#257 'Owning Your Impact Without Apologising for It' with Holly Herbig
from Hunting for Purpose Podcast
45m 11s
This episode of the Hunting for Purpose Podcast explores the core challenge of manifestors: owning their impact without apologizing for it. Host Holly emphasizes that manifestors naturally influence others through their presence, aura, and energy—often before any words are spoken. This power brings both profound connection and intense reactivity, especially from people uncomfortable with strong, unapologetic expression. Many manifestors respond by shrinking, over-explaining, or apologizing, which stems from a deep-seated fear of being rejected or misunderstood. Holly reveals that this behavior is a form of self-abandonment, not self-protection, because it distances them from their true power and values. True safety comes from internal healing, emotional regulation, and self-trust—not from being emotionally resilient or unfeeling. She highlights that reactions belong to others, not to the manifestor, and that manifestors must release the need to manage how others respond. Drawing on real-life experiences and the wisdom of figures like Jacinda Ardern, Holly argues that empathy and sensitivity are not weaknesses but essential strengths. The episode calls for manifestors to step into their sovereignty, trust their impact, and embrace the full spectrum of reactions—positive or negative—as part of their authentic journey. This shift is especially important as the world enters a new energetic phase, urging manifestors to let go of smallness, manage their own healing, and live boldly in alignment with their true purpose. The message is clear: manifestors are not here to please others, but to disrupt, inspire, and create change—by being fully themselves.
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beings and welcome back to another episode of the Hunting for Purpose Podcast. You
have me, your solo host Holly again. I'm doing back-to-back episodes. Just
happened to land that way on the calendar but I don't think I've done back-to-back
episodes on the podcast for, well, golly, at least a couple of years. So this is
pretty exciting to be here. Thank you for letting my voice come into your
airwaves once again wherever you are in the car, in the shower, in your kitchen,
cleaning or whatever it is that you are doing while you listen to podcasts. I'm
glad that you are choosing this as your podcast to listen to and I'm really
hoping that we have an episode that is just going to be so worth the listen
today because how frustrating is it? So angry when you listen to a podcast and
you get all the way through and then you're like, "Wow, that was disappointing.
That didn't really give me anything that I was hoping that it would. Is that
just me? Maybe that's just me. I don't know. I don't listen to heaps of
podcasts. I typically only listen to them when I travel and I listen to them on
double speed, sometimes even two and a half times speed depending on how slow
the person speaks because I just cannot stand it going at single speed. And I'm
pretty sure there are a number of other manifestors that are the same. So I'm
going to do my best to make this a really fantastic episode and to not use any
words that I don't need to use and to just wrap it up in a completely
reasonable time frame that doesn't leave you desperately wanting more like you
are unfulfilled and doesn't make you feel like you just listen to a hot podcast
episode with filler words. So we are talking today about owning your impact
without apologizing for it. And I don't know whether you listen to the episode
before this one or not, but in that episode I explained that we are in a season
right now here in the Manifesto community of talking about sovereignty and
owning your impact as a manifestor from moving away from the wounds of
rebellion and people pleasing really comes with it and moving into a space of
owning your sovereignty, understanding what the heck your sovereignty even is as
a manifestor owning that and then really really owning your impact as a
manifestor because this is so central to the manifestor experience. I mean
like this is kind of what we're known for, right? This is what manifestors do is
that we we impact. This is how people recognize us. This is how we look back at
ourselves through history as well when we study manifestors throughout history.
What we're looking for is their impact. What impact did they land and that is a
pretty central theme for us that we can even develop like a core wound around
that we are terrified of mediocrity as manifestors. We're terrified that we
will, you know, we're here for this purpose. We're here to do something kind of
significant. But what happens if we don't find it? What happens if we don't
leave an impact and our lives are average and mediocre? I mean that's a
genuine kind of undecided worry for a lot of us as manifestors. So I love
having this as the, you know, topic of our season. I love this being the theme
because I always feel like this is an area that we need to explore not only with
more depth but with more complexity in the perspectives. We need to look at this
with more lenses than how we generally tend to look at it because it's one
thing to say like, oh gosh, yes, that's a manifestor. You're incredibly
impactful. Look how powerful you are. You just do things and people are impacted
by the, but what happens when you don't feel that? What happens when you're moving
and you feel like it's not impacting? What happens if you feel like you can't
move and therefore can't impact? What happens if you are impacting and you're
getting really, really bad reactions from people around you? Right? There are
just so many flavours to being a person that moves through the world in this
way. And this is something that as a manifestor in the public eye, right?
