The Gift in It

Holding the Light and the Dark with Dorothy Simone

Dorothy Cascerceri Simone has built a career on her voice — as a journalist, a podcast host, a travel writer, and a storyteller who has always known how to walk into a room and make people feel seen. But for four years, her voice went almost completely silent. In 2019, a routine 20-week anatomy scan changed everything. What followed was one of the most devastating things a person can walk through — and then four years of IVF, failed transfers, miscarriages, and a grief that was quiet some days and crushing on others. Writing and eventually her podcast, That Greenwich Life [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-greenwich-life/id1749317292], became the ways she could give voice to any of it. And when she did, she discovered she wasn't alone. In this conversation Julie and Dorothy talk about the gift of curiosity, the grief that never fully leaves, what it means to hold the light and the dark at the same time, and what a trip to Africa taught her about what actually matters. About rainbow babies, the power of finding your voice through pain, and what it means to build a life and a mission around one simple truth: no matter what anyone's life looks like from the outside, everyone is carrying something. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent Guest: Dorothy Cascerceri Simone @dorothyontv on Instagram and Youtube, www.dorothyontv.com [http://www.dorothyontv.com/] Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co [http://www.thegiftedlife.co/]

Seasons of Hard with Kelly Towart

Kelly Towart has had a decade that would bring most people to their knees. Two bed-bound pregnancies. Two and a half years disabled with long COVID. A foster journey that cracked her heart open — and a reunification that asked her to grieve like she had lost her own child. A husband still navigating his own long COVID. And a daughter she is walking alongside through ADHD, anxiety, and the work of learning to see her own gifts. And through all of it, Kelly has been looking for the treasure. Kelly is a licensed therapist, lifestyle creator, and foster and adoptive mama of three. In this conversation we talk about what it feels like to live inside season after season of hard. About ADHD as a superpower, not a shortcoming. About grieving well, facing what's painful, and trusting that meaning and joy can take root even there. And about what it means to open your heart again after loss — and find that a Safe Haven baby, five days old, was waiting on the other side of that choice. This is what resilience actually looks like from the inside. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent Guest: Kelly Towart @kellytowart Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co [http://www.thegiftedlife.co/]

Nothing to Fix with Jessica Ortner

Jessica Ortner has spent nearly two decades helping millions of people understand one radical idea: that you are not broken. Not the anxiety, not the self-doubt, not the part of you that keeps getting in your own way. All of it has a purpose — and all of it can change. Jessica is a New York Times bestselling author, co-founder of The Tapping Solution, and someone who spent years believing she could hate herself happy. A childhood struggle with reading, a speech impediment, the shame of being held back in second grade — and a nervous system that never forgot any of it, even long after she had proven herself capable a hundred times over. In this conversation, Jessica shares how EFT Tapping — a technique combining acupressure with modern neuroscience — taught her that change doesn't happen through force or willpower. It happens when your body finally feels safe enough to let go. We talk about the moment everything shifted, the three-step Rewired method, how to use tapping before the hard moments — the doctor's appointments, the IEP meetings, the conversations you've been dreading — and how to introduce tapping to your children in a way that actually lands. This is a conversation about rewiring, not fixing. About discovering, not proving. About trusting that the dots will connect — even when you can't see where they're leading. Jessica's new book, Rewired, is available now wherever books are sold. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent Guest: Jessica Ortner @thetappingsolution, www.thetappingsolution.com [http://www.thetappingsolution.com/] Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co [http://www.thegiftedlife.co/]

Life Beyond Limits with Aimee Elsner

What happens when the child who was told she wasn't smart enough becomes the woman who's helped hundreds of people discover what they're truly capable of? Aimee Elsner — occupational therapist, yoga teacher, breast cancer survivor, and founder of Power Yoga Collective and Balanced Being OT — has built a life that quietly defies every label placed on her. Diagnosed with a learning disability as a child and told to aim low, she found her way to Boston University through sheer honesty, a cocktail waitressing job, and the courage to walk into an interview and tell the truth about who she was. In this conversation, Aimee and Julie explore what it really means to see people — children and adults alike — for what they're capable of rather than what they struggle with. Aimee shares how a breast cancer diagnosis at 38 deepened her relationship with yoga and ultimately transformed the way she shows up for her students and her OT clients. She talks about the gift of slowing down, the power of the nervous system, and why your toolbox looks nothing like anyone else's — and that's exactly the point. Whether you're a parent navigating a diagnosis, someone still carrying a label that was never yours to carry, or simply someone who has wondered if there's more to who you are than what you've been told—this conversation is for you. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent Guest: Aimee Elsner @ctpoweryoga, @pycpoundridge, CTPowerYoga.com, PYCPoundRidge.com, and BalancedBeingOT.com Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co [http://www.thegiftedlife.co/]

Wired this Way with Sarah Sadie Newett

Sarah Sadie Newitt is the founder of SSN, an award-winning movement studio in Westport, Connecticut, built on one belief: that people should feel powerful, free, and alive in their bodies. With over two decades of experience as a professional dancer and aerialist, she has performed with artists like Lady Gaga, The Roots, and Lil' Kim — and built something entirely her own. She is also someone who spent most of her life being the last to know about things that were obvious to everyone else. In this conversation, Sarah and Julie talk about masking, recovery, and a recent ADHD diagnosis that reframed decades of patterns she had always treated as problems to solve. About building a business on your own terms. About motherhood, and what presence actually costs — and gives back. This is a conversation about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and the gifts that were hiding inside them all along. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent Guest: Sarah Sadie Newett @sarahsadienewett, www.sarahsadienewett.com [https://www.sarahsadienewett.com/] Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co [http://www.thegiftedlife.co/]