023 Running a Business with Neurodiversity with Heather Tingle
Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson
5.0 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Heather Tingle to the show. She is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, head of three different businesses and a loving mom.
She is the founder of Untangled by Tingle, and her expertise in decluttering and hoarding awareness has been featured on BBC Radio Sheffield and for a national charity. She has been a member of The Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers (APDO) since 2016 and she is a Director of Hoarding Disorders UK (North).
Heather discovered she was neurodivergent at age 43 after her daughter was diagnosed with autism as well. In this episode, Heather kindly shared details of her everyday life as a person with autism, her struggles at school and how being diagnosed changed her personal and professional life. We talk about the importance of being vulnerable and authentic in our businesses and sharing who we really are.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- How it was for Heather to grow up without knowing she was autistic
- Heather's reaction to her diagnosis, and how that affected her life, business and relationship with her team
- How being vulnerable and authentic impacts Heather's business
- What can be done differently with how young kids are oriented when they get a diagnosis of autism
When Heather got diagnosed, lots of things started to make sense in her head about her childhood. She understood she had to stop punishing herself for something she couldn't do, not because she was incapable but because she was different. Getting a better judgment of how her brain works helped focus on her skills and strengths, and that is one of the main reasons her businesses experienced massive growth and success.
Resources:
- Untangled by Tingle website: https://www.untangledbytingle.com/
- Untangled by Tingle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/untangledbytingle/
- Untangled by Tingle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UntangledByTingle/
- Untangled by Tingle Community - Facebook free private Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/untangledbytingle/
- #actuallyautism - Twitter hashtag
- Lisa Johnson's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_uN-tZgFC3_lSFifUZEXw
- Download my FREE Launch Strategy Guide https://www.lisajohnson.com/launch
- Visit my website https://www.lisajohnson.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson, the podcast that tells you what it really |
| 0:09.2 | takes to build a business and the simple steps to get you there. I'm determined to share with you |
| 0:13.9 | the reality of easy, simple business marketing tips to make passive income so that you can start |
| 0:19.5 | making money online. |
| 0:30.6 | Hi guys and welcome to today's podcast. Today I have a guest with me who is Heather Tingle and Heather is an award-winning serial entrepreneur. He actually has a few businesses which we'll get |
| 0:35.8 | to in a second. But the reason that I |
| 0:38.5 | wanted to talk to Heather today is because she's also neurodivergent, as many of us entrepreneurs |
| 0:44.5 | are. Now, I'll go into what that means, but I wanted to talk to Heather about how that has shaped, |
| 0:51.8 | how she does business, and why it doesn't need to be a bad thing. |
| 0:57.0 | I think people often, years ago, used to think of it if you were autistic or if you were a |
| 1:01.4 | neurodivergent in any way, they would think of it as a bad thing that would hinder you. |
| 1:05.4 | And actually, it totally doesn't have to do that. |
| 1:07.8 | So, hi, Heather. |
| 1:09.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.0 | Thank you. I want to start with just talking about how did you know you autistic? Like did you ever have any signs that you had autism? How did it |
| 1:21.8 | present itself? There were loads of signs, but I none that I would ever have picked up on. |
| 1:27.4 | So all the way through |
| 1:29.1 | school, feeling like an outsider, not being the shy kid, being the sensitive child, crying a lot, |
| 1:38.7 | being depressed, all those kind of things, having an eating disorder, all those things |
| 1:43.1 | kind of were signs and symptoms, |
| 1:45.4 | but never really made any direct hit on my psyche that that's what it was until my daughter |
| 1:52.2 | got diagnosed five years ago. And at that diagnosis, the consultant said, so when did you get |
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