Sarah Hartley

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524 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 25 Feb

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Sara Hartley: Purposely Me: Navigating Neurodiversity With the Power of Stories · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

And so my oldest son really was instrumental in one, inspiring most of these books.

And also he's walked through all of them with me as well and said, oh, mom, I think you should maybe change it to this.

Or I don't think we're gonna understand what that means.

We're gonna need a definition for that one.

But I also want for a parent to be able to walk through it or a teacher and have that conversation that will continue throughout the book.

So it gives a teaching moment as well of, oh, maybe I'm not sure what ADHD means or what is an intervention.

You know, things like that where you can really take a moment and pause and have some of those additional conversations with your children.

It's taken quite some time.

It's been a labor of love as it's not my day job.

And so it's definitely a passion project of mine.

It was probably in 2021 that I had the first idea and I was really at a low point and breaking point.

I had just been diagnosed with Lyme disease.

My oldest had just been diagnosed with ADHD and sensory processing disorder and highly gifted.

And so with all that information, I was having that moment in the shower of, you know, what is my purpose?

Why am I here?

And that really sparked my creativity for the first book.

And then they grew a bit from there and I'd put it down or maybe come back to it.

And it wasn't until last summer, July of 24, that I was able to meet with a book coach.

And that really took it from seven books to really developing this full theme and now what are going to be 14 books and making sure that all of those elements really tie together and

And also, again, having those readers on the front end to help with that sensitivity aspect.

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