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About Human Design

Business and life guide Mel McSherry joins Scherrie Prince to break down what human design actually is, why it matters for entrepreneurs, and how aligning your business with your energetic blueprint can shift everything — from daily energy management to long-term profitability. This is the conversation that bridges spiritual frameworks with real business strategy in a way even the most skeptical entrepreneur can apply immediately.

Working Against Your Energetic Design Causes Burnout [00:00]

Mel opens with the moment that changed everything — sitting in Sedona, Arizona at her first spiritual retreat two weeks before lockdown, reading her human design chart for the first time and sobbing. Not because something was wrong, but because for the first time she had the language to explain why six-figure success on paper felt hollow. She’d been running her business completely against her energetic design, and her body and business had been telling her that for years.

What Is Human Design for Entrepreneurs? [00:20]

Human design is a synthesis of astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, chakras, and quantum physics that maps how you are energetically designed to work, make decisions, and lead. “It shows you your why behind your how. It shows you how you are designed to bring your purpose to life.” For entrepreneurs, it functions as an operations manual that’s entirely yours — something you can return to every time the overwhelm hits or the direction feels unclear.

How Human Design Combines Ancient Wisdom with Quantum Physics [01:00]

Your chart is generated from your birth date, time, and location — which determines where planets were aligned at the moment you arrived, setting a unique frequency that no one else shares. Mel gets asked regularly whether twins have the same chart. So far, yes — but even then, they use the information differently. No two charts are the same, and even within shared charts, the differentiation still rings true.

The Three-Part Profitability Framework: Mental, Emotional & Financial [03:00]

When Mel talks about profitability, she means three things: mental, emotional, and financial. Most entrepreneurs lead with financial as the primary pull — which makes sense, but it’s a sequence problem. “When you make that your sole focus, you lose the mental and emotional profitability points that actually help you create a sustainable business.” Human design gives you the mental and emotional wins first, which is exactly what makes the financial feel effortless when it follows.

The Time & Energy Management System That Built a Top 1% Beachbody Team [04:20]

Before human design had a name in Mel’s life, she was already using its principles. As a single mom with an absent partner and an undiagnosed child, she built a check-in practice every morning: how much sleep did I get, how much energy do I have, what do I have to do, and what actually fits today? That system caught the attention of her team leader, made it into the new coach bootcamp, and within a year her team was in the top 1% of all Beachbody teams in the company.

From Six-Figure Success to Miserable: The Misalignment Wake-Up Call [06:30]

By 2020, Mel had the revenue, the accolades, and the travel — and she couldn’t connect to any of it. “I wasn’t feeling like it was mine, but I didn’t have the vernacular to talk about it.” The Sedona retreat gave her both the validation and the language. She spent the next two years quietly applying human design inside her own business before ever mentioning it publicly, making sure it was something she wanted to teach — not just something she needed for herself.

How to Bridge Spirituality and Traditional Business Frameworks Skeptics Will Trust [09:40]

“I don’t want this to be: now sit there and manifest it.” Mel pairs human design with traditional business development tools specifically because she’s an actionable person who needs something tactile. When a client is struggling with marketing, overwhelmed by networking, or unsure about their offers, she shows them where the disconnects live inside their chart — then turns that information into a concrete next step. “Every time I have a reading with somebody, nobody ever says that doesn’t make any sense. I see their shoulders drop and they go: ah, I knew it.”

How Hustle Culture Affects Your Business Based on Your Energy Type [15:30]

Hustle isn’t universally bad — it’s contextual. Some energy types are designed with copious, self-regenerating energy and genuinely thrive in high-output environments. Others, like Mel, have very low natural energy reserves and need recovery built into every single day. “Understanding that has drastically shifted how many meetings I take in a day.” Human design doesn’t tell you to stop working hard. It tells you what hard work should look like for your specific type — and when to put the foot off the gas entirely.

Reclaiming the Missing Human Element That Tactics and Software Can’t Replace [17:20]

“We’re not taught to go to ourselves first. We’re taught to seek the expert, find the formula, find the software that’s going to fix everything.” Mel works with clients who have spent significant money on courses, funnels, and frameworks — and together they identify which pieces were actually built for how that person operates, and which ones were never going to work regardless of execution. The customization is what reignites the mental and emotional profitability. It turns someone else’s framework back into your business.

Corporate-to-Entrepreneur PTSD: A Real Client Transformation Story [20:10]

One of Mel’s clients came to her mid-transition from a decades-long corporate career into entrepreneurship. She had taken what she was good at in corporate and built a business around it — then realized she hated it. The identity had been her job title for so long she didn’t know who she was without it. Two years of working together, guided by her human design, and she’s now running a business that Mel describes as “a hundred percent her” — one she built with full ownership of how she wanted to work and what she actually wanted to create.

