Neurodivergent Mates
Radical Authenticity with Bree Mills (ReadySetSquirrel)
The chaotic symphony of managing life across time zones strikes all too familiar a note for many of us, and when you throw in the beautiful complexity of the neurodivergent mind, it's a dance that demands both precision and grace. Enter Brie Mills, a beacon of radical authenticity from the States, whose viral social media exploits have etched a meme-shaped imprint on our hearts. Our latest chat not only celebrates Brie's relatable take on the neurodiverse experience but also opens the floodgates to your engagement through the maze of online community building and personal revelations.
Striking that sweet spot between personal authenticity and the curated persona that the internet seems to demand is no mean feat, as my co-host Photon John and I can attest. We're baring it all – the laughs, the gaffes, and the earnest pursuit of connection that shapes our digital identities. From navigating introversion to choosing strategy over spontaneity, we're dissecting what it means to resonate with an audience while staying fiercely true to oneself. And let's not forget the peculiar thrill (and occasional awkwardness) of being recognized from your online life while out grabbing a coffee.
Naturally, not every online interaction is a walk in the park, especially when the trolls come out to play. But here's the kicker: handling the rough with the smooth makes for some seriously good storytelling. We're not just tossing around sarcasm and sharing how to handle biting comments with a laugh; we're delving into the heart of what makes us tick. From owning our neurodivergent traits to sidestepping the swamps of internet arguments, this episode is a treasure trove of insights into embracing our unique selves amidst a world that's still learning to appreciate the neurodiverse spectrum. So plug in, and let's celebrate the art of being unabashedly, unapologetically us.
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The chaotic symphony of managing life across time zones strikes all too familiar a note for many of us, and when you throw in the beautiful complexity of the neurodivergent mind, it's a dance that demands both precision and grace. Enter Brie Mills, a beacon of radical authenticity from the States, whose viral social media exploits have etched a meme-shaped imprint on our hearts. Our latest chat not only celebrates Brie's relatable take on the neurodiverse experience but also opens the floodgates to your engagement through the maze of online community building and personal revelations.
Striking that sweet spot between personal authenticity and the curated persona that the internet seems to demand is no mean feat, as my co-host Photon John and I can attest. We're baring it all – the laughs, the gaffes, and the earnest pursuit of connection that shapes our digital identities. From navigating introversion to choosing strategy over spontaneity, we're dissecting what it means to resonate with an audience while staying fiercely true to oneself. And let's not forget the peculiar thrill (and occasional awkwardness) of being recognized from your online life while out grabbing a coffee.
Naturally, not every online interaction is a walk in the park, especially when the trolls come out to play. But here's the kicker: handling the rough with the smooth makes for some seriously good storytelling. We're not just tossing around sarcasm and sharing how to handle biting comments with a laugh; we're delving into the heart of what makes us tick. From owning our neurodivergent traits to sidestepping the swamps of internet arguments, this episode is a treasure trove of insights into embracing our unique selves amidst a world that's still learning to appreciate the neurodiverse spectrum. So plug in, and let's celebrate the art of being unabashedly, unapologetically us.
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You're listening to NeuroDivergent Mates. Hello and welcome to another episode of Neurodivergent Mates. I'm your host, will Wheeler, joined with my main man, photon John Kev. What's going on, brother? Hi, you know minimum sleep today. Minimal sleep.
Speaker 2:One of my special interests is happening right now World's Strongest man so I'm up late watching that because it's in America. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm up late watching that because it's in America. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm huge into formula. So is there like a crow, like crowing near your joint Maybe? Oh, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2:I'll have to monitor the mute.
Speaker 1:The famous crow is back to get on the podcast here. But, yeah, crazy stuff, crazy stuff. Anyway, we should get into this. We've got a really awesome guest all the way from the States actually to talk to us about radical authenticity with Brie Mills. So Brie welcome to NeuroDivergent Mates. Thank you so much for joining us. What's going on? Yeah, mates, thank you so much for joining us. What's going on?
Speaker 3:Yeah, not much. Thank you guys for having me. I'm excited to meet you guys. Well, I almost said in person, but the closest thing that we can get from you guys right now.
Speaker 1:Well, even though we've been using technology like this for quite a while now right, we've been using technology like this for quite a while now, right? It's still pretty cool to know that I'm talking to someone, like we are in a pub or something like that. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, a little bit of a time warp. It is. Well, that's the thing. Like we're in the future, yeah, You're in the past.
Speaker 3:We said something yesterday about like okay, I'll talk to you in a couple of days, and it was like a different day for me. And my brain took a second to wrap around it. I was like wait, no, I have this right.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah yeah, but you know what, as neurodivergent people ourselves, right, that can sometimes be our worst nightmare trying to organise things, because it's like, hey, look, how about we speak at 12? And you're like, OK, 12. Yeah, OK, that sounds all right for me. And then we look at the time and it's like holy crap, man, that's like I don't know 10 o'clock at night or something like that. You know it's so hard to coordinate?
Speaker 3:Yeah, when Bree and I were going back and and forward I was just like tearing my hair out trying to trying to figure out the time difference yeah, I mean typically what I tell them.
Speaker 1:Like half of us don't sleep anyway, so just yeah, yeah, I'll probably be up anyway, it's fine totally, totally personally, I I really get like a dopamine hit off, like just community social interaction.
Speaker 1:So being able to jump on something and have a chat is like whatever time. Obviously, if it's 1 o'clock in the morning, it depends what I'm up to. I could be up for that, but it's all good. But what we'll do before we get stuck into this. Just for anyone who hasn't listened to the podcast before, if you haven't already done so, please subscribe, like and follow to all of our social media pages. We're available on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, Twitch, YouTube, LinkedIn. We're also available on all podcasting platforms. Wherever you listen to your podcasts. You ready for this? We're everywhere. Yeah, we are everywhere, but it's not like we're dominating the airwaves or anything like that. But we're getting there. It's baby steps. You know what I mean? No for sure. Consistency.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:It is, I tell you what. It is definitely a lot of work and we'll have a little bit of a chat about that in a sec. Definitely a lot of work and um, we'll have a little bit of a chat about that in a sec. But um also too, if anyone's listening and you've got some questions for ourselves or brie today, please feel free to type in in the comment section and we'll be more than happy to um go through that. But you know what, brie, I think um, you know, especially when photon john um reached out to me and said, hey look, we've got to get this awesome person on here, I was like hell. Yeah, you know, looking over a lot of your content on social media and it's funny we're talking about social media there because, you know, it looks like you're doing some pretty awesome stuff and did I hear correctly, photon john, you were saying that you got a post with like a million views today or something.
