laino: I'm going to tell you all about this energy that we're going into and how you can prepare yourself best and what this year is going to look like.
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Nicole Laino: Some of the predictions that I have and just ways to look at this year so that you can be fully prepared to ride this horse to the finish line and be the first through it.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: So before I start, we actually created a guide for you.
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Nicole Laino: We've been doing so many episodes on the year end.
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Nicole Laino: And if you go back to, I believe, three episodes ago, I did one on planning your unstoppable year for 2026.
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Nicole Laino: And we had such a great response from that episode.
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Nicole Laino: And I also, I said in that episode about how in business by design, we had a lot of people who are new to our program join us, thankfully, and they were there for our planning session.
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Nicole Laino: And I couldn't get over how none of them had ever been taught to plan their year before.
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Nicole Laino: They hadn't been taught how to organize themselves and to organize their actions so that they could juggle all the things that entrepreneurs typically have to juggle.
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Nicole Laino: And I was appalled by that because all of these people had been in coaching programs.
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Nicole Laino: They've been experienced entrepreneurs for a while.
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Nicole Laino: They've been doing this for a while.
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Nicole Laino: But it also speaks to why things haven't worked to the level that they've been promised before, because there's a lot of, like, spraying and praying going on.
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Nicole Laino: And what that leads to is a lot of dysregulation in your nervous system because you.
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Nicole Laino: You always feel like you're figuring things out.
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Nicole Laino: You always feel like you're behind the eight ball.
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Nicole Laino: You always feel like you're creating on the fly.
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Nicole Laino: And when we create on the fly, that's great when we do it, but to do that takes a lot of energy.
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Nicole Laino: And it also usually leads to lackluster results.
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Nicole Laino: So more planning helps us get better results because we make better products and we market them.
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Nicole Laino: So many people quit selling an offer because they didn't have time to market it.
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Nicole Laino: They think the offer failed, so they launch it.
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Nicole Laino: It doesn't do well.
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Nicole Laino: They're like, oh, that didn't go well.
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Nicole Laino: So then they go create a new one.
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Nicole Laino: And it's like, no, you didn't really market it.
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Nicole Laino: You put it together in two weeks, and then you slapped it up online to Your list of 500 people and nobody bought it.
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Nicole Laino: That doesn't mean that it's a bad offer.
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Nicole Laino: It means that maybe you didn't give it the time that it deserved.
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Nicole Laino: So what I did was I went.
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Nicole Laino: And because of all of this, I went.
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Nicole Laino: I went and created a guide.
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Nicole Laino: This is a guide to basically planning your unstoppable year.
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Nicole Laino: So I went through.
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Nicole Laino: I took kind of the best of what were doing in our planning session, just sort of distilled it down into some questions that you can ask yourself, some exercises you could take yourself through so that you can close out 2025.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: And this is both from an alignment and from a strategic standpoint, so that you are really setting yourself up for success and looking at 2026 probably differently than you ever have, unless you've really carefully planned your year with a coach or with a mentor before.
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Nicole Laino: So if you want that, just DM me the words New Year 2026 on Instagram.
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Nicole Laino: I'm icoleno official just new year2026 DM me that on Instagram and we'll send you the details.
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Nicole Laino: Or go to nicolelaino.com newyear and we'll.
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Nicole Laino: You can get it right there.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, I'm going to move on to the episode now because obviously giving you details about this guide is escaping me a little bit.
9:03
Nicole Laino: I'm not doing so well.
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Nicole Laino: So let's get into the episode.
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Nicole Laino: This is where I know I can shine.
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Nicole Laino: I'm going to talk about something I'm excited about.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, let's go.
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Nicole Laino: So horse energy.
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Nicole Laino: This is pure Yang movement.
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Nicole Laino: So obviously, the animals that represent the years, it's not a literal translation, but there's a lot of symbolism in the animal itself.
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Nicole Laino: Like an ox is sort of reliable and pushes through and, you know, and then there are some that are not.
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Nicole Laino: Like, rats are super prosperous.
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Nicole Laino: I wouldn't think of a rat and be like, I think of abundance, except for maybe that there are millions of them.
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Nicole Laino: And I grew up in New York, so I'm used to seeing them a lot.
