Someone Gets Me Podcast

Conscious Transformation is the Key with Benjamin Koch

Are you at a point in your life where you're sensing that there's something off, constantly feeling drained and uninspired? 🙆‍♀️

These feelings reveal something deeper, compelling you to discover your true purpose and align with it. Having that discomfort is a beautiful sign that your awareness is expanding and you are ready to grow. 

Watch Someone Gets Me ▶️ Conscious Transformation is The Key

with Benjamin Koch.

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ Former teacher of the gifted turned Eduprenuer Benjamin Koch's early spiritual awakening led to his passion for helping other humans find their beautiful paths. He teaches mindfulness, empowering gifted individuals to achieve conscious transformation.

✔️ The concept of outside-in versus inside-out compassing allows you to understand your sense of direction and purpose. From birth to the present, people are trained to process information from the outside into the senses, which results in confusion and overwhelm.

✔️ Purpose discovery is the most needed exercise for individuals who feel misaligned with their lives. It can require asking for help from others to take an honest look at oneself and assess: 

What do you love doing? 

What are you good at? 

What does the world need?

If you find that sweet spot right in the middle, that's the answer to understanding your life's meaning and why you're here.  

✔️ Don't grieve or be in pain ALONE. We must realize that it's time to get away from what we've been taught in Western culture, that it is okay to grieve and deal with our pain alone. That's the total opposite of the truth. 

We're meant to come together. 

We're meant to have people in our corner. 

We're meant to be understood. 

We're meant to be heard, cared for, and loved in different ways. 

✔️ The foundation of change is learning the natural, beautiful process of breath. Our breath sets the tone for every way we process the world. Therefore improper breathing, shallow breathing, mouth breathing, and reverse breathing deprive our parasympathetic system of the opportunity to complete its rest and recover. We've got excess cortisol streaming through our system that has implications all over a person's life. 

✔️ It's time to change, but change is not without pain. Courage up and get ready to be uncomfortable. I promise you that what comes out on the other end far transcends anything you've ever known or imagined. There is beauty in your conscious transformation unfolding.  🦋 ✨

✔️ A mentor or a teacher is like a massive time and pain saver because you're getting the advantage of all that wisdom condensed. By seeking someone who gets you — that step alone can start a mighty transformation. Stop figuring everything out on your own and get help.

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Benjamin Koch, M.Ed., is a former teacher of the gifted turned Eduprenuer whose passion for guiding and holding space for other humans led him into the personal development space as a transformation coach. Using the tools of mindfulness, breathwork, sound/energy healing, and mindset development focused on purpose work. He creates and guides workshops, retreats, and coaching programs to lead others in a process he calls "conscious transformation." In 2013, he co-founded NuMinds Enrichment, an education startup focused on revolutionizing education through passion-based learning, where he served as CEO until 2021. In 2022, he became the Executive Director of Education Unbound, a non-profit with a mission to empower underserved students for a flourishing future.

Connect with Benjamin:

Coaching and Purpose Work: https://www.benjaminkoch.live/

Host of New Minds Podcast: https://anchor.fm/numinds-enrichment

NuMinds Enrichment: https://www.numindsenrichment.com/

Education Unbound: https://www.educationunbound.org/

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You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

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Own Your Intuition

"Intuition is the highest form of intelligence," said Forbes Magazine. I believe we all have intuition, and it is not just woo-woo stuff (like how others choose to see it.) We all have access to different kinds of intuition in how we receive, translate and work with our intuition which is as varied as our fingerprints and dental records. 

So when we compare ourselves and ask why ours are different from theirs — remember, that's how it's meant to be. We are all puzzle pieces navigating our way to bring the innermost sacred part of our hearts into the world. And it's going to look different for each of us. It's supposed to. 

Join us in this powerful new episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ Own Your Intuition with Dianne A. Allen. 

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ Intuition, in its raw essence, creates an opening for us to see our mission more clearly. It allows us to go deeper into our realness. We can look within our being, see the beauty of our life purpose, and allow ourselves to bring it forward. Growing can mean discomfort or pain, but our intuition shows us where we're meant to change and where to take the next steps in our evolution.

✔️ Intuition shows up differently for everybody. Some people see things in their mind's eye. Some people hear things. Some people get feelings in their senses. Prophetic dreams also show you where to go or what the next step is. All of them are valid, and everyone does it a little differently. 