Manifestor being the face of this community, the person who created this brand
and of course, like operating in that public sphere, particularly on social
media, but not limited to social media. I feel like I have had kind of a long
and windy journey through this particular area of being a manifestor. I mean
really more so over like the last four to five years probably. And it's
something that I just, I struggled with, right? This ate at me. This just chewed
away at my soul and my sense of being and my sense of peace for a really, really
long time. And I felt like it was kind of insurmountable. Like I just couldn't
quite get to this place of like, how do I trust myself to have an impact? And
then not apologize for it. And then, you know, not shy away from how people are
going to respond to it. Because as we all know, people on the internet are
brutal. I mean, some people on the internet are actually just abusive. And I
think it's time that we start calling that what it is, right? That we stop being
like, oh, you're just being mean on the internet. No, actually being verbally
abusive or emotionally abusive. And you're just using the internet to do it
because you have a form of protection. But there are also people who, like
all of us, I think, could probably, if we were being really honest, say we've had
moments of projecting on, on another person on the internet, having me as
him, right? Wanting to be at the centre of a piece of content even when it's
not about us, reacting poorly, having a different opinion and kind of speaking
a bit nastily about that. Like, this is, this is the nature of being on the
internet. And I don't think that that has ever been more true than the last
year, right? The last year on social media, 2025, was like survival of those with
the thickest skin, right? Like, if you can make it through that on social media,
you probably can make it through anything because that was like the wild,
wild west of emotional dysregulation out there. But there is, I think there's
so much more to it, you know, being visible as a manifesto, whether that's on
social media or whether that's in other ways. We can be visible to people,
right? We can do that on a public stage. We can also just do that in our
personal lives, letting ourselves be seen by our family, be seen by our friends,
be seen by our bosses or our colleagues. Certainly when you put it on the
internet, you're kind of doing that journey on steroids, right? But I think
that the truth here for me, and I wonder if this will resonate with you, is that
of course it was really challenging for me to experience people's poor
reactivity, right? When I was impacting, being a person that creates content
and resources exclusively for manifestors means typically the responses
that I get are from manifestors. And manifestors can sure as hell be
reactive, absolutely. And we have a very, very strong energy when we do react
to something. But I also have had a lot of reactivity from non-manifestors who
are in the human design space who have felt activated one way or another regarding
my work, because I use a different language for a lot of stuff. And that's
troubling for some people in more traditional human design spaces. And what,
you know, I think for a really long time, I journey through like, oh, it's just,
I just get upset when people say mean things, or it's just the injustice of all
of it, or I just can't say anything the right way, people keep getting upset.
And then over time, I realized that it wasn't necessarily just the poor
reactions from people that would feel challenging for me. It was any reaction
from anyone at all. I could have an avalanche of positive reactivity, which
in truth, I have had, you know, this whole time in this business, what are we
six years into this community. I've always had really, really
extensive positive feedback from people, positive reactivity, and of course the handful of negative.
But I noticed that in terms of my body and then in terms of my belief system in response to that,
I was seeing every reaction as a potential threat. Every reaction, I would brace for what people's
reaction were going to be, I would initiate a creative urge, maybe it was a product, maybe it was
a piece of content, maybe it was a live, maybe it was a collaboration, right? Maybe it was even just
like informing people that I was doing something different in my personal life as a creative urge,
and then I would brace, you know, I would kind of internally like hold myself like, okay,
okay, wait for the cyclone, what's going to come in the cyclone? And for every hour and every day
that would pass that somebody didn't have negative feedback, negative reactivity, I'd be like, oh,
okay, fantastic, I made it, I made it through another one. But what I was also doing was that when
people were positively responding to it, people saying, oh my gosh, this has impacted me so much,
this has changed my life, this has really helped me see myself on my goodness. My internal monologue
was saying, all right, will you say that this time? But if you hang around, then maybe next time,
you won't like what I did, right? Because I did have people, of course, people who loved one thing
and hated the next thing and people the other way around, people who hated one thing and loved
the next thing. And so what I was doing was bracing for any reaction. What I started to understand
about myself in that experience was that my belief system was, I'm only safe if others
react well, but that wasn't even steady. That was a completely moving goal line, right? Because
even if somebody did react well in this instance, there's another instance coming up and maybe they're
not going to react well in that one or it was like, this person reacted well, but what about the next
person? Is the next person going to react well to this? That goal wasn't even secure. It wasn't
even steady. It was an ever-changing, ever-moving line. This is one of the really significant parts
that I think that we need to spend a little time in when we're talking about impact as manifestors.
