In this insightful episode, I was joined by business and life guide Mel McSherry to explore the transformative potential of Human Design in the world of entrepreneurship. Together, we unpack how aligning with your unique energetic blueprint can dramatically shift how you work, make decisions, and grow your business. I also shared my personal journey as a Projector with Splenic Authority, revealing how Human Design has helped me create a business that honors my energy and intuition. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, this episode offers practical tools and fresh perspectives to help you run your business your way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

• Aligning Your Business with Your Energy Increases Flow and Success

Understanding your Human Design type helps you create a business model that supports your natural energy patterns—whether that means working in short bursts, waiting for invitations, or following your gut instincts. When you align with your design, work becomes less of a grind and more of a flow.

• Decision-Making Improves When You Honor Your Authority

My experience with splenic authority highlights how powerful it is to trust your body’s intuition. Whether your authority is emotional, sacral, or splenic, honoring it leads to more confident and aligned decisions in both business and life.

• Rest and Customization Are Not Optional—They’re Strategic

Traditional business hustle doesn’t work for everyone. For types like Projectors, rest is not laziness—it's essential. Customizing your business strategy based on your Human Design can lead to greater sustainability, creativity, and long-term impact. If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.

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Transcript

Teresa: Have you ever wondered why certain business strategies feel amazing for some people, but make you want to run and hide or you thrive in some situations that other people would hate? Well, today on the podcast, we are diving into human design, and if you've not come across human design before, it's not just another personality test. It can actually help you understand how you like to show up and work in your business, what energizes you and how you can work so you don't burn out. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Your Dream Business Podcast. As always, I'm your host with Heath Wearing. Today we have an interview and I'm going to give you a slight woo warning, okay? And what I mean by that is the interview today we are talking about human design. Now, some of you might know what that is and think, awesome. Can't wait to listen to this episode. Some of you might know what it is and go, that is not my bag. And some of you might not know what it is and go, we'll see. It is more on the woo side. Now. Can I just say I, well one, I don't like the word woo, but anyway, we'll get over that. [00:02:00] Can I say that I had, I used to have, when I was doing a lot more mindset stuff in, in the business, I used to have a lot more of this kind of stuff on the podcast, and I recorded some episodes of people who were more spiritual and talked about spiritual stuff, and I actually didn't put the episodes out. Now, the reason I didn't put those episodes out were because when I came to do the hook, I couldn't find a good reason for you to listen to the episode, and that is really important for me. I know you are very busy. You have a million podcast that you can listen to and you've chose to listen to mine, and I am eternally grateful for that. And I never want to waste your time. I never want to put an episode out, even though we do an episode every single week, I never want to put an episode out that I'm like, nah, about just, that's noise. Kind of sums up that feeling. I never want to do that. [00:03:00] So I'm really careful. And like I said, I had recorded some episodes that spiritually were very spiritual. I really enjoyed the episode and recording it, and I found it really interesting. But when I went back to, listen, I didn't. I didn't get anything. There was nothing that I could pull out of that episode to go listen to this 'cause this is brilliant. So I kind of steered away from it. Anyway, when I got approached by, and I can't remember whether Mel, the woman that's coming on today approached me directly or whether it was like through an agency or whatever. But when I got approached for Mel's and I listened, 'cause I, when people apply to come on my podcast, I go and listen to podcasts that they've been on to see what I think. I just really fell in love with her, like, she's so cool. I really loved hearing her and even though it is a subject that's more on the woo side, she's so cool and down to earth and like. Really just the way she talks about this stuff is really, really cool. And I just knew I had to have her on and she didn't disappoint, and I love the episode [00:04:00] and she is really cool. Like, I really, really like this woman. So there's your woo warning. Okay, it is a little bit woo at times. Now your second kind of piece of information that you might need to know is as a podcast host. I sometimes, well, it's because it's my podcast that I get to speak to people. I get to pick their brain about stuff specific to me. Now, I try really hard to make sure, again, that I want good episodes. I want you to get a lot from it. I almost couldn't help myself of like, right here is my chart, here is my human design. What does this mean about me and my business? So I'm gonna apologize now in advance that basically I did pick a brain about