Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles, Human Design experts, and co-creators of DayLuna are here on a mission to empower the collective towards self-love, personal freedom, and radical authenticity. While they specialize in the realm of self-purpose and conscious entrepreneurship, they also dive deep into topics such as spirituality, parenting, and the new paradigm in their successful podcast, The DayLuna Human Design Podcast, which has generated over 850k downloads worldwide. Shayna and Dana feel passionately called to help spread the complex and life-changing science of Human Design to a wider community in a grounded and approachable way. Through their Personalized Human Design Ritual Boxes, Personalized Parenting Blueprints, Live Readings, and Video Courses, they have curated many different playful, yet informative offerings to help support individuals who are ready to step into their highest potential by honoring their unique energy. Human Design is gaining popularity as our collective evolves toward a new paradigm, and DayLuna is passionate about training others to fully understand themselves with this complex system, not only through their offerings but also with their online Human Design reader trainings. The sky truly is the limit when it comes to your own potential and Human Design gives you a crystal clear manual on understanding yourself and unlocking your purpose. https://www.daylunalife.com/
Welcome everybody, welcome to Spiritual Biz Chat for Spiritual Biz Magazine, I am your host, Kimberly Maska, and today we have joining us Human Design Experts Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles. Ladies, welcome, and thank you both for being with us, how are you two doing today?
SHAYNA: Thanks so much for having us! We are doing great! We are just wrapping up a months-long trip in Costa Rica where we hosted our first-ever in-person Human Design Reader Training for 30 incredible women.
DANA: It was amazing! We feel so blessed to have gotten to connect with like-minded women who are wanting to help spread wisdom and love into the world, and in such a beautiful setting at that! We will definitely be riding these good vibes for a while.
Excellent! So, could you share the story behind your personal journey down the path to your current life’s purpose and work?
SHAYNA & DANA: We became best friends after meeting in college 14 years ago. After we graduated, we began navigating our 20’s out in the “real world,” you know, dating, moving in and out of new apartments, and working hard to pay our own bills. Even though we were each on our own journeys, we always stayed super close. When we both entered into our Saturn Return (an Astrological transit that everyone goes through from about age 27-30) we were each working hard at a job that seemed right for us on paper, but we both felt exhausted, over-worked, undervalued, and had that feeling in the back of our minds that “something’s missing…there’s got to be more to life than this.” Share in this experience together propelled us into doing some soul searching and brought us deeper down our spiritual paths. We began diving into meditation, practicing breathwork, going to retreats, reading spiritual books together, and eventually found Human Design. When we discovered that we have the same uncommon Human Design Type, it made so much sense to us why we had always felt so connected and why we struggled so much to fit into a traditional career. We were shocked that we had not learned about this system before, as it immediately had a profound impact on us. From the moment we started experimenting with seeing ourselves in a new light and practicing the strategies Human Design offered us, our whole lives began changing. We eventually quit our corporate jobs to dive in and trust the path that we were being led down. Starting DayLuna and being able to spread our passion for Human Design was a natural unfolding from there. It felt like answering the most beautiful and exciting call to be of service.
It is very interesting to observe the relationship dynamics in a business partnership of two young, successful women. How do you balance professional relationship and personal friendship with one another? And how do you assist each other in your inner work and self-discovery?
SHAYNA & DANA: We use Human Design in every aspect of our lives, including navigating our personal friendship and business partnership. Human Design is incredible, in that it gives you crystal clear guidance on how to operate in alignment with other people and how to make big life decisions, so working together and honoring each other’s needs has honestly been really easy and fun! It has taken a lot of the pressure off because we know how to encourage each other to lean into our strengths and how to hold space for our differences. We also love flowing in our workweek by honoring the planetary energy of each day. Mondays are ruled by the Moon’s energy. We use this day to start off our week in a gentle manner and take time to nourish our inner worlds. Sometimes we take Moon Days off completely and use it to catch up with each other, share about our spiritual journeys, and fill each other in on our internal experience. Tuesdays (ruled by Mars energy) are big workdays typically, Wednesdays (Mercury day) and Thursdays (Jupiter day) are for readings with clients, and Fridays (Venus day) are flex or for recording podcast episodes. We prioritize play, fascination, and rest in our business partnership, and when the other person is not feeling in alignment with something, we never push them to be on board. Instead, we allow a new solution to be found until we both feel 100% happy with it.
So your business, DayLuna, is based on human design. How do you combine your talents in human design with your spiritual gifts in your daily work?
SHAYNA & DANA: Human Design is a science that shows us how we are all different and operate as completely unique individuals, towards completely unique life purposes. Each person has two main practices that they can apply to their life to help them embody their specific version of personal alignment. These two practices are called Strategy and Authority. Your Strategy helps you use your energy correctly and your Authority helps you make aligned decisions. Starting to apply these two practices is the thing that changed our lives and helped us to magnetize everything we needed to create our business. We have brought this focus of living in personal alignment and allowing ourselves to be the unique individuals we are into every single facet of our business. We have been so intentional in only creating offerings that feel right for us. We only work in a way that feels right for us. We only help people in a way that feels aligned with who we truly are, using our set of unique gifts. It has been an incredible journey to be living our design in every breath while we co-create a business that empowers others to do the same.
What is your ultimate goal with your work in DayLuna? What is your mission? Your dream?
SHAYNA & DANA: Our soul mission is to empower as many individuals as we can to start living their true purpose and to start becoming the authority of their own life. Because of our societal conditioning, we are largely taught to dim our uniqueness to fit into a mold and to forgo our passions and dreams in order to conform to the world’s expectations of who we “should” be. We want to spread the message that each person is unique for a reason! And not the cliche messaging of “everyone is special” (which they are), but the message that here is exactly what makes you special, and here is how you specifically can lean in.
The more we each can truly understand who we came here to be and how to start using our energy correctly to share our gifts with more ease, the faster we will change the frequency on this planet. In our hearts, we know that understanding ourselves leads to accepting ourselves, which leads to loving ourselves. That genuine love we create inside is then a powerful force we can share with others. It’s a beautiful cycle that begins within each of us, and Human Design can be such a powerful, transformational tool to aid you in this journey.
Is there a final message you want to let our readers know? Or just any last little words that you have for them?
SHAYNA & DANA: We have been meeting so many special individuals lately who are wanting to create their own business in the spiritual/wellness realm or have one but want to make it a full-time gig. We are struck by how much potent wisdom they have to share, how much love they have to give, and how many talents they have to explore. But we’ve noticed a common theme of self-doubt, feeling stuck or fearful to make the great leap into creating the life of their dreams. We want to take this opportunity to say, you can do it! Honestly, you can! Life is asking each of us to become the person we want to become and be of service in the way our hearts feel called to. If you are clear about what you want to create, if it is in alignment for you, life will support you. The resources you need will find you. When you are in your true path of purpose, operating as your most authentic self, the whole Universe is conspiring to support you!
Thank you, ladies, very much! It has been such a pleasure chatting with you today!
SHAYNA: Thank you so much for having us!
DANA: This was so fun! We are sending you gratitude, love, and continued expansion!
