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How to Build a Million Dollar Business in 13 Months Using Human Design (Without Losing Your Soul)

There's a moment when you realise the business you've built has outgrown the version of you who started it.

When the strategies that got you here won't take you there. When you know you're capable of more, but something internal is keeping you stuck.

I sat down with Karla Maree, feminine business mentor and the woman behind the viral Seven Figure Business Blueprint AI bot that's impacted nearly 5,000 entrepreneurs. And what she shared in our conversation will change the way you think about business growth, visibility edges, and what it actually takes to scale without abandoning yourself.

Karla went from $40K to $85K months in a single quantum leap. She built a million-dollar business in 13 months. And she did it all by following her sacral response whilst her personal life was falling apart.

This isn't a story about hustle. It's about following your energy blueprint, meeting your edges with compassion, and building a business that serves your soul-led values whilst creating massive impact.

It Wasn't Fast, It Was Time

When people hear "million-dollar business in 13 months," they think overnight success. But as Karla said in our conversation, "It wasn't fast. It was time."

Twenty-five years of experience, to be exact.

Karla started as a self-taught secretary in the nineties, working on Word Perfect 5.1, memorising shortcut keys. She landed a contract role at one of the first online shopping malls during the dot-com boom, watching the company explode from four employees to forty.

But she hated office work. It was suffocating her. So in 2000, after a rebirthing weekend that cracked her wide open, she told her ex-husband, "I am not going back to the office again. I'm going to die. I'll teach myself web design."

And she did.

For 25 years, Karla built websites, learned branding, mastered the online world as it evolved. She was a singer performing on stages. She understood magnetism, presence, and how to work with brands. All of it was preparing her for this moment.

This is what intuitive business coaching actually looks like. Not abandoning strategy, but letting your energy lead you to the right strategy at the right time.

The Ethical Pivot That Changed Everything

After years of designing websites and building brands, Karla hit a wall. She was charging clients $7K, $8K, $10K for beautiful websites and branding packages. But they didn't know how to market them.

"I can't ethically do this anymore," she told me. "I can't take people's money for something they don't know how to use."

So she took 25 years of building platforms, understanding tech, watching social media grow, and combined it with her deep knowledge of human design and astrology. She shifted from doing the work for people to teaching them how to do it themselves in alignment with their energy.

This is what authentic leadership for entrepreneurs requires. The willingness to pivot when something stops feeling aligned, even when it's profitable.

When Your Identity Hasn't Caught Up to Your Strategy

Here's what most people don't understand about business growth: you can have all the strategy in the world, but if your identity hasn't evolved to match it, you'll sabotage yourself every time.

Karla knew exactly what to do strategically. She'd been building businesses for other people for years. But when it came to her own business, she was stuck.

"Really, for myself, it was like it's now or never," she shared. "What are you going to do internally to make that shift?"

She identified the patterns keeping her small. The prostitute archetype that had her overgiving and burning out. The codependency that showed up in her relationships and her business. The fear of being too visible, too exposed, too much.

This is what subconscious reprogramming actually addresses. Not just the surface behaviours, but the identity patterns underneath that keep recreating the same results.

Karla did the deep work. EFT tapping. Somatic practices. Nervous system regulation. She set boundaries with her ex-husband that made her want to vomit inside, but she did it anyway. And the more she practiced not self-abandoning in her personal life, the more it transferred into her business.

This is what nervous system regulation for entrepreneurs creates. The capacity to hold more without collapsing under the weight of it.

Following Your Sacral Response (Even When Logic Says No)

As a Manifesting Generator with a defined sacral, Karla's superpower is her ability to respond in the moment. But for years, she overrode that wisdom because people told her she was "too hasty" or "pivoted too quickly."

"I think I always knew," she said. "But I used to have people around me saying that I was wrong. And I just thought it was wrong, but I always just knew."

Her sacral doesn't give her an audible "uh-huh" or "uh-uh" like traditional human design teachings suggest. She feels it in her body. A knowing. A sense of rightness or wrongness that she can't ignore.

When the idea for the Seven Figure Business Blueprint dropped in, her sacral said yes. When competitors started copying her mega prompt in May, her sacral told her it was time to launch the GPT. When she was banned from Facebook ads for three weeks during a crucial launch period, she didn't panic. She followed the response.

And she made $20K selling the GPT for $11.

This is body-led decision making in action. Not overthinking. Not forcing. Just responding to what feels aligned and moving with it.

The Visibility Edge No One Talks About

Halfway through our conversation, Karla shared something that made my entire body go still.

"I never thought I had a visibility problem," she said. "I'm a singer. I've worked on stages for 25 years. I'm a show-off. But I realised what the patterns were."

Her visibility edge wasn't about being seen by strangers. It was about being seen by her peers. About accepting that as a 5/2 profile in human design, she would be demonised. That people would project onto her. That they would see what they wanted to see, not who she actually is.

