Welcome to Well Designed

Welcome everyone to our first episode of the Well Designed Podcast. We are gonna kick things off here in a minute with my co-host, Brandy. Uh, and we're gonna try something out. We're gonna introduce each other, and then we're gonna share a bit about why this podcast even exists and why we think you should listen to it. Hi Brandy. Hi.

Hi Kyle. How are you?

Good, excited. So, um, we're just talking about our accents. So we've got two, two accents here. There's one accent is my accent, which is no accent,

and the other accent is my accent, which is also no accent. Yeah. So depending, depending on where you're coming from, either I have the accent or Kyle has the accent.

I'm, I'm pretty aware of my accent though, like I can hear it and I don't know if that's just growing up. In Australia where we had like, so much American television, like everything we watched, especially my generation on TV was American pretty much. So I, I don't know. Can you, can you hear like your accent when you speak?

I think I hear it more when I speak to other people from, whether it's other parts of the country or you know, obviously from other countries. I think I hear it more in contrast than I do, you know? And I'm speaking to, you know, my family and friends. Yeah. But certainly I hear it when you, uh, repeat it back to me. It is, it is loud and clear.

Just channel my, um, my grandpa who, uh, was from Pittsburgh originally, um, um, and all of his funny sayings like, Lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy. That's pretty good. Yeah. Uh, okay. So let's, uh, introduce each other. So, um, I'm gonna tell everyone a little bit about you, if that's all right. Let's

go,

let's go. Cool. All right. So I'd like to introduce my co-host Brandy Healy. Uh, who's a mother as two kids. I'm going to say nine and 13. Yes, correct. And you live in Southern California. Um, so for those not in America, think like the OC and that's, that's her life.

Exactly like that.

And that's probably showing my how old I am as well, if I talk about the oc. Yeah. That is

also, that is also my era. Um, fun fact about the oc you know, my, my background, which we'll talk about at another point in time. Is in the fashion industry. And one of the accounts that I had when I worked at a store on Melrose during that era was the stylist for the old oc. So all the jeans that you would see Misha Barton wear, I sold to them. What

you friends? Well, I mean true story sas, but still like that, that would've like sold a lot of jeans. It did. I did actually have down here that you worked in. The retail fashion industry. I did. Um, and that's a good, good point cuz it nearly like you, you got seriously burned out on the high constant. I can imagine. Like everything's urgent.

In the career that I spent almost two decades in, we spent the majority of time in that single quadrant. Absolutely.

That's crazy. So I mean you, you did nearly two decades and then. You sort of had enough and you took some time off and discovered yoga, um, and ended up doing a 200 hour yoga te teacher training. Teacher training. Mm-hmm. That's a correct way of saying it. Yes. Yeah. And, and now you are a yoga instructor. Um, you do that. You're a part-time hustler.

yes. So there's double a aa, triple A single A. Yeah.

Yeah. So a, another friend's husband, uh, was very briefly in the major league, so he was explaining to me like the lifestyle of, of someone who wants to become a baseball player. And it's, I mean, I'm getting sidetracked here, but. It's, um, pretty incredible, like the stuff they have to go through.

Yeah. You know, the baseball season is 162 gameses, so, you know, and you think about it as a professional athlete, like the endurance that it takes for that. And you know, here in the states, one of, uh, a really popular pitcher that the Oakland A have is from Australia. Liam? Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Liam Hendrix, they call him the

Yeah. Not a lot of sports play, but the

slider. The slider,

the slider,

the slide. There you go.

That's it. Oh, you gums. He's a slider. Uh, yeah. Not, yeah, not many sports are like that. Year round zone. I've been watching this, um, doco and uh, series on Apple TV plus called Make or Break, which is about surfers. And again, like their pro season pretty much runs like the whole year and then it just starts again. So like huge commitment. Unlike other sports where you'll pay like three or four months and then you've got an off season. Mm-hmm.

thing that, yeah, one thing you'll realize about us is we can go on a tangent about, so bear with us.

That's good. That's good. I feel like when I listen to podcasts, I mean, as long as it's like not too far off the track, I, you know, I enjoy, that's why I listen to the podcast cause I wanted to like know about the people as well. And what they're interested in. Uh, so the other thing I, I, I wrote down about you just because it's unique to me, is your, like Mexican American heritage, um, that you spoke Spanish before you spoke English, which, um, it's just really cool because I always Yeah.

to Southern California and it's pretty much,

must I just mess in it? Speak English to me.

