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Left Unattended is a podcast for the ones who lead boldly but quietly, burn brightly while breaking privately, and feel like they were handed all the responsibility with none of the support.Hosted by neurodivergent leadership coach Ron Sosa, Left Unattended explores what…
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S1 - E21 - AFTER PSYCHOSIS: REBUILDING IDENTITY, WORK, AND WORTH with Kristin Lake (opens the original)
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Many people carry invisible load at work: masking, shame, fear of being misunderstood, pressure to prove competence, and the exhaustion of trying to seem acceptable. Kristin’s story asks what becomes possible when we stop defining people only by their hardest chapters and start asking where their brain, skill, and lived experience still belong.
S1 - E20 - UNDERSTANDING YOUR BRAIN OS AFTER BUILDING THE LIFE with James Lang (opens the original)
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On this episode Left Unattended, Ron Sosa hosts James Lang, a med tech COO turned AI growth architect and managing partner of Overlang Venture Partners, about normalizing neurodivergence in the workplace. James shares his unconventional path from college dropout and freelance writer to helping scale a med tech company past $20M in revenue with a global team of 60+, and how being diagnosed with ADHD and autism in his 30s reframed his “brain OS,” masking, and leadership. They discuss coping strate
S1 - E19 - STOP DEFINING PEOPLE BY DIAGNOSIS with Traci Austin (opens the original)
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Traci Austin on ADHD, the And/Both Method, and Designing Teams Around Strengths Host Ron Sosa welcomes Traci Austin, founder of Elevated Talent Consulting and creator of the And Both Method, to discuss normalizing neurodivergent experiences at work and focusing on how people operate rather than diagnoses. Traci shares how being held back in kindergarten and later placed in gifted programs drove her to collect credentials to prove she belonged, and how an ADHD diagnosis helped her understand her
S1 - E18 - WHEN HIGH ACHIEVERS LEARN THEY'RE NOT UNDERPERFORMING with Diana Feinstein (opens the original)
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In this episode of Left Unattended, host Ron Sosa talks with Diana Feinstein, founder of Max Packed Health, about normalizing neurodivergence at work and what changes when high achievers stop treating capacity as an afterthought. Diana shares how her son’s neurodivergence evaluation helped her recognize her own patterns, and they explore nonlinear thinking, being mislabeled as underperforming, and the burnout that comes from masking and over-functioning. They discuss behavior change through prom
S1 - E17 - WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING YOU'RE TOO MUCH with Gazit Chaya Nkosi (opens the original)
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Have you ever felt like you were just born as the problem? In this powerful episode of Left Unattended, host Ron Sosa sits down with Gazit Khaya Nikosi (also known as Z) to discuss the journey of unlearning the message that being neurodivergent means being too much. Together, they explore how to move away from a life of masking and burnout toward a future built on self-compassion and radical accommodation. 🌈 Z shares their personal history with fundamentalist religious trauma and the pressure to
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