Genius: Sciencing Our Human Potential

About Genius: Sciencing Our Human Potential

The best of science, neuroscience, health, learning and human stories. Diane Wilson, LCPC, BCN, applied neuroscientist and coach shares her intense curiosity by interviewing some of her favorite people from all walks in life. Each episode will have conversations that will help you feel connected, embrace your fears, be present, and help cultivate and share your own genius within. Join us!

Publisher

Diane Grimard Wilson

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Aug 2020

Latest episode

4 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Feb 2025

   Kay Foran Part I: Writing to Find Ourselves & Each Other

   Writing to Find Ourselves & Each Other She helped with my first book and then we lost touch. She thought we were no longer friends since when she did see me, I seemed distant and disengaged. Years later, she read a draft of my new manuscript and realized what happened. Such began a journey of writing that revealed both secrets and truths and birthed a book called Brain Dance (http://www.braindancebook.com/). So often we can make assumptions about what people are feeling or thinking but our assumptions may be wrong. This is especially true when that person has gone through a life-altering experience like brain trauma, an invisible injury. This is an episode about friendship, invisible injury, assumptions, art, creating, co-creating, and meeting life on life's terms. This conversation is the first in a two-part interview for the Genius Podcast (//geniuspodcast.us)series. This one focuses on: What does it take to be truly helpful to another’s creative process? How do we help another dig into her own story and find the courage, structure, and words to tell it? Who gets to do this work of being a book editor or even midwife? And, who decides? What does it mean to help another writer when your own life is consumed by the unthinkable? How do we accept the gift of a brilliant friend's expertise given freely? Katherine Foran, aka Kay, is a rather extraordinary person. She was a key midwife of Brain Dance, (http://braindancebook.com/) especially in its early stages. During that same time, she was also involved in advocating for treatment and caring for her soulmate and husband for many years. He suffered from a rare form of cancer and died just at the start of the pandemic in February 2020. Kay is currently an editor at the University of Missouri. A former journalist who worked in Tulsa, Kansas City, and New York City newsrooms, she moved to the more predictable schedule of the “other side” when her children were young. Since then, she has served in public relations and communication roles for public organizations and nonprofits in the Chicago area and Detroit before moving to Missouri in 2015. She and her spouse Mark Hinojosa were married for 32 years; he lived seven and a half years fighting multiple myeloma. A beloved professor in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he taught until just days before his death. They have three grown children whom they raised in Oak Park, Illinois. That’s where Kay first encountered me, her across-the-street neighbor and what she has called "the gifts of our warm friendship — and always actionable and inspiring writing." I am so grateful for our friendship and all her gifts. I am excited about the next steps in her own life. Be sure to also tune in for the second of this two-part series, it will focus on life grieving during the pandemic. Find her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjforan/)

2. 

   30 Jan 2025

   On Chaos and Longing: "Finding Home" with Dr. Djenane Nakhle

   A conversation for writers, women, men, and anyone going through a career/life transition. Dove Wilson interviews Dr. Djenane Nakhle on the writing and journey of her debut book called "Finding Home: From Cairo to New York." Djenane Nakhle is an Egyptian-born, Lebanese-American psychologist. Due to a political and economic upheaval in her birth country, she lived in Switzerland, Lebanon, and France before immigrating to the United States, making Manhattan her home and professional address. A licensed psychologist in New York and Connecticut with nearly thirty years of experience, Dr. Nakhle has, in addition to her private practice, served as the Director of Therapeutics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC) for five years and taught a Graduate seminar, “Trauma: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives,” at New York University. Dr. Nakhle’s clinical focus includes anxiety, interpersonal relationships, and learning differences. She strives to use her clinical expertise and broad experience in a supportive and collaborative approach to help others achieve their goals.

3. 

   14 May 2024

   Episode 17: Death, Life, Sleep, and (Bad) Dreams

   Join us for a return of the "Genius Podcast: Sciencing Your Human Potential" with a special interview between host Dove (Diane) Wilson and forensic pathologist, professor and leader Nicole Jackson, MD. This conversation will uniquely benefit a wide range of people -- developing leaders, minorities, people suffering career surprises, those struggling with sleep, social media users, medical students, residents, and adults in general. Learn about the life of a determined, talented young woman who had lost a parent as child, developed some fascinating sleep patterns -- some she is still making sense of -- and has pivoted to make contributions that truly matter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/diane-g-wilson/message

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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