Episode 11: What is Healthy Outer Authority?

In this episode, hosts Andrea and Courtney discuss the concept of outer authority in the context of human design. They explore the historical background of outer authority and its evolution from the seven-centered way to the nine-centered way. The hosts emphasize the importance of understanding and embracing healthy outer authority, which involves offering wisdom, guidance, and support without attachment to outcomes. They also highlight the significance of cultivating a strong relationship with one's inner authority and the role of outer authority in complementing and supporting it. The episode provides valuable insights into navigating the dynamics of outer authority in a way that promotes personal growth, healing, and deeper connections with others.

Key Takeaways:

• Outer authority is guidance from someone outside of oneself and can be beneficial when it is unattached to outcomes and based on lived experience.
• Healthy outer authority honors a person's uniqueness and supports their strategy and authority, offering wisdom and context without making decisions for them.
• It is important to cultivate a strong relationship with one's inner authority to avoid seeking external validation or decision-making power.
• Outer authority can be seen as wise counsel that is invited in and supports an individual's decision-making process.
• Understanding and embracing healthy outer authority can lead to healing, growth, and deeper connections with others.

Notable Quotes:

• "Healthy outer authority is unattached to the outcomes. It is based in lived experience. It honors the person's differentiation and uniqueness, and it points them towards their own strategy and authority." - Andrea
• "Outer authority is no longer making a decision for somebody. It is now just offering all of those other gifts so that the person has what they need in order for their inner authority to make a decision." - Courtney

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Andrea. Hey y'all, this is Courtney and welcome to the Human Design and Liberation podcast. This is a space where we explore how human design and liberation theology intersect with the past, present, and future. With the intent of sharing the beauty and pain of the human experience to encourage you in your liberation journey. 

[00:00:34] Andrea: Yay! 

[00:00:35] Courtney: Yay! Hello! 

[00:00:36] Andrea: We're back! Hi! How are you? 

[00:00:40] Courtney: I'm great. I'm great. How are you?

[00:00:45] Andrea: I'm good. I'm good. Good. I feel like this, um, you know, post eclipse integration is, um, It's still happening. So just reminding myself that we're recording [00:01:00] today. I think we're like nine days out from the eclipse. So um, yeah, you know, we're still, we're still feeling the aftershocks.

[00:01:10] Courtney: We are, we're still in it, but yes, it's clearing. 

[00:01:14] Andrea: Yes. I definitely feel that. 

[00:01:15] Courtney: And we're almost in tourist season. 

[00:01:16] Andrea: Yay. Which I'm very excited for that. Yeah. Yeah. A couple of days. So, good stuff. We got some good, 

[00:01:27] Courtney: yeah, we got some good stuff, um, on deck for today for this episode. Yay. 

[00:01:35] Andrea: It's going to be juicy.

[00:01:36] Andrea: We're 

[00:01:38] Courtney: Yes, we were just preparing and Andrea was totally in her mode. There's like this mode that you get into that's like, I love that like you closed your eyes and you were like, okay, like, we're going to put this shit in order. We're going to get this right. And I'm like, like, this is really fun around here.

[00:01:57] Courtney: Um, we're great. We're good. And we flexed, [00:02:00] you know, by the state of our pants, but it gets really, really good when we're like heavy on the notes, heavy on the like, Getting their minds right. And this is all about getting their minds right in a lot of ways. 

[00:02:10] Andrea: Yes, it is. Yeah. And when we're so we're talking about outer authority today.

[00:02:15] Andrea: Um, and I think for me when we're talking about, um, topics that are very mechanics heavy in Human Design. Um, that is when my second line so I'm a 6/2 profile. And that is when my second line like kicks into high gear because this is like a part of my call. And so my second line feels like really driven to like go the extra mile and like really give a hundred percent, you know, like, um, yeah, so that's the mode.

[00:02:56] Courtney: Yes. I love it. So, so kick us off. Let's [00:03:00] define outer authority. 

[00:03:03] Andrea: Great place to start. So, um, outer authority is essentially guidance from someone outside of yourself, like in the most basic terms. Um, It is something that we are in a little bit of a negotiation with right now, um, just as a collective. Um, and so we'll get into some of the reasons for that negotiation.

[00:03:32] Andrea: Um, I think that negotiation is very healthy. Um, and also. It's helpful to have this framework of what is truly outer authority so that we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. Like there are some real benefits to outer authority. You don't have to recreate the wheel. Like there's so many ways that outer authority can be helpful, but it has [00:04:00] been very harmful to us.

