Every Day Genius: The Podcast Apr 20-26, 2026

Every Day Genius: The Podcast

Daily, short, bite-sized episodes

With tidbits of wisdom (usually 6-12 minutes) from your host Michele Jennae and a series of inspired and inspiring Genius guests.

For my guest episodes, I take a lovely hour-long conversation and break it into lovely "coffee breaks" so that you can get to know my guest over the course of a few weeks.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday (and any interim days between guests)
Michele Jennae shares Every Day Genius, the EDG Butterfly Map Genius Framework, Blue Flame, and more!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Inspired guests share their Genius with you about their personal and professional journeys. The line between professional and personal often fades away.

New guests always premiere on a Monday.

💞The Week in Review

Recap

My friend and guest Lany Sullivan brings hard won wisdom to the podcast. This week [186-189] she continues sharing her story and some nuggets of wisdom she's gained along the way. She shares about 100% ownership of one's decisions in life, as the best place to make new decisions from. How assumptions can get in the way of our humanity, for ourselves and for others. From there, we dip into lessons that come from road rage applicable across life, and Lany talks about the capacity for work in Thursday's episode, what it is, and how she helps business owners find it for themselves.

This weekend seems to be all about the cost of not embodying and expressing our Genius with a bit of Perspective in between. On Friday [190] I share what it costs to fly on one wing, what most of us are doing most of the time. On Sunday [192],
I expand on what it costs to avoid the crossing point into the other wing. They're related but also different in how they affect us. On Saturday [191], right in the middle, we look at the VIA Strength Perspective, and I map it. A few Strengths episodes and you'll know the map more and more deeply.

🔗⬇️ Links and access to all these podcast episodes below.

🎙️Every Day Genius: ThePodcast Episodes

Episodes 179-185 [Apr 13-19, 2026]

Here are the most recent (Monday through Sunday of the previous week) episodes.
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This Week's Guest

Lany Sullivan provides operational strategies for businesses that have outgrown their chaos, by helping established companies fix operational bottlenecks, build scalable systems, and turn growth into something that stops creating more chaos.

[186] 100% Ownership

Episode 186 with Lany Sullivan

One thing Lany Sullivan learned in coaching and in life has been taking 100% ownership for the choices she makes. That's not to say she is always in control of what happens to her, but she can take responsibility for how she responds.

[187] Before You Assume, Pause

Episode 187 with Lany Sullivan

Yesterday's conversation with Lany Sullivan about assumptions led into the subject of road rage, the perfect example of how negative assumptions escalate. Lany points out that there are lessons to be learned, not only about the dangers of road rage itself, but about how other situations in life mirror it. The way we respond has consequences.

[188] Lessons from the Road (Rage)

Episode 188 with Lany Sullivan

Yesterday's conversation with Lany Sullivan about assumptions led into the subject of road rage, the perfect example of how negative assumptions escalate. Lany points out that there are lessons to be learned, not only about the dangers of road rage itself, but about how other situations in life mirror it. The way we respond has consequences.

[189] Capacity for Work

Episode 189 with Lany Sullivan

Today Lany talks about what a business (and a person) looks like in chaos versus what it looks like in flow. She says that it all comes down to capacity, the capacity to be doing the work. Without it, it's chaos. With it, flow is much easier.

Find all 13 of Lany's episodes here:

Guest Lany Sullivan - Self Trust and Starting Over

Thirteen inspiring and informative episodes with Lany Sullivan, operations management expert.

Every Day GeniusMichele Jennae

Friday: [190] The Cost of One Wing Flying

Episode 190 with Michele Jennae

Last week we named two wings on the EDG Butterfly Map.The Ideation Wing in episode 184 — curiosity, possibility, the pull toward what could be. The Structure Wing in episode 185 — follow-through, systems, making things real.

 And in episode 186, we talked about wing dominance — the natural lean of your genius, the wing that tends to do more of the flying.

Today I want to talk about what happens when one wing does all of the flying. What it costs us.

Saturday: [191] A Strength Called Perspective

Episode 191 with Michele Jennae

It's another VIA Strength, and it maps perfectly on the EDG Point or crossing point of the EDG Butterfly Map, though it also stands alone, and in concert with the other 23 VIA Strengths.

Find out what Perspective looks like from a Genius point of view, the one on the EDG Butterfly Map.

Sunday: [192] Avoiding the Crossing Comes with Cost

Episode 192 with Michele Jennae

The crossing point of the EDG Butterfly Map isn't just a concept. It's a choice. Today, we'll talk about what the crossing point is all about - about how to stop flying from only one wing. We come to the crossing point over and over when our one-wing focus flags, but most of the time, we fail to cross over to the other wing.

Why? And What is the cost?

Where to go from here?

Listen to the Anthology episodes, 6 episodes that lay the groundwork for everything Every Day Genius. Accessible at the link below.

The Shape of Flight: An Anthology

I’ve been building EDG concretely for 9 months. I’ve been building it in my body and mind for two decades. In “Start Here” form, here are Six podcast episodes that tells the story of Every Day Genius. A complete arc. A place to begin — or begin again.

Every Day GeniusMichele Jennae

🎧Where to Listen

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