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467: April's Big Energy, The Fire Horse & Beginning Q2 · 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.
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Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: And it's just the two of us today and this episode is going to be a lot about how things feel right now.
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Nicole Laino: This episode is going to be kind of taking stock.
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Nicole Laino: We were out of Q1.
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Nicole Laino: Q1 is finished.
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Nicole Laino: We are beginning.
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Nicole Laino: We've already kicked off Q2, and now it's time to kind of look at how this is changing things for ourselves personally and for our businesses.
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Nicole Laino: So we're going to do a little bit of transit talk.
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Nicole Laino: We're going to talk about just the energy that's been out there and turning our focus to having a concrete, or I don't like the word concrete because nothing is concrete.
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Nicole Laino: I think that is what we are learning right now is that nothing is concrete.
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Nicole Laino: And so this is gonna be some reflections on, some questions for you about how do you relate to the first three months of this year of 2026?
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Nicole Laino: They're already gone.
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Nicole Laino: And how are you looking at the future?
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Nicole Laino: And how do we create a plan that is both flexible and structured enough that we're able to move forward with grace and potency and get the results that we're looking for?
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: How do we know when we pivot?
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Nicole Laino: How do we know when to keep going with things?
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Nicole Laino: So that's what today's episode is going to be about before we get started.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so let's talk about this.
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Nicole Laino: Obviously, we've talked a lot on the show about the year of the fire horse.
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Nicole Laino: It was very big talk on Instagram and all over the place talking about this year of the fire wars that's coming.
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Nicole Laino: And I think we spoke on a recent episode, I think probably in my transit episode with Christina, that it felt like it was off to a slow start, that we had all of this fire horse messaging.
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Nicole Laino: But did we really feel this big kickoff right into this?
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Nicole Laino: Because we talked about the year of the fire horse being passion, being very centered around going after what you want.
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Nicole Laino: Unbridled freedom, you know, really needing to.
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Nicole Laino: You know, it's like when a horse hasn't run for a long time.
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Nicole Laino: It needs to open it up, it needs to feel that speed.
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Nicole Laino: It needs to move and to move pretty constantly.
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Nicole Laino: There's a lot of that action oriented aspect to it.
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Nicole Laino: And then we had the fire element to it, which is very initiating, very activating and very physical.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: So we have all of these pieces together.
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Nicole Laino: And the first quarter of the year, how did it feel for you?
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Nicole Laino: Do you feel like this was very fire horse year?
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Nicole Laino: Were you feeling like a fire horse yourself?
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Nicole Laino: I was saying in my episode with Christina that I felt like the fire horse singed me as soon as it started.
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Nicole Laino: It was almost like it was a very abrupt shift for me in particular, where I felt like going from that watery element of Pisces season into this fire element into this action felt even more jarring than it usually does.
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Nicole Laino: And one of the things that I want to share some of my reflections that I've had on how things are going since this big shift happened, since we crossed over from all of these feelings of like last year and then we have the 2027 change coming.
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Nicole Laino: I've been Doing a lot of reflecting, a lot of being aware of how I feel, of what my patterns are.
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Nicole Laino: And when were talking, if you go way back to, like, December, when I was doing episodes about the year of the fire horse, the year of the wood snake, I was saying, now is the time to clear out anything that is holding you back, anything that you haven't dealt with.
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Nicole Laino: All of that wood snake, shedding energy, now's the time to shed.
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Nicole Laino: Because when the fire horse comes, there's not going to be time to shed.
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Nicole Laino: You're not going to feel like you can.
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Nicole Laino: And I have greater clarity on that now that we're in it, because now we're here.
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Nicole Laino: And one of the things that has been standing out to me when, with all of this, is how the energy is moving us so quickly, how we are being.
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Nicole Laino: The energy is supporting a lot of movement.
