Beyond Chronic Burnout: The Talk Show for Women & Helping Professionals

I am so very honored to introduce you to my good friend, author of the upcoming book, “One Size Fits No One,” Speaker, Consultant, Neurodiverse Work Coach, Talent Developer at Adobe and Culture Director of The NeuroDrive Team for Mind Your Autistic Brain, Jessica Michaels. In today’s episode, Jessica shares how she spent years meeting and exceeding all of her target work goals but still being told...

Sensory Integration specialist and sexologist Angela Locashio is joining me today for a conversation in the Autistic Sex Series on Sexual identity, sensory integration and more.  We even discuss sex in the “empty nest” and intersectional thinking. “When we know our sensory needs we can communicate it to others, ask them for help and they will.”  -Angela Locashio Mind Your Autistic Brain...

Autistic Sex is our hot topic for the month of June and we will be talking all things sex today in this first episode in the series with sex educator and fellow autistic Amy Gravino. Amy is an Autism Sexuality Advocate Consultant and College Coach.  She is the founder of A.S.C.O.T. Consulting, LLC and TED Talk presenter, “Why Autism is Sexier Than You Think it is.” Amy Gravino, M.A., is an au...

If you don’t “feel” your age, you are not alone.  In this power packed episode Robert Smythe and I discuss age mindset, decoding & understanding where we “fit”, ADHD co-occurring identification, time blindness, saying “sorry,” theater-social understanding-Miss Manners and Workplace communication just to list the highlights in this episode you don’t want to miss. Robert Smythe is the host...

How would you choose to spend your time and who would you choose to spend your time with if you knew your time was ticking and your body was turning to solid bone? Meet Joe Sooch who has a rare disease called FOP which is slowly turning his body to solid bone.  Joe invests his time in elevating the voices of others who have disabilities and rare conditions too on his YouTube Channel, Two Mics...

How are you feeling after April’s Autism Acceptance Month as an Autistic? Join me and my amazing co-host Scott Frasard on Wednesday, May 25th at 2pm Eastern US for some community time to visit, share and do an April Debrief together as a community.  We know that April can be challenging but it can also hold some amazing successes and we want to hold space for you to process, share and find su...

Mind Your Autistic Brain with Social Autie presents the 2022 Autistic Advocate Panel- Insights and Tips for Autistic Self Advocates Lauren Melissa @Autienell  00:01:43:18 Thomas Henley @AspergersGrowth  00:07:10:18 Brian Bird @Autism_Support_Community 00:13:44 Jessica Michaels @NeurodiverseWorkCoach  00:19:30:05 Scott Frasard on Linkedin and Twitter - @DrScottFrasard  00:26:02:...

**WARNING*** Suicidal ideation is discussed in reference to burnout & I do use a bad word I forgot to bleep out. Why “Why” isn’t a challenge to your authority when an autitic is seeking answers, “Don’t Be So Negative,” the “soul crushing” shock of discovering how others think and believe and SOOOO much more in this deeply personal and VERY FIRST EVER interview Jaime A. Heidel aka The Articulat...

Dr. Mordi Benhamou is better known as The Autistic Guitarist.  He is an author, accomplished musician, scientist, husband, father and wonderfully wired Autistic.  Join us today for a conversation about accommodations that help Mordi when performing in large venues like the arenas he played this summer with his band, Man-Ja.  Man-Ja includes several autistic musicians and you can lis...

https://linktr.ee/socialautie Disclosing our Autistic and various Neurodistinct differences at work is a huge fear for most of us in late identified life.  We hold these fears mainly because we have heard horror stories online or worse had an experience similar to Rebekah’s and don’t feel safe sharing.  Join us as we discuss work accommodations, employment law, Communication Styles and m...

https://linktr.ee/socialautie Formal and Self Identification as adults, Agency in our lives, and Truth.  Join Megan of Neurodivergent Magic and Carole Jean, two late identified Autistic ADHD Coaches who are sharing their professional and lived experiences with you in this heartfelt and deeply relatable conversation. Want to get our PAID resources for FREE?  Tired of looking for what you...

Carrin Gilmore is a Special Education Teacher and Autistic.  She is sharing some of the challenges she has faced in the workforce trying to advocate for her own accommodations.  She recently resigned from her job because HER accommodation requests weren’t being met.  Join us for this eye opening conversation about silent workforce issues most aren’t speaking about in Human Resources...

