Practical Magic

In this episode, I’m joined by Accredited Financial Counselor Melissa Mittelstaedt to talk about the real mechanics of money — from systemic shame to nervous system regulation to tactical wealth-building.

We explore:

1. why money shame is so common (and rarely personal)
2. how spiritual and practical money work can coexist
3. what value-based spending actually looks like
4. how to regulate your nervous system around finances

Key takeaways:

1. Why most women feel “behind” with money
2. Melissa’s four-part framework: business, personal, spiritual, tactical
3. EFT tapping for money regulation
4. What value-based spending means (and why cutting joy first is a mistake)
5. What shifted for Melissa inside Energetic Business Collective — especially around refining her offers and no longer feeling like she was pushing a boulder uphill

You can connect with her here: Melissamitt.com/links

Throughout this conversation, you’ll hear Melissa reference how understanding her design — and refining her business structure accordingly — shifted the way she operates.

While the episode is centered on money, it also offers a real-life glimpse into the kind of clarity and practical insight that comes from Human Design work inside Energetic Business Collective.

If you’re wanting a business that feels less like pushing a boulder uphill and more like something that actually fits you, you can learn more about EBC here:

Energetic Business Collective

Enrollment is open through March 18.

There is a category of entrepreneur who cannot succeed through self-abandonment.

If brute force, strategy stacking, and pushing harder were going to work for you — they would have by now.

This episode is a deep dive into how Energetic Business Collective is structured and why it’s built the way it is.

Not as another formula.

Not as another marketing playbook.

Not as a step-by-step execution container.

But as an identity-first, nervous-system-safe, energetically aligned business architecture.

Inside this episode, I walk you through:

1. Why awareness alone isn’t enough (and why Human Design without subconscious integration eventually hits a wall)
2. The real reason “just give me a plan” doesn’t actually solve the problem
3. The five-part arc of EBC (vision, energetic blueprint, lived experimentation, subconscious recalibration, sustainable integration)
4. What Subconscious RX actually is and why it changes everything
5. How the Alignment Dashboard becomes your long-term operating system
6. Why this container is intentionally spacious and capped
7. Who this is for — and who it isn’t

You don’t leave EBC with a funnel.

You leave with a compass.

You don’t leave dependent on another strategy.

You leave with discernment.

And if you’ve been feeling like you and your business are in a fight… this episode will likely make something click.

If this resonates, early bird enrollment with a $222 discount for Energetic Business Collective is open through March 4th (payment plan available)

This is a high-touch, three-month container capped at eight entrepreneurs.

You can learn more about Energetic Business Collective here.

You can check out the Alignment Dashboard here.

If you’re unsure whether this is the right fit, start with this episode.

Any questions, you can email me at [email protected]

You don’t think you’re controlling.

You think you’re being responsible.

Reasonable.

Disciplined.

Independent.

A hard worker.

But control doesn’t always look like gripping the wheel.

Sometimes it looks like the stories underneath it:

1. “If I slow down, that’s selfish.”
2. “If it’s not hard, I don’t deserve it.”
3. “If I’m not a hard worker, I’m mediocre.”
4. “If I stop holding everything together, it all falls apart.”
5. “If I need help, I’m weak / I’m failing.”

In this episode, we unpack:

1. The different ways control hides (hustle, overthinking, hyper-independence, over-responsibility)
2. Why slowing down can feel unsafe, unfair, or even wrong
3. How “being the hard worker” becomes identity — and why letting go can feel like losing yourself
4. The nervous-system reason you keep returning to the same patterns, even when you know better
5. The difference between control and true resilience (the kind that can actually hold expansion)

Control helped you survive. But it’s not the thing that gets you to your next level.

If you’re tired of trying to force your way forward — and ready to build the internal safety to do it differently — this episode is for you.

Inside Energetic Business Collective, we do this work in real time: not just insight, but the capacity to actually live it.

You’ve tried harder. You’ve invested, you've researched. You’ve followed the strategies.

And it still hasn’t worked the way you thought it would.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

If forcing it was going to work for you, it would have by now.