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Nicole Laino: But let's talk about, like, the human design transits for a moment here, too, because I always say that I used to in my earlier days of finding human design and discovering transits and discovering connection charts and how when I'm around somebody who has a defined head that activates my defined head, I remember this feeling like I got something I was missing.
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Nicole Laino: So I would, like, mark my calendar, be like, ooh, I'm gonna get a defined head this day.
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Nicole Laino: So I bet I'm gonna be, like, super on it.
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Nicole Laino: And I'm gonna, like, be able to channel my thoughts out of my voice.
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Nicole Laino: Like, it'll all come through and I'm gonna have all these insights.
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Nicole Laino: Well, it doesn't always happens.
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Nicole Laino: And what I've learned from years now of doing this work is that you kind of never know what it's gonna feel like until it gets here.
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Nicole Laino: Cause I've had a defined head a million times.
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Nicole Laino: I've had a defined head using all the different gates a million times.
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Nicole Laino: And every time, it's different.
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Nicole Laino: Every time, these transits hit us differently.
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Nicole Laino: And this is kind of one of those things where you don't know until you feel it.
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Nicole Laino: So I'm curious, ask yourself right now, how has this felt?
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Nicole Laino: One thing that I can reflect on is I have had a lot going on.
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Nicole Laino: Like, we've been doing a lot in our business.
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Nicole Laino: Like, has been moving very quickly.
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Nicole Laino: But it's also.
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Nicole Laino: I have gotten swept up in it.
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Nicole Laino: I have gotten really caught up in it.
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Nicole Laino: And there have been times where I've almost not made time for.
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Nicole Laino: I always do it, My breath works, my meditations.
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Nicole Laino: But there's been this thing in me that's Been like, no, no, no, you got to get back to work.
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Nicole Laino: And it's so funny because I don't have that feeling often.
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Nicole Laino: This is one of those subtleties that I notice in the energy.
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Nicole Laino: I have noticed getting a little bit more caught up in momentum, which is great if that momentum is clean.
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Nicole Laino: But if we didn't clear out what we had to clear out in December, boy, is it going to show up now.
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Nicole Laino: Are you seeing it?
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Nicole Laino: Ask yourself right now, am I seeing patterns and shadows get really brought up.
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Nicole Laino: But the energy is moving so fast, it almost feels like I can't unwind it.
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Nicole Laino: This is one of those things that I'm noticing that I'm like, I'm glad I did so much inner work.
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Nicole Laino: And I'm also seeing where I missed things, but I am kind of calling myself to slow down.
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Nicole Laino: But it's not easy.
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Nicole Laino: So we're never not able to do the things that we need to do because it's not the year of the snake anymore.
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Nicole Laino: Of course you can still do healing work.
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Nicole Laino: Of course you can still shed patterns.
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Nicole Laino: Of course you can still heal.
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Nicole Laino: We heal in all environments in all times.
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Nicole Laino: But the difference is the energy supporting it and making that an easy process or is it making it harder?
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Nicole Laino: To me, I feel like it makes it harder.
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Nicole Laino: I feel like I have to be much more focused and devoted to that work in order to do it.
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Nicole Laino: I have to.
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Nicole Laino: My mind really wants to take over.
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Nicole Laino: My fire energy really wants to take over and just go, go.
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Nicole Laino: So we have to find balance in these moments.
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Nicole Laino: So I'm hoping that this episode serves as a little bit of a call to you to.
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Nicole Laino: To just feel into.
8:44
Nicole Laino: Do you feel like you are riding on the back of a wild horse right now and like maybe your legs aren't on?
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Nicole Laino: I remember going to.
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Nicole Laino: We were in Jamaica years ago and went swimming on horses.
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Nicole Laino: So you rode the horses into the beach, into the ocean, bareback, and you just hung onto their mane and they swam and you had to hold on for dear life.
9:09
Nicole Laino: And you really need good thigh muscles because you have to really hold onto the body of that horse because you have the force of the water.
