22: Reconnecting with Your True Creative Voice with Britta Buchanan

What if finding your creative voice wasn’t about adding more to your plate, but about slowing down, listening inward, and allowing yourself to realign with what feels true?

Britta Buchanan is the founder of Aligned and Undefined, where she helps spiritually conscious creatives reconnect with their authentic voice and creative flow.

After leaving her career as an elementary school teacher, Britta began guiding others through Human Design and the Akashic Records, helping them align with their soul’s blueprint and create from a place of authenticity and ease.

In this episode, Britta shares her journey of transition, transformation, and learning to trust her intuition—plus what it means to see creativity not just as something you do, but as a way of being.

The Power of Transition and Transformation

Britta talks about leaving behind a career that no longer fit and stepping into entrepreneurship with an open heart. For her, it wasn’t a sudden leap—it was a series of small, honest realizations.

“I always knew it wasn’t going to be a lifelong thing for me.”

Try this: Reflect on an area of your life or business that feels like it’s shifting. What truth are you ready to admit to yourself?

Bonus idea: Write down one small step that would bring you closer to what feels more aligned.

Creativity as a Way of Being

Britta believes creativity isn’t limited to art—it’s how we think, connect, and move through life.

“Creativity is a way of being, it’s a way of thinking.”

Try this: Approach your next decision or conversation like an act of creation. What’s possible if you treat it as a canvas?

Bonus idea: Start a short daily ritual—five minutes to sketch, write, or simply imagine freely.

Aligning with Your Soul’s Blueprint

Using Human Design and the Akashic Records, Britta helps people understand who they are at their core.

“Human Design is really great for that, but so are the records.”

Try this: Look up your Human Design type or journal about what alignment feels like in your body.

Bonus idea: When something feels off, pause and ask, “What would feel lighter right now?”

Living with Authenticity

At the heart of Britta’s work is the belief that when you show up as yourself, you naturally attract what—and who—is meant for you.

“When you show up as you, you attract the people that are for you.”

Try this: Notice moments where you filter yourself out of fear. What would it look like to speak or create from full authenticity instead?

Bonus idea: Reach out to someone who sees the real you and thank them for holding that space.

Quick Recap

• Change starts with honesty and self-trust.
• Creativity isn’t something you do—it’s something you are.
• Alignment begins when you listen to your own energy.
• Authenticity attracts the right people and opportunities.

Ready to Explore Your Own Alignment?

Britta shows that your creative path doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. You just need to come home to yourself and create from there.

If you’re ready to take your own creative business to the next level—without losing yourself along the way—book a free strategy session with me.

Let’s make your next chapter feel aligned, grounded, and uniquely yours.

Episode Transcript

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I think being able to dothings differently, being able to
kind of trust yourself, trustyour kind of vision and kind of,
you know, what I was talkingabout earlier, you know, there's
so much content out thereabout how to do things.
And yes, there's value inlearning from others, but when you
can really, you know, divedeep into what makes you different,

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what makes you tick, andtrusting that and being okay with,
you know, putting yourself outthere, even if it's scary, and being
able to speak authentically asyou, I think when creative businesses
and creative people really areable to honor who they are at their
core and speak from that placeand trust that they have value, that

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is really the crux of it all.
Welcome to the StandoutCreatives, where making money and
creating meaningful work gohand in hand.
You're already passionateabout what you create.
Now let's turn that passioninto a standout business.
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It can actually amplify your creativity.
I'm your guide, Kevin Chung,and this podcast is your roadmap

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to creative business success.
I'll show you how to turn yourunique talents into a business that
truly represents who you are.
Let's get started.
Welcome to another episode ofthe Standout Creatives.
Today I'm on Britta Buchanan.
Britta is the founder ofAligned and Undefined.
She's a former elementaryschool teacher who's now helping
spirituality consciouscreatives reconnect with their true

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voice and creative flow.
Through her work with HumanDesign and Akashic Records, Britta
guides people to align withtheir soul's blueprint and express
themselves in a way that feelsauthentic and powerful.
Britta's approach combinesdeep spiritual insight with a creative
touch, making her the perfectguide for anyone looking to rediscover

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their creative spark.
Britta, that's sounds likeamazing work that you're trying to
do, especially in the creative realm.
Can you tell us a little bitabout your journey and how you got
to where you are now?
Yeah.
Thank you.
It's great to be here.
Thanks for having me, Kevin.
Yeah.
So I am a former teacher.
I left the classroom in 2023,June 2023, and started my business

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in August.
And originally not, you know,the creativity aspect came in later
as I kind of went on my ownjourney and I started offering Human
Design the Akashic recordsbecause I found a lot of value in
using those tools on my ownand thought, why don't I bring them

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to other people?
And so I have been doing thatand was doing that for Over a year,
and then just about a year,and then this fall, I kind of got
this inspiration to bring insome creativity into it.
And so I started offering somecopywriting services, which I also
do within my business throughthe lens of human design, supporting

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people to create reallysoulful web copy, mostly for their
businesses.
And throughout the journey ofbringing in the copy and continuing
to do my caution records,Human Design work, I kind of, you
know, I've been getting clearon what my brand is.
And I think that's a journeythat all business owners go through.

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And there is kind of thisperiod where you're kind of figuring
it out and it develops over time.
And what I kind of started torealize was what I really wanted
to bring to people was kind ofbased off my own personal journey
of, you know, feeling kind of.
Even though I had been runningmy business, feeling kind of like
stuck in, you know, what am Iactually offering?
What.

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What is the value I bring?
And the more it becameclearer, the more it was like, I
want to help people with their creativity.
And when I say creativity, Idon't necessarily mean being an artist
or being a writer.
I mean, that's great, and Ilove people who do that.
And I consider myself to be a writer.
I write copy.
For me, creativity is a way of being.

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It's a way of thinking, it's away of doing that can be so, like,
just enriching and it brings.
You know, when you can movewith a creative flow, you are able
to solve problems easier.
You're able to kind of movewith more ease.
You're able to solve, theysaid, you know, solve problems, but,
you know, the challenges thatyou can overcome them with more.

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I don't want to say it'snecessarily easier when you're more
creative, but there's thingsjust kind of flow.
And so being able to offerthis, being able to help people re
and respark their creativity.
I guess I kind of came from myown personal journey, running my
business in the first year,and I was doing Human Design, the
Akashic Records, but I feltstuck, and I wasn't like, what.

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What am I doing with this?
And the more that I kind ofstepped into my creativity in my
business and in my life, themore I was like, this is what I'm
here to bring to people.
And so I'm really excited tocontinue on the journey.
I still consider myselfrelatively new to the entrepreneurial
space.
It's been a year and a halfnow, so it's still.

