Ep. 31: Biomedical Researcher, Gestalt Therapist-in-Training, and Podcaster, Aleksandra Vancevska

Born and raised in Serbia, Aleksandra Vancevska today lives in London, where she is a biomedical researcher at the Francis Crick Institute and a Gestalt therapist-in-training at the Metanoia Institute.

She also paints, dances, practices and teaches yoga, hosts a podcast called “Being and Doing” and serves as an interviewer on another podcast, “Humans of Gestalt”!

In this wide-ranging conversation, Aleks shares insights on her development as both a scientist and an artist, being multilingual, becoming interested in psychotherapy, and a whole lot more.

Aleksandra Vancevska Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aleksandra.vancevska/
Instagram (Being and Doing Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/being_and_doing/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@beinganddoing.community
Website:  https://aleksandravancevska.com/

About Your Host, Eric Teplitz:
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Chapters

• 0:00 Opening Clip
• 0:11 The Person You Want to Be intro
• 0:50 Introducing Aleksandra Vancevska
• 3:51 Born into "a field of sorrow"
• 18:55 Creative permission
• 22:42 Testing beliefs (the emergence of her inner scientist)
• 27:44 Permission from supportive others
• 40:27 Mistakes (vs. negligence)
• 51:12 Polarities
• 1:03:07 Language learning
• 1:24:22 Communism vs. capitalism
• 1:32:22 Humility
• 1:44:37 The person Aleks wants to be
• 1:47:03 Inspiration for becoming a podcaster
• 1:52:16 Tim Ferriss, if you're listening...
• 1:53:12 The Being and Doing Podcast's origin story
• 1:59:28 Aleks's interest in psychotherapy
• 2:05:06 Humans of Gestalt
• 2:16:16 The magic of today's technology
• 2:23:25 Remaining curious in relationship with others
• 2:33:27 Making time for all of her interests
• 2:58:16 Calling herself a scientist