Princess and the Pea Podcast: Recent Episodes
Annie Crowe
A podcast that celebrates neurodiversity and shares the lives of many incredible neurodivergent humans and biggest supporters. Annie talks to guests about inclusive employment, education, parenthood, barriers to diagnosis, mental health, neurodiversity affirming health care, and more.
This episode of the Princess in the Pea podcast, features a conversation with Nicola Salmon, a UK-based fat-positive fertility coach, who talks about her work supporting fat individuals seeking fertility support and challenging weight bias in the healthcare system. Annie and Nicola delve into topics like the stigmatisation of larger bodies, navigating the healthcare system, the importance of bodily autonomy, and the intersection of neurodivergence and health. The episode emphasises that everyone deserves appropriate, respectful, and evidence-based care regardless of their size or neurotype.
00:28 Welcome
02:05 Introducing Nicola Salmon
04:46 Nicola's Journey with PCOS and Fat Activism
05:35 The Impact of Diet Culture on Fertility
06:41 Transition to Fertility Coaching
07:40 Embracing Fat Acceptance
09:28 Challenges in Healthcare for Larger Bodies
12:35 Personal Experiences with Diet Culture
20:30 The Reality of Thin Privilege
28:10 Nicola's ADHD Journey
29:22 Exploring ADHD and Self-Diagnosis
30:17 Mental Health Challenges Post-Pregnancy
30:47 Life Transitions and Executive Functioning
32:07 PTSD and ADHD Overlap
33:52 Eating Disorders and Neurodivergence
36:12 Navigating Medical Bias and Advocacy
40:14 Fertility Treatment and Systemic Bias
53:10 The Importance of Self-Advocacy
56:30 Final Thoughts
Nicola Salmon
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Welcome back! Season 2 is here!!! 🥳
Episode 13
We kick off with a huge episode where Annie talks to Autistic Physician Dr Mel Houser (she/they) about how long COVID is impacting the Autistic community and why understanding Autistic physiology is key to neuroaccessible and inclusive healthcare.
Sponsor by Yellow Ladybugs
This episode is proudly sponsored by Yellow Ladybugs with the support of the Victorian Government.
Time Stamps
01:19 Intro
03:14 Celebrating Yellow Ladybugs (show sponsor)
04:11 Annie's comments on neuroaccessible conferences
NOTHING ABOUT US. Period.
06:44 GIVEAWAY!!!
09:07 Start of Annie and Mel's chat about:
- Autistic Health
- Long COVID
- Mast Cells
- Chronic Illness
- Pacing
- Trauma
- Burnout
- Anxiety
- Privilege
- Neuronormativity
- and more!
62:52 Annie's Wrap Up
Guest: Dr Mel Houser
Follow Dr Mel Houser's incredible work and ABB community at All Brains Belong.
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Here is the guide on pacing Dr Mel talks about on the show.
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GIVEAWAY!
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Until next time, many spoons! x
Season finale!!!
In part 2 of Annie's stimulating chat with the ausome Frances Brennan, an Autistic ADHD Speechie (aka Speech Pathologist), we end season 1 with a BANG!
Annie and Frances discuss everything from info dumping, masking, people pleasing, driving with ADHD, memory, distractions, exposure therapy, dysregulation, assuming competency, labels, and more on divergent eating.
Frances shares her frustration with the deficit-based language needed for NDIS reports and does something SO exciting! Stay tuned till the end to find out more.
This is exactly why advocacy matters and why we need to keep these conversations going.
StrongerTogether #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
Show notes www.neurodivergentmillennial.com/season1
Annie Crowe chats to the insightful and delightful Frances Brennan, an Autistic ADHD Speechie (aka Speech Pathologist) about her experience with disordered eating from a neurodiversity lens.
In part 1 of 2 jam-packed episodes, Annie and Frances discuss everything from defining disordered eating to autistic communication differences, diet culture, weight stigma, autistic rules-based thinking, ADHD dopamine seeking, medical gaslighting, harmful psychological practices, sensory differences, social context of eating, PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance), late diagnosis, speech pathology in practice and so much more!
Together, they highlight the importance of understanding how neurodivergent brains see and interpret the world in a healthcare context, including defining what "ideal" eating disorder recovery really looks like for neurodivergent people.
Given eating disorders and mental health care is one of Annie's special interests, you will not want to miss this!
She enjoyed talking to Frances SO much that they have a double episode - this is what happens with two AuDHDers share their passion for helping people. Yay!
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For more info and links go to show notes:
https://www.neurodivergentmillennial.com/season1
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connect with the brilliant Frances Brennan
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listen to NeurospicED podcast
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EDNA (Eating Disorders Neurodiversity Australia)
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Australian Eating Disorders Research & Translation Strategy 2021-2031
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Yellow Ladybugs and more!
