Natural Genius: Deep Conversations. Meaningful Lives.
Natural Genius is a podcast of thoughtful conversations with people shaping meaningful lives, useful work and uncommon paths.
Hosted by Sam Bell, the show listens for the hidden clever in each guest: the instinct, inner knowing, craft, courage and lived wisdom that shape how they build, lead, create, care and contribute.
Guests include founders, operators, makers, artists, elders, wisdom holders and people whose lives carry practical insight.
The conversations trace what becomes possible through close listening, trusted instinct, and a life organised around what matters.
Listen for the thread. Notice what feels true. Take what’s useful into your own life and work.
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Natural Genius: Deep Conversations. Meaningful Lives.
Latest Episodes
#74 Hamish Curry: Leave Room to Discover, Rethinking Education and Thinking for Yourself in the Age of AI
Leave enough room to notice what you didn’t plan for.Six months after Hamish Curry’s first Natural Genius conversation, we catch up after his nearly two months of travel through Japan and the US. The stories begin with road trips, Hamish...
#73 Tina Köstler: Women’s Pleasure, Menstruation and the Collective Feminine
In this second Natural Genius conversation, Sam Bell and Tina Köstler go deeper into women’s sexuality, menstruation, embodied consent, pleasure and women speaking openly with other women.Tina is an intimacy and embodiment coach, tantra ...
#72 Julie Jungalwala: Beyond the Certainty Trap: The Courage to Do the Work That Is Yours to Do
Sometimes the clearest signal is short.Julie Jungalwala describes intuition as a quiet, non-insistent invitation. She describes today’s technological environment as “compression”, making space to hear your own signal a more deliberate pr...
#71 Tanner Gesek: What Comes After Freedom? Community, Depth and the Stories We Choose
What comes after a life designed for freedom?Tanner Gesek builds across startups, venture investing, writing and music. He is founder of Copilot, Venture Partner at WAGMI Ventures, and a pianist and composer whose music has passed 750,00...
#70 - Rachel McIver: Leading Through Paradox, Grace and Grit, and Savouring Sweetness
Rachel McIver has spent more than 30 years in HR, corporate leadership and leadership development, including senior roles at Coles and almost five years as Chief People & Culture Officer at Nando’s Australia & New Zealand. Today she is ...
