Neurodivergent Unplugged shares messy, magnificent stories from ADHD, autistic, and dyslexic minds who stopped masking and started thriving. Hosted by coach Ania Hulsman, it dismantles the incompetency bias and celebrates the brilliance of living true to your wiring. Real talk, no beige filters—just unfiltered stories of burnout, joy, and radical self-acceptance. Because neurodivergence isn’t a flaw. It’s the spark that changes everything.
Neurodivergent Unplugged; Messy, Magnificent Stories From Unlikely Rebels
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Neurodivergent Unplugged shares messy, magnificent stories from ADHD, autistic, and dyslexic minds who stopped masking and started thriving. Hosted by coach Ania Hulsman, it dismantles the incompetency bias and celebrates the brilliance of living true to your wiring. Real talk, no beige filters—just unfiltered stories of burnout, joy, and radical self-acceptance. Because neurodivergence isn’t a flaw. It’s the spark that changes everything.
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July 13, 2026
Ep 34 | From Escaping His Life to Building One He Doesn't Need To - Jake Kastleman
<p>Video games from the age of four. Food. Porn from twelve. Drinking, drugs, a spiral that peaked at seventeen. Jake Kastleman describes every one of them the same way: they were escapes - ways of trying to feel okay in a life that didn't. The turning point wasn't willpower. It was a spiritual experience that opened the door to something different: building a life he no longer needed to escape from.</p><p>Today Jake is a porn recovery coach and founder of No More Desire, helping men around the world do exactly that - build a recovery mindset and lifestyle where the escape hatch loses its pull. His sister once named what he carries "power wielder" energy: fire in his hands that can warm the people around him or burn everything down. For years, it burned. Now it fuels the work.</p><p>In this conversation, Jake and Ania explore what it means to be a highly sensitive, deep-feeling, systems-thinking mind in a world that kept telling him to slow down, stay in his lane, and put on the mask - a mask he simply cannot wear. This is a story about unmasking, faith, and redirecting intensity - and about discovering that the sensitivity you were told was a curse might be the very thing that makes your work matter.</p><p><strong>In This Episode</strong></p><ul><li>The "power wielder" - deep feeling as both curse and superpower, and learning to direct the fire instead of burning things down</li><li>Jake's turning point at seventeen: the spiritual experience that opened the door to recovery</li><li>Fired from a fast food job after two days for being "too slow" - and the false story of being slow and dumb that he carried for years</li><li>The sugar and brain fog discovery that transformed his thinking</li><li>Why he could never "just put on the mask" at work, and what it cost him until he built a business where the mask isn't needed</li><li>Wanting to move faster, seeing the inefficiencies nobody else questioned, and the workplace friction that followed</li><li>The layoff that terrified him and turned into the biggest blessing of his life</li><li>Hyperfocus, flow state, and the crash that follows - plus the permission to rest he's still learning to give himself</li><li>Locking the smartphone in a drawer: the experiment that brought unexpected peace and presence</li><li>Redefining success: presence, not time, as our most valuable resource</li><li>Morning quiet, breathwork, and prayer as nervous system regulation</li></ul><p><strong>About Jake Kastleman</strong></p><p>Jake Kastleman is a porn recovery coach and the founder of No More Desire, where he helps men across the world overcome porn addiction by building a recovery mindset and lifestyle - emotional regulation, daily routines, nervous system care, relationships, and spiritual practice. A self-described highly sensitive, deep-feeling systems thinker, Jake brings his own lived experience of addiction and recovery to his coaching and his podcast, No More Desire. He lives in Utah with his wife and children.</p><p>Website: nomoredesire.comFree tools and resources: nomoredesire.com/toolsPodcast: No More Desire (Ania's guest episode is out now)</p><p><strong>Resources Mentioned</strong></p><ul><li>Wim Hof breathing method</li><li>Four-eight breathwork (4 seconds in through the nose, 8 out through the mouth)</li><li>Parts work / Internal Family Systems (IFS)</li></ul><p><strong>Work With Ania</strong></p><p>If something in this conversation resonated and you're curious about doing this work with support, Ania's chemistry call is 30 minutes - no mask required. Book at aniahulsman.com</p><p><strong>Enjoying the show?</strong></p><p>If this episode landed for you, please leave a review and share it with someone in your world - a founder, a creative, someone quietly tired of pretending. These stories travel far when you share them.</p><p>Original jingle by Steve Greenwood.</p>
