Why Gifts Matter

Join Leslie McDaniel from Hello Personality! as she talks with Bruce Anderson from the Core Gift Institute about the origin of the Core Gift process, why it works, how it has grown over time, and fleshes out some of traditional and non-traditional edges of understanding gifts.

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

The Australian Core Gift Alliance is off and running…

Filippa Araki and Diane Hewat are founding members of the Australian Core Gift Alliance, a collaborative that has come together to spread the word of gifts by being certified to teach the Core Gift Master Facilitator and other gift-related courses in Australia. Diane is a seasoned Executive coach with a host of certifications for working with a diverse range of individuals and groups. Filippa came into the Core Gifts world from her training expertise in Non-Violent Communication and being a University educator. Each of them have done more than seventy-five interviews and have recently

finished a contract for twenty-five Core Gift Discovery interviews for a University Leadership program. They are both very skilled Core Gift Facilitators and have an in-depth perspective on the interview process, how it effects people, and the impact that gifts has had in each of their own lives.

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

Music by Benson.

Elena Cobez is following the kaleidoscope of her calling.

On the surface, Elena’s path could appear to be an odd set of learnings and consultancies. Aromatherapy, sensory analyst for the wine industry, Jungian analysis, professional coaching work within the theme of creativity, teaching olfactory education at a University, creating formulas for cosmetics, and teaching artistic processes. And more. But it is all tied together by her Core Gift of helping others to live life as a discovery by helping them to find their inner compass and savoring the pleasure of being alive. From a Core Gift perspective, her life path makes sense.

After losing her parents when she was twenty, Elena struggled in that pain to find her footing and move forward in her life. That period left an imprint on her to always seek to focus more on today than the past, since every day offers the opportunity for a turning point towards life.

Her laugh is often and always full of delight. There is a brightness about being in her presence that keeps asking the question, “Do you feel fully alive right now?” Her laugh feels like more than simply an effort to be cheerful—it’s a joyful and foundational part of who she is.

Elena is always open to talking with people about what she does. But be aware—you might find yourself designing, with her, your own unique perfume tailored to your body made from natural herbs! You can find her at https://www.fiordicamomilla.org or Instagram @aromaticamente.

She also has a wonderful set of podcasts on her website at https://www.fiordicamomilla.org/perfumed-podcast-in-english/. (Bruce did one with her about creativity last year.)

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

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Kate McDermott is the creator of Art of the Pie. She champions the time-honored craft of artisan pie making, having taught thousands to make homemade pie in her popular and sold-out workshops across the U.S.A., Europe, and in her virtual workshops. Using her Core Gift of helping to guide others, she compares the rules of pie making to the rules of life. It is a constant delight listening as she blends the wisdom of her life-lessons with the art of pie making. She has been known as the piechiatrist!

Kate has been featured in the new York Times, Washington Post, Oprah, NPR and many more. Her books include Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Fillings, Crusts, and Life, Home Cooking with Kate McDermott, and Pie Camp: The Skills You Need to Make Any Pie You Want.

Kate currently lives in her cottage on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state where she teaches her classes, tends her woodstove, and helps us all understand just a little bit more about leading a bountiful life through the wisdom of pie making and, of course, pie eating!

Find out more about Kate through www.artofthepie.com or https://katemcdermott.substack.com

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

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Joana Arcangel is a mother, writer, and disability rights advocate. She moved from the Philippines to the United States at the age of eight and is a trauma survivor. She is a powerful example of a person who, one step at a time, has turned her story of difficulty into a wise and encouraging recipe for serving others.

Over the years, in both her recovery and career, she has witnessed the transformative power of discovering and sharing gifts. “In a world where productivity and outcomes are valued, Core Gift shifts our focus back on a person's intrinsic value—an essential message needed at the core of healing and growth.”

Her career journey includes leading peer support specialists and managing a peer-run respite home in California. She currently works for a mental health nonprofit organization as an Opportunity Specialist in a transition age youth program.

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

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Jennifer has used Core Gift assessments for approximately 20 years with a wide variety of folks coming from very different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. She has used the Core Gift assessments in as many ways as there are gifts: from supporting an adopted child in finding their role within a new family, to helping a firefighter transition into retirement, reducing suicidal ideation in severe trauma survivors, or helping gang youth find their passion…. the possibilities are only limited by our creativity.

