Unlocking Your True Potential with Human Design: A Conversation with Jenny Cotten

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You already know that finding clarity is the key to moving forward in life and career, today's guest will share how to refine everything you already know, into something extraordinary.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Hi, and welcome to the you world order, showcase, podcast where we feature life, health, transformational coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs stepping up to be the change they seek in the world. I'm your host, Jill Hart, the coaches alchemist on a mission to help coaches and entrepreneurs amplify their voice, monetize their mission and get visible leveraging podcasts. And the huge audience over on the Gnostic TV network. Today, we are chatting with Jenny Cotton.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Jenny is a certified life and success. Coach, educator and passionate human design practitioner, driven by a love of teaching and a commitment to personal growth, she founded mindbody lab design lab to empower others through the transformative power of human design.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Jenny's holistic approach blends practical strategies with personalized coaching, guiding individuals to align with their unique design and confidently navigate life's challenges and opportunities. Welcome to the show, Jenny.

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Jenny Cotten: Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'm happy to have you here, so I'm going to ask you the big question. Are you ready.

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Jenny Cotten: I think so, okay.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Had to check 1st with my guest.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So what's the most significant thing in your opinion, as individuals, we can do to make an impact on how the world is going.

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Jenny Cotten: Well, I'm going to be biased. Obviously, as a human design coach, I'm going to say human design. It has the power to transform each person individually, so that they can go out into the world their best self to contribute and not just be a good person, but really bring people together as a collective for the greater good. So

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Jenny Cotten: I'm I'm biased in that way. I guess.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think it's a perfectly great explanation, and that brings us to human design. What is it? And how does it help people.

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Jenny Cotten: Yeah, so think about when I think about human design. I often so people are really familiar with like the Enneagram. Remember, like, I'm going to date myself for a second. So back in the nineties, right? When we had the briars, Migs and the Enneagram and all the things and people were taking personality tests and trying to figure out who they were, you know. So human design.

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Jenny Cotten: I like to think of it as that times infinity, because, instead of someone answering a personal question based on how they feel that day, human design is based on when you were born, the exact moment of your birth. And so you think about as the stars aligned and the perfect you was born.

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Jenny Cotten: That's exactly what human design is. It's rather than an outer picture. It's an inner picture of your character, of your conscious and your subconscious, and really tells a story of who you are and who you're meant to be your potential in life. And so I just I love it. I love it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I often think of it as a note that we write to ourselves from beyond before we get here, and if we happen to discover.

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Jenny Cotten: Where the note was stored.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Human design is that note for you.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It is you left for yourself.

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Jenny Cotten: Yeah.

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Jenny Cotten: it's truly amazing. And and shows people, you know where what their potential really is. And I think a lot of people, especially in today's world of a lot of noise.

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Jenny Cotten: right? It was just a really noisy world that we live in, and it's easy to get distracted or think that we need to do certain things or be like certain people. But human design is about who you are and who you're meant to be. So when you get in touch with that, and it does take time. I'm not gonna pretend it's, you know, just a report you get and you're done. It is a process, but it's well worth it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It. It really is I I've done my own reports and it

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: they're just so comprehensive. It's it's kind of like astrology on steroids.

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Jenny Cotten: Yes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know, they

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you just get so much information about so many facets of your life, and and some of them are going to be like, Oh, yeah, I already knew that. But others are going to be like oh, oh, if I just did it this way, my life would be so much easier, instead of just continuing to push and push and push in the direction that you're going, and wondering why you're not making any progress. It's because you're pushing on the wall.

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Jenny Cotten: And that's exactly how I came into human design. I am a generator, which is one of the one of the types in human design and for generators we're supposed to respond to life. And I was not doing that. I was trying to initiate everything. And just like you said, push and make things happen. And so I wasn't doing it. I wasn't living my strategy, as we say, in human design. And so it was really powerful for me to discover that.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it's empowering. I'm a manifester. So you know, I'm always trying to like, get stuff going and encourage people to like.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Come on, let's go. Let's go. Let's go get it done, get it done! Get it done, you know just who I am, and I used to feel bad about it, because, like

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you know, not, everybody's the same, and not everybody is is here to do the same sort of things. But recognizing that, you know, that's your strength, meaning me. And other people have other strengths, and they're not all. We're not all the same, and we don't all need to be treated the same, and being able to relax into allowing people to be who they are naturally, and holding space for them

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: while still encouraging them to to produce

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: in the way that works for them rather than you know.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: There's 1 way or the highway, which is, you know, that's kind of how we were all raised. It's like there's only one right way to do stuff. Well, you know, the only one right way only works in math.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and even there, when you start getting into bigger math. I I think there's differences there, too.

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Jenny Cotten: I was going to say. My background is elementary education. So you know, it's all about differentiation and education and the new math. And there's not one way to do things. There's lots of ways. And when I think about human design, and I think about the world, it's like a huge puzzle. And, like you were saying, everybody has a different piece.

