Talking Twaddle with Katie Price

About this episode

Joanne Hatchard interviews Katie Price about her experiences with neurodivergence, parenting, and her work with the Innocence Project.

🎹 Episode Title Parenting, Burnout, and Finding Justice: Katie Price on Neurodivergence and the Innocence Project ✨ In This Episode This is one of those episodes that sits in your body long after listening. Joanne chats with the passionate, hilarious, and no-BS Katie Price about late diagnosis, parenting four neurodivergent kids, and shifting from burnout to purpose. They unpack everything from the medical model to the prison system—and why Katie's now helping wrongfully convicted people through the Innocence Project. It's big-hearted, wide-ranging, and full of truth bombs. 🧠 What We Talk About 00:02 – Why Katie resisted a diagnosis and what finally changed her mind 00:14 – Raising four neurodivergent kids in rural Australia 00:30 – Rejection of the medical model and the harm of deficit-based labels 00:42 – The complicated relationship with NDIS and service providers 01:10 – Burnout, breakdown, and why hospital was the turning point 01:28 – How chickens (yes, really) and social justice shaped her career path 01:50 – From social work dropout to criminology and the Innocence Project 02:05 – Miscarriage of justice, systemic bias, and finding your purpose 💬 Memorable Moments “You…

People in this episode

Host: Joanne Hatchard

Guest: Katie Price

Topics covered

• parenting
• neurodivergence
• burnout
• social justice
• criminal justice
• mental health

Keywords

• neurodivergent kids
• burnout
• medical model
• systemic bias
• Innocence Project
• parenting
• social justice

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Innocence Project

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