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#567 Tori Dunlap on How Women Build Real Wealth (Her First $100K) Oct 08, 2026

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I've been deep in money, investing and AI lately, so I brought in someone I've followed for years: Tori Dunlap, founder of Her First $100K, author of the New York Times bestseller Financial Feminist, and host of the number one money podcast for women in the world. Tori does money with a middle finger up to the patriarchy, and this conversation is a masterclass in why your financial power is your freedom.

We get into how Tori saved her first $100K and became a millionaire by 27, why money is a learned skill and not something men are magically better at, the high earner trap that catches women making great money, why you need to keep some of your own money in any relationship, the two-step mistake that leaves people thinking they're invested when they're not, and why the best investors actually look like women: patient, generous and self-aware.

What You'll Learn:

Why money is a learned skill, and how women are conditioned to give their financial power away
How Tori saved her first $100K, and the autopilot savings habit you can start today
The high earner trap: why making good money can leave you with nothing to show for it
Why you need your own money in every relationship, and the yours/mine/ours approach
The two-step investing mistake that leaves money sitting in financial purgatory
Why patience, generosity and self-awareness make women excellent investors

Chapters:

00:00 — Welcome, and why I wanted Tori on
01:52 — Tori's story: the dark night that started Her First $100K
06:31 — Why women are conditioned to give their money away
10:41 — Should couples combine finances? The yours/mine/ours rule
13:15 — Financial abuse, and why you need your own money
20:08 — Can young people still build wealth today?
23:56 — How Tori saved her first $100K, then quit her job
28:06 — Tips for women in business and later in life
29:00 — The high earner trap
31:05 — Money shame, and who "deserves" to be wealthy
38:59 — Building a values-led business (rest weeks, paid leave)
46:01 — What successful investors actually know
48:03 — The two-step mistake, and "Rose's" retirement story
50:47 — Why the best investors look like women
52:58 — Tori's free money-plan quiz

Learn from and work with Tori:

Tori Dunlap, founder of Her First $100K: https://herfirst100k.com/
Tori's free personalised money plan (6-question quiz): https://herfirst100k.com/quiz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herfirst100k

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Resources Mentioned:

Financial Feminist (Tori's New York Times bestselling book, and her podcast)
Her First $100K Stock Market School: https://her-first-100k.kit.com/e987c8a090

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#566 October 2026 Transits: Your Human Design & Astrology Forecast Oct 01, 2026

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The transits are back. After a month off, I'm joined again by Yvette for the Human Design transits and Lauren for the astrology, and October 2026 is a big one. Coming out of eclipse season, this month is all about slowing down, getting out of your head and into your body, and asking what you actually want to be devoted to.

We get into the splenic gates lighting up one after another (instinct, intuition and evolution), the powerful manifestation window from the 9th to the 14th when almost the whole bodygraph is switched on, the Libra new moon, Venus retrograde in Scorpio and what it stirs up around money, fear and what you're afraid to lose, Mars moving into Leo, and the Mercury retrograde landing late in the month. If you take one thing from this episode: slow down, reflect, and let the old stuff go.

What You'll Learn:

Why the splenic gates switching on make October about instinct, intuition and evolution, not starting new things
The high-energy manifestation window from Oct 9–14, when nearly the whole bodygraph is lit up
What Venus retrograde in Scorpio is really asking you (what are you afraid to lose?)
How the Libra new moon, Mars in Leo and the late-month Mercury retrograde shape the month
How to work with retrogrades instead of fearing them, and why slowing down is the whole message

Chapters:

00:00 — The transits are back: catching up after a month off
01:01 — Lauren's news, and why it's healthy to stop tracking every transit
03:31 — Coming out of eclipse season as a different person
09:10 — Living your life as the business strategy (the new paradigm and AI)
13:21 — Human Design transits: the splenic gates switch on
16:56 — Money arriving from all directions
18:49 — The 30/41 channel: desire, fantasy and visioning a new future
22:37 — Libra season, ruled by Venus in Scorpio
27:57 — The shadow of the spleen: fear and what you're afraid to lose
33:57 — The Oct 9–14 power window: intuition, gate 57 and four motors firing
37:40 — Astrology: the Libra new moon (Oct 10)
42:25 — Mars enters Leo for all of October
46:40 — The T-square through Oct 5: stay in your own lane
50:11 — Venus retrograde in Scorpio (Oct 3–Nov 13): money, values and exes
55:58 — Oct 23: Sun enters Scorpio, the Venus cazimi, and Mercury retrograde begins
01:00:45 — Full moon in Taurus (Oct 26) and finding some ease
01:03:35 — The month's real message: slow down, and what will you be devoted to?

