What do we do when the way everyone else leads doesn’t match how our brain works? Do we keep trying to force ourselves into their mold, or do we find our own way?

Sometimes to “do it right” you actually have to do it ‘wrong’. Especially when doing it right just means “how closely do you sound to the models we’ve been taught?”

In this episode:

• Why my client’s “flaws” made her clients feel comfortable and seen (while “perfect” technique just left her disconnected)

• Discerning between feedback that helps you grow and feedback that’s just mainstream or neurotypical expectations

• How I stopped trying to correct my neurodivergent quirks and started getting high demand for my services

• Why so many quiet leaders are actually neurodivergent (and what that means)

• The birth of AuDHD Sparks and what’s next here

• AuDHD Sparks Podcast

• @audhdsparks

• AuDHD Coaching

We have a tendency to underestimate quiet leaders. Or we assume anyone successful ISN’T a quiet leader. This hit home for me when my friend Ashley Looker said she wanted to come to my Gathering of Quiet Leaders. As an Empowerment Coach, Mindfulness Teacher and Journaling Expert for ambitious over-achieving humans, Ashley’s got 11,000+ followers for each of her biz and podcast accounts on IG. Her voice is definitely getting heard, and she’s no beginner. 

Listen to our co-hosted convo to reorient and peel away layers of internalized bias. AND if you’ve got a more mature business and want to be in the company of other established quiet leaders!

In this episode, Ashley and I talk about… 

• How our relationships with our voices have evolved over the past several years
• Who we’re taught to be as business owners & disrupting the expectation to be loud and showy
• How we are each doing things differently than we were taught 
• Why she hadn’t thought of herself as a quiet leader until now and what shifted

Mentioned in the Episode:

• Ashley’s Website: http://uniqueholistichappiness.com 
• Ashley’s Instagram 
• Rest is Resistance Book
• Adrienne Maree Brown
• Rachel Cargle

Connect with Adria: 

• Uncover your Messenger Archetype & more at AdriaSophia.com.
• Adria's Instagram @iamadriasophia

When we choose to take our work deeper and bring others into it, some inquiries arise: How do we create offerings that forward our message and mission, that are thought leadership, personified? How do we share in ways that help people feel our offering and that light our fire and keep it burning? And when what we’re creating is so potent and felt, how do we convey it CLEARLY?

Recording this episode with my friend Ahava Shira — author, memoirist, caregiver for her husband with Parkinson's and creative midwife for other writers and caregivers — became a transmission of energy, of feeling. We’ll help you feel what it is to breathe life into your work, to commune with the soul of your offerings and to channel that into sharing. 

In this episode, Ahava and I talk about… 

• Co-creating with the souls of Rooted and TendHer 
• What it means to create on a felt level versus an intellectual level
• How we share without losing that felt sense and bring people inside that feeling
• How we talk about our work clearly without losing the beauty of the language

Connect with Ahava:

• Ahava’s website & TendHer lovinginquiry.com
• Substack “What the Day Holds” 
• Ahava's IG @ahava.shira 

Connect with Adria: 

• Uncover your Messenger Archetype & more at AdriaSophia.com.
• Connect with Adria on Instagram.