Category: Finding Your Voice

  • Navigating Polarities I — Interview

    From very early, we are taught to see the world in certain ways. And one of the first ways that we’re taught to see the world is through either/or. ‘Either the stove is hot or the stove is cold. And I touch it or I don’t touch it.’ That it is possible to expand our…

  • Journeying to the Growing Edge – Interview

    It’s had me just question why I’m using a map. It’s not, “Here I am, we’ve got a destination, we can surmount obstacles better.” Now it’s like, “Why are you on a journey?” And that doesn’t play well with our culture. And yet I want to be as transparent about it as possible” Gideon Culman…

  • Creating Transportive Experiences — Interview

    “It is 100% based around the idea of making dreams come true and going above and beyond the regular steps of service to build an experience that will be a memory that lasts a lifetime.” — Nitiya Sin We’ve all experienced moments in which time seems to stop. It’s as though we’re transported. To better understand…

  • Jean-François Cousin and Magda Mook sit for a Where Genius Grows interview in Washington, DC

    Letting Learners Teach Themselves — Interview

    “We don’t stop absorbing the new. We keep inviting it. We keep that curiosity. And I think that this is important, that we look at everything coming our way with curiosity rather than with judgment.”

  • Choosing What You Like — Interview

    “Just because it’s rare, and just because somebody says it’s the best, doesn’t mean you even have to like it.” — Sarah Jane Curran Sarah Jane Curran is the host of the podcast Beer Me! She has focused her studies on beer in culinary school and grad school, she has been a beer director at…

  • Being Unafraid to Be with Someone — Interview

    “Exercise your witnessing muscle: Go find a good photography book and look at it long and hard. Look at the pictures and practice empathy. Practice witnessing a story that you weren’t there to see and I promise you will find yourself moved. And whatever the source of that empathy is, see if you can’t direct…

  • Finding Meaning Underneath the Plot — Interview

    “We’re really interested in the plot of our lives, but we’re not as interested in the way the plot unfolds — the meaning underneath the plot. And if we were to get more interested collectively in not just what’s happening to me but making sense of what’s happening to me, that is a question that…

  • Creating Your Own Relevance — Interview

    “What people need to do is look at their lives through that lens ‘How much of what I do is intentional and how much of what I do is routine? How much of what I do is considered and how much of what I do is simply a function of I did it that way yesterday,…

  • Offering Your Truth to the World — Interview

    “Anybody offering their truth to the world is a generous act. It doesn’t have to be perfectly wrought or perfectly abstractly conceptualized. But offering your authentic take on the world is just a gift, really. We don’t get a lot of honesty in the world. And emotional honesty is even rarer.” — Sara Mansfield Taber…

  • Respecting and Appreciating Diversity — Interview

    “Life is filled with great diversity. You see it all through nature. When we as people take the opportunity to respect and appreciate the diversity that we have as humans, we have the power to build a better and more just society.” — Angela Hayes Angela Hayes is the owner of Collins Hayes Management and…