Kanan Tekchandani is a Relationship Whisperer and an actually autistic specialist coach for exceptional individuals, their partners and families. After years of working with highly intelligent exceptionally wonderful individuals to declutter their homes, Kanan realised her true purpose lay in helping them to clear the misunderstandings that were cluttering their ability to experience connection, peace and happiness in their most important relationships Kanan’s ability to translate different peop...
Apr 25, 2021•52 min•Ep. 21
Lucinda Leo is a hypnotherapist and coach based in Brighton, England. Although she always knew she was bright, Lucinda grew up believing that her intensity and quirks were totally separate and detracted from her intelligence. She became so good at camouflaging her ‘weirdness’ that she ended up in a job that leached her soul and surrounded by people who didn’t get her. It wasn’t until Lucinda went looking for ways to support her intense and sensitive children that she discovered her giftedness an...
Apr 11, 2021•51 min•Ep. 20
Ben Koch am an entrepreneur, educator, coach, healer, and mindfulness expert with 20 years of meditation experience. As co-founder and CEO of an education company based in Dallas, he has sought for ways to merge his role in the educational revolution with his passion for self-development, healing modalities, and practices that help one find and align with their deeper life purpose (IKIGAI). TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: G ifted adults usually have gifted kids The label “gifted” doesn’t matter as ...
Mar 28, 2021•52 min•Ep. 19
Erin Keeley has an inspiring life story of tenacity that began with studying climate change in Antarctica for her Master’s in Engineering and then took a sudden turn when her brother, also an engineer, took his own life in 2002. Instead of going on to complete her PhD, she decided to dedicate her life to understanding how our culture contributes to individual pain and suffering. She has since dedicated her life to human services that make cultural differences and create more life satisfaction fo...
Mar 14, 2021•51 min•Ep. 18
Nadya Abo-Shaeer was identified as a gifted child but choose not to embrace nor identify with this label. As a gifted teenager and collage student she immersed herself into studying as much and diverse as she possibly could. She is leading a typical life of a multipotential gifted neurodiverse person but only realised that so much of who she is and her own story is tied to this identity. Now she is starting to embrace her intensity and her bubbly personality and living her life to her full poten...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 17
Femke Hovinga knows which challenges hyper giftedness can entail. Despite a hefty portion of potential, she underperformed for years and developed fear of failure. Femke obtained her diploma by hanging and strangling, after which she followed courses in journalism and business administration. Challenges became opportunities. She trained as a talent coach and from there she specialised in 145+ IQ. At Talentissimo she guides children, parents and schools. She also gives lectures. In addition, Femk...
Feb 14, 2021•47 min•Ep. 16
Sophia Elliott is the founder and podcast host of Our Gifted Kids. She has had a career full of turns and new learnings but found her passion and calling advocation for gifted children and their education. She is a supporter and curator of information for parents of gifted children. She is the mother of three gifted kids and shares her journey and lets other parents of gifted children know that they are not alone. Her podcast and community is just getting started! TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: Th...
Jan 31, 2021•53 min•Ep. 15
Julie Skolnick is the Founder of With Understanding Comes Calm, LLC, through which she guides parents of gifted and distractible children, mentors 2e adults, trains teachers on how to understand and address 2e strengths and struggles. Julie serves as Secretary to the Maryland Superintendent’s Gifted and Talented Advisory Council , is an advisor for “The G Word” film. She is the SENG Maryland liaison, a SENG Model Parent Group (SMPG) trained facilitator and on the Simultaneous Supports committee ...
Jan 17, 2021•52 min•Ep. 14
Pascal Mäser is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the University of Basel. In addition of being a brilliant scientist and a great guitar player, he is also a very good chess player! With the recent success of the Netflix miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit”, chess sales have skyrocketed in the last few weeks. I used this opportunity to invite Pascal onto the show and ask him all my burning questions I had about chess! TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: To be a goo...
Jan 03, 2021•45 min•Ep. 13
Marc Smolowitz is a multi-award-winning director, producer and executive producer who has been significantly involved in 50+ successful independent films wearing many hats across the film and entertainment business In 2009, Marc founded 13th Gen, a San Francisco based film company that works with a dynamic range of independent film partners globally to oversee the financing, production, post-production, marketing, sales, and distribution efforts of a vibrant portfolio of films and filmmakers. In...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 12
Born in France, Pascale moved to Norway about 25 years ago. After working a long time as a teacher, she decided that she needed a career change. She became a gestalt therapist and established her therapy practice in Arendal, the little town in Southern Norway: Arendal Psykoterapi og Utvikling (which translates as Arendal Psychotherapy and Development). Gestalt therapy is an approach which brings the whole of our being into focus. Her focus as a therapist turned gradually toward giftedness as she...
