Stay Rooted with Astrid Heystee | The Art of Being a Sovereign Human in the Age of AI

Do you notice when your energy is drained or when your energy is uplifted? There are many factors that cause our energy to go up and down and up and down, but environment and people are a very, very big part of that.My question to you is: How do you want to spend your energy? Can you curate your energy a little bit, just like time and money are considered resources? Your energy is also a very important resource.The next time you are feeling drained, take a look at what your options are. Can you leave the room? Can you change your setup, or can you perhaps go for a short hike?In this episode of Stay Rooted, we're talking about energy vampires and how to protect your energy. I hope that you enjoy listening to this episode. I'm curious to hear what you think. If you want to send me a voice note, you can do that by going to ⁠speakpipe.com/palmtreemoments⁠, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I’d love to connect with you.✨ Book a free matching call to explore working together:⁠⁠https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call⁠⁠✨ Connect with me on Instagram:⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments⁠⁠✨ Join the Mirror of Magnificence women’s circle:⁠⁠https://palmtreemoments.samcart.com/products/mirror-of-magnificence-community⁠⁠✨ Or explore more at:⁠⁠https://www.palmtreemoments.com/⁠

In this week's episode of the Stay Rooted podcast, I would love to take you on a little bit of a journey outside, and I'm inviting you to take a look at your nearest field of grass.I do love the smell of fresh-cut grass, but there is also this notion in me that we try to control our environment so much. Therefore, instead of a beautiful field filled with flowers, we have decided that it's better to just cut everything off and destroy these beautiful flowers because we have deemed them weeds.I would love to take you on a parallel journey of the world and your life. What are you trying to control in your environment? What have you decided is better to just cut because you want to control the environment rather than let the wildness of you, the wildness of our nature, roam free?That's what this episode is all about. Thank you for tuning in. I would love to connect with you to hear what your opinion on this is or what your experience on this is, and you can do that by leaving me a voice note on Speakpipe. I hope that you enjoy listening to this episode. I'm curious to hear what you think. If you want to send me a voice note, you can do that by going to speakpipe.com/palmtreemoments, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I’d love to connect with you.✨ Book a free matching call to explore working together:⁠https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call⁠✨ Connect with me on Instagram:⁠https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments⁠✨ Join the Mirror of Magnificence women’s circle:⁠https://palmtreemoments.samcart.com/products/mirror-of-magnificence-community⁠✨ Or explore more at:⁠https://www.palmtreemoments.com/⁠

How intentional are you with your time? When you think about inner wealth and time freedom, this is about creating a life where you actually have some time to spend. In a life where sometimes we feel we're running from to-do list to to-do list, catching up on messages, looking at emails, and running errands, it sometimes feels that life is decided for us. Those are the times when we do have control over our time, and those are the times when experiences are created.How do you make sure that you actually have time for the experiences that you want to create? This is where creating a value-based life, or being very intentional with your time, comes into play.In this episode, I take you along on one of the exercises that I'm doing in my coaching program with my clients to become a little bit more aware of the intentionality of how you spend your time. Time is a very precious resource, and we are so focused on money, but actually, time is a very precious resource as well.I hope that you enjoy listening to this episode. I'm curious to hear what you think. If you want to send me a voice note, you can do that by going to speakpipe.com/palmtreemoments, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I’d love to connect with you.✨ Send me a voice note on Speakpipe: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemoments⁠✨ Book a free matching call to explore working together:⁠https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call⁠✨ Connect with me on Instagram:⁠https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments⁠✨ Join the Mirror of Magnificence women’s circle:⁠https://palmtreemoments.samcart.com/products/mirror-of-magnificence-community⁠✨ Or explore more at:⁠https://www.palmtreemoments.com/⁠

Erin Michelson has spent the last fifteen years testing the real edges of digital nomad freedom, trading a global banking career for nonprofit fundraising, then founding and eventually walking away from her own AI startup, all while living out of a single carry-on. In this episode, she talks with Astrid about what freedom actually costs once the honeymoon phase wears off, and why protecting her values mattered more than any funding round ever could. If you have ever wondered whether a real career and a borderless life can coexist, Erin is living proof they can.---Connect with Erin Michelson:https://www.yournomadlife.com/You can find her books here!---If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I’d love to connect with you.✨ Send me a voice note on Speakpipe: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemoments⁠✨ Connect with me on Instagram:⁠https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments⁠✨ Or explore more at:⁠https://www.palmtreemoments.com/⁠