[00:04:01] Andrea: Historical. 

[00:04:02] Courtney: So we're getting out of social media meme land with outer authority, which I think is very important because it's very, uh, very black and white, very like good and bad in, in, you know, social media, meme land and, and we're really trying to land, um, and we're trying to give outer authority. It's due.

[00:04:27] Courtney: Yes, exactly. Yeah. So the history, I mean, I think part of that negotiation, right, is going from seven, the seven centered way into the nine centered way, correct? 

[00:04:39] Andrea: Yes, yes. So, in the time before 1781, when we were seven centered, We're we've talked about this before. It was really about surviving and enlightenment and most outer authority came from [00:05:00] either.

[00:05:00] Andrea: This is how you survive or this is how you get enlightened. Right. That was the focus. Um, and really, um, people did not have much agency. People did not have sovereignty the way that we think about it today. And some people did, right. If you happen to be born king or queen, but then in reality, like what agency did they really have?

[00:05:30] Andrea: Because they're, they were very confined. I mean, all you have to do is like watch a season of Victoria or a season of The Crown. And you know, like, they're not really making decisions for themselves, right. Um, it is this collective power structure. That they are, you know, the head of, you know, figuratively, um, but it's the collective power structure that's making the decisions.

[00:05:54] Andrea: And so, um, that is kind of the legacy [00:06:00] of seven centered outer authority, um, and nine centered outer authority is really this wisdom and, um, experience that, you know, Can be offered in your process that can be very helpful. 

[00:06:19] Courtney: Yes. Yes. And so again, like we're, we're giving out our authority. It's do we're showing that it was, there was no way out before the seven centered way.

[00:06:31] Courtney: Like you, it was the only option, um, unless of course you, you. found a way to end up on top. It was a hierarchy. So only the people at the top of the hierarchy, because there was a hierarchy, um, were allowed to dispense information for the people on the way down and structures and systems. So we're thinking about now, like, Um, [00:07:00] when we talk about even the age of enlightenment is kind of like, around that time, we're thinking of, um, the, the we're in the midst of the transatlantic, um, slave trade.

[00:07:15] Courtney: So, intense human trafficking happening, um, colonization, um, The, the forceful, uh, implementation of one way of being one philosophy, one ideology on to these other places against their will. Um, and moving out of that in this, evolutionary way, you know, like each of us individually moving out of that because the wheel is moving, you know, we are evolving as a species and we currently are living, um, in a time where we're getting close to the end of [00:08:00] that way of being still the hierarchy, still in existence, being in existence.

[00:08:05] Andrea: Right. Right. Right. And what I love about what you just brought up is Recognizing, it gives some context to the way of being that allowed mass atrocities like the transatlantic slave trade to happen, right? And I don't believe that there's just like a flip that switched in 1781. Like I believe that there was some preparation and we see that with some of the thought leaders that came before that speaking out against slavery and So many of the ways that Western society was being set up, you know, I say that because it wasn't just in the U S right?

[00:08:49] Andrea: Like there were thought leaders and revolutionaries in Western Europe who eradicated the transatlantic slave trade and eradicated enslavement [00:09:00] before we were able to get our heads around that. Um, and so, uh, this evolution of outer authority, it creates, um, it creates a paradox, right? It creates a disturbance in the power structure because, um, and so you see, you see dissonance, you see, uh, discomfort with these concepts.

[00:09:33] Andrea: at all levels, not just at the top where they're losing power, but you see discomfort in the lower levels as well because yes, this Structure has provided quote unquote, I'm using air quotes for those listening stability, but was it really stability? Right? It wasn't really because they had no sovereignty.

[00:09:53] Andrea: And so it was very actually unstable because their future could be Changed on a dime [00:10:00] by the whims of whoever was making that decision. Right. And so that could be like landowners for tenant farmers. That could be, you know, we're not just talking about enslavement. We're also talking about all the ways that this structure was all the scaffolding that held it in place.

[00:10:16] Courtney: Oh, yeah, totally. I mean, that makes me think of, uh, the fact that a lot of the African rulership was involved in. The trading of human beings for various other, um, like products and, and, you know, things that held wealth and value at the time. And that's not, I'm not making a comment on bad or good, whatever, but I am making a comment about the fact that there was a hierarchy in place in many of these.

