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Strengthen LivePerimenopause Awakening: Rising With HopeSend Host a textJoin Andrea Urquhart as she chats all things midlife, perimenopause and big emotions with Midlife & Menopause Practitioner Georgie Smith.In another candid heart to heart interview that includes a wealth of professional insight and tips, Andrea and Georgie explore the journey of awakening from hopelessness to enjoying and curating our lives when we walk through or with challenges in our lives.Connect with Georgie on Linked In, Instagram or Facebook. Thanks for joining me today! If you've had an "Aha!" moment whilst...2025-07-1053 min
Strengthen LiveExposing CamouflageSend Host a textDiscover the dangers, discomfort and protective effect that camouflaging behaviours have on all of us - neurodivergent or not. Join certified Advanced AuDHD Coach, Andrea Urquhart, as the talks us through what camouflaging is and how it can mess with being comfortable in ourselves and our true identity.As always, there are practical examples and a big dose of compassion and kindness! Ready? Hit play now. Thanks for joining me today! If you've had an "Aha!" moment whilst listening today, click subscribe to add Strengthen...2025-06-1325 min
Strengthen LiveAuDHD: Unapologetically EnoughSend Host a textIf you struggle with the inner stories of feeling too much, not enough or both of those like a swinging pendulum, this episode is for you! Join Andrea Urquhart, certified Advanced AuDHD Coach, and discover how embracing your needs and your unique ways of being can help you truly live unapologetically - enough. Not too much, not too little; simply you.Whilst many of us have historical or relational reasons why our inner story make us feel insecure in who we are, understanding how conformity has and continues to...2025-06-0221 min
Strengthen LiveLate Diagnosed Life (Me?AuDHD?)Send Host a textIs your heart full? Listen in as this week's guest, Toni Green, shares how full her heart has become as she's rediscovered herself and worked through some big emotions about late life ADHD diagnosis. You'll hear about her career change after receiving an ADHD diagnosis, what she believes and teaches about creating neuro-affirmative workplace cultures, and her own unexpected grief for what might have been had she only been diagnosed earlier.Listen now as Strengthen Live host Andrea Urquhart, AuDHD, Emotion & Positive Psychology Coach has a candid heart to h...2025-05-2241 min
Strengthen LiveAuDHD EnergySend Host a textToday we’re diving into energy and capacity! Do you ever struggle with your potential, knowing you can do so much more and maybe many things better than you currently manage, but your body and your emotional and mental capacity just doesn’t feel like it can carry everything you want to do and be in this world?Join Andrea Urquhart, Emotion & Positive Psychology Coach as she begins to unpack the AuDHD Energy Paradox: that “All or Nothing” flow of energy and capacity that many neurodivergent people experience - particul...2025-05-0228 min
Strengthen LiveAffirmation StoriesSend Host a textThis episode is for anyone who’s ever felt that traditional meditation just doesn’t quite fit. If you’ve ever tried to calm your mind, only to find your thoughts spinning faster—or felt like your body needs to move, even as you're trying to find stillness—this episode is especially for you.Today we’re talking about embracing your full identity. I’m sharing a moving affirmation sequence for you to co-regulate together with me. I teach about creating personalised affirmation stories and I personally know the power of takin...2025-04-2626 min
Strengthen LiveNeuro Unique FoundersSend Host a text We are not carbon copies of each other. Neurodivergent people may share diagnoses on paper that seem very similar or have the same names. We may resonate with similar traits or challenges – whether diagnosed or not. But how those things show up—in our businesses, our relationships, our growth, and our emotional wellbeing—is totally and profoundly unique to each of us.Today, we’re exploring the myth of the “neurodivergent mold” and why every neurodivergent business woman is uniquely wired for her own path: Neuro Unique F...2025-04-1519 min
Strengthen LiveMe? AuDHD? AwakeningSend Host a textIt's the first episode of Season 2 and we’re shedding light on a quiet awakening—a new understanding of what it means to be AuDHD. It’s a term that refers to the co-existence of both Autism and ADHD in a person and it’s something that’s only fairly recently beginning to be increasingly recognized, particularly in women. Listen in as Andrea Urquhart shares about the recent rise in compassionate understanding about this and what the experience of realising your neurodivergence has been hidden in plain sight your whole life...2025-04-0920 min
Strengthen LiveThe Drama TriangleSend Host a textHave you ever found yourself trying to help someone, giving all your energy to fix their problems, only to feel like you’re in a never-ending cycle of frustration, or even worse, getting blamed when things go wrong? Maybe you’ve stepped into the role of the “rescuer” in a difficult situation, only to realize that you’re caught in a dynamic where no one seems to win. In today’s episode, we’re diving into something called the Drama Triangle—a concept that explains why this happens and how we can shift...2025-04-0322 min
Strengthen LiveCompassionate BoundariesSend Host a textWhat's your relationship with boundaries like? Today's episode is designed to inspire compassionate people to learn how to boss their boundaries! Are you ready to define liberating and compassionate boundaries that work for you as an individual?Join Andrea Urquhart, professional Emotion & Positive Psychology Coach, as she tackles the tricky subject of creating effective boundaries in our real life, unpredictable world. As usual, you'll hear compassionate and practical guidance you can personalise for yourself through reflecting on the questions she's asking you today. We're talking about leaky b...2025-03-2721 min
Strengthen LiveFeeling SeenSend Host a textWhat lights you up about what you do? As trailblazing, empathetic leader and professionals, we help people in various ways. But is being seen and acknowledged important to you? Do you swing between not wanted to be thanked and also needing acknowledgement?In this episode, Emotion & Positive Psychology Coach & Mentor Andrea Urquhart is inviting you to explore that blend of emotions that helping professionals experience about feeling seen, genuinely finding fulfilment in "just doing my job", and also benefiting from the acknowledgement of others.As always, this...2025-03-1916 min
Strengthen LivePerfectionismSend Host a textJoin Emotion & Positive Psychology Coach & Mentor Andrea Urquhart for a tour of some of the current debates about perfectionism. Do you feel a buzz from striving for high standards, or enchained in negative thought and emotional spirals caused by the darker side of perfectionism?Is perfectionism always toxic, or can perfectionistic traits help some people flourish?And what about procrastination? That intensely frustrating experience that many people who suffer with perfectionistic traits have such a complicated relationship with.Listen and make up your own mind - and...2025-03-1328 min
Strengthen LiveKate O'Leary Interview You Are EnoughSend Host a textIn this candid interview, Andrea Urquhart, host of the Strengthen Live Podcast, interviews entrepreneur, Mental Health First Aid trainer, speaker, and educator, Kate O'Leary as she shares about her journey so far as a professional wellbeing specialist. Hear about the highs and lows of founding a wellbeing business, and how Kate's ADHD diagnosis took her on a journey of courage and clarity.Kate delivers practical, trauma-informed mental health education in corporate settings, schools, and community programmes—helping people develop real-world tools to support their mental health, not just for the...2025-03-0428 min