The Gift in It

Julie Vincent

The Gift In It is a podcast about what giftedness really looks like — not as performance or test score, but as something that reveals itself through the lives we're actually living. Hosted by Julie Vincent — mother, coach, speaker, and advocate — this podcast lives inside a larger movement called The Gifted Life™: a redefinition of giftedness that goes far beyond achievement and early milestones, and into the gifts born from adversity, slowness, uncertainty, resilience, presence, and deep human connection. Every episode is a real conversation with someone who found meaning in an unexpected place — parents, creators, advocates, and people navigating life paths that didn't unfold the way they planned. Not because hardship is good, but because when we look back honestly, we can almost always find the gift in it. If you've ever felt like your richest qualities don't fit the standard definition of success — this podcast was made for you.

Episodes

  1. Celebrating Intensity with Sue Moser

    20h ago

    Celebrating Intensity with Sue Moser

    Sue Moser shouldn't be alive. She was born with a cancer so rare that she is the only documented case. She underwent surgeries and chemotherapy at ten days old. She wore diapers until she was thirty. She spent the first twenty-six years of her life hiding every single part of that — because she had been taught, lovingly, that her health realities didn't define her. And for a long time, that gift came with a cost. This is the story of what happens when you finally stop hiding. Sue is a keynote speaker, mindset activator, and founder of The Visceral Edge™. She earned her JD/MBA, climbed the ranks of big law, became a mother through a gestational carrier after being told by one of the country's top high-risk OBs that carrying a child would kill her, and built an entire philosophy around the one thing the wellness world keeps trying to suppress: intensity. In this conversation, we talk about the decades of silence and the shame that lived inside it, the moment at 26 when she finally let people in, and what changed when they didn't run. We talk about the anger, the self-hatred, and the slow, hard work of deciding she was worthy of a thriving life. We talk about what it means to celebrate intensity in a world that keeps telling you to calm down, the fine line between aggression and passion, and why she now believes that hiding was selfish. And we talk about her son — the child she had because she was told she couldn't. "Giftedness is the ability to take your lived experience — which only you have access to — and transpose it to impact positively on others." This one will stay with you. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent    Guest: Sue Moser, The Visceral Edge: thevisceraledge.com, Instagram @susan_moser17   Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    43 min
  2. Follow the Child with Sally Haughey

    Jun 23

    Follow the Child with Sally Haughey

    Sally Haughey has spent over thirty years fighting for one idea: that every child is born whole and complete — and that when we finally stop looking for what's wrong with them and start looking for what's extraordinary, everything changes. She knows this from the inside out. Growing up with auditory dyslexia in a time when no one had the language for it, Sally spent years believing she was stupid. She wasn't. She was processing the world differently. And everything she built from that experience — Wunderled, the Child-Led Learning Specialist Pathway, four books, a platform serving educators in 120 countries — grew directly from the gap between that pain and the gift she found inside it. In this conversation, Sally talks about the moment a kindergartener's shame changed the entire trajectory of her career, the factory model of education that is quietly shutting down children's curiosity, and what it looks like when we finally let children lead. She talks about auditory dyslexia as both wound and superpower, the tension between pain and joy, and why she believes the gold lives in that gap, and what it means to be a detective of a child's brilliance rather than a fixer of their wrongness. She also talks about what parents and educators can do right now — in any classroom, with any curriculum — to follow the child and trust what they find there. This episode is for every parent who has watched their child struggle in a system not built for them. And for every educator who got into this work because they believed every child deserved to be seen. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent   Guest: Sally Haughey, CEO and Founder of Wunderled, www.wunderledteaching.com, @wunderledteaching on Instagram and Facebook   Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    35 min
  3. Holding the Light and the Dark with Dorothy Simone

    Jun 9

    Holding the Light and the Dark with Dorothy Simone

    Dorothy Cascerceri Simone has built a career on her voice — as a journalist, a podcast host, a travel writer, and a storyteller who has always known how to walk into a room and make people feel seen. But for four years, her voice went almost completely silent. In 2019, a routine 20-week anatomy scan changed everything. What followed was one of the most devastating things a person can walk through — and then four years of IVF, failed transfers, miscarriages, and a grief that was quiet some days and crushing on others. Writing and eventually her podcast, That Greenwich Life, became the ways she could give voice to any of it. And when she did, she discovered she wasn't alone. In this conversation Julie and Dorothy talk about the gift of curiosity, the grief that never fully leaves, what it means to hold the light and the dark at the same time, and what a trip to Africa taught her about what actually matters. About rainbow babies, the power of finding your voice through pain, and what it means to build a life and a mission around one simple truth: no matter what anyone's life looks like from the outside, everyone is carrying something. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent   Guest: Dorothy Cascerceri Simone @dorothyontv on Instagram and Youtube, www.dorothyontv.com   Music: Awakening, LNDÖ   Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    43 min
  4. Seasons of Hard with Kelly Towart

    Jun 2

    Seasons of Hard with Kelly Towart

    Kelly Towart has had a decade that would bring most people to their knees. Two bed-bound pregnancies. Two and a half years disabled with long COVID. A foster journey that cracked her heart open — and a reunification that asked her to grieve like she had lost her own child. A husband still navigating his own long COVID. And a daughter she is walking alongside through ADHD, anxiety, and the work of learning to see her own gifts. And through all of it, Kelly has been looking for the treasure. Kelly is a licensed therapist, lifestyle creator, and foster and adoptive mama of three. In this conversation we talk about what it feels like to live inside season after season of hard. About ADHD as a superpower, not a shortcoming. About grieving well, facing what's painful, and trusting that meaning and joy can take root even there. And about what it means to open your heart again after loss — and find that a Safe Haven baby, five days old, was waiting on the other side of that choice. This is what resilience actually looks like from the inside. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent   Guest: Kelly Towart @kellytowart    Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    34 min
  5. Nothing to Fix with Jessica Ortner

