Partnerships and Guest speakers of Podcast: Following the Threads

Following the Threads centers story as a foundation for sharing wisdom. Each episode provides listeners with:

• a discussion of both prevalent and relevant (but not always prevalent) social, psychological and spiritual frameworks to support unmasking late-diagnosis autism, ADHD, and AuDHD as an adult. 
• a personal story that contextualizes the discussion topic of a common and complex experience while unmasking after 30 and that contextualize the discussion between co-hosts and guests.
• curated and vetted supplemental reading that includes references and resources. There is a lot of information and not all of it is accurate. Executive Producer and Co-Host Natasha Stavros and Director Linda Highfield use their PhDs in research to vet the scientific credibility of our sources. Co-host Sarah Liebman filters academic findings through 20+ years of practical experience as an MFT working as a  psychotherapist.

Each episode is ~30 minutes long with ~20 minutes discussion about the social, pyschological, and spiritual frameworks for resilience through change and ~5 minutes Author's narration of a snippet from her upcoming book on navigating an adult autism diagnosis.

The topics follow the threads within The Unmasking Diary of author, public speaker, and scientist Natasha Stavros, which is being compiled into the book After the Masquerade.

The specific topic for any given podcast is fluid with the ebbs and flows of different threads within Co-Host Natasha Stavros's late diagnosed autistic unmasking journey. These topics follow different threads that align with the seasons of the show. 

Steps as a guest are:

1. Invitation intake
2. Schedule a discovery call
3. Have a discovery call
4. Set date for a production call and a recording call
5. Contemplate on three points provided by host and provide references or resources to share
6. Have production call to converge on three points
7. Intermittent contact convergence/ refinement
8. Record episode
9. Gratitude and promotion

We aim to have every  episode released within 2 weeks of recording (within the next fortnightly newsletter), but schedule accommodations may extend this out to the following newsletter.

Your episode will land in the season for which it is most relevant. Following the Threads uses Natasha’s life as a case study to follow the threads (organized by season) of her early unmasking experience. Because the process of learning to unmask is messy, so too is the chronology of production.

Episodes do not follow the chronology of season progression, rather they organize episodes by different threads:

 Season 1/ Thread 1 - Introduction: The When, How, What, and Why of Getting a Diagnosis​

 Season 2/ Thread 2 - Identity​

 Season 3/ Thread 3 - Pathology​

 Season 4/ Thread 4 - Employment​

 Season 5/ Thread 5 - Romantic Relationships​

 Season 6/ Thread 6 - Colleagues​

 Season 7/ Thread 7 - Friendships​

 Season 8/ Thread 8 - Parenting​

 Season 9/ Thread 9 - Family

In the era of AI, it’s important to note that this book is more than intelligence, it’s wisdom - and that, cannot be done by Artificial Intelligence; it can only be done by human intelligence. 

As such, we’d like to distinguish that no generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) was used in the final production of this podcast.

All of the text was written and iterated by the author without aid from artificial intelligence. AI was used as a by-product of google searches.

Generative AI was used to brainstorm marketing strategies including substack article titles and short descriptors for each social media audience, podcast transcripts, show notes, and the background of the cover image. The substack articles are first written by the author, edited by the author, and uploaded to Generative AI with the prompt to help find a title and short description. The author edits AI titles, short descriptions, and show notes before final publication.

This podcast does not authorize use of our podcast - in any modality - to be used or fed into any generative artificial intelligence platforms. Doing so constitutes a violation of copyright.

• Natasha Stavros, PhD - Executive Producer and Co-Host
• Sarah Liebman, MFT - Co-Host
• Noah Smith - Composer and Audio Engineer