July 6, 2026
Ep 33 | The Body Doesn't Lie - Charlyn Huss
<p><strong>What does it look like to build your entire life around a kind of intelligence the world didn't have a word for?</strong></p><p>Charlyn Huss is a Pilates teacher of 35+ years, inventor of CoreSpring, classically trained actress, and Fulbright Scholar in Shakespeare. She discovered she had a reading disability at 25 - after teaching herself French, training at LAMDA, and building a career on a form of intelligence no test had ever measured.</p><p>She kept a series of quiet, fierce convictions to herself from childhood ("tell no one"), followed the thread her body gave her, and let everything else work itself out. The people around her consistently read deliberate, years-in-the-making decisions as impulsive.</p><p>This is a conversation about wiring differently, working with your body rather than against it, and learning - sometimes painfully - that the clearest signals come not from other people's opinions, but from inside you.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE</strong></p><p><strong>The reading disability nobody caught</strong> - discovered at 25, after Charlyn had already compensated completely: reading aloud, tracking her eye with a piece of paper, colour-coding everything. She wasn't hiding it - she genuinely didn't know it had a name.</p><p><strong>"Tell no one"</strong> - three life-shaping convictions formed between ages 9 and 12: movement, France, Shakespeare. None shared until she'd already done them. Planned, considered decisions that looked impulsive from the outside.</p><p><strong>The stepmother who changed everything</strong> - when a temp job offer made Charlyn feel like she "weighed 10,000 pounds", her stepmother said: "Then you shouldn't do it. This is how you sift and sort what's right for you."</p><p><strong>Reading bodies - the gift she thought everyone had</strong> - diagnosing a clicking knee from the sound of a man's walk before she'd even turned around. The story of how that moment became central to the way she now teaches.</p><p><strong>Playhouse Pilates, Body Smarts and Performing Arts</strong> - opened in 2007 after Charlyn found herself "thoroughly unemployable" by other studios. Thirteen years, 30 teachers, a six-figure sale in negotiation - ended by a text on March 15th, 2020.</p><p><strong>"I do it for her"</strong> - why Charlyn's definition of success has shifted entirely: not what she earns today, but what she's building for the woman she'll be when she can no longer do this work.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>GUEST</strong></p><p><strong>Charlyn Huss Danconia</strong>, MA, NCPT, is the Founder & CEO of CoreSpring LLC and creator of the patented CoreSpring® Method. After years of unexplained pain — later diagnosed as scoliosis — and a refusal to accept discomfort as just how her body worked, she spent decades studying movement, psychology, and somatics until she invented something that didn't exist yet: a way of working directly with spring resistance, three-dimensionally through the body, to shift posture and pain patterns fast. She holds a master's degree in humanities and is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher.</p><p>Find her at <strong>corespring.com</strong></p><p>🎁 <strong>Listener offer:</strong> Purchase the CoreSpring kit and use code <strong>ANIA26</strong> for a 45-minute private Zoom with Charlyn.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>WORK WITH ANIA</strong></p><p>If something in this conversation resonated - the quiet conviction you've carried that nobody else could see yet, the way your body has always known before your mind caught up, or the cost of performing a version of yourself that doesn't quite fit - Ania works with neurodivergent founders, leaders, and creatives who are ready to stop running on the wrong operating system.</p><p>Chemistry call: 30 minutes, no mask required. <strong>aniahulsman.com</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>LIKED THIS EPISODE?</strong></p><p>A five-star review helps more gloriously unboxable minds find the show. If someone in your world would love this - a founder, a creative, someone who's quietly tired of pretending - please pass it on.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Produced by Ania Hulsman. Original jingle by Steve Greenwood.</p><p><br></p>