Because when we say, hey, be unapologetic as a manifestor. Go out and do your thing and be
unapologetic and you can't control how people react to you. So you just go out and do your thing.
What we're saying is you should just be 100% fine with however people respond to you.
And that I think really does not give correct space and correct truth to the lived experience
of manifestors. We have impact. We have enormous impact. In fact, we have more impact than any other
energy being on the planet. We have more impact than a manifesting generator does. We have the
kind of impact that is unseen before it arrives. Doesn't need noise. Doesn't even need sound.
Manifestors impact. And this, my gosh, I would really encourage you to have some fun with this,
like some liberty and some humor. Start paying attention to this when you walk into spaces.
Because a manifestor's impact will be felt before you've said anything or done anything.
You can literally walk into a space and people notice you. And if you are feeling particularly
like don't get near me, you will notice that people in public spaces start to move away from you.
I have like this kind of hilarious series of photos that people send me. Manifestor friends and
clients and followers of the community that send photos in of themselves in like airports and
shops and cafes where there is everybody crowded and then there is, you know, a two meter zone of
cleanness around them. Like as a manifestor, people notice your impact. You have an impact just
by breathing. And that is both a blessing and somewhat of a curse, right? I don't even like
using the word curse. It's just it's the access to a place of wounding. I so often say in this
community with great power comes great responsibility because this is a great power, the ability to
influence people, the ability to influence people to such a significant degree that you don't even
need to speak or take action and it influences them. That people feel you and they notice you
and they are responding to you subconsciously and consciously. That is an immense power to wield.
And with that power, there is a level of responsibility, not responsibility only as in you have to do
the right thing, which of course we do need to. We have a responsibility to not cause harm. But I
mean responsibility in terms of you need to manage this power within yourself, right? Just like if we
were superheroes, right? And we had the ability to create let's say fire from our hands and we could
shoot fire out from our hands. We would have to learn how to wield that fire so that it doesn't overtake
our whole body and burn us to a crisp. Manifesto impact is exactly the same. And I use kind of power
and impact interchangeably, right? Because they're sort of one and the same. The way that Manifesto
power is felt is impact, the way that Manifesto express impact is through power. So we have a flip side
to our impact. My God, yes, it's a wonderful thing. Of course, it's a wonderful thing because we
impact without really doing anything. So even when we do initiate, we do speak, we do take
action. Of course, our impact is much bigger and much more felt. Our movement remains powerful.
Our movement remains impactful even when we're trying to be small. I think this has been one of
the greatest lessons for me over the last two years is there is no size small enough that you can
make yourself that you want impact and you won't get a reaction from others. Trust me, I've tried. Right
as a child from an abusive family as a female, right? I have tried everything to be small enough.
Small enough squashed so far down just enough to ensure that nobody responds badly. Nobody dislikes
it. Nobody gets upset. It's not possible. It doesn't exist. Your mere presence
creates impact and therefore reactivity. That's because our aura, no matter how small you're trying
to make it, your aura is still big. Certainly we can amplify our aura, but I don't think that we can
pull it down small enough that it doesn't do its job. And the job of our aura is all about illumination.
The manifesto aura is a, it's magnetic, right? A two-way magnet. So it magnetizes in and it pushes out.
That's why it's called magnetizing and repelling. Pulls in, pushes out. What it's doing is that it's
kind of doing this life force of like push this thing out and then for anybody who wants to come in,
it gets drawn back in. The message that the aura is all about focusing on is about illuminating
relationships to power because the manifesto is such a powerful energy. It's such an influential
energy. What it does is that it gets around other people and it switches on the light switch
for them as to what their relationship to their own power is feeling like. So when people feel
insecure about their power or when people feel like they're limited in their power and they
can't express it the way they want to, when people feel like they're trying to suppress their power,
maybe because they're trying to follow rules that are set by them or by other people.
