After 3 years of podcasting and 102 episodes, this podcast has a new name!
Stay Rooted with Astrid Heystee was born from a question I could not stop thinking about:
"Are you using AI, or is AI using you? We are gaining speed. But what are we losing?"
When I started this podcast in 2023 as Travel and Work with Human Design, the name made complete sense. I am a Human Design Embodiment Coach, traveling the world, working location-independently, using Human Design to navigate freedom in every dimension. But somewhere along the way the show became something bigger. The inner world took over from the outer world. Nervous system regulation, stress reduction, the art of slowing down, these became just as important as location freedom and financial independence.
And then AI arrived. Fast. I started experimenting. I fell into AI rabbit holes. And loved the thrill rides of the dopamine hits. I could do things with AI that I didn't have time for working with a team.
I coined a term for it: AI magical time. Time collapsed between input and output. That experience of dopamine, speed, and wonder when you realize you can build something in five minutes that used to take months. It is real. It is exciting. And it comes with a cost nobody is talking about from the inside. Yet the output overwhelm was real! My nervous system cannot keep up. We are the first generation that is adventuring in a new frontier. Develop a relationship with AI. Because the world is changing fast and AI is changing our perception of the world.
AI is moving faster than your nervous system can handle. Your mind says yes. Your body is paying the price.
That line became the spine of this show. I was witnessing it everywhere, in myself, in the digital nomad community, in entrepreneurs losing the thread back to their own bodies in the process.
This is not a podcast about AI fear. It is not tech hype. It is lived experience from someone building AI systems while fiercely protecting her own nervous system, creativity, and humanity.
If you have been listening to the podcast since the beginning, thank you! You are not losing anything. Human Design, travel stories, honest conversations about freedom, it is all still here. Your feed stays intact. All 102 episodes exactly where you left them.
What is coming: new solo episodes, guest conversations, and a short retreat period before the new season begins. I am going to stay rooted in my offline life and I am going to have conversations within the Digital Nomad Community. And by the end of this summer Season 5 kicks off fully!
Welcome to the Stay Rooted podcast!
00:00 Welcome and the new name00:33 Why the old name no longer fit01:48 The inner world evolution02:22 AI arrived and the question that changed everything03:08 AI magical time — the excitement and the cost05:41 What I witnessed in the digital nomad community07:11 What this show is and is not08:01 The line that became the spine of the show08:29 Who I am11:31 Conscious AI collaboration13:11 What stays the same15:05 What is coming next15:36 Going offline — and why that is exactly what this show is about16:55 Stay rooted
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