my human design. However, I am hoping that this translates as a really good example of. This is how human design works with you running a business and what it means for you running a business. So rather than just talking theory of if you were this human design, [00:05:00] then you might wanna show up like this, or you might wanna run your business like this. I am as always an open book, very vulnerable, very honest about me and my business, and. She explains to me how my human design and my business kind of fit and where they don't fit and that sort of stuff. So I love this episode. I think it's really cool. I think Mel is ace. I love her to bits. Really enjoyed having this conversation. Also, just so you know, I, she goes through my chart, we explain how to get your chart and all that sort of stuff. So, and I, I almost don't wanna tell you too much here 'cause I'm not the expert and I will no doubt mess it up, but I actually put a copy of my chart in the show notes. So if you are so inclined and interested to see what it looks like or you know, human design and you are interested in what mine says, my chart is actually the show notes. So if you head over to teresaheathwareing.com/415. Slash the numbers 4 1 5 as in adding in the words the numbers just forward slash 4 1 5. I'm sure I didn't need to explain that, but just in case then [00:06:00] you can see my chart. There's a copy of my chart in the show notes just in case that's of interest to you. Mel is an international business and life guide and helps, inspired yet overwhelmed entrepreneurs honor their lives and become the architects of their own success. Mel has been an entrepreneur since 2010, has launched two successful businesses, become a two times published author, and has spoken over 200 plus times all over the USA and overseas and has created a true life by design. I know you're gonna love Mel and this episode. Can't wait to hear what you think. Without further ado, here's Mel. Mel, welcome to the podcast. Mel: Thank you so much, Teresa. I'm so excited to be here. Teresa: Well, we've already been chatting, so I am very excited because I am confident we are gonna have such an interesting conversation. It also might be a conversation that someone might not ever have heard of. Mm-hmm. And I think what I. The reason I [00:07:00] bring things to the podcast is one for my own keen interest and to pick the brains of someone who's an expert on something that maybe I wouldn't get access to. And secondly, just to bring things for people to go. Okay. That's interesting. Mm-hmm. And like maybe they get something for it, maybe they don't, but like, just to present something to you so. We are talking about human design. Mel: Yeah. Teresa: And someone will either be sat there going, oh great, I know what that is. Or someone is like, what on earth are you talking about? So let's just start off with the basic, what is human design? Mel: So human design is a system that has been brought together by utilizing five different modalities. So we have astrology. I Ching, Chakras, Kabbalah, and quantum physics. And what it does is it shows you your energetic blueprint. It's also coined to the science of differentiation. And I love that because it shows you how profitable, and when I say profitable, it's always threefold mentally, emotionally, and financially. Okay. But it shows you how [00:08:00] profitable you are as yourself, and it is such a beautiful tool for you to have, because it's your operations manual. It shows you how much energy you have, where your energy comes from, how to make your best, most profitable decisions, how to create your most, you know, fluid and easeful processes to create what you want. It gives you the why behind your how. And really clears out a lot of the noise of the shoulds of the I, you know, the, I need to, all of the things that can tend to disrupt us from creating the business, the money, and the life that we want. Teresa: So I went to write down where it came from and I couldn't even spell half the things. So we won't even worry about that. I'll just go tick. Great. There you go. So when we, so actually firstly, why did you get into it? Because it's quite, I've only heard of it a couple of times and the people I've heard it from are very, I don't even know how to describe it. [00:09:00] Spiritual. Mm-hmm. Woo. Like whatever it is. Mm-hmm. I don't know what the, the all encompassing word for it, but what made you even come into it in the first place? Mel: It actually found me and it found me twice, which is really interesting. Teresa: Oh, when it did that. Mel: I know because it found me. Hello. The person it found me. Well, and we were, we were kind of discussing this in the dream a little bit about how you hear something and you go, oh yeah, that's great. And then you kind of move on. Mm-hmm. So it first found me, actually in 2017, I was starting a meditation mastermind with a spiritual coach that I worked with for, for years. And it just came up in conversation and I was, you know, just kind of dipping my toe into the quote unquote spiritual world coming from a very religious background and from kind of deconditioning from that. Yeah. Which is a whole story we don't need to get into. Teresa: Oh, I could have, yeah. Mel: That's a whole nother episode. Teresa (2): Yeah. Mel: And I wanted to find something that was my own, and so it came up in conversation. I got my chart. And all I read was [00:10:00] my type. Now there's a lot of pieces of information inside of human design. I call it the ultimate onion of personal development because