How to Get Started: What to Expect in a 90-Minute Human Design Reading [23:20]

You need three things to pull your chart: birth date, birth time, and birth location. Mel’s intake form asks clients to choose a focus — business, personal, or both — and to share where they feel most disconnected before the session begins. The reading itself is 90 minutes, recorded, and covers five core areas: your energy type and strategy, your centers (aligned with the chakra system), your authority (how you make decisions), your profile (how you bring your purpose to life), and your incarnation cross (your overarching intention in the world). Clients come back to these recordings for years.

What Is a Human Design Projector in Business & Why Projectors Burn Out [25:10]

Projectors make up roughly 20% of the population and are wired for guidance, strategy, and insight — not sustained output. They absorb energy from others, which means they can seem highly energetic in social or professional settings, then crash completely when they’re alone. Mel is a projector. Before she understood her design, she was networking three times a week, speaking every other week, and traveling constantly. “By 2020 I was just mud. I could not.” Projectors who model their business after Generator energy types will burn out on a cycle — until they understand why and build their schedule differently.

Using Human Design Frameworks to Prevent Burnout at the Startup Stage [27:20]

Early-stage entrepreneurs want to throw everything at the wall — say yes to everyone, be everywhere, figure it out on the way up. Mel doesn’t fight that instinct. She channels it. “When you understand your human design, I show them where those ideas actually come from, how to filter them, how to let some go and prioritize others.” It gives new business owners a sense of control over the idea floodgates, and it builds the consistency and ownership that most entrepreneurs don’t find until years in.

She Profits: Mel’s Entrepreneurial Profit Plan & Gateway to Human Design [30:10]

Mel wrote She Profits in 2020 — before human design had formally entered her work — and now describes it as the gateway drug to everything she teaches. The book walks through five points of profitability, combines client stories with actionable chapter exercises, and sits with the question most entrepreneurs avoid: what do I actually want? It’s motivational and tactile in equal measure, designed to give readers both a story to connect to and steps they can implement immediately.

Why Separating Business and Personal Life Is a Myth Entrepreneurs Must Drop [33:30]

“I don’t know why we ever thought we could separate business and personal. It’s so intermingled.” Mel calls herself a business and life guide deliberately — because her client sessions contain both. Space-holding for a rough moment and pure strategy in the same hour. When entrepreneurs bury themselves in work to avoid what’s happening personally, neither side wins. Showing up as a leader means showing up as a whole person, and the most effective client sessions Mel has are the ones where both are on the table.

How LinkedIn Became Mel’s Top Human Design Marketing & Networking Platform [35:30]

Mel has been on LinkedIn for years but shifted to using it as her primary marketing and networking space around 2020. Her posts tend to run long — longer than Instagram allows comfortably — and the platform has become a place where she’s curated exactly the kind of space she wants. Her filter for new connections is simple: do they post, do they contribute, do they show up as a person or just as a pitch? “It goes back to that control we do have in who we spend time with and whose energy we receive.”

One Piece of Advice to Play Big Faster: Trust Yourself First [37:20]

“Trust yourself.” Mel knows it sounds simple. She also knows the gap between knowing that and doing it is where most entrepreneurs get stuck. “You don’t think you have enough, you don’t know enough, you don’t have the right tools yet.” Her answer: you do. You know where you want to go. You know what you want to build. As you evolve, get support — but don’t outsource your self-trust to someone else’s framework. “You are the singular most important person in your life and in your business.”

About Mel McSherry

Mel McSherry is a certified business and life guide with 15 years of entrepreneurial experience spanning fitness, network marketing, and business coaching. She built a top 1% Beachbody coaching team using the time and energy management system that now underpins everything she teaches. In 2015 she completed a year-long internship under leadership expert John C. Maxwell and earned her international coaching certification through his organization. She’s the author of She Profits and a co-author of Overcoming Mediocrity. She works with entrepreneurs at the intersection of human design business coaching, sustainable business growth, and deep self-trust — and her sessions hold space for both the tactical and the personal.

Essential Resources

She Profits — Mel McSherry

Mel’s entrepreneurial profit plan and, in her words, the gateway drug to human design. Walks through five points of profitability with client stories and actionable exercises after every chapter. Ask Mel directly for access or visit her LinkedIn profile.

Overcoming Mediocrity — Co-Authored Anthology

Mel contributed a chapter about asking for her divorce from a good marriage — and why John C. Maxwell’s advice to “say no to the good so you can say yes to the best” became the through-line of that decision. A vulnerable, honest piece of writing she still hears about from readers years later.

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