Do you know about your Human Design chart but not actively using it in your day to day life?Self help can become "shelf help" because knowing about something doesn't mean that you actually install the habits that let you actively work with this esoteric wisdom system. And this is where two things come in handy, a community that keeps you accountable and witnesses you in your growth. And tools and practices. In this episode I mention my online community "The Mirror of Magnificence" and that is a space for women to learn about the practices and esoteric wisdom systems and to create these little habits and rituals together so we actually do something with the knowledge and make it part of our day to day life. I also mention that AI and technology can help us make these practices, like a morning routine of "checking the energetic weather" more streamlined. So that you don't drift into the distractions of mindless scrolling on instagram or other social media feeds on your phone. Because in the end it is our offline life that we want to protect. Does this resonate with you?When was the last time you set a morning routine and then slipped into distraction instead?(00:00:00) The Forty Five Minute Phone Trap(00:01:13) Checking Your Energetic Weather(00:03:05) Self-Help vs. Shelf-Help(00:05:16) Inside Her Morning Ritual(00:07:29) Using AI to save time checking the Transits of the planets.(00:09:29) Accountability for creating our Habits. (00:10:31) The Mirror of Magnificence Community---If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I’d love to connect with you. ✨ Send me a voice note on Speakpipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemomentsConnect with Astrid:Astrid Heystee is a Human Design Embodiment Coach, Reiki Practitioner, and Certified Living Your Design Guide (IHDS.com).✨ Book a free matching call to explore working together:⁠https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call⁠✨ Join the Mirror of Magnificence women’s circle:⁠https://palmtreemoments.samcart.com/products/mirror-of-magnificence-communityWebsite: https://www.palmtreemoments.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.momentsAnd if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a star rating or write review, it really helps more people find this message for the ones who are ready to hear it!

Are you using AI, or is AI using you? In this episode of Stay Rooted, Astrid shows how to use AI according to your Human Design inner authority, to let the body be part of the decision-making, especially as our mind get so stimulated with the fast paced output that AI sometimes create. As we go deeper into personal development, we learn we already have relationships with the parts of ourselves, our inner critic, our shadows, our past and future selves. Astrid, a Human Design Embodiment Coach, Reiki Practitioner, and Certified Living Your Design Guide, asks the next question directly: how do you work with AI knowing how you work? The answer she keeps landing back on is training your second brain or your ChatGPT or Claude memory your Human Design to personalize the way you and AI can work in a cooperative way. Especially when it comes to decision making as we can include our inner authority, the place in the body where our bodily decisions actually get's made.Underneath every type, this episode is about decision fatigue and sovereignty: not letting AI decide for you, but bringing your body back into a process the mind keeps trying to run alone. Astrid also shares she is quietly building something new, personal AI prompts built on your own Human Design, and is looking for beta testers curious enough to help her test it.(00:00:00) Welcome and Your Relationship With AI(00:02:07) Inner Authority Meets AI(00:02:39) Emotional Authority: Taking Your Time(00:03:54) Sacral Authority: Yes or No Prompts(00:05:28) Splenic Authority: Trust Your Instinct(00:06:44) Ego and Self Authority in AI(00:10:22) Mental and Reflector Authority(00:13:24) Your Invitation to Stay RootedResources mentionedWispr Flow, a voice to text tool Astrid uses to speak her thoughts and get them reflected back to her. For my listeners: with this code you get a month of Wispr Flow Pro for free: https://wisprflow.ai/r?PALMTREEMO1NotebookLM, is a tool Astrid uses to turn notes or spoken input into a reflective, multi voice audio conversation.If you are curious about becoming a beta tester for Astrid's Human Design x AI project, send a message to https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemomentsIf this episode resonated with you and you're ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I'd love to connect with you.Book a free matching call to explore working together: https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-callConnect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.momentsOr explore more at: https://www.palmtreemoments.com/And if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a star rating or write a review, it really helps more people find this message for the ones who are ready to hear it!

