This week I’m talking about what it means to take a step back — from the hustle, from expectations, and maybe even from the mic. Sometimes doing less is exactly what you need to do more of what matters. What Era am I in? The Non-Ambitious Era. Join me for the scoop on both podcast.

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This week, I stumble into a wild twist of fate — running into my long-lost cousins, the Longs, at a bar that just happens to be owned by them… and used to be our family’s grocery store a century ago. Turns out, history really does have a funny way of circling back around. Once again let's play Six Degrees of Separation from Zada.

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Over the years, the medical field has played musical chairs with autism diagnoses—changing names, shifting criteria, and even folding Asperger’s into the broader spectrum. Sounds tidy on paper, but in real life? Not so much. As a mom of two kids on the spectrum, I talk about what those changes have looked like from the parent side, how confusing (and sometimes harmful) misdiagnoses can be, and why those shifting labels don’t always tell the whole story. I also in true Zada form tell the "Google Docs to get bent".

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