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Still quite new.
And I. I feel like I'M reallyfunding my stride and that feels
really exciting.
Yeah, I think it's.
Takes time for anything.
No matter what you're doingbusiness, if you, even if you're
working for a company orwhatnot, it still takes time to figure
out exactly how to get intothe flow of things, which is something

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that's just expected,especially if you're going out on
your own.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
I think.
And I certainly had thisvision of myself that, you know,
I would start my business andall of a sudden I would have clients.
I would be, you know, supersuccessful right away.
And that was a little bitmisguided and, and it really has

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taken time for me to kind offind that flow.
And I think that we, you're right.
We don't necessarily live in asociety that is allowing of that.
Like people expect us to justlike figure it out right away.
And yet when we can giveourselves that time, there's so much
magic that comes from that.
Hmm.
What was the moment in yourteaching journey that you were deciding,

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this is not right for me.
I need to make a change here?
I don't know if there was onemoment, there was a series of moments
that led up to the realizationthat it wasn't for me.
I think finding human designspecifically was really the permission

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slip for me that was like, oh,this is why teaching is a struggle
for me.
I'm in human design.
I'm, I'm a non sacral being.
And the sacral center in humandesign is like your life force.
And so if you have a definedsacral, you have consistent and reliable
energy.
And if you don't have adefined sacral, you don't have consistent,
reliable energy.

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So I, I'm a non sacral beingin human design, so I don't have
that consistent, reliableenergy to keep me going.
And it made sense why I was soexhausted and like why I just had,
I felt like I had, you know, Iwould, There was just a lot of, I

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had a lot of issues with beingreally, really tired and just the
go, go, go of teaching.
And it's, it's, you know,it's, it's such a, there's so much
to it.
It's not like, you know, atypical 9 to 5 where you like leave,
go at, go in at 9 and thenleave at 5.

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It's like you're reading afterwork, you're spending, you know,
getting in touch with parents,you're planning your lesson planning,
you know, I was doing it onthe weekends and just recognizing
that I think it's a lot ofwork for anybody.
Being a teacher is not for thefaint of heart.
And yet also seeing within myhuman design that, oh, this is.

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This is why I'm maybestruggling so much with the exhaustion,
is because I don't have adefense sacral.
And that was kind of thepermission slip.
And then over the experienceof my couple, you know, the years
that I was in the classroom,it just got to the point where I

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think I always knew when Ientered the classroom, I always knew
it wasn't going to be alifelong thing for me.
That was something I'd always intuited.
And I said, you know, I'm at least.
I had been doing a lot of workin education for a number of years
and got my master's degree in 2021.
And so I was like, at leastfive years out for my master's degree

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to make it worth it sort of thing.
And it got to be two years,and I was like, I don't think I can
make it.
And kind of giving myself thatpermission and not putting that pressure
on me that, oh, because Ispent all this money in a master's
degree, now I have to do this.
I think being able to givemyself that permission to.
To leave.
When I realized that, I wasexhausted and it wasn't working,

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and I was spending all thistime working, and I wasn't, like,
having that creative flow inmy life.
Right.
It all just kind of piled upin December of 2022.
I was.
When I told my principals Iwas leaving, and, you know, I said,
I'll stay out the school year.

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Like, I'm not gonna leave midway.
However, this is going to be.
This is the end for me.
I think there's apsychological principle called sunk
cost fallacy, where it saysthat just because you spend some
time doing something means youhave to continue doing it, even though
it doesn't really make sense to.

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So a lot of people stick withthings even though it's not what
they need to be doing.
So it's good that yourecognize that for you, this was
not the right choice tocontinue on.
You had to make that choicefor yourself.
Yeah.
And I think for me, that wasalso the recognition that I could

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still be a teacher even if Iwasn't in the classroom.
Like, there are so many waysto be a teacher, and in many ways,
I'm still doing that with thiswork with human design, the Akashic
records.
It's kind of that recognitionthat, oh, I don't have to not teach.
It's Just a different way ofteaching and there's still value
in and that.

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What would, what did you wantto do when you were a kid?
What kind of jobs did youthink you were going to do?
Were you, did you want to be a teacher?
I did.
I wanted to be a teacher and Iwanted to be a writer.
And for when I was inelementary school, I wanted to be
a teacher.
And then for a while I waslike, no, I'm too introverted, I'm

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not going to do that.
And then I kind of came backaround to it.
When I was in my 20s, I didn'tgo to undergrad for teaching.
I got my master's in education.
So it's so funny that it issomething I wanted to be when I was
little.
And I think there's alwaysbeen this drive for me to teach people.

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But like I said earlier, alsorecognizing that there are so many
different ways to teach andyou don't have to be a classroom
teacher to be a teacher.
I mean, you can be a teacher.
There's so many different ways.
And again, I think that's thatcreativity coming in and being like,
how can you we, when we thinkof a teacher, we think of somebody
who stands in front of a classand teaches children or you know,

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young adults, if you'reteaching high school or college.
But that's just a verylimiting idea of what it needs to
teach because there's so, somany ways that people can, can share
their knowledge with others.
And that's what teaching is,it's sharing knowledge with others.
Yeah.
And the way that, at least inthe, the U.S. public schools, the

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way that we teach is very one dimensional.
There's not a lot of depth to it.
So we're teaching so that youcan pass this test, so that you can
go into an office to work forever.
Right.
It's not absolutely right.
And I mean, there's a lotthat's changed within the system
within the past number of years.

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There is really more of afocus on, at least in the districts
that I taught in.
I can't speak for the wholecountry, the whole U.S. but you know,
really big focus on, you know,project based learning and being
able to, you know, worktogether with others.
And you know, not there'sstill tests and stuff, but there's,
there's definitely been anexpansion and kind of being able

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to teach children tocritically think and to learn, work
in groups and to, you know, beable to do projects.
And so that's a really great thing.
There's also a big emphasis onDifferentiation in the school system
as well.
And yet there's still a lot of.
In, at least in thetraditional public schools, there's
still a lot of, you know, red tape.

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There's still a lot of ways ofdoing things that aren't really supportive.
Like the whole bell system inschools comes from factory workers
and teaching children to befactory workers.
And there's just a lot.
There's a lot of things thathave changed in the past few years
that are really great.
And then there's a lot ofthings that are still like, this
is a little bit outdated.

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A lot of it outdated.
Yeah.
I think there was also thereason we have summer school is so
that kids could work on thefarms or something along those lines.
That's the reason we had thatbreak is so, you know.
Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So there's all kinds of thingsthat are so outdated that it was
all.
Based around the, the, thefarming system.

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You're absolutely right.
But most people aren't farmersthese days.
And so.
Yeah.
And I think also it's likeeverybody has a different learning
style and way that works bestfor them.
So as a non like schoolteacher, you can teach in a way that

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makes it effective for whoeveryou're trying to teach.
Right.
You can adapt and make changes.
So that way it fits the person.
Because some people areauditory, some people are physical,
some people are visual.
Right?
Yeah.
And I think that's definitelysomething that I have brought to
my business is, you know, howcan I support people individually

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in their needs?
And you know, I of course havemy offers that I put out there for
people.
And yet at the same time, I'mreally passionate about working with
people to, to make somethingthat works best for them.
Because like you said, we alllearn differently.
And that's also another reasonwhy I love human design, is because

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it is.
We call it the science of differentiation.
And so we're just recognizingthat we are all so different and
that even differentiation inthe school system, there's limitations
to that too, because thatdifferentiation just doesn't account
for really like how.
How different we all are.