✔️ Continue to raise your vibration. You can always tell you are getting a message from your intuition because it's supportive, kind, and helping you see something that you may not want to see or not yet see. That little inner-guidance system recalculates for you when you take the wrong turns and always helps you come back. 

✔️ You can't figure it out alone. As human beings, we are meant to be in collaboration with others to help us go forward. That's part of our neurology and the biology of bringing the possibilities through us into the world. We require a connection to the greater universe, a connection within us so that we can stand in our sovereignty and a connection to our peer group or others of the same species. So it's vitally important that we begin to listen. 

✔️ Let's allow all the possibilities to come through us in a way that serves others. Our goal is to become a beneficial presence and be a good steward of Mother Earth. Remember that if you get a message and you're wondering, is it my ego or my intuition? If it's your higher self or your intuition, it comes from a place of love, beauty, and grace. If it's your ego, it's often judgmental, linear, and pointing out everything that's wrong.

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

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Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com

Dianne’s Mentoring Services: https://msdianneallen.com

Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

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Why Telling Your Story Matters with Laura Cayouette

Laura Cayouette always owned her voice in the world of acting, writing, and filmmaking. She lives by speaking her truth and not waiting for other people's permission to express what she cares about and the change she wants to have more of in the world. 

With over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Laura attributes this to her willingness to listen to other people's stories and by telling her own.

Join us for an inspiring new episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ Why Telling Your Story Matters with Laura Cayouette.

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ While teaching English in college, doing modeling gigs, and running a dress shop — it took Laura Cayouette one ride home on the train when she heard a voice saying, "You're supposed to be an actor." Laura has acted in over 60 movies to date. Whether it was her inner-voice or a spiritual awakening, Laura's life tells the importance of always listening to your intuition, and that pursuing your heart's desires will never do you wrong.

✔️ Every person has a book in them, and every person should write it down. Laura says that somebody in the world will want to know what it is like to be you, and whatever you have figured out in your life is worth telling at least one person. 📖✨ Write that book. Tell that story. Stop waiting for that permission slip. Honor your own walk and share your account of a happy, sad, and colorful life!

✔️ Work ethic is important no matter what your job is. It takes desire, discipline, and devotion to achieve your dreams. Saying yes to doing the hard things consistently is required in whatever field you're in. Laura shares that whether it’s working the drive-thru window or walking a red carpet for a big-dollar movie, her mindset is always "any job worth doing is worth doing well."

✔️ If you have earned your space, own it. Do not be afraid to blaze because of the fear of outshining others. Laura says: “Allow yourself permission to dare to fail, go ahead, and believe in your greatness.”

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Laura Cayouette

Best known as Leonardo DiCaprio's sister in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Laura has acted in over 60 movies and TV shows, including Now You See Me, True Detective, and Friends. She's currently recurring on Oprah Winfrey and Ava Duverney's Queen Sugar. 

Laura is also the author of 8 books, including ‘Know Small Parts: An Actor's Guide to Turning Minutes into Moments and Moments into a Career’ with a foreword by Richard Dreyfuss and endorsements from Kevin Costner, Lou Diamond Phillips, Reginald Hudlin, and more.

‘Writing Unblocked: How I Went from Writing 1 Book In 20 years To 5 Books in 4 Years’ helps writers of all skill levels tell their stories and create their projects. The accompanying 6-video Creating Characters course is designed to help writers develop individualized characters that come to life. 

Her 5-book Charlotte Reade mystery series is a love letter to the people and culture of New Orleans starting in 2009 as the Saints are headed to the Super Bowl. 

An award-winning filmmaker who's produced a feature film with Quentin Tarantino, Laura is currently working on a documentary about overtourism in the French Quarter - finding a balance.

Cayouette earned her master's degree in creative writing and English literature at the University of South Alabama, where she was presented with the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award. She's taught both English and acting/directing at various universities. 

A member of the Pussyfooters dance krewe, you can find her parading in Mardi Gras and working with local non-profits.

Connect with Laura:

Website: https://lauracayouette.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KnowSmallParts

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lauracayouettepublic

Blog: https://latonola.wordpress.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/latonolawordpress

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/latonola/

Amazon Author's Page:

https://www.amazon.com/Laura-Cayouette/e/B00ANI6G7U/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1493786646&sr=8-1

Resources: 

Someone Gets Me listeners and viewers will receive a 20% discount using the coupon code: GIFTED PODCAST!

