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436: Human Design Motivation and The Shift Into 2026 · 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: I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: And it's just the two of us today where we are actually going to be diving into one of the sneakier, trickier elements of human design.
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Nicole Laino: Obviously, if you're listening to this, on the day that this episode airs, Merry Christmas.
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Nicole Laino: It's Christmas Eve is the day that this episode will be airing.
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Nicole Laino: And obviously we're getting to the end of the year like we are right here.
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Nicole Laino: We can almost taste 2026, right?
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Nicole Laino: And we've talked about the year of the wood snake.
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Nicole Laino: We talked about planning your unshakable year.
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Nicole Laino: We went through a whole episode of Breaking Down.
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Nicole Laino: I was actually talking about how I was shocked when I did a planning session for my clients, Inside Business by Design.
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Nicole Laino: How many people said that no one had ever taught them to plan their year?
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Nicole Laino: Pretty much everybody in the room except for the people who were in BBD last year, and we did the session last year.
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Nicole Laino: So we actually created a guide because we got such great feedback from that episode.
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Nicole Laino: A lot of people that resonated with a lot of people that they hadn't really been taught how to plan out their revenue and plan out their activities so that they could have predictable revenue in the new year.
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Nicole Laino: So we created a guide for you.
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Nicole Laino: We actually create something.
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Nicole Laino: I called it the Unshakable Year Guide.
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Nicole Laino: And it's really just some exercises that you can go through to prepare yourself and.
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Nicole Laino: And start to have some forward outlook for the new year so that you are not reactive in 2026, that you can be intentional with the actions that you're taking.
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Nicole Laino: If you'd like that guide, just go to nicolelaino.com newyear or DM me the words New Year 2026 on Instagram.
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Nicole Laino: I'm icoleno official and you can get it over there.
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Nicole Laino: So New Year, you can get the guide if you're still planning.
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Nicole Laino: But this is a time.
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Nicole Laino: It's almost like this is the point where we start to lean back a little bit and we're going to shift our energy into more of an openness of letting go of some of the things of 2025, which there were a lot go to the episode that I did on the Year of the Woodsnake.
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Nicole Laino: But what I wanted to draw attention to because I've been noticing this with clients, I've noticed this with myself because this is one of the sneakiest elements of human design.
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Nicole Laino: I think it's one of the hardest ones for people to really.
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Nicole Laino: You can't plan for it.
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Nicole Laino: There's no process necessarily for you to be thinking about this all the time.
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Nicole Laino: Usually this is an element that you catch after you're already kind of not in a great place with it.
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Nicole Laino: And that's just normal because it's so under the surface that this is why it's so sneaky and why it can really get in your way.
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Nicole Laino: I usually notice it when I starting to not feel so great.
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Nicole Laino: I'm starting to like I can feel when I'm off with it.
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Nicole Laino: And I wanted to draw attention to this because I think as we are in this interim period between the 2025 year that we're all trying to close out well, and then the 2026 year that we want maybe to be different or better than 2025 was that can cause a real energetic kind of crunchiness.
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Nicole Laino: And this particular human design element I see creep up in everybody's stuff.
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Nicole Laino: So this is something that, you know, with my clients, I always have their charts up, but I'm really noticing this with myself and catching myself in it.
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Nicole Laino: And I wanted to bring it to your attention so that you could be aware.
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Nicole Laino: Okay.
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Nicole Laino: So the element that I'm talking about that's sneaky is motivation.
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Nicole Laino: Now, if you run your chart on our chart tool, you go to nicolelaino.com chart you'll run a report on our site and you'll get an advanced report.
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Nicole Laino: You won't always get these details in the reports from the other chart tools, but ours will give it to you.
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Nicole Laino: So if you don't know what yours.
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Nicole Laino: Is, if you don't know what your human design motivation is, then please go run your chart on our website, because I know it will give it to you there.
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Nicole Laino: Okay.
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Nicole Laino: So the human design motivation is something that we call below the line.
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Nicole Laino: It's underneath.
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Nicole Laino: So I'm a five one underneath that line.
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Nicole Laino: So even below that level, we're getting more and more differentiated.
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Nicole Laino: This is what we call a variable human sign motivation is a variable.
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Nicole Laino: I'm not going to go into all of the details about motivation because I actually did a really detailed episode on this and we'll link it up in the show notes for you below.
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Nicole Laino: But the episode was episode 316.
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Nicole Laino: 316.
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Nicole Laino: It was part of our variable series, where I did a whole series on each of the sections of variable, and we even created a guide and everything for you there.
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Nicole Laino: We'll link that up in the show notes as well.
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Nicole Laino: But please go back and listen to that episode.
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Nicole Laino: If you're not familiar with motivation, I'm going to kind of jump into how you work with it and sort of assume that you have the basic understanding of motivation.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so for motivation, why it's so sneaky.