Some people can override themselves and succeed anyway.

Some of us don’t get to.

In this episode, I’m breaking down:

1. Why forcing and “doing it right” keeps stalling out
2. The path that doesn’t reward self-abandonment
3. How this pattern shows up in business, career, relationships, and your body
4. Why alignment and subconscious safety have to come before real success
5. What it means to stop repeating the same loop

This is the initiation before the up-level.

If you’re done trying to make the old way work, Energetic Business Collective is the container built for this phase.

1. ✨ Human Design
2. ✨ Subconscious belief work
3. ✨ Sustainable, aligned business growth

If the old way was going to work, it already would have.

Any questions / comments? Email me at [email protected]

In this episode, I’m breaking down two tools I use personally and with clients to help interrupt anxiety, perfectionism, and subconscious patterns — especially when you know something isn’t working anymore, but you’re not sure what to do instead.

We explore the difference between Future You and Next-Level You, how they work together, and how to use them in real, everyday moments — not just big life decisions.

In this episode, we talk about:

1. Why awareness alone isn’t enough to create change
2. The difference between Future You (big-picture trust) and Next-Level You (moment-to-moment clarity)
3. How fear-based motivation actually keeps us stuck
4. A real-life example of perfectionism and over-optimizing daily life
5. An emotionally charged example of catastrophizing and feeling misunderstood
6. How separating facts from stories can calm anxiety spirals

These tools aren’t about fixing yourself — they’re about learning how to move through your life with more trust, ease, and clarity.

✨ Learn more about The Subconscious Edit here

📧 Or reach out: [email protected]

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your emotions — like they’re too much, or not welcome, or like they just… don’t come up the way you think they should — this episode is for you.

In this honest and messy (in a good way) conversation, I unpack how our childhood can impact our relationship to our emotions. I share my own story, the beliefs I picked up about what it meant to be “easy,” the classic oldest daughter narratives I picked up, and how that shaped the way I relate to feelings now.

You’ll hear:

✨ What emotional disconnection actually looks like (and how it hides in plain sight)

🧠 Why awareness isn’t enough — and how to actually rewire the deeper patterns

💬 The moment I realized being helped made me uncomfortable (and why that mattered)

😶‍🌫️ How perfectionism, emotional suppression, and “being the easy one” are all connected

💡 The surprising beliefs that sit beneath your resistance to feeling

If you’ve ever felt numb, tense, overly responsible, or like feeling might make you a burden — you’re not alone. And you’re not broken.

🎧 Listen in — and start to reconnect with a part of you that’s been waiting to be heard.

✨ Ready to go deeper?

If you’re ready to stop looping in the same patterns and finally create change that lasts — The Subconscious Edit is your next step.

A personalized 1:1 container to identify and rewire the beliefs holding you back — with tools and support designed around you.

🎁 Now open for booking — special holiday pricing through 12/31.

👉 Learn more + book your spot

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💫 New to Human Design? Start Here:

Pull your free Human Design chart and start receiving the Human Design Quick Start Email Series to help you understand your energy and decision-making style.

Explore the Quick Start Guide on the blog - You'll start with your Energy Type and follow along through Authority, Profile, and Centers — all broken down clearly and practically.

🎧 Listen to the Chart Basics episodes:

• Ep 2: The 5 Energy Types That Could Transform Your Life (And How to Find Yours)
• Ep 7: Stop Second-Guessing: Your Practical Roadmap to Confident Decisions Using Human Design
• Ep 6: The Shortcut to Your Purpose: Embody Your Personality Profile
• Ep 8: Human Design Centers & How to Work with Your Definition

Want 20% off any single session reading?? Leave us a 5 start rating and review to receive a special thank you 20% off! Just send a screenshot of your rating and review to [email protected] and I'll respond back with your discount code

Say hey 👋 on Instagram @Nicole.guena

Website: NicoleGuena.com

You’ve spotted the pattern. You know the belief. You’ve done the journaling.

So… why hasn’t anything changed?

