021 Embracing Neurodiversity: Talia Samora on Personal Growth, Collaboration, and the Magic of "The Alchemist
Jun 28, 2024Season 1Episode 20
Deborah Edwards and Debbie Pearson
What if embracing neurodiversity could unlock unparalleled personal growth and balance? Join us at Shero Cafe for a thought-provoking conversation with Talia Samora, a neurodivergent coach who empowers women managing both business and family life, especially those with neurodivergent members. Talia shares her deeply personal journey, including the challenges and triumphs of raising two teenage boys, and reveals how these experiences have shaped her unique coaching methods. Together, we explore the transformative impact of Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" on her life, highlighting the book's themes of self-discovery and the importance of living in the present moment.
Furthermore, Talia celebrates the magic of collaboration and the enrichment that comes from diverse perspectives. As we honor her achievement of becoming a published author, Talia reflects on the beauty of working together to broaden our horizons and uplift one another. This episode is a heartfelt ode to resilience, personal growth, and the power of following one's unique path. Don't miss out on this uplifting and insightful conversation with Talia Samora.
What if embracing neurodiversity could unlock unparalleled personal growth and balance? Join us at Shero Cafe for a thought-provoking conversation with Talia Samora, a neurodivergent coach who empowers women managing both business and family life, especially those with neurodivergent members. Talia shares her deeply personal journey, including the challenges and triumphs of raising two teenage boys, and reveals how these experiences have shaped her unique coaching methods. Together, we explore the transformative impact of Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" on her life, highlighting the book's themes of self-discovery and the importance of living in the present moment.
Furthermore, Talia celebrates the magic of collaboration and the enrichment that comes from diverse perspectives. As we honor her achievement of becoming a published author, Talia reflects on the beauty of working together to broaden our horizons and uplift one another. This episode is a heartfelt ode to resilience, personal growth, and the power of following one's unique path. Don't miss out on this uplifting and insightful conversation with Talia Samora.
Well, hello everyone. I'm Debbie Pearson and I'm here with my co-host, Deborah Edwards, and we are co-hosting the Shiro Cafe podcast, where we celebrate the Shiro in you, and today we have as our guest Talia Samora. And Talia, if I'm understanding correctly, you are a neurodivergent coach. You want to tell us a little bit more about what that means?
Speaker 2:
Hi everybody. Yes, happy to Thank you. So I work with predominantly women and I support them with their progress in life and the challenges that they have and get some a little bit of control and balance in what's going on for them. And the majority of the time these women are from families that have either got neurodevelopment children so somebody a child maybe with ADHD or autism or they have have something along those lines themselves and a lot of the time they run their own business as well. So it's a combination of helping them with them progressing their business, making sure they build a little bit of harmony and peace and balance in their life and their family uh, with their family but also then molding that business to kind of work around that. That and those challenges that they kind of face in life. They're a bit different from everybody else I love that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that is a specialty, for sure. So, and I hear that you've said that you are also neurodivergent yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
So my, my family, my, my whole house yeah, we've all got differences of our own, and I've definitely learned through having children. That's how I have two teenage boys. I've learned a lot about my own neurodivergencies along the way, so they've helped me to reflect on myself too, as well as them.
Speaker 3:
That is awesome. So my first question is what is the name of the book that you read and the author?
Speaker 2:
So the book that I read was the Alchemist, and the author is and I get worried about saying this wrong is Paolo Coelho, so hopefully I've pronounced his name correctly. Yeah, he's written a number of books and I've read a number of his books, but the Alchemist is one that's always stuck with me.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, me too. And I would love to know. So then, and I read the book, I have it right here.
Speaker 2:
You can't see it, I love that that you've got it.
Speaker 3:
Put it in front of you. If you put it in front, of your body, that's it, yeah, and this impacted me as well when I read it. It was it's a great book, so share with our audience how you came to this book and how it impacted you, and what has it meant in your life? Why?
Speaker 2:
you chose this one, so I chose to share about this one, particularly because I've found that it still always stuck with me and there's been a warmth about it and a joy about the story and I've read so many books that I've really benefited from. But this one, for some reason, has always stayed with me and a big part of the story is about a journey, and a journey that a shepherd boy goes on and what he experiences in life and the people that he meets, the good and the bad, um, the challenges that he has, and I feel I can relate to it. At the time when I read it, I really, really appreciated it and really, um, it helped me to to have a understanding of or reflect on my own life and quite often, to appreciate what I've got at the time where it is and not necessarily needing to seek it elsewhere, although he does go on a journey, and a lot of it is about that. But for me, I took from it that actually, that I can. You know what I need in life is actually right here in front of me.