Speaker 2:Oh 10 million. Was it 10 million? Oh jeez.
Speaker 1:I'm just 10 off or nine off, you know.
Speaker 3:It's pretty wild. Consistently, I have this thing where my brain works in memes. It's just how I think. I have this thing where my brain works in memes, it's just how I think Clearly it resonates because that's only my second highest view count. I think my top is somewhere around 15, 16 million. But yeah, they can totally get up there. It's always surprising because I just make them based off of my own brain. You know just stupid things that I'm thinking around the house yeah, you really aren't alone, like all of these silly things we're.
Speaker 1:We're all in this together totally, and sorry for any of our listeners who, um you know, may not know of your, so you're more just on Instagram, correct?
Speaker 3:Yeah, primarily I do some cross-posting on Facebook, but really for me because so my business is only like six months old. I went hard and I went fast and because of that, I also have clients that I actually make content for as well. Still, and all of that is on Instagram and so I just don't have the capacity to interact with people everywhere. It's like I get that ADHD tunnel vision. I am exploring other platforms to kind of expand to, but'll probably be youtube.
Speaker 3:I mean I'm not really a tiktok person, um I just I can't get into it personally, um, so I'm just, you know, I'm focusing on where my strengths are. I'm also what's best for you yeah, yeah, that's also what I educate on um you know that's my, my platform, that I am highly focused on through my social media content strategy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Education. So no, that's cool, that's cool so.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to actually say the name of your so for any listeners out there, definitely check out Ready Set Squirrel. Have I pronounced that correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah, out. Ready Set Squirrel. Have I pronounced that correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, being dyslexic, sometimes I stuff it up, so I apologize if I do stuff anything up, but out of curiosity, like you know, getting 50, I often look at people who are getting views like that what, some of the? What happens when you get that? Like I know and I don't mean that by like you know you're feeling great and you're thinking, oh, wow. But do you get that?
Speaker 3:like I know and I don't mean that by like you know, you're feeling great and you're thinking oh, wow, but do you get interesting people reaching out to you, or do people run into you in the street and say, hey, you're that person? No, no, not yet. I don't think I've been around long enough for oh really well that uh, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3:Um, I also am very like contrary to what most people believe like I have a lot of energy, I'm a theater kid, I'm goofy, but I'm very introverted um it takes a lot of energy for me to to go out and to socialize and so it's like I go to the grocery store but you know I'm not really like out and about a whole lot, so I don't experience anything like that.
Speaker 3:And in terms of community it's. It's really interesting because the way that I have very intentionally kind of cultivated my community like yes, a lot of people will sometimes come in from those memes, but part of the way that I curate after those big boosts like that is I will I know what content is likely to get good exposure. I also know what's likely to shake the people who aren't my people. I also know what's likely to shake the people who aren't my people. So after I get a big boost like that, I'll go in and post some stuff that I know that it's like if or just be aware of what I'm posting, to just ensure that that is not getting too crazy and that I can't keep up with, actually, because it's very important to me to connect with my people.
Speaker 3:So, it's not just a growth thing. Like I am, I genuinely care about the people there. Like this community helped me to find myself after my diagnosis and it is has been huge in my healing and in my just acceptance of myself, and so I want to make sure that I am doing everything in my power to give as much of that back as I can.
Speaker 2:And if I were just always focused on you know more, more, more, that wouldn't be feasible and it wouldn't be genuine, so so so you're not really following the data so much as following the, the connection and the feeling and what works there, rather than just taking numbers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it took me a while to figure out what I was gonna do, and you know and that's kind of why I do what I do now it was like I needed to figure out a way to make money, but I also didn't really feel great about trying to do that in a way that wasn't also helping people to make that money themselves.
Speaker 3:So, like just helping them to understand, like, okay, this is what I did, and I did it by being myself.
Speaker 3:And like if you're in this place and you have skills that you can offer the world, like here's how you do that, here's how you just get yourself out there and you combine who you are with a little bit of content strategy, with understanding the platform that you're on and how to like, just be genuine, but also still like you're playing the social media game. You know we have an algorithm that determines a lot of what happens with our content and we have, you know, different things that get prioritized within you know what you're posting and so just optimizing all of that, like if I need to make my reel seven seconds instead of 10 seconds because I have an ADHD audience and I know how to look at my insights and see when they're dropping off to make sure that I get out to more people like that's what I'm going gonna do, um, so it's just a little bit of a mix and match and understanding and then, you know, just showing people how to build their own thing from the ground up.
Speaker 1:that's actually really cool. That's really cool because, yeah, it is difficult, like I know, we're across a lot of platforms there, but, like you know, and it would be good just to focus on one, but I don't know, it just works for us. Yeah, and you know what, with a podcast, for example, you know, I just find like I actually do get people coming up to me when I'm out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I wouldn't say like we're huge or anything like that, but it is sort of a cool feeling because you don't know who's looking at your content or you don't know who's listening and it's not like. You know kev's in a band and, um, you know, at least with a band it could be playing and see your audience.
Speaker 2:When you're like social media, you don't see it and and it has it has been strange having that difficult. I've had people come up to me before and go oh, I really like your music. But this has been like you know, young dudes coming up to me at the pub being like, hey, you've really helped me, and it's like, wow, that's, that's so much more and not. You can get that connection through music, but it's just a whole different beast. I was going to say, well, I don't know that we would necessarily be as spread across many platforms if we weren't doing a podcast, if we were just content creators, we would be more specific.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but you know what we did realise we're like, well, we've got this podcast. We'll never really, I suppose, um marketing it that well and like we're like man we could be, we could be pulling heaps of content out of this episode itself. You know what I mean. So we're really starting to look at that and that's where, well, you know, I've been. I know it's it's taken me a while to get into it, but I actually have been getting on tiktok lately and it's sort of taken me a while to get into it, but I actually have been getting on TikTok lately and it's sort of like there's different audiences on different platforms, if that makes sense. It's weird, like Facebook, for example, is that it feels like an older demographic, but the younger ones are definitely Instagram and YouTube as well, and TikTok. So that's an interesting thing as well, and TikTok, so that's an interesting thing as well.
