Origin Story: Redefining What Gifted Really Means

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/]

Origin Story: Redefining What Gifted Really Means

What does it mean to live a gifted life—and who gets to decide? Before the guests arrive, Julie goes first. In this opening episode, she shares the personal story behind The Gifted Life™ and why this podcast exists—from growing up in an era that measured worth by achievement, to burnout, diagnosis, and the parenting moments that quietly dismantled everything she thought she knew about giftedness. This is the story of how she stopped asking how to fit in and started asking what her gifts were really for. Of connecting the dots backward and finding that the life she didn't plan was building something she couldn't yet see. If you've ever felt like your richest qualities don't fit the standard definition of success—this one is for you.