Ep 1: Welcome to Human Design Field Notes

Sandy: Welcome to Human Design Field Notes. This is where we learn human design in a way that's simple, fun, and actually useful in real life. The kind of thing you can try for yourself, talk about with your girlfriends, and before long, you'll want to know everyone's chart. And I'm not just teaching it, I'm testing it too. I'm rebuilding my coaching business using my own human design and I'll be sharing the field notes as I go. The experiments, the insights, the wins, the mistakes, and probably a few things we can all have a good laugh about. Because human design isn't meant to be stared at on a chart. It's meant to be lived. I'm your host, Sandy Connery. Let's see where this takes us. Episode one, here we go. Welcome. My name is Sandy Connery. I am gonna be your host for this brand new podcast and I am excited. I hope you can tell. Thank you so much for joining me. in this first episode, I am going to keep this fairly brief. I want to talk about the purpose, like why I decided to do this show, what I wanted to do out there in the world. I want to tell you a little bit about my background and story for those of you who may not know me. And third, I want to talk about what is human design. So stick around for that. and then I'm gonna tell you where we're gonna go in the next episode. All right, so This podcast is obviously it's brand new. I'm so excited about it. It was very quick to come to fruition. It it was like last week I decided to do this, and everything kind of happened so fast and so easily. But I really wanted to do this for two reasons. One is to teach my new passion, which is human design. I want to Bring this to all of you so that you can apply it to your business, to your life, to your relationships. I want this to be more like an audio library. For those of you who know me from my previous life, I did a lot of online courses and coaching around strategy and teaching online. And so I love the idea of taking this material, breaking it into very easy to understand chunks. And creating like an audio library where you can return to where each episode is a single topic around human design and because there's so many layers and elements to it, and we're gonna make a lot of a lot of episodes on all those individual things so you can come back and listen or re-listen or send it to a friend who is a reflector or whatever it may be. So really it is about education, keeping taking something that can be quite complicated and overwhelming. And making it super simple and free and easy to access. Two, I'm gonna build up my coaching business this fall. I'm recording this in August of 2026. I have had a coaching business, I'll talk more about that in a second. But I am going to build this new phase of my business using human design, my human design. I am going to give you the behind the scenes. I'm gonna do the trial and error. and share it all with you. I am going to show you how I'm going to do this. And this is very much in line with my profile, which is a one-three for those of you are who are somewhat familiar. I love information and I love applying the information in a like let me go try it kind of way. So that is the second purpose of this is I'm going to be sharing with you the ins and outs, the mistakes I made The things I think I know, but I don't really. And I'm going to let you watch this coaching business grow, hopefully. and I have always loved podcasts that let me peek behind the scenes to give me the you know, the nitty-gritty behind the scenes. I've always loved that. And it really suits my human design to teach in that way. So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk about human design, teach it in very small digestible episodes and at the same time share how I'm using it to build my own business up. Okay, so who the who am I? Who are you, Sandy? Who's doing all the talking here? I have had over twenty years of business now in in my running my own business. I've had everything from a private practice doing gate analysis and customer thoughtic to retail footwear, to two software companies now that I both co-founded, and then on top of that also a coaching business. So most of you in these early stages are probably listening to me because you know of me and of past podcasts and of the coaching company that I used to run with my partner. So we had a software company that still exists and it's running. It's called Marvelous. It's amazing. our clients are mostly women who are building online businesses and wellness. And it's fantastic. But we saw that people were struggling. They were great at what they taught or coached on. a lot of yoga teachers, a lot of Pilates, a lot of life coaches, you know, Ayurvedic practitioners, nutritionists, those kind of things. Great at what they specialized in, but struggled with the strategy of online business. So we ended up teaching online business. But then I noticed that, you know, people are still frustrated. They're not always getting the results they want by the strategy we're laying out. And so I went And got certified as a feminist mindset coach. Let's let's t look at the thinking, let's help, you know, understand the emotions that are driving the actions that you need to take in order to grow your business. And that was great. That was a beautiful layer that we were able to add. But I still noticed that some people were struggling. And it was always so confusing. Like, what am I missing? What am I missing? Why doesn't this work for everything? And I guess Truthfully, there's not one thing that's gonna work for everyone. But it was just like a little question in the back of my mind. I think I'm missing something. And then I found human design. And I feel like that is the missing piece to my coaching business. I learned about it from a friend who I was chatting with and she just happened to say, like, do you know anything about human design? And I said, No. I mean, I've heard of it. I have never looked into it and she grabbed my birth information because you in human design you get a chart based on your birth information, like astrology in a way. And she looked at my chart and she said, You're a generator and this is what it means. And I was like, what are you talking about? And I just I went down a huge rabbit hole, consumed me for days, and I think it was like four or five days I signed up to be trained in it because I could see such incredible value to it. It was just like clouds parting, angels singing, sun shining. It was it felt like that. And so that excitement and that clarity I want to share with all of you. And one last part I want to add is I left the software company about five months ago, and I'm on my own, and I am really excited about it. I wasn't sure if I was going to coach, I wasn't sure what I was gonna do, to be honest. There was a lot of really bad abstract paintings painted, there was a