Ever keep waiting to feel ready—only to watch your idea gather dust?

This episode will change how you think about beginnings.

You don’t need clarity to start. You don’t need confidence. You just need one honest step in the direction of what matters.

Through the stories of Darwin, Beethoven, and Harper Lee, Mia explores what world-changing procrastinators can teach us about hesitation, self-doubt, and the myth of perfect timing. You’ll hear why readiness is something we build—not something we wait for—and how to take action even when the stakes feel high and your inner critic is loud.

This one’s for the solopreneurs, creatives, and quietly brilliant people sitting on half-finished magic. The moment to begin is rarely comfortable—but it’s always available.

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🧰 The Focus Routine

If your to-do list feels like a wall, this is the ladder.

✨ Download my free ADHD-friendly Focus Routine—a short, structured ritual that helps your brain start (without the fight).

Perfect for solopreneurs, creatives, and anyone currently locked in an eye-staring contest with their blank screen.

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🌊 Wavelength: Your Virtual Coworking Oasis

Stop trying to focus alone. That’s a solo sport no one trained us for.

Wavelength is my cozy online coworking space built for the neurospicy among us. We use body doubling, shared structure, and gentle accountability to help you get unstuck and stay with it.

Whether you're deep in a launch or just trying to answer your damn email, there's a place for you here.

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📚 Further Reading for Curious Brains

(Not to be pursued at the expense of actually starting. You know who you are.)

🧬 Charles Darwin & On the Origin of Species

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).

Referenced in this episode as a case study in glorious, prolonged procrastination. 📖 Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) and The Power of Place (2002). Everything you ever wanted to know about Darwin’s brain, hesitation, and that Wallace letter plot twist.

Wallace, Alfred Russel. On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (1858). AKA the moment Darwin realized he’d better hit publish.

🎼 Ludwig van Beethoven & Für Elise

“Für Elise” (Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor), composed ~1810, published posthumously in 1867.

Mysterious muse? Check. Timeless melody? Also check.

🎧 Read more from Classic FM

🖋 Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). The Pulitzer-winning debut that took major courage to publish.

📚 More from Britannica

Shields, Charles J. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (2006).

• A peek inside the writer’s reclusive, powerful creative life.

 

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