Ep.88 Be impulsive and spontaneous to change your life and business - with Steph West

Show notes

Steph West is a social coach who helps neurodivergent kids and teens go from socially challenged to socially competent, confident, and connected! She has a bachelor's degree in psychology and master’s degrees in special education and education administration. She also have specialist certifications in autism, behavior support, traumatic brain injury, inclusion, and transition. Steph has been supporting neurodivergent students for almost 20 years as a special education classroom teacher, school administrator and behavior specialist. She has also run two private schools for neurodivergent kids, one of which she created independently. In addition to her work at Starfish Social Club, she's also an Ironman triathlete, currently learning 3 languages, and working on getting her private pilot's license! Yep, she has ADHD!

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why being impulsive helps you move forward in your business
• Why there are no bad decisions at all
• Steph shares her business journey and how she started with no business background
• How to switch off external noise

Quotes:

"Why starfish? Yeah, there's actually a kind of a well known story called the starfish story. And it's about a girl who's on a beach and she notices that there are starfish stranded along the beach and so she starts running up and down the beach and picking them up and throwing them back into the ocean and a man comes along and he says, why are you wasting your time doing that? You can't save all of them and she runs to the next 1 and throws it into the ocean and says, I just saved that one."

"This is what I do and very few people that I've come across. Understand how to support kids socially. Uh, it's such an abstract thing. And though I just was able to recognize that most of the people I was working with did not have the understanding that I do when it comes to social. And one day I was at a workshop and people were talking about how they run social groups, and I just decided I can do that."

"I have zero business background. I never would I have thought of starting my own business. That is not, absolutely not the path that I ever saw my life going down. So none of it has been easy. What I will say is. I love the fact that I'm so impulsive because it keeps me from overthinking things. So make a decision, move forward, make a decision, move forward."

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