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Nicole Laino: The force of that water is just pushing you off as this giant beast of animal, this thousand pound animal is cutting through the water with all of its power.
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Nicole Laino: And I can remember seeing my husband in front of me.
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Nicole Laino: He wasn't my husband at the time were dating, but I remember it was so funny because he couldn't stay on.
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Nicole Laino: He didn't get thrown off, but he was like hanging on by the maneuver and his legs were just straight out behind him like Superman.
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Nicole Laino: He's holding on and he's just getting dragged and he can't get his legs down.
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Nicole Laino: Do you feel like that a little bit?
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Nicole Laino: Do you feel a little like my husband riding on a runaway horse?
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Nicole Laino: Do you feel like that right now?
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Nicole Laino: And if you do, it's your call to make some space to shift that energy.
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Nicole Laino: What are you noticing that needs to be adjusted?
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Nicole Laino: What in your energy does not feel like it's supporting the fast ride that we are on in 2026 of what this is really going to feel like.
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Nicole Laino: And then the strategies.
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Nicole Laino: Now we're going into Q2.
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Nicole Laino: This is what we're in it.
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Nicole Laino: We are in quarter two.
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Nicole Laino: And quarter two is all about taking all the things that we thought about, all the plans we had and now is the time to really make them happen.
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Nicole Laino: Now is the time to put action behind them, to concretize those plans, to do the things that you said you would do to really start to lay foundations for what the rest of the year is going to look like.
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Nicole Laino: I know it felt maybe Q1 is for that.
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Nicole Laino: But Q1 is so much more about ideating.
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Nicole Laino: We're kind of figuring it all out, which is why it does help us to come in with a little bit of a plan.
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Nicole Laino: So Q1 can be a little more elegant.
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Nicole Laino: This is what I teach my clients.
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Nicole Laino: This is why we work the way we work.
11:06
Nicole Laino: This is why I invest in mentors, in programs.
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Nicole Laino: And I hope you do as well.
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Nicole Laino: Because as business owners, it's so easy to get caught up in the minutiae of it all.
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Nicole Laino: It's so easy to drift off and forget about what's important.
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Nicole Laino: And it's so easy to get caught up in the moment of today and not plan for tomorrow.
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Nicole Laino: Not be thinking and be forward thinking enough that you'll feel like you're always behind the eight ball.
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Nicole Laino: If you have a strong plan in Q4, I always say, like, your plans have to be flexible, but you should have one because some structure.
11:41
Nicole Laino: Some people balk at the whole.
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Nicole Laino: Like they think that structure or strategy is too masculine.
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Nicole Laino: We need the masculine and the feminine no matter what we do.
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Nicole Laino: We need the masculine and we need the feminine.
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Nicole Laino: One might lead at different times.
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Nicole Laino: There might be.
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Nicole Laino: This is a much more masculine year.
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Nicole Laino: The fire horse is a masculine year.
12:01
Nicole Laino: We are in a yang year.
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Nicole Laino: This is a year of outwardness.
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Nicole Laino: So one of the things that was coming to me this morning was I think in 2026, what I am feeling very deeply is that your business and your brand, they're not going to need more from you necessarily, although they may, but they will demand more of you.
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Nicole Laino: So what's the difference between those two?
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Nicole Laino: Things from you means action, means, you know, you doing more stuff.
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Nicole Laino: I don't believe that.
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Nicole Laino: I think that's the trap we can get caught in.
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Nicole Laino: In 2026, there's going to be a lot of energy.
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Nicole Laino: There's going to be a lot of things that are supporting.
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Nicole Laino: There already are.
12:43
Nicole Laino: And that's why, like, I wanted to revisit this conversation, because we're in it.
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Nicole Laino: You can feel it now.
12:48
Nicole Laino: Feel into does this feel true for you?
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Nicole Laino: Feel into.
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Nicole Laino: Does it feel like I am able to harness this energy or am I on a wild runaway horse?
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Nicole Laino: We don't want that.