Have you ever dreamed of moving away from your current living environment? In this guest episode of Stay Rooted with Astrid Heystee, Cepee Tabibian joins Astrid to talk about moving abroad after 35, the fear that almost stopped her, and the community she built once she realized she was not alone in asking the question. Cepee still worried leaving the US to move to Europe was a crazy idea. She did it anyway, and now runs She Hit Refresh, a community of 14,000+ women doing the same. In this episode she tells Astrid what that leap really took.Cepee grew up in Houston, Texas, caught the travel bug on a high school exchange trip to the Netherlands, and knew Madrid was her place the moment she visited at 21, though it took until 35, with a stable career and a settled life, to actually move. She talks openly about the fear of being too old, friends who quietly questioned the decision, and the butterflies she felt the morning of her flight, and names what most people get wrong about moving abroad after 35. That this is only for the young, the wealthy, or people running from something rather than toward it.Her own experience became the seed for She Hit Refresh, now a community of 14,000+ women aged 30 and over navigating the same move. Astrid and Cepee talk through what helped her build real friendships after a lonelier first stretch, and the mindset that carried her through doubting whether to move back home.Partway through, Astrid reads Cepee's Human Design chart live as a working example. And they talk about travel and spinning your life into a new direction. They talk about travel safety and being street smart. And take a deep dive into why community is so important. Chapters(00:00:00) Meet Cepee Tabibian(00:01:13) Moving to Spain at 35(00:08:07) Why Travel Feels Like Freedom(00:16:00) Founding She Hit Refresh(00:20:04) The Hard Days of Expat Life(00:28:29) Human Design: The Open G Center(00:39:23) Human Design: The Defined Spleen(00:40:24) Human Design: Profile and Channels(00:58:41) Her Best Tip for Moving AbroadAbout Cepee TabibianCepee Tabibian founded She Hit Refresh, a community of 14,000+ women aged 30+ moving abroad, mainly from the US, Canada, and UK, to Europe. Born in Houston, Texas, she has lived in Spain for nine years.Website: ⁠www.shehitrefresh.com⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/shehitrefresh/⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/SheHitRefresh⁠Standing invitationThis is an interactive podcast. Are you curious about AI, Travel, Time Freedom, the Location Independent Lifestyle, Human Design or another topic that resonated with you after listening to this podcast episode?Send me a voice note or question: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemoments⁠If this episode resonated with you and you're ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I'd love to connect with you.Book a free matching call to explore working together: ⁠https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call⁠Connect with me on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments⁠Or explore more at: ⁠https://www.palmtreemoments.com/⁠And if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a star rating or write a review, it really helps more people find this message for the ones who are ready to hear it.Connect with Astrid HeysteeHuman Design Embodiment Coach, Reiki Practitioner, Certified Living Your Design Guide (IHDS.com). Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments⁠

Welcome to this new episode of the Stay Rooted Podcast. As we dive further into the world of AI, I want to address something that is very dear to my heart, and that is the reason why I renamed this podcast "Stay Rooted with Astrid Heystee".In the world where everything changes so fast, I think it's really important that we stay rooted within ourselves.I have spoken to so many people in the AI world, and I encountered that people are indeed experiencing AI burnouts. There's a lot of identity crisis and changed feelings of self-worth.And those are topics that I think become more and more important as AI evolves faster and faster and are impacting our lived experience, our jobs, and how tasks are done.I love AI, and it also terrifies me. Finding the balance in the contradiction and also finding the balance between the inner and the outer world that is what this podcast is about.Because something from the outside world can really affect us on the inside and can completely change our mood. On the other hand, something from our inside world can really affect something in the outer world, it can change the way how we think, behave and act because of how we feel on the inside.Human Design, as a personal development modality, is still very much a part of this podcast, even in this rebranded version, because Travel and Work with Human Design is now rebranded to Stay Rooted: The Art of Being a Sovereign Human in the Age of AI.In some conversations in the next episodes I will talk about AI and the fascinating world of AI, as I have dived quite deep into it the last couple months.Sometimes I will talk about esoteric topics or contemplate on the teachings of Human Design, Gene Keys or other topics and modalities that come into my field.And I still have conversations with digital nomads, with travelers, with people who I think are really interesting and have interesting life stories. This is where we don't talk about AI at all, and we just have a human conversation.Stay tuned for what is to come, and I am really excited to bring all this content to you. Happy that you're here, and thank you for continuing to listen to this podcast.Chapters(00:00:00) Welcome and the New Name(00:00:38) Balancing Inner and Outer World(00:02:48) Loving AI and Fearing AI(00:04:17) AI Burnout and Your Value(00:05:43) A Portfolio Career(00:06:44) What AI Is Trained On(00:09:12) What Is Coming Next(00:11:16) A Breathing Practice for SovereigntyThis is an interactive podcast. Are you curious about AI, Travel, Time Freedom, Location Independent Lifestyle, Human Design or a whole other topic?Send me a voice note or question: https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemomentsIf this episode resonated with you and you're ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I'd love to connect with you.Book a free matching call to explore working together: https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-callConnect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.momentsOr explore more at: https://www.palmtreemoments.com/And if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a star rating or write a review, it really helps more people find this message for the ones who are ready to hear it!