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Jenny Cotten: They have a different fractal line that they are here to interact with. To have influence on. Everyone has a purpose, and when you don't realize your purpose and bring it into the world, you're really being selfish because you're here to do a very important job.

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Jenny Cotten: So it's in, you know, it's we need to do that. We need to figure these things out and go out into the world and and be authentically ourselves.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I look at life as a big tapestry, and we're each a thread in the tapestry. And when we're doing what we're supposed to be doing. That thread is just so vibrant, and it really blends well with all of the other threads. But when we're not, it's just like this white.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it's it's there, but it's.

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Jenny Cotten: Getting to the beautiful picture.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, it's not contributing to the beautiful picture that it's really here to do. So yeah.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And everybody's got something special.

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Jenny Cotten: They do they really do, I mean, when I 1st discovered human design and pulled my chart and started learning about myself. Then immediately, I want to pull my husband, and then my children and my mom and my dad right. And then it becomes the more you learn. You. You meet people, and you go. Hmm! I wonder what they are.

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Jenny Cotten: I wonder?

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Jenny Cotten: Open blah blah center, you know, and it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think there's only like 5, 3, or 5 different overall overarching archetypes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Is it 3 or.

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Jenny Cotten: It's the types. So there's 4 main types, right? There's manifest.

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Jenny Cotten: I don't know

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Jenny Cotten: generators, projectors, and reflectors, but generators are really split into 2 flavors, generators manifesting generators. But they make up 70% of the population. So that's what most people are.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But we, even though 70% of the population are are manifestors, we generators or generators, we each have

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: differences. It's not like.

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Jenny Cotten: Oh, absolutely! That is.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Those differences are so important. Yes, you're talking about open sections in different parts of the the human design chart. It's just like there's a lot of parts to the human design chart.

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Jenny Cotten: There are there. Yes, there are 9 centers. There's 64 gates which are basically like your superpowers. And so when they're defined, that's the energy that you bring defined into the world to share with other people. And so, yeah, there's a lot to it, for sure.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And when you look at astrology it's only like 12 houses.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And in this you're talking about

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: 64 gates, I mean, that's a lot and combinations.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And then you start getting.

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Jenny Cotten: Channel.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Financial numbers. So so there's there's you're not the same as everybody else.

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Jenny Cotten: Absolutely not absolutely not.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Which is why it's really important to contact somebody like Jenny and have her help you with your chart. I know she has a way for you to pull your chart, but I promise you, when you look at it, you're going to be like.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: What does that mean?

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Jenny Cotten: Yeah, it's when you 1st look at it, you're gonna see? You know.

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Jenny Cotten: this beautiful body graph is what it's called. And then there's there's 2 sides, there's the conscious and the the unconscious, but they look like decimals. And so people who are not math people immediately they they go into that. Oh, my goodness, I don't know what all this means, but

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Jenny Cotten: yes, absolutely. You know I try to teach it in the most practical way possible. If I am a 5 1, that's my profile line. So I am the practical authority. So it's perfect for me to teach people that are new to human design, because I teach it the most practical way possible to help them integrate it into their life.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And you don't have to have it like at your reader chart. And then tomorrow you're gonna start this whole list of things that have to happen. It's not like that.

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Jenny Cotten: No, and that's not practical, right? It's really about learning. I like to start with the easiest, which is the type. And when you learn about your type. And for some people that is life changing, especially projectors, right? So when they learn that they're a projector, and they're not like 70% of the population. It's life changing.

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Jenny Cotten: So starting with that, and then we start to dive into some little bit deeper things and start to layer it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And and it it does layer on top of one piece on top of the other, on top of the other, and then it it

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: when I was talking about empowering people to live their best lives. It you grow into it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it feels comfortable. It's like putting on a pair of shoes that fits you really well.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and the more you wear them the better they feel. It's just.

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Jenny Cotten: Excellent.

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Jenny Cotten: absolutely absolutely. And I mean, we didn't even talk about the Incarnation cross and your sole purpose. And I mean, that's that's a whole different conversation. But it's super empowering to see how it all fits together. And it's amazing when people start to see like what they're doing

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Jenny Cotten: is what they're here to do. And then sometimes they're like, oh, that's, why, i'm frustrated because you know, I need to pivot

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it's super helpful when you especially.

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Jenny Cotten: Thank you.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Coming running into roadblocks. And you're you're feeling like, you know. I feel like I should be doing this. But I'm not happy, and.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And maybe you're just off a little bit. It doesn't even have to be a lot. And I know there's a whole bunch of people in the world that were raised to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you. Go to school, you get your degree, and you follow this career path because your parents said so. No no thought about who you are and your personality, and what lights you up in the world, and what your superpowers are. People don't. They're just not exposed to it. We don't.

