Episode 5: What Nobody Tells You About Getting a Job Guests: Sarah Ballard & Jack Palit

Job seeking is hard. For autistic people, it can feel like navigating a system designed to exclude you. Career practitioner Sarah Ballard and Community Admin Manager Jack Palit bring their complementary perspectives — one supporting NDIS clients through complex employment barriers, the other with lived experience in the disability and allied health space — to unpack the unspoken realities of finding work as an autistic person. Practical, warm and full of the kind of advice you won't find in a standard careers guide.

Episode 4: The Hidden Cost of Fitting In at Work Guest: Xavier Gunn

Masking at work has a price — and for many autistic people, that price is steep. Data scientist and disability sector volunteer Xavier Gunn opens up about the toll of hiding who you are in professional environments, and what it really means to work in a place that aligns with your values. A raw and honest conversation about authenticity, burnout, and what workplaces need to change.

Episode 3: You're More Capable Than Your CV Shows Guest: Sandra Thom-Jones

A CV can only tell part of the story — and for many autistic people, it tells very little of it. Proudly autistic academic, advocate and author Sandra Thom-Jones joins host Jacob to explore the gap between what autistic people can do and how they're perceived on paper. Drawing on her own experience as a former Pro Vice-Chancellor and her books Autistics at Work and Autistics in Academia, Sandra makes a powerful case for rethinking how we recognise capability in the workplace.