June 29, 2026
Ep 32 | From Shell Engineer to Arctic Filmmaker - Baby Pro on Freedom and Flow
<p><strong>He deleted his corporate career, gave himself three years of deliberate spaciousness, and came out the other side making documentaries in the Arctic and portraits of strangers in Paris.</strong></p><p>What does freedom actually look like for a neurodivergent creative who spent six years as a production engineer at Shell - the "well doctor," flying between Norway and Australia - before walking away from all of it? Not gradually. All at once.</p><p>Baby Pro (Ming) spent the next three years in intentional flow: night cycling through Amsterdam at 4am with a drone called Miss Maverick, no plan, no goals, documenting beauty in 14 handmade journals. Now 34 and based wherever the work takes him, he earns a living entirely from his art - Arctic documentaries, TV productions in China, and a portrait project called Humans of Paris.</p><p>This conversation is for anyone who has felt the narrowing that happens inside a corporate system - the slow reduction from options A through Z down to only option A - and wondered whether there is another way to work that actually fits how their brain works. Baby Pro doesn't offer a blueprint. He offers proof that a different kind of life is possible, and that flow state isn't a productivity hack - it's what happens when a neurodivergent mind finally stops swimming against the current.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE</strong></p><p><strong>The awakening on March 6th, 2021</strong> - a Buddhist scholar on YouTube cracked open a fog Baby Pro hadn't realised he was living inside. He describes it as glasses falling off your face - and suddenly seeing clearly for the first time.</p><p><strong>What corporate actually costs a neurodivergent mind</strong> - the progressive narrowing from options A through Z down to only option A. His word for it: becoming a robot.</p><p><strong>How he makes decisions</strong> - not goals, not five-year plans. He plants seeds, writes them down, and trusts the process. "Look, it's manifesting here. This is in Paris now."</p><p><strong>The early years</strong> - being short, Black, and late to puberty in a world that mocked difference. Finding solace in solitude, gaming, and writing. The roots of a life lived outside the mainstream.</p><p><strong>The 2024 low point</strong> - money running out, depression, the tension between income and originality. How he moved through it: cold emails, a crypto week in Korea, and letting the work sell itself.</p><p><strong>The Arctic documentary</strong> - six days, five strangers, no electricity. One person filming everything. Then watching it on a cinema screen with 150 people.</p><p><strong>Baby Pro's three practices</strong> - wake up early, look up when you walk, and create a mirror so you can see yourself clearly enough to notice the bubble.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>GUEST</strong></p><p><strong>Baby Pro</strong> (Ming) is an artistic storyteller and documentary filmmaker based across Europe and Asia. His work has appeared in TV documentaries, cinema screenings, and 14 handmade journals he calls his Baby Pro Playbook - a living autobiography. Find him at <strong>babypro.art</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>RESOURCES MENTIONED</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Samsara</strong> (2011 documentary) - Ron Fricke</p></li><li><p><strong>Humans</strong> - documentary series, available on YouTube</p></li><li><p><strong>Alan Watts</strong> - philosopher and writer on Eastern philosophy</p></li><li><p><strong>Alan Wallace</strong> - Buddhist scholar whose YouTube video triggered Baby Pro's 2021 awakening</p></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>WORK WITH ANIA</strong></p><p>If something in this conversation landed - the permission to do things differently, or the recognition that you might be running on the wrong operating system - Ania works with neurodivergent founders, leaders, and creatives who are ready to build theirs.</p><p>Chemistry call: 30 minutes, no mask required. <strong>aniahulsman.com</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>ENJOYED THE EPISODE?</strong></p><p>A five-star review helps more gloriously unboxable humans find the show. If someone in your world would love this - a founder, a creative, someone quietly tired of pretending - pass it on.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Produced by Ania Hulsman. Original jingle by Steve Greenwood.</p>
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