“Partnering with someone to discover their Core Gift is like watching a child opening a favorite present; it’s witnessing their eyes wide open with curiosity and excitement to the self-discovery of hope and possibility.”

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and is a certified brainspotting practitioner, consultant, and specialty trainer. Jennifer specializes in the treatment of trauma and addictions with an emphasis on difficult to engage populations such as emergency responders, military personnel, foster and adoption youth, and those struggling with addictions.

Her Core Gift is to help others connect to their authentic self. She gives it by helping them to create healing non-judgmental relationships, discover kindness, humor and empathy for one’s self, and to journey with strength and honesty to embrace their differences.Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

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MICHELLE HOLLIDAY is a visionary author, facilitator, consultant and researcher. For the past two decades, her work has centered around “thrivability” — a set of perspectives and practices based on an understanding of organizations as dynamic living systems. On this foundation, she accompanies organizations through change, designs and hosts strategic events, and delivers talks and workshops. In this way, she works across multiple sectors such as tourism and agriculture to enable the transition to more regenerative systems and structures of society.

Now, after living in 19 cities, including Moscow, London, Paris, New York and a small town in Scotland, she combines brand strategy, employee engagement, hosting and more in her home base of Montréal and around the world.

Michelle’s research and practical experience are brought together in the highly acclaimed book, The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World, as well as in a popular TEDx talk. Find her at michelleholliday.com

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

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Uzma Asghar is a Coach with 20 years' experience. Being a lifelong entrepreneur herself, she now specifically works with spiritually centered, mission driven Muslim women changemakers & entrepreneurs curious about elevating their impact & income potential from their businesses without sacrificing their standards or their sanity.

She loves helping them activate and integrate more of their innate feminine strength and their spirituality to increase their capacity to be of even more service and give back to the world in a way that not only nourishes the communities and the planet they care about but also nourishes and supports themselves.

Her wide range of passions include Quantum Science, human physiology, Islamic spiritual thought & subconscious healing.

Uzma is a Core Gift Master Facilitator and often uses that process to help people see the interconnectedness between all parts of their life, see opportunities for integration, experience feelings of wholeness and less stress.

Find Uzma:

Instagram: @iamuzmaasghar

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IamUzmaAsghar/

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

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David Mayovsky is a native of Western Washington and is a Roman Catholic Priest. He completed his seminary studies at St. Meinrad School of Theology in Southern Indiana and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Seattle in 1997. For the past 24 years he has pastored Catholic Communities across Western Washington. He is currently pastor of St. John Vianney Catholic Church on Vashon Island. A deeply “gift-committed” person, Father David has the following signature line on every email he sends:

“The most basic task of the Church leader is to discern the spiritual gifts of all those under his authority, and to encourage those gifts to be used to the full for the benefit of all. Only a person who can discern the gifts of others and can humbly rejoice at the flowering of those gifts is fit to lead the Church.” St. John Chrysostom, Six Books on the Priesthood.

Find out more about the Core Gift Institute by visiting our website, www.coregift.org

Thanks to Jeff Hoyt at Hoyt’s Greater Community Radio for vocal additions.

Music by Benson.

Your first draft is not your first draft! Jacq Burns has a gift for helping writers say what they really want to say. And say it in a way that will reveal the depths of who they are and why what they’re writing about matters to them. What starts as a book often turns into something much more for the author.

Her first summer job at 12 was stacking books and sharpening pencils. But it wasn’t till she met her favorite author, Alice Walker, that she knew she wanted to be in publishing. She has worked in traditional publishing houses, leads writing workshops, coaches a wide variety of writers, founded the London Writers Club, and has written a bestseller called Write a Bestseller!

She says, “The work I do is a real privilege. I help people to express what they want to say at the deepest, truest level, to create a book that shows what and who they are, telling their story or sharing their advice or wisdom. I don’t get to be the leading expert or to live the lives of these amazing authors but I do get to hang out in their world for a while, to absorb it all and help tell their story. What a job!