Speaker 3:It's like three ages, right, Well, and that's kind of, I think, why Instagram is kind of my home base now too. It's like you're right, I feel like Facebook is a little bit like maybe a generation ahead or like older millennials. I am an older millennial, but I am a millennial and I feel like that's kind of the base on Instagram or at least least my experience and yeah. Tiktok feels like the generation under I'm just like I'm not cool enough for TikTok.
Speaker 1:It sort of does feel like that it's sort of cause. And also, too, you're seeing so so many young people on there and all that, and it's like oh man.
Speaker 2:Contrary to popular belief, gen z still does know how to look up to their elders sometimes. You know, I I spoke, I spoke on a panel at the university of queensland the other day and, um, I was like, oh man, I'm the old man on this on this panel, you know, because it was all students and then I had that moment where I'm like I don't understand the words that they're saying. You know they're using slaves. But we had a really, really good in-depth conversation and they had lots of questions and you know they really appreciated the. I guess that I've lived with autism and ADHD a lot longer. You know it was diagnosed very late. So you know, know, we've got things to contribute to the younger community, I think, you know, and they are interested.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry, sorry, can I say something? Yeah, here's the first example of a bunch of adhd is going off on a tangent because we've got a podcast.
Speaker 1:The funniest thing is this always happens, but I tell you what. That's where some of the best information comes from. So yeah, no cool stuff, but we should really get stuck into this. So you know, when Photon John reached out to you, we asked hey, what do you want to talk about? And you said let's talk about radical authenticity. So you know, for a lot of our audience they probably had no idea what that might be. So what is it?
Speaker 3:yeah, well, and I so I mean I I'm sure it's, it's not like a unique term to me, but I don't really hear it. Like you hear about radical love, and you know I just started using that term and then somebody started like asked me one day, what does that mean? And I really had to sit with it Cause, like in my head I knew what it meant. You know, it was like I know that it just means being like authentic. But then when I started building my curriculum and building that into kind of the foundation of what I teach, I really kind of dug in. And so the definition of authenticity is more or less just being exactly what you claim to be like, being exactly what you say you are, what you say you are. And what I feel like radical authenticity is is being exactly what you say you are, but also just exactly who you are Deep down in your soul, like your passions, your interests, not just conveying like, okay, this is what I say I am, so I'm going to like it's really digging deep down within yourself and saying, like, what matters to me, what is important to me, what do I love, what do I, you know, feel like is the most authentic version of myself, especially as you kind of have to go through the unmasking process after diagnosis.
Speaker 3:If you're late diagnosed, which I was, I was diagnosed just almost almost exactly a year ago now, at 37.
Speaker 3:After battling anxiety, depression I was an alcoholic for about a decade and really just going through it and then hitting rock bottom after I was laid off of my job last year and realizing like I just I can't keep going on like this. And then I finally got the help that I needed and then was diagnosed and started my Instagram page about 11 months ago and really didn't expect anything from it, didn't really know what I was doing with it. I was just like I'm just going to start documenting this journey because once I understood what was going on, like it all started clicking into place. It's like all of these puzzle pieces of like why am I this way, why am I that way, why can't I just do the thing? Um, it all started coming into focus and so I just started getting really intentional about just like I'm just gonna be who I am. I just moved and I was like I'm just gonna start practicing this, like just putting myself out there and just talking to people and maybe nobody's ever gonna see it. Maybe nobody's ever gonna care.
Speaker 1:But people started showing up Totally, totally Sorry, sorry to sort of butt in there like I can relate to that on so many levels and I think for a long time and probably a big reason maybe. You know I had a big drug and alcohol problem for a very long time and you know that was because I was going into certain situations where I couldn't be myself. So I had to like use this thing to cover up myself. So I had to like use this thing to cover up. But you know, the thing is, once I started going and look, I had to get rid of a lot of friends because I felt like I was only hanging out with people and trying to be someone I wasn't. Um, you know, to feel to help with that, I suppose loneliness or boredom or whatever that was. But um, I think once you start to be yourself, you actually start to attract the right people for you as well, and it's like it feels.
Speaker 1:It feels so much better type of thing, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, exactly with myself.
Speaker 2:It was when I, when I was sort of at peak alcoholism in my 20s, it was dialing down the senses so that I could enter that environment, um, and not, you know, just have the sensory issues, um, because I've got the double whammy, unfortunately with the autism as well, and so a lot of sensory issues. But it was, it was it was that too.
Speaker 3:I just couldn't yeah cope with the environment on a sensory level yeah, and I'm kind of I'm experiencing a similar thing now that where my ADHD is treated, it's, it's kind of coming up where you know I'm, I'm fairly certain that there's something else uh, going on that you know that the that I um, you know it's always so hard with the plot because you, you want to be authentic and and I don't try to hide anything, but I also don't want to take away from anybody else's experience with something, if I'm like, oh yeah, you know me too, or whatever. But I definitely resonate with a lot of that and it's kind of a journey that I'm on myself, kind of trying to figure out what else is going on, because there's a lot more sensory stuff with me than um is typical for.
Speaker 1:ADHD only so it's definitely a journey like I don't know. When I got diagnosed, I think, for me, I started to realize why I felt certain things in certain situations like and I say this a lot on the show like going to the shops, I used to think, why do I get so angry while I'm in the shops, or why do I feel like if I'm going out, I need to have so many drinks to ride myself off so I can cope with the pain or whatever like that you know, and it just you start to go now I the pain or whatever like that you know, and it just you start to go now I get why I'm like that, yeah, let's, let's put processes into place so I don't need to be like that or at least just being aware of it.