It happens often in late identified life, you share you are autistic with someone and they reply, “But you don’t look autistic.”  This is what sparked my campaign last year #WhatAutismActuallyLooksLike #WhatAutismLooksLike  to share that autism is part of adult life not just childhood.  We had so many submissions for the video and it has been shared all over the globe and across soc...

“Wheelchair access DOES NOT mean access for ALL.”-Emily. Emily Elsworth started her business, Emily Autism and Me to improve access for autistics and people with seen and unseen disabilities in public spaces. Join us today for this deeply needed conversation to learn ways you can advocate in public spaces and get inspiration to start your own Autistic/ADHD business.  Entrepreneurship is thriv...

The digital doors to Coaching Cafe Academy are now OPEN and we are personally inviting YOU to join us. To join us today hop on over to our Academy page here: https://mindyourautisticbrain.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1118424 So you don’t miss the WELCOME ZOOM on Friday, FEB 18th. The Coaching Café Academy is a structured online communication & relationship training facility that is...

Learn where the hidden boundary busters are in the 7 boundary areas including Sexual and Time boundary busters. (This gets juicy especially at the end during Q&A)  These hidden boundaries contribute to burnout, meltdown and shutdown. ***Don’t miss the poll opportunity to add your voice to the conversation.  We will be talking about the area that you guys vote for that has the most hi...

Falling in love, getting married and then discovering years into your relationship that you or your partner are neurodivergent can bring on a whole host of questions.  Join my guest the fabulous Mona Kay, co-host of the Neurodiverse Love Podcast,  We are talking about all things neurodistinct relationship related today including accommodations, communication and when we call it quits and...

Burnout, shutdown and meltdowns influence our Relationship Types.  Those Relationship Types aren’t what you think they are if you haven’t yet learned about the Neurodistinct Relationship Types as a late identified autistic. Join Ali Arena and Carole Jean Whittington, the creators of The Communication EcoSystem for NeuroDistinct Humans, in a discussion about Relationship Types and how the uniq...

WOW 2021 went by so fast and here we are in 2022 already!!  I share some of the big things from the Mind Your Autistic Community in 2021, some personal wins for me and how YOU made it happen and What’s New on the Talk Show and in the MYAB community for 2022.  There will be 4 new segments you won’t want to miss. Join me on Spotify to watch and listen to the talk show this year.  Spot...

One of the reasons why most Late Identified Autistics are struggling to identify emotions and not able to easily put words to all the feelings and often the simultaneous experience of feeling nothing is due to something called Alexithymia. Often autistics with alexithymia are not sure what to do or how to get to the root or word of a feeling and this can often lead to overwhelm, shutdown and autis...

Travel any time of year is a challenge for most of us late identified  Autistics.  And now that we know why it was so hard for decades, we can make some changes in how we travel that help us feel less anxiety. Shalese Heard, The Autistic Travel Goddess @autistictravelgoddess and Carole Jean Whittington of Mind Your Autistic Brain @socialautie have come together to share our Holiday Trave...

Meet my amazing friend Joe Cox.  We are talking about all things autism today including the hard parts like high school, how Joe chose Tv and Film as a degree, what some of his college challenges were and the resources he found most helpful, and what his dream job is now that he has graduated from the University of Arizona.  Joe shares what he is thankful for this month as we celebrate G...

Today’s interview is one with my friend Sam Huber from @HuberFamilyAdventure.   He is expecting his second son, Isaac this week and Sam is joining me to share his gratitude, acknowledgment and experiences as a father.  Sam shares some amazing insights that we can all benefit from whether or not we are parents.  You will love  his gold nuggets of wisdom.  And check out...

I am beyond excited to introduce you to the woman who has made an indelible impact on my life, Judy Umlas.  She is the founder of The Center for Grateful Leadership, Senior Vice President of the International Institute for Learning, Inc., author, keynote speaker and one of my mentors.  Judy literally wrote the book on The Power of Acknowledgment and has been changing lives and the world...

Happy November!  Join me for this series on Gratitude and Acknowledgment.  Today I am sharing how to remove the biggest barrier to your JOY and how to create space to be thankful by becoming Complaint FREE.  Yep, and you will be shocked to find out how many complaints the average person makes per day.  This complaining is draining your energy and stealing your JOY.  Find o...