Writing Unblocked E-Book:

https://lauracayouette.samcart.com/products/writing-unblocked

Creating Characters Video Course:

https://lauracayouette.samcart.com/products/creating-characters-copy

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group: Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

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Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

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5 Stages of an Aligned Life

Do you know that whatever you are focusing your attention on, knowingly or unknowingly, you are asking the universe for more of that?

If you want an aligned life, be able to control your mind.

Learn the five stages to help you focus more on your purpose and attune your actions to your goals. Raise your vibration and be even more amazing than you already are!

Join us in this powerful new episode of Someone Gets Me  ▶️ 5 Stages of an Aligned Life with Dianne A. Allen.

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ The first stage of an aligned life is INTUITION. People used to think intuition was woo-woo, but it's becoming more popular out in the world. Our connectedness to the greater good and our ability to dial into that makes a strong intuition. It can come through in the sense of knowing, a smell, a word or phrase that just pops into your head, a vision — there are different ways it comes through. But what matters is that we listen to that inner guidance. Now, it isn't easy to connect to our intuition if we're disconnected from ourselves or have a ton of pain or fear. It would be like trying to see your reflection in a pot of boiling water.

✔️ The second stage of an aligned life is INTENTION. 

What makes your heart sing? 💗🎶 What are the things you do where time stands still because you're just so in it? If you're answering these questions in your head, you want to feel into it. They are vital to finding your purpose. 

✔️ The third stage of an aligned life is ATTENTION. 

As the phrase goes, "where your attention goes, your energy flows." So whatever we're focusing on, we collapse all the possibilities into the world to that one thing. That's why racecar drivers are told not to focus their attention on the wall, or else they'll drive right into it, but think where they intend to go, so they can see themselves winning. Be careful where you put your attention unconsciously.

✔️ The fourth stage of an aligned life is ACTION. 

Unless you align yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with what you say you want to achieve and do — you will stay stuck from reaching your higher purpose. If you are determined to hold on to the mindset and habits that don't serve you anymore, there is resistance in your being. Choosing not to take action is already a form of action.   

Even the most highly-motivated people have unconscious resistance to change. That's where mentors come in. People like me with intuitive ability help you ask the right questions, open up your objections, guide you in perfect alignment, and take action.

✔️ The fifth stage of an aligned life is INTEGRATION. 

The most motivated, gifted people miss this part and don't understand its importance. Integration is where we take the information from our intuition, attention, and actions, allowing it to come within and become part of us. We must breathe into it. We breathe in the information. We breathe in what's important. We allow ourselves to rest in the quiet confidence of what we're learning, the messages we're getting, and what our soul is saying to us. Inspired ideas will come, and we will experience the elegance of flow in our world. 

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

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Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

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How Apprenticeships Can Serve the Neurodivergent with Susan Biszewski-Eber

Are you stuck on what you want to do or what career path you want to pursue? 🤔

Registered apprenticeship programs have made huge strides in helping gifted individuals achieve confidence in reaching their potential, finding meaningful jobs they love, and making life choices that align with their heart's desires. 

Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ How Apprenticeships Can Serve the Neurodivergent with Susan Biszewski-Eber.

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ My very good friend, Susan Biszewski-Eber, has been in the workforce and career-development world for the past 22 years. She's proven that developing registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs best support people with neurodivergence. For gifted people floundering in making career choices, there's always a place you can go and a new path you can take.

✔️ We have made significant breakthroughs to finally consider neurodivergence as a unique benefit rather than being considered a problem or an illness. It's time to stop looking at it only as diagnostic criteria, which is the common conversation. 

✔️ Newer apprenticeship programs in various industries are based on competencies. Neurodivergent individuals can move into competency-based apprenticeship programs based on their skills, not the set amount of time required to accomplish them. Employers can set the wage scale and provide rewards based on benchmarks. 

✔️ Apprenticeships encourage mentoring. For someone uninitiated in a particular career and building on-the-job training, they can't go wrong. Because regardless of which of the multiple intelligences one falls under, one can have the ability to use that intelligence immediately guided by an experienced co-worker or mentor.

✔️ The truth is, we are all divergent neurologically, and it's not just a brain thing. It's the full experience of all the nervous-system neurons in the body. The conversation needs to be expanded and looked at from the strength benefit, providing life and career support for how someone learns, processes things differently, and matches up with the right jobs. We can have more confidence, productivity, and alignment when we support each other's uniqueness.

✔️ When you're starting to look at a career, it is always best to seek advice from seasoned professionals who provide a broader perspective. You can access mentors from apprenticeships, programs, and career development projects that best support gifted individuals like you.

