Are you working full-time but dreaming of starting something new, like a business or passion project? Balancing a job with a new venture can be tough, and finding the right alignment to make it all work can feel overwhelming. How do you balance your time and energy to turn your ideas into a success?
In this episode, we’re joined by Diamond Drip—a coach, speaker, and Human Design enthusiast who’s passionate about helping women break free from the “who do I think I am?” mindset. Diamond Drip empowers women to move past self-doubt and confidently step into their potential, making their big dreams a reality.
Together, we dive into the struggles of balancing a new project alongside a full-time job. Diamond Drip shares why this balance can be so exhausting and offers practical strategies for managing dual roles. From time management to energy-boosting tips, this episode is packed with advice you can start using today. Tune in now to align your life, find your balance, and thrive in everything you do!
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Align Your Life and Thrive with Diamond Drip
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. A lot of us are in a situation where we’re trying to create something new in our lives, whether it be starting a business, starting any kind of endeavor, just do something different, and sometimes we end up struggling a little bit and one of the struggles that we oftentimes end up with is that our lives are not really in alignment. That’s some of the challenges that we have where situations that I see a lot of people and, say, you have a full time job and you’re also trying to start a business that can be really exhausting, it can be really hard to find time, in the same way I oftentimes find people starting businesses while not having a full-time job, not having a steady source of income, and having to struggle in a whole different way. And in some of those pursuits is where my guest today, Diamond Drip, a coach, speaker, and human design enthusiast who helps her clients overcome some of these challenges and find a life that’s in alignment for them because not every person is the same and one of the things we’re trying to move past is what I often refer to as the one-size-fits-all solution for life, the one-size-fits-all prescription for life.
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Diamond Drip, welcome to the program.
Hey, Stephen. It’s so great to be here with you and our listeners today.
Yeah, thank you for coming on and sharing some of these ideas with listeners because I think when it comes to starting up anything, and it doesn’t have to be a business, it could even be just trying to do better at your current job, when it comes to trying up anything, people often talk about the practical stuff, like you need to do more of this, you need to learn this skill, you need to learn this industry. People might talk less frequently about some of the stuff that you specialize in, which is how to bring your life, your habits, and everything else into alignment with who you are, which starts with an understanding of who you are. So, tell us a little bit about what you do with your clients.
Absolutely. I love that you brought in that piece too about people wanting to build up their skills, people wanting to learn these other things, and one of the things that I work with my clients on is making sure that the things that they’re adding to that list of to-dos, those skills to add, those classes to take are actually things that light them up, not just because someone said they should do it. And so I have a really simple framework when it comes to how I support my clients. It’s called the trust framework. And so the very first thing that we do is we tune in to their authentic self. So, every single one of us has a unique, energetic blueprint, you and I were talking about this a little bit the last time we met, and it is in that blueprint that we can recognize our innate strengths and our potential. We can also embrace our true self and those strengths beyond conditioned beliefs. So many times, we are listening to outside noise and that informs what we do in our business and then that’s what oftentimes leads to burnout, because then we’re adding things onto our lists, we’re adding things into our environment, into our ecosystem that we think is going to get us there faster, but then it ends up slowing us down. So, really unpacking these conditioned beliefs, not just in our business but in our personal life as well. From there, we connect with their inner wisdom, so learning to trust their intuition and that inner guidance that, however, it comes to you, if it’s a voice, if it’s seeing things, if it’s having these downloads through meditation but really learning to trust that inner wisdom over the inner critic, over the outside noise, and developing a deeper understanding of their decision making process. There are seven different authorities and there are five different energy types, which have different combinations of how that can show up and so it’s up to us, my clients and I, to really cultivate self-awareness and emotional intelligence, because both are important as you grow a business and as you grow personally, in personal development, awareness is huge. From there, we unveil their purpose. We explore their passion, we explore what truly matters to them. We align their actions with the values that really strike a chord with them. We uncover their unique gifts that they and only they can bring into the world and that has a lot to do with the gene keys tool that I use. So I use human design and gene keys, which I’m sure we’re going to talk about, then we sync their actions with their energy, so aligning to natural rhythms and energy flows, learning when to take action, when to wait. My ideal client avatar is a woman. So we have our own set of hormonal fluxes and things that we have to work with in addition to all of our natural energy ebbs and flows that everyone experiences and then transforming their reality through conscious creation, really learning how to focus intention and attention so that they match, practicing gratitude and positive expectation and really living in a place of presence as they build this life that they dream of, not just what they were told to dream of.
