Meet the Voice behind
Living My Human Design
Hi, I’m Nicole Hoover, and I’m not here to fix you. I’m here to walk with you—back to the self you’ve always known, but didn’t feel safe enough to fully embody.
My Early Story
My Journey
Growing up, I never really felt like I belonged.
I learned early how to walk on eggshells—how to stay small, agreeable, and out of the way. It wasn’t about surviving so much as it was about not being the cause of someone else’s explosion. I became a people pleaser without realizing it, shaping myself around other people’s comfort while disconnecting from my own.
During the tender years of childhood, I also experienced sexual abuse—something I didn’t yet understand or have the words to name. What left the deepest imprint wasn’t just what happened, but the silence that followed. The message I received was that speaking up caused more problems—and so, I made myself smaller.
Teenage Years + Turning Point
As a teenager, everything shifted again. My parents moved me from small-town Western Montana—where I’d grown up with freedom and familiarity—to a much larger city in Eastern Washington. I didn’t understand it at the time, but they were trying to protect me. The world felt bigger, faster, and more dangerous, and they began placing new rules around me. But to me, it just felt like loss—of trust, of space, of self.
I started rebelling. I didn’t like the way I was acting, but I didn’t know how to stop. And how could I? I didn’t even feel like my parents liked me, let alone understood me. I spiraled into anxiety and depression, caught between craving independence and feeling completely unrooted.
But in the middle of that chaos, something beautiful happened.
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 and found comfort by diving into my Christian roots. In moments of anxiety or panic, I’d reach for the familiarity of scripture and prayer. It helped me feel grounded, but the deeper healing I craved still felt just out of reach. I was managing—but I wasn’t yet free.
Then, in my mid-twenties, 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.
Anxiety still visited me from time to time, but now I had tools. And that opened the door to more.
A few years later, I watched an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that introduced me to Deepak Chopra and the concept of meditation. That single moment shifted everything. If I could name one practice that truly changed my life—it was meditation. For the first time, I began to experience stillness in my mind and spaciousness in my heart.
Self-Study & Energy Work
As I kept exploring, my curiosity led me deeper into natural healing. I discovered the power of essential oils and the wisdom of the earth. I’ve never been one to reach for medication unless absolutely necessary, so finding support through plant medicine felt like being handed something ancient and true.
Around that same time, I found Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life. That book cracked open a whole new level of awareness. I began to understand how much power lived in my thoughts—how the stories I told myself shaped the way I felt, the way I acted, and what I believed was possible.
“It was the first time I truly began to see the connection between mind, body, and spirit.”
By my mid-thirties, I was all in. I devoured self-help books. I wanted to be a light in this world. I started learning about healing crystals, sound healing, and energy work. Eventually, I was introduced to Angelic Reiki, and I immersed myself in that modality—eventually becoming a Level IV Angelic Reiki practitioner.
Every step was a breadcrumb, leading me closer to who I really am.
Human Design Discovery
At the end of a conversation with my sister, she casually asked,
“Hey, have you heard of Human Design?”
I said no.
She replied, “Oh, you should Google it.”
And just like that—down the rabbit hole I went.
When I pulled up my chart, 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 learned I was a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority, and as I started reading about what that meant, I kept thinking: How could this possibly be so accurate?
Soon after, I found The Human Design Podcast with Emma Dunwoody. 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 call cracked me wide open. She didn’t know me—but she saw me.
Within a year, I enrolled in Emma’s Mastermind course. I learned how to unpack charts, how to understand energetic patterns, and—most importantly—how to live this work, not just talk about it.
I also took her Purpose & Abundance course, which helped me reconnect with something I’d buried a long time ago: the permission to follow what lights me up.
That’s what led me here.
To imperfect action.
To this podcast.
To this experiment.
To this version of me—finally aligned, finally free to be all of who I am.
And now, I want to help you remember who you are, too.