The Yellow Ladybugs Podcast
by Yellow Ladybugs
The Yellow Ladybugs Podcast invites #actuallyautistic people to talk about their journey, to help you with yours.Join in the conversation, as we explore the world of autistic girls, women and gender diverse individuals, and the often misunderstood and ignored internalised autistic experience. There will be plenty of ‘aha’ and ‘me too’ moments as we break down the stereotypes, lean into owning our strengths and supporting you through those challenging moments.
Episodes
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When Distress Turns Inward: Self-Harm and Suicidal Thoughts
This episode is a collaboration between School Can't Australia and Yellow Ladybugs made possible through funding from the Information, Linkages and Capacity Building Grant. This is the second of two special episodes with Yellow Ladybugs, who are dedicated to the happiness, success, and…
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When Distress Looks Like Violence
Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of physical and verbal aggression directed at parents and caregivers by young people in acute distress, including descriptions of property damage, physical assault, and extreme verbal behaviour. Please take care of yourself as you listen. Hit…
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Workplace Resource Part 3
Welcome to Part 3 of the Yellow Ladybugs Workplace Resource Podcast series. We have released a five-part peer-led work resource for autistic and AuDHD people. This episode is based on Part 5 of the resource. Part 5 focuses on what happens after you get the job. How to stay well in work. How to...
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Workplace Resource Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of the Yellow Ladybugs Workplace Resource Podcast series. We have released a five-part peer-led work resource for autistic and AuDHD people. This episode is based on Part 3 and Part 4 of the resource. Part 3 focuses on the very real decisions autistic and AuDHD people make every...
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Workplace Resource Part 1
Welcome to Part 1 of the Yellow Ladybugs Workplace Resource Podcast series. We have released a five-part peer-led work resource for autistic and AuDHD people. This episode is based on Part 1 and Part 2 of the resource. Part 1 of this goes into finding the right work fit, understanding what 'fit'...
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Finding Autistic Joy and Celebrating Autistic Culture
Welcome to the Yellow Ladybugs Pop‑Up Podcast Series, where we bring you two key topics our community have been asking us for. We are proud to the second episode in this series—a peer‑led discussion for families and carers of autistic girls, teens, and gender‑diverse youth on Finding Autistic Joy...
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Recognising and Responding to sexual abuse and sexual violence
Yellow Ladybugs Pop Up Podcast Series: Episode 1 Recognising and responding to sexual violence for families and carers of autistic girls, teens, and gender diverse youth Welcome to the Yellow Ladybugs Pop Up Podcast Series, where we bring you two key topics our community have been asking us for.…
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Challenging School Systems: Scripts and Strategies for Families
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series sharing key topics and insights about supporting autistic girls, women, and gender-diverse people. In this episode, we're focusing on Challenging School Systems: Scripts and Strategies for Families with Kelsie Olds. This is for those of us who have sat in…
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Family Dynamics: Complex Relationships and Competing Needs
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series sharing key topics and insights about supporting autistic girls, women and gender-diverse people. In this episode, we’ll explore Family Dynamics: Complex Relationships and Competing Needs with Dr Alberto Veloso from Relational Minds. Today’s discussion is…
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Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others: Managing Parental Stress and Avoiding Burnout
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series sharing key topics and insights about supporting autistic girls, women, and gender-diverse people. In this episode, we're focusing on Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others: Managing Parental Stress and Avoiding Burnout with Sarah Hayden, Mel Spencer...
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Friendships and Safe Relationships: Recognising Red Flags and Green Flags
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series sharing key topics and insights about supporting autistic girls, women, and gender-diverse people. In this episode, we’re focusing on Friendships & Safe Relationships: Recognising Red Flags and Green Flags with Frances Brennan, Annelil Desille and Caitlin...
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Energy Regulation: Leveling Up Our Support for Our Ladybugs
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series exploring key topics that help us better support autistic girls, women, and gender-diverse people. This episode we will focus on Energy Regulation: Leveling Up Our Support for Our Ladybugs with Amy Laurent and Jac Fede. Today you’ll hear a practical…
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Window of Tolerance: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series sharing key topics and insights about supporting autistic girls, women and gender-diverse people. In this episode, we’ll explore Window of Tolerance: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know with Megan Anna Neff. This episode is a deep dive into what the...
