Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

Midlife by (Human) Design is the podcast for women in midlife who feel called to redesign the second half of life--consciously, spiritually, and on their own terms. If you’re asking: Who am I now? Why doesn’t the life I built fit anymore? Why does everything feel off, even though nothing’s technically wrong? What choice would I make if I actually trusted myself? --you’re in the right place. This show is for women navigating midlife as the initiation it is. Through Human Design, spirituality, perimenopause and menopause wisdom, and grounded real-life practices, we explore what it means to become the woman you’re here to be in the second half of life. I’m your host, Lori Lisai, a Human Design guide and coach for midlife women. I help women stop outsourcing their authority, understand their energy, and make aligned decisions as they shed the shoulds and be who they came here to be. Each week, we dive into: ✨ Human Design teachings that help you trust yourself and your decisions 🌙 Perimenopause + menopause through a mind–body–energy lens 🔥 Identity shifts, purpose pivots, and the unraveling that precedes reinvention 🌿 Energy management and self-care that actually restores you 💫 Spiritual insights, archetypes, and real stories of women consciously authoring the second half of life If you’ve been wondering where your spark went and how to get it back, you’re in the right place. This is a space for women who are dreaming bigger (or want to) and who know that midlife is the opportunity to finally be your authentic self. It’s where meaning deepens, intuition sharpens, and a truer life becomes possible. Each episode is part teaching, part reflection, part permission slip—with practical tools, honest conversations, and the occasional well-placed F-bomb. Midlife is the perfect time of life. You’re becoming someone new. Let’s make sure she feels like home. 🎧 Next Steps: 📬 Get Wild Woman Wisdom in Your Inbox Get my newsletter for Human Design transits, astrology, & offerings I don’t share anywhere else. 👉 lorilisai.com/#newsletter 📥 Get your Human Design chart and the free HD Mini Guide (and grab the Perimenopause Survival Guide while you're at it) 👉 https://www.lorilisai.com/workwithlori 📱 Follow Me on Instagram + Threads Where midlife meets real talk, Human Design, sweetness and sass 👉 @lorilisai 💬 Got a Question for the Pod? DM me on IG or drop a message—your story might inspire a future episode. *Disclaimer: Information provided in this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. The information is not intended or implied to supplement or replace professional medical treatment, advice, and/or diagnosis. I share the strategies that have worked for me and you are advised to do your own research and speak to your medical provider for care.

Ep 98: Your North Node Placement: A Midlife Life Raft Hidden in Your Birth Chart 01/19/2026

Ep 97: Taylor Swift, the Eras Tour, and the Art of Embodying Your Midlife Awakening 01/12/2026

Ep 96: Intentions with Your Heart Center In Mind: A Human Design Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions 01/05/2026

Ep 95: Before You Plan 2026, Ask Yourself These Questions 12/29/2025

Ep 94: Planning by Profile: Planning for the Second Line First 12/22/2025

Ep 93: Planning by (Human) Design: Using Gate Transits to Close the Year with Clarity 12/15/2025

Ep 93: Planning by (Human) Design: Using Gate Transits to Close the Year with Clarity 🔗 Get the Human Design planning system here: https://www.lorilisai.com/planning-by-design 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Summary: In this preview-style episode of Midlife by Human Design, Lori introduces a brand-new way to plan your life using Human Design gate transits—think astrology forecasts, but far more precise. Focusing on the Sun’s movement through Gates 11, 10, 58, and 38, Lori walks you through the energetic “weather” shaping the rest of December and the threshold into 2026. You’ll learn how each gate influences your ideas, self-trust, joy, and sense of purpose—and how to work with these energies instead of pushing against them during an already full season. This episode is also a sneak peek into what’s coming inside Lori’s Planning by Design system and private monthly gate transit podcast, created to help midlife women plan their weeks and seasons in a way that actually supports their energy. If you’re Human Design–curious, spiritually grounded but practical, and tired of planning systems that fall apart by midweek, this episode offers a gentler, more aligned approach to closing out the year—and stepping into what’s next. Key Takeaways: Why gate transits act like energetic weather and how to use them for weekly planning How Gate 11 helps you capture ideas without forcing action Why Gate 10 is especially potent during the holidays (hello, people-pleasing) How Gate 58 invites joy, vitality, and micro-wins What Gate 38 asks you to clarify as you cross from 2025 into 2026 How transits temporarily activate energy you may not have defined in your chart A simple way to experiment with each gate Connect with Lori: Instagram Threads: /episode/index/show/ff90fd91-5b6f-4a37-a6cf-0e240fa4a0a6/id/39402810

Ep 92: The Human Design Way to Plan Your Week: Authority, Energetic Weather, Centers and Energy Flow 12/08/2025

Ep 91: Deconditioning Faith, Redefining Worth & Feeling It All: A Raw Midlife Dialogue with Megan Potter 12/01/2025

