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.

I created the NeuroDefiant Collective after 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.

I created this Group Coaching program out of my own desire for guidance for business-building that aligns with my brain and my values.

I created this space because I am tired of seeing such grim statistics about how many Autistic and ADHD people are unemployed or underemployed; I’m discouraged by the sheer volume of women and gender expansive-owned businesses not surviving beyond the first couple of years; and I am all the way done with old white men having all the financial power, access, and leverage.

Are you ready for another option?

I am transforming culture for all of us late-identified & exploring Autistic and ADHD entrepreneurs.

I am gathering and creating the resources and support systems we need to help us thrive.

I am building places–designed by us and for us–where we can learn how to start, sustain, and scale our businesses, neurodivergently.

I want us all to have more easeful, gentle, and fulfilling lives.

The NeuroDefiant Collective is a 12-month Group Coaching program for late-identified and exploring Autistic & ADHD entrepreneurs and professionals.

My vision for the NeuroDefiant Collective is only the very beginning of my dream scheme for transforming culture for late-identified and exploring Autistic / ADHD entrepreneurs and professionals.

Why an application process?

The brief application process allows me to guage an applicant’s commitment level to this 12-month group coaching program and community.

It also allows me to screen folx for those who are truly aligned with the core values of the neurodivergent 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 my business practices to be consent-based and provide clients with all they need to make an informed decision about their investments.

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.

I am mindful of these possibilities and I am intentional about setting the expectations and boundaries of a group space.

In our live coaching sessions, we will spend the first 15-20min in small breakout groups with a set of questions or prompts to discuss.  This will allow for members to get to know each other in smaller group settings and build a NeuroDefiant Ecosystem that is founded on mutual respect, care, and inclusion.

After the small breakout groups, we will come together for the Question & Discovery coaching time.  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.

The Content

Each live group coaching call we will be learning business and mindset essentials and working through challenges together.

Another resource available is weekly Co-working sessions which are held Mondays from 2-4pm CST over Zoom.  We have a brief check-in at the beginning where folx can share their goals for the time, and then cameras and mics off we get to work.

Many neurodivergent folx find co-working as a helpful motivation and accountability tool and it’s perfect for getting down to business with those tasks that maybe are not your favorite but gotta get done!

We will have quarterly networking events with guest speakers and opportunities to connect and engage neurodivergently!

The Culture

The NeuroDefiant Collective is a space that centers a set of community standards based on anti-oppressive, anti-racist, non-ableist, neurodivergent-affirming, growth mindset, restorative justice, and collective care.  All members must agree to abide by these values.

This is a space for growth and learning and there may be times when a gentle teaching is necessary to help others understand terms that are outdated or ableist, etc.

We do not tone-police in this space and I encourage everyone to be present with the best intentions and assume others are acting with the best intentions as well.

If there are concerns about someone’s safety, unkind behavior, disregard for our community values, please bring them to me and I will address them.

Please note, this is not a therapy group and I am not anyone’s therapist.  I am a coach and this space is considered a group coaching/social support space.

Frequently Asked Questions