From a Mental Institution to Finding Life's Purpose with Valeriya Hjertenaes

Podcast: Intimate Conversations · Allana Pratt

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

Step into a deeply moving, paradigm shifting, and tenderly human conversation with Valeriya Hjertenaes, PhD, neurodiversity and sustainability leadership expert, global keynote speaker, author, coach, and award winning podcast host, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Joining us from Norway at nearly midnight, Valeriya brings her lived experience, research, and heart to a conversation about what it means to be wired differently in a world built for someone else. Valeriya shares the moment everything changed. While working in Ukrainian orphanages and navigating her first adoption, she experienced her first intrusive...