Neurodiverse Love with Mona Kay

About Neurodiverse Love with Mona Kay

Join Mona Kay as she focuses on increasing understanding of the strengths, differences, and challenges in mixed neurotype relationships. Whether you're the Autistic, AuDHD, ADHD, or neurotypical partner this podcast is for you! Knowing how your neurology may impact your communication style, emotional and social needs, processing speeds, sensory needs and sexual and physical intimacy desires is critical…especially in your romantic relationships! Listen in and learn about other's lived experiences, lessons learned, and strategies for understanding how neurological differences can impact your relationship. Check out Mona Kay and Jodi Carlton’s new podcast “Navigating Neurodiverse Love and Life” on Jodi’s YouTube channel @ https://m.youtube.com/@JodiCarlton/videos?ra=m

Publisher

Neurodiverse Love with Mona Kay

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Aug 2021

Latest episode

21 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 265 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Lessons Learned & Lived Experiences: Mona’s Final Solo Episode

   It has been an honor and a privilege for me to have hosted and co-hosted the Neurodiverse Love podcast since the fall of 2020. I will be forever grateful to my dear friend Olga, who agreed to start this podcast journey with me in the middle of the pandemic, and to all my co-hosts who have partnered with me along the way: Manecia, Greg, Nicole and Bronwyn. I also want to thank all the amazing guests who gave me an opportunity to ask them the questions so many of us needed the answers to. Each individual, couple, coach, therapist, educator, author, and/or researcher who shared their lived experience and expertise has helped us increase understanding of the strengths, differences and challenges that Neurodiverse couples experience. I am so grateful that thousands of people listening in more than 70 countries have received information, tools and resources to help them understand they are not alone and there is hope! Whether your relationship continues or ends understanding and acceptance of what can and can’t change can make such a big difference in the healing process. If you have not had a chance to listen to the first three episodes of the Neurodiverse Love Docuseries on YouTube I hope we will do that today. In addition, I hope you will check out my website at www.neurodiverselove.com for more information about the resources I have available. Nine years ago, in 2017, I discovered I was in a neurodiverse marriage for 29 years and didn’t know it. Even though my marriage ended in 2018, I made it my mission to help others understand what my ex-husband and I never knew, and the work I am doing through Neurodiverse Love became my mission. This is my last episode of the Neurodiverse Love podcast and I hope the information I share will be helpful to a lot of you, including my thoughts about: Communication preferences Emotional needs Sensory differences Social battery Physical intimacy Employment Processing speeds Special interests Transition time Perpetual vs solvable problems I want everyone who listens to this podcast, the docuseries or accesses any of the work I do to know that you’re not alone! There are SO many more resources available than when I first discovered I was in a neurodiverse marriage in 2017. I am also very excited to share with all of you that I will be cohosting a new podcast with my friend and colleague Jodi Carlton. We have tentatively named it “Navigating Neurodiverse Love & Life” and we hope to start publishing episodes in May, 2026. I also want to thank all of you for listening to the podcast and for reaching out to share your lived experiences and your suggestions for topics to address on the podcast. I am hopeful that the next phase of my work will continue to have a positive impact on neurodiverse couples and individual partners and that we will all continue to learn about ourselves and our partners and create lives that are filled with peace, joy, love, and purpose.❤️🙏

2. 

   14 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Improving Regulation & Communication-Jill Corvelli, Daniel Dashnaw, Barbara Grant & Jessie Mahoney

   This wonderful conversation is one of the amazing panel discussions from the 2025 Neurodiverse Love Conference. The panelists are: - Daniel Dashnaw (danieldashnaw@hushmail.com or danieldashnawcouplestherapy.com) - Jill Corvelli (jill@jillcorvelli.com or ndpartnersinstitute.com) - Barbara Grant (bg-hc.com) - Jessie Mahoney (jessie@jessiemahoneymd.com or pauseandpresence.com) The topics discussed include the following: - What do therapists and coaches working with Neurodiverse couples need to know? - Differentiated dialogue - Nervous system regulation - Understanding and Working on rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD). - How to motivate a partner to begin individual or couples therapy. - The importance and value of a curiosity mindset. - Setting boundaries using B.I.F.F. communication (brief, informative, friendly, but firm). - Communicate what you’re saying yes to, not just what you don’t want. - Both partners share the responsibility for the “air space” in the relationship. - Paragraphing - What would love/respect do? - Lean into hope and decide what your intention is in the relationship. - Understanding that your nervous system may need some care and recovery. If you would like to get unlimited access to all the video recordings from the 2025 Neurodiverse Love Conference please click here and use code Podcast50 to get $50 off the price of the conference videos. When you buy access to the 2025 Neurodiverse Love Conference videos you will also receive a code to get 3 FREE bonuses: unlimited access to the videos from the 2023 Neurodiverse Love Conference sessions, the digital version of the Neurodiverse Love Conversation Cards and Neurodiverse Love Conversation Card Workbook.

3. 

   7 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How is Neurodivergence Impacting Your Relationship?-Karen Doherty

   The four part Neurodiverse Love Docuseries shows how 4 neurodiverse couples navigate different communication styles, emotional needs, sensory and physical intimacy differences, and employment and special interests. In addition, three therapists/coaches who work with neurodiverse couples share strategies, tools and insights that can help neurodiverse couples navigate their strengths, challenges and differences. Check out the first 2 episodes here: https://www.neurodiverselove.com/the-documentary ————————————————————————- During this episode relationship therapist and coach Karen Doherty shares how she has been helping neurodiverse couples better understand each other for more than two decades. During this conversation, Karen specifically addresses the challenges Neurodiverse couples have with communication, emotional regulation, couple equality/fit and intimacy and empathy issues. Karen is based in the UK and her new Netflix series called “Blue Therapy” aired on March 4, 2026. You can learn more about the services Karen offers here.

Inside a recent episode

Lessons Learned & Lived Experiences: Mona’s Final Solo Episode

Published 21 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This is real. And, you know, I didn't know this in my marriage because I didn't know we were neurodiverse. all of my ADHDness in full. And I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of how my brain works. I'm proud of what my body needs to thrive and to be at peace and to know that. I am so far from perfect. I am going to be a work in progress until I leave this earth. But I know how to say no when it's not good for me. I know how to communicate my boundaries. I know how to assertively tell my partner, my friends, my daughter, colleagues what it is I need so that I can be at my best. And there are days where things don't go the way I want them to, but something else that's been really critically important for me, and I've talked about it on the podcast before, is having a nervous system regulation toolbox. […]

Who has been a guest on Neurodiverse Love with Mona Kay

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• Sarah Hendrickx
• Dr Grace Malonai
• Bontle Senne
• Sara-Louise Ackrill
• Tony Attwood

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

73,329

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

52 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

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Quality

71

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

50

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