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Susan Biszewski-Eber, M.A., is a native of Chicago. She has over 22 years of experience in project management, workforce and career development, life coaching and training, higher-education advising, program development, and teaching in higher education.  

Currently, Susan is the Director of Workforce Development at Mission Care Collective. Before that, she was an Apprenticeship Outreach Specialist for the Florida Department of Education, Office of Apprenticeship. She also developed and implemented Registered Apprenticeships and Pre-Apprenticeships in healthcare and IT as an Apprenticeship Coordinator at St. Petersburg College. Susan has presented at local, state, and national conferences and served on several panels related to workforce. 

Susan's passion is helping people reach their potential, become the best version of themselves, and not only find meaningful jobs with career pathways – but become economically mobile. 

Connect with Susan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanbiszewskieber/

Susan's Current Company: https://www.missioncare.com/

Resources:

USDOL Apprenticeship:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/apprenticeship

Jobs for the Future:

https://www.jff.org/

O*NET OnLine:

https://www.onetonline.org/

Article on Apprenticeships:

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/reviving-the-art-of-apprenticeship-to-unlock-continuous-skill-development

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

Follow Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen: https://www.facebook.com/msdianneallen.

Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com

Dianne’s Mentoring Services: https://msdianneallen.com

Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

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How to Break the Cycle

Whether it's relationships, people, habits, or things — there's always the difficulty of letting go and moving on from something that has been a part of you. Change is good, but it can be downright scary. Letting go requires releasing things, opening our hands from life's death grip, and allowing things to flow. 

Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ How to Break the Cycle.

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ Everybody desires to break a negative cycle in their life. Multiple people I work with struggle with pain acquired in their personal lives or their families, generation after generation. There are practical things to do to overcome patterns that no longer serve you. 

✔️ The first step is to tell ourselves the truth that we're in a cycle or in a pattern that's not serving us for the highest good. Sometimes that's hard because our ego, that's not our amigo, often wants to make things a certain way to keep things and the status quo going. We tend to keep things moving in complacency or ease and not want to open up Pandora's box. That willingness to go within and tell the absolute truth can be daunting. 

✔️ It takes courage and tremendous guts to make the changes and free ourselves. Suit up, show up, and buckle up because breaking patterns and achieving generational healing are not for the weak of heart. The result is wonderful, but it's not easy. 💜

✔️ Release the story and the identification with the pain.

Be careful how you give control to the words you utter. 🤹‍♀️ Suppose you identify yourself as someone with trauma, domestic violence, addiction, or disease issues. In that case, all those changes you're making are missing the mark because the object of attention is still the problem. 

If I say, "I have cancer or am fighting cancer," it is not shifting or healing the pattern because the object of focus is the same. Breaking the pattern would mean, "I am focused on optimal health." Remember, the body bears the burden and holds on to all the discord inside you. Choose to free the body and make a difference. 

✔️ Look at yourself in the mirror and make a habit of meeting with yourself as your day's most important appointment. Speak blessings into you, utter affirmations and self-love, and see yourself facing the world with more confidence and courage. 

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

Follow Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen: https://www.facebook.com/msdianneallen.

Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com

Dianne’s Mentoring Services: https://msdianneallen.com

Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your unique gift, let your light shine.

Bringing Out Greatness with Dr. Kathleen Friend

Are you at a place in your life wherein you can say: "I was made for this?"

If you aren't yet, stop resisting that little voice, that inkling that says there's more to life for you. It'll keep coming back until you finally listen. Say yes to your heart's desires.

Join this insightful new episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ Bringing Out Greatness with Dr. Kathleen Friend. 

Key points covered in this episode: 

✔️ Dr. Kathleen Friend is a living testimony that age is no hindrance to achieving our true life's purpose. As a child psychiatrist, she also holds a BA in vocal performance and went to music school in her 50s! She is a strong advocate for following the passions in one's heart and seeing the strengths in all.

✔️ The cemetery is where millions of dreams are buried. For the lucky ones going through life, breathing and living — it is never too late to hear the voice of your heart and go in the direction of your greatest calling.

✔️ Smart, bright or gifted people in this culture are over-reinforced for how to think and under-reinforced for how we feel and what our soul is saying. We achieved the gifts of modern times yet what we lost is a true connection with nature, with ourselves. People need to relearn by listening to that voice of the heart so they can understand the purpose of their existence. 

