Making Space for Deep thinkers with Meredith Fuller OAM

Psychologist Meredith Fuller returns for her fourth Wisepreneurs conversation to address a challenge facing many experienced professionals: feeling invisible at work despite making substantial contributions. Drawing from over 45 years counseling individuals who "don't quite fit," 

Meredith explores why reflective, introverted thinkers struggle in organizations that reward rapid-fire responses over deep insight. She introduces the concept of "liminal space"—that uncomfortable transition period between who you were and who you're becoming—and reframes it as productive territory rather than professional limbo. 

Listeners will learn practical language for articulating pattern recognition capabilities, understand how physical sensations function as legitimate business intelligence, and discover concrete strategies for making invisible work visible. 

The conversation connects to Jean Boulton's complexity science framework, showing how organizations function as adaptive systems rather than machines, and why your need for processing time produces insights others cannot generate.

Books & Authors

• Jean Boulton - The Dao of Complexity (referenced in episode introduction regarding organizations as adaptive systems vs machines)
• Carl Jung - Referenced for work on shadow work, reflective self, and archetypal self
• Gabor Maté - Mentioned for work on addiction and the need for feeling loved and valued

Related Episodes

• Episode 78: Mayumi Kataoka on forest therapy and why your brain needs trees (complementary discussion of slowing down and attunement)

Concepts & Frameworks

• Liminal Space - The transitional period between identities or states of being; productive uncertainty rather than professional limbo
• Congruence - Maintaining authentic self across all contexts (work, rest, home, with friends, with colleagues); being comprehensively true to yourself
• Embodied Intelligence - Physical sensations and somatic awareness as legitimate business data
• The Fallow Period - Necessary reflection time where nothing much appears to be happening before breakthrough thinking emerges
• Heart-Mind Integration - Chinese concept that rejects Western mind-body dualism; thinking and feeling as unified process
• Reflexive Interweaving - Creating stability through patterns that repeat but adapt, maintaining core identity while responding to context

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