Come on over to my house. My mom will speak to you in nothing but Spanish and

you know, all I know is like un ma. I mean that's, tell me,

that's a good starting point for sure.

There's a place I used to go in Portland called Poor Can Poor Cando. Poor. I'm, I'm butchering the accent. That means a little bit, uh, I think like a bit more poor kid. Or, or why not? Or why not? Yeah, there we go. Yeah. See, I was butchering the accent, so, and I'm like recovering from this cold, so it's like, it's making me extra nasally, so, yeah. Yeah. I do remember looking at what it meant. Um, I do, and I do really mix. I mean, it's like Mexican American food. I'm sure it's not Mexican.

everybody tried to colonize them different, so there's a lot different

meats and things.

Yep. A lot of Spanish influence, a lot of French influence. Uh, you see it in the architecture in Mexico City as well. And you know, in terms of the food, it really depends on what region of the country that you're from that really distinguishes the food. But, Uh, my family's from and pretty much anytime I tell people that's where my family's from, if they know Mexico, the first thing that comes out of their mouth, they're like, Ugh, the food on this work were invented, you know? Yes, exactly.

enough that I've had canita and I do have made them like, I mean, probably not the real thing, but I've made a version of them at home and yeah. Delicious. Love it. Um, Amazing. All right. So that's what I hate. Did I miss anything on you? I mean, there's

plenty, but you know, we've got time here. We've got time. More episodes up, up to come. But thank you. That was kind of fun to, to get that little, little rundown. Um, so I'll introduce you now. This is my co-host, Kyle Wood, and Kyle lives with his wife and two little girls that are. At this time, at this point in time, four and one years old. So yeah, very little. So we're, you know, in different phases of our, our parenting journey here.

Yeah. Yeah. Cause what, uh, 13 years at this time. Yeah. Since 2009. Yep.

So I think we started dating in 2007. So, yep. Pretty close. Pretty close. So, you know, pretty long relationships and then, you know, at different kind of phases, Kyle's got the littles. And in our house we're heading into, into tween territory. Yeah. Um, tween and teen territory. But, um, you know, Kyle is an online entrepreneur and business coach for fitness professionals, and he was an early adopter of the online business. So even business now for what, 11 years?

Uh, all I started dabbling in that, that same year. 2009. Wait, no. Yeah, so it was 2008 is how long I've been with my wife. Um, yeah, so 2009 was when I started Yeah. Dabbling with the online stuff. And I remember at the time being like, oh, I'm late to the party on this. Had no idea, you know, how it would go to now, like the sort of creator economy. They talk about where, where everyone is creating content all the time, and it's just like a normal part of life.

And so, you know, similar to my story, you were in kind of a high pressure corporate environment that, you know, maybe didn't really suit you in this entrepreneurial lifestyle. Seemed much more appealing, uh, in contrast to kind of the environment that you were in, kind of in the tech world, right?

Yeah, I had a, a taste of it, so I was in engineering and I like to say I just pretty much, I just fast forwarded my midlife crisis. I didn't have my midlife crisis at 40. I had it at 21. Uh, and pretty much went through this like existential crisis then. And so, uh, sort of started looking for another way to, to live life and do things then.

Which is awesome. So, you know, it's interesting because just like in kind of our parenting journeys, we're kind of in in reverse roles in terms of our entrepreneurialship journeys as well. Mm-hmm. So Kyle is like the season online business vet and kind of transitioning a bit and adding, adding to his current business by now, starting to do business coaching one-to-one and small, smaller groups for business professionals, really helping them.

Yes. Yeah.

Yes, it's my first. So again, happy to be with somebody that knows the ropes in this department. So, you know, if you look up Kyle Wood, you might find a couple other ones. But Well Designed is the one that you wanna listen to.

That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a new, a new chapter for me, as you said, uh, because it's even, you know, even though you've been doing something a long time, when you, uh, had this, uh, coach reflect this back to me the other day. When they, you find something that you want to be all in on, it's still incredibly vulnerable feeling, pursuing that and telling the world, Hey, this is what I'm doing now.