"I realised that if I was going to be visible, I was going to be demonised by people," she explained. "I've been demonised by my ex-husband. I've been demonised throughout my whole life. People only see what they want to see of me to fix their problems. They don't see me."

So she made a decision. She asked herself: what am I willing to be demonised for? What will I stand for no matter what?

And she stopped saying yes to everything. She stopped doing websites and branding. She got clear on exactly what she wanted to live and die by. And she accepted that some people wouldn't like it.

This is what emotional resilience for entrepreneurs actually looks like. Not avoiding the hard edges, but meeting them with EFT, somatic work, and self-compassion. Going into the hermit cave when she needed to integrate, not sabotage. Coming back out when she was ready.

"I just accepted it," she said. "And then I just did it."

The Mission Behind the Pricing

One of the most powerful moments in our conversation was when Karla shared why the Seven Figure Business Blueprint is priced the way it is.

She could charge thousands for it. The depth of knowledge, the coding, the 25 years of experience it represents, it's worth far more than $37.

But that's not the point.

"I don't want any woman to go through this," she told me, tears in her voice. She'd just given away furniture to a woman who'd been locked out of her family home by her husband. No furniture. No food. Two little girls in a small car.

"There are women out there with so much talent who need to be sovereign financially so they don't have to go through something like this," Karla said. "Money, whether we like it or not, is our key to freedom."

This is what holistic business strategy is built on. Not just tactics, but values. Not just revenue goals, but mission. Not just personal success, but collective liberation.

Karla wants women to have the skills to make money. To understand their energy blueprint. To build businesses that give them choices. And she's willing to leave money on the table to make that accessible.

"I'm quite happy being rich," she laughed. "But it doesn't have to cost that much."

What's Dying in 2025 and What's Rising in 2026

I asked Karla what she sees stopping working in the online space, and her answer was direct.

"Stop doing PDFs. Just don't. No more PDFs please."

People need interactive learning. They need high value at lower price points, but it has to be scalable. This is where AI comes in, but not in the way most people think.

"GPTs are going to phase out," Karla predicted. "People will want to learn through AI, but courses will be delivered through AI agents pulling from your specific frameworks, not general knowledge."

She's already coding all her courses into an AI agent so people can ask questions and get answers based on her unique methodology, not ChatGPT's generic responses.

But here's the critical piece: whilst AI is rising, so is the need for human connection.

"People are going to want more human connection," she said. "Building relationships is one of the most important things you can do."

This is what transformational coaching for soulful women addresses. The integration of technology and humanity. Using AI as a tool to scale your impact whilst deepening the relationships that matter.

Karla voice notes people back. Always. She gets flexible with payment plans. She sends birthday hampers. She shows up as a human first.

"Your brand doesn't stop at the transaction," she reminded me. "It continues. And people will get a flavour from you after that transaction."

This is why she has clients who've been with her for three years. Why her backend funnel picks up when her ads are down. Why people rave about working with her.

She doesn't just sell. She serves. She connects. She cares.

The "Of Course" Frequency

As we wrapped up our conversation, I asked Karla about her fuck yes frequency. What does that look like for her moving forward?

"I call it the 'of course' frequency," she said. "Of course I'm going to make a million dollars. Of course I'm going to live in the place I put on my vision board three years ago. Of course I'm going to impact thousands of people."

But she was quick to add the nuance: "There are times I'll look at my accomplishments and go, yeah, but. And start making excuses why that's not good enough. So I'm determined to continue to be in a frequency of the fuck yes, of course, knowing that I can achieve what I want to achieve."

Not from a masculine striving. But from a creative adventuring. From a "let's see what I can do" energy that's rooted in curiosity, not pressure.

This is what energetic alignment in business creates. Not the absence of doubt, but the commitment to keep choosing the frequency of possibility anyway.

What This Means for Your Business

If you're reading this and feeling like your business has outgrown you, like you know the strategy but something internal is keeping you stuck, like you have visibility edges that feel too big to face, hear this:

It's not about having it all figured out. It's about becoming the woman who can hold what you're calling in.

Karla didn't heal everything before she built her million-dollar business. She met the edges as they came. She did the EFT when things felt crunchy. She went into her hermit cave when she needed to integrate. She came back out when her sacral said yes.

And she built a business that serves her values, impacts thousands of people, and gives her the freedom she's always wanted.

This is what becomes possible when you stop trying to force strategies that were never designed for your energy. When you do the identity work first. When you build the systems that can hold you through the hard seasons.

When you finally trust that your way is the right way.

Ready to do your own identity work and build a business that honours your energy blueprint? Visibility Rebirth is launching in February 2025. This is where we do the deep work of shedding survival identities and stepping into embodied authority. DM me on Instagram @jessica.read.ilc or visit jessicaread.com to learn more.

And if you want to dive into your own human design business strategy, check out Karla's Seven Figure Business Blueprint. It's the tool that's helped nearly 5,000 entrepreneurs align their business with their energy. Find Karla on Instagram @iam.karlamaree