And so part of this reminds me of the phrase thought creates form or other forms of it, like where your energy flows is where you’re – I keep forgetting that exact statement.
Energy flows where your intention goes. Share on XEnergy flows where your intention goes, and so like one time I actually made a joke about the most negative thinking person being the kind of person that could be on a yacht cruise celebrating their promotion and they’ll still complain that the mustard on their sandwich was yellow instead of Dijon, even though they’re around their best friends celebrating a gigantic achievement in their lives. Our societal conditioning that you refer to quite a bit tells us to really focus on avoiding what could go wrong and when you focus on avoiding what could go wrong, then, well, that’s exactly what you’re thinking about, right? Even if you’re going on a trip and the first thing, you’re like, “Well, will the plane crash? Well, will my travel insurance come out right?” or something like that as opposed to something more along the line of like what good thing can happen. So how much of it is just adjusting that everyday reflexive thought process behind what is the default thing you think about when thinking about any endeavor that you take part in?
I love that example of the mustard, number one. I also love that you said is it just, it’s like, oh my gosh, that’s a big part of it is just flipping that perspective, but as we know, it is so much easier to say that than to do that. That’s why I kind of laughed when it was just like just because even with things like the law of attraction, there is a huge narrative behind we are always creating for ourselves, and a lot of us are unknowingly using that creation power that’s in us to create things that we don’t want because we’re constantly thinking and worrying and comparing ourselves, thinking about what we don’t have, what we could have, why it’s not here yet, and why it’s not showing up for us, like there’s so many different things that can have us in that negative creation space. And, really, it is hard work to, one, become aware that you’re doing this, because a lot of us aren’t even aware. We’re like, “Yeah, I don’t do that,” and then when you actually take time to sit and do meditation, you realize just how busy your mind is all the time when you’re not paying attention to it. So it’s really cultivating that awareness and then making a conscious effort to shift your focus. I was at the temple that my business was partnering with last summer and we went somewhere in someone else’s car and I needed to get my wallet out of my car, so got my keys, got my wallet, and I was like, “Okay, I don’t need my keys. They’re just gonna weigh me down.” I’m one of those persons who has like a bazillion key chains and keys and I’m like, “This is heavy. I don’t wanna take this with me. I just need my wallet.” So I put my keys back in the temple and I went in the other car. When we got back, I had this whole freak out around the fact that I couldn’t find my keys because I didn’t remember putting them back. And immediately I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is the worst,” because we did some other things after we went to get food and the place was closed and I was like, “I can’t go back because maybe I left them at the restaurant.” My brain had this whole freak out around all of the negative things and then I caught myself, I had that awareness, and I was like, “How could this be a good thing?” and flipping the perspective allowed me to see that I was in a safe space. If they were at the restaurant, they have a lost and found. I just can’t get there ’til tomorrow. I didn’t have anything to do later that day, I didn’t have to be anywhere so if I needed to call someone for a ride, I could do that. There were so many different options for how that situation could show me good and when I started to focus on that, I calmed down and then I remembered that my keys were in my book bag. But it’s really –
Because they were right there, yeah.
That’s the root of how it starts is really catching yourself, being in your awareness.
Yeah. You talk a lot about how people are unique and how it’s not a one size fits all and looking into human design and gene keys into thinking about how like one solution might work for one person or not work for another. So, what is that process like and are there some universal ideas, like meditation, that you could pretty much apply to everybody?
The process, really, it starts with the individual pulling their free human design chart on my website and there, they’re able to really start learning and becoming familiar with the terminology, because when they pull their chart, there’s information there for them on the landing page but then I also email them a cheat sheet to help them kind of decode some other things. So it really starts getting them familiar with the language of how they are, how their energy, how their aura shows up in the world. From there, depending on if they really want to go down a path of personal growth or business alignment with their energy, there really are some universal things that that do show up. Breathwork is always one of them, because it really helps with that nervous system regulation. So many times, like I said, not being in your awareness, we don’t even realize that we’re not taking full breaths. We’re having this shallow breathing and really just taking the time to regulate can be really helpful. Meditation –
Quickly, for everyone listening out there in case someone’s not familiar with breathwork, just quickly describe what you mean by breathwork.