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Creating Safe Spaces for Anxious Autistic Brains: Understanding Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn Responses
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series exploring key topics that help us better support autistic girls, women, and gender-diverse people. This episode we will focus on Creating Safe Spaces for Anxious Autistic Brains: Understanding Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn Responses with Chelsea Luker…
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Back to Basics: Learn How Classrooms Can be Inclusive and Affirming for Our Ladybugs
Welcome to our eight-part podcast series exploring key topics that help us better support autistic girls, women, and gender-diverse people. This episode we will focus on Back to Basics: Learn How Classrooms Can be Inclusive and Affirming for Our Ladybugs with Em Hammond, Adina Levy and Ebony...
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Advocacy
This episode describes what advocacy really means—especially when it’s led by autistic people with lived experience. Advocacy can take many forms, from speaking up in a classroom to challenging systems that exclude or harm. For autistic girls and gender-diverse young people, advocacy is not just...
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First Nations Perspective
This episode describes the unique experiences of First Nations autistic girls and gender-diverse young people, and the importance of listening deeply to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in the autism space. Cultural identity, community connection, and intergenerational knowledge are...
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Youth Perspective
This episode describes what life feels like through the eyes of autistic girls and gender-diverse young people. Too often, decisions are made about young people without hearing directly from them. In this conversation, we centre their voices—sharing firsthand experiences, insights, and…
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Burnout & Self Care
Welcome to Episode 5 of Season 5 of the Yellow Ladybugs Podcast series. This episode describes how autistic burnout is different from everyday exhaustion—and how it often goes unrecognised in autistic girls and gender-diverse young people. Burnout can build slowly over time, especially when young...
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Pride and Wellbeing
Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 5 of the Yellow Ladybugs Podcast series. This episode describes how autistic pride and emotional wellbeing are closely linked—especially for autistic girls and gender-diverse young people, who often grow up feeling different, misunderstood, or unseen. Without the...
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Interoception
Welcome to Episode 3 of Season 5 of the Yellow Ladybugs Podcast series. This episode describes how interoception—the sense that helps us understand what’s happening inside our body—plays a key role in the wellbeing of autistic girls and gender-diverse young people. When interoception is...
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Behaviour/Co-regulation
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 5 of the Yellow Ladybugs Podcast series. This episode describes how behaviour is often misunderstood—especially for autistic girls and gender-diverse young people whose needs may be hidden or internalised. Rather than seeing behaviour as something to manage or fix…
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Masking and Internalising
Welcome to Episode 1 of Season 5 of the Yellow Ladybugs Podcast series. This episode describes how many autistic girls and gender-diverse young people are overlooked because their struggles are hidden behind a well-practised mask. This episode explores what it really means to mask, how...
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Supporting parents and children to advocate for themselves
Welcome to Episode 10 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Having difficulty advocating for your rights, or even knowing…
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Regulations, Ruptures and Repairs: How to Support our Ladybugs when Things Get Tough
Welcome to Episode 9 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. In this episode Katie Koullas CEO of Yellow Ladybugs speaks to...
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Understanding school can’t and school trauma
Welcome to Episode 8 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. “Can’t. Not Won’t”. This important panel from our Supporting...
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Neuro-affirming alternatives to behaviourism and compliance-based therapies
Welcome to Episode 7 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Confused about therapy and ‘intervention’ and how to help the…
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Neuro-affirming ways to support autistic students in the classroom
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. In this episode Natasha Staheli will be exploring what does a...
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Supporting autistic girls and gender diverse students in early childhood, tweens and in the teen years and beyond
Welcome to Episode 5 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. This podcast is a combination of three popular panels from our...
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Supporting parents and carers of autistic young people
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department...
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Reframing Behaviour
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Join us for this fantastic two part conversation hosted by Katie...
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What your autistic students and children want you to know
Welcome to Episode 2 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. The opening panel of the Yellow Ladybugs 2023 Conference...
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Welcome to the Introduction of the Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond series
Welcome to Episode 1 of the Yellow Ladybugs podcast series 4 "Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Students at School and Beyond." This podcast series is brought to you by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Katie Koullas CEO of Yellow Ladybugs presents the welcome and...