[00:10:53] Courtney: You know, communities and tribes, and there were hierarchies in place within the [00:11:00] European colonial structure, and these hierarchical people, these people on top are making decisions for everyone on the bottom, that's what we're referring to, this is what our authority is, and so, again, it's not It's not, you know, I'm, we're not joining this conversation on like a slippery pad or who started it.

[00:11:19] Courtney: No, we know it's horrible. It's horrible. That's settled. It's not even, you know, but I am saying that, yeah. 

[00:11:27] Andrea: It wasn't only in Africa, right? Like the same thing was happening in the Nordic countries. It was happening in Western Europe. Like the, there were obviously, um, mass scale and the, um, like. Unending, uh, agreement piece of the transatlantic slave trade that took it to an extreme and right it, it blew up in a, in a seriously horrific way, but it was horrific before that as well.

[00:11:59] Andrea: Like [00:12:00] parents could sell their children into slavery and that happened all the time in like, you know, the, what we now know of as the UK, like there's, there's, there's, there's Anyway, 

[00:12:10] Courtney: the time to, you know, things in Asia, like this, it was everywhere, but I mean, this is our, like. Tangible example of what happens inside hierarchy inside a reality where the outer authority hold absolute power.

[00:12:30] Andrea: Yes. Yes.

[00:12:31] Courtney: And this is what we have moved out of on an energetic, in an energetic level. Um, so absolutely. 

[00:12:40] Andrea: So outer authority today is totally different, right? Outer authority today. Um, we were kind of brainstorming on like, Exactly what it is. It is, it is a piece of our expression. So just to use like our designs, I am a six [00:13:00] line with a defined head and a defined Ajna.

[00:13:04] Andrea: You are also a six line with a defined Ajna. And so those are two aspects of outer authority. And I'm going to get into like more of the nitty gritty of. Where outer authority comes from. Um, and so when we look at what, what is outer authority, we both have outer authority. And so that looks like just a piece of our expression, right?

[00:13:30] Andrea: That looks like offering wisdom, giving context, providing information, sharing our experience, being able to support someone who is Exploring an aspect of their life or trying to make a decision, being able to offer support in the form of outer authority. Um, not making a decision for somebody outer authority is no longer Making a decision for somebody, it is now, um, just offering all [00:14:00] of those other gifts so that the person has what they need in order for their inner authority to make a decision.

[00:14:06] Courtney: Right, right. It really just is evidence of our capacity to affect one another. And in this case, it's affecting each other's. Decision making processes, 

[00:14:19] Andrea: you know, like, 

[00:14:20] Courtney: like from the, from the, you know, throw up that kind of how, you know, that part of our, of our, um, of our design, um, connect to the people around it.

[00:14:37] Andrea: Yeah. So, When we think about, um, what does healthy outer authority look like today versus what we know outer authority looks like in the past, outer authority is unattached to any outcome. [00:15:00] Um, outer authority is based on the lived experience of the person who is sharing it. Um, outer authority honors the person's uniqueness and their strategy and authority.

[00:15:11] Andrea: Um, it is just coming in as a voice of like, hey, like wise counsel is a way to think of it. 

[00:15:18] Courtney: Yeah. Can you hear me by the way? Yeah. Okay, good. Yes, absolutely. It, um, Yeah, it's, it's kind of, I think of like, even like a parent child, um, uh, relationship, not that it is that, but I think of that, I think of like, anybody who has toddlers know that you can't make a toddler do anything, but you can suggest things, like this idea of redirection, right?

[00:15:44] Courtney: Like, um, Redirection is like one of those positive, uh, parenting kind of one on one type scenarios where you're not telling a kid to stop or don't. You're saying, how about this option over here? Yes. And it [00:16:00] illuminates a decision. It illuminates a decision maybe that they weren't considering. That's what's possible with outer authority is like the capacity to do.

[00:16:10] Courtney: Um, in relationship, which I also think is an important part of it in relationship with another person or a group of people, it is illuminating an option that their design may not have, um, seen otherwise. 

[00:16:25] Andrea: Yes. And parenting is such a great example because you can see the evolution of parenting as we're learning to release the seven centered.

[00:16:38] Andrea: Outer authority concept of the parent knows everything. The parent makes all the final calls, right? To the positive parenting or empowered parenting, or there's so many different terms for it of actually this child knows what's best for it. This child knows what's best [00:17:00] for it. And so how can we support, how can we give counsel, how can we show options, how can we share what's going to happen if this goes that way or you make that choice, then these are the things that are going to happen as a result, right?

