Diary of a CEO Meets a Defined Heart in Human Design [E30]

Apple thinks this show sits between Diary of a CEO and The Astrology Podcast—and maybe it does. In this impromptu episode, I unpack what that means, what’s coming next, and why consistency isn’t what you think.

Topics include:

• What the Defined Heart really means in Human Design
• Why algorithms misread frequency-led business
• Consistency, strategy and identity during the Cancer-Capricorn axis
• When Chief Energy Officer needs to become Chief Executive Officer

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Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Unscripted Path. The majority of my listeners on this podcast listen on Apple Podcasts. So I decided to check out what I look like on Apple. As a listener, I'm always doing that to make sure that the formatting is cool. And I noticed that, at least for me, what was recommended to me, as in, if you like this podcast, you might also like. And what was recommended to me is The Astrology Podcast by Chris Brennan and Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett. If you know what any of those podcasts are, you know how interesting that is and how amusing that is. And yet, that should not surprise you, considering my background and what I talk about on this podcast. So that was the inspiration for this podcast. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about so much more, including of what to expect for the rest of the summer, the Defined Heart and a bunch of other stuff and the way that I do. Quick caveat is that this was recorded in my car, so the sound quality may not be perfection.

Hey everyone, welcome back for the podcast or to the podcast. I should say I'll keep this brief since I'm recording this on my phone, unplanned in my car and in order to have no air conditioning screw up the sound. I'm sitting in a hot car on a 90 degree day and sweating my butt off. I was thinking about the order of operations for my podcasts as I'm figuring out the next couple episodes, what works, and I'm taking a break for my cancer summer series. They're already like three more episodes recorded, but I'm taking a break and I'll let you know about that in the future. And I'm only releasing a few select episodes between now and the unofficial end of Summer, which in my world and my corner of the world is roughly the second week of September. Because we're going to go nourish, we're going to go with the flow. And the flow of summer is especially July, and August is quite chill. There's a very specific thing happening on Monday, July 7th that will affect the period of time from Monday, July 7th through the period of time that I'm speaking of. Did I do that on purpose? No. Our energy is real. Yes. So I'll drop that episode on Monday. And one of the reasons I was concerned about dropping that episode is because it is an astrology episode. It is about something major happening. If you track astrology, you know, and if not, you're going to know soon enough.

And this is not an astrology podcast, and I have a lot of reviews that speak to my knowledge of astrology. And that's great. And there'll be another way for people who want to be in my world about that, to be in my world about that. And so I have to kind of be, you know, there's time to be chief energy officer. We've talked about this. There's time to be chief executive officer. We've talked about this. So this month we have this axis of cancer. Capricorn. The new moon was in cancer. The full moon is in Capricorn. Capricorn. Business and structure. Strategic planning. Saturn. Land. Cancer is feminine energy. Go with the flow. Kind of like this. Father. Father. Mother archetype. An outdated archetype. But you get. You get the analogy. There's times to hang out on the couch and eat chips and take care of yourself. And there are times where you're like, I'm setting the alarm, I'm getting to the gym. And both are really, really important parts of enjoying life in my corner of the world, my little corner of the internet. So I was thinking about the CEO part, and I was concerned about sharing any more astrology content in a row on this podcast, because it signals the wrong message to the bees about what this is, and it also signals the wrong message to the algorithm. Even podcasts have an algorithm. But I wanted to share this with you, because what was really interesting about that is the episodes that were suggested.

So I went on Apple. I was going to Apple to see how updates I make look. The show notes look one way. Formatted in my player. But then I go on Apple and they look like a mess. The majority of people listen on Apple, so I'm always checking me out on Apple to see what other people see. And what's really interesting is, at least for me, the suggestions that popped up. Like, if you like my podcast, you also might like were diary of CEO, which is Stephen Bartletts podcast. I'm sure you know about it. If you're an entrepreneur and a couple of other really popular astrology podcast. One is Shami Shani. She's a famous astrologer. I'm not going to get into it if people ask me about her. I have no comment. And the Astrology Podcast by Chris I can't remember his name right now. Chris Brenner hugely popular podcast. It's why everyone in their 20s thinks they're a Hellenistic astrologer because his podcast is Hellenistic astrology, a very specific sect of ancient astrology he's trying to bring back. Maybe he succeeded in that because the next generation is now doing that form of astrology, albeit their only training is having listened to a podcast. Don't get me started. So I thought that was really interesting. When you think about that spectrum of energy and business diary of a CEO that's interviewing some of the, quote, most successful people out there in terms of business.

