The Gift in It

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 c...

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....

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...

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...

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 coul...

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 c...

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...

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....