Speaker 2:
Um, so I and I feel like I'm on a journey throughout life. Anyway, it's just uh, it just made me appreciate things in a different way. And then I think, reflecting on it through this experience of writing the chapter, it's really helped me identify that actually you know what I can relate to it in various different stages along my life journey. And yeah, I think it's a beautiful book to kind of reflect on over the years and, yeah, it made a really positive impact on me.
Speaker 1:
Was there something specific in the book that you went?
Speaker 2:
oh my goodness, I don't want to give the story away too much. I don't want to give the story away too much. Okay, it's a lovely story that he goes on and he travels and he really wants to travel and that's partly why he's a shepherd and he meets some wonderful people that um really help and support him on the way, and I suppose those things in the book I can appreciate in my own journey that I've had people that helped me along the way. There have there's been stumbles along the way and he had them too, um, and there's been some really valuable learning experiences as well. So I just can relate to it. But there is an element of it that does a full circle within the book and that's the bit that really you have to read.
Speaker 2:
I had to complete the book to really see the full value of it, and so I'm saying I'm being vague there because I want to. I don't want to give too much away, because it is definitely a great read. It's definitely a great read. It's not a very thick book. It's a book that is quite easy to pick up and just appreciate over. You know, whether you're a fast reader or a slow reader, it's quite gentle.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, it is, and there is a quote on the back of the book that I just love and I and Debbie and I both are authors in the book too, and this is connected to the chapter that I read too as well and it said OK is to realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation, and I love that, and I love that in your work you help people realize their destination Right.
Speaker 2:
And so how does that play out for you? Well, I guess on his journey in the book he meets so many different people and experiences life through their eyes in many ways and, I suppose, develops his own outlook on life from a different perspective. And that's definitely what I benefit from when I work with my clients, because they all have different perspectives, they all have different traits, experiences, personalities, they all have different challenges and through working through them, with them, I really benefit from broadening my own understanding and learning. But also I help and support them and to appreciate themselves, to make the most out of their own life, to make things easier for themselves, and sometimes it could be really really small things that I help them with that can make a massive difference, such as the way they talk to their child, their expectations they have of their family, for instance, because unfortunately we I'm a strong believer in letting people know that actually we don't have to live by society's expectations and rules and that what we see around us, what happens in our own home, it's really important that we find our own balance and it doesn't have to look like everybody else's, and I think we often fall foul of that, that we think, oh well, you know next door neighbors, they're not doing it that way.
Speaker 2:
You know they're not going to sleep at at midnight, they're going to sleep at eight o'clock. They're, you know, putting their children to bed at eight o'clock. And we should be doing the same. And you know we need to get up a certain amount of time, certain time of day, we need to get dressed in a certain way, we need to play certain games, paint certain pictures, read certain books, um, so I, I'm very much an advocate of helping people to find their own way and do it on their own terms and what suits them and aligns with them. And yeah, I really that I feel that that's in the book too, that you know he's going on his own journey, his own path, and not necessarily what his family expected him to do.
Speaker 3:
Typically, the last question that we ask our interviewees is what would you like to share with our audience? What is something that you want everybody in the world to know your clients, your potential clients, anybody that's listening to us today. What would be a one thing that you would deeply desire that everybody knows?
Speaker 2:
to to encourage everybody to embrace their differences and their uniqueness and they not to kind of fit in with the crowd, to actually uh, embrace. Standing out from the crowd and um yeah, and reading books is a huge part of helping you to do that. So I think the wonderful thing about us all coming together and collaborating in this way and showing people what they can read and and what they're benefiting from it and can broaden their horizons and help them to maybe see their own uniqueness and enjoy life in a different way that is beautiful beautiful, wonderful, well, talia, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1:
We really appreciate you sharing about your life, what you do and the chapter that you wrote. And, uh, congratulations on being a published author. I don't know if this is your first thank you.
Speaker 2:
Congratulations to both of you too, thank you?
Speaker 1:
yeah, it's very glad to be in it with you. Thank you so, deborah.
Speaker 3:
Close us out close us out as always, as always, always, always. And what debbie and I really, really invite everyone to do is to care and love the shero and you bye thanks, talia thank you, thanks for having me.