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Guests:

Yvette (Human Design transits): https://www.yvettemayer.com/
Lauren (astrology): https://www.astrobetch.com/

Resources Mentioned:

The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
Key October transits: splenic gates, gate 30/41 (desire and fantasy), gate 57 (intuition), gate 51 (awakening), Libra new moon (Oct 10), Venus retrograde in Scorpio (Oct 3–Nov 13), Mars in Leo, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio (from Oct 23), full moon in Taurus (Oct 26)

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#565 Your Human Design Strategy Is the Money Map No One Taught You to Read Sep 29, 2026

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This is episode two of the Money and Human Design series, and today is all about your Human Design Strategy, the most powerful and most overlooked key to making money in alignment with who you are. You've been taught to go outside yourself for the right money strategy, to copy the expert, the mentor, the guru. The truth is the strategy you're looking for is already inside you, and in Human Design it's literally called your strategy.

I break down what strategy actually is, why your mind keeps talking you out of following it, and exactly how it works for each type: initiate and inform for Manifestors, respond for Generators, respond and inform for Manifesting Generators, wait for the invitation for Projectors, and wait a lunar cycle for Reflectors. Strategy and authority are your two golden bullets, and this episode is where you learn to read the money map no one ever taught you to read.

What You'll Learn:

What your Human Design strategy actually is, and why it's the money map no one taught you to read
The strategy for each of the types, and how each one becomes magnetic to money
Why following your strategy can feel unsafe, and how to drop out of your head and into your body
Why strategy is a felt experience you can already find evidence of in your past
How strategy and authority work together as your simplest path to wealth (authority is next episode)

Chapters:

00:00 — The Money and Human Design series continues: did you take imperfect action?
02:21 — Why Human Design gets overcomplicated, and why you don't need the detail
04:50 — The strategy you're searching for is already inside you
06:41 — Why following your strategy feels unsafe: conditioning and the nervous system
07:58 — Strategy is a felt experience, not a thought
14:02 — Your strategy is the money map no one taught you to read
15:20 — Manifestors: initiate and inform
19:38 — Generators: respond to what lights you up
26:20 — Manifesting Generators: respond and inform
28:31 — Projectors: wait for the invitation, and why self-worth is the money move
35:43 — Reflectors: wait a lunar cycle, your 28-day money runway
39:17 — The train metaphor: how all the types work together
42:17 — Closing

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Join the 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge (open now): https://www.emmadunwoody.com/offers/qA2BTwL9/checkout

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Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/

Resources Mentioned:

The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
The Money, AI & Human Design Mastermind
The Barefoot Investor (book Emma recommends for foundational money learning)
Claude AI (which Emma uses to refine her investing strategy)
Episode 1 of the series: How to Make Money According to Your Human Design Type - listen here

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#564 Matthew James Bailey on Human Design and AI: Can AI Read Your Soul? Sep 25, 2026

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Human Design and AI came together for me in this conversation with my friend Matthew James Bailey, who has worked in AI since 1996, wrote a playbook on ethics for AI, and spent time in ICU this year fighting for his life. We get into what AI can and can't do for your inner world, why Matthew calls it an artificial intellect, and what happened when he took Maggie for a test drive and asked her about his dream clients.
This one is for you if you use AI in your business and feel uneasy about how much power people are handing over to it. You'll hear why I see your Strategy and Authority as your built-in truth detector in a noisy world, what Matthew thinks the tech giants have forgotten, and a simple practice he shares to help you feel at home in yourself again.
What You'll Learn:
- Why Matthew calls AI an artificial intellect, and what that means for how much you trust it
- How your Human Design Strategy and Authority help you stay sovereign when everyone else hands their power to tech
- What Matthew found when he tested Maggie AI on his dream client
- Why Matthew believes ethics come down to energy and vibration, and whether people choose AI tools based on ethics
- The hero's journey in reverse, and why an awakening still comes with lessons to learn
Chapters:
00:01 - Welcome back, Matthew James Bailey
01:59 - Matthew's path: AI since 1996, ethics for AI and NASA
07:46 - Why Matthew calls AI an intellect
10:26 - The health crisis, the ICU and an hour in an MRI
13:34 - The 3/5 lesson and Human Design as your truth detector
21:10 - The Great Hello: presence, joy and innocence
24:21 - Matthew test drives Maggie AI
29:18 - Can AI read your soul?
34:21 - Earth School, the 2027 new paradigm and true abundance
39:36 - Presence in the body and the power of a declaration
42:16 - Knowing, and living in two realities at once
46:45 - Why we rebuilt Maggie, and do people care about AI ethics?
49:29 - Ethics as energy and vibration (approx.)
52:19 - The Soul Radiance Tool and quantum computing
56:35 - Can the powers that be keep up with rising consciousness?
01:01:38 - Are we already in the existential crisis?
01:05:58 - The hero's journey backwards, and the heroine's journey
01:14:28 - Nothing to do, only something to let go of
01:19:08 - AI gives us back the gift of time, and Gate 55
01:20:29 - Where to find Matthew