In Part 4 of this series, we’re talking about the often-overlooked phase of transformation: the messy, uncertain, in-between. That space where your old beliefs don’t quite fit anymore — but the new ones don’t feel fully safe yet.

Inside this episode:

• Why awareness isn’t the finish line (and what comes next)
• What makes change feel scary — even when your current reality sucks
• The difference between insight and embodiment
• 6 tools that actually help rewire your subconscious
• How to start building safety around a new belief (without faking it)

You’ll also hear some of my favorite personal examples — like the $70 comforter meltdown that revealed a massive scarcity story... and how I handled it differently the second time around.

🌀 This episode is your bridge from knowing → becoming.

✨ Ready to go deeper?

If you’re ready to stop looping in the same patterns and finally create change that lasts — The Subconscious Edit is your next step.

A personalized 1:1 container to identify and rewire the beliefs holding you back — with tools and support designed around you.

🎁 Now open for booking — special holiday pricing through 12/31.

👉 Learn more + book your spot

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💫 New to Human Design? Start Here:

Pull your free Human Design chart and start receiving the Human Design Quick Start Email Series to help you understand your energy and decision-making style.

Explore the Quick Start Guide on the blog - You'll start with your Energy Type and follow along through Authority, Profile, and Centers — all broken down clearly and practically.

🎧 Listen to the Chart Basics episodes:

• Ep 2: The 5 Energy Types That Could Transform Your Life (And How to Find Yours)
• Ep 7: Stop Second-Guessing: Your Practical Roadmap to Confident Decisions Using Human Design
• Ep 6: The Shortcut to Your Purpose: Embody Your Personality Profile
• Ep 8: Human Design Centers & How to Work with Your Definition

Want 20% off any single session reading?? Leave us a 5 start rating and review to receive a special thank you 20% off! Just send a screenshot of your rating and review to [email protected] and I'll respond back with your discount code

Say hey 👋 on Instagram @Nicole.guena

Website: NicoleGuena.com

Your subconscious beliefs shape your entire reality — but most of them are invisible to your conscious mind.

In this episode, we’re diving into the tools you can use to uncover what’s really been driving your stuck patterns… and the surprising places those clues might be hiding.

Because once you can name the belief, you can rewire it — and finally shift the results you’re seeing in your life, work, and relationships.

✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to use tools like journaling, meditation, tarot, dreams, and voice-to-text to identify your subconscious blocks
• The key reason you can’t just mindset your way into change — and why awareness alone isn’t enough
• Why understanding your Human Design gives you a “true north” for your authentic self
• Why it’s important to revisit childhood memories through a child’s lens — not the logical adult version
• How seemingly harmless triggers (like your partner helping out) can reveal deeply buried beliefs
• Why your biggest patterns often come from survival strategies you learned before age 7
• How the pattern of hyper-independence may be keeping you stuck, even when you want support

👁‍🗨 This episode also includes:

• Two of Nicole’s real-life examples:
• → “I have to work hard to deserve success”
• → “It’s all on me to keep it together”
• The many angles she used to uncover them — including dream symbolism, tarot, coaching, journaling, and energetic discomfort

🎧 If you’ve ever felt like you know what you want but still can’t make it happen… this episode will show you why — and what to do next.

✨ Ready to go deeper?

If you’re ready to stop looping in the same patterns and finally create change that lasts — The Subconscious Edit is your next step.

A personalized 1:1 container to identify and rewire the beliefs holding you back — with tools and support designed around you.

🎁 Now open for booking — special holiday pricing through 12/31.

👉 Learn more + book your spot

_

💫 New to Human Design? Start Here:

Pull your free Human Design chart and start receiving the Human Design Quick Start Email Series to help you understand your energy and decision-making style.

Explore the Quick Start Guide on the blog - You'll start with your Energy Type and follow along through Authority, Profile, and Centers — all broken down clearly and practically.

