Episode 176: Thinking Differently: Neurodiversity at Work
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This show is all about working with neurodiversity - having a condition such as ADHD, or Asperger’s or anything else that means your brain functions a bit differently from a lot of your colleagues'.
Emma Case had always wanted to work in fashion, and she loved it - but at the same time she had trouble with things that seemed totally straightforward to others. It took years to work out why. Emma now runs Women Beyond the Box, a platform that celebrates the successes of neurodiverse women. Michelle Jones and Paige Jeffrey are in this category too. Paige often found the office a confusing environment but didn’t know why until last year. Michelle’s world was rocked when, in her late thirties, she received some shocking news about her brain.
All three women have struggled at times, but they’ve all learned use their particular brains to fuel their success. And each of them wants workplaces to open up, to be more inclusive - to recognize that neurodiversity can be a benefit to a project or a team rather than a hindrance.
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| 0:33.8 | No pressure. |
| 0:35.0 | Just help. |
| 0:35.9 | But for now, just relax. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm Ashley Milne Tite. |
| 1:01.6 | This time, you're struggling at work, but you don't know why. |
| 1:09.6 | I truly believe that at some point, this knowledge or this way of doing things would just kick in and I'd suddenly get it. |
| 1:12.1 | And it just, I just never got there. |
| 1:19.5 | That day never came. Then you find out your brain works a little differently from other people's. |
| 1:30.4 | I did not suspect a thing. I called myself absent-minded and I thought I had some quirks, but it was completely out of the blue that this was even a thing because they found out in a really funny way. And every woman in this story |
| 1:35.1 | lived with her condition for years before she got a diagnosis. It started making me think about |
| 1:42.2 | the last, you know, 20 odd years and what's happened in my life. |
| 1:46.6 | And it explained a lot of things. |
| 1:50.0 | Neurodiversity at work. |
| 1:51.8 | How it helps, how it hinders, and what workplaces can learn. I have to admit that when Emma Case messaged me several months ago and use the word neurodivergent, |
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