MW Ep 15 Audioa
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Speaker 2: [00:00:00] Hello everyone. Welcome to Healthcare Online. My name is Megan Walker and today our very special guest is Dr.
Sarah Sipson, who wears a couple of hats. Dr. Sarah is a specialist GP and she's also the founder and CEO of Doc Sipson Consulting and the Neurodivergent Collective. Hi Sarah. How are you? Hi, Reagan. Thanks very much for having me. You are most welcome. Let's get started with who you are and what you do. The good old barbecue question.
Tell us about your background and your qualifications.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Absolutely. That's the easy one. You say it all the time. as you said, [00:01:00] am a specialist GP by training and I have a background in women's health. I, which is where I spent most of my professional life working. And I, in more recent years have specialized in neurodivergence care.
So that's my clinical Resume, so to speak. And then as a neuro divergent woman myself, I have lived experience of A DHD and late recognition of that. So, I kind of. I work in many arenas and wear many hats as is classic for a divergent person. And the businesses that you mentioned are my primary focus now.
So I have moved out of the traditional clinical care models and into more flexible arrangement that allows me to think outside the box and innovate and connect with people in other ways. That
Speaker 2: I'm passionate about. I know that [00:02:00] we'll get into this, but I have I have an inkling with the aim that you are helping more people on a bigger scale through your work.
Is that one of your driving factors?
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Absolutely. Yeah. So the one-on-one consulting wall, I absolutely loved doing that work. I could. Only have so many hours in the day to provide that kind of service to people. And I wanted to create a way that I could, yeah, like you said, reach more and have a bigger impact and for positive change for people.
Speaker 2: Amazing. So each of those businesses that we touched on in the beginning, so tell us a bit more about what, what each of them does and who they help. So start with Doc Sipson. Consulting. Tell us who, who is that for? What does it do and who does it help?
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Hmm, absolutely. So Doc Sips in consulting is the newer of my business babies and I am providing mentorship to neuro divergent women who are really ready to.
Reclaim [00:03:00] their identity and their concept of self, and embrace a practice of radical self-love so that they can rediscover the harmony that is created by loving themselves first.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's beautiful. And these are p people from any background or are they in the medical field or they're all.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Across the whole spectrum.
So I'm not limited to any walk of life. I have tailored my services for women and gender non-conforming people. So it's very open and affirming. So anybody that feels like I'm their kind of person, I am happy to have them.
Speaker 2: Oh, bless you. That's gorgeous. And tell us about the Neurodivergent Collective.
What does it do and who does it serve?
Dr. Sarah Simpson: So that is my collaboration platform. So that is the space where I connect with other individuals that are looking to make a change for the lives of neurodivergent people. And chances are you're divergent yourself if you're doing that work. And a forum for us to bring [00:04:00] our passions and our ideas together to create shared projects and ways to improve the landscape for everybody.
Speaker 2: Oh, that is so cool. You're a cool person, Dr. Sarah. Thank
Dr. Sarah Simpson: you.
Speaker 2: I love it. And so the next question's a bit hard. To answer when it, when we're so close to the work that we do. But I wanna ask you, what problems do you solve? But that's a little bit limiting. I almost feel now after your fabulous introduction is like, what do you make possible?
Could be a better question. So you take it how you wanna answer it.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Yeah, I like that. I like the reframe. 'cause I'm definitely not a. Person that subscribes to the classic rigid approach of marketing and pain point pressures and all that kind of thing. Exactly. That's definitely not my jam. So, no would say that particularly in my work, I'll focus on the doc sips and consulting stuff.
'cause that's, you know, the direct [00:05:00] to consumer sort of arrangement and it's really for. The purpose of guiding people that feel trapped in survival patterns where they are people pleasing and kind of falling into martyrdom and self-sacrifice and helping them to reconnect with their hearts, their emotions.
What it feels like to have those feelings and recognize them and moving through that process to empower them and to revitalize their lives, and by using those emotions as a power instead of something that they're ignoring.
Speaker 2: How refreshing. I know having gone through my own diag daughter's diagnosis that for so many years in that conversation, it was about what we.
Couldn't do or this was the limitation and I just drew that line in the sand and I love what you're doing. That says, okay, let's not focus on that, that medical broken. Now we need solution. You know, [00:06:00] lens, what's possible, what's incredible, what's amazing, what's embracing.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Mm-Hmm.
Speaker 2: Oh, so good. So
Dr. Sarah Simpson: very much subscribed to that.
So I love it. That's you've kind of described the essence of the neurodiversity movement and that model of person centered strength based thinking around neurodivergence, which I think is really important.
