@Tia Boulton @Ruth Lilleker @Emma Buttriss @Marcus Ward Session 3 Summary. These sources document a series of professional mentorship meetings between Ruth Lilleker and David Collins focused on neurodiversity advocacy and career development. The discussions detail Ruth’s transition from local government work toward establishing her own Community Interest Company and consultancy. Key themes include the development of a theoretical framework linking ADHD to addiction and the necessity for systemic changes in workplace environments. Ruth is supported through academic partnerships and supervised "Recognised Prior Learning" to achieve formal coaching certification. Ultimately, the records track her journey of transforming lived experience into a professional portfolio focused on neurodiverse recovery.

TODAY’S FILE Or: How I Quit My Job, Learned Things, and Accidentally Started Suspecting I Might Actually Know What I’m Doing I quit my job today. No dramatic exit. No storming out. No slow-motion walk carrying a mug, a plant and unresolved rage. Just a very ordinary moment where something internally went: Right. That’s enough now. Not because this appeared out of nowhere. Because this has been building for months, and eventually there comes a point where you realise if you do not move now, you will still be having the exact same argument with yourself six months from now. For context: Life recently has looked like this: • work • children • systems • forms • deadlines • emails • repeated attempts to remember why I opened the laptop in the first place • approximately 247 tabs open internally • one definitely playing music I cannot find • several frozen • at least twelve demanding immediate attention for reasons still unknown So outwardly: normal adult functioning. Internally: still largely winging life and occasionally producing evidence of that without warning. Then somewhere in the middle of all that, I started writing properly. Not because I had a plan. Because certain things I had noticed and questioned for a while finally stopped sitting quietly and started needing somewhere to go. Which became writing. Which became a framework. Which then did something I had not fully factored in: A highly respected person whose thinking I genuinely admire is taking it seriously. Meeting with me. Giving it time. Treating my thinking like it deserves proper thought. Which is a shock in itself. Then, not long after, another respected voice — already quietly reading things I had written elsewhere — stepped in too. Which is roughly where my internal response became: I’m sorry, what? No, actually — Wait… what the fuck is going on here? Not that my brain accepted any of this gracefully. Obviously not. It immediately split itself in two: CHANNEL ONE: This might actually be something. CHANNEL TWO:

Thank you to our Board of Trustees at U-ACT. In the sprit of transparancey please see to AI generated summary of the meeting. Actual live video attached . @Riaan Norval @Mureeda Jadwat @Gwen Podbrey @Michaela Collins (Please try and get the rest of the trustees on this platform. 🙃) @Natasha Collins @Luca Collins @Sam Collins @Jack Collins - Its your job to get the family members onboard !!! And on a personal note MAUNi will be opening its London office on the 4th May in Harley St. But dont tell anyone yet !!!

I spoke recently to a few people about nervous I was for an event in which I going to share. It was today!! I done my first ever share. I spoke for about 15 minutes and had space to tell my story and why recovery is important. It was equally terrifying and liberating.

Happy Birthday @Tia Boulton Please join me in wishing my wonderful girlfriend, partner soul mate Tia a very happy birthday. Tia and I have been on the journey of LIFE since 2011. We have bought up eachothers children and watched our parents get old together. We love each other passionately, bicker, fight and wrestle with this life. The bottom line is, She is there for me !!!! Like me, she has so much love to give the world, BUT ! LIKE ME ! The world wants to BOX her ....... GoodLuck World you ain't big enough for her !.. Tia I love you 😍 and even though we are spending yet another birthday apart. I want everyone to know that YOU are Mine and I am YOURS....... Thank for putting up with my madness... Love David.