In this episode, Aypril talks with Tena Cacic — teacher, energy healer, writer, and scientist — about what it truly means to move from victimhood to sovereignty.

Tena’s story is one of profound loss, deep questioning, and ultimately, freedom.

After losing her newborn son and later learning that her daughter was born with a rare genetic condition, Tena’s world was turned upside down. Those experiences led her to explore beyond science into energy, emotion, and consciousness.

Through that journey, she discovered what she calls the Victim Game — the unconscious roles of victim, villain, and savior we all play — and how releasing them opens the door to true safety and abundance.

Together, Aypril and Tena explore:

• Healing after loss and the path from grief to neutrality

• Recognizing victim patterns and energy leaks

• The link between safety, nervous system regulation, and abundance

• A short guided clearing on money, receiving, and self-worth

• How compassion, boundaries, and awareness help us reclaim our power

Tena’s work bridges science and spirituality, helping people free themselves from suffering and live as their most authentic selves.

✨ Learn more about Tena’s programs and her free ebook Victim Game Uncovered at tenacacic.com.

🎧 Listen to this episode on Spotify or watch on YouTube:
💌 Connect with Aypril: ayprilporter.com | Instagram @ayprilporter

Author and teacher Jonah Dempcy joins Aypril to discuss his new book The Human Design Cult and the deeper questions it raises about belief, integrity, and personal agency within the Human Design space.

Jonah shares stories from his early mentors and teachers in Human Design—people who studied directly with Ra Uru Hu—and reflects on how the system has evolved over time and how our understanding of it continues to expand.

Together, Aypril and Jonah explore:

- The origins of “keep HD cult free” and why critical thinking matters in spiritual systems

- How even a powerful tool like HD can become its own source of conditioning

- Why some teachings (like “no choice” or “the not-self”) can inadvertently remove agency

- How to restore empowerment, nuance, and personal responsibility to readings

- The grief and liberation that come with leaving or reshaping a belief community

Jonah also shares insights from other typology systems—like Enneagram, Attitudinal Psyche, and Objective Personality—and what makes a teaching or community “safe” versus controlling.

Key Quote:“It’s called Human Design, not Robot Design. We are human beings—this system should help us remember that.”

📘 The Human Design Cult is available on Amazon, with ebook and audiobook editions coming soon.

Connect with Jonah: jonahdempcy.com or on Instagram @jdempcy or YouTube @JonahDempcy

Connect with Aypril: ayprilporter.com | Instagram @ayprilporter

What if healing didn’t require you to talk it all out?

In this episode, Aypril sits down with Megan Malick — grief guide, mentor, LMFT, certified brainspotting practitioner, and author of A New Path.

Megan shares how brainspotting works, why grief shows up in more places than we realize, and how this modality can support both personal loss and entrepreneurial stuck points.

We cover:

- What brainspotting is and how it differs from EMDR and talk therapy

- Everyday grief that arises in life transitions, from retirement to entrepreneurship

- How brainspotting helps regulate the nervous system and restore clarity

- Insights from Megan’s Human Design chart as a 1/3 Splenic Projector

Connect with Megan:

Website: https://a-new-path.com/Connect with Megan on FB: https://www.facebook.com/revmeganmalickConnect with Megan on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/meganmmalick/Connect with Megan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/revmeganmalick/

Connect with Aypril:

Website: www.ayprilporter.com

Instagram link: @ayprilporter

Facebook: @AyprilPorterHD

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What if the key to growing your business wasn’t another reel, but real relationships?

In this episode of Living Matters, Aypril sits down with Megan Gillespie, visibility mentor, podcast host, and founder of the Olympia Boss Society (OBS). Megan shares her entrepreneurial journey from hairstylist to real estate to community builder—and how each chapter led her to create a different kind of networking space for women entrepreneurs.

Together, we explore:

• Why traditional networking often feels forced and “icky” (and how to do it differently)

• How Megan created the Olympia Boss Society to bring genuine connection back into business

• The importance of in-person community, even if your business is primarily online

• Human Design insights into Megan’s chart as a 2/4 Emotional Manifesting Generator and how it shapes her leadership and visibility

• Boundaries, recharging, and why modeling self-care matters as much as modeling success

Whether you’re local to Olympia or growing an online business anywhere, this conversation will remind you that you don’t have to hustle the algorithm alone—your growth is amplified when you’re truly seen, supported, and in community.

🔗 Connect with Megan & Olympia Boss Society:

• Website: olympiabosssociety.com

• Listen to the Boss Society Podcast wherever you get your shows. Check out the episode where Megan interviews Aypril on Human Design

Scaling with Soul: From Hustle to Harmony with Priyanka Khandalkar

What if scaling your business didn’t mean doing more—but doing it differently?