Speaker 2: So refreshing and so like exciting for all humans. Why should we live through limitation lens?
Like that's just putting us in a box of cards. Let's move into a box of. Can and gifts. So with that in mind, I won't ask you what problem you solve with the neuro diverted collective. I will ask you, what are you aiming to make possible with those projects and collaborations?
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Mm-Hmm. So from my experience as a clinician, I noticed the kinda siloed approach to Neurodivergence and healthcare for people that are [00:07:00] neurodivergent and the.
Difficulties that creates between providers for those people and understanding and kind of mismatch of goals that yes. Comes out of all of that. So the collective is more about bringing different craft groups together and different walks of life outside of healthcare that have, you know, amazing things to contribute that can.
Advance non-medical projects or the overlap of them to really tap into shared gifts instead of. Kind of defending a patch and keeping your barriers up. So
Speaker 2: yes, I love that. I love that we are all working together, aren't we? Not just siloed. I love it. [00:08:00] we touched on the fact that you've, you've been in practice seeing limited number of people a day, you know, governed by.
Clock of what is possible and you've stepped out of that into, now I'm gonna reach people and reach them nationally or even beyond. How have you gone about that process of scaling and reaching?
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Okay, so it's. Depends on how you want to approach it. I think it's different for everybody. In my [00:09:00] case, I decided I was gonna jump in with both feet and love it, you know, classic for me.
Why not make a change big if you're gonna do it? So I have transitioned away from clinical practice entirely now, and I've, I've designed a. A couple of businesses from scratch, as you heard, which is a whole learning process if you haven't done that before. And the. Initial offering that I'm actually going to be launching in a few weeks through Doc Simpson in consulting is a one-on-one mentorship I offering.
And that is the transition through to the group mentorship program that I'm developing for that service. So it's a way to connect with the people that. Are ideally the ones that want to kind of be involved and start from the ground up and kind of grow with me along the way. Yeah. [00:10:00] And from there the group mentorship will offer more accessible price point and make widen that kind of access for people so that we're not looking at yet another.
Neurodivergence tax of yes, not being able to get the help that you need, and because of limitations around scheduling and finances and all that kind of thing, which also frees my time up to be able to help more people through that model, which is really important to me.
Speaker 2: I love that it's shared. Of time.
It's shared of knowledge, but it's sharing as a community and, and building relationships too, isn't it? That membership model. Absolutely.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: I love that. Absolutely. Yeah. And it's really important, I think, in this kind of work to have other people that are doing a similar thing and learning about themselves in the same way, so that you have that support and understanding at least in your online community, if not in your [00:11:00] day-to-Day life, you have that, that stop of love and love.
Understanding.
Speaker 2: Definitely. I know that people listening will be thinking, oh my goodness, this is amazing. How do I get in touch with Sarah? So in just a moment, I will ask you to share your details, the best way that people can find out more. But my final question before we do that is what's your vision? What are you hoping, what's the, the movement here, the bigger picture driving this? Tell us what it's one thing to focus on what we're doing and day to day and creating, but tell me your bigger vision and goal.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: Ooh, it's probably twofold which is why there's two businesses.
So, the one that's really close to my heart is the. Vision of neuro divergent women being truly, genuinely themselves and connected to unconditional, supporting loving [00:12:00] relationships in all areas of their lives. Wow.
Speaker 2: Beautiful.
Dr. Sarah Simpson: And the other side of the vision board is the interconnected. Kind of rich depth of community that can be kind of the springboard, I guess, for neuro divergent people in their own ways, in their own lives, to live authentically without having to.
You know, masks can change who they are to Yes. Move through the world.
Speaker 2: Love it, love it, love it, love it. So people, no doubt, their ears have picked up to either one of those. How can they find out more? Sarah?
Dr. Sarah Simpson: probably the best place to find the collection of things is the website, which is do simpson.com au.
So surname is spelled [00:13:00] S-I-B-S-O-N, which catches people sometimes. Yes. And you can also find the collective house within that, but it has its own URL of ND collective.com au.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Well, I will put those links in the bottom of where we are watching and listening to this interview. Sarah, thank you so much for the amazing work that you do.
It really is a movement that I can see you are championing. I know from the many years that we've been working together, like it's been wonderful to see it evolve and. Good on you for having the courage to put that stake in the ground and say, you know, this is my patch and I can, I'm gonna make a difference in this area.
So thank you. Thanks for your time today. Thank you. I
Dr. Sarah Simpson: really love talking to you.
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