In this episode, Vicki sits down with Marissa Mosunich — neuro complex career coach, founder of Operate Well Consulting and Brave Zebra Work Coaching, and someone who is living the same questions on a slightly different timeline.
Marissa was diagnosed AuDHD at 34, just last year. She's taken her background in organizational management and her own lived experience and built a coaching practice that helps neurocomplex people navigate career pivots, workplace challenges, and the slow, practical work of building a professional life that actually fits.
They talk about why high-achieving women are so chronically late-diagnosed, what high masking costs over a lifetime, and what it looks like to start recognizing your own needs after decades of performing competence. Marissa also reads a poem she wrote called Outcomes — about the experience of unmasking, layer by layer, the spine finally understanding what it carries.
ABOUT MARISSA
Marissa Mosunich is a neuro affirming work coach and organizational consultant based on California's Central Coast. She founded Operate Well Consulting and Brave Zebra Work Coaching to support neurocomplex professionals in building sustainable careers that honor how their brains actually work.
Operate Well Consulting: https://operate-well.ghost.io/
Brave Zebra Work Coaching: https://operate-well.ghost.io/brave-zebra-work-coaching/
Instagram: @brave.zebra
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Lindsey Mackereth — therapist, researcher, and founder of the neurocomplexity framework.
Lindsey's Substack: https://lindseymackereth.substack.com/
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