When people just feel any kind of way about their power and their expression of their power,
the manifesto aura is going to spot like that. You are not intentionally doing that. You are not
consciously doing that. That is just how your aura is moving. That is why you get such a massive
reaction from other people because power, particularly in the capitalistic society in which we live,
is currency. Power is currency. People want power and you walk through the world effortlessly
displaying your power and impacting wherever you go, even if you feel like you're not.
Even if you feel like you are being so small and so normal and so run of the mill that you are
just flying underneath the radar. You're not flying underneath the radar. You never ever can
fly underneath the radar. I think the great irony about all of this is that it means that the more
that you express your power, the more you lean into the impact that you're having as a manifesto,
trusting your impact, the more reactivity you're going to get from other people.
This is the opposite of what is true for other energy types. Keep that in mind. When they lean in, they own their power,
they own their expression, they take up space, it becomes inspirational. When a manifesto does it,
it still becomes inspirational to some people, but then the people that are not comfortable with that
are going to have a very intense reaction to it because you are taking up more space.
You are powerful when you
you were being small. Look how powerful you are now when you're being big. And so I
think that it's kind of dangerous for us to follow down that path of work. If I do this,
I'm going to be healed and everything's going to be aligned and everything's going to
work out. No, no. That hasn't been my experience. That hasn't been what I've observed in
manifestors. That hasn't been what we've historically seen amongst manifestors who have
made impact. What we have seen and what we do live is that the more we impact, the more
we let that powerful expression take up space and be unapologetic and be bold and be big
and be influential to people, the greater the intensity of reactivity we get, whether
it's reactivity with people being magnetised to it and falling in love with it and it changing
their lives radically, or whether it be people who hate it, don't have capacity for it,
see you as a villain, see you as a threat and want to crush you because of it. So this
backlash is very, very real backlash that we experience to our impact has created a very
like smart, it's almost like this series of countermeasures, right, in your nervous system,
in your body, in your belief system, in your emotional regulation, in your behavioural
management, all these like moves and counter moves, right? So we initiate our impact as
a manifesto. We see how people react and then in order to self protect and to attempt
to find safety from the way that people are reacting, we create this series of maneuvers.
It looks like shrinking, softening our words, softening our tone, explaining ourselves,
over-explaining ourselves even, it looks like pausing or delaying, it looks like apologising,
right? It looks like saying whether directly or indirectly, I'm so sorry that I took
up space and that that made you uncomfortable. This on the surface looks like it's a behavioural
habit for managing our impact, right? It's just what we have to do as manifest as we've
kind of got a panda to other people's feelings about how we move, but it's actually not,
it's not managing our impact, it's managing other people's reactions to our impact and
right there, right there when we are stepping into any form of apologetic or minimising behaviour
in order to soften the blow of how other people are feeling our impact. It starts to downplay
and kind of water down the truth of our impact and it takes us away from it. It takes us away
immediately from, this is how I'm expressing and I trust myself to express into, this is
how my expression lands for other people and I need to manage how they are going to respond.
Can you see how that steps you away from your relationship to self and into your responsibility
to manage other people? You can never, ever, I'm going to go back to this a few times,
you can never, ever run it or maneuver it in a certain way that removes people from reacting.
People are going to react and if you continue in this sort of like dosido, this waltz, if
you will, with trying to navigate and manage other people's emotional capacity to how your
energy has made them feel about their relationship to their own sense of power, you are going to
continue to self abandon. You're going to continue to self abandon. This is self abandonment
and this, this is at the crux of it like this is the very centre like kernel, you know,
this is the middle of the egg, as you were trying to think of like food analogies, right?