Matthew's Details:

Website - https://inventingworld3.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/matthew.j.bailey.10

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/matthew.james.bailey.official/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@inventingworld3.0

TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@matthew.james.bailey

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Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/

Resources Mentioned:

- World Three think tank and Matthew's white papers with Robert Edward Grant
- Sir Roger Penrose on consciousness and intelligence
- The Gene Keys and the Siddhi state
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (the quote Emma has tattooed on her arm)
- Anita Moorjani
- FLFE
- The Diary of a CEO episode with Mo Gawdat
- David Hawkins' scale of consciousness
- Human Design: 3/5 profile, Reflector type, Strategy and Authority, Gate 55 and the 2027 new paradigm
- The hero's journey and the heroine's journey

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#563 How to Make Money According to Your Human Design Type Sep 23, 2026

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This is the start of my brand new series on money and Human Design, two of my all-time favourite things. If you've ever wondered why the money strategies everyone else swears by never quite work for you, this episode is your answer. The way you're designed to make money is specific to your Human Design type, and once you understand your own energy you stop forcing someone else's model and start magnetising what's already yours.

In this first episode we stay at the macro level: your type. I walk through how money comes differently to Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors and Reflectors, why gate 55 holds the key to money and energy, and how I made $2 million before I ever built a funnel by following my design instead of the rulebook. This is the foundation for the whole series, so start here.

What You'll Learn:

- Why there's no one-size-fits-all money strategy, and how your Human Design type changes the way money actually comes to you

- How each of the five types becomes magnetic to money (and what blocks each one)

- What gate 55 teaches about authenticity, energy and abundance

- How to use your strategy, signature and not-self theme as real-time money indicators

- The shift from doing to receiving, and why now is the time for it

Chapters:
00:00 - Dialling into authenticity for abundance and freedom
00:17 - The money and Human Design series begins
02:50 - What two months off taught me about receiving (and the 1.5M downloads we'd been missing)
06:07 - Why I finally committed to teaching money
06:56 - How I made $2 million before I ever built a funnel
08:29 - Gate 55: authenticity is the real money magnet
10:51 - Money and your Type (the macro level)
12:21 - Manifestors and money
14:04 - Generators and Manifesting Generators and money
17:20 - Projectors and money
19:25 - Reflectors and money
21:24 - Using strategy, signature and not-self theme as money indicators
24:31 - You are the authority

Get Started:

Join the 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge (open now): https://www.emmadunwoody.com/offers/qA2BTwL9/checkout

Get your free Human Design chart and Visionary Archetype: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart

Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/

Resources Mentioned:

The Money, AI & Human Design Mastermind
The 21-Day Money, AI & Human Design Challenge
Gate 55 in Human Design (money and energy)
Claude AI (which I used to research business investment)

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#562 Clara Schroeder on Why Nature Calms An Overwhelmed Mind Aug 20, 2026

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In today's episode I'm joined by Clara Schroeder, ecotherapist and author of Re-Nature, for a conversation about nature, the nervous system, and why time outdoors does far more than clear your head.

Clara calls it the more than human world, and she takes us through what happens in the brain when we're in it. We get into the neuroscience of fractal patterns and why the predictability of a tree canopy or a wave settles the amygdala, the difference between exercising outdoors and relating to nature, and how she's seen nature connection ease loneliness, low mood and an overstimulated nervous system. She shares her own path through clinical depression and her recovery from a traumatic brain injury, plus the distinction she draws between physiological burnout and the ecological kind, the sort that comes from forgetting where we come from.

We also talk horses as healers, flow state, and the small daily practices that bring nature in when you live in a city: a nature altar, a colour walk, a moment of presence with your morning cup of tea.

If you've done all the inner work and still feel wired and disconnected from yourself, this is your reset.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach

Big love,

Mxx

Clara's Details:

Website: claraschroeder.com
Instagram: @livingwithclarity
Her book, Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better: available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Book updates: @renaturebook

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Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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#561 Cameron Branch on The 2027 Alien Deception Aug 13, 2026

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In today's episode I'm sitting down with a fellow Aussie, Cameron Branch, host of The Hard Yarns Podcast, for a wide-ranging conversation about aliens, disclosure, past lives and what it takes to trust your own inner knowing in a very noisy world. Cameron shares his take on what he believes is coming with contact and disclosure, and where he reckons the real deception sits. Then, live on air, I read his Human Design, because underneath the big topic runs a much simpler thread we keep returning to: your authentic self is the answer.

