ADHD Journey with Emily-Jane Dale - From media to food and empowering young people

The lovely Em from Auntie Em’s Kitchen came on the podcast to talk about her late diagnosis journey.

Growing up as the only neurotypical child of 5 it probably should have been no surprise to Em that she was actually ADHD, but it was the diagnosis of Dyslexia that took her by surprise.

Em is doing some amazing things including running her charity Aunties Cookery Academy who are planning to give children leaving the care system an education in cooking together with the skills they need to go out into the world to work.

It’s no wonder we spent an hour talking as we had a lot to chat about! Including diving into our weird and wonderful traits.

In this episode we talk about:

• How although Em was diagnosed with Dyslexia at age 7 she hadn’t really paid too much attention to it until she went for a later diagnosis where she was also given an ADHD diagnosis
• Dyslexia traits and how they affect memory
• An in-depth chat about our very similar neurodivergent traits
• Why Em’s team work so well and are the reason why her catering business is now thriving
• The jump from over a decade in media to running her own catering business
• How Em has used her greatest ADHD skill, problem solving, to find successful niches
• How Em’s idea of running a charity cooking school for disadvantaged children is now a reality and how very close they are to reaching their fundraising goals so they can start their very first cohort!
• How access to work has quite literally been a gamechanger

 

If you want to find out where Auntie Em’s kitchen is popping up next head to Em’s website here https://sites.google.com/auntieemskitchen.uk/auntie-ems-kitchen/  or Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/AuntieEmsK/

Here is a link to the charity Aunties Cookery Academy https://auntiescookeryacademy.co.uk/

 

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