This is the seed in the middle of the peach that if you are feeling disconnected from your
power as a manifesto, if you are feeling like you're moving and you're not impacting,
if you're feeling like you're delaying creative urges, if you're feeling like you're not
expressing in a way that you could or that you want to as a manifesto, this is why. This
is why. It's the self abandonment that comes from trying to manage other people's emotional
capacity to your impact. The answer here because let's be real like what we want to do is not
just come into awareness of what's going on, we want to step into where do I go with
this, what do I do with this, especially if in this moment you're being like holy crap,
I never saw it this way, but now that you've labeled it like that, I'm seeing it everywhere.
The answer to this is self-led safety, self-led safety, right? And I'm not going to be overly
rigid with this and say you just need to do some nervous system regulation or you just
need to work on your limiting beliefs or you just need to step into a different frequency,
is a multi faceted healing process. It is regulating your nervous system. It is giving
your nervous system a bigger capacity. It is about emotional regulation. It is about
understanding the frequency of the emotions that you're feeling and how your body is responding
to that. It is about your belief systems and where your belief systems have betrayed your
actual values and the expression that you want to have in the world. It's all three of
those things. These patterns will show up for you personally, they will show up for you
interpersonally in all of your relationships, how you relate to yourself, how you relate
to others, how you relate to money, how you relate to work, how you relate to self-care.
This will show up in every form of relationship. What it boils down to, right? Let me give you
like a light at the end of the tunnel from somebody who has spent many, many years walking
this and it felt like it took forever to get to this point of clarity. The end of the
tunnel here is being in a place where you know that you are safe to impact no matter
how others respond, that you are safe to impact even if people react poorly. You, you are
safe. You are safe. It doesn't matter what they're doing. It doesn't matter if they attack
you, villainize you, project on you, speak badly about you, criticize you, pathologize
you. My gosh, I've had people pathologize me thinking that they're being very clever.
It doesn't matter because you are safe. It doesn't matter if people respond well. It doesn't
matter if they react in a good way, a positive way because even that can feel like a pressure
for us. Oh my gosh, they love me now, but will they love me next time? It doesn't matter
whether they love what you did. It doesn't matter if people misunderstand your impact.
This is a big one. If they misunderstand what you were trying to say, what you're trying
to initiate, the vision that you are trying to birth, the direction that you are going,
the way that you move, people misunderstand that often with manifestors because of the
density of our aura. This is particularly more so connected to informing, but there is no
amount of like perfect informing, quote unquote, perfect informing that you can do that
ensures that everybody's going to understand you all the time. People are always viewing you
through their lens. You're viewing everybody else through your own lens, right? So people
are going to misunderstand you if their lens doesn't have capacity to understand you.
Misunderstanding can feel so confusing and overwhelming and heartbreaking for manifestors.
We need to get to a place where we are safe to impact, even if people misunderstand you.
And this is not even about having a thick skin, right? Like I was recently reading, if
you haven't read this, I highly recommend it. A book by Jacinda Radurn who was the previous
Prime Minister of New Zealand. She has written a memoir of sorts called a different kind
of power. And it's so beautiful. I would love to look up her design. I get the feeling
that she's a projector, right? But I don't know. I don't know. I'd have to look it up.
But Jacinda is talking in this memoir about how being in government, being a politician,
you know, she was so sensitive, so empathetic, so kind, so driven to support the plight of
people's needs. That's why she wanted to step into politics. And she thought, I'm never
going to make it because politics requires you to have a thick skin. People are visibly
brutal to each other. It is callous and cold and calculated. And sometimes cruel is a
menacing place. It's everybody bidding for power and willing to step on you to get that
power. It doesn't matter how much it destroys you. And she thought, I'm never, I'm never
going to make it with my thin skin. And she went and spoke to another member of parliament
in New Zealand who she thought was the toughest person. She said it was this kind of big, broad
shouldered man who was very loud during question time. And, you know, it was very vocal and
kind of took no crap from anybody. And she thought, if anyone can teach me how to have
a thick skin, it's him. And when she asked him about it, he said, why do you think being
empathetic is a problem? Why do you think there's something wrong with you? When your ability
to feel
the very thing that we all need. And that just oh I mean beautiful delivery right but also I felt
like that was so relevant for manifestors because I even see this conversation I see it on social
media or I even saw it on somebody else's page today about like oh like why do you put yourself
through this like oh you surely must be too sensitive it keeps hurting you to like be on social
media I could never do it I had to leave and I think that all of this this storyline that we've
