It’s time for another book review! I read Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder with my book club recently, and it got me thinking. She took an unconventional path through a variety of challenges and has made great accomplishments.
What is the one accomplishment from this past year that you are most proud of?
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Alright, you unconventional and neurodiverse leaders, this week we are talking about, it’s book time, and um, as you can, I can’t even read it backwards. Here we go, women we buried, women we burned. Not gonna say it’s a book that massively um, connects to the neurodiverse um, group overall would be my like, I didn’t read it and go, oh yeah, like everybody needs to read this, I did not um. Well written, I, I have nothing but great things to say about Rachel Lousie um, Snyder, really lovely author. It wasn’t um a bad book, it wasn’t overly like incredible, it’s um, it’s well written, I would say that. How it would connect to the neurodiverse community is the fact that um, she believes that she may have dysgraphia, very much struggled immensely in school when it came to math and sciences, which is where um this actually dyscalculia um, which is where that will show up. And what I would tell you is that it doesn’t stop her from being an incredible writer, she actually has a very prolific writing career um, and as a teacher of writing and communications um, it hasn’t, yeah, it has not slowed her down in any way with what is her gift. Um, it’s a bit of a tragedy story at the beginning, childhood wasn’t perfect, I’m not gonna give anything away, but yeah, as, as that is not uncommon when you read women’s biographies. What I will tell you, what she does with that and where she takes her life is quite beautiful. She winds up traveling the world um, reporting on a variety of things and, and really investing in people, and that part definitely I can relate to in the neurodiverse community, and I can tell you is not the most uncommon thing. We will, I will see that often amongst my clients and amongst people I just talk to in general who have, who are different and unconventional thinkers. They wind up in different and unconventional types of careers um, and her path, I can also relate this, her path is also very non linear, meaning having dropped out of high school, not having the means to be emancipated at the time, so thereby making it almost impossible for her to even rent anywhere, and being homeless on and off, like it, where she takes her life from there, there is no straight line from there, and, and it would require a lot of help from other people to, to create a straight line. And so she, she zig zags around in finding her way to her strengths and to her best abilities and to where she takes her life, which is quite lovely, and I think she’s very proud of it, or she wouldn’t be writing memoirs about it. So that aspect I think we can all definitely agree is an unconventional approach and such a good thing. That’s what I was reminded of most from the book. It is a darn good thing that we do not all think the same, and that there really is no exact normal to anything, or we would have a real lack of variety in the people in this world and how we all connect and how, how we help each other, cause we definitely help each other through experiences and so forth. And luckily, somebody else has probably experienced something similar to us, and they can help us through that, and that’s very much uh, a coaching thing, that’s very much just a, a people thing I think, part of the people and humaneness of things. So that’s my quick book review for this week. Like I said um, quite the title, women we buried, women we burned, and yeah, not a bad book if, if you’re in a mood, not too thick, anything like that, but it’s a memoir, right, like it just kind of covers her story and her journey. I’m JoyGenea, unconventional leadership coach, international neurodiversity coach, and just a champion for that unconventional thinker and that unconventional process. Let’s continue to go out there and change the world a little at a time. Bye now.