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And even just the concept ofsitting in school for like eight
hours just is kind ofridiculous to me.
The amount of time thatchildren sit and are expected to
listen when really childrenare, you know, there's so much that
children could be doing withtheir lives and learning by experiencing

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and learning by playing andlearning through so many different
modalities.
And the amount of time that atleast I saw children sitting and
listening to teachers, I mean,there's value in that.
And yet I think that the waythat the traditional school system

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is structured is like.
Like we said, very.
It's very limiting right now.
Yeah.
That's the reason for.
For the most part, why you seekids disrupting and all kinds of
stuff, because it's not likeit's not built for everyone.
It's just everyone's beenforced into this singular way of
doing things.
So it works for some people.

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I mean, the vast majority ofpeople are.
Are able to go through it.
Okay.
Not super well, but, you know, enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Absolutely.
I agree.
Can you talk about how you gotinto human design and what human
design is and how that works?
Yeah, I would love tointroduce it.

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I've been talking about it andspeaking to it a little bit.
But I also am conscious thatnot all of your viewers have maybe
heard of this before.
So human design is a systemthat was essentially channeled by
a man in 1987.
He called himself Raouhu.

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And so it is a combination ofa variety of different ancient systems.
The I Ching, the Chinese IChing, the Cabolo Tree of Life, the
Hindu chakra system.
I feel Western astrology.
So it's all of these systemsjust, like, brought together, and

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basically you put in yourbirth date and your birth time and
your location, and you get upa chart, and the chart can kind of
really.
It's your blueprint.
It kind of tells you howyou're designed to move through the
world as you.
And I came across it in late2019, early 2020.

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So it was before the pandemic hit.
My friend told me about it,and I got my chart up, I looked into
it, and I resonated with it.
But I ultimately put it awaybecause I did not believe in any
spiritual things at that time.
I was like, I don't believe in astrology.
I don't believe in channeling.
This is bizarre.

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This guy channeled this on LSDand Ibiza.
This is a crazy story.
Like who?
Like, what the heck?
So.
So I. I put it away, and I waslike, okay, I resonate with what
I'm reading about my humandesign, but I don't believe it.
How can I possibly believe that?
This is a ridiculous story.
And I left it for about a yearand was focusing on other areas of

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personal development becauseI've always been really big at personal
development.
I've always been big into, youknow, like, Myers Briggs and the
Enneagram and all thedifferent profiling tools, and so
kind of put human design away for.
For a little bit.
However, it must have beenearly 2021.
Yeah, I was.
It was.
I just had this intuitivenudge to just slip back into it.

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And I was like, all right,well, I guess I'll listen to you
intuition, because you usuallydon't fail me.
And I started looking into it,and I was learning more about it
and kind of just taking mytime, like, really sinking in little
by little.

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And for about six months,there was just like this sinking
in of like, okay, like, Idon't know if I believe this, but
I'm trying it out, seeing whatI can find out there.
And it wasn't until mid-2021when I moved.
So at the time, I was livingin Washington, D.C. and I moved to
Northern Virginia for ateaching job.
And I moved to NorthernVirginia just a few minutes outside

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of D.C. and I noticed a hugedifference in myself.
And this is part of my humandesign is in the importance of environment.
Environment is very importantfor my human design type.
And I was like, oh, I feelreally different here.
I think this is my environment.
Like, I changed my environmentand I feel like a different person.
And that's when I reallystarted to take human design seriously
because, like, I couldn't denyhow the knowledge I had learned about

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my environment being reallyimportant was impacting me.
And I. I felt different.
I felt better.
And so that's when I startedto really believe it and when I started
to kind of, like, dive in deeper.
But yeah, it was.
It was that initial time inearly late 1920.
19, early 2020, when I waslike, nah, came back around to it

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and really gave myself about.
It was about six months in2021 before I started to be like,
okay, I think I'm a convert.
I think this makes sense tome, even though it doesn't make any
sense.
I'm.
There's something here that Ican't deny.
It's so interesting because Ihad my reading done recently and
it all sounded so true, but Idon't know how it works.

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Like, how does.
How does, like, your specificbirthday and time and all that stuff
relate to, like, this wholeidea outlook on your life and how
does it actually feel likeit's true?
I. I didn't understand that,quite frankly.
I don't quite either.

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RA, who brought human designinto the world, talked about neutrinos
and these tiny littleparticles that we can't see.
They're invisible to the nakedeye that are constantly moving through
the the world.
And like the neutrino trino,the neutrino field is connected to
the Stars and the planets andlike it has.
So the neutrino field iswhat's impacting us.

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And so he talked about that asbeing what makes human design this,
this science ofdifferentiation, like real.
And since he brought humandesign into the world, neutrinos
have actually been proven byphysicists, like they actually exist,
which is kind of crazy.

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So that's, you know, anexplanation that Ra has that, you
know, these tiny neutrinosthat we can't see are impacting us.
And yet I think with some ofthese esoteric woo woo practices,
there is an element also ofjust kind of putting the logic aside

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and being open to things thatnecessarily making sense 100%.
And I think that's somethingthat I've found has been really useful
for me because like I said, Iused to be very logical and like
I, I always have been veryintuitive and I've always trusted
my intuition.
But at the same time I wasn'tinto, like, I wouldn't, I didn't

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consider myself as spiritual person.
I was just like, oh, I have anintuition that I follow and I don't
know why that's, that is, butI trust it.
Um, and I think since cominginto this world there has been in
a recognition that to believesome of these things that I resonate

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with, I, I have to put thelogic aside and be okay with that.
I feel like that's part ofevery faith, religion or spiritual
element in the world becausewe can't explain everything.
And I mean science can do agood job, but we've only been doing
science for what, like 2,000,3,000 years, right?

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So yeah, how much can weactually figure out about the world
in such a short period of time?
Because obviously beforehumans there was a world that existed
in.
How does that relate to kindof what we're feeling and sensing?
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think just rememberingthat to not make a dogma out of anything,

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I mean, I.
Human design isn't a religionand it's not a dogma.
And I'm not here to try toconvince you that you need to go
live your life.
If it resonates with you andyou're listening to this, go take
a look at it.
If it doesn't like, I don'tcare, you're not gonna hurt my feelings.
So.

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Yeah.
And I also just think, youknow, that obviously we have science
and there's so much value inscience and, and that we want to
listen to science.
And yet at the same time thatthing like with each new scientific

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discovery we, the sciences weknow it changes.
And so I think sometimespeople, in at least our modern world,
what I've seen happening ispeople getting so stuck on the science.
And like, science is real.
And yes, science is real.

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I'm not saying that it's not.
It's, it's.
But it's.
There's.
People forget that the sciencethat we know today didn't exist a
hundred years ago, fifty years ago.
And so even in science,there's always room for discovery.
And true science allows that.

