In this episode, I pose a few existential questions about our human potential based on genetics and the genealogy of our family tree. This is a first touch on this topic as it’s one we can expand on over time. 

In this episode:

2:22 – The influences behind your family tree
4:45 – Inherited family trauma
6:40 – Mozart (but not the one you’re thinking of)
7:50 – Mapping out your family influencers
8:45 – 98% of your genetics are…
10:50 – Epigenetics v. Eugenics
12:16 – Dis-ease
13:14 – “It runs in the family…” and changing your story
14: 50 – Loyalty issues

Links & Resources:

• It Didn’t Start With You, Mark Wolynn
• Nannerl Mozart 

In this episode, we continue on the theme of Beliefs by exploring our negative self talk, and the ways in which this has been holding us back or causing us to self-sabotage any aspect of our lives. We’ll go back in time to find out what the people around us said to us as children, and how this has become part of our self fulfilling prophecy that we explored in the previous episode.

In this episode:

3:05 – Deciphering how people think about themselves
4:59 – This happens to all of us…
5:53 – A silent destroyer of potential
9:22 – Why I believe so strongly about the power of self-talk
10:57 – Discovering your own negative patterns
13:24 – The power of observation
14:54 – Dissecting your negative self-talk
17:55 – What blockages typically represent
18:47 – Visualising belief changes along your path
23:07 – Words of encouragement

Links & Resources:

• A Genius Little Exercise on Transforming Negative Self Talk

One of the greatest obstacles we will ever face is what we believe to be true about ourselves. In this episode, we discuss how we formed our core attitudes, values and beliefs, and what we can start doing to change them if we notice we’re undermining ourselves.

We learn so much without realising as children, and most of it actually has nothing to do with what we’re taught in school. What we really anchor in mentally and emotionally are attitudes, values and beliefs.

In this episode:

2:45 – Origins of our attitudes, values & beliefs (and the tools that helped me re-shape mine)
6:06 – Virginia Satir*
9:03 – A boy named Justin
10:45 – Learning to clear the grey clouds
12:17 – A message for all the Black Sheep
13:05 – What’s in a country’s attitude and Belief System?
14:07 – A deeper look at our beliefs
17:01 – An example of a self-defeating Belief System
18:10 – A Genius Little Exercise on Belief Systems
25:06 – A personal tribute

*I may or may not be pronouncing her last name correctly…

Links & Resources:

• Virginia Satir: Resource 1 – Resource 2 
• A Genius Little Exercise on Belief Systems

It’s great when things are working out for us, but what happens when they’re not? In this episode we’re going to explore how to see the light through the darkness and come out victorious on the other side of it.

In this episode:

2:14 – What most of us were never taught
3:12 – How my first book came to life
6:24 – Our shared challenge
7:57 – Social conditioning
8:25 – Geniuses who lived through adversity
10:18 – A strange shift…
14:30 – Bread and circuses
15:51 – The Four Oxen and the Lion (Aesop’s Fable)
17:15 – A question of attitude
19:30 – A Genius Little Exercise

Links & Resources:

• A Genius Little Exercise on Attitude

We’re all born with a creative, resourceful spirit, which gets silenced over time. In this episode we explore what happens when our Genius falls asleep and we discover some fun ways to reawaken it. If you have children, you’ll want to hear this episode!

In this episode:

3:25 – How our educational system stifles genius
6:35 – Play
9:28 – Our inner child
10:35 – Daring to explore and develop critical thinking
12:19 – Critical feeling
13:26 – A Genius Little Exercise

Links & Resources:

• George Land TED Talk

This episode explores what I like to call The Six Pillars of Genius, six fundamental aspects that encourage our personal growth and unique abilities. There may also be some birds…

In this episode:

1:30 – A special dedication
1:56 – The six pillars of Genius
2:18 – Generosity
3:08 – Simon Sechter
5:08 – Enlightenment
7:04 – The Age of Enlightenment
8:23 – Nourishment
12:29 – Artemisia Gentileschi
14:48 – Imagination
16:50 – Uniqueness
21:08 – Queen
21:45 – Sensitivity
24:55 – A Genius Little Exercise

Links & Resources:

• Artemisia Gentileschi | The Greatest Female Painter of the 17th Century
• Simon Sechter
• Heroes of the Enlightenment
• Adagio, Concierto de Aranjuez

This episode wraps up our mini series on Energy. In it, we cover a more ethereal angle on how energy affects us mentally, physically and emotionally. We learn about internal blockages and how we can start to cleanse our own energy for higher and optimal performance. 