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Nicole Laino: Had one in my apartment once.
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Nicole Laino: Don't recommend it.
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Nicole Laino: Story for another time.
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Nicole Laino: Anyway, moving on.
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Nicole Laino: This year is going to be the year of the horse.
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Nicole Laino: 2026 is the year of the horse.
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Nicole Laino: We have pure Yang movement.
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Nicole Laino: This is a year of freedom.
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Nicole Laino: If you think about a horse, there is power, horsepower, Right.
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Nicole Laino: They even use it to describe how fast a car goes.
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Nicole Laino: And the amount of power there is in a car is how many horses.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: Horsepower.
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Nicole Laino: It is independence.
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Nicole Laino: It is momentum, vitality, competitiveness, which I think is an interesting one.
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Nicole Laino: We don't necessarily think of horses as being competitive, but they're racers.
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Nicole Laino: And obviously, like when you go into the Chinese symbolism, horses were a very big symbol of strength, of power, and of military might.
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Nicole Laino: So winning the horse is really associated with winning, because if you had tamed horses in the ancient times in Asia, and.
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Nicole Laino: And you had them on your side in a war and you could be shooting people with arrows while a horse runs very fast, your chances of winning that war were so much greater.
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Nicole Laino: So this is the symbolism of the horse here.
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Nicole Laino: Okay?
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Nicole Laino: Unbridled power.
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Nicole Laino: Right?
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Nicole Laino: Horsepower.
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Nicole Laino: Then we have fire.
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Nicole Laino: We go from wood, which is about, like, clearing and creativity and space, to fire, visibility, passion, ignition.
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Nicole Laino: This is an expressive energy, courage, confrontation, and truth.
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Nicole Laino: There's no tentativeness in a fire horse here.
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Nicole Laino: The horse is at home in this fire element.
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Nicole Laino: This is going to be, I believe it's going to feel, probably at first, it might feel a little like, whoa, where did all this come from?
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Nicole Laino: And then once you get your bearings, just like if you've ever been on a horse and you've gotten where they take off unexpectedly, if you didn't fall off, you were able to right yourself.
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Nicole Laino: And then eventually, when you can crouch down and get into your correct position, what do you feel like?
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Nicole Laino: I remember the first time I cantered on a horse and I really got it up to a gallop, and I felt like I was flying.
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Nicole Laino: That's what this will feel like.
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Nicole Laino: If you can sink into the stirrups, hold onto the reins or the mane, crouch down, become one with the animal, and figure out what the rhythm is of this ride.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so the wood that we cleared last year is the fuel that we are going to burn in 2026.
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Nicole Laino: So what this year is not.
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Nicole Laino: Is.
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Nicole Laino: It's not a year for, like, overthinking.
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Nicole Laino: The horse is not an overthinker.
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Nicole Laino: It's not a year for excessive deliberation.
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Nicole Laino: It is not a year for, like, you know, this is not a year where your journal is going to get the workout it did in 2025.
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Nicole Laino: I think there's going to be a lot of action.
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Nicole Laino: The only time you're going to need it and you will, is when you are think about it from the elements.
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Nicole Laino: The fire is burning so much.
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Nicole Laino: You may need to clear a little bit.
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Nicole Laino: So you may need to clear a little bit.
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Nicole Laino: And if you need to clear a little bit, and we're going to talk a little bit about balancing the elements as well in a moment.
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Nicole Laino: But if you need to clear a little bit, then you're journaling about how you can keep going.
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Nicole Laino: It's clearing the space so that you can keep moving.
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Nicole Laino: That's what I teach Inside Business by Design, our whole deconditioning library.
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Nicole Laino: I always say to our clients, it's like you start out in the beginning, you're tapping and you're clearing and it feels sticky, which is why they're in such a good position being in this, where they've already started the work that when they hit 2026, they're going to be very clear already.
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Nicole Laino: But that work that we do, that clearing that we do, you know, eventually you just hit a point where it feels like there's just so much movement there where you don't have to clear all the old stuff.
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Nicole Laino: Now you're in like maintenance mode.
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Nicole Laino: That's how I see 2026.
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Nicole Laino: This is like that maintenance mode.
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Nicole Laino: 2025 was the big clean out.