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Yeah, I think the, theprinciple of science is that we,
we don't know everything.
It's just.
Just like built into thesystem, which is why we test and
experiment and record.
And if there's more testingdone, that proves the previous science
wrong.
Obviously there needs to be anupdate in the system.
That's happened many timesthroughout history.
Right.
We used to think thatabsolutely the Earth was the center

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of the universe.
Right.
So it's like everything can change.
Yeah.
You know, the, the people, youknow, the people used to believe
the Earth was flat.
And I guess there are stillpeople out there who believe that,
but that's a different story.
I'm not here to, like, I'm nothere to talk about that.
But like, generally speaking,you know, most people believe that
the Earth is round.
And, you know, there's sciencethat proves that.

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And so just there's so many things.
It's a constant discovery.
I think that's one of thebiggest things, especially if we
add in the realm of creativityabout just exploring different ideas
because you don't know whatyou don't know.
And, and once you take adeeper look into different things,

(26:15):
you can obviously change your mind.
Like you did.
You didn't used to be intospirituality, but now, you know,
your business is prettyheavily based in that kind of way
of thinking.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I do the human design.
I channel the Akashic records,which some people might think is

(26:36):
a little crazy.
But you know what, that's fine.
I mean, I think I have been.
There's been a lot of fearthat I've had to uncover in myself
around embracing these sidesof myself because I've been so worried,
you know, what will otherpeople think of me?
I didn't used to be this wayand just allowing myself to accept
that, you know what, peoplecan change.
And I always honestly thinkthere was always spiritual part in

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me and kind of got covered upfor a while.
And now I'm reclaiming our.
Yeah, it's kind of the same asyour intuition.
So it's like that element ofyou that you can't really explain.
And there's no way to reallyexplain what science either.
It's just something that wefeel probably through many, many,

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many, like undetectable cuesin the world that allows us to make
these decisions.
Absolutely.
And I do think there's a layerof intuition that is based off of
really subtle cues and justpatterns, like repeating patterns.
And I don't think that's allof intuition, but I do think that,

(27:42):
you know, a lot of times whatwe call intuition is just kind of
being able to recognizepatterns and those cues.
And I think a lot of timeswhat people call intuition is really
being able to catch on tothose deep, subtle cues that maybe
not everybody, they're noteven maybe aware of in the moment.
Yeah.
And a lot of that is yourbrain working in the background.

(28:05):
Like it's constantly going, obviously.
But we're not conscious ofmost of what's happening with our
brains.
It's just constantlyprocessing and doing things in the
background.
So it's like a lot of it hasto do with what it's seen and heard
and whatever telling it whatit should do just because it makes

(28:25):
your instincts faster.
If it didn't do that, it wouldtake a lot longer to, to process
things and we would probablyhave been killed by like tigers or
something.
Yeah, absolutely.
Can you talk about the Akashic records?
I'm not familiar with that.
So, yeah, explain a little bitabout that.

(28:47):
So the Akashic records cameinto my awareness probably about
a year and a half after.
After I found human.
Not a year and a half after Ifound human design, but a year and
a half after I kind of wentback in down the rabbit hole on my
intuition guide me there.
And they are an energetic tool.

(29:08):
You can't see them, you canexperience them.
They're basically the.
Your energetic library of allthe thoughts, feelings, experiences
that you've had in thislifetime and past lifetimes and future

(29:30):
opportunities.
I don't consider myself to bea psychic.
I don't think that I cannecessarily read the future.
I believe that I can tap intofuture opportunities and tell them
to you.
And you get to choose whetheryou want to go in that direction
or not.
Some people who read therecords are very, you know, would

(29:51):
say that they could read the future.
I prefer to leave it up.
Leave it up to you.
I, I think that we have a we.
I believe that we co.
Create our experience and thatjust because I say something is going
to happen or that I seesomething in your future doesn't
necessarily mean that you'regoing to make that choice.

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So it is a tool to really divedeep into your energetics to understand
yourself better, to understandkind of maybe why you came here in
this lifetime.
That's, you know, sometimespeople go over the records because
they want to learn more abouttheir purpose.

(30:33):
Sometimes people want to gointo the records to do healing because
you can learn.
You know, I've done a lot ofpast life healing in my akashic records.
Things that fears that don'tmake sense in this lifetime for me,
like that I've been able toaccess in my past lives.
Like, oh, that makes sense.
I understand why I'm afraid of that.

(30:54):
I don't have any experiencein, in this lifetime that would bring
that fear up.
And so being able to accessthe past lifetimes.
Also, I've done ancestralhealing in the records.
I've connected with people'srelatives in the records, like deceased.
But it's also a great toolgoing back to this idea of creativity,
of getting insights into howto move forward in the most aligned

(31:18):
way for you.
I mean, my business is calledAligned and Undefined.
It's all about undefiningyourself from what doesn't work so
that you can align yourself towhat does.
And so the human design isreally great for that, but so are
the records.
And so using the records as atool to kind of figure out energetically,
at an energetic level whatisn't working, what, what maybe why

(31:43):
something's not working.
Like if you want to do goinginto the healing portion of it with
past lives or ancestor,ancestral stuff, et cetera, or even
just like tuning intosomething in this lifetime that maybe
was traumatic from a energeticrecords point of view.
And you can also get insightsinto how to move forward in the upsaligned

(32:05):
way as well.
Like I said, I don't say, Idon't consider myself a psychic.
I don't say that I read the future.
But I can give you tips andtricks with the, with the help of
the records to give youinsights into how to move forward
in the most aligned way.
And I can access some future timelines.
Doesn't mean it's going tohappen, but you can get an idea of
potential futures on offer toyou and you get to choose what, what

(32:32):
direction you want to go in.
How do you help other peoplework through the records?
Because it makes sense to workfor yourself, but having it work
for someone else is aninteresting concept.
So different record readershave different ways of doing it?

(32:57):
Well, how I use it is I haveprayer that I use to get into the
records that I got from my own records.
And I.
You always need to ask.
Well, you don't need to, but Irecommend it.
It's I think the ethical thingto do to make sure you have permission
from someone else to entertheir records.

(33:20):
And so when I enter someone'srecords, I am getting information
from their records, like fromtheir energetic library.
And I bring it through me.
So I, you know, I'll channelit through myself.
Um, I've had other.
I, I've been in experienceswith people who read the records

(33:40):
where they're kind of moreallow me.
Or where they kind of guidethe client to like get into their
own experience.
For me, it's very much astorytelling sort of experience where
I enter your records and Ishare what I hear from it for you.

(34:02):
And that's also how I was kindof taught when I learned the records.
So.
So yeah, that is kind of how Ido it.
Where I enter.
I will enter your records withyour permission.
Usually I recommend people tocome with one to two questions, open
ended questions, not yes or noopen ended questions that they can

(34:23):
receive guidance on.
And then I bring it through myvessel to you.
Hmm.
I don't know a lot aboutpsychics, but it sounds like a very
similar energy exchange.
It is.
I mean, like a psychic isreading your energy, tapping into
your energy.
And that's exactly what I doin the records.

