Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

November 4, 2024

Do Not Underestimate Your Capacity to Create a Better World–Now is Your Time

Wisdom from Paula Prober, plus a bag of Cheetos Feeling overwhelmed? Frustrated with humanity or yourself? Ready to hide under a blanket with a bag of Cheetos? When someone reads your mind, then says what you are thinking and they say it better, go ahead and hand them the microphone. Your subscribers […]
September 13, 2024

The Name is Bonde, Meghan Bonde

How to Live Large as Multiple Neurodivergent, Entrepreneur, and TedX Talk When the chaos and “too muchness” of daily living, job performance, and relationship building feel overwhelming, many adults search online and in books for clues about what’s right and what’s wrong about them. Rarely do we hear from people stepping into […]
April 29, 2024

Find Your Way With Beautiful Questions

By Sia Papageorgiou, Co-Founder, Gifted Professionals & Communicators Andy Green navigates life’s complexities with a grace born from a clear sense of purpose. His narrative isn’t marked by dazzling triumphs or flamboyant actions but by the power of introspection, curiosity, and authentic engagement. As an innovator and creativist in areas of social […]
January 16, 2024

When You Feel Doubt Deeply, Do You Stop or See The Opening to the Goal Line?

Please know that if you feel lots of doubt, it does not indicate what’s wrong with you. It merely reflects the reality of what you’re capable of — i.e. disruption. Alex Mathers wrote that in his Substack called Untethered Mind, in one of his many articles each week that always stops the scrolling and […]
January 12, 2024

Navigating the Complexities of Giftedness

Gifted professionals are everywhere in the world. They are the ones who can look beyond what is obvious to design a better cart, attach the wheels in new places, and pull hard to get things moving. Many times, they do so against all odds, and often alone. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in […]
December 7, 2023

We Barely Talk About Giftedness, Until It’s Our Professional Choice

When we share the stories of our lives and professional practices, our stories never start with the giftedness part. People save that for last or don’t emphasize it at all. Our stories in the community of Gifted Professionals and Communicators start with why and how we became passionate about the profession we […]
April 12, 2023

The Swan of Everyday Genius

Who are the Everyday Geniuses, the multitude of swans domesticated for a duck’s life? They wear no ID tags, so we can’t spot them by appearance or by even asking. Few of them know the markers of their core identity. Even so, they are all around us. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in […]
October 7, 2022

Being Interested In, Oh, Everything —The Gifted Professional and Wellth-Tech Consultant

If you are a gifted professional and you meet Kate Van Name, you quickly gain a double bonus of getting to know her and learning a lot about yourself.  Kate is fun, deep, complex, big-hearted compassionate, boldly intelligent, and thrives on unparalleled curiosity.   Depending on who she is talking to, that may […]
April 30, 2022

Superpowers of Gifted Professionals Are Hidden in Plain Sight

What seems clear and obvious to Jerry Allan might seem to others complex, multidimensional, and surreal, like stepping into a video game.  This could be a huge problem in connecting and understanding others, leading to a life of isolation and overcompensating to fit in, if not for the superpower of design thinking. […]