This week, the tables are turned and I'm in the hot seat, talking about what it means to have a different brain and a great career.

I'm Maura Arons Mealy, and this is the anxious achiever, the show that looks at the intersection of mental health and leadership and work and asks,

how can we do it all better?

I want to share a treat with you today. It's an episode of another LinkedIn podcast,

Every Day Better with Leah Smart. It's a show about work and life and how we can level up our

careers and our joyfulness and our well-being in a whole bunch of different ways. I was so thrilled

when Leah asked me to join her for an episode and in our talk, we cover main areas of my research

and work for many years, introversion and extroversion,

and how people with different brains, whether they are neurodivergent or have a mental illness,

or just feel like their mind marches to a different drummer.

Tackle the issues of career and leadership and joy and all the good things when you function

a little bit differently.

I shared with Leah what I've learned about how neurodivergent brains are different at

work.

Give a listen to the episode and if you like what you hear, you can check out her show wherever you get your podcasts.

For those of us who always feel like we're different, our superpowers might be the things

that have been told are wrong.

And I think everyone has a superpower. And a lot of us are hiding our superpowers. We're

ashamed of them. We just haven't found the right bit, you know, and when you can do that,

like the whole world, it's like the Wizard of Oz, the world is all of a sudden in color

from black and white. It opens.. It opens. Mm-hmm.

That's author Maura Erin's Mealy.

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