Latest Giftedness Podcast Episodes
How to embrace your giftedness as an adult. Meet Natasa Heydra
Gifted Unleashed - August 01, 2021 22:00 - 47 minutesNatasa Heydra loves working within different areas of art, culture and design. She is a textile artist, teaches Visual Arts at the Kulturskolen in Viborg & curates and organises exhibitions, publications and art-projects. She has always been fascinated by cultural expressions of identity, like f...
How do you become a SENG Board Member? Meet Finance Chair Carrie Pokrefke
Gifted Unleashed - July 18, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutesCarrie Pokrefke is an Audit Manager for BECU, the nation’s largest Community Credit Union, based in Seattle, Washington. She is an accomplished and experienced leader with over 20 years of experience in financial services as both an internal auditor and as a state and federal regulator. She enjo...
EP24: Why do some gifted children lack self-esteem?
Champion Your Gifted Child - July 16, 2021 20:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhy do some gifted children lack self-esteem? I think it is a valid question...even if not all of them do! Some children were gifted with so much more intensity, depth, and intelligence. Yet, they don’t appreciate and value their self-worth. With asynchronous development and overexcitabilitie...
Liz Trujillo from My Tru Design created the Unleash Monday brand and learned about her own giftedness!
Gifted Unleashed - July 04, 2021 22:00 - 46 minutesLiz studied communication design with a sub-specialization in interactivity and multimedia where she focused on web design. She has been working in the corporate world for 4 years throughout that time she always had people who wanted her help in creating logos so in 2019 she created the brand My...
EP23- Is my Child gifted or just smart?
Champion Your Gifted Child - July 02, 2021 21:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsSometimes we know that our highly gifted child is 2 standard deviations or more from the norm. Sometimes we wonder: is my child gifted or just smart? In this episode we review a strategy to differentiate based on two books: -Helping Gifted Children Soar (2000) by Carol Strip and Gretchen Hirs...
Do you need a Nerd Coach? Meet Tracy Winter
Gifted Unleashed - June 20, 2021 22:00 - 44 minutesTracy has been an executive and leadership coach for over ten years. She helps neurodivergent leaders become superstar leaders through nerd coach, her coaching practice. Tracy has coached up and down the career ladder, from job seekers to vice-presidents, and has worked in different industries,...
Getting perspective of what it means to be gifted: Meet Cliff Wigtil
Gifted Unleashed - June 06, 2021 22:00 - 42 minutesCliff Wigtil has been in giftedness circles for over twenty years, and has been formally studying giftedness for well over a decade. He provides coaching services and welcome clients from a diversity of backgrounds. TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: If you have such a profound perspective, you als...
EP22- Depression and the Gifted Child
Champion Your Gifted Child - May 28, 2021 18:42 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, we review what Depression looks like and how we can help as parents, coaches, or teachers. We believe there are some things we can do to counter any negative mental health impact: Check out our poster in our website's blog post: Depression and the Gifted Child 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
The Voice of Dyslexia: Meet Gabriela Alvares
Gifted Unleashed - May 23, 2021 22:00 - 43 minutesGabriela Alvares is a student majoring in Communications Media studies and minoring in Public Relations at Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut. She was born in South Africa to parents from Portugal where she calls home. She grew up as a third culture kid and has lived this global and inspirati...
EP21- The Healthy Mind Platter
Champion Your Gifted Child - May 22, 2021 20:44 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat is Interpersonal Neurobiology? It is essentially an interdisciplinary field created by Dr.Dan Siegel that brings together many areas of science including but not limited to anthropology, biology, linguistics, mathematics, physics, and psychology to determine common findings of the human e...
EP20- Philo-Cognition, a new definition of Giftedness
Champion Your Gifted Child - May 14, 2021 19:48 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsInstead of using the word gifted, Dr. Nusbaum from the University of Lyon, France, introduces the concept of Philo-cognitive to describe "people who only like to think and think differently. " In this episode, we review the findings of her MRI studies -Philo-Cognitive brain structural differ...
Living Life on the Bright Side! Meet Isabelle Mosca the founder of FACES 4 Autism
Gifted Unleashed - May 09, 2021 22:00 - 54 minutesIsabelle Mosca, curator/creator for Life on the Bright Side and founder of the nonprofit FACES 4 Autism. She shines a light on families facing neurodiversity across the lifespan, encourages and uplifts caregivers to live their best lives with programs, events and workshops. Her programs are dona...
