OT & Autism Acceptance Month Special: Let's Meet Kathy!

Let's Meet Krystal!

Hey Party People!   Join me for the next episode where we share time and space with Krystal!   Krystal Jackson, LPC is a licensed therapist, speaker, and mental wellness consultant dedicated to transforming how healthcare organizations support their people. As Founder and Clinical Director of Simply Being Wellness Counseling in Connecticut, she brings 15 years of experience across correctional, emergency, and outpatient care to one urgent message: sustainable healthcare starts with mentally well people. Krystal helps frontline workers reclaim their wellbeing and helps leaders build cultures where great providers choose to stay. Her work has been featured in Forbes Health, Healthline, Yahoo, and NBC Connecticut’s CT Live. When she isn’t working, you can find her traveling the world and learning Spanish. In this episode, Krystal talks about her approach to travel, how she embraces opportunity... even when uncomfortable, auntie life, and - of course - what it means to be weird. Krystal-isms abound -- so get paper and pen ready, you'll want to take notes! Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform!   Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG Instagram: @iamkrystalcj  LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/krystalcjackson

Trailer: Let's Meet Krystal!

Hey Party People!   Join me for the next episode where we meet Krystal, world traveler, mental health professional, entrepreneur, and auntie extraordinaire! In this episode, Krystal talks about her approach to travel, how she embraces opportunity... even when uncomfortable, auntie life, and - of course - what it means to be weird. Krystal-isms abound -- so get paper and pen ready, you'll want to take notes! Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform!   Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG

OT & Autism Acceptance Month Special: Let's Meet Marci & Charlie! [Parts 1 & 2]

Hey Party People! Let's Meet Marci & Charlie!   Most of Marci's career has been dedicated to supporting elders to remain safely in the community in a variety of roles. This included case management, shine counseling, as well as becoming the director of the ombudsman program at with a local elder service agency. Since leaving this line of work, her main focus has been more in the private sector of renovating and renting multifamily properties. This role has demanded significant problem solving skills, people skills, and knowing how to both offer people a great product but also protecting herself and the people that live in these properties. Other areas of interest and expertise include nutrition coaching and subtle body work. Through some encouragement from her husband, Charlie, she have also become a puppeteer [an exceptional one, at that!] Charlie is a mental Health Occupational therapist, as well as a storyteller, filmmaker, actor and puppeteer.  He has been an OT at a local children's mental health program for more than than 8 years and has mostly focused on empowering kids with mental illness and their families in a therapeutic group home setting.  He loves to blend his expertise as an OT and a storyteller any chance he can because the richness of skill building. We’ll meet Marci and Charlie and we’ll discuss their origin story, a place that shall not be named..., and their mutual affinity for creativity. Tune in get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform!   Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG Watch Marzi & Costa here, on youtube!! [https://www.youtube.com/@MarziandCosta-wx5hj]

OT & Autism Acceptance Month Special: Let's Meet Kathy!

OT & Autism Acceptance Month continues as we reintroduce ourselves to Kathy! Extra autism content this week as TRAINS roll into the discussion [lol -- also, trains does not equal autism, and autism does not equal trains]. Kathy taught in the Occupational Therapy department at Springfield College for 28 years, then retired in 2020 - but wait! She came back in 2025 to teach in Physical Therapy for a year and a half. She will probably re-retire at the end of the spring semester. She lives in a big old house in Springfield and she loves fixing and creating. Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird” now streaming on your favorite podcast platform! Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG

OT & Autism Acceptance Month Special: Let's Meet Latasha!

Let's continue the OT and Autism Acceptance Month by getting reacquainted with Latasha!!   Latasha loves being an Occupational Therapist and feels lucky to be an Occupational Therapy educator and business owner. She has been an Occupational Therapist for 13 years and has been teaching for 4 years. She loves all things advocacy and social justice, a typically forgotten aspect of practice. Her business, Thrive OT, LLC – a based practice specializing in sensory processing & executive functioning skills -- is new and blooming. She acknowledges it's been amazing to work on her own terms and provide quality meaningful care in client's natural environment (home/community).    Although she loves Occupational Therapy, her most important role is being a mother to an amazing, sassy, 5 year old who loves the Spice Girls as much as her mom. After seeking clarity on a related condition, Latasha was recently diagnosed with ADHD. Her disclosure and authenticity is an asset to her as a practitioner and person -- and she's excited to share her experience with listeners.   Tune in and get weird with us!