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Jenny Cotten: They're not. But think of the power of people learning that now, like even as an adult, and then helping their children grow into who they truly are and who they're supposed to be their potential. I mean, that is a life changing not only for that child, but for the world.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That's where you get your inventors and your artists and all the people that you know we might think we don't need. But really we do need them.

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Jenny Cotten: We need. We need them all.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We need everybody, and we need everybody doing the thing that they're here to do. We came here with a purpose, but if you're stuck in the box, and you don't see any way out. Then you're miserable. You're anxious, you're

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: crabby and.

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Jenny Cotten: Yeah. And then you start to have issues with your children and your spouse and your your mother, and like it's a domino effect. Then you start having health problems. Well, that's your body trying to alert you, that you're not living in alignment.

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Jenny Cotten: That's a wake up! Call.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It is a wake up call, and it's it's really

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: some of these things are so simple to solve that the thing is, you have to know that they exist. The help is out there.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and you know my hat's off to you, Jenny. We we need you.

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Jenny Cotten: Well, it just happens to be my incarnation, cross my sole purpose to help educate people and get them in touch with their spirituality. And you know that means going inward right and finding out who they are, so that they can get in touch with what they're supposed to bring to the world and their special gifts.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think it's so interesting when we start turning inward, and we know who we are and what our purpose is. It's really easier for us to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: address the people around us differently.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And like as I was sharing before

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I grew up, being told I was a bossy person, and then I, as an adult, my husband came to me and said, one time, you're not bossy. You're just overly helpful. Which was, it was hugely helpful in the way I perceived myself.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Because.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you know, if you're gonna call me bossy, I'm going to be bossy. I'll just tell you what to do. I'm gonna ask your permission for it. But when you're helping somebody, it's it's a little bit softer. It's like, Do you want help?

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And if you don't want help I had to learn to be good with that.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you know, some people are on their journey, and they're just gonna do whatever experience they're here to experience, and no amount of me trying to save them from themselves is going to help them.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But there are plenty of people that do want help, but they don't know where to go to get it.

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Jenny Cotten: Yes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So you know, I understanding where you are, and understanding how to share

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: what your message is, and what your passion is, and what your purpose is with others in a way that allows space for them to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: interact with you in the way that's comfortable for them. It's life changing.

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Jenny Cotten: It is life changing and even thinking about human design and business. I mean, that's a whole nother area to explore of how you are supposed to, you know. Speak your message into the world, and who your ideal audience is, and all of that is tied into human design as well. So there's just so much to explore. There that that's why it's not a 1 and done, you know it. Really, it's a journey.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So when you work with people, do.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: do you have like a program? Do you have one on one coaching? Is it a group is, how, how does all that look.

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Jenny Cotten: Yeah. So I work with people, one on one. If that's you know, some people are more comfortable. With that we talk about differentiation. Right? So some people prefer that. And then also have a group program. Where we work on learning. Well.

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Jenny Cotten: they learn their human design. Right? I'm just the mentor. I'm the guide on this journey so that they can learn their human design and then help them like implement it in their life in a way that makes sense for them that's going to improve their life. So whether that be like relationships or

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Jenny Cotten: career. Some people, you know, that's their real pain point is, they're like, Oh, I feel stuck in a career that was me. And then other people. It's I want to start a business and not but I don't know what my niche is, I don't, you know. And so everybody has those different frustration areas. And so it's very differentiated and tailored for what they need and what they want in their life.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So how do? How do people get in touch with you? And and what would you say is like

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: the place for people to start.

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Jenny Cotten: The best place to start is the website mindbodydesignlab.com you can get, you know, free chart, free report with, just, you know, some basic things, so you don't feel overwhelmed by it all. But it's a good introduction to what

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Jenny Cotten: the symbols and numbers mean. And then from there the best thing to do is just schedule a free call with me. I do a free clarity call. It's typically about 30 min. And we talk about what areas of your life. You, you're really feeling that frustration and how human design can can help you.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Awesome.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And that that website, again, is mindbodydesignlab.com right.

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Jenny Cotten: Yes, yes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Thank you so much for joining me, Jenny, this is.

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Jenny Cotten: Thank you.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Great conversation.

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Jenny Cotten: I could talk about human design all day. I love it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It is really a helpful tool for anybody. Just wondering what what are you here for? And.

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Jenny Cotten: It is, and I will say, since I found human design, it has completely, just transformed my life. I am in a different, you know career. I've manifested money. I have better relationships with everyone around me. I'm a happier person. My health is better, and it all just came from getting to know myself

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Jenny Cotten: reading that letter from beyond.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: All right.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That's right.

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Jenny Cotten: Get in line, sister, it's time to do this thing.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Sure for sure.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Thanks for joining us today, and to learn more about Jenny and human design. Please visit and to get your free human design chart.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Please visit mindbodydesignlab.com. And we'll put that link in the show notes and thank you for tuning in with us today. If you have a podcast, or are interested in starting one to get your message in front of our huge and active audience.

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