    May 26

    Nothing to Fix with Jessica Ortner

    Jessica Ortner has spent nearly two decades helping millions of people understand one radical idea: that you are not broken. Not the anxiety, not the self-doubt, not the part of you that keeps getting in your own way. All of it has a purpose — and all of it can change. Jessica is a New York Times bestselling author, co-founder of The Tapping Solution, and someone who spent years believing she could hate herself happy. A childhood struggle with reading, a speech impediment, the shame of being held back in second grade — and a nervous system that never forgot any of it, even long after she had proven herself capable a hundred times over. In this conversation, Jessica shares how EFT Tapping — a technique combining acupressure with modern neuroscience — taught her that change doesn't happen through force or willpower. It happens when your body finally feels safe enough to let go. We talk about the moment everything shifted, the three-step Rewired method, how to use tapping before the hard moments — the doctor's appointments, the IEP meetings, the conversations you've been dreading — and how to introduce tapping to your children in a way that actually lands.  This is a conversation about rewiring, not fixing. About discovering, not proving. About trusting that the dots will connect — even when you can't see where they're leading. Jessica's new book, Rewired, is available now wherever books are sold. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent   Guest: Jessica Ortner @thetappingsolution, www.thetappingsolution.com   Music: Awakening, LNDÖ Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    40 min
  6. Life Beyond Limits with Aimee Elsner

    May 15

    Life Beyond Limits with Aimee Elsner

    What happens when the child who was told she wasn't smart enough becomes the woman who's helped hundreds of people discover what they're truly capable of? Aimee Elsner — occupational therapist, yoga teacher, breast cancer survivor, and founder of Power Yoga Collective and Balanced Being OT — has built a life that quietly defies every label placed on her. Diagnosed with a learning disability as a child and told to aim low, she found her way to Boston University through sheer honesty, a cocktail waitressing job, and the courage to walk into an interview and tell the truth about who she was. In this conversation, Aimee and Julie explore what it really means to see people — children and adults alike — for what they're capable of rather than what they struggle with. Aimee shares how a breast cancer diagnosis at 38 deepened her relationship with yoga and ultimately transformed the way she shows up for her students and her OT clients. She talks about the gift of slowing down, the power of the nervous system, and why your toolbox looks nothing like anyone else's — and that's exactly the point. Whether you're a parent navigating a diagnosis, someone still carrying a label that was never yours to carry, or simply someone who has wondered if there's more to who you are than what you've been told—this conversation is for you. Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent   Guest: Aimee Elsner @ctpoweryoga, @pycpoundridge, CTPowerYoga.com, PYCPoundRidge.com, and BalancedBeingOT.com   Music: Awakening, LNDÖ   Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    38 min
  7. Wired this Way with Sarah Sadie Newett

    May 13

    Wired this Way with Sarah Sadie Newett

    Sarah Sadie Newitt is the founder of SSN, an award-winning movement studio in Westport, Connecticut, built on one belief: that people should feel powerful, free, and alive in their bodies. With over two decades of experience as a professional dancer and aerialist, she has performed with artists like Lady Gaga, The Roots, and Lil' Kim — and built something entirely her own. She is also someone who spent most of her life being the last to know about things that were obvious to everyone else. In this conversation, Sarah and Julie talk about masking, recovery, and a recent ADHD diagnosis that reframed decades of patterns she had always treated as problems to solve. About building a business on your own terms. About motherhood, and what presence actually costs — and gives back. This is a conversation about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and the gifts that were hiding inside them all along.   Host: Julie Vincent @iamjulievincent   Guest: Sarah Sadie Newett @sarahsadienewett,  www.sarahsadienewett.com  Music: Awakening, LNDÖ   Edited by: Peter Ney For more about the podcast, go to: www.thegiftedlife.co

    50 min
  8. Origin Story: Redefining What Gifted Really Means

    Apr 3

    Origin Story: Redefining What Gifted Really Means

    What does it mean to live a gifted life—and who gets to decide? Before the guests arrive, Julie goes first. In this opening episode, she shares the personal story behind The Gifted Life™ and why this podcast exists—from growing up in an era that measured worth by achievement, to burnout, diagnosis, and the parenting moments that quietly dismantled everything she thought she knew about giftedness. This is the story of how she stopped asking how to fit in and started asking what her gifts were really for. Of connecting the dots backward and finding that the life she didn't plan was building something she couldn't yet see. If you've ever felt like your richest qualities don't fit the standard definition of success—this one is for you.

    26 min
  • 8 Episodes

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The Gift In It is a podcast about what giftedness really looks like — not as performance or test score, but as something that reveals itself through the lives we're actually living. Hosted by Julie Vincent — mother, coach, speaker, and advocate — this podcast lives inside a larger movement called The Gifted Life™: a redefinition of giftedness that goes far beyond achievement and early milestones, and into the gifts born from adversity, slowness, uncertainty, resilience, presence, and deep human connection. Every episode is a real conversation with someone who found meaning in an unexpected place — parents, creators, advocates, and people navigating life paths that didn't unfold the way they planned. Not because hardship is good, but because when we look back honestly, we can almost always find the gift in it. If you've ever felt like your richest qualities don't fit the standard definition of success — this podcast was made for you.

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  • Creator
    Julie Vincent
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
  • Show Website
    The Gift in It

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