Neurodiversity + Living Your Best Life ft. Katherine McCord

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Meet Katherine - an expert in inclusive innovation and wizard of thriving with physical and neurodiversities! 🎉 In this episode, we talk about knowing thyself and building a life that supports your thrive. This episode was such a blast to record and Katherine is officially one of my new favorite people, I hope you enjoy! 🎉💜

MEET KATHERINE MCCORD ~

Katherine, a physically and neurodiverse woman herself, built her career on inclusive innovation as an entrepreneur in People Operations and HR Tech. She lives by the motto that different is not a deficit.

CONNECT WITH KATHERINE

On the web: https://www.kmccordspeaking.com

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-mccord-093bb343/

On the TikToks: @KatTheHRTitan

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

some of my favorite lines of conversation that came up in this episode:

• Understanding the biology underlying neurodiversity can be a superpower

• Building the habit of paying attention to our personal rhythms

• Boundary setting! And the kind act of being clear with others

• Letting the pain of our mistakes really sink in with us 💜

• Feeling grateful for the times in our lives when we’ve made mistakes

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

THE OCTOPUS MOVEMENT

TRAINING WITH CAROLINE

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• Meet Katherine! and a quick overview of today’s episode 💜

• How to train virtually with Caroline!

• A moment about hair 🎀

10 - 20:00 ish:

• Katherine’s childhood journey with OCD and Bipolar

• Tracking behavior and mental health to support oneself in each season

• Menopause and neurodiversity

• Understanding the biology underlying neurodiversity can be a superpower

20 - 30:00 ish:

• Knowledge as a tool to combat the spiraling stories of the brain

• Paying attention to our bodies and the signals they’re sending us

• Building the habit of paying attention to our personal rhythms

• The gift of supportive environments and supportive people

• Giving honest support to those in your life with neurodiversities

30 - 40:00 ish:

• Neurodiversity and dialed in bullsh*t radars 😂

• Boundary setting! And the kind act of being clear with others

• Katherine’s jerk theory and poop emoji scale for human jerkiness 😂

• Boundaries as a two-way opportunity for growth

• Sometimes the best choice is to walk away

• Making the hard choice of walking away from the things and people that aren’t for us

40 - 50:00 ish:

• Evolving as a jerk 😂

• Honoring our past asshole selves

• Letting the pain of our mistakes really sink in with us 💜

• Communicating through painful experiences and mistakes

• Feeling grateful for the times in our lives when we’ve made mistakes

• More boundaries! 🎉

50:00 ish and beyond:

• Feeling grateful for early challenges in Katherine’s life

• About The Octopus Movement

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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Lots of love,

Caroline