Meet the Voice behind
Living My
Human Design
About Nicole Hoover
I’ve spent most of my life learning how to take up space.
Not in a loud way. Not in a way anyone would have noticed from the outside. But quietly, steadily, through every layer of healing and self-discovery and imperfect action, I’ve been finding my way back to myself.
This is that story. And somewhere in it, I hope you find a piece of yours.
Growing Up
I grew up in small-town Western Montana, and for a long time, life felt open and free. But underneath that freedom, I was already learning a lesson I didn’t choose…how to stay small, agreeable, and out of the way.
I became a people pleaser without realizing it. I shaped myself around other people’s comfort while slowly disconnecting from my own.
During those early years, I also experience sexual abuse…something I didn’t have the words to name at the time. What left the deepest imprint wasn’t only what happened, but the silence that followed. The message I absorbed was that speaking up caused more problems.
And so I made myself smaller.
The Teenage Years
When my parents moved me from Montana to a larger city in Eastern Washington, it felt like losing everything familiar. They were trying to protect me…I understand that now. But at the time, it just felt like loss. Of trust…of space…of self.
I started rebelling. I didn’t like who I was becoming, but I didn’t know how to stop. I spiraled into anxiety, and depression, caught between craving independence and feeling completely unrooted.
And then something beautiful happened in the middle of all that chaos.
I met the love of my life in my sophomore year of high school. We got married shortly after I graduated. And for the first time, I felt a kind of belonging I had never known before.
By the time I turned 20, I made a quiet but life-altering decision.
I was done living like a victim. I didn’t know what healing would look like, but I knew I was ready to begin.
The Healing Path
At first I turned inward, finding comfort in my Christian roots. Scripture and prayer helped me feel grounded in moments of anxiety. It helped. But the deeper freedom I craved still felt just out of reach.
Then I discovered yoga. The breath, the movement, the presence…it anchored me into my body in a way I hadn’t realized I needed. I wasn’t just coping anymore. I was feeling. I was finally beginning to return to myself.
A few years later, a single episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show introduced me to Deepak Chopra and the concept of meditation. That moment shifted everything. If I could name one practice that truly changed my life, it was that one. for the first time, I began to experience stillness in my mind and spaceousness in my heart.
From there, my curiosity kept leading me deeper. Essential oils. Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life, which cracked open a whole new level of awareness about the connection between mind, body and spirit. Healing crystals. Sound healing. Energy work. Eventually Angelic Reiki, which I studied until I became a Level IV practitioner.
Every step was a breadcrumb, leading me closer to who I really am.
Human Design
At the end of an ordinary conversation, my sister casually asked:
“Hey, have you heard of Human Design?”
I said no.
“Oh, you should google it.”
And just like that…down the rabbit hole I went.
When I pulled up my chart for the first time, I didn’t understand any of it. But I felt something. Like my soul had just been handed a map I didn’t know I’d been searching for.
I’m a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority. And as I started learning what that meant, I kept thinking: how can this possibly be so accurate?
Not log after, I found Emma Dunwoody’s work. Her words lit something up in me, and I knew I wanted to go deeper. I booked a chart unpacking session with her, and that one cracked me wide open. She didn’t know me….but she saw me.
Within a year I enrolled in Emma’s Mastermind. I learned how to read charts, how to understand energetic patters…and most importantly…how to live this work, not just talk about it. I also completed her Purpose & Abundance course, which helped me reconnect with something i’d buried a long time ago: the permission to follow what actually lights me up.
Where I Am Now
Today, I live and travel full-time in an RV with my husband. My business — Living My Human Design — is built around the Bodygraph ecosystem, supporting Human Design practitioners with the backend work that keeps their business running smoothly.
I work inside these tools every single day. I know them inside and out. And I know that the gap between a practitioner’s vision and what their business actually reflects is rarely a skill gap. It’s a structure gap.
That is what I’m here to help close.
This is imperfect action in real time. A podcast. A brand. A life that’s finally starting to reflect who I actually am.
And now I want to help you remember who you are, too.
Let’s Stay Connected
If something here resonated, come find me on the podcast! I share honest reflections on Human Design, business and life on the road. The real version, not the highlight reel.
Listen to Living My Human Design →
And if you’re a Human Design practitioner ready to show up more confidently in your chart readings