[00:17:16] Andrea: That is healthy outer authority. You're ultimately letting that child make its decision. And often depending on the child's design. Those decisions are going to be learning experiences, right? Like if you have a third line or a six line child, they are going to need to make mistakes a lot to figure out what they're doing.

[00:17:35] Andrea: Right. Um, and so I think that's a really powerful. A powerful way to think about this shift in outer authority. 

[00:17:43] Courtney: Yeah. And you know, the parent, what we do bring to the table is experience, right? That's the one thing that we have, you know, that this, that the child does not. And so, but again, it's not a hierarchy because they're here to live their life.

[00:17:57] Courtney: They're here to fulfill their role. [00:18:00] Um, and so when you're standing at a crosswalk, we have enough experience to know that it's good to look both ways. Yes. And, you know, that child gets to benefit from our experience, knowing that, but that's not about controlling a child's movement. It's about helping them understand through our experience.

[00:18:24] Courtney: And this is kind of the point of Human Design anyway, anybody who, and I love this, not just for the parents, but I love this for, you know, Anybody who's on their Human Design journey, who is a, who is a teacher, who is, um, a mentor or is looking to be a mentor who works with young people in any way. And you're on your journey.

[00:18:43] Courtney: This is another reason why you're learning your design, learning about the mechanics of Human Design. It's yes. It's for you to better understand yourself, but it is also to use your outer authority. [00:19:00] in a way that supports this, a child, um, into understanding their own inner authority. You're supporting their, their relationship with their inner authority, helping them learn to love themselves, helping them learn to trust their inner being.

[00:19:19] Courtney: And so this is just in a really, you know, I love that we arrived here. This feels very kismet that we arrived here because this really is a point of understanding Anything related to Human Design. It's not just about you. It's about the, the generations that are going to be following us. 

[00:19:38] Andrea: Yeah. Yeah. And Ross said that all the time.

[00:19:41] Andrea: Like I'm here, I'm doing this for the children. I'm not, I'm not doing this for all of you. I'm doing this for the children. Yeah. All of you are going to make sure that the children get the benefit of this, but, um, it's really for the children, which I, I really love. I love that. [00:20:00] Yeah. So, um, some other things that mm-Hmm.

[00:20:06] Andrea: really matter to, um, outer authority. One is, um, the importance of cultivating that relationship and being able to hear your inner authority. Um, we were talking right before we came on about this polarity between the outer and inner authority. Um, and the outer authority really cannot be healthy. We talked about what those qualities look like if the inner authority isn't strong.

[00:20:36] Andrea: And the main reason for that is because if the inner authority isn't strong, then the like neural pathway that we all have from this history of seven centered outer authority Give up your power to give up your sovereignty to ask people to make decisions for you. And that might be literal, [00:21:00] or it might be energetically, right?

[00:21:02] Andrea: Um, it's going to happen. It's going to happen if your inner authority isn't strong. So what does that look like? It might look like, You know, looking to your parents for approval all of the time, or it might look like, you know, then displacing that need for parental approval to your partner, right? It's anytime you're looking for someone else to make a decision for you.

[00:21:29] Andrea: Yes. Or to make a decision that is going to impact you, um, then you know that you're not following your own inner authority. You're looking for an outer authority and you're not looking for a healthy outer authority. You're looking for a not self outer authority. 

[00:21:42] Courtney: Yes. Ooh, that's so good. That resonates.

[00:21:47] Courtney: And I also want to add that it's not the same as. And we're going to highlight this more and more and say it over and over, it's not the same as asking for advice. It's not the same as asking for [00:22:00] access to someone's, you know, experience, expertise, all these things, but it is literally the resignation of the final say.

[00:22:13] Andrea: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I would say if the final say is not coming from your emotional authority, your sacral authority, your schlenic authority, your self projected authority, your, uh, mental authority, right? Your lunar authority, whatever your authority is, if the final say is not coming from there, then you're going to be bumping up against your not self.

[00:22:40] Courtney: Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, and that's 

[00:22:44] Andrea: where like so much of, at least. In the clients that I work with, there's so much confusion, right, around how to make empowered decisions, um, around how to [00:23:00] navigate this power differential, right? And. They're, you know, in their process, they're learning what their authority sounds like.