🎧 Listen to the Chart Basics episodes:

• Ep 2: The 5 Energy Types That Could Transform Your Life (And How to Find Yours)
• Ep 7: Stop Second-Guessing: Your Practical Roadmap to Confident Decisions Using Human Design
• Ep 6: The Shortcut to Your Purpose: Embody Your Personality Profile
• Ep 8: Human Design Centers & How to Work with Your Definition

Want 20% off any single session reading?? Leave us a 5 start rating and review to receive a special thank you 20% off! Just send a screenshot of your rating and review to [email protected] and I'll respond back with your discount code

Say hey 👋 on Instagram @Nicole.guena

Website: NicoleGuena.com

In today’s episode, I’m doing something I’ve never done before — I’m channeling five messages from your subconscious mind.

If you’re listening, it’s not an accident.

These messages are meant for you, exactly in this moment.

Inside the episode, I share:

• How I tuned into the collective energy of this community
• What your subconscious is trying to get your conscious mind to finally see
• Why certain patterns keep repeating… and how to work with them
• The most important inner shift to make before anything in your outer world can change
• The emotional and psychological side of subconscious work that no one talks about

This episode was channeled straight through — practical, magical, and here to support your next level.

Take a breath, open your heart, and let what’s meant for you land.

✨ Take what resonates, leave the rest. ✨

If this format speaks to you, I’d love to hear from you.

💫 New to Human Design? Start Here:

Pull your free Human Design chart and start receiving the Human Design Quick Start Email Series to help you understand your energy and decision-making style.

Explore the Quick Start Guide on the blog - You'll start with your Energy Type and follow along through Authority, Profile, and Centers — all broken down clearly and practically.

🎧 Listen to the Chart Basics episodes:

• Ep 2: The 5 Energy Types That Could Transform Your Life (And How to Find Yours)
• Ep 7: Stop Second-Guessing: Your Practical Roadmap to Confident Decisions Using Human Design
• Ep 6: The Shortcut to Your Purpose: Embody Your Personality Profile
• Ep 8: Human Design Centers & How to Work with Your Definition

Want 20% off any single session reading?? Leave us a 5 start rating and review to receive a special thank you 20% off! Just send a screenshot of your rating and review to [email protected] and I'll respond back with your discount code

Say hey 👋 on Instagram @Nicole.guena

Website: NicoleGuena.com

What if your outer reality is actually a mirror of your inner world?

In this foundational episode, we’re exploring the subconscious — the hidden programming that quietly shapes how you think, feel, act, and experience life.

You’ll learn how your subconscious forms between ages 0–7, why it runs about 95% of your life on autopilot, and what it really means when your conscious desires and subconscious beliefs don’t match (hint: the subconscious always wins).

This conversation will help you see why “mindset work” isn’t enough — and how real transformation begins when you uncover and rewire the beliefs beneath the surface.

✨ Why your reality reflects your subconscious beliefs

🧠 What’s actually happening in your mind from ages 0–7

🌙 How your Inner Child and Shadow hold keys to subconscious patterns

💫 Why awareness isn’t linear — it’s a spiral of deepening understanding

🪶 The difference between essence and conditioning

🔑 How your Human Design reveals what’s naturally you vs. what’s absorbed

🪞 Why your reality is feedback, not failure

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💫 New to Human Design? Start Here:

Pull your free Human Design chart and start receiving the Human Design Quick Start Email Series to help you understand your energy and decision-making style.

Explore the Quick Start Guide on the blog - You'll start with your Energy Type and follow along through Authority, Profile, and Centers — all broken down clearly and practically.

🎧 Listen to the Chart Basics episodes:

• Ep 2: The 5 Energy Types That Could Transform Your Life (And How to Find Yours)
• Ep 7: Stop Second-Guessing: Your Practical Roadmap to Confident Decisions Using Human Design
• Ep 6: The Shortcut to Your Purpose: Embody Your Personality Profile
• Ep 8: Human Design Centers & How to Work with Your Definition

Want 20% off any single session reading?? Leave us a 5 start rating and review to receive a special thank you 20% off! Just send a screenshot of your rating and review to [email protected] and I'll respond back with your discount code

Say hey 👋 on Instagram @Nicole.guena

Website: NicoleGuena.com