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Nicole Laino: What motivation is in a very short description is in a very unconscious level.
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Nicole Laino: There is something.
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Nicole Laino: There is a particular way that you feel like the wind is at your back when you're working or when you're doing things.
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Nicole Laino: There's a specific way that you are motivated.
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Nicole Laino: That's where the term motivation comes from.
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Nicole Laino: Although it's like.
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Nicole Laino: It's not an external motivation of like, I'm motivated to get something.
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Nicole Laino: This is an internal mechanism that's saying, like, you are motivated by this type of energy.
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Nicole Laino: And when you're in this energy, things are easy.
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Nicole Laino: And when you are in.
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Nicole Laino: It's what we call transference, things will be harder for you.
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Nicole Laino: Now, transference is the opposite of your motivation.
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Nicole Laino: Don't worry, I'm going to tell you what they are so you don't have to know that part.
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Nicole Laino: What I notice is that whenever you're in transference, and this is just global thing, this is, you know, not just me, and this isn't just something that's happening at the end of the year, but I notice it creep up at the end of the year.
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Nicole Laino: Because whenever we're in high stress, maybe thinking a lot, thinking will always drive usually into our transference.
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Nicole Laino: That there is a particular way that we pump the brakes, that we make things harder for ourselves, that we want to go in a direction, we want to achieve something, we want to do something, but part of us is holding back because we're actually approaching it wrong.
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Nicole Laino: The.
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Nicole Laino: This is honestly really what human design is all about.
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Nicole Laino: Human design is all about helping you understand what your way is not the way.
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Nicole Laino: Because there is no the way.
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Nicole Laino: There's a the way for you, there's a the way for me, there's a the way for everybody else in this world.
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Nicole Laino: And it's a very individual process.
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Nicole Laino: What makes it so powerful is, I think so many people have gone through life.
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Nicole Laino: And certainly when we get into a world like when we're trying to achieve, whether you are in the corporate world and you're looking to, you know, be a top performer there so you're ambitious or you're an entrepreneur where your livelihood depends on you growing and expanding yourself as a human as well as a business person.
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Nicole Laino: When we're committed to that kind of work, we can certainly find ourselves taking advice of other people and finding that advice doesn't work.
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Nicole Laino: But it worked for other people.
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Nicole Laino: It worked for, you know, thousands of testimonials that say that it was the greatest thing that ever happened to them.
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Nicole Laino: And for us, it falls flat.
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Nicole Laino: It's not you, it's that the advice.
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Nicole Laino: And probably some of it resonated for you, but some of it didn't.
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Nicole Laino: And motivation is one of those things where I think is one of our.
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Nicole Laino: It tells us what our kind of inherent way of getting into the energy of frictionless movement.
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Nicole Laino: Okay?
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Nicole Laino: That's really what it represents.
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Nicole Laino: You'll find that if you are in your motivation, like if you are in the energy of your motivation, things will be easy.
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Nicole Laino: And if you're in the transference, the opposite of it, things will be inherently hard.
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Nicole Laino: It'll just.
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Nicole Laino: Everything will feel hard.
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Nicole Laino: And usually you'll start to feel a little crazy because on that unconscious level, it just.
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Nicole Laino: Everything feels shaky.
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Nicole Laino: Right?
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so I'm gonna go through what the motivation is and what its transference is.
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Nicole Laino: So the transference is what I want you to pay attention to.
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Nicole Laino: I want you to pay attention to, am I in the opposite of what I'm supposed to be, which is causing problems for me?
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Nicole Laino: So just take note.
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Nicole Laino: Okay?
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Nicole Laino: So the first motivation is fear.
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Nicole Laino: Now, fear, people.
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Nicole Laino: You're meant to make a plan.
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Nicole Laino: If you're not planning in for 2026, and you aren't kind of getting your ducks in a row, and you aren't looking forward to create safety and stability for yourself, then you're probably not in the right energy for you.
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Nicole Laino: Things probably don't feel great.
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Nicole Laino: And the transference for this is need.
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Nicole Laino: You're waiting for something to come to tell you that you need to do it.
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Nicole Laino: For something to present itself, for someone to tell you that they need something, you're more in response to the outside world versus formulating a plan to create stability and safety for yourself.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, so if you're fear and you're more like reactionary to need, then you're in your transference.
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Nicole Laino: And you want to figure out what would make you feel safe, what would make you feel strong.
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Nicole Laino: Right?
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Nicole Laino: The second motivation is hope.
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Nicole Laino: Hope, people.
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Nicole Laino: You're just sort of mentally.
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Nicole Laino: You'd be like, it's all going to work out.
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Nicole Laino: I know it's going to work out there's this positivity.
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Nicole Laino: Cultivate that positivity.
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Nicole Laino: Right now your transference is guilt.
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Nicole Laino: Guilt is where you want to fix things.