Speaker 3:Because I feel like when you, when you don't know why you're acting a certain way or why something is affecting you a certain way, like it causes so many issues because people, you don't understand it, so obviously you can't communicate it to other people. And there's been so many times in my life where you know I've lost friendships because there would be situations where I'd have a really extroverted friend. You know I'm, I'm always that one that gets kind of adopted by the extroverts. And then you know you make plans with this person and then they pull in a whole horde of other people into the plans. And now I'm having a panic attack because and I don't know why because I'm like, why can't I just be around that many people? It's like because, I'm overstimulated and.
Speaker 3:I'm uncomfortable and I'm socially awkward and you know I've got all of these. You know things and then so I'm drinking myself into a stupor just to get through the thing, because that's the only time when I feel like I can, um dull, all of the other sensory stuff.
Speaker 2:Enough to like get through and come up to the level of the extroverted people in the crowd and then they start to think you're extroverted and expect that from you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, totally, and otherwise you feel guilty because you're the one sitting in the corner just like watching everybody else, and then it's just what's wrong, what's wrong. Why aren't you enjoying yourself? Why aren't? You it's like I'm fine, you know. I'm fine, that's embarrassing, I'm just taking things in, and you know I just process but but do you know what as well?
Speaker 1:right like the thing I used to struggle with was, I think even now I'm very selective with who I I like to hang about, if that makes sense, and when you're around your normal friends, and all that. Then other people invited into the situation. This is a new person and it's like does this person fit in with who I am or what I need, type of thing? So that whole socialising thing, and look, don't get me wrong, I'm a social butterfly and I love it. But you know, sometimes I meet some people and I think, yeah, you're not my people, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's like you can sit and socialise with them, but like, just like, yeah, this isn't going to go anywhere Probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's fine too.
Speaker 3:I mean, at least being aware of that is so helpful because you know you can at least have some semblance of control and it's like I'm actually like great and personable in like small groups or one-on-one.
Speaker 3:I will sit and talk to somebody for hours, but you stick me in a group and it's like I have no concept of like, when am I supposed to talk, when am I not supposed to talk? You know, and I'm always that one that, like people start talking over and then you start like sinking in on yourself and you're like, oh God, you know, nobody heard me.
Speaker 1:And now I feel stupid and I don't like well, well, well, do you know what, right like, I was only saying this to a friend of mine the other day when I so I speak at a lot of conferences on neurodiversity, especially in education and all that type of stuff. Now for me conferences are daunting because it's so many people, it's a long day all Now. I and I said to my friend. I said I only will go to a conference now if I'm speaking at it. Reason being I know I'll speak, people will see me and then the people who want to talk to me will come up and speak to me afterwards type of thing. It's not me having to try and go out and make these conversations and feel rejected when someone doesn't give me the attention that I need type of thing.
Speaker 3:It's just weird, but that's how it works for me you know, and I feel like that's how, that's how I feel on social media and I think that there's a difference in like. For me, my page feels like my house in a sense.
Speaker 3:Well, it's your comfort zone right, yeah, and I'm like, if you're here and you're reaching out to me or I'm even reaching out to you, like you have chosen to be here and I don't ever like you know, it's even part of what I teach to sell people stuff, but I try really hard to message people proactively, just to connect, just to say hi, just to make sure they don't need anything. So I'm like you know, I, um, I've been in places where sometimes you just need somebody to listen to or listen to you, and sometimes you just need somebody who makes you feel like you're not an alien, for lack of a better term and that happens so frequently and it like that's why I do what I do the way that I do it. That's why I have so many different things. You know balls in the air that I'm juggling when I like I could just focus on business. But it is my passion to connect with people and to help them feel less alone and in their experience with life.
Speaker 3:And there's so many people that I reach who either are self diagnosed, like very early on, and just like really don't even know a whole lot of other neurodivergent people, and they'll say to me like thank you so much for connecting with me. This makes so much difference, like you know, because sometimes you can see, too, people like binging and like liking a whole lot of your stuff in a row and it kind of triggers that like, oh, I should go and say hi to this person and they're like I'm sitting here or watching all your content and sobbing my eyes out and I'm like number one.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, but number two, can I give you a virtual hug? I know it's hard.
Speaker 2:And thank you for connecting with us too, because we've been speaking lately thinking, you know, we haven't really spoken to any influencers in our space before and we need to reach out to some and we just weren't sure whether everyone was going to be too cool or too famous or you know whatever.
Speaker 3:and and you know I'm like dude, I am a 37 year old mom in my basement like acting a fool on instagram, like I'm not too cool for anybody and you know, just, I don't know it's. It's one of those things where some people, you know, some people are like that.
Speaker 1:You let yourself have that mentality, but that's never why I got into this but do you know what the coolest thing about it is? So, like you know, I I've, you know, been working in the neurodiversity space for like 10 years or something. Now, right, and the amount of connections I've got across the world and and it's funny how we were talking about before how it's like man, we're like on the other side of the world and we're talking, and all that man I've had people come to Australia or I've gone overseas or whatever and met up with them and it's like we're like just, it's not like we've just met, it's like we've known each other for ages and that's the cool part about it as well. Like I could be like, hey, let's. Uh, sorry, what part of these states are you in?
Speaker 3:yeah, oh I'm in um. I'm in virginia oh, virginia.
Speaker 1:I could be like, hey look, I'm gonna be near virginia soon, we might catch up, or let's do whatever. Do you know what I mean? It's like hell yeah, man, this let's catch up. You know, it's the best feeling ever it really is.
Speaker 3:It really is and it's.
Speaker 3:It's so special just how much people in this space embrace each other like I have a, a small group of women who, like all of us, kind of started building our pages around the same time, like we all connected when we were like little bitty couple hundred, but like we just had 150 followers like hooray and you know, and here we all are later, like still every single day in group chat, cheering each other on and hey time are here to do this, and like just that kind of support from other people who under who you never have to like give a disclaimer for yourself about it's like you could be unhinged and like like you.
Speaker 3:They just know you're like oh you know you're having one of those days, okay. Or, like guys, I'm really feeling like the imposter syndrome is coming in hot today. Or you know this troll said this thing on my content. It's making me feel you know this troll said this thing on my content and it's making me feel, you know, really like my rsv is is flaring up, really bad, and it's like you just gotta give each other the pep talk and be like we're in this for something bigger than this little troll on instagram like yeah, totally move on and connect with the people who you are impacting sorry, sorry, can I say something about trolls, and I know we're sort of going off topic here, right, oh no, yeah, but the thing is, the thing is right, the thing is right.