Annie chats to Natalie Phillips-Mason, a change management professional and, more importantly, an ally to neurodivergent people everywhere.Â
Annie and Natalie discuss everything from the importance of language, overt allyship, disclosure difficulties, and so much more!
Show notes www.neurodivergentmillennial.com
Annie chats to Tina @theADHDaccountant about late diagnosis, motherhood and money!
In the first part of this episode, Tina shares how she discovered her own neurodivergence after her son was diagnosed. And the wonderful self-acceptance and understanding a diagnosis (or self-identification) can bring.
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Then Annie and Tina talk about parenting with ADHD and all the joys and struggles. And how much easier it is to work and live when you understand your divergent brain and can then accommodate it and stop fighting and hiding your neurodivergent traits.
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Finally, they get into the money talk about budgets and impulse spending. Annie shares a shameful story from her past! Shhh!
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Tina will be back next season to talk more about money management. Yay! Make sure you sign up to the FB Community Group if you'd like to ask questions before that episode!
For show notes and links:
www.neurodivergentmillennial.com
Annie finishes her chat with the wonderful Amanda Morin (listen to our last episode on Twice Exceptional Humans for part 1), talking about the need for a strengths-based focus and universal design. Amanda gives us some fabulous tips on communication preferences at work, from rephrasing questions to proactively sharing how you can work best. She shares her wealth of knowledge and lived experience in an authentic and articulate way that just leaves you wanting more - Annie just wouldn't let her leave! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a little surprise that Amanda and Annie are cooking up for you. Enjoy! xx
Annie talks to the incredible Amanda Mornin about their shared experiences as twice-exceptional humans and the unique challenges of this group that are often missed, dismissed, or unrecognised, both in support needs and giftedness.Â
This is part 1 of 2 incredible discussions. Part two will be out later this week. Stay tuned!
Are you twice-exceptional? Or even multi-exceptional? Let us know on our socials @princessandthepea.pod (Instagram and Facebook) what your experience has been and if you can relate to our shared lived experience.Â
Head over to www.neurodivergentmillennial to find the show notes, including links to Amanda's incredible work!
Celebrating Autistic Pride. Everyday!
Yesterday was Autistic Pride Day. A perfect weekend to post this neurodiversity-affirming episode, where I talk to fellow neurokin and autistic clinical psychologist, Dr Joey (aka @nd_psych on TikTok)!
We talk about how she came to find out about her own neurodivergence after over a decade of psychology studies and professional experience. We also discuss therapy and the importance of feeling safe to unmask.Â
I loved this convo and how it had a true mix of professional and lived experience - the way it should be!
Dr Joey is a perfect example of why we need more lived experience in clinical settings and leading the research on our community.
Enjoy! xx
nothingaboutuswithoutus
This is a jam-packed episode! Annie talks candidly to fellow ADHDer Kate Halpin, Principle Neurodiversity Consultant at Employ For Ability.
They discuss her work, which focuses on helping organisations understand the benefits of hiring neurodivergent people as part of their social inclusion and diversity programs.
Topics covered include everything from leadership to recruitment, retention, the great resignation and skills shortage, the evolving workforce post-pandemic, rejection sensitivity, communication differences, psychological safety at work, self-advocacy, flexible work practices, masking and much more.
They almost made this into two separate episodes but figured that you can always pause and come back. Or binge the whole thing! ;)
Enjoy! x
employforability.com.au
Annie and her wonderful mum (Narelle) sit down and go through an online ADHD quiz to share some of their own neurodivergent traits as late-diagnosed Autistic ADHDers.
Key themes discussed below:
04:30 Q1 zero to a hundred
05:30 Q2 listening, distractions and covid
08:25 Q3 procrastination, perfectionism, rejection sensitivity, masking
22:36 Q4 therapy types, trauma, double empathy
35:40 Q5 study and failing
40:55 Q6 chaos and organisation (executive functioning)
47:55 Q7 following up
50:50 Q8 fatigue
51:40 Q9 consistency and saying the wrong thing
55:20 Q10 demand avoidant (PDA), dopamine seeking and self-acceptance
59:50 Q11 having guests over (hide the mess)
1:03:40 Q12 no more spoons (spoon theory) and pain sensitivity
1:07:15 Q13 imposter syndrome, masking, mirroring, identity
Quiz used from Additude: https://www.additudemag.com/self-test-adhd-symptoms-women-girls/ (note questions in this episode are used out of order)
Annie catches up with the hilarious ADHD author Alana (aka @_talks_too_much_), to chat about her incredible book and her late-diagnosis journey to finding her neuro-spicy identity.
Welcome to the Princess and the Pea Podcast!
Episode one introduces your host, Annie and explains the podcast name choice and a bit of history about the neurodiversity movement.
0:00 Intro
1:00 What it's all about
1:30 The royal title and sensitivity
5:40 The neurodiversity movement
9:35 Who am I?
13:25 Question of the week
17:00 Outro
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