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Nicole Laino: You want to, like, you want to break it all down and you want to make it solid and you want to.
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Nicole Laino: The guilt is like, you want to take on responsibility for so many things that you lose the energy of hope that you're really meant to be in.
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Nicole Laino: So if you are a hope person, cultivating this, like, you know, really looking out and saying, you know, having.
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Nicole Laino: How can I get into the energy of.
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Nicole Laino: It's all working out in my favor.
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Nicole Laino: Everything is happening.
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Nicole Laino: It's all happening for my highest good.
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Nicole Laino: This is great.
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Nicole Laino: This is great.
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Nicole Laino: This is great.
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Nicole Laino: I don't know how it's gonna work out, but it's gonna work out.
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Nicole Laino: You can still plan, you can still do all that, but it's just gotta be in the energy of like, I've got this, the universe has my back.
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Nicole Laino: Right?
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Nicole Laino: The third motivation is desire.
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Nicole Laino: Desire is just, I want it.
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Nicole Laino: Don't do things because you have to.
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Nicole Laino: Don't put things on your plan because they should be there.
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Nicole Laino: Put them there because you want them.
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Nicole Laino: Have an unbridled and unapologetic list of things that you desire to have.
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Nicole Laino: People with desire motivation, they want more and they always want more.
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Nicole Laino: And the key is not to feel bad about that because the transference is innocence.
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Nicole Laino: When you.
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Nicole Laino: Which says, we'll just do the right thing, Innocence just says like, I actually, it's not about my wants.
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Nicole Laino: It's about the fact that this is the right thing to do.
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Nicole Laino: And it feels good.
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Nicole Laino: It feels good.
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Nicole Laino: It feels like we're doing the right thing, the good thing.
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Nicole Laino: So if you're a desire person and you are maybe feeling bad about having too many wants and you're saying like, no, I just feel like this is the right thing and, you know, this will be a good thing for everyone.
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Nicole Laino: No, not your way.
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Nicole Laino: You're probably going to have a hard time walking with that type of motivation.
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Nicole Laino: It's going to stop you.
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Nicole Laino: Okay, the fourth motivation is need.
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Nicole Laino: So now we have.
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Nicole Laino: Need is the motivation and the transference for this one is fear.
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Nicole Laino: So if you're a need person, you being able to plan everything out to a T probably isn't going to happen.
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Nicole Laino: And if you get all worked up, everybody can still plan.
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Nicole Laino: I still recommend that everybody have an intentional outlook of the things that you are going to do so that you don't drive yourself crazy.
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Nicole Laino: Okay?
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Nicole Laino: But a need person is probably going to have a harder time planning super far out and keeping that plan exactly the same because they're sort of assessing the needs as they go.
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Nicole Laino: And we don't want to get obsessive about, you know, I have to have a plan so I feel safe.
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Nicole Laino: That's not why you plan.
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Nicole Laino: You plan to be intentional.
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Nicole Laino: You plan.
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Nicole Laino: So the energy behind it has to be different.
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Nicole Laino: I'm a need person.
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Nicole Laino: And if I get too caught up in, like, I've got to have it all down, I've got it.
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Nicole Laino: Like, I don't feel safe without it.
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Nicole Laino: I know I'm in my transference.
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Nicole Laino: And transference happens all the time for all of us.
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Nicole Laino: Nobody is out of their transference.
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Nicole Laino: I don't care what they tell you.
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Nicole Laino: We're all in it.
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Nicole Laino: It's just how long you stay there.
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Nicole Laino: Do you notice it?
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Nicole Laino: I notice it.
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Nicole Laino: Sometimes I don't notice it right away.
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Nicole Laino: And I'm like, oh, shit, I'm totally in my transference right now.
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Nicole Laino: I'm totally in, you know, what do we do if this bad thing happens?
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Nicole Laino: Let's have a plan for that.
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Nicole Laino: Not my way.
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Nicole Laino: My way is that I know that I will assess the need when it happens and I will be fine.
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Nicole Laino: That's how I work.
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Nicole Laino: It's so easy for me.
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Nicole Laino: When a need presents itself, I just go, it just happens.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: The fifth motivation is guilt.
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Nicole Laino: So now we're working our way backwards here.
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Nicole Laino: Now, guilt, we talked about guilt as the transference to hope.
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Nicole Laino: So the transference to guilt is hope.
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Nicole Laino: If you are a guilt person, then you should kind of be looking at what do you want to fix, what needs fixing, what are you going to correct?
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Nicole Laino: What are we going to do to make it better for everybody?
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Nicole Laino: This is like, you know, a guilt person might be looking at their program or something that they're working on and be like, how can we improve this?
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Nicole Laino: Guilt is like, improving it, but usually not for yourself necessarily.
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Nicole Laino: So if you're in hope where you're just like, it's all gonna work out, that's kind of not your way.