As a Manifesting Generator with sacral authority, Cameron is built to lead with his gut instead of his mind, and his gate of opinion means he is here to share what he thinks without needing to be right. We get into how you discern truth when the news, social media and even well-meaning experts are all fighting for your attention, why going first gives other people permission to do the same, and what it looks like to come back to your own authority rather than handing it away.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach

Big love,

Mxx

Cameron's Details:
Website - https://www.thehardyarns.com/
Podcast - https://www.thehardyarns.com/podcast
Instagram - @thehardyarnspodcast
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MAGGIE - Magnetic by Design AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

The HDx Collective: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective

Human Design Unhinged: https://www.humandesignunhinged.com/

Secret Podcast: The Human Design Podcast (Off The Record): https://thehumandesignpodcast.supercast.com/

Instagram @the_human_design_coach

Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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#560 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Stop Forcing Clarity Aug 10, 2026

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This is The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions, a live, intimate coaching experience with members of my private HDx Collective. In each session, we decode the energetic patterns holding them back and unlock the identity shift required to lead, scale, and succeed in alignment with their Human Design. These sessions are by application only and exclusively available inside the HDx Collective.

👉🏼 Join The HDx Collective here to apply for your own breakthrough session: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective

In today's episode, I coach Rachael, who runs a catering business with her husband that looks good on paper but was built through force, and now finds herself in functional burnout with one foot in it and one foot in something of her own.

Rachael is a 5/1 Emotional Generator.

We get into the real reason she can't hand anything over, the story that quality drops the moment she delegates, and why that is an identity belief, not the truth. We get into building the systems that let her opt out in small steps, then go deeper into her largely unconscious chart, why forcing mental clarity about how her body feels will never work, and how to rebuild trust with her sacral when it has been running on empty.

I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach

Big love,

Mxx

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MAGGIE - Magnetic by Design AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

The HDx Collective: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective

Human Design Unhinged: https://www.humandesignunhinged.com/

Secret Podcast: The Human Design Podcast (Off The Record): https://thehumandesignpodcast.supercast.com/

Instagram @the_human_design_coach

Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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#559 Why Everything Feels Hard Now (It's a Good Sign) Aug 06, 2026

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In today's episode, Jeff and Clayton from FLFE are back, and we get into why so many of us feel like everything has gone hard, sticky and heavy right now. Their answer is a relief: consciousness is rising, and when it rises, it gets tested. The solar system, the planet and this part of the galaxy are all climbing, which is exactly why you might feel stuck on a plateau, or like the pressure has quietly cranked up. It is not a sign you are off track. It is a sign you are right on it.

We talk about trusting your inner authority when you can no longer tell what is real, setting smaller goals and going back to basics, and getting brutally honest with your own shadow while still softening on yourself. Then we turn to AI from a consciousness perspective: what it reflects back about us, where it genuinely helps, where it can never replace a human, and why growth through joy might matter more now than any amount of hard work.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach

Big love,

Mxx

You can find FLFE, and start a free trial, here: https://www.flfe.net/rp-affiliates.php?p=emma&w=TryFLFEfree

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MAGGIE - Magnetic by Design AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

The HDx Collective: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective

Human Design Unhinged: https://www.humandesignunhinged.com/

Secret Podcast: The Human Design Podcast (Off The Record): https://thehumandesignpodcast.supercast.com/

Instagram @the_human_design_coach

Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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#558 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Scaling as a Manifestor Aug 03, 2026

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👉🏼 Join The HDx Collective here to apply for your own breakthrough session: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective

In today's episode, I coach Kerrie, a leadership coach who can feel a bigger business forming, one that goes beyond one-to-one work to change how organisations lead, without burning herself out to build it.

Kerrie is a 4/6 Emotional Manifestor.

We get into why her design makes her the initiator and the face, the one who builds the frameworks and the IP and then brings others in to execute, rather than doing everything herself. We look at the real question underneath the fear, not "do I need a team" but "what do I need right now," and why the right people show up once the work exists. And why she keeps waiting for a sign to move, when the knowing is already hers.

If you have ever felt a bigger vision pulling at you and stalled because you didn't yet have the team, the proof or the permission to begin, this one is for you.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach

Big love,

Mxx

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Want more on Human Design? Explore the ways to get involved below:

Get Your Free Human Design Chart: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart

The Feminine Success Framework: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/feminine-success-framework

MAGGIE - Magnetic by Design AI: https://meetmaggie.co/

The HDx Collective: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/collective

Human Design Unhinged: https://www.humandesignunhinged.com/

Secret Podcast: The Human Design Podcast (Off The Record): https://thehumandesignpodcast.supercast.com/

Instagram @the_human_design_coach

Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com