Yeah, so breathwork is this focused attention, I guess, and intention and bringing it to your breathing. There are various different techniques but one of the easiest ones for people to really wrap their head around this sort of intentional breathing that happens is box breath, so holding their breath, breathing in for four seconds and then holding for four seconds, breathing out for four seconds and then pausing on that last whole, yeah, for four seconds. The counting gives our conscious mind something to keep busy, but instead of listening to the busyness that is our thoughts that form our beliefs that sometimes hold us back, we’re focused on our breathing. We’re focused on being in our bodies and really cultivating the awareness there. So that’s a simple example of breathwork and the kind of intentional breathing that happens. So I love that you did that. Meditation as another one. For me, meditation really started to make sense when I recognized that I wasn’t supposed to just not think about anything. It was actually okay if my mind wandered because it was that awareness of bringing me back to the present moment, that was the meditation, that was the exercise, this kind of redirecting back to one’s being in the moment. Because, oftentimes, when our brains start to kick into gear, we’re thinking about the future, we start making plans, we start making to-dos, like our brains are just wired to do these things, or we’re thinking about the past and we’re letting that form our thoughts and things that keep us in anxiety sometimes. We don’t want to repeat the same mistakes but, oftentimes, if it’s not the past that we wanted to choose for ourselves, it makes us a little sad, it keeps us a little bit stuck in that way. So, meditation. Yoga is oftentimes something that is recommended for some of the deconditioning practices that we do. And when I mean yoga, I don’t mean all of the bending yourself into a pretzel that most people think of, but really just doing the poses and doing the stretches and bringing your awareness to your body. Again, similar to breathwork of, okay, I’ve been in this pose for 30 seconds, where am I really feeling my muscles and really being in your body paying conscious attention to what’s going on there, that’s the type of yoga I mean. And even for me, switching from counting, like counting 30 seconds or using a timer, switching to breaths was really something that was helpful to me. So combining breathwork and yoga.
And so when it comes to any client that you work with, is it mostly about converting your thoughts from negative to positive or is it mostly about converting your thoughts from unaligned to aligned?
So I would say it’s mostly about unaligned to aligned, simply because that alignment comes with knowing what your higher self, what that voice sounds like for you. Some people call it higher self. Some people call it a gut feeling. Some people call it intuition. Whatever you want to call it, being able to actually identify it for you, and then cultivating trust.
It’s like, “No, don’t do that,” and it’s like, “Well, why not? If I do this thing, then I’m gonna get this result,” and our minds come in and start making us doubt the inner wisdom and then, eventually, the inner wisdom, it just stops speaking up. It just goes away. It’s like, “Whatever, I’m just not gonna say anything then, just leave you to yourself.” And so a lot of the work that we do is helping that inner wisdom know, like I’m here with you, like I see you now, I’m ready to listen, but not only am I ready to hear you and listen, I’m ready to take action to prove to you that I’m ready to listen. Because a lot of times, it takes – like I had this one person who was telling me she had these downloads and one of the downloads came and it told her to cut her hair and then she was like no and she waved it off and then she recognized, she had the self-awareness to be like, “Am I letting my ego, my personality, my vanity, be more important than my awareness and tapping in and building that trust with myself?” and so she went, she cut her hair, and then she had this other massive download for a program that she was going to create and the program ended up being really successful. So it’s actually taking action, like cultivating that trust through taking action of listening to that voice of wisdom, because so many times, we’ll hear something from the outside, we’ll watch a YouTube video, we’ll see something on social media, and then you’re like, “Ah, that’s it. That’s what I need to do,” and we’ll take immediate action. And so our inner wisdom, our intuition, it wants to know that we’re going to take action just like that too.
