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 body rebelled? — welcome. You’re my kind of human.
I’m Aypril Porter — rebel-hearted mentor, Human Design guide, and professional disruptor for healing arts practitioners who are so done with burnout, busywork, and business that feels like bad theater.
You might know me from my bestselling Human Design parenting book. That work? Still alive. Still powerful. But here’s what I learned: the real revolution starts when we stop performing and start reparenting ourselves.
Translation: the work I did to help you raise unconditioned kids turned into helping you un-condition yourself — and finally build a business that doesn’t feel like punishment.
And look, I’ve never played by the rules. I wore a pink tutu, green army boots, and liberty spikes to prom and was told I ruined it. (I didn’t. I made it unforgettable.)
That energy? Still here. Just with better boundaries, deeper wisdom, and a hell of a lot more clarity.
Who I Serve
Healing professionals who are:
✔ Givers, feelers, space-holders, over-functioners
✔ Brilliant at your craft, exhausted by your business
✔ Secretly dreaming of burning it all down and starting over
Acupuncturists, death doulas, coaches, bodyworkers, holistic practitioners — you.
The ones who built heart-led businesses and now wonder why it feels like you’re always behind.
Spoiler: you’re not the problem. The system is.
My Approach: The Heretical Heart™
This isn’t another productivity system. This is a personal revolution.
Inside my signature framework, we dismantle the internalized “shoulds” and build your business from your actual design.
Awareness — See what’s really driving you
Deconstruction — Burn the script
Truth — Reclaim what’s yours
Re-Envisioning — Create from your core, not your coping
Embodiment + Integration — Make it real, sustainably
It’s trauma-aware. Nervous-system-friendly. And absolutely not about quick 6-figure formulas or performative empowerment.
We’re here to build honest business — on your terms.
Doing Business Your Way Means...
✓Charging from self-worth, not scarcity
✓Marketing without dreading your own feed
✓Saying no without spiraling
✓Showing up as you — no masks, no code-switching
And sometimes, yes, it starts with a full-body Pivot! (Friends reference = intentional.)
Why I Do This Work
Because I tried it their way. I studied, certified, strategy-ed myself into burnout.
And when I finally stopped — not just paused, but fully stepped away from the performative hustle — something clicked.
I remembered who I was.
Not just Aypril the coach. Aypril the pattern-breaker. The too-much one. The one who doesn’t play roles, but rewrites them.
Now I help others do the same.
Street Cred (so you know I’m not just winging it):
✓ICF-Certified Coach
✓Human Design Specialist
✓Death Doula
✓Bestselling Author of a Human Design Parenting Book & Workbook
✓Lifelong nonconformist (see: prom and photo above)
✓10+ years in entrepreneurship and coaching
If you're here, you already know:
👉Your work is sacred. The way you’re doing business isn’t.
👉You don’t need more content. You need more you.
👉You’re tired of pretending.
Cool. Let’s burn the blueprint and build something better.
Want in?
→ Need a quick redirect or reality check?
Book a Business Clarity Call — a straight-talking session to get you unstuck and moving.
→ Ready to do business differently — and not do it alone?
Join The Heretical Heart™ — a self-paced program meets sacred community for healing arts practitioners rewriting the way they work.
You’ll move through 6 transformative modules at your own rhythm, while anchored in 6 months of community:
✨ Group chat for real-time support
✨ Weekly live coaching calls
✨ A circle of humans unwinding their own patterns alongside you
This is business coaching for the ones who feel too much — and are finally done pretending.
If you first found me through parenting work — you’re still home.
My bestselling Human Design Parenting Book and Workbook are still alive and thriving — because the journey to reclaiming our design often starts in childhood.
If you're here because you found me through that work: welcome. You're in the right place. We're just taking it deeper now.
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 has such an empathetic and kind way of coaching! She has skillfully coached me through rough patches as well as sessions where I was working on personal growth. I have learned a lot about myself and I’ve made some powerful shifts in my life/work balance since I began working with her. I am so grateful that I found such a supportive coach to help me along my path!”
— Elissa K., Davis, California