And then you have an astrology podcast and I'm somewhere in the middle, and that is something I am struggling with. And the next couple of episodes all have a theme. They all have to do with the notion of Aquarius. And what is Aquarius? Aquarius is unusual. Aquarius is the future. Aquarius is not what we currently do. Aquarius was typically associated with weird. It is ruled in modern times by Uranus, which is a planet that rotates on its side backwards. And that's a harbinger or a omen or a more positive thing would be that's a hint of what's to come. So I thought that was fascinating. Maybe you don't. But I just wanted to share that with you, because that is part of what I'm trying to do with this podcast. And we're still in beta. I think this episode will be the 30th episode. We're out of beta, but, you know, we're kind of in there. And now I'm going to be start taking a step back and then taking a step forward. What do I want to do with this? And who are the bees I want to attract? We've talked about planting bees and planting flowers for bees. And that's business. And people talk a lot about diary of a CEO, and I'm not a huge fan of that podcast. I don't listen to business podcasts, to be honest, because a lot of them, I've been in the business world for a long time.

And that's not to say I know everything, but I don't think there's anything new under the sun with marketing anything that's new as AI and social media. I'm not a huge proponent of social media. It's not going to be a huge part of my brand. And if it is, it's going to be somebody else managing it. And I, I am learning on my own and doing stuff with AI both in and out of this project. I is the future, AI is robots. Robots are also Aquarius. So to me, it's a lot of really successful people talking to other really successful people about their wounds in their life and how they were able to use those wounds often to be successful. We often see, and it's been proven by science that some of the most successful people have extreme impostor syndrome built into them. They're trying to prove the world wrong. They're trying to prove somebody else wrong. They actually care a lot about what other people think. And that is a whole other conversation about the defined heart in human design, where which we'll talk about. I have so much stuff to share with you guys. I don't even know. I don't know. I'm going to have to figure out what's what's going to be private program, what's going to be free content, what's going to be, you know, maybe a sub feed.

There's just so much to share. But the defined heart is a lot to do with people. Talk a lot about being willpower. As one of the rare people who have a defined heart defined how it is about 28% of the population if the math is correct. I do not agree with that. Most of the people talking about the defined heart don't have one. Defined heart is not about willpower. Discipline is present in all of us. I don't wake up in the morning and say, I want to go to the gym because I have a defined heart. No, my ass is there because I want to get something done. To me, willpower in human design has to do with will you do things in a certain way? That is sometimes would be considered stubborn. It's this tenacity meets stubbornness meets competition with yourself that's really hard to articulate, because the words that we use don't really. It's not willpower, it's will. And what is will. Will is like the will to do it my way, I guess. And I've had that since I was born. Because your human design chart is a signature. More to come on the defined heart and more to come on the centers. But the reason I share that is because a lot of the people we look up to have extreme wounds around personal validation. And so that's what we're talked about a lot.

And I just I'm kind of thinking about the fact like wouldn't it be great if we don't have to get to 40? I mean, I happen to be closing in on 48, but that's not the point. Wouldn't it be great to be closing in on whatever and not have to say, well, I'm really successful, but I got here by being wounded. The sad truth is, if they were actually more healthy, they probably actually wouldn't be on that podcast and they wouldn't be labeled successful in our society, because a lot of what's labeled successful in our society is toxic as fuck. And so I just wanted to share that with you and share what to expect. So I'm going to be dropping an episode on Monday. I'll be dropping a part two to that on eight eight. I'll be dropping a birthday message to you, and then I'll be dropping a final in the series on 99. These dates kind of wrote themselves, and obviously there's meaning associated with that. And those are a series of four four as a foundation. We've talked about this before. Capricorn is a foundation. One plus three equals 413, which is the death card in the Tarot of Death and rebirth. And transformation adds up to four. So does 1111 add up to four? So does two. Two add up to four. And that's what. Will be. It'll be a four part series. The first two parts will be related, and the second two parts will be related.