lot of bad charcoal drawings done, there was a lot of gardening. There was a lot of sitting alone quietly contemplating. There is a lot of kitchen drawer cleaning as I tried to figure out what it is I want to do. And so I am feeling so jazzed and lit up by this new level layer that I'm gonna add to my coaching. I am so confident that this is what I want to do. It feels so good to have clarity and direction. And I'm basically starting from scratch. I've got like a handful of clients. it's not a lot of money, it's not a lot of people, and I'm gonna build it up. And I'm going to, as I said earlier, I'm gonna share that how I'm doing that using human design with all of you. Okay, so let's get to what is human design. There's not that many people. I saw a podcast from a while ago. That said only four percent of the population has heard of human design, which is just like staggering to me. so some of you may have heard of it, some of you it may be completely foreign. and so let me do my best to try to explain this. So, human design, it's not a personality test or like an Enneagram. it's not Something that can tell you what your job should be or should not be or what you should do or what you shouldn't do. It's more like a map or a blueprint of yourself. It it it uses very ancient knowledge systems like astrology, the I Ching, the Tree of Life, Ayurveda. It takes very ancient systems, layers it, interconnects it, and gives you, as I said, this body graph that looks very much like a robot or circuitry or something. And if you don't under if you just look at it not knowing anything, it just makes zero sense. But learning all of those pieces on that body graph teaches you how to make decisions. How to tap into your intuition, which is called your authority. How do I know if I'm this is correct for me? That right there is enormous. It shows you, teaches you how to process information. It teaches you how what kind of energy you have, where you get your energy from, and really how to move through the world with that type of energy. It's something you have to embody. It's not like a checklist or like do this. It is something that you have to find your own way with by living it and experiencing it. And my biggest and I'm still in early stages of knowing this. I am in no way a master of this, but what I found instantly what it did for me is just made my confidence skyrocket. And I think, you know, all of us have a sense of who we are, what we want, our identity, our goals. And we also have a lot of people telling us, you know, what they see in us. And I know that happened for me to me a lot. And I just never really saw what everyone else saw. And human design can really help you with that. Because it shows you conscious things that you are aware of yourself and it shows you unconscious gifts that you may not be as aware of, but people can definitely see in you. It explains all that. And it was like I just saw myself laid out on a page. Like here I am. Once I started to dive into what all these shapes and dots and lines meant. So it's it's really quite remarkable. And another analogy I'll share with you. To help you understand, I felt like I'm gonna use a car analogy, of course. So let's say that I'm an Audi Q5, and I was given to learn how to drive this car, I was given a Toyota Corolla manual. And I'm pushing buttons or putting things in gear in the trunk's opening when I'm trying to start the car, or I can't get it going up to a speed because I'm shifting it wrong. I'm just following like wrong directions, trying to get this Q five to operate and function and perform for me. Human design is like getting your Audi Q five user manual. It's the user manual for yourself. There's so many advice and do it this way in conditioning and bias that we are bombarded with from childhood. And again, for those of you in my past life, we you know a lot of this from the the mindset work that we did together, that our thinking can be so influenced by the exterior, by the external teachers, parents, friends, social media, the the media It all bombards us and it affects us and we it can affect how we're thinking. And so we can't show up as ourselves as easily because we have all these messy beliefs and conditioning. This can start to unpeel those layers. Human design can start to unpeel those layers, and it is just so much fun and so exciting. The other thing I want to say is that human design, as I said, has many layers to it, and it's really hard. To kind of dive into one topic and then go to the next topic and the next topic. It's like a puzzle piece. If you pull one puzzle piece out, want to start talking about it, you really need to know how it the relationship to the other pieces around it. So you kind of have to just start. You just have to dive in, which is what we're gonna do in episode two. We're gonna talk about energy centers. You have to just dive in, and it may not all make sense. you know, the first time round and that's okay. There's really no other way to do this. You have to just take what you can from it, keep listening, and it will all start to fall into place, I promise. So for those of you interested, please hit subscribe, follow along the show. As I said, I'm gonna structure this as a basically like a course. And I want you to be able to return here over and over again to you know, the more that you get into it, the more you're gonna want to know. And you and I want this to be a place where you can return to and find the episodes that you need. And the first thing that all of you should do is go print out your human design chart or your body graph. And I have it on my website for free. If you head to sandyconnery.com, hit there's a tab that says free HD chart, click on that and it's going to ask you to put your email in and we just need your birth date, your birth time if you have it, and where the location of where you were born. And if you do not have your time exactly, that's okay. you can just use noon or if you know it's evening or morning, you know, pick an appropriate time, just use your intuition to get something close. most of the body graph will be accurate if you choose, if you if you don't know the exact time. There's a few variables it will not, but we'll cover that in later episodes. All right, if you print that out and have it near you when we talk through these things, it's going to make a whole lot more sense. So thank you for listening to this first episode. Again. excited about this new journey, excited about this new body of work. I can't wait to share it with all of you and we'll catch you in episode two. Thanks everyone. If you're ready to start learning your own human design, you can get your free chart at sandyconnery.com. Just click on free HD chart. And if you're enjoying the show, make sure you subscribe, share it with a friend, and follow along. Now go get your chart and let's get you into human design.