Ep 91: Deconditioning Faith, Redefining Worth & Feeling It All: A Raw Midlife Dialogue with Megan Potter 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Show Summary: In this week’s episode of Midlife by (Human) Design, Lori sits down with the luminous and deeply honest Megan Potter — a 3/5 Emotional Manifesting Generator whose 35 years have held enough twists, loss, reinvention, and spiritual unlearning to fill several lifetimes. Megan shares her journey from ministry to movie sets, from small-town Appalachia to a healing sabbatical in Hawaii, from young widowhood and autoimmune struggle to rediscovering joy, creativity, and agency. Together, Lori and Megan explore Human Design through the lens of grief, emotional waves, intuition, self-love (Gate 10), money mindset, boundaries, deconditioning religious programming, and the beauty of choosing yourself — even when it feels unfamiliar. This is an intimate, heart-forward conversation about feeling deeply, healing loudly, reclaiming worth, and letting your design guide you back home. Takeaways: How grief can become an emotional superpower when you’re wired to feel deeply The surprising connection between intuition, gut responses, and emotional authority — and how Megan learned to trust all three What a completely open heart center reveals about worth, money, and martyrdom The moment Megan realized she’d been living by “shoulds” instead of joy — and what shifted Why younger women may be waking up to deconditioning earlier than generations before The unexpected way a sabbatical changed Megan’s entire trajectory The spiritual + psychological mechanisms behind “seeing signs” How self-love (Gate 10) expresses in its highest and lowest forms — and the real-life stories behind both Connect with Megan: website- https://megan-potter.com/ Instagram Amazon Storefront- Connect with Lori: Instagram Threads: /episode/index/show/ff90fd91-5b6f-4a37-a6cf-0e240fa4a0a6/id/39212920

Ep 90: Glinda, Elphaba, and Your Midlife Awakening: A Human Design Look at Wicked 11/24/2025

Ep 89: Delulu Is the Solulu: A Midlife Manifestation Breakdown 11/17/2025

Ep 89: Delulu Is the Solulu: A Midlife Manifestation Breakdown 🔗 Join the Midlife Magic Membership for $33 with discount code MBHDTHANKS 🔗 Wild Women Newsletter: for Human Design & Astrology transits, HD insights, & insider offers 🔗 Get your HD Chart: 🔗 Register for Waterbury HD workshop series (next one is Wednesday 11/19): https://www.lorilisai.com/workshop-registration 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: Show Summary: Ever heard the phrase “delulu is the solulu?” On this episode of Midlife by (Human) Design, Lori breaks down what it really means for midlife women who are ready to shift timelines, collapse old versions of themselves, and actually manifest lives that feel aligned. Lori dives into the energetic and Human Design foundations of manifestation--especially in this moment of global transition as we move from the Cross of Planning into the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. She explores why the “future you” already exists, how to access her, and why embodiment matters more than forcing high vibes. You’ll learn why manifestation isn’t about pretending you’re happy all the time, and why even during your emotional lows, you can still call in what you desire. Lori shares practical, playful delulu techniques, how to handle your nervous system when good things show up, and how the current Gate 14 transit amplifies the creative and sacral energy available to fuel your dreams. This episode is an invitation to soften, experiment, and embody the version of you who already has what you’re calling in, one tiny aligned action at a time. Takeaways: The timeline shift happening collectively — and why it matters for manifesting in midlife How to embody your “future you” without bypassing your real human emotional waves The role your nervous system plays in receiving the good stuff Simple delulu practices that help collapse the gap between desire and reality Why this week’s Gate 14 solar transit amplifies your creativity and abundance Connect with Lori: Instagram Threads: Amoya Shante on Threads: /episode/index/show/ff90fd91-5b6f-4a37-a6cf-0e240fa4a0a6/id/39054915

Ep 88: 11/11 and the 9 Year: A Midlife Manifestation Moment 11/10/2025

Ep 87: Holiday Self-Care by Design: Finding Peace When Everyone Wants a Piece of You 11/03/2025

Ep 86: Remember That You’re Being Guided: Tuning into Ancestral Support in Midlife--Halloween series Part 3 10/31/2025

Ep 85: The Midlife Portal: When You’re Standing on the Edge of Who You’ve Been--Halloween Series Part 2 10/29/2025

Ep 85: The Midlife Portal: When You’re Standing on the Edge of Who You’ve Been--Halloween Series Part 2 🔗 Book a 1:1 call: https://LoriLisai.as.me/support-chat or learn more about 1:1 Human Design coaching here: 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Register for Waterbury HD workshop series (next one is Wednesday 10/29): https://www.lorilisai.com/workshop-registration 🔗 Register for HD workshop series at The Sanctuary in Burlington (starts Thursday 10/30): https://www.lorilisai.com/sanctuary-hd-workshop-registration 🔗 Midlife Magic Membership: https://www.lorilisai.com/midlife-magic-membership 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: Show Summary: Ever felt like you’re standing at the edge of something big but you can’t quite see what’s next? That feeling is sacred. In this episode of Midlife by Design, Lori Lisai invites you into the midlife portal—a powerful energetic threshold that mirrors the thinning of the veil during Halloween and Samhain. Through astrology, Human Design, and lived experience, she explores how midlife acts as its own initiation—a golden doorway between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. Lori unpacks the astrology of this transformative season, including Pluto’s movement into Aquarius and the collective invitation to shed outdated versions of ourselves. You’ll hear how the discomfort, restlessness, and uncertainty of this stage are not signs that you’re lost, but proof that you’re composting the old in preparation for your next evolution. Key Takeaways: The sacred reason midlife feels so uncomfortable How this Halloween energy mirrors the midlife journey What astrology reveals about your personal transformation right now The hidden power of sitting in the “in-between” instead of rushing through it Why this portal is your chance to become who you were always meant to be Connect with Lori: Instagram Threads: /episode/index/show/ff90fd91-5b6f-4a37-a6cf-0e240fa4a0a6/id/38798135

