Sep 7, 2022
Today, I'm interviewing Samantha
Riley. She's an authority positioning strategist, author, speaker,
host of Influence by Design podcast. And, she's built multiple
businesses over the past 28 years. Today, we're talking about Human
Design and how that fits in to the coaching business she's built.
It's a super fun conversation. You've heard me talk about Human
Design before in the past. It's something I have found a lot of
enjoyment with. It helped me understand myself better as an
entrepreneur, as a leader, things that really took the pressure of
off me. I'm a generator which means that I create ideas differently
than manifesting generators and what was really funny is that
Samantha is a generator as well. So, we're going to be talking
about our experiences with Human Design as coaches, as
business-coaches and so much more. Enjoy.
Samantha shares with us her
insights:
- People strategy and authority. So strategy is
the way that they're designed to respond to the world. So the way
that this plays out for people is understanding, maybe, how they
marketing or maybe how they're attracting all sorts of
opportunities into their world so that would be one piece. And the
authority which is the way that we're designed to make decisions.
And, this has a profound impact on a lot of people as well because
we're taught through, you know, from the time that we're born that
we make decisions by thinking where we're using our brains to work
through a process. But we're actually designed to make decisions
from the neck down. We're designed to feel the decisions. And this
is a really different dynamic to, you know, what we've been taught.
And this is certainly had an impact in the way that I do business
because as a pure generator, I get this message in my
sacral.
- This just happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I had someone on the phone, who was an emotional authority. We had
a very quick conversation. She went- 'yep, let's see I want to work
with you'. And I went - 'you know what I said, I know that we're
going to be amazing together, but I actually want you to go and
think about. I'm going to touch base with you again tomorrow. She
went - 'But why?' And I went - 'because I feel really confident
that I can help you. I know that you're going to get amazing
results with me, but I want you to feel comfortable with that
decision.' And, she actually she did sign up and she messaged me
the next day and just went - 'I just felt so good in knowing that I
had. I was empowered to make that decision and I felt comfortable.'
And she was brand new to human design, so I hadn't experienced that
before and instead of having this relationship that started off
with a lot of friction. It meant that we started off a relationship
with a lot of trust and a lot of confidence. And it makes so much
difference when you can start working with a client in that
way.
- I really do think it's worth looking into human
design. So that you can start to understand where the friction
points are. When you understand, you know what you're here
designed to do, how you're designed to interact with the world. It
makes a lot easier and what it does, when you know these things it
gives you the confidence. And as business owners people buy
confidence. So when you know what those pieces are, energetically,
it just aligns. And people will suddenly be attracted to you or
they will start to search you out rather than you trying on other
people's strategies or the way that they do things on. And go
through this trial and error of - 'I did that and it didn't work
and I did that and it didn't work'. Just to really understand the
way you're designed so that you can start to be unapologetically
who you are meant to be because there are not two of us on the
planet that's the same. So, yet we still try and do things like
other people. So to really lean into who you are and just really
embrace that and embrace the difference, rather than get frustrated
with the difference.
Samantha Riley is an authority
positioning strategist, best selling author, speaker, host of the
Influence By Design podcast. She has built multiple
businesses over the past 28 years, and grew her first 7-figure
business from the ground up before she was 30. Samantha now
works with experts and change makers to become the unapologetic
leader in their industry, and build their elegant
empire.
Learn more about
Samantha:
Websites:
https://samanthariley.global/
Link to The Human Design
Advantage:
https://samanthariley.global/advantage/
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samriley/
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