(34:44):
I just, I think the recordsare a lot more, you know, a lot of
times people go to psychicsbecause they're like looking for
the future.
The records are a lot more,there's a lot more to the records
than just looking at the future.
And like I said, I personallydon't call myself a psychic.
I can tap into differenttimelines and I think that for me,

(35:09):
like, I always want my clientto feel like they're in the driver's
seat.
There's.
Obviously we can't controleverything in our life, but we do
have agency.
And I think that sometimes ifyou're going to a psychic and just
being told this is yourfuture, that can feel depil.

(35:30):
That can feel debilitatingsometimes because it's like, oh,
well, I guess I'm resigned to that.
And I personally don't believe that.
I believe that I can, like Isaid, I can show you a timeline and
if you like it, here are somesteps you can take to get there.
If you don't, well, let's, youknow, see how we can regroup.
Yeah, I mean, there's so muchout of side of our own control that

(35:54):
I think any one predeterminedoutcome is not necessarily gonna
happen.
Absolutely.
There's just like an infinitenumber of things that can happen
and ways that things can getinterrupted or, you know, so it's
just like figuring out all thepossible avenues and making your

(36:15):
way to the one that you wantto the most.
And that doesn't mean you'regoing to get there through the methods
you think you are.
Sometimes you have to takelike the windy road in order to find
the path.
Right.
Yeah.
And I, you know, I've, I'velearned in my experience just listening
to it for like I channel thisin my, in the records.

(36:36):
But I've also, you know, heardso many other people in the spiritual
space talk about this conceptof timelines and that, you know,
we all have multiple timelinesthat we can choose.
And you know, we ultimately,like you said, there's so much out
of our control.
There is so much that we arejust kind of bombarded with as we

(37:00):
move through our life.
And then at the same time wedo have agency and we do get to kind
of choose.
We don't get to choose whathappens to us when we get to choose
how we respond to that.
And that is really, really empowering.
And when we believe, or Ibelieve that when we can move through

(37:20):
life believing that the way werespond to things is just as powerful
as what happens to us, thatthere's a lot of, we have a, like
I, I like to use the word co creation.
Like we have the ability to cocreate our life with the universe,

(37:41):
God, universe, whatever youwant to call it, whatever it is the
most comfortable term for you.
But we have the ability to co create.
We're not in control.
We don't always get to decidewhat happens to us.
And yet there's so much beautyin having that agency and knowing
that I do get to choose how Irespond to this.

(38:03):
Yeah.
Oftentimes that's the onlything we really are in control of
is our response to things thathappen to us, around us and in the
world.
There's nothing else you canreally control for the most part.
I mean there are some things,but for the most part everything
is almost 100% of stuff isoutside of what you can affect.

(38:29):
It's true.
Yeah.
Can you talk about going fromteaching to starting your business,
the, the challenges of thatand how you started up your business?
Oh, there's so much I didn'tknow and I think I, I did, I, I,

(38:50):
I truly thought that I wouldjust you know, post a couple Instagram
posts, and all of a sudden Iwould just be rolling in the clients.
And I was so very, so very idealistic.
It's kind of hilarious looking back.
Yeah.
I think there's so much tobusiness that I didn't know about

(39:12):
and so much that I've had tolearn along the way, and so much
that I'm still learning.
I mean, I'm only a year and ahalf in, and then we learn as we
grow and go.
Right.
So I think teaching is very structured.

(39:32):
You come in, you teach thesame subjects at the same time.
At least for me.
You know, I taught elementaryschool, and so it was a very fixed
schedule.
It was like, you know, westarted it at 8, and then, you know,
at 8:30, we started, you know,one subject.
And then, you know, there was.
It's a very structured day.

(39:53):
And then outside of theclassroom, you know, when you're
not in the classroom with thekids and there's so much to do.
I mean, like I said, creatingpapers, getting contact with parents
as need be, you know, going tostaff meetings, planning for the

(40:14):
next week, the next day.
There's always something to do.
And in business, there's a lotmore flexibility.
Yeah.
And so, which is a beautiful.
And yet also, I think for me,being used to so much structure,

(40:34):
there was a bit of a challengein, like, learning, like, how do
I actually do this?
Like, where do I put my energy?
Where do I put my attention?
Now I have all this time to,like, what do I do with it?
And learning along the way.
Like, oh, okay, these are ways.
This is minnow how ways I canspend my time, you know, putting

(40:54):
time into, you know, actuallycrafting my offers and figuring out
what I want to offer and, youknow, putting time into networking
and, you know, getting to knowpeople and putting time into reaching
out to clients.
And so there's all thesethings that go into business, even,
like, you know, looking at themoney aspect and, you know, making

(41:14):
sure the finances are okay,like, where am I putting the money
in the business?
And all these things that gointo it that I just didn't know about.
And so I do think there's alearning curve, especially.
I mean, I think anybody whotransitions to business from, like

(41:35):
a paying W2 job, there's goingto be a learning curve.
But if you're coming fromsomething so structured, like teaching,
it is.
It's a bit like, what now?
What do I do?
I have all this, like, what doI do with all this time that I have?
And, like, how Do I use itwisely and how do I use it?
Well.

(41:56):
Yeah, I mean, I thinkespecially if you're not coming from
a business centeredbackground, it's very difficult to
know what it takes to run a business.
Right.
So you have the teachingaspect that you can do for your business,
but in order to get people tolearn from you, you have to find

(42:17):
them, right?
Yeah, you got to find thepeople and you know, kind of where,
where do you find them?
Where are the best avenues forthat and kind of experimenting in
that way too.
Yeah.
Can you talk about some of theways that you've tried and what has,

(42:38):
has been the most successfulway for you?
Yeah.
So I leaned a lot on Instagramand I still use Instagram now, but
I think I leaned a little, alittle bit to heavily on it in, in
the beginning because Ihonestly don't get most people from

(42:59):
Instagram.
Like it's more of a platformfor me to keep in touch with people
that already are interested inwhat I do.
Rather than finding new people.
I do, every once in a whileI'll find the new person on Instagram.
But it's not been like a goldmine of clients.
Leaning really deeply intonetworking has been really helpful
for me.
So going on, I know we met ona networking call, shout out to Laura

(43:23):
Livingston's Real Connections.
So networking, going, findingthose networking calls that really
resonate with me.
Alignable has been great.
I like to use Alignable to geton smart connects there.
It's a great way to meetbusinesses and other business owners.
I've been leaning more toLinkedIn recently so that I think

(43:47):
there's value there that I'mkind of just tapping into going to
in person things.
I mean, my business isprimarily online.
Um, I do a lot of most of mywork online at this point.
I would love an in personspace at some point in the future,
but we're not there and it's okay.