One of the things, and I say this from personal experience, but I’m sure a lot of people listening have had that experience too, where you’ll have that, as you put on your website, aha moment, like, “I should do this, I should do that,” and oftentimes it won’t make any real sense, right? We’re always trying to explain things because of our conditioning, but it won’t make sense and it’s like, oh, even if it’s like go to Barnes and Noble at 7:15 PM, or just something ridiculous like that, right? And we’ll be like, “No, that doesn’t make sense. I’m supposed to do this tonight. I’m supposed to do that.” When it comes to our mind talking us out of it, how much of that is societal conditioning? Because, oftentimes, what I’ve noticed is that these downloads, these aha moments, these intuition moments, oftentimes things that we end up wanting to do, even if it wasn’t what I woke up today and I wanted to do this. When my intuition says something, it’s like, oh, I want to do this, even if it is calling someone I haven’t talked to in four years because that’s what my intuition is saying.
Yeah. Oh, I love that. And those are sometimes the best, because when we do those reach outs, we find good things on the other end of that. So I love that example. I feel like in the beginning, probably somewhere between 80 and that’s lenient, more so 90, 90 percent of what comes up for us are conditioned beliefs, because from the time that we were born, we were put into our parents’ energetic aura field, and so especially in places in our chart where we don’t have definition and we take in energy from our environment, we’re taking in what they’re saying, we’re taking in what’s being fed to us information wise, and we are like, “Well, they keep saying it so it must be true,” and so we think the same thing, these thoughts turn into beliefs, and then the cycle happens again. When we go out and we’re in school and we’re around our friends and our friends think one thing so it’s like, “Well, I don’t wanna be outcast from my friends so I guess I gotta believe what they believe or at least act like I do,” and there’s some truth to that saying, like fake it ’til you make it. When you act like you believe something for long enough, you actually kind of start acting like you believe it. And then the biggest one is society. So between the marketing messages, the social media mass that we’re seeing, all of these things are making us think the same things repeatedly, they’re informing beliefs. And it’s oftentimes these beliefs that hold us back, because we’re in comparison or we’re like, “Well, if I do this, then I don’t want my mom to disown me,” or whatever it is because –
Oh, my God, yeah.
Yeah. It feels like we didn’t listen to them. And so it really is a lot of hard work to sift out and switch that metric to having 10 percent outside noise, just because we literally live in society every day, we’re always being exposed to messages and things like that so there’s going to be some outside noise, but instead of listening to that, just kind of acknowledging that it’s there but recognizing when your inner wisdom speaks up and choosing that instead.
So when I was growing up, there was this stereotype that if you went to the city, people would usually listen to like hip hop music, if you went to the suburbs, they usually listen to rock music, and if you go to the rural areas, they usually listen to country music, and I would look at this and I would think to myself, “Well, why is that? Why would people be predestined to listen to one of those three genres?” I know that’s an oversimplification, but why would people be predestined to listen to one of those genres of music based on the population density of where they live? My mind spun into circles about the curiosity around all this, and then one of the things that I think of when you talk about that is exactly that, like you’re looking at your peers and you go to high school, and someone will say, “Oh, yeah, this band is good. This music sucks,” and enough people say it, enough people say it to where it sounds like ground truth and then when you hear that musical act that everybody says sucks, you’ve already accepted a ground truth before making up your own mind on it in your brain and enough people doing that creates these regional disparities of you become more like the people around you, even if that’s not your natural instinct.
Exactly. I love the oversimplification because it makes it easy to understand. It’s like, yeah, I do see how that happens. And then people go out in the world or they move or whatever, they take themselves out of their environment, and sometimes that’s why so many people feel lost, because it’s like, “Well, this is new,” and without that anchor of inner wisdom to be like this is how you navigate this plane, confusion, chaos, burnout, all the things.
And I even think about this idea of someone goes to college and at a university, theoretically, I won’t say it actually manifests this way, but let’s just say in theory, at a university, you’re supposed to be a curious minded person and you absorb that energy and so you’re like, “Okay, let’s investigate this. Let’s figure out what’s going on,” and then you go to a job and that job, you’re expected to just follow the chain of command and usually you’re at the entry level coming straight out of college and what’s expected of you is a completely different thing, whereas when you start to be curious like you’ve been doing for the four years when you were at a university or more, all of a sudden, people are like, “You’re a pain in the ass, you’re not getting anything done. Just listen to your boss and churn out numbers,” and that can create a disorienting effect, the same way someone gets promotion, they’re suddenly managing people or anything else, you have a child, you went from an environment of friends hanging out at the bar until three in the morning to now, all of a sudden, expecting to do everything family life expects of you, like every one of those things, if you don’t have that center, can be a disorienting occurrence.
