The Sight Side

Coach Lee Hopkins spent years feeling like an alien lost in the sauce, watching 90s sitcoms like Full House to figure out a blueprint for human connection that everyone else seemed to inherit at birth. He was excellent at his job in data analytics—telling stories with numbers—but completely isolated, skipping the office pizza parties and lunches because he didn't have the script for the soft momen...

Shauna Fields built a 20-plus year career in communications and marketing, which is the part that should not have happened. She is ADHD, raised by Depression-and-WWII-generation grandparents who told her the way she felt was just the way everybody felt, and she spent decades being told she was blunt, rude, and hard to talk to. She is also, by her own description, an outgoing introvert and the Disn...

SHOW NOTES: Lindsey Lerner Lindsey Lerner is hard to put in a box, which is the point. Based in the Bronx, she spent more than a decade tour managing musicians, then years inside Generalist World (the platform for people with nonlinear careers), where she earned the nickname One-Liner Learner for her knack of taking someone's squiggly path and condensing it down to a single line. About a year and...

Lindsay Watkins has spent about 15 years in the autism space, starting in recreational camp settings in college, then teaching special education, then moving through clinical, vocational, and ed-tech settings looking for one thing: a system that actually works. What she found instead was systems failing families, over and over. Now she is building NeuroBloom, an assistive technology app for non-sp...

Just A Little IT Guy has been doing IT since he was 12, wiring up his church rectory before most of us had email. Professionally he has spent over 25 years in the field, and today he runs a team of six engineers as the technical lead for the company he has been with for more than 15 years. He goes by JL online, posts under JustALittleITGuy on TikTok, and is one of the funniest people James has com...

Dara Broadous is an ADHD creative generalist whose work spans fashion, bridal, graphic design, brand work, and art direction. She designs plus-size pants and jackets at Lane Bryant, freelances on bridal gowns, did the art direction for an intimate music experience called June's Room, and is launching her own podcast, Speaking in Draft , in June 2026. This is a conversation about what it actually l...

The Sight Side continues with James Adams, founder and CEO of Revolution Trucking, a certified Disability-Owned Business Enterprise he built in 2019 after more than three decades in supply chain, logistics, and transportation. Revolution runs three connected companies, Revolution Trucking on the asset side, Revolution Transport in brokerage, and Revolution Supply Chain as the digital booking inter...

The Sight Side continues with Cami Turcotte, Senior Director of Supplier Inclusion at Disability:IN, the global business network advancing disability inclusion across the workplace, supply chain, and marketplace. Cami oversees the DOBE certification program, the Disability-Owned Business Enterprise certification, and the entire network of certified businesses behind it. James met Cami after his co...

Season two of The Sight Side opens with Theresa Falk, a Honolulu-based author, educator, and 31-year veteran of the classroom. Theresa currently teaches 8th grade English and women's literature at 'Iolani School, where she advocates for gender equity and neurodiversity. James met her at the Slowdown Summit in Columbus, Ohio, where she was a speaker, and this episode is a continuation of the conver...

Guest: Genie Love, M.Ed. (Founder of NeuroAutonomy) Episode Summary In our first guest episode, James sits down with Genie Love to pull back the curtain on the "High-Performing until suddenly they’re not" pattern. With 25 years of experience spanning special education and executive coaching, Genie explains why traditional productivity advice fails neurodivergent brains and how both individuals and...

I got written up once for trying to solve a customer's problem. Not for failing—for trying the wrong way. And here's the thing: the problem never got solved. The customer left without ever getting what they needed. But I still got the write-up. Because the process mattered more than the outcome. In this episode, I break down one of the biggest friction points between neurodivergent talent and the...

In this episode, James defines Applied Neurodivergence—a framework that shifts the ND conversation from accommodation to capability. He explores the difference between early and late diagnosis, the uncomfortable realities of how employers view accommodation, and why it's time to start talking about what neurodivergent professionals can actually deliver. Topics covered: What's missing from the curr...

In this first episode of The Sight Side , host James Hickey shares his origin story—from truck driver to systems integration specialist in nine months. James explores why trucking was his “unicorn profession,” how a hip injury forced a sudden life pivot, and what happened when a single sentence in a peer recovery training shut him down completely: “Instead of asking what’s wrong with you, ask what...