The Unmasking Unschool Podcast

The new podcast is here! VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ______ Episode Notes for this final episode of The Unmasking Unschool Podcast: Taking up the power to self define means reorganising your relationships to all things from the inside out instead of the outside in. This kind of journey is profound. All encompassing. And transforms even the mundane aspects of your life. Because it star...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Every time you try to “do it right,” for a system, you have to abandon what you know in your body. The SKILL I talk about in this episode is the skill of building SELF-DETERMINED value. This is the skill of being able to discern in your body what is actually right for you and your work and your people. The...

The new podcast is here! VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ If you are someone who has learned that you have to manage your energy, your protective vigilance around your energy will be high. This relationship with your energy treats it like a finite resource that gets emptied. And needs a lot of space and time to drip back up into adequacy. It's the relationship of: managing the cost of cont...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ The ability to exercise CHOICE in what reality you operate in, and how you respond, is a kind of freedom. Not freedom from accountability. But freedom to be in integrity with what you *actually* most value. In the first of four 'bridge' episodes (from this podcast to the next!), I speak to how starting wit...

Part Two of my big announcement is the NEW DIRECTION and focus of my coaching:  which is YOUR WORK IN THE WORLD View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ This week on the Unmasking Unschool Podcast, I invited previous podcast guest Laurie Green back onto the podcast, this time to talk about the culmination of what was once a vague dream, now realised as a tangible reality in the form of a BOOK. The BOOK: Deliquescent Beings: A Neuroqueering Book of Love htt...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ It turns out I'm in a SEASON of change... Listen to PART ONE of my big announcement and why I closed doors to UNMASKING UNSCHOOL early!! ___________ The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for autistic visionaries, creatives and change-makers. Who are seeking to exit the burnout cycles, pathology paradigms, mask...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Episode Notes Self belief that you can create a new thing in the world, or in your life that you can be in new ways starts low and builds as you create evidence that your body brain nervous systems understand as a REALITY that can be trusted and BELIEVED. Until that point, you best source of belief is your...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this week’s episode of The Unmasking Unschool Podcast , I am joined by Rebekah Ubuntu (they/them, she/her) who generously shares their unique perspective on what it means to be in transition ; Refusing to be a finished product; a destination, a known self, and being open to the mystery of being in proce...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ "The art world is so opaque and it really doesn't provide a lot of feedback or clear communication. So many processes are difficult to navigate, I think, probably for most people. And then for someone like me, who really needs to understand the whole process, why things are happening, it's just so difficul...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ "I don't think I need some tweaks. I think I need to burn it down." This week on the Unmasking Unschool podcast, I'm joined by the wonderful Andrea Cox (she/her). Andrea joined Unmasking Unschool in 2023 after a burnout that coincided with realising her neurodivergence, and led to the decision to review ev...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Today's Unmasking Unschool podcast episode is about a common form of static that can mess with your sense of self corrupt the flow of energy corral your actions into contortions. That static in your sense of self is: Over-identifying with your habitual ACTIONS. Because over-identifying with your actions, w...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Your level of self-belief that YOU can  • create the creative / rebellious / outstanding / impactful / world-changing / unique visions, projects, services that you dream of • BE YOURSELF and make life work at the same time • experience your FULL self as lovable, seen, enough... that belief level is directl...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this week's Unmasking Unschool PODCAST episode I speak to my experiences of having a porous sense of self. The artistic sensibilities and energetic sensitivities that this gifted me but also, how much my journey has been about CREATING and building an ego; developing an individuated, distinct, felt expe...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Tightly attuned for survival teaches you: to be oriented to how other people see you. Then comes: a late-diagnosis/self-identifying as autistic, or AuDHD opening a door, unfolding a second adolescence, that doesn't match your age, and the "supposed to have done X by now" s: supposed to know what I like sup...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Imposter syndrome feels be like: You're not supposed to be here! That's not yours! Who do you think you are? Who asked you? You're not good enough! You don't know enough yet! But is it true? Sometimes, its just a product of industry bias; narrow paths to a position of recognised expertise; ~isms presented...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Like many late-identified autistic / AuDHD / ADHD folks, a foggy, porous, unstructured sense of self; illusions, fantasies, pipe dreams... was my predominant experience of myself, until I learned to take EFFECTIVE, STRUCTURED ACTION. That action has to be structured a certain way for it to be effective. I...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this episode, I speak to the importance of knowing and centring in your strengths, to create more energy. And offering a new term as a way to think about some of those strengths, called 'Distinction Depth'. When an environment or activity affords and rewards distinction depth: you excel! The Unmasking U...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this episode I talk through seven 'C' words; CHOICE CLARITY COMPETENCE CAPACITY CADENCE COACHING and I also reference The Social Change Ecosystem Map : https://buildingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ecosystem-Guide-April-2022.pdf and invite you to consider what 'C' or 'season' are you in? The U...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ This episode is an interview with Jem Dobie (they/them). Jem is a 'sensory sibling' who has been through the Unmasking Unschool journey, and you're going to hear them talk in generous and vulnerable detail about what it's been like to transform their experience of their life, their sense of self, their rel...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this episode I talk about what comes after the deep dives into all things autistic stop being satisfying; when information stops being transformative, and you need actual change. I introduce another frame for this series: the 'metaskills' of becoming yourself . The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for auti...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ This episode introduces the concepts of 'affordances', 'disaffordances', and 'dysaffordances'; concepts from design thinking that have a lot to offer the project of reframing the value and importance of recognising and embracing what our bodyminds afford us to do, experience, understand. This episode menti...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this week's episode, I'm sharing with you an interview I did with the gorgeous, generous, visionary soul that is Opal Turner. I featured on their podcast Rebel with a Cause. This was my first time being a guest on someone else's podcast and it's going to be hard to beat! Opal asked some really juicy que...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ In this week's episode, I'm sharing with you an interview I did with the gorgeous, generous, visionary soul that is Opal Turner. I featured on their podcast Rebel with a Cause. This was my first time being a guest on someone else's podcast and it's going to be hard to beat! Opal asked some really juicy que...