7 May 2026
E41: Purpose and Human Design with Gabi da Gama
What if everything you've been through - the wrong turns, the crises, the years of feeling lost - was never wasted? What if it was actually pointing you toward your purpose all along?
In this episode of the Design Your Success podcast, I am joined by Gabi da Gama, a Connection and Purpose Coach who helps people uncover their authentic gifts and life purpose by looking at the very things most of us want to leave behind: our wounds, our detours, and our hardest chapters.
Gabi shares her own story of leaving a long career in tourism, spending years feeling directionless, and eventually discovering how Human Design and Gene Keys together offered her not just a framework - but a profound permission slip to be exactly who she is. As a 3/5 Emotional Manifesting Generator, she recognised that her trial-and-error path, which she'd spent years quietly ashamed of, was actually her greatest qualification.
Together, Gabi and I explore:
Why purpose is not a destination you arrive at, but a way of being that keeps unfolding
How Human Design's Incarnation Cross and Gene Keys offer layers of confirmation about your life's themes
The difference between what you do and how you do it - and why the how is where your purpose actually lives
Profile Line 3 and the shame that so many people carry around "not getting it right" - and why that shame is the greatest misunderstanding
Why most conditioned patterns aren't flaws to fix, but survival strategies deserving compassion
The role of the nervous system, emotional waves, and the body in finding real direction
How crisis often precedes clarity - and what it looks like when someone begins to rise
This is a rich, honest conversation between two women who have both found their way to alignment through Human Design - and who are now helping others do the same. If you've ever wondered whether your past has any real meaning, or felt like you've been searching too long without finding your answer, this episode is for you.
About Gabi da Gama:
Gabi da Gama is a Connection and Purpose Coach, who after feeling lost and directionless for several years after a long career in tourism, now helps other people find their life purpose, using clues to be found in the ups and downs of their life history, their emotions, childhood wounds and relationship challenges. By combining these with her clients' Human Design and Gene Keys profiles, she guides them to uncover their authentic expression and unique gifts to reconnect with their true potential.
Her life philosophy is that there is a gift in every hardship, simply by being willing to explore it. There is treasure to be found in every dark cave, and life leaves the clues, if we only understand how to spot them and have a map to help point the way. She believes that our truth can only be found inside of ourselves and that by reconnecting to our authentic inner selves, we can make empowering new connections with others, to enable our gifts and strengths to be recognised and shared. Her world vision is that of a large, colourful mosaic, with each individual finding their place and making their unique contribution, to help unite us all.
Connect with Gabi on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-da-gama-40891a269/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-da-gama-40891a269/)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gabrielle.dagama (https://www.facebook.com/gabrielle.dagama)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabidagama_22 (https://www.instagram.com/gabidagama_22)
The Design Your Success podcast is hosted by Nicoline Huizinga - Human Design business strategist, author, and international speaker. Each episode explores how Human Design can help self-employed women build businesses that are truly aligned with who they are.