After 3 years of podcasting and 102 episodes, this podcast has a new name!Stay Rooted with Astrid Heystee was born from a question I could not stop thinking about: "Are you using AI, or is AI using you? We are gaining speed. But what are we losing?"When I started this podcast in 2023 as Travel and Work with Human Design, the name made complete sense. I am a Human Design Embodiment Coach, traveling the world, working location-independently, using Human Design to navigate freedom in every dimension. But somewhere along the way the show became something bigger. The inner world took over from the outer world. Nervous system regulation, stress reduction, the art of slowing down, these became just as important as location freedom and financial independence.And then AI arrived. Fast. I started experimenting. I fell into AI rabbit holes. And loved the thrill rides of the dopamine hits. I could do things with AI that I didn't have time for working with a team. I coined a term for it: AI magical time. Time collapsed between input and output. That experience of dopamine, speed, and wonder when you realize you can build something in five minutes that used to take months. It is real. It is exciting. And it comes with a cost nobody is talking about from the inside. Yet the output overwhelm was real! My nervous system cannot keep up. We are the first generation that is adventuring in a new frontier. Develop a relationship with AI. Because the world is changing fast and AI is changing our perception of the world. AI is moving faster than your nervous system can handle. Your mind says yes. Your body is paying the price.That line became the spine of this show. I was witnessing it everywhere, in myself, in the digital nomad community, in entrepreneurs losing the thread back to their own bodies in the process.This is not a podcast about AI fear. It is not tech hype. It is lived experience from someone building AI systems while fiercely protecting her own nervous system, creativity, and humanity.If you have been listening to the podcast since the beginning, thank you! You are not losing anything. Human Design, travel stories, honest conversations about freedom, it is all still here. Your feed stays intact. All 102 episodes exactly where you left them.What is coming: new solo episodes, guest conversations, and a short retreat period before the new season begins. I am going to stay rooted in my offline life and I am going to have conversations within the Digital Nomad Community. And by the end of this summer Season 5 kicks off fully!Welcome to the Stay Rooted podcast!00:00 Welcome and the new name00:33 Why the old name no longer fit01:48 The inner world evolution02:22 AI arrived and the question that changed everything03:08 AI magical time — the excitement and the cost05:41 What I witnessed in the digital nomad community07:11 What this show is and is not08:01 The line that became the spine of the show08:29 Who I am11:31 Conscious AI collaboration13:11 What stays the same15:05 What is coming next15:36 Going offline — and why that is exactly what this show is about16:55 Stay rooted---I would love to hear how you are navigating your relationship with AI! Send me your voice note on SpeakPipe! https://www.speakpipe.com/palmtreemomentsIf this episode resonated with you and you are ready to go deeper, I would love to connect with you.✨ Explore more at: https://www.astridheystee.com✨ Book a free matching call to explore working together: https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call✨ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments✨ Join the Mirror of Magnificence women's circle: https://palmtreemoments.samcart.com/products/mirror-of-magnificence-community✨ Or explore more at: https://www.palmtreemoments.comAnd if you enjoyed this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a star rating or written review. It really helps more people find this message who are ready to hear it.

Travel planning… it always takes more time than you like or want. But in that process, are you actually considering the future version of you? Or not?In this episode of the Travel and Work with Human Design podcast, we explore the connection between travel planning, nervous system regulation, and decision-making. I share my thoughts on red-eye flights, energy management while traveling, and how small travel decisions can completely shape your experience once you arrive.We also talk about using AI as a supportive tool in the travel planning process without giving away your own authority or intuition. Because sometimes the real question is not “What’s the cheapest or fastest option?” but “How do I want to feel when I get there?”If you’re a frequent traveler, digital nomad, or someone trying to travel in a more intentional and sustainable way, this episode will give you a new perspective on how you plan your next trip.If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to go deeper into your personal growth journey, I’d love to connect with you.✨ Book a free matching call to explore working together:https://calendly.com/palmtreemoments/matching-call✨ Connect with me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/palmtree.moments✨ Join the Mirror of Magnificence women’s circle:https://palmtreemoments.samcart.com/products/mirror-of-magnificence-community✨ Or explore more at:https://www.palmtreemoments.com/And if you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to follow the podcast and leave a star rating or write review, it really helps more people find this message for the ones who are ready to hear it!