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Nicole Laino: Your way is going to be a little bit more critical and less laid back.
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Nicole Laino: Guilt's intense.
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Nicole Laino: So if you have that motivation, then look at things like, you know, what can be fixed, what can be improved, and really take a look at it through that lens.
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Nicole Laino: The last one is innocence.
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Nicole Laino: So here we go again.
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Nicole Laino: Innocence.
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Nicole Laino: The transference of innocence is desire.
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Nicole Laino: If you are an innocence person and you are having a hard time coming up with a list of all the things that you want, probably it's because that's not really what gets you going.
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Nicole Laino: That's not really what motivates you.
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Nicole Laino: What motivates you is doing the right thing, what needs to be done, what's the vision?
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Nicole Laino: What's the right thing to do?
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Nicole Laino: I always think of, like, sometimes it's helpful.
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Nicole Laino: It's almost like when we do the work with the Gene Keys, you know, we can look at the shadow and the gift, but the one that can really give you the full picture of what it's all about can be the city.
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Nicole Laino: The city can tell us when we go all the way to, like, the highest gift that this can be.
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Nicole Laino: It's like, okay, I get it now.
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Nicole Laino: I get the essence of it.
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Nicole Laino: And then we can back our way into the lower frequencies like the gift and the shadow, to understand it gives a greater context, I think, with innocence, you know, if we shoot to, like, the.
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Nicole Laino: The greater thing for humanity would be, like, the ultimate gift for this, right?
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Nicole Laino: So it's doing it for the sake of everybody else more than yourself.
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Nicole Laino: It is a very unselfish energy.
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Nicole Laino: And desire is exactly the opposite.
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Nicole Laino: It's the selfish stuff.
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Nicole Laino: So if you find yourself maybe being caught up in other people's guidance about going after what you want, you know, if you listen to podcasts and you listen to people on Instagram and you read their stuff and you're watching YouTube and you're.
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Nicole Laino: You're taking all of this stuff and you see people doing something a certain way that might be their way, or they could be horribly misaligned and just hustling through and making it look good for the cameras, which happens.
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Nicole Laino: Let's be real here.
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Nicole Laino: I'm not saying everybody does it, but people do it.
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Nicole Laino: For sure.
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Nicole Laino: There's a highlight reel out there.
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Nicole Laino: Absolutely.
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Nicole Laino: So what I want you to do, though, is recognize that what our tendency can be is to emulate what other people are doing, or, oh, they gave me this exercise, so I'm going to do it.
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Nicole Laino: Or this is how they're approaching it.
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Nicole Laino: I should care about that, too.
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Nicole Laino: I should do it that way, too.
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Nicole Laino: And that's not necessarily totally true.
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Nicole Laino: I still listen to things, right?
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Nicole Laino: I still listen to podcasts.
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Nicole Laino: I still take information.
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Nicole Laino: I read books.
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Nicole Laino: I do all of that stuff.
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Nicole Laino: It fuels me in a lot of ways.
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Nicole Laino: I have an open head.
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Nicole Laino: I have to take things in from others, otherwise I won't have anything to chew on.
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Nicole Laino: It's just I'm selective about what I do.
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Nicole Laino: But I'm also.
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Nicole Laino: The whole time, I'm always thinking, is that for me?
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Nicole Laino: Is that for me like that, or Do I need to shift it to make it for me?
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Nicole Laino: I'm not just blindly taking advice and emulating or trying to copy what other people are doing.
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Nicole Laino: So that's an important part that I think we can get swept up in the herd.
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Nicole Laino: And it's important.
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Nicole Laino: I think motivation is one of those things.
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Nicole Laino: Like if you are an innocence person and the advice you're being given is more about want more, grow, you know, go after it.
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Nicole Laino: If your goals aren't your own and they're.
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Nicole Laino: This goes for everybody, but especially this innocence with desire as the transference.
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Nicole Laino: If your goals aren't your own, where they ring true to you, like this matters, if they don't matter on like a heart level, then you're probably in your transference and you'll find that everything is harder.
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Nicole Laino: So as we come to the end of the year, as we are wrapping all of this up, I want you to just notice and going into the new year, notice, am I in this transferred energy?
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Nicole Laino: Because if I am, I'm misaligned on a really fundamental base level.
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Nicole Laino: And if you're misaligned from that level, then you can find it hard to get anything to work on the other levels.
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Nicole Laino: Again, I say it's sneaky because it's sneaky.
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Nicole Laino: It's really not in your face.
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Nicole Laino: You have to pay attention to what's motivating you, not even what you're doing.
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Nicole Laino: It's what is the energy beneath the action?
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Nicole Laino: Is it in alignment with fear, hope, desire, need, guilt or innocence?
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Nicole Laino: And is that your motivation or is it the transference of it?
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Nicole Laino: Okay, I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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