Choose Work
Choose Work
Podcast Description
I’m Heidi, Founder of Heidi Coaching & Training. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights to help you make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
Each episode focuses on one specific work-related theme, explored in-depth over multiple episodes through interviews with Dutch or English-speaking experts or individuals with firsthand experience.
This podcast provides answers to questions like:
* How can I find work that aligns with my personality, talents, and values?
* How can employers promote Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace?
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers various themes surrounding career development, including finding work that aligns with personal values and talents, promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and entrepreneurial inspiration. For example, episodes include topics like 'Giftedness in the Workplace,' as discussed by Dr. Sabine Sypré, and practical advice for managing personal finances while building a meaningful career.
I’m Heidi, evidence-based Coach & Trainer. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights – empowering you to make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a national or international expert, or someone with firsthand experience.
Sometimes there is a deep-dive into a theme across several episodes, other times it’s a stand-alone interview with an expert or practitioner. Episodes are primarily in English.
As part of the English-language series on giftedness in the workplace, I’m joined by Dr. Noks Nauta (78) — non-practisingmedical doctor, psychologist, author, and pioneer of adult giftedness research.
Noks only discovered she is highly gifted (IQ 145+) at the age of 52 through a conflict in the workplace. What began as a personal discovery evolved into a lifelong mission: making the world a better place for gifted adults and seniors. She is also a co-founder of the Gifted Adults Foundation (IHBV) in the Netherlands — the world’s only foundation dedicated exclusively to gifted adults.
This episode explores 10 key things to know about high giftedness, and practical tips to obtain your highly gifted person’s driver’s license.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Meet Dr. Noks Nauta
03:40 What does highly gifted (IQ 145+) actually mean?
11:00 Finding your tribe: Mensa, Triple Nine Society, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry & (highly) gifted cafés
26:35 High giftedness: characteristics, the Delphi Model ofGiftedness & performance
30:18 Parenting highly gifted children
41:45 Why high giftedness is still a taboo
43:35 Mental health, caregivers, and self-compassion
50:30 The Highly Gifted Person’s Driver’s License
55:20 “Don’t say the G-word.” Talk about your characteristics and needs.
01:06:00 “It’s not a sexy topic.” Adult giftedness research & the future of the field
01:11:48 Giftedness and neurodiversity
01:15:55 Books, resources & where to learn more
01:20:00 Where to learn more about Dr. Noks Nauta and herwork
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References:
– Mensa: www.mensa.org
– Triple Nine Society (TNS): www.triplenine.org
– International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE): www.thethousand.com
– High Giftedness Expertise Group (HGEG): https://highgiftedness.org
– Wiki about high giftedness: https://highgiftedness.org/wiki/index.php/Hoofdpagina
– Gifted Adults Foundation (Dutch: Instituut Hoogbegaafdheid Volwassenen (IHBV)) website: https://ihbv.nl/
– Gifted Adults Foundation leaflets: https://ihbv.nl/leaflets-english/ (English) + https://ihbv.nl/leaflets/ (Dutch) + https://ihbv.nl/leaflets-deutsch/ (German)
– (Highly) gifted cafes (Dutch: (zeer) HB-café) of the Gifted Adults Foundation: https://hb-cafe.ihbv.nl/- Delphi Model of Giftedness: https://www.oya.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/190702-article-Delphi-Model-of-Giftedness-ADJ-reprint.pdf (English) + https://www.oya.nl/producten/delphikaart/ (Dutch)
– Choose Work episode 11 about the Delphi Model ofGiftedness explained
– Blog. The Other Side of the Concept of Neurodiversity/Neurodivergence. Dr. Noks Nauta: https://noksnauta.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/de-andere-kant-van-het-begrip-neurodiversiteit-neurodivergentie/ (Dutch) + www.mensafoundation.org/the-other-side-of-the-concept-of-neurodiversity-neurodivergence/ (English)
– Documentary. Rise: The Extraordinary Journey ofthe Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted. Susan Jackson.
– DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses
– Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
– SCALIQ: https://scaliq.com/en/scaliq-bovengemiddelde-iq-testen-english/
– Rianne van de Ven
– Dr. Allen Frances
– Amy Beach
– Anna Maria van Schurman
– Hildegard von Bingen
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– If you enjoy Choose Work, you can support it with a small voluntary contribution (even the price of a coffee) via Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/choosework
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Contact Dr. Noks Nauta & learn more about her work:
– Website: www.noksnauta.nl
– Blog: noksnauta.wordpress.com
– LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/noksnauta
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