And it's going to add up to four. And I talked about this in an 1111 episode linked below, and I talked about the death card and to come backwards to go forwards. This whole thing was inspired by a I was going to do a Friday the 13th episode. Well, that Friday the 13th episode never happened, but I did drop an episode about 13 and Venus and Jupiter and Cancer and Jupiter is in cancer for 13 months. So that's interesting, isn't it? So that episode will drop on the next Friday the 13th. If you have the astrology knowledge to know when that is, your mind will be blown. Are there coincidences? No. So much more to share about that. Which I'll be talking about folks in a more intimate container if they're interested. I'll let you know about that. And I'll also be dropping my astrology activation readings. Finally, when I drop the episode next week and that will be the way to work with me 1 to 1 in that container. And that is easy. You can just book that. That is just a reading or an activation. It is not something we have to jump on the phone for. I'm not currently doing any 1 to 1 work. That is long term. I'm only opening that up at the end of September, so I'll let you know about that. So quick update because you've heard from me a lot relatively quickly.

And then I was absent for a while. And that's what the summer is going to be. And I don't think that consistency is about doing things weekly or daily or blah blah blah. I think consistency is about consistency over time. So while I will be more regular as a general rule with this podcast, while it's in season, then I will be for the next two months. I think the whole notion of consistency, when it doesn't come to things like you have to do on the daily, like going to the gym or gardening or anything, or you don't have a. Choice. I think it's up to you what consistency looks like. And I get to decide what consistency looks like for this podcast. And in doing so. I may turn a lot of people off because humans are simple people and we like routine, so people like to know what they can expect from you and when. So I'm letting you know what to expect from me and when. And so you're going to grow a podcast a lot faster with weekly or twice a week or whatever. There's some SEO juice associated with that. There's tactical reasons associated with that. And then there's consistency reasons and human behavior reasons. And there's a reason I'm sharing that with you is as you become the CEO of whatever you're doing in life, I would say it's the CEO of your life, If not the CEO of your business.

Irony. I'm talking about diary of a CEO. Because the first podcast episode for this first version of the podcast was the aligned CEO, and it was a play on words. It was chief energy officer, chief executive officer of your life, chief executive officer of your business, chief executive officer of all the parts of your body, and chief executive officer of all the parts of your astrology chart, and chief executive officer of all the parts of your human design centers and channels and gates, obviously a little bit too heady for the average person, but you get what I'm saying. So that is what CEO is. What do you want your life to look like? What do you want your business to look like? And I'll leave you with the fact that the cancer part five. Is that right? Yeah. Part five of the series I recorded on the Cancer New Moon. So I talked about Jupiter in cancer. I talked about the sun moving into cancer. Well, then we also had a cancer in the moon. In the midst of all that, we're in the cancer moon cycle right now. A time of death and rebirth for me, and a time of going inward versus outward. So other than a few episodes, I'll be returning in Leo season or even after that. And we talked about Nourishing Self. So in that episode, which will drop in September, and remember that when we have the sun moving into cancer, that is summer solstice.

That is a three month event until we hit fall in the northern hemisphere. So everything is up for grabs in those three months. I consider all of that cancer season. So those episodes will drop in September. They're not about astrology. This is my the ones that I'm going to drop. The episode I'm going to drop on Monday is my last Astro transmission, and I will share with you at that time, if you want to stay in my world, to gain more insights for me in this way. And those will drop in September. And one of them, the cancer one had to do with mothers, it had to do with cycles, and it had to do with the notion of what game are you playing? It was recorded on the control room. That has nothing to do with cancer. And so at any time in life, what game are you playing in business? What game are you playing? There are rules to every game. You don't have to play by the rules. But if you want to be conventionally successful, some rules you have to play by. And so at any given time you're deciding that for yourself. So one of the things I'd like for you to be thinking about is what game are you playing right now? What are the rules of that game and what are the rules that you have to do? What are the rules that people tell you to do but you don't actually have to do? And what are the rules that you want to do? And when you can find the balance of those three, I think that's when you're going to stick for something, stick with something for a long time.

Because to wrap this up, as Saturn is stopping at the time of this podcast dropping and won't move forward again in this place until a hint about the date that I mentioned earlier. Sub hint it has 13 in it. We are now reflecting on that for ourselves. Who is the author of our life? What are the rules of that life? Who is the authority of our life? What is consistency look like and its consistency over time? There's a reason that Saturn rules Father Time. It's because if you don't stick to the thing for a long time, you're not going to get the results. I keep mentioning I want to go back to the gym, and now that I finally got my garden in the ground and done some travel, I'm going to be hitting the gym. Maybe today at the time of this recording, and I could go twice a day for three days. That's not what's going to get me in shape. What's going to get me in shape is going three times a week for 30 years. So maybe I change it up. Maybe I go to do tennis, maybe I do yoga.

That's not the point. The point is you understand that consistency and longevity go together because what do you want to be consistent with. I think we talk a lot about what's going to work. We talk a lot about what's the game, but what about the game of life that you want to play? What are the rules that you want to follow? Because in my world, for me, when I try to follow rules that are not me, I am not going to stick it out to the end. I'm not going to follow through. And that's why I don't like it when people say like, oh, defined hard people have this crazy willpower. I have just as much willpower as everybody else, and so do you. That is a nice way to stay sucked to be like, oh, people with defined hard wake up and they want to like, lift heavy things and they want to clean their car. No, I do that because I want to because I know it's going to make me better, because it's about self-identity. And I don't want human design to get confused with self-identity. Self-identity is the subconscious mind. And the minute you start telling yourself, well, you can do this, I can do this, I can't do this because my design, because my chart, because of this, because of that, throw the fucking shit out the window. That's what makes the stuff look bad to the outside world, because there's a lot of people who decide they want to tune out from reality into this fake world.

That is not fake, it's real. Astrology never ceases to amaze me with timing. I can't even but your self-identity is way more important. What do you think you're capable of? How do you view yourself? And in my world, self-identity comes from your subconscious mind. It also comes from the things we don't know which are well, we can find out, but we don't know it. We don't believe in it. In the conventional space which is past lives, family constellations, ancestral wounds. It's not just this lifetime in my version of the world. So but it's all of it. And the one thing that we can do every single day is focus on our self-identity and become the person we say we're going to be. Do the thing we say we're going to do, which isn't easy. I have my good days and my bad days like anybody else. So. I think that's what I don't really like about the business podcasting space. It's a lot of people who pretend to be perfect at the time. And then 20 years later, you're like, oh, I had a raging pill addiction. I was like, me and my wife didn't get along. I was miserable. I was on the edge of bankruptcy. And you're like, okay, so you just painted this fucking picture for the rest of us.

And it's like, I really hope we're entering a time where I think it's great that there's diary of a CEO, but what about conversations like this between people who are just actually getting going through it? We're not on. We're not selling our company for $5 million. We're not whatever. And I share this, and I'll share this more in the future when the time is right. My chart is the woman who experiences things and reflects. And I'm closing out a company right now. I'm closing out of business as we speak, which is part of the reason I'm away for the summer so I can focus on that. You had to close old doors before you opened new ones. We've heard that before. And, you know, it was a successful project. I did what I wanted to do. I was first to market. I changed an industry. Did I sell it for $5 million? No. Am I in a place where I never have to work again? No. Does that mean it was a failure by a lot of people's eyes? Yes. And the unscripted path is about none of it is a failure. And no one gets to tell you what a failure is other than you. The only person you owe anything to is your future self. I want you to go out feeling like you did everything you wanted to do. In and out of business. In and out of life.

This ended up being an update episode just to let you guys know where I'm at, but it ended up being so much more. So stay tuned for those episodes. Stay tuned for learning about ways to work with me in an Astro activation capacity. If you'd like to, and stay tuned for ways to find out about staying in my world. If you'd like to keep in my orbit of astro updates and only the way that I can do. I'll see you on the next one. Stay tuned for the episode dropping on Monday, July 7th. I'll rarely mentioned dates on this episode, but that is a powerful day that affects you, that affects anybody doing anything different in the world, that affects sales, messaging, marketing, that affects the stories we tell ourselves, which ultimately comes down to self-identity and the meaning we make of things. And that affects anyone trying to do anything different. Because a lot of people that are attracted to me, they are in the old paradigm, but they're building things for the new paradigm. They're changing industries. They're pushing the envelope of what is allowed. They're pushing the envelope of what is acceptable. And it's not an easy place to be because that's when you're mocked. That's when you're misunderstood. That's when you don't have the guides to guide you because they haven't done what you do. And it's not easy, but we're entering a time where it's going to get easier. And that's what we're going to talk about on Monday. See you then.