Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

October 11, 2025
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October 11, 2025
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What if the Wonder of You Shows in Storytelling Skills? Not Branding.

Do you know this problem? You want to be seen and understood. You want customers –the good ones, worthy of your time and talents. More income would lower your stress, but you’ll be happy with some steady cash flow every month. Marketing feels like selling and you don’t like it. Someone told […]
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September 24, 2025
60 Writers
September 24, 2025
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What to Expect Past 60

Thanks to AI The Boomers Are Taking a Victory Lap Boomers. That’s everyone alive between 60 and 78. How come I’m seeing so many articles this month about people going past 60? Is it me, or is it the algorithm? Is it the last of the boomers, bringing up the rear to […]
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September 13, 2025
Life and time
September 13, 2025
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Attention. Energy. Outrage.

What’s Happening to Your Brain, Why, and What You Can Do About It If attention is the substance of life, then the question of what we pay attention to is the question of what our lives will be. Attention was a big deal one week after Trump’s 2025 inauguration when I waved […]
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September 2, 2025
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September 2, 2025
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Back in the Saddle Again

Out where a friend is a friend Hello friends, If you are new, the About page on Substack will tell you more about Gifted Professionals and Communicators and how to connect with not just anyone but the people actively looking for your story and your current projects. If you’ve been around for […]
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August 16, 2025
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August 16, 2025
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The Gifted Mind’s Compass: Navigating Purpose and Peace Through Chaos

What’s it like to be you?  You seem to experience great joy and laughter at the same time you express deep exhaustion.  This profound dualism, this constant tension between deep understanding and overwhelming fatigue, is something many of us know intimately. The Weight of Awareness Let’s call this inherent experience what it […]
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July 31, 2025
Peter O'Neil
July 31, 2025
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Peter J. O’Neil, CAE, FASAE

Gifted Communicator and Transformer of People and Associations I met Peter in 1999—for lunch. My association executive peers said, “You gotta meet Peter O’Neil.” I was past 50 and well established. Peter was a young man, not yet 30 years old, and already an interim executive director of an association I had […]
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July 23, 2025
Lily Jedynak, Ph.D.
July 23, 2025
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Gifted Belonging at 60: Bigger Adventures Still Ahead

Lily Jedynak, Ph.D., Author, Musician, Business Owner, Creative Dreamer   “I’m uncomfortable if I’m not aiming for the mastery. I become dissatisfied very quickly with myself if I’m not heading for the mastery.” Where do you belong and where is your community when you are an extraordinarily talented adult, professional, and communicator? […]
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July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025
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Michele Molitor. Her Life’s Work Started When Her Career Ended

Join Us On This Journey from Job, to Career, to Calling Nobody tells you this when you are 18, so dive into this story about Michele Molitor and see if it speaks to what you know already or may be experiencing now. Nobody tells you that you start with a job. It […]
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July 11, 2025
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July 11, 2025
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When the Gifted Log Off: Why the Digital Economy Rests on the Shoulders of the Few

From insight to consequences to reckoning The digital economy appears as frictionless, infinite, powered by code and data. Beneath the sleek architecture of platforms and algorithms lies a truth that rarely makes it into earnings calls or tech manifestos: The digital world runs on the backs of gifted humans. The journalists, authors, […]
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