Leverage Your Human Design in Business
What if your burnout isn’t a productivity problem… but an alignment problem?
So many entrepreneurs are following strategies that were never designed for their energy. “Post more.” “Launch bigger.” “Wake up at 5AM.” “Scale fast.”
But what if your most sustainable, profitable path looks completely different?
In this episode and workshop, we explore how to use Human Design to build a business that works with your energy — not against it.
What is Human Design?
Human Design is a system that combines astrology, I Ching, Kabbalah, chakras, and quantum physics to reveal your energetic blueprint. It shows you how you're designed to make decisions, interact with others, and move through the world—so you can stop forcing yourself into strategies that don't fit your energy.
Using your birth data (including planetary positions 88 days before birth), Human Design maps your energetic operating system — how you’re designed to:
Make decisions
Use your energy
Interact with others
Create and contribute
It’s not meant to box you in. It’s meant to empower you with self-awareness.
Because self-awareness = freedom.
Why This Matters in Business
Your energy type determines how much output you’re naturally designed for, while your strategy guides you in creating alignment in your everyday life. Your authority, in turn, reveals how you’re meant to make important decisions. When you ignore these elements, you may find yourself hustling, pushing, comparing, overworking — and eventually burning out. But when you honor them, everything begins to shift. You experience more flow, greater clarity, and a kind of success that feels sustainable and aligned with who you truly are.
The 5 Energy Types in Business
Your energy type determines how you’re designed to operate in the collective — and in your business.
Manifestors
The Initiators / Idea Sparkers
Strategy: Inform before you act
Manifestors are here to initiate. You’re the visionary, the spark.
But you’re not designed for consistent output. Your energy moves in bursts and rest cycles.
In business, this looks like:
Launching bold ideas
Leading with your voice
Starting movements
Delegating execution
Burnout happens when you:
Micromanage
Try to execute everything yourself
Don’t rest between creative bursts
Sustainable success = freedom, autonomy, and delegation.
Generators
The Joyful Builders
Strategy: Respond
Generators have consistent, sustainable sacral energy — when they’re doing what lights them up.
You’re not here to chase opportunities.
You’re here to respond to what excites you.
In business, this looks like:
Mastering one clear path
Building long-term creations
Creating tangible results
Sustained focus
Burnout happens when you:
Initiate from pressure
Work on what drains you
Force outcomes
Sustainable success = doing what genuinely excites you.
Manifesting Generators
The Multi-Passionate Creators
Strategy: Respond, then inform
You’re fast. Efficient. Dynamic. Multi-passionate.
You’re built for variety and pivoting — not for being boxed into one niche forever.
In business, this looks like:
Quick launches
Multiple offers or income streams
Personal brand businesses
Non-linear growth
Burnout happens when you:
Overcommit
Scatter your energy
Don’t slow down enough to respond
Sustainable success = freedom to evolve.
Projectors
The Insightful Guides
Strategy: Wait for the invitation
Projectors are here to guide energy — not outwork everyone.
You’re paid for your insight, not your hours.
In business, this looks like:
Coaching
Consulting
Advising
Wisdom-based products
Burnout happens when you:
Try to keep up with Generators
Overwork
Feel unseen or unrecognized
Sustainable success = working smarter, not longer.
Reflectors
The Collective Mirrors
Strategy: Wait a lunar cycle
Reflectors are deeply sensitive to environment and community.
Your business thrives when you:
Align with the moon cycle
Surround yourself with supportive people
Give yourself time before big decisions
Burnout happens when you:
Force hustle
Stay in unsupportive spaces
Rush clarity
Sustainable success = honoring timing.
Your Authority
Your energy type shows how you move.
Your authority shows how you decide.
And in business, decision-making is everything.
Emotional Authority
Types that can have this authority: Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors
Experience emotional waves (highs and lows)
Make major decisions at emotionally neutral
4 types of emotional waves: Source, Tribal, Individual, Collective
Leading Question
Do I want this?
Is this what I truly desire right now?
Decision Time Frame
Wait for emotional neutrality before deciding.
(24 hours to a week — clarity comes over time.)
Sacral Authority
Types that can have this authority: Generators, Manifesting Generators
Major decisions made spontaneously & instantaneously with a full body inspiring YES or deflated/contracted NO (or no for now if neutral)
Gut expansion or contraction (or neutral), attraction vs repelling
Verbal response “oohs”, “mehs” through yes/no questions
Leading Question
Do I want this?
Is this what I truly desire right now?
Decision Time Frame
Instant full-body yes or no.
Trust the gut response.
Splenic Authority
Types that can have this authority: Manifestors, Projectors
Major decisions from primal instinct in the body (whisper, smell, taste, feeling)
Inner intuition, listen to subtle ways your body is communicating
Leading Question
Do I want this?
Is this what I truly desire right now?
Decision Time Frame
Quiet instinct. A whisper. Immediate knowing.
Ego Authority
Types that can have this authority: Manifestors (Ego Manifested), Projectors (Ego Projected)
Major decisions made by asking yourself if it honors your worth and value
Designed to evaluate the material world
Manifested: answer aloud in unfiltered way
Leading Question
Does this serve me?
Will it benefit me?
Is my heart completely in it?
Decision Time Frame
Immediately or however long it takes for answers to be clear
Self-Projected Authority
Types that can have this authority: Projectors only
AKA G-Center Authority
Make decisions by candidly speaking aloud, talk to yourself until spoken truth leads to an answer
Listen to tone, excitement, dullness in quality of voice as you speak aloud the deliberation on the decision
Leading Question
Does this bring me closer to my life’s direction?
Does this feel like ME?
Decision Time Frame
Immediately or however long it takes to let clarity come through speaking aloud
Mental Authority
Types that can have this authority: Projectors only
AKA Environmental Authority or None
Make decisions by spending time mentally processing, then being in different environments until body feels clear (not overthinking)
Mind analyzes facts, body checks in as environment changes (or talk it out), body is the one that makes the decision that is drawn to most clarity
Leading Question
Does this decision feel right?
Decision Time Frame
After you have been able to process, spend time in various environments and find clarity
Lunar Authority
Types that can have this authority: Reflectors only
Make MAJOR decisions after waiting a full 28 day lunar cycle
Moon moves through all of your energy centers & activates different qualities. Check in when moon is back at starting position
Allow clarity to come through naturally (don’t rush or force)
Leading Question
Check in throughout the 28 days:
How do I feel about the decision today?
Does this feel right
Decision Time Frame
After a full lunar cycle
Use Your Strategy & Authority
When you align your business with your design:
Your marketing feels natural
Your offers feel energizing
Your schedule supports your capacity
Your growth feels sustainable
Working WITH your design = flow
Working AGAINST it = burnout
This is where strategy meets embodiment.
Each energy type has its own strategy for success, and your authority — your decision-making compass — is just as important. When you work with your design instead of against it, success becomes more sustainable and far less draining.
If this feels like a lot, start simple.
Use your Strategy + Authority for your next decision.
Before your next launch.
Before hiring someone.
Before pivoting.
Pause and ask:
Am I honoring how I’m designed to operate?
From there, you can go deeper — exploring your profile lines, your centers, and how you’re naturally perceived in your work.
You don’t need to change everything overnight. Awareness is the first step — and it’s more powerful than you think.