✔️ Start with the intention to let your heart speak. Dr. Friend reminds us that the soul has a unique fingerprint, and we hear that through the heart. She teaches heart rhythm meditation that strengthens that part of the nervous system to counteract anxiety. 

✔️ Try to see the divinity in each person you meet. When we see these divine qualities that each of us has and honor that, we can achieve greatness together. We are one, and our hearts connect us. 

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Kathleen Friend MD is a Child Psychiatrist and sole proprietor of the Greatness Chair, LLC. She is an international speaker, author of the Greatness Chair series, musician, and Heart Rhythm Meditation teacher living in Tucson, Arizona.

She is on a mission to change the paradigm in Child Psychiatry and put one million children in the Greatness Chair.

Her books include two children's books: The Greatness Chair and Sarah in the Greatness Chair and a book for parents and teachers called The Greatness Chair Solution, which teaches a simple, accessible method to bring out the best in children.

She also holds a BA in vocal performance and went to music school in her 50s! She is a strong advocate for following the passions in one's heart and seeing the strengths in all.

Visit Kathleen's website: www.greatnesschair.com

and connect with her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beans1933 

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

Follow Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen: https://www.facebook.com/msdianneallen.

Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com

Dianne’s Mentoring Services: https://msdianneallen.com

Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

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Using Giftedness for Harm

I have dedicated the last 45 years to helping people, including myself, not suffer any more or, by possible means, to help suffer less. I have seen in many cases how giftedness, when not addressed in a healthy manner, can cause a lot of harm to society. There's an enormous consequence we're paying for when the gifted part of us is not being awakened, honored, cherished, and taught the right thing to do. 

Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ Using Giftedness for Harm with Dianne A. Allen.

Key point covered in this episode: 

✔️ High levels of inner pain, disconnection, and angst are common for gifted people. When somebody is not supported in healthy ways to bring out the goodness in them — they can go awry, and things can happen that don't work very well. Many of the blame and violence in our culture have to do with the smart, gifted, highly-sensitive people who have felt lost and don't know what to do. 

✔️ Gifted people aren't all saints. Research a while back found that incarcerated gang leaders tested as gifted individuals, as they focus more on manipulation, coercion, and power in their roles as leaders.  

✔️ Giftedness can be used to cause harm when the one who possesses it is disconnected from who they are. Filled with anger, blame, and shame — people can start to hold everyone else responsible for what's happening with themselves, their family, and their country. 

✔️ Be a gifted person in the world with critical thinking, inner resources, and a moral compass. For those who are awake and paying attention, it's time for us to take a stand and do our work, especially with gifted children. We must teach critical thinking and executive functioning, and fill in the holes that traditional parenting created as gaps in our culture. Let us emphasize how our children must learn to develop inner resources and be assured that it's ok not to have all the answers to everything, but that we are present to support and help them get there. 

✔️ Quit looking outside of yourself for the answers. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle stated that all the answers are outside us. I beg to disagree, because what we're here to do, to create what's amazing and beautiful, is made possible when we live by our truths and seek answers from within.

✔️ Become a force for good. People like me and all the others who support the twice-exceptional like you can help you be open, listen to your soul, and be willing to take action in the direction of the highest good for all. For the exceptional and gifted, you're here in this world to awaken others and to bring your creativity. You can only do that when you dial within, connect inside of you and own your truth. 

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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen

You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

Follow Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen: https://www.facebook.com/msdianneallen.

Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com

Dianne’s Mentoring Services: https://msdianneallen.com

Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

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How To Find Your Gifted Voice with Erin Roth

Actor, writer and director, Erin Roth shares her methods in teaching artists and non-artists the techniques of master voice and Shakespeare teacher, Patsy Rodenburg. Learn to breathe with the most ease and to support your body in releasing stress and tension to pursue your purpose.

Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me ▶️ How To Find Your Gifted Voice with Erin Roth.

Key point covered in this episode: 

✔️ Gifted people hold themselves back. Often, people we find with a tight jaw are those who grew up being told not to say something and trying to hold their truth in. It's incredible what happens when you learn to break that energetic pattern and find safety in expressing yourself.

✔️ Free your gift by freeing your voice. As an actor, Erin trains by working with her body, breath, and voice. She has improved through these methods on herself and by also teaching others. "There's just no separation between the two. I always start on a very practical level, working physically with people on their breath system and freeing their voices. And when I say free your voice, it's freeing it from extra tensions, extra habits that make it hard to communicate or speak…”

✔️ Learn how to be OK taking up the space you take up in the world. Fear will always shut you down. Erin reminds us to learn to be OK with taking up the space you take up in the world. That's a physical, mental, emotional, and energetic thing we must learn to fulfill our purpose.