Speaker 1:What people forget is that what I've found in the past, because I you know my.
Speaker 1:Probably the platform for my, where I've sort of made a lot of connections and grown and developed a lot, has been LinkedIn, right, yeah. And sometimes you will post something up and I don't know if you get the same thing right. You post something up let's say about I don't know. Let's just pick something about I don't know something neurodiversity in the workplace or something but then a troll will sometimes get up and pick a fight about something that's not even related to what the post is about and it's like what the hell? And you get them frustrated. That's why I'm just like now, if I have that crap happen, I just delete it. I only like the good messages and I think and people are like oh man, you shouldn't do that. I'm like I don't give a shit.
Speaker 3:You know what I don't actually, Unless they're really offensive to the point where I feel like they could hurt somebody else. It's funny because after a bit and I've posted a reel almost every single day since I started Instagram almost a year ago I am a content producing machine. And after what you become like. It doesn't mean anything and honestly I kind of enjoy it now because it gives my inner troll an opportunity to come out and play it's like I'm never mean to anybody but, I will be sarcastic, oh please tell me more.
Speaker 2:I've taken to, um, uh, if someone posts something negative or whatever, um, like, I was posting about something I'd like to do with the x-men online and someone was like, ah, that's crap. And I just responded with do you, uh, you know, like to ruin people's joy for a living or is it just for fun? Yeah, and then, and then I can see all the notifications dinging off and they're losing their minds and I'm not even looking anymore. I just leave it. I make my point and I move on. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, and it's so funny because oftentimes it's like the community takes care of it for you or it just creates more engagement. Just creates more engagement and like I'll just straight up tell, like somebody the other day said something like oh god, you know I can have adhd and, you know, not broadcast it to the world and make it my entire identity, and I just gave him a little trophy emoji and here's your award, you must be better than the rest of us and holy moly if that comment didn't get hundreds of likes you know, it's like
Speaker 2:you know, you just, you just play the I'll play the game and then the trolls don't realize me. That's fine.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the trolls don't realize they're actually helping you because the algorithm loves the engagement, like do you realize that I'm gonna like I'll see you next time in your feed, because you just interacted with my content, so you're gonna see me again.
Speaker 1:That is so true. Funny thing we're going back off uh topic. But is that? But they're really good conversation do you know, what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's really cool. Um, now I I sort of did skip one because we've sort of spoken. The next question was actually how can people practice radical authenticity? But I sort of did skip one because we've sort of spoken. The next question was actually how can people practice radical authenticity? But we sort of covered that. I felt yeah, I think we're talking about, but is there any counterproductive or negative that you need to be careful not to make?
Speaker 3:uh, sorry, not to mistake for authenticity yeah, um, I really think that there's a few things that some people try to wield a little bit as well. That's just how I am right. Yeah, a few of the ways. I know that we kind of try to excuse that and I am the info dumping queen. I am an overshare to the max, but sometimes there is a line, I feel like, between being conscious of not oversharing in a way that's going to cross other people's boundaries or make them uncomfortable in a sense that it's like okay, once we're close enough. You know, there's some things that I can let you in on, but just using your platform as a place to trauma dump, I think you know there's there's a difference between trauma dumping on people who don't know you yet and who you haven't built a relationship with yet.
Speaker 1:Sorry, can you explain about like your?
Speaker 3:experiences what does trump don't mean trauma oh okay, trauma I'm sorry it sounded because of your accent.
Speaker 1:It just sounded different.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, it's so funny because I don't feel like I have an accent, but yeah I have a california, san diego yeah and it sort of feels like that for us.
Speaker 1:But from what I've been told, we have an incredibly strong Australian accent. Yeah, but it just feels normal to us as well.
Speaker 3:But sorry, you were saying yeah, or justifying poor behavior Like if you're just being a jerk and saying, that's just how I am.
Speaker 1:You know, that's not how to be authentic.
Speaker 2:You know To just butt in for two seconds on that. Yeah, people hate admitting that and I think it's something that if we're going to be honest and authentic, we need to admit that occasionally, neurodivergence can result in straight up poor behavior. Yeah, and you need to be aware, self-aware about that and monitor that.
Speaker 3:Exactly or, on the other, just take responsibility because I feel like that is part of being just, you know, self-aware and part of being authentic. It's just to accept when you're wrong, take responsibility when you're wrong, like that is something I talk about a lot too. It's like nobody in this world is perfect. I'm going to screw up, I'm going to do something at some point that is going to upset somebody in a way that I did not ever intend, and it's okay for that not to be inherently wrong, but to still say I'm sorry that that impacted you in that way.
Speaker 3:And just take ownership of that, because you don't have to feel like, hey, this was, you know, an inherently evil thing that I did, or whatever. But I think that there's always just a place for kindness and just helping to bridge that gap with somebody if you've made an impact on them in a way that you know harmed somebody in some way it's almost impossible not to do in some regard, but you can try your hardest and you can just be kind.
Speaker 3:And it's it's almost impossible not to do in some regard, but you can try your hardest and you can just be kind it's almost like an educational piece, right?
Speaker 1:So a lot of the time we may be dealing with people who don't know anything about neurodiversity, if that makes sense. So you know, sometimes if we do make a mistake or whatever, that looks like explaining why but not using it as an excuse Like yeah, yeah, I did that because I'm this, so you know you can't get upset at me, but you know, maybe helping people understand. But also too, once we're helping people to better understand, maybe people and when I say people I mean like neurotypical type of people um can have a better understanding of maybe how to, how to say, hey, look, that's not right. Or not lose their shit, it is, but go, look, man, I think you approached that the wrong way there, you know, yeah exactly and, like my audience, is primarily, you know, neurodiver.
Speaker 3:But there are people who start conversations or get salty on your because you know, they get upset that like you don't have ADHD or like whatever, and they'll throw something out or ask a question sarcastically and I'll counter and I'll be like listen, if you're genuinely interested in knowing like I will talk to you about this.
