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What does it actually feel like to be so aligned with your purpose that you lose track of time?
This season is about stewardship, and that means taking you inside real coaching, leadership, and relationship conversations as they actually happen. This week on The UpLevel Podcast, our host, Christie Mann, coaches Quinn Simpson, co-founder of Gedi Village and Graydin, in a live somatic coaching conversation about becoming.
Quinn opens up about the moment a book changed the direction of her life, the mentor who told her she couldn't change the world one person at a time, and the vision she's now building through Gedi Village, an ecosystem designed to bring the concept of a village back into how children learn, with Toronto positioned as a global hub for that vision.
The conversation moves into the body. Quinn is coached through a physical embodiment exercise that surfaces something she hadn't expected to say out loud: a lifelong ache to give other people permission to be fully themselves, and the grief underneath that longing.
What emerges is a conversation about social health as the missing link between mental well-being and meaningful relationships, and why the next version of Quinn is choosing to build in public.
If you have ever felt the pull toward your next chapter but couldn't name what it actually looks like, this conversation will help you feel it before you can explain it.
In This Episode:
- Why Quinn believes systemic change matters more than individual change
- What Gedi Village is, the philosophy behind it, and the vision for Toronto as a global education hub
- A live somatic coaching exercise on embodiment and becoming
- The connection between social health and personal alignment
- How coaching helps uncover what thinking alone cannot reach
- Why vulnerability can create permission for others
- Why urgency and rest can coexist in how we build our future
- The physical anchor Quinn is creating to stay connected to her next chapter
About Quinn:
Driven by a passion to transform education, Quinn Simpson is the co-founder of the Gedi Village Foundation. She aims to make Toronto a global education hub by establishing a cutting-edge K-8 school, a professional development centre, and a philanthropic arm advancing social-emotional learning.
Quinn was also a co-founder of Graydin, an organization dedicated to revolutionizing how we support and empower the next generation. Since 2011, Graydin has partnered with over 400 schools and universities worldwide to pioneer the educational coaching movement.
With 18 years of experience in coaching, teacher training, and content creation, Quinn is a certified Co-active Coach and NLP Coach Practitioner. Previously, she co-founded Akosia, a charity operating for 10 years that used coaching to facilitate filmmaking projects for underprivileged youth and women.
Quinn lives in West End Toronto, where she enjoys walking in High Park and teaching her two sons, Theo and Bowie, that coaching skills are for everyone.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/coachquinn
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quinnsaysyes/
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Tags: somatic coaching, purpose alignment, coaching for educators, personal transformation, social health, embodiment coaching, becoming your next self, coaching for founders
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