Dec 06, 2020•41 min•Ep. 11
Two weeks ago Laurence learned about the English term “giftedness” by listening to this podcast. After hearing a few of the guests describe their experiences she stared doing her own google research about this topic. She could relate to the stories and the checklists. A week ago she reached out to a gifted specialist in Munich for her own evaluation. Four days ago she had her appointment and the confirmation that she is indeed an intellectually gifted adult. She is currently processing this info...
Nov 22, 2020•52 min•Ep. 10
After years of feeling “too much,” Aurora Remember Holtzmann finally realised that intensity, is the source of her greatest power. Now instead of beating herself up about not measuring up to her own self-imposed standards, she is on a mission to help gifted and outside-the-box thinkers befriend their brains and use their fire without getting burned through her Embracing Intensity Podcast and community, coaching, and strengths-based educational assessment. TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: If you real...
Nov 08, 2020•46 min•Ep. 9
Daniel Bruce Levin tested in the genius level in first grade which makes him an intellectually gifted adult. His biography reads like he lived five lives instead of only one. Here is a short bio of what he did so far: He walked away from an opportunity to run a billion dollar business, to hitchhike around the world to find happiness and inner peace. He studied in a seminary five years and left one day before becoming a Rabbi and he has lived as a Monk in a monastery for 10 years. As Director of ...
Oct 25, 2020•52 min•Ep. 8
Saskia De Feijter is a conscious knitter, entrepreneur, podcaster and mom of two. Yes, she is definitely a multipotentialite and maybe also a gifted adult? She is currently on her journey of discovering giftedness as a topic and as an explanation for herself. I invited her onto this show to share with us her story and her struggles to accept the fact that she might be indeed an unidentified adult. She shares her story of how she grew up not fitting in but always knowing exactly who she was and w...
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 7
Paula Prober is a psychotherapist, consultant, blogger, and author in private practice in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Over the 35+ years she has worked with the gifted, Paula has been a teacher and presenter at universities, webinars, and conferences. She consults internationally with gifted adults and parents of gifted children. Her first book, Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth, is an in-depth look at giftedness including case studies, strategies for greater se...
Sep 27, 2020•40 min•Ep. 6
Craig is an amazing person! He spent most of his life in the navy and travelled the world. But only when he retired from the military and worked in corporate America, he realised he was different. It turns out Craig is on the Autism spectrum with Aspergers and this is the reason why reading facial expressions and other communication cues do not come naturally to him. But he realised that communication and interactions between people is so important that he started learning and applying the scien...
Sep 13, 2020•44 min•Ep. 5
I had the pleasure to speak to Jennifer Harvey Sallin. She is the founding director of InterGifted, an oasis for gifted adults in the neuronorm desert. She shares her incredible story of being an identified gifted child who grew up in an enriched classroom environment but who was never told that giftedness and all its attributes will be part of her identity for the rest of her life. Only once she suffered through gifted related struggles in her mid-twenties, she started exploring what it means t...
Aug 30, 2020•46 min•Ep. 4
In this episode I had the pleasure to talk to Dr. Marie-Lise Schläppy. She is a Marine Biologist and also an expert in gifted education. She shares with us her story and her hypothesis that we better not call it what it is: gifted! A lot of unidentified gifted adults are put off by the term “gifted” due to stigma. In order to capture their attention and to start a conversation it might be better we use synonyms to describe giftedness such as “intensity” “complexity” and “sensitivity”. We also ta...
Aug 16, 2020•33 min•Ep. 3
After talking to my friend Nicole in the last episode, I went on a quest to find out more about the topic of unidentified gifted adults and about myself. I share my personal story on how I learned that I was indeed gifted, too. This was an unexpected and emotional discovery. Realizing that this is a “thing” and that 2 % of the population fall into this category made me rethink the content of my podcast. I would like to deticate this show to the topic of gifted adults. But would love to include r...
Aug 12, 2020•20 min•Ep. 2
If there are gifted children, there are by default gifted adults. But a lot of them do not know. They are the so called “unidentified gifted adults”. Nicole shares her story how she, by pure chance, learned at age 36 that she is intellectually gifted. Her IQ is over 130 points and this brings it’s own sets of challenges. You might think of gifted adults as geniuses and math whizz but most gifted adults are none of those! Instead of having it easy at school, at work and in relationships, they fac...
Aug 12, 2020•39 min•Ep. 1
Do you suffer from imposter syndrome? Have you been called „too much“, „too intense“ „too sensitive“? Do you just hate inequality? Do you have difficulties finding your career path because you are a multi potential person who has a 1000 ideas and 500 projects... all at the same time? Do you have a weird evolved sense of humour? Do you suffer from dyslexia but are fast at grasping new concepts? Do you have a hard time fitting in and sometime feel like a minority of one? Well you are not alone! Th...
Jul 25, 2020•6 min0