✔️ If you want to talk to your audience and the people you serve with the most impact, you've got to learn to be present, connect beyond words, and reach their hearts. As a gifted thespian, Erin delights in how live theater delivers so much impact for the actors and the audience. Presence plays a huge part in breaking through invisible walls and inviting people into an incredible connection where we can all contemplate our shared humanity together. 

✔️ Mindfulness has become a fad lately, but it's something that will never go away. Numerous studies show tangible benefits, such as relieving pain and addressing anxiety and depression. People are waking up to the power of presence and being in that moment. 

How do you include mindfulness in your daily life?

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Erin Roth is a New York City-based Registered Rodenburg Teacher (RRT), trained and certified by master voice and Shakespeare teacher Patsy Rodenburg. She coaches and teaches in-person and online Shakespeare classes and was one of the first 30 people in the world certified to teach Patsy Rodenburg's method. Erin is a regular contributor to Backstage Experts.

Erin is also an actor, writer, director, and producer. Currently, she can be seen playing Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with the Hudson Classical Theater Company. Most recently, she played Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Elinor Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility. Other theater credits include Back of the Throat with the Flea Theater, On the Razzle at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Love of Three Oranges at the Santa Fe Theatre Festival, and Old School Sketch Show at the PIT. As a producer, past film and TV projects have gone to the Raindance International Film Festival and iTV Fest (Now Catalyst). Erin also recently co-directed A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Erin is passionate about making Shakespeare accessible, giving actors the tools to do great Shakespeare, and helping actors reconnect to their authentic voice and presence. Erin recently expanded to coaching non-actors in presence, communication, and connection and is launching her first public speaking course this fall.

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Connect with Erin:

www.erinrothcoaching.com

www.erinroth.com

www.backstage.com/magazine/author/erin-roth/

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Why Psychological Safety Is Important In the Workplace

Burnout levels have reached new heights as workers juggle living and working at home. Whether it's WFH, back to the office, or hybrid arrangements that function for you and your organization, what begs to be given importance now is reassessing this: Does your leadership implement a culture of courage?

▶️ Why Psychological Safety is Important in the Workplace with Dianne A. Allen. 

Key point covered in this episode: 

✔️ We all keep hearing about the phenomenon of the Great Resignation as numerous people are quitting work. Individuals are taking a stand for what's good, right, and true for themselves. This occurrence is what I positively believe is a part of the Great Awakening. Gifted people are writing their resignation letters to move on with the old, and to pursue the valuable new that life has to offer. 

✔️ Just because it was done that way decades ago doesn't mean it's appropriate today. Psychological safety is required for healthy human functioning, including in the workplace. When I was younger and starting my career, I believed it was noble to be in a hard and painful situation dealing with people at work. In the past, what was "abusive" was the normal thing and was collectively tolerated. 

✔️ Today, leadership in the workplace is required to foster connection, enhance empathy and embrace vulnerability to achieve higher outcomes for their teams. There are so many things that we believe to be true in handling human capital then that aren't true now. It doesn't mean they were lies, but we've grown in our awareness and understanding that we have a different truth today and that helping people feel safe is the #1 priority.

✔️ You could be retraumatizing somebody in your little world and not even know it. Psychological safety is needed in today's fast-changing world of work. The frequent turnover of employees is primarily affected by a culture of fear. This breeds a lack of engagement, discomfort in sharing new ideas, and reluctance to make new approaches when facing challenges. An organization can only tap the genius of their humans when they feel safe to authentically be.

✔️ If you're an employer, supervisor, or manager — it is time to assess if you are creating psychological safety for your people. 

-Do you listen attentively when they speak and value their thoughts, or do you always get distracted?

-Do you blame and single them out when mistakes are made?

-Do you tolerate negativity or nip it in the bud right away?

-Do you disdain vulnerability, or encourage transparency and feedback?

Hiring someone to work for you requires giving them the honor, dignity, and respect they deserve.

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You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The Someone Gets Me Experience could be that perfect solution to bringing your heart's desire into reality. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/someone-gets-me-experience/

Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme.

Follow Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen: https://www.facebook.com/msdianneallen.

Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com

Dianne’s Mentoring Services: https://msdianneallen.com

Website: https://www.visionsapplied.com

Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your unique gift, let your light shine.