I was listening to someone and they were talking about how the system, it just kind of turns out these people and how even the basic belief of going to college after school so that you can get a better job, like that used to be true back in the day when people would pay their workers to go to college so that they could become managers and then they could manage the people who are doing the machines, industrial revolution and all of that, and now, that same message is being passed down from generation to generation and so kids are going to school, I think people are waking up now, but kids are going to school and they’re like, “I’m supposed to get a great job,” but then they’re not able to find a job in their industry and so I think that’s why so many of, I think it’s Gen Z, they’re waking up quicker than a lot of adults do later in life, historically, because they’re like, “Wait, I did the things, I went to school, I got good grades. I got into a good college so I could get a good job and now I can’t even find a job in the thing that my degree is in. WTH?”
I tend to think of this as like kind of a process that’s ongoing, because I think that system has been collapsing for far longer than a lot of people realize and what I think of with the generational stuff, and this is also very generalized stuff, is that so as the system started collapsing, first the baby boomers come in and they’re like, “Well, if we work more hours, it’s going to be good,” and then so you see a generation of people who pride on, “I’m gonna flex on working 75 hours a week.” Then you have Gen X and they come in and they’re like, “Well, actually, if we find the most efficient way to do it, if we find a new method to do it, then it’s all going to be better,” and that’s why you start seeing every single kind of work methodology that’s currently in place now, and then millennials, we’re kind of more along the lines of, “Got the job but it really wasn’t that great. It wasn’t nearly what our parents, mostly baby boomers, sold us,” and then Gen Z looked at that and they weren’t even able to get that job, let alone have it be like a very disappointing job so it’s been this like progression where I think you stretch something, you stretch something, and when you reach a breaking point, it’s finally going to break and I think that’s kind of what we’re seeing, if I had to put it in a very, very generalized sense.
Yeah, no, but it makes absolute sense when you do. Obviously, there are people who will argue with the nuances and things like that, but we’re seeing it actively. So, yeah.
So, let’s talk about this process of listening to your inner wisdom, because your inner wisdom wants to know that you’re trusting it. Now, with your clients, and I’m assuming you have people who are starting from scratch sometimes, they’re so used to doing whatever anyone else says of them, does it have to start small with something as simple as don’t cook tonight, go out to eat, you need to take a break from that, these little non-threatening areas as opposed to something really, really major, like overturning or like quitting your job or starting a new program.
Yeah, no, as much as I would love to encourage people, if they’re unhappy where they are, just do something different, just drastic change, as much as I would love for people to do that, we are slow to change as humans so unless something smacks us in the face, which that actually happened to one of my clients, he was like, “No, I think I’ll just work my nine to five, and then from five to 10, I’ll build this business,” and I’m like, “But you want to get up at five in the morning and go to the gym too, though, that’s a lot,” and then the universe was like, “Okay, you’re trying to fit all this stuff in,” and it gave her a circumstance where she had to only focus on her business. But it doesn’t always have to be drastic change. It can be very simple. So one of the examples that I like to give is especially as generators, generator energy types, which that’s like 70 percent of the population, we are living in response from the moment that we wake up, we are igniting that aha or that uh-huh in us from the time that we wake up and when we slow down, even in the morning, something as simple as going to the coffee shop to get your coffee versus making coffee at home, like there are times where I will, especially because my car is wrapped, I’ll take a moment to really assess, like I’m perfectly cool with my little mushroom coffee, because I do reishi mushroom coffee and I’m like this is healthy, this is good for me, I’m getting some things in here that will help my immunity, I add my little creamer and my little flavor shot, like I have a whole system when I make my coffee here at home, but there are times where I will really slow down and I’ll be intentional, especially if I give myself the time to in the morning and I’m like do I want to make coffee or do I want to go out and make coffee? Because you never know when you’re in that coffee shop waiting if you’ll overhear a conversation that’s going to spark something in you. You never know, in my case, who’s going to see my car and be like, “Oh, that looks interesting. Let me scan the QR code and see what this is about.”
