Time, Anxiety, and ADHD: Navigating the Intersection of Two Unique Minds - with Amber Hawley

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It’s hard enough to build and run a sustainable and successful practice. But how do you do that when you have a neurodiverse brain and the tactics and advice often given about running a practice aren’t designed for the way your brain operates? And how do you make sure your practice is more diverse and accessible to those who are neurodivergent?

That’s the question we explore in this week’s episode when Jo is joined by Amber Hawley. Amber is a licensed therapist and business mentor who helps ‘neurospicy’ (as she likes to call it) business owners get $hit done in a sustainable way that decreases the risk of burnout and increases satisfaction, profitability and overall happiness. 

In this conversation, Jo and Amber discuss: 

• Amber’s experience of being diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s
• The importance of self-acceptance
• The ways allied health professionals can unintentionally reinforce shame-based judgements,
• The importance of understanding the need to adapt business tactics to fit your brain, rather than trying to adapt your brain to fit the tactics, and
• The advice she would give to allied health professionals to help them support neurospicy clients.

You can find out more about Amber at her websites https://amberhawley.com/ and www.stilldistracted.com (website coming soon) or listen to her podcasts, the Easily Distracted Entrepreneur and the Easily Distracted Therapist wherever you are listening to this. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Activating Resilience via Purple Co
• Future Proofing Health Professional Facebook group 

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