Someone Gets Me Podcast

What if the most dangerous thing about AI is not what it gets wrong but what it quietly replaces in you?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen makes a case that gifted and neurodivergent people especially need to hear right now: your wisdom, your intuition, and your ability to synthesize ideas are not things a machine can replicate. This is a clear-eyed, warm, and urgent reminder t...

What if the exhaustion you feel has nothing to do with how hard you work? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen names what recent research from the Center for Creative Leadership and the Academy for Management Discoveries is finally confirming: masking and constant adaptation in environments that don't support neurodivergent minds produce a specific kind of burnout, and it is devasta...

What if the voices in your head are not the problem but the most powerful tool you have, and you just have not learned how to direct them yet?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen takes you inside the neurodivergent mind's constant inner dialogue and offers a reframe that will change how you think about thinking. She talks about the choice we face every single morning: to feed our...

What if you could hold grief and laughter at the same time and it wasn't called denial, it was called being fully human? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen sits down with stand-up comedian, personal trainer, and founder of Giggles for Good, Jeannette Rizzi, for a warm and wide-ranging conversation about humor, pain, self-care, and the kind of firm boundaries that take years to bui...

What if the gift you have been waiting to give the world has been inside you all along, just waiting for someone to show you how to bring it into being? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen speaks with Adam Gaskill, founder of Innovate For Humanity and The Nonprofit Creators, for a conversation about contribution, calling, and what it really takes to move a dream out of your heart a...

What is play for you may not be playful for someone else. In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen is joined by Mary Hendra to dive deeper into play and how embracing it in the workplace can help neurodivergent individuals process, stay curious, and tap into their creativity. They explore how our unique play personalities can help us build connections through shared experiences, how Mar...

What if the thing you are most tempted to undervalue about yourself is actually your greatest asset? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen sits down with entrepreneur and musician James Allen for a fast-moving, deeply practical conversation about creative gifts, business building, and what holds multi-passionate people back from doing the work they were actually built for.  James sha...

What would change for you if you stopped seeing yourself as someone who doesn't have enough to give and started seeing yourself as someone who is defined by the love they carry? In this final episode of her three-part series on impulsivity and philanthropy, Dianne A. Allen invites us to do something quietly radical: add philanthropist to our identity. She walks through the patterns of not-enoughne...

What if you have been a philanthropist your whole life and just didn't know it? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen redefines what philanthropy actually means, tracing it back to its Greek root as the love of humanity. She makes the case that gifted and neurodivergent people, with their natural impulsivity, deep empathy, and drive to connect and contribute, are philanthropists by n...

What if your impulse spending is really misdirected generosity? In this first episode of a 3-part series on impulse spending, Dianne A. Allen sheds light on how impulse spending can show up for neurodivergent people as a form of philanthropic mindset. She explores how that impulse can come from seeking possibilities, excitement, and transformation, and how we can begin to discern between genuine g...

What if the courage to speak your truth was not about volume or visibility but about finally knowing that what you carry inside you matters? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen speaks with Mark Porteous, the Soul Connector, for a warm and deeply honest conversation about purpose, spiritual alignment, and what it means to show up as your authentic self in a world full of noise.  The...

Do you ever wonder why being the most capable person in the room ends up feeling like the loneliest, most exhausting place to be? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen speaks directly to gifted professionals who keep rising into leadership only to find themselves buried under everyone else's work, carrying the weight of the whole organization, and running on empty. She names the spec...

What does it take to trust yourself again when the world has been loud, the grief has been real, and you spent years pouring everything into someone else's survival? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen sits down with Shannon Allman, journalist, late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD adult, and widow of the legendary Gregg Allman, for one of the most tender and honest conversations this s...

Have you ever noticed that you're the person everyone naturally turns to at work? In this episode, we explore why neurodivergent and gifted individuals often become the default person—the one everyone relies on—and the invisible energy tax that comes with constantly carrying that role. We dive into the importance of making time to recharge, breaking the cycle of always being the go-to person, and...

What does it cost to stay true to your music?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen sits down with singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Reifsnyder as he shares what it felt like to watch that happen from the outside, how he wrote through divorce, pregnancy loss, and a cancer diagnosis in the same year, and why he still gets up at 5:30 in the morning to make music because he simply...

Have you ever walked away from a conversation feeling more alone than before it started — not because anything went wrong, but because nothing went deep enough? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen speaks directly to the gifted and neurodivergent adults who have spent a lifetime navigating a world that moves fast, stays shallow, and rarely makes room for the kind of depth they carry...

What happens when you finally say yes to the life that's been calling you even when the fear is real, and the path isn't clear?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen is joined by Canadian guitarist and musician Chris Eveland for a rich, honest conversation about what it really takes to leave behind a stable career and step fully into your passion. After 21 years on the floor at For...

What if the food you keep reaching for has nothing to do with hunger and everything to do with a part of you that stopped trusting itself a long time ago? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen closes out her trilogy on food noise with an honest, heart-led look at the real root underneath it: self-trust. She shares stories from her decades of work with gifted and neurodivergent profes...

Most gifted people live in their minds so much of the time that they aren't always aware of what they truly need. In Episode 2 of the 3-part Food Noise series, Someone Gets Me, host Dianne A. Allen helps us understand why gifted adults often experience overwhelm, food noise, and challenges with self-regulation. She explores why external success doesn't always create inner peace, why developing int...

Has there ever been a time when you weren’t physically hungry, yet found yourself standing in the kitchen searching for something to eat? In the first episode of this 3-part series on Food Noise, Dianne A. Allen explores how your brain may be seeking to meet an unmet need, leading you toward food instead. She explains how food noise can be your body’s attempt to regulate the nervous system, why ea...

What if overthinking is not a flaw? What if it is just your gifted brain doing exactly what it was built to do? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen reframes the words we have been using against ourselves for years. She gets honest about what really happens when gifted and neurodivergent people suppress how their minds work, breaks down the real causes of overwhelm, and offers a gro...

What if the burnout has nothing to do with hating your job and everything to do with how you're wired?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen talks about one of the most misunderstood experiences in the neurodivergent professional world: burning out in a job you genuinely love. She breaks down why it happens, what it actually feels like from the inside, and what neurodivergent peopl...

What happens when being the capable one starts to cost you more than you can afford? In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen gets honest about something that rarely gets talked about in neurodivergent and gifted spaces: the dark side. The emotional exhaustion of always being the one everyone turns to. The loneliness that comes with being seen as strong. The quiet burnout of carrying ev...

What does it actually look like to stop living for a paycheck and start living for yourself?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen shares the mic with Frank McKenna, a man who spent 24 years at a job he hated, followed a quiet pull toward something completely unexpected, and built a life that most people only dream about. Frank shares how curiosity and persistence led him from New...

What if the very things that made you feel "too much" your whole life were actually signs of a rare and beautiful gift?   In this episode of Someone Gets Me, Dianne A. Allen opens up an honest, heartfelt conversation about what it truly means to be a gifted adult — not the elementary school kind, not the IQ test kind, but the real, lived kind that shows up in how you process the world, feel things...