When you’ve spent most of your life feeling “different” and out of place, what does it look like to finally come home to yourself?

In this episode of Gems From Friends, I sit down with Gigi Farrier – stylist, educator, women’s wellness & mindset coach, fitness champ, and host of the solo podcast Wake Up to Wisdom – for one of the realest conversations we’ve had on the show.

We talk about:

• Growing up feeling like you never quite fit in
  

• The culture shock of studying abroad and working in the beauty industry
  

• Panic attacks, “social anxiety,” fibromyalgia and a breast lump cancer scare
  

• Getting late diagnosed with ADHD + autism and finally understanding her own brain
  

• How bodybuilding became one of the best things that ever happened to her
  

• Returning to school to study psychology after 20 years
  

• Being multi-passionate in a world that wants you to be just one thing
  

• Support, “majority theory,” and accepting that your biggest cheerleaders might be strangers, not family
  

• Why she started Wake Up to Wisdom and the power of sharing your story
  

If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, underestimated, “too much,” or like you’re always pivoting and people can’t keep up – this episode is for you.

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• Permission to reinvent yourself
  

• Language for your own neurodivergent or “different” experience
  

• Motivation to go back to school, switch careers or start over
  

• A reminder that your resilience is not an accident
  

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