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More Stories From Autistic Adults with Sandhya Menon & Sonny Jane Wise (part 2)
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For more conference content, you can now access the full Yellow Ladybugs 2023 conference on-demand from anywhere in the world until August 2. For a limited time, you can save 15% off your ticket. You can check out our...
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A Collection of Stories From Autistic Adults with Chloé Hayden, Cherie Clonan, & Ebony Birch-Hanger
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For more conference content, you can now access the full Yellow Ladybugs 2023 conference on-demand from anywhere in the world until August 2. For a limited time, you can save 15% off your ticket. You can check out our...
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Neuro-Affirming Ways to Support Executive Functioning at Home
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources, speaker details, and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in the...
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Introduction to Interoception
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources, speaker details, and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in the...
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Reframing Behaviour
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources, speaker details, and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in the...
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Neuro-Affirming Ways to Support Executive Functioning at School
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources, speaker details, and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in the...
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Understanding the ADHD & Autistic Mind (Part 2 - Expert Insight)
Thanks so much for tuning in to our ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in the world. For more...
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Understanding the ADHD & Autistic Mind (Part 1 - Lived Experience)
Thanks so much for tuning in to our second episode of the ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in...
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What Your Neurodivergent Students & Children Want You to Know
Thanks so much for tuning in to our second episode of the ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in...
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Let's talk about ADHD... - Intro to the ADHD & Autistic Minds Conference Series
Thanks so much for listening to our first episode of the ADHD and Autistic Mind Conference Series! For resources and links to further information, check out our resource guide here. You can also register here for the upcoming Yellow Ladybugs Conference 2023, available on-demand from anywhere in…
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Long COVID & The Autistic Community with Annie Crowe & Dr. Mel Houser
Thanks for tuning into this special Yellow Ladybugs Podcast episode with Annie Crowe (she/her) from the Princess and the Pea Podcast. In today's episode, Annie hosts an insightful discussion alongside autistic physician Dr Mel Houser (she/they) about how long COVID is impacting the autistic...
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Supporting LGBTQIA+ Autistic Students - A Live Panel Discussion
Yellow Ladybugs CEO Katie Koullas brings together three experts to discuss supporting students who identify as both autistic and LGBTQIA+ to support parents, carers and teachers of autistic girls & gender diverse students.
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Supporting Autistic Students' Gender Identity - A Live Panel Discussion
Yellow Ladybugs CEO Katie Koullas brings together two experts to discuss supporting autistic students' gender identity to support parents, carers and teachers of autistic girls & gender diverse students.
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Healthy Relationships, Consent & Safety - A Live Panel Discussion
Yellow Ladybugs CEO Katie Koullas brings together three experts on all things healthy relationships, consent and safety to support parents, carers and teachers of autistic girls & gender diverse students. Join us in re-living our recorded live-panel discussion.
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Working as an Autistic Psychologist with Monique Mitchelson
To learn more about Monique Mitchelson and Yellow Ladybugs, check out the below links. Monique Mitchelson - website: https://moniquemitchelson.com.au/ podcast: The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast Yellow Ladybugs Facebook: Yellow Ladybugs Instagram: @yellowladybugs_autism www.yellowladybugs.com.au
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Hannah Gadsby & Han Arbuthnott: Growing Up With a Diagnosis
To learn more about Yellow Ladybugs or Hannah and Han, check out the below links! Yellow Ladybugs Facebook: Yellow Ladybugs Instagram: @yellowladybugs_autism www.yellowladybugs.com.au Hannah Gadsby Instagram: @hannah_gadsby https://hannahgadsby.com.au/ Han Arbuthnott Instagram: @h_arbuthnott
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Violence Against Autistic Girls, Women & Gender Diverse Individuals (Royal Commission 2022)
If this episode raised any concerns for you, please contact the following support resources: 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732 Blue Knot Counselling and Referral Service: 1800 421 468 LifeLine: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636
About this show
The Yellow Ladybugs Podcast invites #actuallyautistic people to talk about their journey, to help you with yours.Join in the conversation, as we explore the world of autistic girls, women and gender diverse individuals, and the often misunderstood and ignored internalised autistic experience. There will be plenty of ‘aha’ and ‘me too’ moments as we break down the stereotypes, lean into owning our strengths and supporting you through those challenging moments.
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