The Flower Street Blog & Issue Papers
Issue Papers
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Burnout in the Workforce: Transformative Solutions for Lasting Change
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Leading Through Innovation: Embracing Neurodiversity in the Workplace
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The Invisible Crisis in Women's Leadership: When ADHD, Menopause, and Burnout Collide
6 - Maybe You Didn’t Fail the Framework, Maybe the Framework Was Never Built for You
I got the diagnosis at 46.
ADHD.
Autism.
Now I knew what was "wrong" with me.
So now I had to fix it.
Reframe 5: The 360 As a Mirror of the System
I was in a role where I was trying. Genuinely trying. Coaching. 360s. Open to feedback.
"I want to understand what I'm missing," I told the coaches. "I want to get out of my own way."
What I didn't know: I was about to hand them a roadmap.
Reframe 4: The Scripts They Wrote For You (And Why Breaking Them Is Harder Than Anyone Says)
I Was Born Into A Role
Not consciously. But the lines were written before I could choose.
Good girl. Helper. Fixer. The one who keeps the peace. The strong one. The one who doesn't cry. The one who takes care of everyone.
I didn't audition for these parts. I inherited them.
Reframe 3: What If Everything You Call "Too Much" Is Actually What You Needed to Survive?
It took understanding my neurology. It took finally seeing: Oh. I'm not broken. I'm just operating on a different system. What worked for the predominant neotype did not work for me, and what did not work for me...
Reframe 2: What If You Stopped Mistaking Survival As A Strength?
I learned to question my own thinking.
To interrogate assumptions.
To ask: Is this belief mine, or did I inherit it?
I thought I was learning how to think.
I didn’t realize I was learning how to survive.
Shutdowns Hurt All of Us—Here’s How
In the last major government shutdown, 800,000 federal employees went without pay. Some were furloughed, meaning they were forbidden to work. Others were “essential,” required to keep working with no paycheck until Congress acted. Both groups got back pay later, but you can’t feed your kids or cover rent on an IOU.
Here’s the truth: America doesn’t run on speeches. It runs on people.
The 9 Reclamations of Becoming Unapologetic: Law 1: Protect your Energy, Fiercely
Ever feel like life handed you a sword and said, "Good luck, warrior!"—but someone forgot to give you any armor? Oreven hit on which way to point your shield. Were you ever actually taught what it means to defend your energy effectively?
For me – and many women I know – especially caregivers, quiet leaders, change-makers, cycle-breakers, and all the other labels and roles—this is what it feels like.
Beyond the Echo Chamber: Why Your Biggest Asset Might Be Your Uncomfortable Conversations
I've spent over two decades in rooms where I was often the only person who thought like me. Union halls, boardrooms, activist meetings, political strategy sessions, and yes—my own family dinner table.
At first, I thought this was a disadvantage. It felt isolating to be the outlier, exhausting to constantly translate my perspective into language others could hear.
But here's what I discovered: Those uncomfortable conversations became my most significant professional asset.
We Deserve a New Bargain (And We're Running Out of Time)
We've talked about why coaching is broken and what women actually need for recovery. But there's a bigger question: What kind of future are we building?
Look at the trajectory: AI is already reshaping every workplace. The question isn't whether this will happen—it's who will control how it happens.
What Burned-Out Women Actually Need (It's Not More Self Help/Coaching)
You're bone-deep exhausted. And everywhere you turn, someone's offering you another program to "fix" yourself.
What if you were never broken?
After spending years in the coaching world—both as a client and watching it up close as a strategist and former labor leader—I've learned something radical:
Burned-out women don't need coaching. We need something entirely different.
The Coaching Industrial Complex is Broken (And Making Burnout Worse)
Why the $20 billion coaching industry is failing burned-out women leaders and making the crisis worse through individual solutions to systemic problems.
Oregon Just Sent 25% of Its Preschool Providers to Investigation Over a 1% Error Rate
Oregon's Secretary of State audit found a 1% budget error but referred 25% of Preschool Promise providers to DOJ. This isn't accountability—it's systemic failure.
The Burnout Trinity: You’re Not Lazy, You’re on Fire
Burnout isn’t just about stress—it’s a trinity of ADHD, mission-driven over-functioning, and hormonal chaos. In this blog, Stacy Chamberlain shares the science, the signs, and how to start healing instead of hiding.
5 Essential AI Regulations to Protect People's Rights and Data
Five AI guardrails—data sovereignty to surveillance bans—turn ethics into enforceable rights.
The 10-Year AI Freeze That Could Wreck Democracy, Work, and Human Dignity
Artificial Intelligence isn’t on the horizon—it’s already rewiring our world. Yet Congress is quietly floating a bill that would freeze all state-level AI safeguards for ten years. In AI time, a decade isn’t a pause; it’s a permission slip to hard-code today’s inequities into tomorrow’s infrastructure. Picture handing the keys to a self-driving rocket and promising to check the map in 2035.
I’ve spent two decades helping exhausted leaders and neurodivergent pros rebuild humane workflows. The lesson is clear: tools without rules don’t build anything—they break people. If we don’t shape AI now, it will shape us—and it won’t ask permission.
(Full analysis + five concrete policy fixes in Part 2—subscribe to get it first.)
To the Women Who Held It Together (Until They Couldn’t)
Burnout isn’t just stress or hormones. Sixty-one percent of women discover they’re ADHD-autistic only after they crash. Here’s why masking failed you—and the first steps toward real relief.
