For nearly 30 years, Rosemary has worked at the intersection of authenticity, psychology, and healing. After two decades in corporate marketing leadership, she founded MIBOSO®to support the holistic integration of mind, body, and soul—through authentic branding, ethical marketing, and natural healing practices. Inspired by Dr. Gabor Maté’s unique magnetic presence, she created and launched Magnetic Presence Marketing in 2025.
In this excerpt, Rosemary explains how seven seemingly divergent roles can be distilled into one coherent Multipotential Through-Line. Listen to the full conversation on The Gifts of Trauma Podcast.
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Many of the people who come to me hold three, four, or five different professional roles. They’ll say, “I have passion for all these things, but I don’t want five websites. I don’t want five social media accounts to manage. How can I make my diverse roles make sense to my clients?”
These folks are Multipotentialites. It’s not only a cool word but also a cool way of being. I used to say “multiply gifted” or “multiply talented,” but “multipotentialite” really captures the essence of both in a word that’s also kind of fun to say.
A Multipotentialite participant in our current Magnetic Presence Marketing pilot program gave me permission to share her roles and through-line.
She actually has seven different roles and seven different income streams. They are:
- Trauma-informed coach for trauma-impacted families and parents
- Authentic communications coach
- Adoptee, birth family connection and reunion coach
- Program director of outreach, operations and fundraising for a nonprofit that supports vulnerable children, at-risk youth and child-led households
- Human rights and social justice advocate and activist for oppressed, marginalized and disadvantaged people subjected to systemic inequities and institutional bias
- ESL teacher for a global clientele
- Off-grid homesteader
While initially, these roles may seem wildly divergent, when you look beneath the titles and consider what it actually takes to do the work, they’re all connected by five core traits:
- Activist
- Advocate
- Communicator
- Ethicist
- Healer
I call this an individual’s ‘through-line.’
If you’re wondering what an ethicist is, and it’s something I didn’t know ‘till recently, it’s someone who studies or practices moral philosophy or ethical theory. This Multipotentialite’s professional roles all support her morals and ethics around wholeness or healing, around human rights, and around social justice. So the final distillation of her through-line is: A Legal Reform and Social Justice Advocate… who also teaches, farms, and sells organic produce and eggs.
I was speaking to someone the other day who’s a Dharma teacher, a very highly educated Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist and trainer, and a breathwork and yoga teacher. She’s done all kinds of training: Internal Family Systems, Relational Life Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Somatic EMDR, Nonviolent Communication, Compassionate Inquiry®, and many other approaches.
What I do my best to convey to these multiply talented people, these Multipotentialites, is that when you bring all of your skills, passions, and talents together, you offer an incredible gift to your clients. They get to work with someone who has explored multiple related realms, which, from the Multipotentialite’s internal perspective, may seem disjointed, but all come together to serve the client’s healing.
Multipotentialism has been a big concern for so many of my authentic marketing clients. They’d say, “I don’t want to show up as scattered, and yet I genuinely have all of these different interests.”
We had an amazing Multipotentialite guest on our podcast last spring: Dr. DaeEss 1Dréa Pennington Wasio. She’s a physician, psychedelic retreat leader and integrator, a prolific published author, a musician, a vocalist, and an entrepreneur. She runs a media business and two new enterprises: blending perfumes and crafting scented candles. On the surface, all of these roles may sound random, but she brings them all together in service of her clients’ healing. When you look at it from that perspective, what is a more beautiful way to heal than lighting a scented candle while listening to a guided meditation that facilitates the integration of the healing you experienced in a psychedelic retreat?
I think it’s only the people who offer these diverse services, the Multipotentialites themselves, who view their multiple roles as ‘random’ or ‘scattered.’ Their logical minds struggle to connect the dots, so they wonder, “How can someone with all of these different roles make sense to others?” Maybe we see it that way because we’ve watched too many movies or too much TV. Fictional characters can be quite linear. The person who’s highly organized often has a job as an admin person, and they organize social events for their friends and family. Everything about their life looks orderly, neat, and tidy.
But real human lives tend to be a lot messier than that. The world is changing, and maybe to be a Multipotentialite today, to express yourself in a number of different ways, is allowed a little bit more now. The days when people hunt for the job at 19 that they’re going to have right through until they’re 69… I think those days are long gone.
I’m really, really happy that these days we’re willing to embrace all of ourselves and present ourselves in our full glorious diversity. There’s something really beautiful about being a Multipotentialite, having the freedom to express yourself in a number of different ways, and for that to be okay. In a way, it ensures that people don’t leave any parts of themselves behind in their process of loving themselves back to who they truly are.
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