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Nicole Laino: So there is a lot of action.
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Nicole Laino: There's going to be a lot of things getting done.
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Nicole Laino: The energy supports that.
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Nicole Laino: It wants you to put a lot out.
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Nicole Laino: However, we don't want it to just be a game of more.
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Nicole Laino: A game of volume, a game of quantity.
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Nicole Laino: I think when we talk about that would be more from you.
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Nicole Laino: I need you to do more.
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Nicole Laino: I need you to be here more.
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Nicole Laino: I need you to get out there more.
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Nicole Laino: That's not what we're talking about here.
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Nicole Laino: What we're talking about is that your business isn't demanding more from you, but it's demanding more of you in 26.
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Nicole Laino: Meaning you have to bring more of yourself to this business.
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Nicole Laino: There's no room for hiding.
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Nicole Laino: Are you noticing that?
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Nicole Laino: There is no room for playing small this year.
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Nicole Laino: There is no room for you hiding or not saying the things that you feel you need to say.
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Nicole Laino: I think this is very much a call of The Phoenix in 2027.
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Nicole Laino: This need for self expression, this need for new voices, this need for us to come out of our shells and not say, oh, I'll leave it to the big ones to take the message.
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Nicole Laino: I'll lead it to the ones that are like, have always been leading.
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Nicole Laino: And I'll defer.
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Nicole Laino: Deferring is over.
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Nicole Laino: Where are you playing small?
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Nicole Laino: Where are you not allowing yourself to take up the space you are meant to take up?
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Nicole Laino: And that is an energetic thing for sure.
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Nicole Laino: That is also an outward thing.
14:23
Nicole Laino: You have to let people know who you are.
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Nicole Laino: You have to step up.
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Nicole Laino: And I don't believe this year is going to be kind to us, those who sit on their truth.
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Nicole Laino: We have to bring more of ourselves to our business.
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Nicole Laino: We have to bring more vulnerability.
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Nicole Laino: We have to bring more of our truth.
14:42
Nicole Laino: We have to bring more of our true mission.
14:44
Nicole Laino: And that's where I think human design is astrology.
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Nicole Laino: And these tools are indispensable now because we have to be able to access that level of ourselves if we're going to share it.
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Nicole Laino: We have to feel safe enough to be able to put out a message that's truly the one that's on our hearts.
15:00
Nicole Laino: And because if you could have done it already, you would have.
15:03
Nicole Laino: But there are things standing in our way.
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Nicole Laino: We have to acknowledge that this year we can dissolve all of those barriers.
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Nicole Laino: But it's not going to just come automatically.
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Nicole Laino: What you're probably finding is that this year it either feels like the fire horse, you're on back of it.
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Nicole Laino: You're on its back.
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Nicole Laino: You're flying off of it and is burning everything in town.
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Nicole Laino: So you feel a little out of control.
15:25
Nicole Laino: But you're on it.
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Nicole Laino: Right?
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Nicole Laino: You're like.
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Nicole Laino: So it feels out of control.
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Nicole Laino: But I'm moving.
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Nicole Laino: Which might feel better to some people after last year.
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Nicole Laino: Maybe you felt like you didn't move.
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Nicole Laino: So this can falsely feel like a positive thing.
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Nicole Laino: But does it feel good?
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Nicole Laino: Are you moving in the direction that you want?
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Nicole Laino: Are you moving and running and not burning everything to the ground?
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Nicole Laino: But there are going to be some things that have to go.
15:48
Nicole Laino: There's going to be some things that you have to bring out.
15:50
Nicole Laino: And there's going to be some things that you need to release.
15:53
Nicole Laino: We can't carry it all with us.
15:56
Nicole Laino: There's going to be things that have to go.
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Nicole Laino: And I think that right now in particular, one of the other key transits that I think shifts things is Neptune moving maybe over a month ago.
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Nicole Laino: Moved from Pisces into Aries.