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Nicole Laino: You ever do a deep clean of like your fridge or your closet or your house?
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Nicole Laino: You don't deep clean every weekend, but in 2025, we deep cleaned the whole darn house.
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Nicole Laino: Now we've got to maintain it.
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Nicole Laino: That's what 2026 is about.
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Nicole Laino: You're still going to clean the house, there's still going to be dust bunnies around there's still going to be dishes to wash, there's still going to be laundry to do.
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Nicole Laino: There's still going to be tidying up to be done and wiping everything down.
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Nicole Laino: But you're not going to spend, you know, your weekend deep cleaning like you did in 2025.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so this is why that if you're looking to like sit and deliberate and pore over, what should I do and how should I do it?
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Nicole Laino: What should I do and how should I do it?
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Nicole Laino: This 2025 was a year that you might have been able to get away with that in 2026.
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Nicole Laino: I think that's going to be a problem.
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Nicole Laino: It's going to be a year for embodied decision making for you to feel really trusting of yourself and acting on what you already know you need to do.
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Nicole Laino: That's what I mean.
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Nicole Laino: Like, you probably already know.
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Nicole Laino: And this is part of what's in the guide, if you choose to download it, if you already know what you are supposed to be doing.
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Nicole Laino: This is the year you're going to do it.
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Nicole Laino: There's no more thinking about it and you're gonna let the momentum teach you what's right or what's wrong.
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Nicole Laino: The action will lead to clarity.
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Nicole Laino: And I can already hear my non sacrals, my projectors, my reflectors and manifestors just being like this sounds like a manifesting generator year and granted it certainly does.
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Nicole Laino: Even as I was writing this and I'm writing all the things down about like you know, what the horse year is about and you know, all the reading I've been doing on it, just kind of like, you know, steeping myself in this and I'm like, yeah, sounds like a mani gen.
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Nicole Laino: But the difference is there's a mani gen in alignment and there's many gen in misalignment.
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Nicole Laino: A misaligned many gen will be distracted, will be creating out of lack and fear, not out of trust and not out of belief and not out of purpose.
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Nicole Laino: We don't want that.
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Nicole Laino: But for all of you non sacrals, I want you to think, as far as I know that a lot of you are probably already thinking, you know, this sounds like a lot of doing and I'm already getting a little anxiety thinking about how fast this is going to be.
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Nicole Laino: What if I can't keep up?
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Nicole Laino: Don't think about as how much you have to do now.
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Nicole Laino: If you have the means and you probably do, a lot of people will think they don't have the means to hire.
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Nicole Laino: But I always say that I hired.
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Nicole Laino: She's my right hand woman now.
16:34
Nicole Laino: She was a VA off of upwork when I hired her.
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Nicole Laino: That's how I found her, off of upwork.
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Nicole Laino: And she has become my indispensable teammate.
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Nicole Laino: But I hired her way before I had the money or way before I really knew what I was going to give her.
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Nicole Laino: I just knew I was overwhelmed and I needed help and I didn't know how to do that correctly so I just did it.
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Nicole Laino: You can hire people probably for a lot less money than you think.
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Nicole Laino: You don't have to hire them for 40 hours a week.
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Nicole Laino: I sure as hell didn't.
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Nicole Laino: I hired her.
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Nicole Laino: I think she started at like five or six hours a week or something like that.
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Nicole Laino: That's it.
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Nicole Laino: And then we built up to what she's doing now.
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Nicole Laino: That's the level that I'm talking about.
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Nicole Laino: So if you are a non sacral, I'm not telling you have to hire, but you should consider it.
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Nicole Laino: How would it make you feel to hire someone to do the things that you don't want to do.
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Nicole Laino: That probably makes you feel very spacious, which is what we want.
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Nicole Laino: We want spaciousness because spaciousness creates.
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Nicole Laino: That's where momentum has space to really go.
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Nicole Laino: It's unimpeded then when there's space.
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Nicole Laino: But the other thing I want to tell my non sacrals is that don't think about this as a year just of action.
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Nicole Laino: Because action doesn't mean busy.
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Nicole Laino: Action just means very deliberate and unflinching and not second guessing yourself and not holding back.
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Nicole Laino: This is a year of expression, outward expression.
