Welcome to there's nothing wrong with you. This is a podcast about personal and collective liberation, where we ask powerful questions and have dynamic conversations about what it means to be fully human. If you've often asked yourself the question what's wrong with me, then this podcast is made for you.

The name of this podcast is there's nothing wrong with you because it's the foundational principle upon which all of our conversations are based. You're not broken. You don't need to be fixed. You are not bad. You do not need to be perfect. In fact, you need to be imperfect. You need to be fully alive and fully human by accepting this foundational principle as truth.

We free ourselves to formulate more useful, powerful questions and explore the conversations that take us on a journey toward meaningful change. Our conversations, aim to challenge, normative beliefs, frameworks, and approaches, and unpack and unlearn, internalize stigma. We're going to explore the boundaries and limitations of self-help and self-improvement in general highlighting where those efforts.

Start to shift from helpful to harmful. We'll move beyond blame and shame and learn how to accept and embrace our full humanity and the entire spectrum of our human experiences. You might be wondering whether there's nothing wrong with you actually applies to you specifically. So I'm gonna nip that in the bud right now.

The answer is almost certainly yes, it applies to. It applies to humans who have done something wrong or harmful in their lives, which is, uh, everyone to people who struggle day to day with their health and wellbeing. And to those of us who might feel broken or spend a lot of our lives feeling that way, this principle applies to those of us who are disabled.

It applies to humans who have experienced or are experiencing illness, disease, and trauma. Addiction and, or some type of dysfunction. This principle applies, regardless of whether someone has received a dozen or more diagnoses or has never received a diagnosis of anything. My name is Samantha Cooper.

Although most people in my life call me Sam, I'm a professional coach while I'm trained as an ADHD coach, my training enables me also to work as a general life coach. I've run my own coaching practice, which is called unconventional minds coaching for the past several years prior to going through my intensive coach training and opening my own practice.

I had a very career in international development and public health and epidemiology. Although I welded, I held a wide variety of jobs outside those industries as. As a coach, I focus on working with neurodivergent adults, which in the context of my work means adults who suspect or know that they have ADHD and or that they're autistic.

In addition to being neurodivergent, my clients usually have multiple co-occurring mental and physical conditions tend to have lifestyles and life experiences, and identities that many people would consider to be unconventional or outside the. Usually, my clients have figured out that they are neurodivergent relatively late in life, often well into adulthood.

Sometimes they're still figuring it out. Sometimes they were diagnosed during childhood, but didn't receive any support at that time and didn't know how to seek it out. Until later in life, I work with my clients to lower their stress levels, expand their capacity and dramatically increase their sense of well-being and quality of.

Generation-wise, I'm an elder millennial, although I've always had friends and loved ones across multiple generations. I'm non-binary in terms of my gender and my pronouns. Are they them? I identify as queer and orientation and fem in terms of self-expression or presentation while my location is subject to change.

I'm currently based in New York City. I myself have