(44:08):
Um, but I get a lot of clientsfrom just like going places and being
like, I, I do this and peopleare interested.
It's like I'm not trying, butit just happens.
Um, and yeah, I think likereally leaning in.
Something I'm really, reallyleaning into this year is, you know,

(44:30):
nurturing those connectionsthat I meet on networking at networking
calls and networking eventsand getting in touch like partnerships,
collaborations, ways that Ican work together with other business
owners because that'sexposure, you know, to their audience.
Getting on to more podcastshas been something I'm playing with

(44:53):
too.
And so just having thoseconnections with people, like real
people and fostering that,Keeping in touch with people I think
has been the most, where I'vehad the most successful.

(45:16):
The interesting thing that Ifound is that a lot of people think
that something like socialmedia is going to be the most effective
way to be a successful entrepreneur.
And it can be.
But I think the way that a lotof at least service based businesses

(45:37):
operate is that having realconnections with people versus like
using your platform to shoutout people or you know, message to
people is much more effectivebecause you have that individual
one on one connection or evenif you're in like a group, a small
group of people, it's easierto, you know, get people to know

(45:58):
you and then like you and thenif they're interested in your service,
obviously that is, that iswhen they, they would work with you.
Yeah, I, I think I, I came injust thinking that social media was
going to be like the bestthing ever for me.
And it really hasn't been.

(46:20):
I'm not saying there's notvalue there, but it is, it really
is more about those one on onein person.
Not necessarily in person, butyou know, because not everybody's
like in person.
That's the beauty of theonline business.
You can talk to people acrossthe world, but those one on one personal
interactions with, where youknow, you're checking in with someone

(46:41):
like in a private message orsending someone an email, checking,
like checking in with themthere and you know, it's so much
more valuable than at least Ifound and I can't speak for everybody
then you know, just posting tothe algorithm and you know, don't

(47:07):
know who's going to see it.
Yeah, and another thing aboutlike social media is that you can't
control the environment inwhich your content exists.
So your, your post could besurrounded by a bunch of things either
you don't agree with or youknow, are distracting from the message
that you're trying to, toconvey to people.

(47:28):
So it's like, it's like goinginto like a crowded restaurant and
trying to listen to the personnext to you if there's a crowd of
people like sitting around you.
Yeah.
And especially because youknow, we are in such a content heavy
world these days.
It's, it's so hard to, I'mjust trying to be mindful of my language

(47:53):
here.
I think it can be very hard toexpect to just blow up on social
media when there's so manyother people posting and so many
other people vying forattention for whatever reason.
I mean, whether they're anonline business owner or they're
just, you know, postingpictures of their dog because they
think it's cute.
There's so much content out there.
And you're right, you know,who knows?

(48:16):
Like you're scrolling onInstagram and you know, you post
about your business and then,you know, below that is a funny meme
or something political andit's just like how do it's.
I think we really as onlinebusiness as any business owner, but
especially for primarily inthe online space, we really want
to be mindful about like how,how are we getting people's attention?

(48:40):
Because assuming that thatpost that I posted three days ago
is going to make a huge difference.
It could, but I don't want tobank on it because there's so much
else that people are seeing intheir feeds.
Yeah.
And the fact that you have nocontrol over what happens.
Right.
It could reach a millionpeople or it can also reach like

(49:03):
two people.
It really depends on what theplatform feels like it wants to share
to people.
So it's, yeah.
Well, it's like even just thewhole concept of going viral, it's
like how many people actuallygo viral.
And you know, you can'texpect, you can't, you just can't
expect that.

(49:24):
It's not, it's not a real game plan.
You can try.
It's not a real game plan.
Absolutely not.
Can you talk aboutincorporating the idea creativity
into your business?
So you didn't start off withit, but you decided at some point
that it needed to come in?
Yeah, I mean, like I said, Ihad been doing my business for, you

(49:48):
know, a year.
I started it in 2023 and bythe summer of 2024, I was feeling
very stuck in it.
Like I was doing it because Ididn't really know what else to do.
And I was like, okay, like,you know, I, I like human design.
I like the Akashic record.
But I, I, I didn't really feellike there I was doing something

(50:09):
meaningful with it.
Even though I was, you know,having sessions with people and,
you know, I, you know, peoplewere coming to me and I was still
having services and stuff.
Like, I was still like, youknow, people were still, you know,
buying my services.
It was, it was just like thissense that what I'm it, I was just
didn't feel fulfilled in it.

(50:31):
I was like, I feel like I'mjust doing this because I don't know,
I don't know why, why am Idoing this?
And so there was this feelingof frustration of like, you Know,
I. I like.
I like the Akashic records.
I like human design.
I like that I'm doing.
I like being able to offerthis to people.
But why?
What.
What is the purpose of this all?
Like, what?

(50:52):
Why?
And it was in September whenjust a couple of different things
happened, met a coupledifferent people, and people can
be very expansive, you know,just bringing in different energy,
and it all of a sudden just,like, made sense.
It was like, oh, I'm gonnabring a copywriting.

(51:12):
And over time, it was like,oh, I actually really like helping
people with their creativity.
And I think a lot of times,you know, we bring to the world what
we ourselves have struggledwith in some way.
And so for me, it was like,that feeling, you know, even just
being a teacher and, like, I'mnot super excited by this, but I

(51:36):
guess I don't know what elseto do.
And it pays the bills, andit's reliable, so I guess I'll do
this.
And then it kind of.
That kind of went into, youknow, being in my business and, like,
doing it.
But I'm not super like you.
Still not super inspired by this.
Like, I'm doing it because it's.
I need to have something.
Something to do.
Yes.

(51:56):
You know, and.
Well, and, you know, you know,having something that can bring in
money is also nice.
And the more that I startedgoing down this journey with the
copywriting, and then Istarted to see how the copywriting
was kind of igniting mycreativity because I was like, oh,

(52:16):
I'm writing, and I love towrite, and I've always loved to write.
And, like, you know, know, Iwent undergrad and I got a degree
in English, and I wrote abunch of papers, and I'm really good
at this.
And I just kind of started tosee how I was kind of awakening this
inner spark in me, and I waslike, oh, I can.

(52:36):
I can actually bring this toother people.
And this is what excites me.
Like, being able to see thatwhat I needed was to feel like my
inner creativity was awakened.
And when I started to bringmore, like, that idea of creativity
to my business and supportingpeople with their creativity, that's

(52:57):
when I started to feel excitedabout my business again.
I was like, oh, I. I'm notjust doing the Akashic records in
human design because it'slike, I can use these tools for a
very specific purpose to helppeople reawaken their own inner spark.
And that is what feelsexciting to me, and that's what I
am going to continue to do.

(53:17):
So let's do it.
So did you see a shift in thetypes of people that you were finding
attracted to your offeringswhen you made that, like, creativity
element apparent?
That's a really good question.

(53:38):
I think yes and no.
I think that there wasdefinitely some people that I had
been seeing that kind of fellaway as I evolved.
And I think that happens as weevolve, as when we evolve as humans.