there's so many layers to it. And the first layer I saw was my type, which is just your overarching description of your energetic blueprint. And I went, oh yeah, no, that's me. Cool. And moved on. As I moved on, my business really took off. On paper. On paper, I was making great money. I was traveling all over the country speaking. I was being flown overseas. Teresa: Sidetruck. Was your business in this or doing something in this? Mel: No. No. Teresa: Was it completely d different? Okay. Mel: I it. I was in more of the traditional formulaic business coaching world. Okay. Of, okay. You know, pick your framework, stick to your framework. Don't get too personal, you know, very masculine, quote unquote. Processes. And I subscribed to that because I thought that's what was going to provide me the success that I was looking for. Teresa (2): Mm-hmm. Mel: And as I mentioned on paper, it did. [00:11:00] It I looked fantastic. Teresa (2): Yeah. Mel: And internally I had never felt more honestly inauthentic and disconnected to myself and my business in my entire life. I was, I would be looking at my bank account. This is it. This is, this is how success, I don't, I don't like this, but Teresa (2): yeah. Mel: I don't know what that is. Right. I didn't have the vernacular to advocate for myself. I just had the financial proof that technically what I was doing was working. Teresa: Yeah. Mel: And so fast forward to 2020 and I, the same spiritual coach that I worked with invited me to a retreat in Sedona, Arizona. And. Human design came back up again, but this time it was from a fellow attendee who was talking about it, and she read my chart with me and I stopped. It was the most validating and confirming piece of information [00:12:00] I had ever received because personal development, we find hooks, right? We find pieces of somebody else's story that makes us feel seen and heard, which is beautiful, and we all need that. However, what it doesn't do is it doesn't give you the steps of what to do with that. Teresa: No. Mel: It just is like, yay, sweet. I feel seen. Yeah. And Teresa: now what? What do I do? Mel: Yeah. Yeah. And so, and when I had my human design read to me. As I mentioned, it gave me that validation and confirmation of what I already knew about myself, but didn't trust because it wasn't proven to me. It wasn't shown to me. I didn't see it on anything. It was just a feeling. It was just an inclination, and when I saw that report, it not only gave me that validation, it gave me the vernacular to start advocating and shifting how I was showing up inside of my life and inside of my business. And interestingly enough, this came two weeks before lockdown. I'm located in Chicago, Illinois. We were in [00:13:00] lockdown for a long, long time. Teresa: Yeah. Mel: And it definitely presented itself at a time when I would have the capacity and the need to really reevaluate my business, reevaluate who I am, and truly for the first time, honestly. Understand who I am and relish in who I am and make decisions from a place that is grounded in my knowledge and in my understanding, as well as the strategies that are customized to always keep me in that profitable space. Teresa: So I'm just trying to like liken it to when someone is so confident about something or so. Sure. And the way that feels. Mm-hmm. The way you show up the way. Yeah. So. We have, I coached someone a while back and I'm, I don't normally swear on the podcast, so I'm gonna have to like abbreviate this, but basically she was doing all the things. So she was showing up, she was doing the reels, she was doing the story, she was doing the emails, she was putting the offer [00:14:00] out and no one was buying, nothing. And we joked that she had. F off energy. Right. That basically that even though she was going through all the steps and all the process. Yeah. Yes. Something somewhere was going, don't buy from me, don't buy from me, don't buy from me. And she, we worked together for a, for a while, but we worked together to begin with about like what is going on here? Like, yeah. And that isn't necessarily where I dig into, but she was very spiritual anyway. And I was like, why isn't this fitting? Why are you not confident? Are you not happy? And we worked on the confidence and what she was putting out there and how she felt about it. And it was like. A switch went. Mm-hmm. She was on paper, do nothing different, right? Mm-hmm. She wasn't, she was showing up in the same way. She was still doing the emails, she was still putting the offers out there, but something, because she'd got so aligned with what she was, who she was, what she was offering, and so confident in it. Mm-hmm. She started making money and people started buying from her and opportunities kept coming to her [00:15:00] and it literally was like. It was a bit like magic because she was doing everything on, on paper. I was like, yeah, tick done, tick done. Yeah. And yet it just wasn't happening. And when we dug into like she wasn't, she didn't feel aligned and it wasn't showing up. Right. And, and when she put all that better in place, it kind of all worked. So having that feeling and the confidence we show up with and the. The joy in which we take in our work is so nice. And if this is what that gives us, then Mel: mm-hmm Teresa: Bring it on. Like let's do it. Mel: Absolutely. 'cause it's that customization that she found for herself, and that's what we're not taught to do, especially in the entrepreneur solopreneur space. We are taught to seek the expert. 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