In this episode, business scaling coach and systems strategist Priyanka Khandalkar shares how she helps visionary CEOs grow sustainably while staying grounded in their purpose.

We talk about how getting fired led her to entrepreneurship, why systems create freedom, and what it really takes to shift from burnout to balance. Whether you're a solopreneur or scaling past 6 figures, this episode is filled with tangible strategies and soulful reminders that you don't have to do it all alone.

About Priyanka

Priyanka Khandalkar is the founder of Synergy LLC and host of the top 1% ranked podcast Show Up with Priyanka. She supports CEOs with both strategic coaching and done-for-you services to help them scale sustainably without sacrificing their wellbeing.

In This Episode:

• The mindset shift from employee to CEO
• How to delegate without losing quality
• What to automate, eliminate, or outsource
• The power of daily grounding and energetic presence
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Resources & Links:

📘 Free SOP Workbook: scale.synrgee.net/sop-workboook

📅 Book a Clarity Call: synrgee.net

🎧 Show Up with Priyanka Podcast: Listen on Apple

Connect with Priyanka:

Instagram: @priyankakhandalkar

Facebook: Priyanka Khandalkar

LinkedIn: Priyanka Khandalkar

Aypril Porter is a Human Design Business Coach + Mentor for women who are done listening to everyone else’s opinions and ready to radically trust themselves—and their inner wisdom—to build a business they love.

✨ Start here:

Get your free Human Design chart + What’s Holding You Back in Business report

Website 👉 www.ayprilporter.com

📘 Parenting through Human Design?

Check out Aypril’s bestselling book & workbook: Parenting the Child You Have

💫 Ready to go deeper?

Explore the 4-month reparenting + business mentorship program, Lead From Within™

🔍 Need clarity without the long-term commitment?

Book a Human Design Perspective Shift™ session

🌿 Still holding pain from the past?

Experience the Compassionate Closure™ session—a healing space to process grief, endings, and emotional weight through the lens of Human Design

What if your future child is already guiding you—whether or not you ever become a parent?

In this gentle, eye-opening episode, Spirit Baby Intuitive Jenna Phady shares how she helps people connect with the souls of their spirit babies for healing, guidance, and deeper self-trust. Whether you're trying to conceive, healing from loss, or simply feeling called to explore this realm, Jenna offers a fresh perspective on womb wisdom, soul contracts, and the powerful messages waiting for us on the other side.

Jenna Phady is a Spirit Baby Intuitive and founder of Hera’s Haven. She offers intuitive readings and meditation sessions to help you connect with the energy of your future child, trust your body, and deepen your spiritual path—whether or not you choose parenthood.

• What spirit babies are and how they communicate
• Why this connection isn’t just for people who want children
• How spirit babies support healing after loss or infertility
• The link between spirit babies, business, and life purpose
• Why trusting your body is the foundation of it all

Connect with Jenna:

🔮 Book a Spirit Baby Reading or Meditation: heras-haven.com

📓 Get the free Spirit Baby Call to Action Journal when you join her list

📸 Instagram

🎥 TikTok

Aypril Porter is a Human Design Business Coach + Mentor for women who are done listening to everyone else’s opinions and ready to radically trust themselves—and their inner wisdom—to build a business they love.

✨ Start here:

Get your free Human Design chart + What’s Holding You Back in Business report

Website 👉 www.ayprilporter.com

📘 Parenting through Human Design?

Check out Aypril’s bestselling book & workbook: Parenting the Child You Have

💫 Ready to go deeper?

Explore the 4-month reparenting + business mentorship program, Lead From Within™

🔍 Need clarity without the long-term commitment?

Book a Human Design Perspective Shift™ session

🌿 Still holding pain from the past?

Experience the Compassionate Closure™ session—a healing space to process grief, endings, and emotional weight through the lens of Human Design

In this soulful episode, empowerment coaches Cav Celini and Jeanette Raucci join Aypril Porter to explore how honoring your soul’s journey can radically transform your experience of life, business, and healing. Together, they discuss navigating challenges with neutrality, the Akashic Records as a tool for deeper self-knowledge, and why true empowerment begins by being present with what is, not by chasing the next strategy.