Speaker 3:Like I will absolutely meet you where you're at and I will walk you through this and the kindest, most or the kindest way that I possibly can and to help you kind of. You know, understand where I'm coming from, because that's where we learn and we need each other Like we didn't. Nobody ever learned anything or changed their opinion by being jerks to each other. Like that just creates more separation and more distrust.
Speaker 3:But once you build that foundation of like okay, you're somebody that I can trust and somebody who cares about this. Like. Now we can meet on the same platform and now we can talk as equals and say this is where I'm coming from, please explain your opinion, and now we can find somewhere to be in the middle nobody ever learned anything from being jerks to each other.
Speaker 2:Um, can we sound bite that and megaphone it out to the world right now, but do?
Speaker 1:you know, what I often see within the neurodiversity community is that you know sometimes and it's funny how you were talking about someone saying, oh, you were saying something about ADHD and you know, I don't know if they didn't believe you or something there before. But you know, I've had people come to me with a lot of the stuff that I've been doing on the outside saying, oh, you know, you wouldn't know what it's like to struggle. You're not as neurodivergent as I am, do you know what I mean? And that really hurts because it's like, well, you know what? Maybe I'm not you. I have struggled. You know, like you haven't, you're only seeing. It's like the iceberg picture. You know, you see all the good stuff on the top but you don't see the, the hard work and the pain and all the stress I've gone to to get to that level. It's been bloody hard and when you hear that it's almost like a, it's like a kick in the guts if that makes makes sense.
Speaker 3:Yeah, one thing that I always try to keep in mind when those situations occur is, like I feel like none of those comments are ever about you.
Speaker 3:They're never about you. Whenever somebody comes at you who doesn't even really know you and doesn't like, and they want to attack you or throw around assumptions, like that's coming from such a place of deep hurt within themselves or inadequacy, or feeling inadequate. Like you know, even though you're not like, you're just you're struggling with these things too. But it's like you know that voice inside your head it's like, well, they don't have it as bad as I do. Like you know, some people get mad at me about trying to talk about it through a positive lens and I'm like, well, you know, I talk about the bad things too, but I don't want to be that person who just casts a glum light, like I can't change who I am and I can choose to take it and use it to like to be the best person that I can be and to connect with people and to make a difference, or I can sit over in the corner and be angry at everybody else um, get on your laptop and tell the world that you know.
Speaker 1:You know that, like um, I've I've actually disconnected with people and I don't know if you've heard the term like keyboard warriors oh yeah, like people that's a very neurodivergent thing. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, that in person. Yeah, in person they will be, and it's like masking almost. But once you see that, once they get behind the keyboard and no one's there, they will unleash, and it's like, oh my God, I cannot deal with this person.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it could bother me a lot more, but whatever, that's what built my notification anxiety.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because in the early days of social media, because in a normal conversation people would talk to each other like that and so I would get locked into these conversations going. Why are you talking to me like this? And I'd be there for hours, you know, yeah, it took me a long time.
Speaker 1:I'm talking, you know, back when Facebook but you're trying to like, prove, You're trying to prove that what you're sharing is correct. And then other people, People are disagreeing and I'm like I got to a point where I was like why am I even bothering with this? I'm getting frustrated, I'm depressed, I'm all that. I'm like. I posted and it could have been a positive post, but someone's turned it into a negative for me, Do you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean and it's like well, piss off.
Speaker 2:I had an issue with a friend the other night. We were talking online and he just really wanted to go down this political conversation path. And I know that I disagree with him on quite a lot of stuff, you know, but I try to maintain friendships with people who I disagree with. I think that's important and but and I said you know, I warned him a few times. I'm like, look, I'm just not interested in having this conversation with you, yeah, and he just couldn't stop. He just really wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 2:I'm like mate, and then, so like I slightly engaged, just enough to thinking, okay, well, now I've engaged with him, yeah, and then he just goes. You know, it just explodes more. And then I'm just like, look, okay, I'm out, man, I'm not having this conversation. I've told you a bunch of times that I'm not interested in this, and I do that in a conversation, mid-conversation, with people that I know and love, because I'm just like, no, I'm dipping out at this point. Yeah, because I've learned, you know, that's not a conversation. Let's agree to disagree, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. But no, it is in the neurodivergent community. You often come across that regularly, like some people will. Just, you know, like I think a big thing I see as well is that, even like the terms people use, people, if someone doesn't use the correct term or something like that, they will lose their shit over it and it's like dude. It's about the point we're trying to get across. Let's not and I can tell you right now, since I've been in like the neurodiversity community, all that type of stuff right for years now, and people are still having arguments over shit we're having arguments about all the way back. Then it's like man, I got more important shit to worry about. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, and that's where it's like holy shit, man, that's where you have to just walk away from it and just like move forward.
Speaker 3:I just ignore it like but yeah, I mean especially on viral posts and stuff. You always get those, but I think, now, because the community takes care of them. It's, it's hilarious, so I'll just like watch it. Like somebody makes some sort of comment and they've just got the whore jumping on them, you know, and I'm just like, okay, I'm not even gonna look at like you guys take care of it, I don't care whatever I mean earlier. For what did they? They were mad about me using the term ADHD-er.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:And I've never heard that one before, because you know it's just like ADHD-ers doing whatever, it's just kind of.
Speaker 1:I use that term as well, it's just an easier way of saying it.
Speaker 3:It sounds gross, like it's something that we're choosing and I'm like what I mean. I guess if you want to assign that meaning to it, that's your right.
Speaker 1:But you know, yeah, and do you know what Like left field.
Speaker 3:I was like huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, do you know what? Right, it's funny you say that because there's so many things that say like, when people use the term like I have a superpower, you know stuff like that right Now. Personally, for myself, I don't like that term, but I don't care if other people use that. If people feel comfortable in using that, go for it. That's cool. I used to be really worried about that, but then I'm like, look, it's got nothing to do with me, it's semantics too.
Speaker 3:It's like, literally, it's got nothing to do with me. Semantics too. It's like, yeah, literally it's it's strengths and weaknesses right, you're just labeling it superpowers, it's, it's just a term. It's like anybody could yeah every single person on this planet has strengths and weaknesses. So you want to, like. You want to play the semantics game? That's fine. Like I don't typically use that word either, I say strengths because yes, you know that's just like we do have strengths and yeah, because I'm sensitive to the fact, just like you know, with with any community.