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Now, is two necessary components of this, one, getting out there, so getting out there as in not just being in the same room where you set your home office up all the time where you’re going to be exposed to the same stuff over and over again, as well as being present and slowing down a bit, because, obviously, I have a business around helping people cut down on screen time, on how much time we’re addicted to these devices, but if someone’s walking around the city and they’re just staring at their phone the entire time, that conversation may be happening, that poster with the idea for a show may be there and they’re not even going to notice it because they’re so buried in something else.
Yeah, that’s actually a really good point. So, I went to a book club meeting. They had in-person, on the website, they had an in-person option and Zoom and they said if you came in person, they would find a quiet area in the in-person spot to do the Zoom call, and I had a feeling, this was a learning lesson for me, I had a feeling I was like, just don’t go. just go on the Zoom call, you’re fine, it’s fine. And then I was like, no, because I said I was going to go and it’s not that far and I’ve already planned for it for like a month, like all of the logic behind just go in person. I ended up being the only person there in person because, apparently, there was a group chat that since I was new, I wasn’t a part of, and so they had all agreed an hour before, like, “Yeah, I’m not gonna go,” so there was by myself at this book club meeting, and this goes back to that perspective shift that we were talking about, because one of the things that I noticed being in that area was there were a lot of restaurants in that area. I love eating out, and there were so many restaurants that I wanted to try that I wouldn’t have known about had I not gone in person, including the place where I was. It was like a rooftop bar situation. On the way walking back, because sometimes you’ll get a download and it may not even be for you, it may be for someone else who’s in your life that you love. As I was walking back to the train station, because it was in DC, I do not drive in DC, if I can help it. There’s no parking. On the way back to the train station, I’m like walking and exactly what you’re talking about. I think for a time I was like texting and walking just kind of getting where I was going, but then as often as I can, especially when I’m in the city at night, I’m not walking and texting and being in my own world on my phone, and I looked up and I saw this poster on one of the traffic lights and it was for a sleep study. My partner has not had a great night’s sleep in at least 10 years. It’s always, he’s waking up, he’s having trouble going to sleep, it’s always been an issue for him. And had I not looked up, had I not been in my awareness enough, I would have missed that opportunity to pass that on to him so that he could participate in the study. I don’t think he ever applied, because he was one of those people who procrastinates on things until, but that’s a different story for a different day. I saw it. I was able to see it because I was in my awareness and I was in my gratitude enough to be, to just, since I’m out, let me see what I’m being exposed to, let me see what is going on in my surroundings, versus being all pissy because I’m leaving an event that I went to and no one else showed up.
Something I’m still trying to figure out myself a bit is that you’ll get what you referred to as a download or an idea, something will pop into your head, do you have a method by which you use to determine if that idea is your genuine intuition, your genuine higher self, versus just another thing popping into your head based on societal conditioning, the same way when we talked about everyone in my high school thinks this musical act is terrible so I’m supposed to think that too?
Yeah, So I am working on my own now that I’ve helped my client. It’s one of those things where doctors can’t doctor themselves, dentists can’t dentist themselves, therapists can’t be therapists to themselves. It was one of those things where it was like, okay, I follow the trust framework with all of my clients and that gives them insight into how to hear and recognize their voice outside of all of the noise, because, like you said, it can be confusing, especially in the beginning, is this really something that’s coming from my intuition or is this something that is just coming from the idea factory? Because our brains are always busy, producing ideas. And so what I can say is that for every client, it’s been different. It may have some similarities, especially for sacral generators, people of the same energy type, but I am working on a side project to really figure out if I can develop a framework for how to do that and have it be its own offering. Because right now, it either goes into personal development, because I want people to have the full scope, both personally and business wise, so it follows a framework that helps them do that for a specific reason, but really, I do think that’s something that is coming in the future, a framework around specifically how to recognize the difference between the two.
And if someone wanted to monitor that or even inquire about working with you, what would be the best way anyone listening would get a hold of you? Is it your website or anything else?
Yeah, diamonddripconsulting.com is my website. It is where you can pull your free energetic blueprint and stay up to date with all of my inner workings of how I bring support to the people in my network.