• Cav Celini: Empowerment coach specializing in lens of neutrality coaching
• Jeanette Raucci: Soul empowerment coach and Akashic Records practitioner
• Co-creators of Self Expansion, a coaching experience integrating soul wisdom and nervous system healing
• Experts in guiding clients back to their authentic path by embodying their soul’s unique blueprint

Cav and Jeanette share their path of:

• Embracing neutrality to reframe life’s hardest moments
• Using the Akashic Records to uncover the soul’s blueprint and lessons
• Trusting life’s timing and the soul’s readiness for certain truths
• Supporting clients through honoring their own inner timing and capacity
• Recognizing the divine precision in all of life’s experiences

• Moving beyond the victim mindset into soul sovereignty
• How neutrality opens space for growth without bypassing pain
• Why healing requires a deep relationship with discomfort
• How the Akashic Records reveal soul gifts and life direction
• The interplay between free will and destiny
• Why integration matters more than information

• Recognizing life’s challenges as soul invitations, not punishments
• Understanding how ancestral and early life dynamics shape patterns
• Giving yourself permission to honor your needs without guilt
• Trusting your nervous system’s wisdom to heal at its own pace
• How presence creates space for intuitive healing
• Reframing setbacks as part of your greater expansion

Website & Program: The Self Expansion

Work with Cav or Jeanette individually: https://theselfexpansion.my.canva.site/

"All we can ever do is honor our truth — and trust that in doing so, we are playing the exact role we came here to play for ourselves, and for everyone else involved." — Cav Celini

"So much of healing is giving ourselves permission to be exactly where we are, trusting that even our discomfort carries the seeds of our growth." — Jeanette Raucci

Aypril Porter is a Human Design Business Coach + Mentor for women who are done listening to everyone else’s opinions and ready to radically trust themselves—and their inner wisdom—to build a business they love.

✨ Start here:

Get your free Human Design chart + What’s Holding You Back in Business report

Website 👉 www.ayprilporter.com

📘 Parenting through Human Design?

Check out Aypril’s bestselling book & workbook: Parenting the Child You Have

💫 Ready to go deeper?

Explore the 4-month reparenting + business mentorship program, Lead From Within™

🔍 Need clarity without the long-term commitment?

Book a Human Design Perspective Shift™ session

🌿 Still holding pain from the past?

Experience the Compassionate Closure™ session—a healing space to process grief, endings, and emotional weight through the lens of Human Design

In this heart-opening episode, dating coach Lilli Bewley joins Aypril Porter to dive deep into what it truly takes to call in healthy, lasting love. They explore why dating success isn’t about "doing it right," but about healing the patterns that block intimacy, self-trust, and self-worth. Lilli shares her journey from self-abandonment to thriving in love — and how every woman can shift her experience of dating and partnership by reconnecting to her true self.

• Dating coach with over 10 years of experience in personal development
• Creator of the Feminine Dating Archetype Quiz
• Helps single, successful women find real, lasting love (even after divorce, heartbreak, or long-term singleness)
• Specializes in nervous system healing, self-alignment, and repatterning relationship dynamics
• Believes dating is not about performance, but about deep self-remembrance

Lilli shares her path of:

• Growing up without models of healthy love
• Repeating patterns of self-abandonment and toxic relationships
• Doing the deep inner work to repattern trauma-based responses
• Learning to align her nervous system with love, safety, and worthiness
• Meeting her partner organically after years of healing her inner landscape
• Helping hundreds of women discover their authentic love blueprint

• Why affirmations and mindset work alone often don't heal love patterns
• Understanding the nervous system's role in dating decisions
• How attachment wounds impact relationship choices
• The importance of aligning internally before trying to "manifest" love
• Why the dating apps can be "Trigger Town" — and how they can also be a growth portal
• How to discern true resonance versus chasing validation

• Overview of the Chill Woman, Fortress Woman, Goddess Woman, and Magnetic Woman
• How these archetypes represent stages of growth and healing
• Why true magnetism comes from embodiment, not perfectionism
• Healing the tension between independence and vulnerability
• Recognizing how family, societal, and generational imprints shape dating patterns

Take the Quiz: www.datingarchetype.com

Website: www.lillibewley.com

Instagram: @lillibewley

Aypril Porter is a Human Design Business Coach + Mentor for women who are done listening to everyone else’s opinions and ready to radically trust themselves—and their inner wisdom—to build a business they love.

✨ Start here:

Get your free Human Design chart + What’s Holding You Back in Business report

Website 👉 www.ayprilporter.com

📘 Parenting through Human Design?

Check out Aypril’s bestselling book & workbook: Parenting the Child You Have

💫 Ready to go deeper?

Explore the 4-month reparenting + business mentorship program, Lead From Within™

🔍 Need clarity without the long-term commitment?

Book a Human Design Perspective Shift™ session

🌿 Still holding pain from the past?

