How Amber Became a Coach in a Pandemic (+ an Intro to Human Design)

How Amber Lost Her Job and Became a Coach in The Middle of a Pandemic (+ an Intro to Human Design)

This is an interview with Amber Knight.

Hey, Amber. Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.

I am a 27 year old Canadian living in the beautiful ski town of Whistler, BC. I have worked every job under the sun from server to nanny to admin assistant but now I am working my dream career as an empowerment and mindset life coach and Human Design practitioner.

I started my business just 5 short months ago on a whim with no formal experience, education or really idea what I was doing. What I did have was a passion to change the world and a lifetime of experiences that had taught me strength, resiliency and determination.

After surviving a near fatal car accident at 24 years old I embarked on a roller coaster of a self-growth and healing journey that helped me recognize my unique gifts as a leader and teacher and my purpose to guide women home to their true selves. Starting and running my business has been a direct result of that journey and growth.

As a coach I help women break out of their boxes and re-claim their freedom by creating lives based on their own desires. I find that most women aren’t even aware of their conditioning and why they are living life a certain way, striving and hustling for things they often don’t even want.

They have dreams and desires but don’t know how to make them happen, and that’s where I come in. I guide women through the process of understanding the shoulds, the have tos and the expectations that are holding them back and help them begin to heal from a lifetime of fear, doubt and limiting beliefs.

Through my courses, workshops and 1:1 coaching I introduce women to their unique energetic blueprints through Human Design, walk with them through the darkness of understanding and healing their conditioning, teach them the mindset tools to begin living in alignment, inspire them to dream big and empower them to start taking action towards creating a life beyond their wildest imagination.

I may be biased but I think women are such beautiful, talented, powerful creatures who have the ability to radically change the world and I am on a mission to lead as many women as possible towards their path and recognizing their greatness in order to leave this planet a better place than when I found it.

When I’m not coaching and changing the world you can find me in the bath with a good book (I’m Jodi Picoult’s biggest fan and a sucker for anything manifestation related), snowboarding on a warm blue bird day, watching Disney movies or playing Scrabble with my partner, and daydreaming in my journal.

What was your life like before losing your job?

My life was HECTIC. I was working full time in a busy fine dining restaurant, I had just started a part time job doing HR for a job recruitment company, and in my “spare time” (which is a term I use very loosely because I barely had any) I was babysitting for a few different families.

Now you might think this sounds like a lot for anyone, and you would be right! But sadly this is how I had lived my life for the past 13 years, ever since I got my first part time job in a family friend’s bakery.

I was always balancing multiple jobs, school and babysitting gigs. This was all before I found Human Design of course, and so looking back through the lens of HD I can see that my poor Manifestor soul was working like a generator as if I had sacral energy; aka working myself straight into the ground.

I basically existed out of alignment, my not-self theme (Anger) was like the head mistress of my emotions, she ran the show. I desperately wanted to get out of the restaurant industry but had internalized this wildly limiting belief that to survive in the expensive tourist ski town I lived in I had to work a service job that provided tips.

I felt frustrated, depressed, exhausted, and most of all lost. I was making a decent amount of money but I was far too busy and rundown to even enjoy it. I barely saw my friends, I barely used my ski pass. My life existed of work, sleep and Netflix.

How does living out of alignment look and feel like, and what did you do to change that?

One word- ANGRY. I was SO angry at the world. I was angry at my boss, at rude customers, at my boyfriend, at the bus driver, at my landlords, at my friends.

Everything triggered me and nothing ever seemed to go my way. I was stuck in this victim mentality of life happening TO me rather than FOR me, which just made me spiral deeper and deeper out of alignment.

I would feel anger and absolutely EXPLODE and then I wouldn’t be able to snap myself out of it. I spent hours every single day raging and yelling and crying. My boyfriend, friends and coworkers walked on eggshells around me and were utterly confused as to why I was so easily offended and upset.

This led me to feel guilty and ashamed and to create stories in my mind about people not liking me and not wanting to be around me (looking back there was probably some truth to those stories, and for good reason!) Basically it was a miserable and confusing existence.

Now that I’ve made the effort to start living in alignment with my Human Design and my truth, when I find myself slipping out of alignment it looks and feels a little different.

Yes I do still feel anger; this will always be my not-self theme so it’s not going anywhere. But it’ll feel more like starting to lose my temper or I’ll catch myself snapping and almost immediately become curious about what’s going on and take steps to shift that energy and get back into alignment ASAP.

The very tip of the iceberg of me beginning to experiment with alignment actually happened at the end of 2019 when I read You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero while I was in Bali. I had brought it with me, along with 6 other novels, and once I tore through those novels I figured I might as well crack it open.

Thank god I did because this book changed my life! I call it my awakening book, the book that opened my eyes to how my life could be and helped me embark on the long journey home to myself.

Fast forward to early 2020, what helped me really shift back into alignment was committing to doing a Happiness Project. Before COVID happened and I lost my job, I picked up The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. This book had been sitting on my shelf for years and had moved with me to 3 different houses, but I had never bothered to open it.

After my awakening in Bali I began to devour personal development books and this was just there, easily accessible on my shelf so I gave it a try. It inspired me to start my own Happiness Project and so at the beginning of March (which is also when I began to dip my toe into Human Design) I started the first month of my project with the theme ENERGY BOOST.

I set out two goals- to move my body every day and to start following a morning routine. I created a tracking sheet and dedicated some time every few days to blogging about how it was going. I immediately began to feel a difference in my energy and notice a difference in my mood.

When COVID hit Canada and I lost my jobs it was a blessing in disguise. I continued with my Happiness Project for the rest of March, April and May, and then decided to let it go and pursue other avenues of self-growth and personal development.

What were the big and scary decisions you were called to make in 2020?

Oh my gosh, SO MANY! The first one was signing up for my Human Design certification. This was the first big decision I made using my emotional authority and the HELL YES that I came to after riding my wave made absolutely zero sense.

I was committing to a year course that was a multiple 5 figure investment at a time when I had no job and was living off of government COVID assistance, not to mention at this point I had yet to start my business and didn’t even have the faintest idea of becoming a coach.

But if I’ve learned anything from living in alignment with Human Design, trusting the universe and following your truth it’s this- it doesn’t matter if it makes sense or not, all that matters is that it FEELS GOOD. And becoming a Human Design practitioner felt so damn good!

Some other big scary decisions I was called to make in 2020…

Launching my coaching business with nothing but a fierce passion to change the world and zero clue what I was doing
Hiring my own life coach and draining my bank account to pay for it, something that I would never have dared do before working on my money mindset&n