And since bring up the blueprint, let’s talk about what these tools are. So, obviously, the one you talked about the most is human design. Some people might be familiar with it. Give us a brief explanation of that.
Yeah. So human design, it is a hodgepodge, if you will, a synthesis is like the more sciencey term, of a few different ancient and modern sciences. So think quantum physics, the Chinese I Ching, the chakra model, astrology, astronomy, and what it does is it distills all of these sciences into one body graph chart is what we call it in human design, I call it an energetic blueprint, and it gives you insight into your strengths, your gifts, how your energy shows up in the world, and how other people see that and how you interact with the world. Gives you insight into that voice of wisdom for you. It could be your spleen, it could be your sacral, it could be emotional, like me. So really giving you insight into who you are outside of all the external stuff that you came and brought into your aura as you grew up. So it really just gives you a blueprint, if you will, for how to navigate and make your best decisions.
And now the other tool is one that I have significantly less familiarity with myself, gene keys.
Yeah. So gene keys, it takes a closer look at the gates in human design. And so gates keys, we’re saying the same thing, but gene keys looks specifically at the Chinese I Ching, which is where the gates come from, as well as quantum physics and it says that there are different vibrations for everything that we experience, all of these character traits that we experience. And so there’s a shadow frequency, which is where we spent most of our life, unfortunately, due to external factors. Then there’s a gift. So what are we naturally, that creation naturally that we may be suppressing to live in our shadows? And then what’s the highest frequency, or the sitti, which is a Sanskrit word that when things are clicking, when things are aligned, when you’re moving forward on your path, what does that show up in your life like? That’s what the sitti is. And so it really is just a tool to help you reflect through a specific lens on where you’ve lived in your shadows and how you can really cultivate awareness so that you can choose to – this is probably more where that choosing the positive would come in more versus like the outside noise, and really choose to live in the gift that you know is possible for you.
I don’t have everything perfectly in memory now but I know I’m a sacral generator, if those numbers mean anything. So for someone with those, I think they’re somewhat common because I keep encountering people with those specifics, maybe that’s just how the world works, what would it look like to move from a shadow gene key to the higher vibration one, the word you use that, I unfortunately –
No, you’re fine, the sitti –
But it’ll be in the recording so, yeah.
So, without knowing the gate or the key that’s in your conscious sun on Earth, because that’s the number I need, the 2/4 number, but what I can say is whatever that conscious Sun number is, it will tell you what the shadow is, what the gift is, and what the sitti is. What you can do with your 2/4 generator profile, sacral generator profile, is you can use your sacral response, especially if you know what it feels like by now, when you’re looking at that shadow, you can really hone in, now that you know your type, you can look at the shadow and be like, “Okay, let me back it up. When I made that decision, did I know that it was supposed to be a no and I chose to do it anyway?” and really starting to ask yourself those questions, because that will give you some indication of areas, and it’ll also give you –
And then also, you said your ideal client is a woman, so I’m guessing you mostly or only work with women?
So I do have a couple of guy clients who will do like one-off readings, packages, but I have the most impact with women because I understand the four distinct personalities of our cycles that we go through as women, and so really getting them to work with both energies, so working with their innate human design, and then working with their different cycles, menstrual, luteal, follicular, etc., those are my sweet spots, because I love it when she’s coming in and she’s like, “I don’t have energy,” I’m like, “What did you have to eat today?” and she’s like, “I had a salad,” I’m like, “Aren’t you in your luteal? Shouldn’t you be eating protein and healthy fats?” and really giving that kind of insight because not all of us are that in tune with our cycles so that’s really why it’s my sweet spot because I’m able to give those types of tips.
Now, are those cycles unique to the individual person the same way a human design and all these other traits are, or those ones that are like kind of pretty universal ideas, like the one you just said?
Oh, yeah, those are pretty universal, yeah. Every phase of our womanly cycle has its own personality, but the traits are similar in every woman. Obviously, depending on when she menstruates, it’s going to be different timing, but it’s all –
Yeah. So your sweet spot is combining the two aspects of a person, right? So she’ll have her human design, which is going to be gene keys, they’re going to be one thing that’s going to be very different for every single person. But then you got these cycles that are going to be similar to the same, just with different phases at different times and that kind of comes together to create a profile for a set of habits, a set of practices to get someone into alignment and set up for success, I guess.
