Entrepreneurship.  Connection.  Opportunity.

Neurodivergent-centered Business & Mindset Coaching.

Imagine with me, for a moment…

You attend a networking experience that is nourishing, replenishing, and easy.

You belong to a community where you get to be you–your whole, wonderful, expansive, neurodivergent self.

Your ideas and innovation are valued, affirmed, and supported.

You find professionals who are neurodivergent, speaking a similar language and brains vibing on similar wavelengths.

You recieve a wealth of resources for your business and your career that are created by and for neurodivergent folx.

You meet other professionals and entrepreneurs who are radically committed to liberation, anti-oppression, and accessibility.

Welcome to the new standard.

Welcome to a new culture.

Welcome to your community.

Welcome, to the NeuroDefiant Collective.

Tell me if this sounds familiar…

You’re an adult who is exploring your neurodivergence or you have come into your Autistic/ADHD identity in adulthood.

You’ve worked a bunch of different jobs, roles, industries and nothing seems like a right fit.

Or maybe you found a fantastic role but the workplace culture was not inclusive.

Or maybe the role and the workplace culture were amazing but the company was just not willing to accommodate your needs and so that employer was inaccessible.

And maybe you’ve turned to entrepreneurship, self-employment, or contract work in order to give yourself the flexibility and accommodations you need but you don’t exactly resonate with all the teachings around marketing and hustle & grind culture.

Maybe you’ve been longing to experience belonging; for a community where you can learn, grow, and connect with others like you…but past experiences and/or the fear of not fitting, or having to mask, or doing a ton of emotional labor, or sacrificing time you could be engaging in your passion projects, just keeps you stuck.

I hear you.

Peopleing can be exhausting.

And sometimes, you find YOUR people, and they give you life!

Because here is truth that I NEED you to know in your bones:

It’s not your fault.

The inaccessible workplace, the exclusive culture, the feeling of alienation, the coaching to “correct/teach soft skills,” the difficulty with communication, the messaging of too-muchness, the distrust of group spaces…It is not your fault.

The root of all of this pain we have survived are systems of oppression and the myth of The One Right Way perpetuated by the dominant culture.

We developed the NeuroDefiant Collective program in response to  listening to so many clients, creators on social media, and neurodivergent thought leaders lament the lack of business resources specifically designed for neurodivergent entrepreneurs and professionals.

Expansive Expressions is working actively to address the staggering rates of un/under employment among neurodivergent and disabled adults.

We created this space to equip, empower, and embrace entrepreneurs who have been historically excluded from entrepreneurial resources, methodologies, and conversations.

Expansive Expressions unapologetically supports women-owened, LGBTQIA2S-owned, gender expansive-owned, neurodivergent-owned, disabled-owned, BIPOC-owned businesses and works to assist them in not only surviving beyond the first couple of years but in thriving as a prosperous and sustainable business.

We are all the way done with mediocre white men having all the financial power, access, and leverage.

Are you ready for another option?

We are transforming culture for neurodivergent & disabled entrepreneurs.

We are gathering and creating the resources and support systems we need to help us thrive.

We are cultivating spaces–designed by us and for us–where we can learn how to start, sustain, and scale our businesses, neurodivergently.

We are all worthy of having more easeful, gentle, and fulfilling lives.

The NeuroDefiant Collective is a monthly Group Coaching membership for neurodivergent & disabled entrepreneurs and professionals.

We center anti-oppressive, ethical commerce, consent-based, neuroinclusive, accessible, equitable, non-exploitative business practices.

Why an application process?

The brief application process allows us to guage an applicant’s alignment for this coaching program and community.

It also allows us to connect with folx who are truly aligned with the core values of the neurodivergent, collective care ecosystem we are co-creating.

This is not meant to be an exclusionary process, just an informative process for everyone involved.  It is central to our business practices to be consent-based and provide clients with all they need to make an informed decision about their investments of time, money, and energy.

Your Facilitator

Hi!  I’m Jennifer, and my pronouns are she/they.  I am a queer, fat, Autistic & ADHD, dynamically disabled entrepreneur and Expansive Mindset Coach.  In June 2022 I retired from a 15 year career as a complex trauma therapist specializing in religious trauma & deconstruction.

In 2017 I opened my own private practice which thrived–even through pivoting to telehealth during the pandemic–for five years until I retired.  I learned a lot about business through that experience as well as through the business coaching and training I have invested in over the years.

I have been facilitating group spaces since I was a teenager organizing peer groups at school and at the camp I worked at during the summer.  In 2010 I founded a creative writing circle that I continued facilitating weekly until 2017–through this space many writers found their voice, grew in their identities, and developed deep community together.

Professionally I have created and held group space for incarcerated teens, incarcerated mothers, therapy groups for those recovering from religion, affinity groups for neurodivergent folx and queer & trans folx, and grief art process groups.

I am drawn to group work because of the power of collective care, of solidarity, of medicinal me toos, of people hearing others facing the same challenges, of celebrating ah-ha moments and breakthroughs together.

Group Dynamics

Groups can be an intimidating space, especially when we enter into a group not knowing any one else there.

Groups can be a harmful disaster when there are not specific values and agreements that are practiced and upheld.

Groups can be anxiety-provoking when they are not facilitated in a way that makes room for everyone to participate and only a few people take up all the space.

We are mindful of these possibilities and intentional about setting the expectations and boundaries of a group space.

We share a set of collective care agreements like: 

• Be mindful of your own capacity and do what you need to support yourself

• Camera is optional

• Say a brief content note ahead of potentially triggering shares

• Speak from your own lived experience

• Ask consent before asking someone questions about their share

• Outside of this space, share the lessons not the content

• You are welcome to share vocally or in the chat or via reactions or simply in your presence

Members will have the option of pre-submitting questions they’d like workshopped, or raising their hand to workshop their question or challenge live in the group.

Frequently Asked Questions