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.
Hosted by Heidi – coach, expert in giftedness, and mindfulness teacher – this podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights — empowering you to make thoughtful choices about your career and workplace.
In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a leading expert, or someone with firsthand experience.
Mariët Hoeksma (38) is the founder of HB Bubbelbus, aDutch company supporting parents of highly to profoundly gifted children, and the mother of three gifted children. She is also writing a book based on her own experiences and interviews with parents of highly to profoundly gifted children (IQ 145+) across the Netherlands.
In this episode, Mariët shares her career journey from IT to becoming a solopreneur, and the story behind HB Bubbelbus. She talks about parenting highly to profoundly gifted children, the challenges parents can face, and the importance of understanding yourself and following your gut feeling.**
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
02:50 From university to IT: Mariët’s early career journey
07:00 Finding peers — and discovering giftedness through her son
10:40 What does highly and profoundly gifted (IQ 145+) actually mean?
12:00 Maybe this applies to me too — recognizing giftedness in herself
18:20 From IT to entrepreneurship: how the career transition began
23:40 “Just start doing things” — experimenting, learning and building a business
27:40 “If no one ever wrote a book about it, maybe I should”
35:20 Highly to profoundly gifted children: asynchronous development, masking & intensity
40:20 Parenting highly gifted children and parental burnout
45:40 Loneliness and feeling like the “odd one out”
51:40 Parents as advocates for their highly gifted children
54:40 Autonomy, boundaries & letting children explore
58:00 Stereotypes about highly and profoundly gifted children
01:06:40 Mariët’s vision for HB Bubbelbus and the future
01:07:50 “The better you know yourself, the better you can guide your child”
01:08:40 Where to learn more about Mariët and her work
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References:
– Novilo: https://www.novilo.nl/zelfstandigen-opleiding/
– Mensa: www.mensa.org
– Triple Nine Society (TNS): www.triplenine.org
– 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)
– Podcast: Hoogbegaafd De Gids (NL)
– De Ongelooflijke Podcast (NL)
– Vanessa R. Woods: President-CEO of TheInternational Gifted Consortium (IGC) Research Center for the Highly & Profoundly Gifted +podcast host of Room With A View
– Dr. Noks Nauta
– P. Susan Jackson
– Els De Wit
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Contact Mariet Hoeksma & learn more about her work:
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariethoeksma/
– Website for parents: mariethoeksma.com
– Website for advice and guidance for parents and children: hb-babbelbus.nl
– Questionnaire for parents of highly/profoundly gifted children (IQ145+) from all over the world: https://forms.gle/NBTToz14FPRaGNvv9 (in English) + https://forms.gle/gDYZsmb9fcXduRFf6 (in Dutch)
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For feedback or suggestions for topics or guests, email me at [email protected]
Contact Heidi – Coach • Expert in Giftedness • Mindfulness Teacher:
– Book a free discovery call at heididelanghe.com/contact
– Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/heididelanghe
– Instagram: instagram.com/heididelanghe.coaching/
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the host. The conversations are intended for informational purposes and do not constitute professional, psychological, or career advice.
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