Absolutely, yeah.
Work with what you get essentially versus working against it. Share on XNow, I do need to ask, do men have anything similar in that respect? Is it a different set of cycles? And then how does that work with people who are non-gender conforming, non-binary, or anything like that?
Yeah. So guys, to my knowledge, do not have the same cycles as women in this way. However, what I will say is a guy who does know that this is going on with their partner who you were saying like gender non-conforming, etc., if their partner was born with a uterus, there are certain things that bodies born with a uterus go through. So having, as a born male who didn’t transition, or even if you did and you have a partner who has a uterus, it can be really helpful to know what’s going on with your partner. This has totally transformed communication in my household with my partner. He will sometimes, because I’ve talked about my cycles and the different personalities of each one enough that he’s like, “Is this your critical phase?” or if I’m brushing my teeth and I randomly start getting into a cleaning spree, he’s like, “Is this your declutter phase?” and I’m like, “Oh, you’re actually right. That is what’s happening.” So it can be really helpful to know what’s going on, even if men do not have these different cycles.
I see. And what really inspires me about that, to be honest, is like kind of this open communication, and I’ve used this phrase, I think there’s this phrase that has gone around society for a long time, as long as I’ve been alive, called TMI, which is too much information, and if someone talks about anything like that, someone might say, “That’s TMI.” Now, I’m of the belief that the only type of TMI that’s going on right now is the information overload and clutter that we’re all getting from the internet, social media, the 24-hour news cycle, etc., to where I honestly believe that this renewed interest around yoga, meditation, breathwork type of stuff is a lot around people having brains that just need a chance to have a break from taking in more info and have some time to actually synthesize, to actually process the information they’ve already taken in. And so it’s inspiring just to see that whatever’s going on with anyone based on either how you are naturally as a person, how you are different from other people, how men and women may be different, how other people may be different based on other types of upbringing, expectations, etc., that that’s all being kind of discussed out in the open I feel like more and more as time goes by as opposed to people just kind of being quick to judge things and trying to understand, “Okay, what can we say?” and if you can come out and say it, then it really, I don’t know, just helps out a lot based on understanding and even understanding that, okay, just don’t take it personal, this isn’t about me, this is about something going on with you.
Yeah, I love that, because when you understand that different things are going on with people, if you are able to develop that emotional intelligence, to develop that empathy piece, it’s so much easier not to take stuff personally, because it’s about what they’re going through, not about how I’m perceiving what they’re going through.
Yeah, oh my gosh, because, behind every reaction is a set of assumptions.
Yeah.
Well, Diamond Drip, thank you so much for hopping on, joining us on Action’s Antidotes. Once again, it’s diamonddripconsulting.com for anyone that may be interested. And thanks for giving us some general ideas of what we can all be doing to kind of start the work or continue the work, depending on where you are, on getting our lives more in alignment with who we are as opposed to just living out what we’re supposed to live.
It was an absolute pleasure. Thank you.
And, finally, I’d also like thank everybody out there listening today. I hope you got some really good ideas, some good feedback and some good thoughts about what you can do, particularly to trust your instincts, because, a few weeks ago, I sat there, a place called Bar Beach on Long Island where I caught my first fish at the age of eight and I reflected on the fact that that eight-year-old probably didn’t need a lot of the advice that he was given over the course of the next couple of decades, we do have instincts that are often way more right than wrong.
I love that. Taking it back to the beginning, yes.
Exactly.
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About Diamond Drip
Meet Diamond Drip, a best-selling award-winning author, coach, and speaker who’s all about helping women ditch self-doubt and embrace their true selves. With a background in visual communications and brand strategy, Diamond discovered the game-changing world of Human Design and Gene Keys. Now, she’s passionate about showing others how to trust their gut and tap into their full potential. Diamond’s own journey from stressed-out entrepreneur to confident leader has even been featured on KQED radio, in New York Weekly, Medium and as a guest on several podcasts. Her favorite saying? “The limit doesn’t exist, but fear and self-doubt will make you think it does.”