Multi-hyphenate AI Consultant: When You Keep Adding 'Kind Of' To Who You Are | Soul Toll S1E9

Multi-hyphenate AI Consultant: When You Keep Adding 'Kind Of' To Who You Are | Soul Toll S1E9 Final episode of Season One! CLAIM THE LABEL By mid-career, most of us have flattened into one identity. One lane. One word on the business card. You can feel it: going through the motions, the hobbies gone, the creativity gone. Aparna Sud refused to pick. If you've ever done the thing for years but still won't claim the word for it - artist, dancer, writer - this one's for you. ABOUT THE EPISODE Anusia opens with Flat Stanley: the kid who goes two-dimensional after a bulletin board falls on him and spends the rest of the book sliding under doors. It's how life can feel by mid-career - flat, on autopilot, narrowed to one lane. Then she met Aparna Sud, who is the opposite. Fully three-dimensional. Aparna is an AI strategy consultant, an abstract artist, a dancer, a yoga teacher, and a neuroscientist, and she talks about all of it like jazz. Aparna makes the case for staying 3D. She talks about permission - it took her seven years to call herself an artist - and how she navigates by asking which doors are opening, where things feel easy, where the energy is. She reframes being more than one thing: not scattered, but where your distinctiveness lives, especially as AI takes over the flat, repeatable parts of work and what's left is the human part. The thread is the label. The drummer who won't say "drummer." The version of you that fits under the door. And her parting instruction: take a few minutes a week to write down where the doors are opening, and take the busyness back out. ABOUT THE GUEST Aparna Sud is an abstract artist, an AI strategy consultant, and a yogi whose work returns to one question: what does it mean to be human, right here, right now. She brings a background in neuroscience, human-centered design, and business, and has taught trauma-informed yoga in women's correctional facilities. Her abstract work explores our shared humanity - the human condition, and why we are here. See Aparna's art: https://www.inspiredcognition.com (Instagram @a.parnz) Read her writing on AI, the future of work, and neuroscience:   / aparna-sud   CHAPTERS 0:00 Flat Stanley, or fully 3D 1:40 How are you all of these things at once? 3:59 The drummer who won't say "drummer" 5:07 The nonlinear path into AI strategy 6:46 Follow the open doors, let it be easy 8:16 What human-centered design has to do with AI 13:20 Embodied intelligence: heart and gut 16:22 Scattered or fueling? Reading your energy 19:16 Yoga, presence, and teaching in prisons 21:52 Dance as joy 24:16 Neuroscience and the through-line 26:51 For parents: don't make them pick a lane 30:52 Why you need integration time 34:02 One thing to start, one thing to stop CONNECT Website: https://soul-toll.com Instagram:   / anusiagillespie   LinkedIn:   / anusiagillespie   Facebook:   / anusia.gillespie.5   Business inquiries: hello@soul-toll.com READ THE BOOK Soul Toll by Anusia Gillespie: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Toll-Anus... PRODUCTION Director: Michael Dynice Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc. Post Production and Editing: Streamography Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium WITH SPECIAL THANKS Eat Well Kitchen of Marblehead Johnny Ray's Music Emporium We Roadie and Grip Inc. Chic Streets Mabel of Marblehead The Yoga Loft Marblehead Ghislain Viau of Creative Publishing Book Design #SoulToll #AparnaSud #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #Multipotentialite #Creativity #HumanCenteredDesign #Neuroscience #Reinvention #AnusiaGillespie