Yeah. Uh, it, it, it feels less scary not doing it by yourself, right? Yeah. So I think the other thing that I think is, you know, really fun. About you and people that follow you on Instagram might have seen, you know, you did a post on this around, you know, kind of these contradicting parts of yourself where it's like there's very practical, you know, father provider and at the same time kind of have this. Crunchy granola, woo woo part ca. Cow drinking. Yeah. Yeah. Human design.

part of you. Yeah. Yeah. I've just got, I was just looking at them just in front of me and it's like, you look at my bookshelf, it's like, yeah, Brene Brown. But then they'll be like Seth Gordon. Uh, then there'll be, uh, Tasha Silver. Are you familiar with her stuff? Um, outrageous openness, like that's a great book. So yeah, so there's this, this side of me that I've been using to fuel my mindset, especially around business stuff for a long time.

And I think that that's, you know, kind of a perfect pivot into why we're doing this. Yeah. And I think that, you know, both of us found human design around a similar time and we can kind of, we'll talk through, you know, our discovery process and leader episodes. But I think, you know, for both of us coming together, you know, we're both.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The last 12 months in particular, what's got me excited about this tool is just, yeah, those steps from really feeling, you know, especially like post. Uh, you know, as a recording, this is 2023, so especially it's like post covid. Um, I definitely didn't have like a retirement from work or anything, like what happened to some people, but I had a, you know, a sense of like burnout because it was such like an ongoing. Stressful thing.

of stuff. There was no hiding from it. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was no break.

So yeah, post that, feeling down on my business, feeling unsure about like the work I was doing and human designs really helped me. Yeah, create more alignment over the last year to be doing more of the work that I really want to be doing. Uh, and I've tried lots of things over that year, so I've been learning about human design, but you know, I also like tried working with, uh, some coaches and like business strategists and stuff like that, and didn't really get anywhere through those routes.

And I think for both of us, you know, even in my career in the retail space, like I've spent my, you know, my career developing people to reach their business goals and their personal goals or professional goals. And so now stepping into this entrepreneurial space of leveraging human design, it's. It's what I've always been doing, just with a different lens.

as well. Yeah, I think it'd be really fun for people to follow along. With as we continue implementing this stuff as well. Um, the, the other note I had down here was around helping people become full blown themselves. So like mm-hmm. So really like feel that sense of like, oh, I can show up with a sense of like, integrity and feel like I'm being myself. Um, And have, have that confidence around that as well. Like learning what to say yes to and what to say no to can be so empowering.

telling air quotes.

Air supposed to do. Yeah. And the message is less. Here's how the, I'm gonna help you kind of work out what the best way for you to do things is. The message is, this is the best way I've worked out the best way. Don't think for yourself, just do what I tell you to do and, right. That's so disappointing to me, cuz it all that's gonna create is a bunch of businesses that are exactly the same.

I'm excited for us to continue to not only have conversations just about our own businesses, but. You know, in future episodes as we bring on guests to talk about how they're embodying their design in their businesses. Oh yeah. And how that shows up really different from them.

them. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Um, speaking of which, we'll do, we'll do a quick, quick reading of a reading I did on the weekend. So, so yeah. So maybe this is a good example of like what human design is. So I, uh, was watching the surfing documentary that I mentioned earlier, and a big part of surfing is Kelly Slater because. He's like 50. He's 50 and he is still complete competing against like guys who are like, less than half of his age.

He was like the Michael Jordan of surfing.

Yeah. And then, um, you know, he had this like, massive transformation and he like came and made up with the like friends and things like that and just like really changed in who he is, you know, now he's got a company that's like, does all this like fashion that does all, um, but all the products like, kind of like Patagonia, like, you know, all responsibly sourced and things like that.

believe so fun. I always love looking up. I always love of love looking up the designs of people I find Yeah. Intriguing and seeing like how that plays out. So, you know, we're really looking forward to, you know, in probably some of these near future episodes, digging into a little bit about Kyle's design, digging into mine, talking about our designs collectively and how, you know, that operates like in partnership.

Yeah, yeah. Yep.

Um, and then, you know, talking to some other folks about how they live it too.

Yep. I'm excited. Chi. Me too. Thank you, Brandy. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being my partner in this. Thanks, Kyle. Thanks

for asking me.