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
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.
The Urgency Trap: How the Need to Act is Holding Us Back
We live in a world that demands urgency. Every headline. Every crisis. Every movement. Every initiative tells us: Act now. Move fast. Don’t stop. The stakes are always high. The pressure is always on. The time is always right now.
But what if that urgency is the trap?
What Story Would You Tell if the World Was Listening?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the stories we don’t tell.
The ones we silence in order to survive.
The ones that don’t fit into TED Talks or LinkedIn posts.
The ones that hold grief, burnout, caregiving, neurodivergence, reinvention… and leadership.
UNDERSTANDING NEURODIVERGENCE: MOVING BEYOND SUPERPOWERS
“For most of my career, I followed leadership advice that was never meant for me. Only in my 40s did I learn why: I am autistic and have ADHD. Here’s how it reshaped my understanding of burnout and leadership.”
The Hidden Strengths of Neurodiverse Leaders: The Power of Thinking Differently
Discover the hidden strengths of neurodiverse leaders and how thinking differently can be your greatest asset in leadership. Learn how to harness your unique abilities to lead powerfully and effectively.
Why Workplace Employee Programs Keep Failing
“For most of my career, I followed leadership advice that was never meant for me. Only in my 40s did I learn why: I am autistic and have ADHD. Here’s how it reshaped my understanding of burnout and leadership.”
Kitchen Chaos to Clarity: A Neurodivergent Guide to Kitchen Organization
Ever lost the same spice three times in your kitchen? I did too—until I met Sue Haas from SORTED DIGS. She didn’t just organize my kitchen—she engineered a system that finally works for my neurodivergent brain. Read how I went from overwhelmed to at ease in my own space.