[00:23:10] Andrea: And we still just have to have some embodiment of that following your inner authority, which is then innately going to bump you up against any ways that you were not following it in the past. Yes. You get this opportunity to kind of like, Relive to reweave your own agency and renegotiate what that means with your relationships and you know, how you interact with people.

[00:23:45] Andrea: Um, there's so much potential there for healing and for deeper communion when This old paradigm of seven centered outer authority gets disrupted and [00:24:00] you are coming with that strong inner authority. 

[00:24:03] Courtney: Yes, yes, that's so beautiful. And it really just illuminates the fact that like, we are all on this journey, you know, I want to even go back and harken back to the fact that we are in the last.

[00:24:18] Courtney: stages of the cross of planning. And, you know, for anybody who wants to go back and listen to our 2027 episode, because it really does connect. We're really living in a time where our systems are still reflecting the seven centered way. Um, the cross of planning and the movement from the seven centered way into the nine centered way kind of overlap a bit.

[00:24:42] Courtney: And so, um, the, what we're seeing as like, Literally wokeness, which is funny. We were actually explaining to my daughter, um, last night, what woke meant because there is a, um, yeah, right. So there's a [00:25:00] Republican runoff happening, um, in North Carolina right now. And so the political ads, Lord have mercy are still on TV and I'm not even going to comment on those.

[00:25:12] Courtney: I could go on and on, but. Saying woke Democrats, woke liberals is just a, is the, the, the buzzword du jour in, in these, in

[00:25:26] Courtney: these commercials. And so my daughter, um, who's a three, five profile, Manny Jen is like, What does woke even mean? You know, like, what does this mean? And I'm like, okay, how do I, how do I explain this in this context, right? And so we're saying, you know, I'm like, well, woke means being aware of Reality, being aware of the systems and the, and, and the way that the world is structured and [00:26:00] understanding that you can do something about it.

[00:26:02] Courtney: It hasn't always been this way is something that you can change. And so the reason why these people on TV don't like it is because they like the way things are. And if people know about how things are and realize that it doesn't have to be this way. And it wasn't always this way and things won't fall apart when they go away, but it will actually be better.

[00:26:23] Courtney: That means the world won't be like how they want it anymore. And so this is why they are suggesting that woke equals bad. And whatever they think equals good and they don't want to be associated with wokeness and I'm like, and, and, and even, you know, anytime you explain something to a kid, it kind of like illuminates it for yourself.

[00:26:45] Courtney: And so I'm like, yeah, that's what, that's what this is. We're moving out of. This, this sense of like these systems, this seven centered way, this hierarchy, this, um, [00:27:00] kind of ever present outer authority that we are all beholden to is not the way it's always been. It's not the way it has to be and that there's something better waiting for us.

[00:27:16] Courtney: As we move away from this. And so, yeah, like all that to say, we're all in this process and we're going to be in this process, I think, for a long time, even as we even after 2027, like, because there's going to be the resistance on the other side of the energetic shift. 

[00:27:35] Andrea: And 

[00:27:35] Courtney: so right now, the resistance, we're resisting the cross of planning.

[00:27:40] Courtney: And then there's going to come a time where we might be accepting of this cause of Sleeping Phoenix, but we're still living in an environment where this new way is being resisted. So we're going to have to navigate that as well. And so it's not like you're not behind or you're not like, um, [00:28:00] low frequency or low vibrational or anything like that.

[00:28:04] Courtney: If this is still a struggle, because it's. Going to be a struggle. Liberation is a struggle. And that is what we're going through right now, liberating ourselves from the hierarchy of outer authority and reclaiming our own decision making power through right relationship with our inner authority. 

[00:28:27] Andrea: Right.

[00:28:28] Andrea: Right. And, and growth in general is challenging, right? Like you need, you need the resources to be able to grow and often Those resources come and go. And, and so just, we think about liberation as growth, right. We need access to our agency in order to be able to grow in that way. Yes. 100%. Yeah. So within Human Design, traditional outer authority [00:29:00] is.

[00:29:00] Andrea: Um, anyone with a fifth or a sixth line, um, define crowns and Ajna's. Um, and then it's often stated as projectors, but it's really about projected channels, which is a little, it's a layer, um, into, you know, Human Design. That's a little bit deeper than we, um, talk about on the day to day. Um, so many, most, I will say.

[00:29:33] Andrea: Many, many, many people have projected channels. And I think this, um, just brings up the whole dynamic around, um, often experience and wisdom needs an invitation before the other person can receive it. Um, and so you can see how this sounds very familiar to a projectors strategy. Um, and that's actually where that comes from.