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Nicole Laino: Neptune.
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Nicole Laino: Is that the planet that puts a fog around things.
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Nicole Laino: It's very mystical.
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Nicole Laino: It is very much the mysterious veil of things.
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Nicole Laino: What is it that is like that we're looking at not seeing the real thing?
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Nicole Laino: Where are we maybe getting caught in the fantasy of it all.
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Nicole Laino: Then it moved into Mars.
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Nicole Laino: Like Pisces.
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Nicole Laino: Is that too.
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Nicole Laino: Neptune rules Pisces.
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Nicole Laino: And when Neptune moves over and moved over into Mars got a very different energy.
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Nicole Laino: It's like that fog started to dissipate.
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Nicole Laino: That veil got lifted on a lot of things.
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Nicole Laino: Maybe some of the spiritual stuff doesn't hang as strong or grab you the same way as it did before.
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Nicole Laino: I get that.
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Nicole Laino: But it's also.
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Nicole Laino: Let's not fall too far over.
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Nicole Laino: Remember, we're supposed to learn the lessons.
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Nicole Laino: There is more out there.
17:03
Nicole Laino: There is More to it than just pure strategy and going after everything that you want.
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Nicole Laino: Now we have to learn to do both.
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Nicole Laino: We have to learn to hold both.
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Nicole Laino: Can we live in the mystery of it all and the potential and the possibility of it all?
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Nicole Laino: Can we allow and allow space and for the truth that there is more to life than what we can see?
17:23
Nicole Laino: But also, like I've been saying for a million years, it doesn't mean that you can sit on a meditation pillow, earn money.
17:29
Nicole Laino: But I think the way that we earn is changing.
17:32
Nicole Laino: I think what we are seeing is there is a currency of truth.
17:37
Nicole Laino: Now, I talked about the difference between the visibility economy and the authority economy.
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Nicole Laino: But your authority is going to be more than just like the stuff that you're good at.
17:46
Nicole Laino: It's going to be your soul's message, your soul's mission.
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Nicole Laino: So that's why the masterclass that I'm doing on the vocation sphere is very timely.
17:58
Nicole Laino: It's not by accident.
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Nicole Laino: It is highly relevant because this is one of those ways.
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Nicole Laino: This is why the way that I teach human design is I think, a very big part of the way forward.
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Nicole Laino: Because it is an inside out approach to business.
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Nicole Laino: It isn't just being like, tell me what your skills are and we'll tell you what's marketable.
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Nicole Laino: That's tempting.
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Nicole Laino: But where things are going, it is going to be your soul's message.
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Nicole Laino: That is the thing that people gravitate toward.
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Nicole Laino: And the only thing that AI doesn't have is a soul.
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Nicole Laino: There's only so many things that AI cannot replace.
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Nicole Laino: And the human heart is one of them.
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Nicole Laino: Your soul's purpose and your soul's mission is one of them.
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Nicole Laino: So we have to start valuing that.
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Nicole Laino: And if you're not able to access your soul's mission, if you're not sure what it is, and we're never sure, by the way, when I just be really clear about that, we're never sure because who's sure about anything?
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Nicole Laino: All we can do is be sure of what we feel right now, trust it, move forward in faith, and have the courage to adjust if it does not feel right again to come at it from a place of grounding.
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Nicole Laino: Those decisions about whether we move forward or we shift something.
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Nicole Laino: Do I pivot or do I continue?
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Nicole Laino: These have to be made from a grounded place, not from a place of lack or fear.
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Nicole Laino: So human design gives us this window that we can start to explore ourselves and start to see what that soul's mission is.
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Nicole Laino: So if you aren't sure, if you aren't feeling connected to it or you're not able to move on it.
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Nicole Laino: Please come to the masterclass.
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Nicole Laino: You will love it.
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Nicole Laino: All you have to do to be there is go to nicolelaino.comvocation or go to Instagram DM me the word vocation.
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