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Not Managed. Fully Lived.

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You have done the work. The strategies, the protocols, the mindset shifts. You keep hitting a ceiling you cannot fully explain.


This show is for you.


Not Managed, Fully Lived. is a podcast for high-achieving, neurodivergent women who are ready to go beneath the executive function conversation and into the biological terrain nobody in the ADHD space has addressed at the level it deserves. Long-form. Personal essay. The kind of conversation that treats your intelligence as the given it always has been.


I am Michele Gray (Oelking), MSW, PCC, AAC, Founder and CEO of Souljourn Coaching & Consulting. For 26 years, I've practiced at the intersection of ADHD, trauma, and the nervous system. I call myself the Neurosomatic Alchemist, because this work resides between applied neuroscience, positive psychology, ancestral wisdom, and embodied practice.


Each episode goes to the 80 percent. The nervous system layer. The somatic truth. The biological terrain that determines how you show up to every strategy you have ever tried. You will hear research and personal essay, lived experience and clinical framework, held in the same breath.


Episodes drop weekly from seven acres in the mountains of Colorado.


Not managed. Fully lived.

Mental Health
Health & Fitness
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
35 minutes
English
United States
8 episodes
since July 6, 2026
episodic
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The Coaching Industry Needs a Reset

The Coaching Industry Needs a Reset

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The coaching industry needs a reset. In this solo episode, Michele draws a line from Jurassic Park's Ian Malcolm, who warned that the park's creators were so focused on whether they could that they never stopped to ask whether they should, straight to today's online coaching space, w…
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The Dream in the Boot Box with Gail Oxford

The Dream in the Boot Box with Gail Oxford

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In this heartfelt episode, I sit down with my neighbor Gail Oxford: retired educator, children's author, wife, mom, grandmother, and one of the most resilient women I know. Gail spent 45 years in the classroom teaching gifted kids and kids with learning differences, long before most schools un…
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Perimenopause and ADHD: Is It Your Body or Your Anxiety?

Perimenopause and ADHD: Is It Your Body or Your Anxiety?

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In this intimate episode recorded from my deck in Southern Colorado, I pull an exclusive excerpt from my upcoming book, Not Managed, Fully Lived. I open up about my personal journey through the summer of 2022—a season marked by deep grief, a mountain move, long COVID, severe insomnia, and the disor…
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Bonus Q&A: Your Real Questions, Answered

Bonus Q&A: Your Real Questions, Answered

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The questions people ask out loud aren't always the real ones. After three days of live training, here's what actually came up, in the chat, the Q&A, the DMs.  If you're neurodivergent, nervous system agility is the only way to turn everything you've already learned into the…
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The Program Running Underneath the Success

The Program Running Underneath the Success

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Something has been showing up in my DMs lately, and I could not stop thinking about it. Seven-figure founders. Women running real companies, carrying real revenue, who look, from the outside, like they have it all together. And underneath it, they are hitting an edge they cannot fully name. In this…
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From Reactivity to Restoration with Christopher Barber

From Reactivity to Restoration with Christopher Barber

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My guest today is Christopher Barber, an ADHD and AuDHD coach and a fellow high performer who spent years rebuilding his nervous system from the inside out. We talk about what actually broke down for him after decades on medication, what it took to rebuild through lab work and lifestyle change, and…
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The Rebuild: What Actually Heals a Dysregulated Nervous System (It's Not Just Breathwork)

The Rebuild: What Actually Heals a Dysregulated Nervous System (It's Not Just Breathwork)

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Regulation is not calm. It's agility, responsiveness, and fluidity. It's the capacity to hold and move with what life throws at you, and that distinction changes everything about how you approach healing. Titration and pendulation, the two body-based skills nobody explains: how much activ…
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Not Managed. Fully Lived. (My Origin Story)

Not Managed. Fully Lived. (My Origin Story)

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Welcome to the first episode of Not Managed, Fully Lived. Before we get into the work, I wanted you to know the woman behind it. This episode is my own origin story. Not the polished version. The real one. We go back to 2008, a new baby, a market crash, and a body that was already running on adrena…
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