In this episode, Kari shares about a couple transitions she’s making, including 1) changing jobs/roles in her occupational therapy life (making this the 3rd job she has quit in 2 years), learning how she can sustainably engage in trailblazing and advocacy, and 2) taking a pause from the podcast before season 2 begins! 

Please share with Kari any and all feedback about what you loved about this podcast so far this season, and what you’d like to hear more about! Message Kari on  Instagram or Facebook to say hi and/or share feedback about what you’d like to learn more about in season 2. 

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In this episode we are joined again by the brilliant and strategic Althea Seloover, who introduced me to the idea of “Self-Accommodation.” In this episode, we discuss:

You can find Althea on instagram , merch (including practical and satisfying stickers for self-accommodation inspiration) from  Disobedient Goods & Apparel here, and an AMAZING work on her substack here that impacted me greatly.  Check out her whole site and how to connect with her here. 

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Today Kari talks with Kat (they/them), spiritual weirdo and healer, about all things Pranayama and neurodivergence. Kari and Kat met at Brand Camp with Kristy Black, and became fast friends. Kari experienced a pranayama (breathwork) session with Kat and found it absolutely wonderful, and really respected how much Kat honors staying true to the roots of indigenous and yogic practices. 

Today we discuss:

You can find out more about Kat at their website https://rainbowdotspirituality.com/, and check them out on instagram and tiktok. 

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Today Kari talks with Jennifer Alumbaugh (she/they) MSc,. Neuroinclusion Accessibility Consultant, Speaker, and Trainer 🧠 Harnessing the Power of Diverse Brains to Boost Business & Prevent Burnout 🛋️ about neuroinclusion and how implementing neuroinclusion practices benefits everyone.

Their discussion covers topics including:

You can find more of Jennifer on LinkedIn, and on their website Expansive Expressions, where you can find more about Expansive Expressions programming including the NeuroDefiant Collective for neurodivergent entrepreneurs and her Neuroinclusion Training and Consulting offerings. 

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In this episode, Kari has a passionate conversation with Celestyna Brozek Wild (she/they), an integrative deep change worker and astroanalyst who specialties in parenting and neurodiversity. 

Today Kari and Celestyna jam about: 

- Demystifying “gentle parenting” - what it is NOT (e.g., it’s NOT about being “calm all the time” or “always being present or available”, and it definitely doesn’t result in your kids always being compliant)

- Gentle parenting is actually about working around YOUR OWN nervous system as an adult 

- Interrupting the urgency of needing to “fix” problems

- The snowball of time effect where we do future catastrophization about the things we are experiencing today 

- How accepting neurodivergence + our kids’ emotional expression is medicine for our emotionally flatlined culture

- The benefits of being in non-evaluation, curiosity, and observation, and using declarative language to describe what’s being experienced and cross check with your child’s experience 

- Being willing to use experimentation and trial-and-error to find bespoke strategies for your particular family 

- The necessity of safe places to share your truth and be supported 

You can learn more about Celestyna here. 

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Today, Kari speaks with Saturday Grace (they/them),  in a serendipitous conversation that rang about a billion bells for Kari in terms of synchronicity! 

Among other things, Kari and Saturday discuss:

- The benefits and limitations of labels, including neurodivergence and relevant diagnoses

- Comparisons between indigenous and modern Western Medicine treatment of individuals born with perceived differences, including Shaman Sickness

- The perils of attempts to “maximize your [earning] potential” 

- How to handle it when someone who has positively influenced you makes mistakes, e.g. Brene Brown 

- Reclaiming agency when you feel like a cog in the capitalist machine

- The beauty of magick as a neurodivergent person 

- Ancestor work, particularly for people with adoption in their lineage 

You can find more of Saturday and their writing here on Instagram. 

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Today, Kari speaks with Lobsterbird (they/them), a multiprismatic being, traveler of liminal time and space, pilgrim of paradox, and agent of transformation who is on a mission to co-create a better world for all. 

Today Kari + Lobsterbird talk about: 

Lobsterbird invites you to connect with them on instagram and  facebook, and inquire about working with them on their website.  For more on their neuroemergent refuge center, Neuroemergent Life, visit http://neuroemergentlife.com/. Lastly,  if you resonate with their mission, to collaborate and co-create a neuroemergent world together,  pop your deetz in here. 

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In this episode Kari meets with Petra Vega (she/her/Ella), a Liberatory Leadership Coach, Emergent Strategist, Facilitator, Radical Social Worker, and Founder of Create More Possibilities, LLC and they have a conversation that left Kari reeling and digging out her Emergent Strategy book again. 

In this episode, Petra shares about:

- Emergent Strategy as a framework and skillset to create the change we want to see in the world

- Three emergent Strategy principles particularly important to neurodivergent humans  including “Change is constant, be like water,” “Less prep, more presence,” and “What you pay attention to grows.

- The importance of reclaiming your voice in a world that tells you to sit down, shut up, and take up less space

- How to factor in ableism and oppression to how you’re thinking about things - Petra says, “add in a layer of power, privilege, and oppression and see what you get.” 

Connect with Petra on Instagram, download her Shaping Change Workbook, and check out her other offerings here. 

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Kari talks with Althea Seloover (she/her), who does prisoner liberation, self-parenting & accommodation work in the world. She is a poet, relational map-maker, entrepreneur, hope holder, griever, dreamer, & a friend. She’s a neurodivergent squirrel two years into workaholism recovery, aka the restructuring of her life and the way she relates to work. She’s worked in prisoner liberation for 10 years, working with & advocating for people incarcerated for serious crimes they committed as teenagers and “emerging adults.

Today Kari and Althea talk about:

You can find Althea on Instagram , merch from  Disobedient Goods & Apparel here, and an AMAZING work on her substack here that impacted me greatly.  Check out her whole site and how to connect with her here. 

Check out the writing community where we met here: Write On with Priscilla Thomas.

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Content warning: a lot of talk of ableism, ageism, and mentions of assisted suicide.

Kari and Sam jump into conversation regarding late-identified neurodivergence, long COVID, and all things acquired neurodivergence and dementia and caregiving.  Topics we discuss:

- What occupational therapy actually is and why it’s an amazing career 

- How Kari shifted from medical model OT to the coaching model

- Sam’s late-identified neurodivergence, and experience with long COVID

- Ableism and ageism

- Sam’s experience caring for their previously estranged mother with dementia and how dementia enabled them to reconnect 

- Non-affirming vs. affirming practices

- Self-advocacy and consent vs. losing ability to consent and - advocate 

- Grappling with mortality, eventual disability, and internalized ableism 

- Anticipatory grief 

- The challenges of having non-identified, high masking parents 

You can learn more about Sam + their practice of the Art of Undiscipline at artofundiscipline.com and their artwork at samsundius.com

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To spend time with Kari + neurodivergent community on the regular, check out The Community Wisdom Collective: a wisdom-sharing, community collaboration space for neurodivergent, highly sensitive creatives and entrepreneurs to take business from overwhelming to OH YES! 

Mentioned on the podcast:

Jill Bolte Taylor and My Stroke of Insight