This week's episode talks about your Fear Gates in Human Design, the specific places fear shows up in your body, your mind, and your decisions, based on your unique design.

If you'd like to know yours before you press play, get your free Human Design chart here → FREE HUMAN DESIGN CHART LINK

You'll need your date, time, and place of birth.

If you don't have it to hand, no problem at all, listen anyway. Everything in this episode applies to you, whether you know your design or not.

About this episode

I have a real bee in my bonnet about the phrase "imposter syndrome."

I want it banished.

In 1978, two psychologists coined a term that gave generations of brilliant, boundary-pushing, ambitious women the worst possible name for the voice inside them. They called her an imposter. They told us to distrust her. Silence her. Override her.

She isn't an imposter.

She is fear. And fear, when you understand her, is one of the most important voices in the room.

In this episode I walk you through:

– Why "imposter syndrome" is the most dangerous label we've handed to high-achieving women

– The only two fears you were actually born with (and what that means for every other fear running your life)

– Your Fear Gates in Human Design — what they are, where they live, and why knowing yours changes everything

– How to invite your fear friends in for coffee instead of trying to kick them out

– Why fear is evidence that what you're doing actually matters

If you've ever called yourself an imposter, or had that voice tell you you're not enough, not ready, not allowed, please listen to this one. And then share it with a woman who needs to hear it.

Mentioned in this episode

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If this episode lands for you, please share it. With a woman in your life. In a story on Instagram. With a friend who's been calling herself an imposter for too long.

That is how the message moves.

With joy, always, Ali xo 🌹

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