Speaker 3:It's like I know that that's a polarizing topic that I don't need to take a stand on because I don't have a strong opinion about it. So I'm just like why would I create controversy?
Speaker 3:when there isn't none, and I think that's a little bit of a different mindset that I have about, like you know, just the social media thing it's like, because controversy in general does create engagement, Like you know. You can say something like that and I would probably get a lot of views on it but I don't feel the need to throw something out there to create fights within a yeah why would I do that? So, um, yeah, so I just don't use it.
Speaker 1:I just say strength yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all good it's all good.
Speaker 2:Uh, we're getting a little late in the piece. I did just kind of want to pull us back to the core here because there's a couple things I really wanted to ask you. Well, sort of get from the questions, but Going back to the radical authenticity side of things, could you just give us a little breakdown of you know how that's benefited you and why it's important?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I think that it has helped in a lot of ways, just understanding what my values are, what my passions are, being able to embrace those things about myself that I never quite understood before or I never allowed myself to understand. It was like, oh, this is weird about me, or, you know, this is whatever. And it just kind of became a point, through like a lot of introspection and a lot of just kind of breaking down my history, of realizing like, okay, all of this, all of these side symptoms, all of this anxiety, all of this depression, all of you know these, these vices and these struggles were kind of born from this feeling like I had to hide who I was, that I had to pretend to be somebody that I wasn't, because I was, you know, told from the time that I was at this and this and this and this and this is not okay, all of these things about you are not okay. And so just saying like, listen, I'm giving a middle finger to all of that. I'm going to live my life and I'm going to run my business in a way that I want to Like, yeah, the way that I run business leaves money on the table. It absolutely does, because I'm not going to cold DM people and try to get into their wallets the first time that I meet them, like.
Speaker 3:I am more concerned about people as people than I am about, you know, signing you up for my program or whatever it's like. I take an approach of like when you need me, you know that I'm here and that's how I operate my business. And so, you know, will I ever be a seven figure entrepreneur? I don't know. Hopefully, but maybe not. But I would rather be true to me and treat people the right way and be you know, stand by my values, than I would anything else. And I mean I walked away from a brand deal just this week, like you know, a high dollar brand deal because it didn't align with my values and I didn't feel like it would be a good fit for my community and like my brand promise since day one has been like I will put you guys above money every single time, and you know.
Speaker 3:So it was just being consistent and that and and allowing myself, through being authentic, to just say listen, this is how I do business and if you want to work with me, you're going to do things my way, you know. You know, it's not like I'm trying to be to throw around weight or anything like that. I'm just like you're going to, you're going to do it the right way. We're not going to play these mind games with people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, you're totally right, because I often speak about this with my business partner a lot of the time as well, and you know when you're wanting to do business, like the way I look at it, it's not. You know you don't want to like to be doing business with someone that you know there's no fit there or it's just for the money. A lot of the time I'm looking at what's the relationship going to be like. Am I going to feel like I can't come to this person when we can do something together or whatever, like that is because it's just going to fail. If you don't have that, you know, like you said, if those values don't line, you're going to have very big problems down the track.
Speaker 3:And not only like is it just better for you like to be able to just accept who you are, but also like it's actually really good for business too because it develops trust naturally, like real, with people. They can trust you, you know like it's um, that's a really big deal in a world where you don't always know what you're gonna get. It's like I'm not gonna try to throw somebody at the finish line and, you know, jump to a decision, you know, in hiring me before they're ready, like I'm, I'm going to do what I need to do, to build that trust with you, because that's the respect that I would want as a person as well.
Speaker 3:And so you know it's like, yeah, it might take a little bit longer, but I know that I'm uncomfortable when I'm put in that position and, like I would so much rather somebody come and be comfortable and be confident and be ready to be in that place than have to push somebody into that space you know you'll have them oh sorry you go, kev.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say it's nice to realize I've been practicing radical authenticity without realizing. So I used to work for like a lot of the big marketing agencies around town and, um, I was I'm very good at what I do I don't mind saying that but, um, but I couldn't align with them culturally, um, and it was all about money and I I I saw my job as I'm helping business, you know, especially like new business owners and stuff succeed and I got really invested emotionally with them in making that happen.
Speaker 2:And but you couldn't do that in a corporate environment because it was a corporate environment exactly make money and I was like we need to spend a bit of extra money here to do that, and they'd be like no, that's not that way, yeah and so now I've got all my own direct clients. So they all, you know, work from totally for myself and I do everything the way that I know that it needs to be do. They'll be done. Yeah, they're all. They're all kicking ass. They're all really happy and have really good, genuine relationships with them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, and I mean and that's so. That's the whole point of like everything. It's like so many people get to that place, like once they're diagnosed, and they realize all of this stuff, and it's like we're generally pretty justice-sensitive people in, you know, as a general rule.
Speaker 2:You know obviously a general rule, you know obviously.
Speaker 3:I love that, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean high, high justice sensitivity. You know, get real hyped up about people doing the wrong thing and it's like what better position to be in, you know.
Speaker 3:and so many of us end up leaving corporate culture because of that, and you know, for me, I chose not to go back because I was like, oh well, this isn't ever going to get any better. You know, this is just who I am, and so what better way to be in control of that than to just say listen, I'm going to build my thing and I'm going to do it my way and I'm going to do the right thing and I'm going to be unapologetic about that, and you know screw everything.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it builds for a more probably reputable company in that way as well. Yeah, I think it takes longer. It does. It does take longer, but you'll have every it will and you'll probably find yeah, I'll take longer, but you probably will make more money, because sometimes you lose money when you're dealing with dickheads.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you're doing the footwork to build the trust and to build the foundation instead of building it on. You know what is that? Yeah, totally, totally building it on the sand. It's like, yeah, when you try to speed towards the finish line and that way yeah, yeah, yeah you don't have a foundation to build upon you'll make totally but you won't get totally totally.
Speaker 1:But we are getting close to the end here, so do you have any last tips for people wanting to be uh, their more authentic self?