[00:29:59] Andrea: So [00:30:00] the designation of the channel types, whether they are. Um, generated manifested or projected actually came before type came much later. So, um, projected channels are channels for wisdom. And so, um, I like to kind of break it down that way versus saying, Um, you know, a specific type because I do believe that anyone with a projected channel has some wisdom to share and it does need to be invited in.

[00:30:35] Andrea: It's not for everyone. It is for the people that it is for. Um, and so I like to bring that in because often people will hear, Oh, like sixth and fifth lines or, um, define crown and Asha. Well, I am a one three and. I, you know, have an undefined crown and Ajna, and I have a lot that I want to share. And [00:31:00] obviously as a third line, like third lines have a lot of lived experience.

[00:31:03] Andrea: Um, Oprah, 

[00:31:04] Courtney: Oprah, Beyonce, these are third lines. So like just putting that into context there. Yeah. 

[00:31:11] Andrea: Yes. Yeah. And they both have projected channels. So, um, it's just, it's just helpful to kind of like give those examples so that people don't fall into some of these, um, let's say social media, meme land ideas about what type of outer authority they have or whether or not they have outer authority.

[00:31:35] Courtney: Cause again, 

[00:31:37] Andrea: most people have a projected channel. I don't know the percentage, but I can tell you I've looked at thousands of charts and it's probably less than 10 percent that don't have a projected channel. 

[00:31:50] Courtney: Yeah. And I think again, we're coming back to the hierarchy is dying. So we're not going to say, Oh, this, you know, [00:32:00] particular group of people, this particular type.

[00:32:02] Courtney: Oh, they're the teachers. Yes. You know, Oh, the manifestos. Oh, they're the only ones who can start something, uh, the generators, they're the only ones who love the work. That's when the, the, the hierarchy starts creeping back in totally Human Design. And so I love that you highlighted that because it's like, no, we all have something, we have wisdom to share and we all need to wait for an invitation to share it.

[00:32:27] Courtney: You know, we all love to work on something. We all are here to bring something to fruition. And so, and honestly, the people who don't, don't want to, right. And, and should, should not feel like they have to, 

[00:32:44] Andrea: right. And I think what's. Amazing is recognizing, okay, this is like the types help explain the mechanics of the energy, but, and also [00:33:00] for example, We all are experiencing different things through the transits, right?

[00:33:06] Andrea: Like we all might get like a manifest or channel during certain times of year. Um, the other thing that's really interesting is like diving a little deeper on the lines, like most people are going to have a six line somewhere. Like it might not be in their profile, but maybe it's in their Mercury. Maybe it's in the way that they communicate or maybe it's in their Venus.

[00:33:30] Andrea: Maybe it's in the way that they approach relationships. Right. So, um, I think that's the benefit of like sitting down with a professional and really getting to know your chart more deeply. Um, but hopefully this gives people more permission to own what wisdom they do have and then recognize it may not be for everyone, but if somebody invites me to share it, then it can be helpful.

[00:33:55] Courtney: Yes, exactly. Exactly. Giving you your voice back and giving your [00:34:00] agency on when you use that voice. Um, definitely the goals. 

[00:34:04] Andrea: Yes. 

[00:34:06] Courtney: Love it. Yeah. Yeah. 

[00:34:09] Andrea: Did we talk about a healthy outer authority? We did. We talked about, um, we talked about it at the beginning, but I'm happy to like, I think it's worth circling back to as we kind of close out.

[00:34:21] Andrea: So just remembering that. Healthy outer authority is unattached to the outcomes. Um, it is based in a lived experience. Um, it is honoring the person's differentiation. It's honoring the person's uniqueness, um, and really pointing them towards their own strategy and authority. 

[00:34:43] Courtney: Awesome. Absolutely. Um, and kind of piggybacking on what Andrea said about working with professionals and getting the opportunity to work with folks who have been, um, on their Human Design journey and not just on their own, but also [00:35:00] studying for the sake of sharing this information with others.

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[00:36:02] Andrea: Yay. Yes. Yeah. We're so excited. 

[00:36:06] Courtney: We are. Thank you so much, Andrea, again. 

[00:36:09] Andrea: Thank you, love. And thank you to everybody listening. 

[00:36:13] Courtney: Yes. 

[00:36:14] Andrea: Bye y'all. Bye.

[00:36:19] Courtney: Ooh. 

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