got is like oh okay well if I'm visible and if I'm having a really big impact then that must equal
that I have to have a thick skin so that I don't feel the reactions from others but that is not
the solution we want to be able to feel our impact we want to be able to see our impact what we need
is to heal and self-connect and self-love to the point that we have a body and a nervous system
that can remain open while others react to your impact it can remain open because you are safe
you are safe I still kind of am a bit bewildered at myself every time I experience this now because
I feel like it took me so long to get there right and and so now when I have these experiences
of people being reactive whether it's in my personal life whether it's on social media whether
it's in other business places via email whatever and I feel like oh I'm I'm not upset about that
I don't get that sinking feeling I'm not terrified I'm not worried it doesn't feel like the other
shoe has dropped I just feel like oh I'm safe you can react how you will and I will place some
boundaries around that if it's inappropriate but I'm safe whatever you do I'm safe that you
misunderstood what I was trying to say I'm safe even though you don't like what I created
I'm safe even though you loved what I created and now you're trying to get me to create more
this is the space where you stop catering to other people and you stop apologizing for being
powerful for having the impact that you do you stop you stop apologizing for being powerful in a
way that made them feel uncomfortable that's the reality I'm so sorry that my natural expression
highlighted to you when you are not letting yourself express I'm so sorry that my success
that I gained through my impact highlights to you how little you have let yourself be impactful
I'm so sorry that my freedom and giving myself permission to do what I want has highlighted
where you are not giving yourself permission that's really what we're saying that's when we're
trying to mitigate other people's reactions we're saying I'm so sorry that you felt uncomfortable
about me and my natural movement let other people's actions and reactions belong to them let them
belong to them this is where we use stuff like boundaries right boundaries are so so helpful for
manifestors it says I can hold space for you to have your reaction but if you're going to do that
in a hurtful way or a harmful way or a destructive way then you can't be in my space you need to
take that reaction elsewhere otherwise you can hold space for people to have reactions
without it ruining your safety you let their reactions belong to them because that is where it
belongs you don't need to become cold or distant or aggressive you don't need to step into that
like iconic rebellious manifestor of like I don't care about anybody I'll do whatever I want
and people can just be damned we don't need to step into that place for self protection because
we have true safety that key is safety that safety comes from working on self-trust comes from
deep deep self-knowing it comes from healing through those wounds healing through those
maneuvers that you've learned that kind of arsenal of maneuvers that you have adopted across
your life to manage other people's reactions to you moving through those letting them go rewriting
those stories so that whatever happens whatever happens you know that you trust your power to
impact and you trust yourself to be safe in who you are avoiding doing that actually only keeps
you disconnected keeps you disconnected from yourself it keeps you perpetually in a self-abandonment
cycle and I think you know there have been so many times when I've I've tried to logically think
like how would I put this in a course like or a resource or something or something experience
that people can have and my god maybe one day I'll get a creative urge that shows me how to do it
but as yet it's all logical right it's like it's it's mental it's all in my mind and so I'm not
going to create it unless I receive a creative urge for it but what I do know is that this has been
infused this message this journey has been infused into a lot of the spaces that we create
but most importantly and I think most prominently it has been infused into like the literal
like undercurrent of what we do in manifesto mastery that's that's the place that's sort of like
the echelon right like that's the the piece there is this dance that is our signature program where
it is like wall to wall this is the manifesto experience everything you experience as a manifesto
is covered in manifesto mastery and yes it's a certification program of course so we teach you the
full human design system including all the other energy types we teach you the gene key system
we teach you even phs within human design so that you can if you want to go on to be a reader
that is an incredible resource but the point of it is that there is so much in there that is
outside of the normal language of human design it's outside the language of gene keys it's the
lived experience of being a manifesto and the way that I intentionally craft the live container
each year even with its innovations and its variations and its changes because we're manifesto
so we can never stay still but even with those changes every single live cohort that we run which
is once a year is centered on how how do we create space for learning experimentation integration
and that you know spiritual word embodiment for manifestos to actually live this like when they
go to work and when they go to the grocery store and when they go to the bank and when they're having
an argument with their partner and when they're at Christmas dinner with their family how do we
create a space that captures what manifestos need to trust who they are to know who they are