In this episode:

2:03 – Our physical and etheric bodies
2:41 – The etheric body
5:10 – The nadis
6:02 – The chakras
16:58 – The aura
20:46 – Semyon & Valentina Kirlian

Links & Resources:

• Wheels of Life, by Anodea Judith PhD 
• What is the etheric body and how to clear and strengthen it
• Acupuncture meridians and nadis
• The 7 Chakras and their Effects
• Hands of Light, Barbara Ann Brennan
• Kirlian photography

What do frequency and vibration have to do with helping you achieve your potential?

In this episode, we explore the power that these two aspects have on our mental, emotional and physical wellbeing, as well as our performance.

Everything is energy, and whilst your energy impacts ours, ours can impact yours too.

In this episode:

2:16 – Frequency and vibration
6:43 – Like attracts like
9:39 – Cymatics
11:33 – The bells…
13:43 – Brain wave activity
15:52 – Music and neurosound
16:51 – The heart’s code
18:23 – Your energetic emissions
19:49 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
21:25 – The Butterfly Effect
23:36 – A Genius little exercise in energy

Links & Resources:

• The Heart’s Code – tapping the wisdom and power of our heart energy, by Paul Pearsall
• World’s Largest Bells
• Colour Energies and Healing
• Mapping sound to colour (article)
• Neurosound
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Transcendental Meditation & Super Radiance) 
• Cancer cell experiments

What happens if your own physical energy is blocking your personal development, and how do you change that?

It’s time to get a bit scientific in today’s episode as we explore Genius from a physics perspective. This is part one of a mini series dedicated to Energy and how this impacts our human potential. We’ll be looking at energy from different angles.

In this episode we look into some of the connections between the smallest unit of matter known to us and our physical bodies themselves, and how this impacts our thoughts and behaviours in a constant feedback cycle. Everything is connected, right down to an atomic level.

In this episode:

1:17 – What do atoms have to do with Genius?
4:12 – Ionisation
5:28 – Electromagnetic fields and Electromagnetic radiation
8:33 – Health concerns
10:57 – Something to draw (from)
12:35 – How does being barefoot help?
17:51 – Featured Geniuses

Links & Resources:

• The particle physics of you
• Gamma activity accelerates during prefrontal development
• Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation on Neurotransmitters in the Brain
• How Does the Body Make Electricity — and How Does It Use It?
• Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure on Neurophysiology 
• The Earthing Movie
• Crystals for EMF protection
• Earthing (US) 
• Groundology (UK)

In this episode we get a little brainiac. We begin to explore the relationship between mind and brain in order to help us optimise and improve our personal Genius. We get curious about our magnificent brain and how we can program it to develop our potential.

We also start to unpack how these two statements impact us, and how we can impact them:

“Neurons that fire together, wire together,” and “If you don’t use it, you lose it.”

Think of the brain as being the physical hardware, and the mind as being the software that runs it. Both need to be taken care of, because if not, we are not functioning at our best.

In this episode:

2:12 – Our hardware and software
6:15 – Why we’re better than computers
8:37 – The problem with “I’m not going to change”
9:49 – What real progress looks like
13:57 – Ada Lovelace
16:56 – A Genius little exercise in optimisation
19:53 – Something we take for granted
21:53 – System malfunctions

Links & Resources:

• Turtle Academy
• Left Brain vs Right Brain
• How our brain processes negative statements
• A Genius Little Exercise in Optimisation  (downloadable PDF)
• The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge