#120: Mel Sims – Neurodivergent Coaching, and How to be Unpolished, Scuffed and Brilliant

#120: Mel Sims – Neurodivergent Coaching, and How to be Unpolished, Scuffed and Brilliant

From The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity by Robbie Swale

May 7, 2026 · 1h 53m · Season 1 · Episode 120

About this episode

Mel Sims discusses her journey as a neurodivergent emotional coach and the unique coaching approaches needed for neurodivergent individuals.

When Mel Sims discovered coaching, she was adamant that nobody could understand her life. Her journey into coaching allowed her to put down the mask, harness her strengths, and re-emerge into the world as a neurodivergent emotional coach. Mel trained as a coach while learning about herself through the lens of an ADHD diagnosis. As well as offering her a pathway of personal growth, these experiences helped Mel find her niche through the realisation that neurodivergent people need a particular coaching approach. In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Mel speaks to host Joey Owen about different styles of emotional communication, and the many ways in which people can be misunderstood. She talks about how being an “unpolished” coach enables her to offer a space where people can let go of their need hide their feelings and be guided by an authentic intuition. Mel offers several brilliant metaphors and visualisation techniques that illuminate this episode, such as the idea of wearing a colander on your head as a way to filter information, and thinking of neurodivergent minds as stars that have become more visible in our world of modern telescopes and greater understanding. The…

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