Ep 84: When the Veil Is Thin: Breaking the Ancestral Patterns That Hold You Back in Midlife--Halloween Series Part 1 10/27/2025

Ep 84: When the Veil Is Thin: Breaking the Ancestral Patterns That Hold You Back in Midlife--Halloween Series Part 1 🔗 Book a 1:1 call: https://LoriLisai.as.me/support-chat or email me lori@lorilisai.com 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Register for Waterbury HD workshop series (next one is Wednesday 10/29): https://www.lorilisai.com/workshop-registration 🔗 Register for HD workshop series at The Sanctuary in Burlington (starts Thursday 10/30): https://www.lorilisai.com/sanctuary-hd-workshop-registration 🔗 Midlife Magic Membership: https://www.lorilisai.com/midlife-magic-membership 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: Show Summary: It’s that time of year—the veil between worlds is said to grow thin. This is a time when we celebrate, and also use this moment for something powerful: rewriting the stories our ancestors left behind. In this first of Lori’s 3-part Halloween mini-series, she invites you to explore the unseen threads connecting you to your lineage—beliefs, fears, and patterns passed down through generations—and how midlife offers a sacred opportunity to break free. Lori shares gentle, practical ways to connect with your ancestors, identify the stories that no longer fit, and take small, grounded steps toward rewriting your legacy. Because this time of year is a sacred invitation to cross a threshold and reclaim who you were always meant to be. Takeaways The “thin veil” between you and your ancestors may reveal more than you expect. Why midlife amplifies old family patterns (and how to work with it, not against it). How to spot inherited scarcity, fear, or self-sacrifice patterns through Human Design. A simple ritual to invite ancestral guidance without losing your boundaries. "Homework" Light a candle, open your journal, and call in only those ancestors working for your highest good. Ask: What generational pattern am I ready to release? Free-write whatever comes through—without judgment. Then thank your ancestors for the lessons and choose one small “one-degree pivot” to begin your rewrite. /episode/index/show/ff90fd91-5b6f-4a37-a6cf-0e240fa4a0a6/id/38784895

Ep 83: Your Emotions Are Messengers: The Secret Method to Manifesting Through Midlife Chaos 10/20/2025

Ep 83: Your Emotions Are Messengers: The Secret Method to Manifesting Through Midlife Chaos 🔗 Book a 1:1 call: https://LoriLisai.as.me/support-chat or email me lori@lorilisai.com 🔗 Get your HD Chart: 🔗 Get my newsletter: 🔗 Register for Waterbury HD workshop series: https://www.lorilisai.com/workshop-registration 🔗 Register for HD workshop series at The Sanctuary in Burlington: https://www.lorilisai.com/sanctuary-hd-workshop-registration 🔗 Midlife Magic Membership: https://www.lorilisai.com/midlife-magic-membership 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: 🔗 The Feelings Wheel: Emotional Waves episode 62: Show Summary: Ever feel like you can't trust your emotions? In this episode, Lori unpacks the messy, magical intersection of emotions, hormones, Human Design, and manifestation. Midlife emotions can feel unpredictable, especially in perimenopause. One day you’re fine, the next you’re crying in the car and wondering if you can trust anything you feel. Lori explores what’s really happening beneath the emotional chaos—and how understanding your Human Design can help you turn those emotional surges into intuitive guidance. You’ll hear about the role of the Emotional Solar Plexus (your personal emotional compass), why some women feel everything more deeply than others, and how your emotions actually shape what you attract. Plus, Lori shares a simple tool to help you recognize what you’re really feeling so you can move through it instead of getting stuck there. If you’ve ever been told you’re “too sensitive” or felt like you have to tone it down, this episode is your reminder that your emotions aren’t the problem—they’re the portal. Key Takeaways: How to tell if your emotions are guiding you or gaslighting you The surprising Human Design clue that explains why you feel everything so deeply A mindset shift that turns emotional chaos into clarity What your body might be trying to tell you through your perimenopause symptoms Why your feelings may be the missing piece in your manifestation practice Connect with Lori: Instagram Threads: /episode/index/show/ff90fd91-5b6f-4a37-a6cf-0e240fa4a0a6/id/38633835