(54:00):
And yet there, when I thinkabout the client, like, clients that,
like, still come to me andthat come to me regularly, there's
always been a reason that theyprompted me.
And I think even though mybranding didn't always necessarily

(54:22):
focus around creativity andsupporting people and reawakening
themselves to that, there arecertain people who have kept coming
to me.
And it is because, like, Iactually, I asked one of my friends

(54:45):
who is also one of my clientscomes to me every few months, and
I was like, why do you come to me?
And she was like, oh, you helpme see things differently.
Like, every time I come toyou, you help, like, you help me
see things, like, I have aproblem in my life that I can't,
like, that I'm really stuckin, and you help me see it differently.
And I think that's awakeningcreativity is being able to see something

(55:07):
differently and be able toproblem solve because you have a
new perspective.
And so, yes, there are somepeople that fell away.
And yet at the same time, Ithink the people that.
The clients that really havealways been with me and, like, believed
in me from the start, like,they've stayed.

(55:30):
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
So it's not necessarily theywere looking for creativity as a
way, a method of helping them.
They're looking.
They're still looking at theoutcome of whatever you're trying
to provide.
So the tools that you use arekind of a little bit different or

(55:51):
tweaked based on the creative element.
But it doesn't mean thatyou've changed the way that you operate.
Right.
It's just a new way to look at.
Yeah.
Things I think, you know, mybranding has changed.
I would describe my idealclient a little bit differently now
than I would have when I first started.

(56:11):
And yet the people who valueme and what I offer, like, I think
they've almost always seenthat in me, even when I didn't see
it myself.
What kind of things do you doto help people with the creative

(56:33):
element.
Within my services?
Yeah, well, there's a fewplaces in the human design chart
that I'll look at to reallykind of support people in figuring
out, you know, what they haveto offer to the world and how they
can do that creativity creatively.

(56:56):
There are a few key points inthe human design chart that I'll
look at to kind of help peopleget there.
And with the Akashic records Ithink I am much more forward facing.
Like, like I used to be reallyinto like past lives and stuff and
I think that's somethingthat's changed in my own working

(57:18):
with the records is it waslike really past lives I was really
into.
Like let's look back to seehow you can heal.
And I think there's stillvalue in that, in finding the, the,
the creative element becausesometimes we need to heal some things
to like really awaken thatcreativity within us.
But I tend to be much moreforward facing now when I work with

(57:39):
the records, when I'm workingwith clients where it's like, okay,
what can we do to help you?
Like what steps can you taketo move forward?
What you know, what futuretimelines can we take a look at that
might be on offer and youknow, if you know what, what is on
the horizon for you potentially?

(57:59):
Like you said, understandingthat there are so many things that
can happen.
And you know, just because Ipresent to you future timeline doesn't
mean it's going to happen.
But I think I'm much moreforward facing in the records, like
future oriented than I used to be.
So definitely a few key pointsin the human design chart and really

(58:22):
like practical steps forwardin the records for creativity and
in my copy services.
I mean I use human design inmy web copy to support clients in
really expressing who they areand what they do in the most creative

(58:42):
way possible.
And like I said, there are afew key points in the human design
journey that I do look at forthat as well.
Mm, it's so interestingbecause when you think of human design,
you're not necessarilythinking creativity and it just shows
you that creativity can beused in essentially all elements
of life.

(59:03):
It's just like a part of life.
It's not really a thing forartists like we were saying earlier,
something that can be usedjust by changing the way that you
think and using all influences.
Yeah, I mean I thinkcreativity is revolutionary, especially

(59:23):
in today's age where we dohave so much content and you can
find so much information outthere about how to do XYZ and you
know, how to build a sixfigure business.
I've seen a lot of that as my,in my journey as an entrepreneur,
you know, how to write a greatnovel, how to do this and how to
do that, and there's value inthe how to, because sometimes we

(59:46):
do want to learn from others,and sometimes we do.
We do benefit from support.
And yet I think learning toleverage that information with our
own unique way of being is soimportant because we are all different
and we all bring somethingvaluable to the world.

(01:00:09):
And in our 21st century world,I think it's really easy.
People that get so lost in thecontent and they stop thinking for
themselves.
And so I think to be creativeis to be revolutionary because it's
like, oh, what do I actually think?
What do I actually believe?
What is a.

(01:00:29):
What is a way that I see this,that I haven't seen talked about
before?
Um, what is a way that feelsreally authentic to me, that feels
really good to me, that feelsreally exciting to me that maybe
I didn't see at the how to.

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I think there's so much valueto being a creative person beyond
the traditional ways that wethink of creativity.
Like I said, I love a good book.
I'm avid reader.
I love to look at a good pieceof art.
I love all those people thatdo those traditional creative things.
Like, I'm a huge advocate forthe arts in all forms.

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And yet I also think that thearts, those.
Those arts, the arts thatpeople do, the traditional ways of
being creative can be such agreat muse for all of us to move
through our lives regardlessof what we do, regardless if we ourselves,
we consider ourselves artistsor not, to move through life in a

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unique, original and exciting ways.
I think that's what creativity is.
Yeah, it's so interestingbecause there's an idea.
I think I first heard it inRick Rubin's book where he said that
all ideas are out there.
Every single idea is out inthe universe.
Similar to, like, humandesign, where everything exists in

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some capacity and we're justthe vessels in which creativity is
expressed.
So for artists, it's throughtheir art.
But creativity can beexpressed in really any.
Any avenue because you're theperson that's taking all the inputs
and outputting somethingthat's never been seen because it's

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from you and no one else canbe you.
That's the one advantage thatwe all have, right?
Is that we're all ourselves.
We're all ourselves.
And, you know, we have thisone lifetime, regardless of if you
believe in past lives or not,which I do.
I mean, I'm only.
This is the one lifetime Ihave is me in this vessel.
And so how am I going to useit to be my most awesome, authentic,

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creative self?
Yeah.
So we just need to kind offocus on ourselves, which is what
I hear all the time is, like,focus on you and how your ideas and
inputs and all that has.
Can have an effect on the world.
And we all like to look atother people for all the answers,

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and usually the answers arewithin ourselves by taking all the
information that we have.
And it's not easy.
No one said it's easy.
It's just like taking all ofit in.
I mean, I think we'reconstantly looking out to the world.
We're looking to the world for validation.
We look up to the world toblame people, things for the way

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things are, and we look out tothe world to see what other people
are doing.
Like, ooh, like, I want to bepart of the next cool trend.
What's that person doing?
And you're right.
It all comes back to us.
And, you know, we takeresponsibility for us and how we
show up and how we movethrough the world, and that's all

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we can do.
Yeah.
Awesome.
I have a few more questions left.
Do you know anyone personallywho also runs a standout creative
business, and what do they doto stand out?
Yeah.
Oh, I took some notes becauseI want to make sure I was ready for
these questions.

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So I have a wonderful friendnamed Morgan Denay, and she supports
mostly midlife women kind ofin reclaiming their dancer spirit.
So she does work with them toreally come into, like, she.
She will.
Like.
I actually had a session withher last week.