to be sovereign to own their impact that that is what manifesto mastery is really about and that's
what we focus all of the live aspects of it on so of course as a certification program which is
optional or not you can certify you cannot certify it's your choice but there's the teaching modules
that you go through at your own pace and then we have live cohorts that run alongside it so live
course that are hosted by me and the other support teachers all bringing our kind of different flavors
our different perspectives our different learnings because we're all different types of manifestos
but all in the service of how do we help you to trust your power how do we help you to trust your
impact how do we help you to trust and to know and to feel that you are safe in who you are no matter
the circumstance no matter the response to others because that's that's how manifestos get activated
right that's how manifestos step in to that like vision it's not even a version of you it's a
vision right like that is that's what you came here with this big energy to do and you're going to
do that with the the specific way that you want to do it right the specific way that your creative
urges draw you and the part of the world that you live in and the language that you speak and
the things that light you up right that's all that's your your individuality but every manifesto
is here to have a huge impact and to feel safe doing it so if that feels like that is a season
that you want to step into if me explaining that about manifesto mastery feels like holy mother of
god this is the thing that I have been missing out on that I I want this I need this that that thing
that's what I've been missing the link is in the show notes we are currently doors open for the
live cohort but only until March 17th right so we're about halfway through of so until the doors
close and once the doors close they do firmly close we don't reopen them at all again until 2027
when the next cohort comes and this is not a oh my gosh if you want to be a good powerful manifesto
this is the pathway that you need to take that's absolutely not true there are so many pathways
that you can take this is not even a well this has to be the time that you do it if you don't do it
now you'll never get to it maybe this isn't the right season for you to take manifesto mastery you
know you want to do it you know it's right for you but this isn't the right time that is equally
is valid.
Maybe you do know that this is absolutely the right choice and there's going to be some
fear stuff that comes up for you and some resistance and maybe it's a money thing, maybe
it's a timing thing, who knows?
Also equally as valid.
The point is this is the invitation that we have open at the moment if you want to go
into depth and be held with a beautiful level of support to take a journey around this.
And if that's not right for you, we have so many other resources and this place, this
community will continue to be a space for that.
It will continue to be a space for that because this is the very essence of who manifestes
are.
Our essence is to impact and so this is always going to be a topic that we come back to
explore.
This is always going to be a topic that there'll be podcast episodes on and Instagram posts
on and we talk about it in our email newsletter and we, you know, have free resources for
it and we have community gatherings for it because this is so significant.
This is so significant and so I encourage you even as you've been listening to this
podcast episode, if you're like, whoa, this thing like really, really landed for me like
this felt like, yeah, this is a space that I've got to do some moving and I've got to do
some healing and maybe you even feel really seen.
I hope that you feel really seen.
But then you think, oh, but manifesto master is not for me.
So, okay, I guess that journey's not it.
No, no, come back.
Come back to what felt alive in your body.
Come back to what felt active for you because this podcast episode is not about manifesto
mastery.
This podcast episode, this podcast episode, sorry, is about owning your impact without apologising
for it.
The more manifestos that we have doing that, the more manifestos we have initiating creative
urges, moving through the world, owning their impact, creating incredible things, activating
people in the most marvelous ways, like manifestos literally are here to change the world.
There is no, there's no like if spots or maybe is about it, that's our whole design.
That's our whole thing.
We're here to disrupt, to change, to create new pathways.
The people creating the new world are the manifestos and then everybody is going to jump
on board and help.
It's already happening.
Okay, I'm not going to keep talking in a circular way because I feel like I could just keep going
with that message forever, you know, forever and ever.
I feel like I'm always saying this to manifestos, but it's just so necessary.
This is such an important space for us to lean into and as we are coming up to the end
of the 2027 paradigm shift in human design, if you don't know what that is, give it a
Google because it's definitely worth knowing.
As we've come out of a collective year nine, neurologically speaking, so we've gone into
a collective year one, which is about newness.
We started a new cycle, we've had a huge astrological shift as well, out of one axis into
another axis.
So we really are in a place of change.
We are in a place of newness.
We are not only on the cusp of something, we're right in the midst of something and this
is a space where it's time for manifestos to breathe, it's time for manifestos to let
go of smallness, to let go of being apologetic, to let go of shrinking, to let go of managing
and navigating other people's reactivity.