Experience the Compassionate Closure™ session—a healing space to process grief, endings, and emotional weight through the lens of Human Design

Breaking Free from Chronic Pain: Elizabeth Kipp's Healing Journey

In this enlightening episode, Elizabeth Kipp, a stress management and historical trauma specialist, shares her remarkable journey of healing from over 40 years of chronic pain, anxiety, panic attacks, and addiction. Now in long-term recovery, Elizabeth reveals how she integrates trauma-informed practices, yoga, ancestral clearing, and breathwork to help others find freedom from suffering. As the international bestselling author of "The Way Through Chronic Pain," she offers powerful insights on reclaiming our innate healing power.

About Elizabeth Kipp:

Elizabeth Kipp is a stress management and historical trauma specialist who combines trauma-trained and yoga-informed addiction recovery coaching, ancestral clearing, compassionate inquiry, and yoga to guide people toward healing. After spending four decades struggling with chronic pain stemming from a childhood spine injury, Elizabeth discovered an integrated approach to pain management that helped her become pain-free in just 52 days. She is the international bestselling author of "The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power" and works with clients to help them unleash their healing potential.

Key Insights on Chronic Pain and Healing

Breathwork and Nervous System Regulation

Ancestral Healing Approaches

Connect with Elizabeth:

• Website: elizabeth-kipp.com
• Book a free introductory session through her website
• Email and social media links available on her website
• Her book "The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power"

Notable Quote:

"The greatest healer in your life is in you. The doctor and all the healthcare people, we can guide you, give you our best guess at what you can do to optimize your healing, but it's the body that is doing the healing, not the doctor."

Aypril Porter is a Human Design Business Coach + Mentor for women who are done listening to everyone else’s opinions and ready to radically trust themselves—and their inner wisdom—to build a business they love.

✨ Start here:

Get your free Human Design chart + What’s Holding You Back in Business report

Website 👉 www.ayprilporter.com

📘 Parenting through Human Design?

Check out Aypril’s bestselling book & workbook: Parenting the Child You Have

💫 Ready to go deeper?

Explore the 4-month reparenting + business mentorship program, Lead From Within™

🔍 Need clarity without the long-term commitment?

Book a Human Design Perspective Shift™ session

🌿 Still holding pain from the past?

Experience the Compassionate Closure™ session—a healing space to process grief, endings, and emotional weight through the lens of Human Design

In this powerful episode, Christina Deere, an occupational therapist turned recovery coach, shares her personal journey from struggling with alcohol addiction to finding freedom and purpose in sobriety. With 17 years of experience in healthcare, Christina opens up about how she used alcohol to cope with anxiety and workplace stress, particularly during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now three years sober, she helps other women break free from alcohol dependency and discover their authentic selves.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of alcohol addiction, substance abuse, and healthcare trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christina is a recovery coach, former occupational therapist, and mother who has transformed her 17-year struggle with alcohol into a mission to help others. After choosing sobriety in January 2022, she now guides women to break free from alcohol dependency through mindset work and personalized coaching. Her approach focuses on empowerment rather than powerlessness, helping clients understand their triggers and develop healthy coping mechanisms.

• The importance of understanding underlying triggers and emotions that lead to drinking
• How removing alcohol can reveal suppressed aspects of identity and purpose
• The role of mindset work in achieving lasting sobriety
• The value of finding alternative coping mechanisms for stress and anxiety
• The significance of community support in recovery

• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers' mental health
• Collective trauma and burnout in the healthcare industry
• The prevalence of addiction among healthcare professionals
• The need for addressing PTSD and trauma in healthcare workers

• Instagram: @EmpoweredinRecovery
• Facebook: Christina Deere
• Link Tree: Available for program information and podcast appearances
• Email: [email protected] 

"We lose sight of who we are because our culture is very ingrained to work hard and to go, go, go constantly... In that, I think we reach for alcohol because it's that reprieve. But we always have a choice, and we can always change things, but we have to believe in ourselves."

Aypril Porter is a Human Design Business Coach + Mentor for women who are done listening to everyone else’s opinions and ready to radically trust themselves—and their inner wisdom—to build a business they love.

✨ Start here:

Get your free Human Design chart + What’s Holding You Back in Business report

Website 👉 www.ayprilporter.com

📘 Parenting through Human Design?

Check out Aypril’s bestselling book & workbook: Parenting the Child You Have

💫 Ready to go deeper?

Explore the 4-month reparenting + business mentorship program, Lead From Within™

🔍 Need clarity without the long-term commitment?

Book a Human Design Perspective Shift™ session

🌿 Still holding pain from the past?

Experience the Compassionate Closure™ session—a healing space to process grief, endings, and emotional weight through the lens of Human Design