Speaker 3:yeah, I think that really one of the biggest things for me was, um, finding people who accept you for exactly who you are, surrounding yourself with people who say you don't have to justify yourself to me, you don't have to give me disclaimers after everything that you say. Once you kind of get comfortable with just communicating with somebody without constantly feeling like you have to apologize for yourself, it helps you identify so much more about who you are. It's like little by little you just become more comfortable with, like the stuff that's coming out of you and you're just like, oh OK, there you are, you know that that's who you are, you know that that's who you are, and just kind of thinking about your past and journaling and mindfulness is absolutely very helpful. Also, being realistic about not having all of the answers immediately. Not having it be an overnight process Like this is a it's an ongoing. Having it be an overnight process Like this is a it's an ongoing.
Speaker 3:I feel like lifelong process.
Speaker 1:Always learning right.
Speaker 3:Untangling and just kind of figuring out, and it's like you don't all of a sudden one day unmask and that's just who you are forever Like. We're still constantly evolving, growing humans, and I feel like learning about neurodiversity was really big for me too. Just getting deep into understanding exactly how everything works and exactly how, like, what makes it different and how your brain is wired and um. So just having actual scientific research of like okay, this is, this is what's going on, and it kind of helps me to look at it more pragmatically but it does help emotionally so
Speaker 3:I think there needs to be a healthy mix of both and to just, yeah, and you know, it's just, you're not broken, you're not. There's nothing wrong with you per se, it's just we are wired differently in a space that or in a world that's not really set up for the way that we process and the way that we function. When I'm set up properly, with the way that, like I excel, I'm a beast, I will crank through and I, you know I can be extremely productive and extremely focused and extremely you know, powerful when I am in my strength area, but you try to stick me somewhere else, like I will completely flounder. And I was like that in college. I dropped out of college two years in. I thought I was stupid, I thought that I would never be able to amount to anything. Because it turns out like I just couldn't freaking, focus or study because I had free education and I was unmedicated.
Speaker 1:And also, too, the higher education part of that as well isn't equipped for people like ourselves. Yeah, not at all, you know?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel like, why am I so good at this? But I'm really bad at this.
Speaker 1:Like, no looking back it's interest-based. You know, we have interest-based nervous systems.
Speaker 2:Totally, totally. To just answer this comment here from KJ, I think it was being a jerk. No one ever learned anything from being a jerk to each other, from being jokes to each other?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah I thought I'd post that up because she's been posting a lot and I thought, man, I gotta do a shout out. So, hey, jay, thank you so much for all your comments today. Um, but also, too, brie, thank you so much for coming on as well. Um, you know, if people can want to connect with you and find out a bit more about your work, where's the best place to go?
Speaker 3:Really, my Instagram is where I live and breathe and that's where. That's where all the fun stuff happens.
Speaker 1:So ready sets.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that is my Instagram handle. I do have a website as well same name, but instagram. You can always get me and I always tell people. Some people are weird about dming like. I promise you, I am 10 times more awkward than you are like it will never put me off, I will always respond. Um, you know I'm not too cool for anybody, I'm the opposite of that. So yeah, reach out, connect and come. Come have a party with us.
Speaker 1:That's what we do all day every day nice, nice, nice, well, no, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. We really appreciate your time. It's, it's been, and and this is the thing like like we just don't get to speak to our American friends that often, like we're always so. Being able to connect with people from overseas means a lot to us and I know it's probably a little bit late over that side of the world. It's only nine, yeah, well, no, well, we're getting older. We're getting older. You know, I don't know what you're talking about but no thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 1:It's. It's been great and so cool to um to see how amazing your um instagram pages skyrocketed within such a short amount of time. We could probably learn a little bit from you. So thank you so much. Anytime, yeah, and if we're over in um, uh, sorry, where are you again? Virginia.
Speaker 3:We'll, um, we'll, knock on the door and, uh, catch up, yeah I've got a guest room in a whole podcast studio, so yeah, cool, just do a live podcast get a random knock on the door and it is me and will hey, mate, hey, what's up, uh downstairs well, first of all, you're probably gonna be like how the hell did you get my address?
Speaker 3:nothing surprises me yeah, yeah, I gave away my entire uh google drive last night, so true, probably got it from there, yeah, from your google drive from my stand store yeah, true, true photon.
Speaker 1:John, did you have anything else you wanted to say before I close?
Speaker 2:everything off. No, I just thank you, brie, although I'm I'm having a moment of appreciation. You know will and I've been plugging away at this for a couple years now and, like you know, you're gonna push through, even when no one's listening, and it's. It's been a hard slog and but I think you know, if you went back and told us in the beginning that we'd be speaking to influencers and stuff, we'd be pretty happy. So I'm having a moment of appreciation for where we're at. I hardly consider myself that Well. You know, 10 million viewers would disagree, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know what I'd do with myself with 10 million views on a post. I'd be beside myself.
Speaker 3:You know the first time it happened I almost vomited everywhere Like I had so much anxiety about it, and now it's just like all right, you know.
Speaker 1:Sorry, did you have your notifications on?
Speaker 3:No, I don't leave my notifications. Oh, okay, because I was going to say it would have just been gone, ding, ding ding well, yeah, and I don't leave those ones on, no, but like it is pretty wild, because when they do start popping off like your feed becomes something entirely different you know, it's just like I, I could scroll for days and it's just notification.
Speaker 3:It's like it all kind of blends together and I try to like look for the comments and stuff. But it is always so cool to like go to bed and wake up in the morning and all of your notifications have maxed out and it's like, oh, it's like opening a little surprise, like who do I get to hang out?
Speaker 2:with. Today I'm having dopamine for breakfast yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. No, it is cool when you do and I, the thing I like about especially social media is just the people. Like don't get me wrong, there are some dickheads out there, but the cool people you meet as well. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I have such a great community Like I have very little for an audience my size like very, very little drama. Everybody is so good to each other and I think that people just know when they come in it's like that's not going to, like I will block your butt so fast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you start anything here, like you're gone, I don't have anything to prove to anyone You're in my house. Yeah, yeah, you'd definitely be a cool person to hang out with, I think. But thank you so much for everything. It's been a pleasure. Um and yeah um. So for all of our listeners, if you haven't already done so, please connect with brie at ready. Set squirrel on instagram. Um, my name's will wheeler with my co-host, uh, photon john. And this is neurodivergent mates. Till next time you.