Why You’re Exhausted — And What Human Design Reveals! With Shayna Cornelius & Dana Stiles – #756

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In this episode:

Why are so many high achievers exhausted, burned out, and stuck—despite doing everything “right”?

Join Julie Ryan with Human Design experts Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles of DayLuna™ as they reveal how your Human Design chart, energy type, and authority may explain your exhaustion—and how to realign with your natural flow. After burning out in corporate careers, Shayna and Dana began experimenting with their Human Design as Projectors—honoring their emotional authority and radically reducing forced effort—and within weeks, recognition, alignment, and opportunity began flowing in.

In this episode, they break down what Human Design actually is—a synthesis of astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and the chakra system—revealing how your birth data unlocks a personalized body graph that maps your energy type, decision-making authority, and life themes. You’ll learn the “not-self” signals that show you’re out of alignment, the emotional cues that confirm you’re on track, and why so many high achievers feel stuck when they’re living against their design.

Julie even shares how turning down an MBA decades ago perfectly reflects her Manifesting Generator wiring—proof that your intuition may already know your design. From entrepreneurship and leadership to embodiment and the collective shift approaching 2027, this conversation is a powerful reminder that you’re not here to copy someone else’s path—you’re here to live your own energetic truth.

Guest Biography:

Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles are Human Design experts, best-selling authors, and co-founders of DayLuna™, dedicated to empowering others toward self-love, personal freedom, and radical authenticity. Through their top-charted DayLuna Human Design Podcast, transformational courses, live readings, personalized ritual kits, parenting blueprints, and their book Your Human Design: Discover Your Unique Life Path and How To Navigate It With Purpose, they make the complex system of Human Design grounded, accessible, and actionable—helping individuals align with their purpose in business, relationships, parenting, and spiritual growth.

📣DayLuna™ Website:

➡️https://www.daylunalife.com/

Episode Chapters:

(0:00:00) – Introduction: Living Your Truth

Julie introduces Shayna and Dana from DayLuna™, sets up conversation about Human Design as a tool for living authentically and in alignment with your unique energy.

(0:02:00) – Why We Spend Our Lives Being Somebody Else

Dana explains how social pressure to homogenize creates friction and dis-ease, society’s “one size fits all” structures force us to dim our light, collaboration does not require conformity — that’s a lie we’re awakening from.

(0:06:00) – Julie’s MBA Story and Thinking Outside the Box

Julie shares how she refused an MBA 30 years ago to protect her intuitive thinking, Shayna confirms this is classic Manifesting Generator behavior, the danger of letting outside systems “box in” your brain.

(0:09:00) – Human Design Types: The Five Energies Explained

Dana defines Human Design as a synthesis of astrology, I Ching, Kabbalah, and chakras, introduces the five types: manifester, generator, manifesting generator, projector, reflector, explains how each type’s aura and energy function differently.

(0:11:00) – Julie’s Manifesting Generator Reading

Dana reads Julie’s type and strategy, Manifesting Generators have powerful inspiring contagious energy, need to work on things they love or their life force drains, must pivot and avoid monotony to stay energized.

(0:16:00) – How Shayna and Dana Found Human Design

College friends navigate Saturn Returns together, corporate burnout and quarter-life crisis drove them to explore spiritual systems, discovered they were both 2-4 projectors which explained everything.

(0:18:00) – The One-Month Experiment That Changed Everything

Committed to working only 2-3 hours of draining tasks daily as projectors, used emotional authority for every big decision, working less but getting promoted and recognized more, opportunities and clients flooded in within one month.

(0:22:00) – Human Design’s Origins: Ra Ahu’s Download

Ra Ahu received download during eight-day meditation in Ibiza in 1987, spent days journaling the synthesis of ancient systems, spent rest of life developing and teaching the system worldwide, connections to quantum physics and DNA codons validated.

(0:25:00) – Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Consciousness

Human Design is not a belief system but an experiment you test, provides tangible practices (strategy and authority) you can try on for size, helps people find clarity, confidence, and groundedness, derives from ancient systems synthesized into modern guidance.

(0:27:00) – The 2027 Paradigm Shift

Ra Ahu channeled that 2027 is a pivotal moment in human evolution, old world structures dissolving and new world wanting to be born, mass awakening happening right now, ancient sciences returning because consciousness is ready to receive them.

(0:30:00) – The Merlin Synchronicity and Spiritual Zeitgeist

Julie shares story of student who was Merlin in past life scan, graduate independently pulled Merlin card from new tarot deck same morning, no coincidences — spiritual systems converging across modalities, people moving beyond dogma toward personal spiritual connection.

(0:33:00) – Signs You’re Out of Alignment: Not Self Themes

Manifesters: anger, Generators/Manifesting Generators: frustration, Projectors: bitterness, Reflectors: disappointment — these are “check engine lights,” self themes (peace, success, satisfaction, surprise) signal alignment.

(0:36:00) – Trusting Intuition Over Logic

Dana explains how conditioning to think logically runs deeply, inner authority is almost wordless and ineffable — a knowing in your body, eight different authorities in Human Design each with unique decision-making process, “I feel bad / I should” are red flags you’re in your logical mind.

(0:40:00) – Does Personal Vibration Educate Better Than Words?

Dana affirms embodiment is the key theme for future leadership, presence alone can promote harmony and inspire, “do as I say not as I do” leaders are crashing and burning, living in true integrity means you may need to market yourself less.

(0:41:00) – What True Authenticity Looks Like

Shayna explains authenticity requires courage to take action on what your body is telling you, being real is not always pretty or happy — it includes owning funky moods, children sense inauthenticity even when behavior is “better,” faking it creates friction while real presence creates fulfillment.

(0:45:00) – Integrating Business Success With Spiritual Alignment

Check in with “am I doing this because I should or because I truly want to,” entrepreneurship advice from others is just “putting on somebody else’s clothes,” Human Design provides the GPS not the destination — here’s how to get from A to B with least friction.

(0:47:00) – Human Design at Work: Employees and Entrepreneurs

Principles apply to any job not just entrepreneurship, shifting toward freelance and autonomy within larger organizations, having authority to say “these tasks drain me” creates healthier ecosystems, people shining and sharing gifts vs. head down grinding.

(0:49:00) – Myths About Success: Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionism

Imposter syndrome and perfectionism share same root: self-worth and self-love, women especially taught to play small and doubt, “self-doubt kills more dreams than trying and failing ever will,” best advice is just do it and show up authentically.

(0:51:00) – When Two People Share the Same Design

Same type or profile creates instant companionship and “I get you” feeling, different designs create productive friction and growth, siblings with same design can mirror and trigger each other, adults with matching designs feel like “home base.”

(0:52:00) – First Steps to Reconnect With Your Inherent Flow

Shayna recommends tuning into your energy throughout the day without your mind, notice energy drops from self-criticism or comparison and “ping it back up,” observe how people around you are affected by your energy, you don’t need Human Design language to start feeling alignment.

(0:55:00) – Why Do We Incarnate?

Shayna: we incarnate to contribute to collective consciousness, every experience adds to shared evolution whether we learn lessons or not, consciousness will keep growing no matter what. Dana: we are conduits of experience and unique avatars, no good or bad experiences — just interesting ones that help us learn and evolve, curiosity and playfulness come from accepting this truth.

(0:59:00) – Julie’s Closing: Two Rings of Light

Julie shares energetic vision of Shayna and Dana as two overlapping circles of bright light, where they overlap is “blindingly bright,” their combined energy creates magnificent ripples that reach people they help and beyond.