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Nicole Laino: It's not a year of hustle.
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Nicole Laino: I know it can start to feel that way when I start saying things like fire and initiation and momentum.
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Nicole Laino: You can have a lot of momentum just by expressing yourself.
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Nicole Laino: It does not mean that you are hustling.
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Nicole Laino: So I wanted to make that very clear.
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Nicole Laino: Cause I could almost hear the heartbeats of my non sacral friends in the audience listening to this, just being like, oh my God, I'm getting this.
18:35
Nicole Laino: I'm getting emotional already.
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Nicole Laino: I'm getting overwhelmed already.
18:38
Nicole Laino: Oh my God.
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Nicole Laino: That's not what it is.
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Nicole Laino: This is a year about speaking before you're ready.
18:43
Nicole Laino: It's a year about launching before you feel finished.
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Nicole Laino: It's gonna be a year of more energy out of the mind, being out of the mind and into your body.
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Nicole Laino: Body.
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Nicole Laino: That's what it's about.
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Nicole Laino: Making mistakes, being okay with them, but not being stagnant.
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Nicole Laino: Movement does not hustle.
19:03
Nicole Laino: Movement is self trust.
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Nicole Laino: It is not second guessing the actions that you want to take.
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Nicole Laino: And it's taking them with purpose, going all in on them.
19:12
Nicole Laino: But it doesn't mean you're doing endless launches and constantly online and doing all these things.
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Nicole Laino: It means that when you show up big, you show up unapologetic.
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Nicole Laino: That is what this is about.
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Nicole Laino: So this year, momentum is the ruler.
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Nicole Laino: And I really encourage you if you don't have support, if you haven't invested in mentorship for 2026, and I know a lot of people have been burned.
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Nicole Laino: You've invested in things, they haven't gone well.
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Nicole Laino: I understand it.
19:43
Nicole Laino: Me too.
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Nicole Laino: Been there.
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Nicole Laino: But there also comes a time where you have to recognize where you're at.
19:49
Nicole Laino: I've been there.
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Nicole Laino: I have felt like I have not gotten what I've paid for.
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Nicole Laino: I have felt like I have not gotten what was promised out of programs and masterminds and all these things.
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Nicole Laino: And I've had some that were wonderful too.
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Nicole Laino: And sometimes we forget that when we go to invest again, we Remember only the bad times.
20:09
Nicole Laino: We remember only the terrible experiences that we don't want to repeat, rather than thinking about all that we did learn and all that we did accomplish and the ones that did come through for us.
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Nicole Laino: Sometimes they don't deliver on the whole promise that, you know, some of you read a testimonial in on somebody's sales page and you know, they made $200,000 in eight days using my five day launch formula and we don't make that and we think that it's a failure and the program was bs.
20:40
Nicole Laino: Now, somebody else's results might not be yours.
20:42
Nicole Laino: What it does is it, you know, testimonials are there to show you that people took it, they got results, it does work in theory.
20:49
Nicole Laino: Now, whether it will work for you.
20:51
Nicole Laino: That is something that I think an education that a lot of entrepreneurs get is we have to figure out what works for us.
20:58
Nicole Laino: That's why I teach by human design, because I don't want to teach you what works for you, but help you find what works for you.
21:04
Nicole Laino: But whatever you decide, this year is going to be a year of momentum.
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Nicole Laino: And momentum that breaks.
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Nicole Laino: No longer is momentum, then you start over again.
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Nicole Laino: And if you're doing that this year, you might find that has more repercussions this year than it does in other years.
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Nicole Laino: That break in your momentum costs you more in 2026 than it did a few years ago.
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Nicole Laino: We're already seeing a lot of things in the industry change.
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Nicole Laino: I believe this will be a year of needing to be nimble, needing to be able to pivot quickly and shift things.
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Nicole Laino: If we find that things are changing and need to be tweaked, it's going to be a year of.
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Nicole Laino: I think it's going to be very exciting, but it's going to be important to be plugged into a community and with someone doesn't have to be me, but plugged into a community, a mentor, a coach, somebody who has their finger on the pulse of what these things are happening, who is actively working in the space and who can be helping to guide you to find your path to success this year so that you're not sitting there asking yourself the dreaded question, that is rough in any year, but in 2026, in the year of the Fire Horse, if you're standing clueless, wondering, what am I going to do and how am I going to do it?