It's time for you to step into the shoes that you brought for yourself when you came into
this life.
And if there is any way that we can help you to do that, we absolutely want to.
So if this podcast episode has spoken to you, you might want to head to our website, check
out any of the other stuff that we've got.
We have a whole breath plethora because manifestos always need a buffet of choice, right?
We don't want to tell anybody what to do around here.
So thank you for being here.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for letting me speak into your space and your airwaves.
Coming up next week, we are going to have a beautiful podcast episode from one of our
community contribution members.
So you are going to be hearing from one of the manifestos in our community directly, which
I love because every manifesto is so unique, then you're going to have me back again after
that.
So I'm going to be saying you so, so super soon.
And until then, keep hunting for purpose.
That's a wrap on another episode of the Hunting for Purpose Podcast.
Thank you so much for tuning in and letting us speak into your life.
We hope that you found everything that you needed by listening to this podcast episode.
And please remember, we have many, many more episodes that you can tune into as well.
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Thank you once again for being here, and we will see you in another episode of Hunting
for Purpose.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Manifestors inherently have a powerful, pervasive impact that is felt even before words or actions are spoken, creating both blessings and deep emotional reactions.
The fear of mediocrity and the constant need to manage reactions—especially negative ones—leads many manifestors into self-abandonment, shrinking, and apologetic behaviors as a form of self-protection.
True sovereignty as a manifestor means trusting one’s impact without needing to apologize or minimize it, recognizing that reactions belong to others, not to the self.
Emotional and nervous system responses to reactivity stem from a belief that safety depends on others’ approval, not from internal self-trust or self-love.
Self-led safety comes from deep healing, emotional regulation, and alignment with one’s authentic values, not from building a “thick skin” or emotional armor.
Manifestors must embrace their natural power and allow for misunderstanding, as no amount of explanation can fully prevent misinterpretation through others’ lenses.
The journey to self-trust is central to the Manifesto Mastery program, which supports manifestors in living their impact with safety, sovereignty, and authenticity.
This season of exploration is vital as the world transitions into new energetic cycles, urging manifestors to step into their power without fear or apology.
Summary:
This episode of the Hunting for Purpose Podcast explores the core challenge of manifestors: owning their impact without apologizing for it. Host Holly emphasizes that manifestors naturally influence others through their presence, aura, and energy—often before any words are spoken. This power brings both profound connection and intense reactivity, especially from people uncomfortable with strong, unapologetic expression.
Many manifestors respond by shrinking, over-explaining, or apologizing, which stems from a deep-seated fear of being rejected or misunderstood. Holly reveals that this behavior is a form of self-abandonment, not self-protection, because it distances them from their true power and values. True safety comes from internal healing, emotional regulation, and self-trust—not from being emotionally resilient or unfeeling.
She highlights that reactions belong to others, not to the manifestor, and that manifestors must release the need to manage how others respond. Drawing on real-life experiences and the wisdom of figures like Jacinda Ardern, Holly argues that empathy and sensitivity are not weaknesses but essential strengths. The episode calls for manifestors to step into their sovereignty, trust their impact, and embrace the full spectrum of reactions—positive or negative—as part of their authentic journey.
This shift is especially important as the world enters a new energetic phase, urging manifestors to let go of smallness, manage their own healing, and live boldly in alignment with their true purpose. The message is clear: manifestors are not here to please others, but to disrupt, inspire, and create change—by being fully themselves.
FAQs
The main theme is owning your impact without apologizing for it, emphasizing sovereignty and self-trust as a manifestor.
They do this to manage others' reactions, which stems from a deep fear of reactivity and a belief that they must control how people respond to their energy.
A manifestors' aura is magnetic and powerful, influencing people subconsciously by highlighting their own power or limitations, often creating strong emotional reactions.
Yes, true safety comes from self-trust and emotional healing, not from having a thick skin, allowing reactions to belong to others without compromising personal well-being.
It means trusting your power and impact regardless of how others respond, and being emotionally grounded so that reactions don’t trigger fear or self-doubt.
By healing underlying wounds, regulating the nervous system, and shifting from managing others’ reactions to trusting their own power and self-worth.
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