#20: Genevieve Conaty 🍒 — Plants Know How to Grow, So Do You: A Creative Path to Healing

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Episode Summary

In this conversation, Genevieve Conaty (She/Her) shares her journey from a first-generation immigrant background to becoming a VP of design. She discusses her early life, education, and the challenges she faced in her career, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Genevieve opens up about her health struggles, including chronic pain and PTSD, and how these experiences shaped her understanding of wellness. She emphasizes the importance of community support and shares her transformative experience with intensive outpatient programs for mental health recovery. In this conversation, Genevieve shares her journey of self-discovery and healing through the practices of Chi and Qigong. She discusses the significance of Chi as a vital energy and how it has transformed her mental and physical well-being. Genevieve emphasizes the importance of visualization techniques in Qigong and how they can enhance creativity and personal growth.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro to the episode by Ali and his AI Twin

03:33 Introduction and Background

05:43 Heritage and Family History

07:52 Early Life and Education

09:23 Career Path and Design Journey

11:53 Challenges and Health Struggles

12:34 The Impact of COVID-19

17:46 Trauma and Its Effects

27:33 Path to Recovery and Healing

37:00 Community Support and Programs

39:45 Understanding Chi and Its Significance

38:54 The Journey to Qigong Practice

47:44The Impact of Qigong on Creativity and Wellness

49:15 Visualization Techniques in Qigong

56:20 Embracing Creativity and Personal Growth

01:07:15 March Madness: A Challenge for Growth

🍒 Genevieve’s bio

Genevieve fell in love with the Stanford campus from a distance based on a photograph of the architecture in “the Quad.” After studying mathematical & computational science there, she realized she was most interested in pursuing computational science that involved working with human beings, so she pivoted to a master's degree in what was then called Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. She cut her teeth in UX research at Motorola Labs in the UK, worked for a wonderful London design agency where she met her now-wife, ran her own design agency for five years including a move from London to San Francisco, and helped build the design, product, and UX research team and culture at Indiegogo. She hired Ali at Course Hero where together they designed products to help college students graduate. Her newest mission is to help clients of her coaching practice with their job & career challenges so that they can find fulfillment. She has a bias towards entrepreneurship and fun.  

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieve/

Company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cherry-red-coaching/

Substack: http://cherryredcoaching.su