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We did an exchange, and we diddancing together, and it was on zoom,
but it was so much fun.
And I think there's so many people.
So many people out there inthe healing world.
And I just love the way thatshe stands out because she is really
committed to helping peoplecome back to themselves through dance

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and through movement.
And I just think that's so cool.
Yeah.
That's one of the few wayswhere we're not always thinking of
activity as being, like, a wayto be creative and, like, tap into
ourselves, but we all need tobe healthy enough to, you know, like,

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use our bodies.
Yeah, absolutely.
To bring everything out.
Yeah.
Our bodies are the ultimatecreative vessels, whether you're
dancing or, I don't knowwhether, you know, if you're really
into fashion, people, youknow, use clothes and makeup and
hair to express themselves.
I mean, there are so manydifferent ways that we can use ourselves
too, show off our creativity.

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Actually, I was at a party acouple weeks ago, and someone was,
you know, talking about howshe considers herself to be her muse
because she's so into fashionand music or fashion and makeup.
I'm sorry.
And she's like, I'm my owncreative muse.
I'm my own vessel.
And I was like, that's cool.

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I mean, that's the best kindof muse you can be, right?
Yeah.
Right.
If you inspire yourself,that's the ultimate like goal.
Absolutely.
Then you're, you're a non stopresource for, you know, inspiration.
That's cool.
What is it?
One extraordinary book,podcast or documentary that has had

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the biggest impact on your journey.
This is so hard because I haveso many inspirations.
I love the Gene Keys byRichard Rudd.
He used to work very on in theearly days of human design.
He worked with Ra Uruhu whobrought human design into the world.
But then he kind of went offin his own thing.

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And the Gene Keys are just afabulous, fabulous tool for self
discovery.
Kind of taking some of theelements of human design and kind
of brought them into a new wayof doing it.
But I love the Jinkies becauseit's really allows people to see

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the progression.
You know, there's the shadowelement and then you can go into
the gift element and then youcan go into the city sidic element,
which is like the realm of thegods, basically.
Um, and so I think the GeneKeys are such a beautiful tool for
really being able to see yourevolution and being able to dive

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deep into self exploration,which, you know, I love to do.
And it also ties into the ideaof ourselves being, you know, our,
our greatest asset is what,what we have and what we provide.
Yeah, absolutely.
What do you think makes acreative business stand out and what

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is one piece of advice you'dgive to someone based on your experience
on how they can also stand out?
I think being able to dothings differently, being able to
kind of trust yourself, trustyour kind of vision and kind of,
you know, what I was talkingabout earlier, you know, there's

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so much content out thereabout how to do things and yes, there's
value in learning from others,but when you can really, you know,
dive deep into what makes youdifferent, what makes you tick, and
trusting that and being okaywith, you know, putting yourself
out there, even if it's scaryand being able to speak authentically

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as you.
I think when creativebusinesses and creative people really
are able to honor who they areat their core and speak from that
place and trust that they havevalue, that is really the crux of

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it all.
Yeah, we all just like we weresaying earlier, it's all stuff where
we're looking for externalvalidation and external ideas and
external inputs and stuff.
But that's not.
You don't want to be anybody else.
When you're creating yourthing, whether it's a business or

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art or whatever endeavor itis, you want to just bring your own
spin to it because that's whatpeople are looking for.
You can look for the otherideas with those other people.
Yeah.
I mean, especially in thebusiness world, there's so many people
offering.
So like, there's so manypeople offering services that are

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very similar to each other,and there's nothing wrong with that.
And yet, if you really want tomake your mark on the business world,
you.
You want to be doing what youdo from that place of true authenticity
and like, from that place of you.
Because that's.
That's what makes you standout, is when you come as you are

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authentically and show thatand put that out there.
Yeah.
And you'll find the right people.
When you're portrayingyourself as you really are versus
in any other way, when.
You show up as you, you.
It's absolutely.
You attract the people thatare for you when you show up as you.

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But you have to show up as youto be able to attract the people
that are for you.
Yeah.
That's why there's so manybusinesses that are able to operate
in the same space, is becausewe're all working with and trying
to work with different typesof people and just the people that
we feel are best for usversus, you know, just anybody.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And there's so many people inthe world.

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And, you know, if you trulybelieve that what you're doing is
worthwhile and in alignmentfor you, then you.
You'll find your people.
If you show up authenticallyas you.
Awesome.
Can you give the listeners achallenge that they can take action

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on right away?
At least I took notes becauseI was like, these questions are deep.
I gotta be ready.
Yeah.
I think there is a.
My challenge for the listenersis to really deeply consider, you

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know, where am I unconsciouslyfollowing the crowd?
Where am I, you know, kind ofletting the content that I see kind
of dictate?
And what do I actually believe?
Like, I honestly, like, I'mlike, take, like, get out of journal
and write these things down.
Why am I unconsciouslyfollowing the crowd or just doing

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things because that's what myfriends are doing or that's what
I'm doing, feel like I'msupposed to do, and what do I actually
think and believe and feel?
Aside from all of the externalthings, I also really Recommend people
to play in whatever way feelsgood for them.
Like, when's the last time youplayed as like you were a kid and

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to get out in nature and justsee what that does.
Because I think that we so inso much of our modern day lives,
a lot of us do, indoors, atdesks, staring at screens.
And that is not the mostconducive way for us to find our
creativity because we arereally animals at the core of it

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and animals come from nature.
So go out and play in natureand see how that ignites your creativity
in a new way.
Yeah.
I mean, we've only spent thelast, not even 100 years at a screen.
Right.
It's like been maybe 30 or 40years that, yeah, computers have

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been around, but we're nowevery day spending our days on screens.
If you work.
In such a short amount of timeand I mean, I think like, I'm not
a doctor, I'm not a healthprofessional, but I think they've
done studies that show thatsitting at your screen all day is
not healthy for you.

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Yeah.
And when you go outside andyou play, you're like in your natural
environment because obviouslyall animals originate outside.
Shelter didn't exist untilmankind made it a thing.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Where are you unconsciouslyfollowing the crowd?
What do you actually think andbelieve and feel and get out and

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play in nature like you are a kid.
Do.
Do the most ridiculous thingthat you don't think adults are supposed
to do.
Supposed to do.
And you might be surprised atwhat you ignite within you when you
do that.
Awesome.
Well, Britt has been amazingtalking to you.
Can you tell listeners wherethey can keep up to date with you

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and get in contact with you?
Perfect.
Absolutely.
Thanks for having me, Kevin.
It's been great.
You can find me on Instagramat Aligned and Undefined.
You can also find me on LinkedIn.
I think I'm the only BrittaBuchanan on LinkedIn and so just
look me up and I'm there andat my website, www.aliandefined.com.

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All right, thanks again forcoming on.
It's been a pleasure talking.
It's been great to talk to youtoo, Kevin.
Thanks for having me.
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