Tech, time and energy - guest Tara McDaid

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"Automations don't have to be cold—they can be written in your tone of voice." — Tara McDaid

Jenn Wilson is joined by guest Tara McDaid

Tara is a tech and funnel specialist who supports small businesses — especially those run by chronically ill or time‑limited founders — to create ethical, human‑centered automations. After chronic illness reshaped her life and work, she now focuses on sustainable systems, compassionate communication, and helping organisations build supportive tech foundations without burnout.

Tara shares how chronic illness reshaped her life and business, now specialising in ethical, compassionate automations.

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Website link: https://tara-lillietech.co.uk

Social link: https://www.instagram.com/tara_lillietech/

Tara is a Sales Funnel Expert and systems strategist who helps ambitious coaches and service providers scale sustainably, without burning out.

With a background in operations, corporate burnout, and chronic fatigue, she knows what it takes to build a business that supports your energy, not drains it. Through Done-For-You funnels, her Tech support retainers, and digital resources, she helps clients simplify their sales systems and create more freedom. Tara is also the creator of the ROOTED Method™, a values-led approach to business growth. When she’s not building funnels, you’ll find her reading fantasy novels or walking her dog, Kenny.

Automations can support wellbeing when built with consent, clarity, and humanity.

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• Chronic fatigue and career transition.
• What a sales funnel really is.
• Consent-led email communication.

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Season 2 Episode 21

Stop Trying Harder - guest Karyn Whitaker

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“Being kind to ourselves. Being honest about what we need.”— Karyn Whitaker

Jenn Wilson is joined by guest Karyn Whitaker. Karyn Whitaker is a neurodivergent coach, disability advocate, and founder of Try Harder Is BS, where she helps people with ADHD, autism, chronic fatigue and other invisible disabilities build easier, more sustainable lives that work with their nervous systems.

In this deeply resonant episode, Karyn joins Jenn to talk about the lifelong impact of being told to “try harder” while navigating undiagnosed neurodivergence, chronic fatigue, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She shares how years of masking, burnout cycles, people-pleasing, and internalised expectations shaped her career path — and how receiving her diagnoses finally gave language to her lived experience.

Karyn explains why traditional responses to burnout miss the mark, what nervous system regulation really means, and how embracing ease has changed every part of her life. She also speaks powerfully about inclusion, access, invisible disability advocacy, and challenging systems that rely on neurodivergent people pushing themselves beyond capacity.

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Karyn is the Founder of “Try Harder is BS.” She helps people whose brains work differently (and those who support them) learn strategies to calm the chaos in their heads so they can move from overwhelm to action without going via burnout.

She is also an ex‑nurse, ex‑social worker, and soon‑to‑be ex‑project manager. A recovering serial burnout, she lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, AuDHD, and dyslexia — alongside a lifelong feeling that she didn’t quite fit in. Now she is owning her uniqueness, and life is better than it has ever been.

Trying harder isn’t the solution — compassion is.

Karyn invites us to stop forcing ourselves into burnout and start listening to our bodies, strengths, and nervous systems. True change — personally and socially — comes not from pushing through, but from working differently, choosing ease, and creating environments where everyone can participate without needing to mask or suffer.

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• The emotional impact of masking and decades of “try harder” messaging
• Living with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, chronic fatigue, and Ehlers-Danlos
• Why burnout recovery shouldn’t mean returning to the thing that broke you
• Fight/flight/freeze/fawn explained simply (and why many of us live there)
• How to stimulate the vagus nerve and support nervous system regulation
• The myth of “jack of all trades, master of none” — and the real full quote
• CliftonStrengths and why neurodivergent people thrive when playing to strengths
• Inclusion vs. real inclusion: accessibility before someone even reaches the door
• Advocating inside organisations and redesigning “reasonable adjustments”
• Building a business designed around ease, capacity, and neurodivergent needs

Season 2 Episode 19

Rebellious Peace - guest Lianne Terry

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"Just because we think it doesn't mean it's true."— Lianne Terry

Jenn Wilson is joined by guest Lianne Terry

Lianne Terry (she/her/they) is a counsellor and psychotherapist working predominantly with the queer community, focusing on helping people build inner peace, self-acceptance, and healthier self-talk patterns.

In this episode, Lianne explores what it means to cultivate inner peace, especially when navigating the complexities of identity, queerness, societal expectations, and long-held internalised beliefs. She discusses unpicking inherited narratives, rebuilding self-worth, and why labels can be both liberating and limiting. She also shares the inspiration behind her LGBTQIA+ wellbeing magazine.

https://www.lianneterrycounselling.co.uk/

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Lianne is an empowering Psychotherapist who helps clients to find authentic happiness and consider self-discovery. Having been on her own journey to happiness and self-empowerment, Lianne is familiar with the challenges stemming from past wounds and from day-to day life.

She works with clients, either face-to-face or online, to discover their joy, find peace, heal their emotional wounds and forge ahead to lead happy and sucessful lives.

As a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, she specialises in supporting queer individuals with relationships, family dynamics and healing childhood wounds, she also publishes a quarterly LGBTQIA+ wellbeing magazine.

Peace isn't quiet—it's authenticity. The path to it involves unlearning what isn’t ours, recognising our own voice, and valuing ourselves enough to rest, rebel, and rebuild.

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Understanding inner peace vs. happiness as a goal.

Why peace can feel harder for queer people in unsafe cultures.

Recognising whose voice you're hearing when you self-criticise.

CBT-inspired techniques for challenging negative thoughts.

The emotional impact of labels—helpful lenses vs restrictive boxes.

Lianne’s LGBTQIA+ wellbeing magazine and amplifying community voices.

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Season 2 Episode 17