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Nicole Laino: What am I going to do and how am I going to do it?
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Nicole Laino: What am I?
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Nicole Laino: And Lord knows we all end up in that space at some Point.
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Nicole Laino: But if you are caught in that thought process in 2026, you'll get trampled, and we don't want that.
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Nicole Laino: So make a smart investment.
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Nicole Laino: Get some sort of support this year.
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Nicole Laino: It will benefit you in the long run, no matter what it is.
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Nicole Laino: Okay.
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Nicole Laino: As long as it is a solid program with a solid person.
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Nicole Laino: So I want to give you a question to kind of round this out.
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Nicole Laino: I want to round this out with a question that you can ask yourself to kind of get into the energy of this fire horse here.
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Nicole Laino: Because it's about desire.
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Nicole Laino: And then I also want to show you how you can kind of balance this energy.
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Nicole Laino: If things get a little bit heated, if you get a little worked up, if sometimes it feels like the fire is a bit much, we can balance.
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Nicole Laino: The elements can be balanced, which I think is a very interesting sort of way to think about how this all works energetically.
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Nicole Laino: So a fire horse year, again, we're gonna have a bit of a generator manifesting generator theme here.
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Nicole Laino: But fire horse years are driven by want, not should desire.
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Nicole Laino: The burning fire of desire inside of us is what's going to fuel us, fuel the year, fuel the actions.
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Nicole Laino: So in order to be in alignment with that, in order to be taking action, that's in alignment with the spirit of the fire horse year, which is want and desire, not obligation.
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Nicole Laino: Ask yourself, what do I want more than I want to be safe?
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Nicole Laino: What do I want?
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Nicole Laino: What do I truly desire?
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Nicole Laino: It's gonna be so important to tap into that.
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Nicole Laino: And then another question for you, because this is a year, you know, if you think about a horse that is in its power.
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Nicole Laino: That is a healthy horse out in the wild.
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Nicole Laino: It is proud, it's bold.
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Nicole Laino: They are prey animals, but they don't present that way in the wild unless they are being hunted.
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Nicole Laino: They are running free.
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Nicole Laino: They are strong, they are beautiful.
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Nicole Laino: So what feels too bold to you?
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Nicole Laino: What feels like something that you feel called to, but you might be playing a little bit small with it, you might not really be thinking you can own it.
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Nicole Laino: What is the thing?
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Nicole Laino: It.
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Nicole Laino: Maybe it's been on your heart, it's been on your mind, it's been calling to you for a while.
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Nicole Laino: But maybe you think, nah, that's not me.
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Nicole Laino: I couldn't do that.
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Nicole Laino: That's too much.
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Nicole Laino: This is the year we all get to be too much.
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Nicole Laino: When the universe says, I'm ready for you to be too much, let's see what you got.
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Nicole Laino: So the last thing that I'll bring up here is if the fire at times feels a little bit much, or you want to ground it in something because the earth grounds the fire.
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Nicole Laino: Think about earth elements.
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Nicole Laino: Bring them into your home, bring them into your office, into your workspace.
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Nicole Laino: Ceramics, stone, clay, like pottery.
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Nicole Laino: Things like that.
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Nicole Laino: Neutral tones, earthy tones.
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Nicole Laino: They will.
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Nicole Laino: You don't want too much of it, but just a piece here and there can really ground it.
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Nicole Laino: And if you want to amp up the fire, light a candle, light a fire.
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Nicole Laino: It's wintertime.
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Nicole Laino: Play with that.
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Nicole Laino: I mean, don't light a bonfire.
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Nicole Laino: We want to work with it.
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Nicole Laino: We don't want to overdo anything.
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Nicole Laino: Just like we don't want to overdo the earth elements tampering down the fire element.
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Nicole Laino: We also don't want to stoke the fire too much.
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Nicole Laino: That it's too much for us to handle.
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Nicole Laino: But you can play with these, and I think that's a really fun way to play with the elements.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, that's all I have for you.
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Nicole Laino: All right, thank you so much for being here.
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Nicole Laino: I appreciate you.
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