EP.19 A Social Belonging Experiment
Champion Your Gifted Child - May 07, 2021 03:18 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIf your child is struggling socially, you are going to LOVE the Social Belonging Concepts I am about to share. The actual Social Thinking concept was created by Michelle Garcia Winner and her team to help kids navigate the social world: what an amazing work! In our Gifted Program, we thin...
Empowering exceptional individuals! Meet Kanan Tekchandani
Gifted Unleashed - April 25, 2021 22:00 - 52 minutesKanan 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 h...
EP18- Breathing Exercise to Enhance Executive Functioning
Champion Your Gifted Child - April 22, 2021 00:11 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsControl your breath, control your mood✨ Good news for you gifted moms: it’s time to say "hooray!" If you are worried about your gifted child's low self-esteem, hyperactivity and stress, there are natural ways we can help. Meditation is an ancient scientific technique to calm the mind. It is a...
EP17-Top 5 benefits of Exercise for kids
Champion Your Gifted Child - April 16, 2021 19:18 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, we discuss why children need physical activity every day. We have a FREE poster for you to print and introduce 7 FUN activities for physical exercise at home! Download your FREE Poster Here! Also, read our BLOG on why Children NEED daily exercise Let’s make it a priorit...
Living the Giraffe Life! Meet Lucinda Leo
Gifted Unleashed - April 11, 2021 22:00 - 50 minutesLucinda 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 i...
EP16- Self-Motivation for kids
Champion Your Gifted Child - April 09, 2021 17:24 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIsn't it so frustrating to bribe a child just so that something gets done? Studies show that hovering, pushing, and bribing could do more harm than good. Because how can we ensure our child is self-motivated even when no one is watching? How can we teach this lifelong skill that is so critical t...
EP15- How can I find time to spend with my highly sensitive child?
Champion Your Gifted Child - April 02, 2021 05:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings2020 was the year that we moms turned into homemakers, breadwinners, school teachers, and psychologists all at once... 2020 was the year we got our already spread thin schedule overloaded with a 5x pf tasks and to-do lists.... 2020 was also the year our gifted, spirited and highly sensitive ...
As a gifted adult it is important to find your "why"! Meet Ben Koch
Gifted Unleashed - March 28, 2021 22:00 - 52 minutesBen 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, healin...
EP14- Binet or the Gifted Intelligence Unleashed.
Champion Your Gifted Child - March 19, 2021 21:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsTune in to learn about Alfred Binet, the creator of the IQ test. We will learn the story of his early life, his atypical career, his discoveries, his impact in modern psychology, his take on definition of intelligence and limitations of the IQ test... More info +citing literature : https://...
From the Antarctic to the Gifted Women’s Summit! Meet Erin Keeley Mar 15
Gifted Unleashed - March 14, 2021 23:00 - 50 minutesErin 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 he...
From the Antarctic to the Gifted Women’s Summit! Meet Erin Keleey Mar 15
Gifted Unleashed - March 14, 2021 23:00 - 49 minutesErin 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 he...
From the Antarctic to the Women’s Summit! Meet Erin Keleey Mar 15
Gifted Unleashed - March 14, 2021 23:00 - 49 minutesErin 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 he...
EP13- Anxiety Attacks- What NOT to do
Champion Your Gifted Child - March 12, 2021 22:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, we review what NOT to do when our child is experiencing anxiety. Join us on our FREE 3 day Challenge!💛 On DAY 1, we will review all favorite tools, concepts and strategies to help kiddo soothe when having an anxiety episode. We will also review in more depth what NOT to do :...
You cannot opt out of being gifted! Let’s learn how to embrace it with Nadya Abo-Shaeer
Gifted Unleashed - February 28, 2021 23:00 - 59 minutesNadya 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 p...
EP12- Attachment Theories and Correlations with Executive functioning
Champion Your Gifted Child - February 26, 2021 22:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe will review secure attachment theories to enhance Executive functioning. We will review the Interpersonal Neurobiology take on categories of attachment, the Mary Ainsworth Strange Situation experiment We will also see how a trauma informed perspective coupled with secure attachment can he...
Designing 145+ IQ tests for hyper gifted children with Femke Hovinga
Gifted Unleashed - February 14, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutesFemke 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. Ch...
EP11- Happy Valentine's Day!
Champion Your Gifted Child - February 14, 2021 17:21 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsSharing my 5 favorite things to do to enhance Self-Love. Spending a few minutes in reflective practices will help us show up the best version of ourselves and design a life of fulfillment. Let's take some time in, together, on this Valentine's Day 💛
Our Gifted Kids with Sophia Elliott
Gifted Unleashed - January 31, 2021 23:00 - 53 minutesSophia 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 m...
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