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by Laura Shakesby | 30 Aug, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Dr Michelle McQuaid is a wellbeing researcher in her early 50s. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, where she is an honorary fellow at Melbourne University’s Center for Wellbeing Science. Michelle was diagnosed autistic nearly ten years ago, after her...
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by Laura Shakesby | 23 Aug, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Kirsty Cullen-Campanelli is Head Of People Ops, Comms And Employee Engagement at Apple. She was diagnosed autistic two years ago at 38. Kirsty’s story began on a council estate in southern England, where she grew up in a working-class family alongside foster siblings...
