You've been told that turning 50 means winding down, easing off, preparing for retirement. What if it's actually when you're just getting started?

In this episode, Erica talks with her mentor Julie Ciardi, creator of the IGNITE Her® Frequencies, about the line that stopped Erica mid-drive: "What if midlife isn't a crisis, it's a calling?" They dig into Julie's own journey leaving a corporate career, why she rewrote traditional Human Design into her own language, and how understanding her family's design changed how she parents, loves, and leads.

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You were told, in a hundred small ways, that something was wrong with you. So you set goals, fixed things, waited to love yourself once you finally got there. What if there was nothing to fix?

Join me live for the Perfectly Designed Workshop, Thursday, September 24th at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, where we'll explore the Inner Codes of Self-Love, my own original framework built on 15 areas related to self-love in your Human Design chart.

Upgrade to paid at https://ericavoell.com/connect to attend live or catch the replay.

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You know when you get family photos taken and the photographer really captures the essence of everyone, including you? That’s close to what happened when I started working with Tommy Collier on my camera setup this summer, except it happened live, on video, in a corner of my office.

Tommy and I talk about what it’s like when the person you feel like on the inside finally shows up in how you look on camera.

This is the final Summer of Self-Love conversation.

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We don't like it when other people put us in a box. Yet sometimes we build one for ourselves anyway, a title, a role, or a version of who we think we're supposed to be. Then we wonder why things feel too small.

In this episode, Erica shares why the title she gave herself over a year ago stopped fitting, and what she's calling herself instead. She unpacks why personality tests like Myers-Briggs left her feeling boxed in, why Human Design works differently – more like connecting the dots.

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"There is nothing wrong with me." That's the phrase I heard over and over this summer, when I asked people to share the one piece of their Human Design that changed how they see themselves. This episode is part of the Summer of Self-Love series, and they share what part of their design, their type, their authority, a center, a profile, helped them finally stop trying to fix what was never broken.

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"What if you don't need to be fixed?" In this episode, Erica Voell previews her upcoming workshop, The Self-Love Code, and asks what it would mean to stop chasing the next thing that promises to fix you – the newest face cream, trending workout, or morning routine.

She shares how Human Design gave her a new perspective that wasn't about fixing and instead understanding herself and her family better.

Part of the Summer of Self-Love series.

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Meet three of the women, Becky, Betsy, and Erica, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through.

This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design.

Read the Substack Article: Unfiltered: Becky, Betsy, and Erica on Self-Love in Midlife

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It's rarely one moment. It's a hundred small ones, each time you didn't measure up to an expectation you thought someone had of you, until that becomes the story you tell about yourself.

In this episode, Erica explores how shame quietly shapes our inner critic, how it fuels perfectionism, and how it keeps us small. She weaves together Brené Brown's research with the real stories of women in the Summer of Self-Love series, including a romance novelist whose creativity was crushed by one negative review, a woman whose inner critic nitpicked every meeting and every mirror, and a woman who played small for years rather than risk being seen failing.

This is part of the ongoing Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design.

Read the Substack article here: Shame and Self-Love

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Meet three of the women, Sam, Tammy, and Michele, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through.

This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design.

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Meet three of the women, Jen, Helena, and Csilla, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through.

This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design.

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