About Aypril + The Heretical Heart™
You were never meant to contort yourself into someone else's strategy.
If you've ever felt like your business demands you shrink, edit, or perform just to be taken seriously, and your whole body said absolutely not, you already know why you're here.
I'm Aypril Porter, Human Design Guide, published author, professional pattern-breaker, and someone who wore a pink tutu, green army boots, and liberty spikes to prom and was told she ruined it.
She didn't. She made it unforgettable. (and yes, I just shifted into third person, channeling my younger self).
That energy never left. I just stopped apologizing for it. That's what The Heretical Heart is.
What I Actually Do
I help entrepreneurs, healers, helpers, and creatives see what they can't see from inside their own lives.
Not by handing them another framework to follow, or telling them to think more positively or want it harder, but by looking at their Human Design chart and showing them exactly where their design and their behavior are working against each other, and what shifts when they stop trying to operate as someone they were never built to be.
I've sat with people in grief, trained as a death doula, and I know what it costs to carry something that was never yours, and what it feels like to finally put it down.
It changes everything, not all at once, but in the way that actually lasts.
This is not cookie-cutter Human Design, it’s integrated Human Design that you can actually use.
Why I Take This Seriously
I'm ICF-certified, and that matters to me because the coaching industry has a lot of people hanging out a shingle with no real training or accountability, and a professional standard isn't a vanity credential, it's a commitment to doing this work with integrity. (Integrity is one of my top three values, along with authenticity and freedom…oh wait, make that four, add curiosity to the list - I am a deeply curious person)
I'm also a published author whose Human Design parenting book has reached thousands of families and continues to, and that work taught me something I bring into every session: the same conditioning patterns that shape how we parent are the ones quietly running our businesses, and the deconditioning work is the same work, just in a different context.
I have an 8th house Stellium, sun included, and a 29th degree moon sitting at the exact threshold between what's ending and what hasn't begun yet. I don't just tolerate the underworld, I'm built for it. For years I thought that this was something to fix within me, but what I realized was that I was just trying to connect with the wrong people who weren’t ready for the depth.
Who This Work Is For
Entrepreneurs who are sharp, experienced, and exhausted from trying to fix something that was never the problem, just misread.
People who lead with their values and can't figure out why that keeps feeling like a liability instead of an asset.
Anyone who has done the mindset work, the strategy work, the inner work, and is still sitting in the parking lot wondering why nothing has shifted.
You don't need to know anything about Human Design to work with me. You just need to be open to exploring who you might be if you stopped playing the roles you thought you had to and dropped more fully into who you actually are and what you truly want.
If You Found Me Through the Parenting Work…
The Human Design Parenting Book and Workbook are still alive because the journey to reclaiming your own design often starts with understanding how you were shaped as a child, and if that's where you came in, welcome, the work just got more personal.
This is deconditioning as rebellion. Business as truth.
And a homecoming to yourself.
Check out my Human Design parenting books
These books are great for parents navigating how to raise their children, how to reparent themselves, and even how to support their relationship with their parents.
“Aypril doesn’t give you more strategy. She sees the pattern underneath your strategy.
In one session, she helped me untangle what I’d been overcomplicating for months. I stopped second guessing myself. I stopped over-explaining. I finally trusted my own design.
My business feels like mine again.”
— Client M.P.
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Heretical Truths
These aren’t affirmations.
They’re permission slips. Clarity cues. Unlearning invitations for the ones building a different way.
“Strategy isn’t supposed to feel like self-abandonment.”“What you’re afraid of losing by doing it your way isn’t even yours to keep.”“If you have to numb yourself to sell it, it’s not the thing.”"You don't have to believe harder. You have to stop pretending."“You’re not too sensitive. You’re too honest to perform.”"The version of you that already knows — that's the one we're building from."“What you build from self-trust will always outlast what you build from fear.”"Manifesting from someone else's design is just hoping in disguise."“Life gets simpler when you stop living it for other people.”If you feel called out reading these, I'm calling you in.