Hi, I’m Yazz

I have lived many lives within this one.

Six weddings. Four husbands. Five children. An ashram in India I had absolutely no business booking. Forty-seven unfinished courses. Every business you can think of some of them twice. A diagnosis at 52 that made every single bit of it make sense.

I am not who you'd expect an author to be. I didn't sit quietly in a library crafting careful sentences. I lived loudly, chaotically, completely, and then one day I finally understood why.

ADHD. And OCPD. Diagnosed at 52 years old.

And instead of falling apart, well, I did fall apart, briefly, in a chemist car park. I decided to write about it.

Author. Coach. Beautifully wired woman. Diagnosed at 52.

The Woman Before the Diagnosis

I spent five decades not knowing why my brain worked the way it did. Why I fell fast and moved faster. Why I started everything and finished almost nothing. Why stillness felt like slow suffocation and novelty felt like oxygen.

I thought it was just personality. Everyone around me seemed to think so too. I was the chaotic, hilarious, unpredictable one and everyone loved me for it.

What nobody told me, what nobody knew, was that underneath all of it was a brain that had never been given a map.

The Diagnosis That Changed Everything

At 52, sitting across from a psychiatrist, I finally got my answer.

ADHD. And OCPD.

I drove home. I fell apart. I cried for the girl who never knew, the one who could have finished a degree, stayed steadier, understood herself decades earlier.

And then, slowly, I started to understand that the chaos was never a character flaw. The marriages weren't failure. The unfinished courses weren't laziness. It was just my beautifully wired brain doing the only thing it knew how to do, without a map, without a diagnosis, without anyone ever explaining how it actually worked.

What Do I Do Now?

I wrote Beautifully Wired and Late to Know It because it's the book I wish someone had handed me decades ago.

I created Choose Your Next Life because I believe that no matter how long you have lived a certain way, you can understand yourself differently. You can choose again. At any age. At any stage.

I coach women who got their diagnosis late and have no idea what to do with that truth. I create tools to help them go deeper. And I show up, honestly, loudly, without apology, for every woman who has ever been told she is too much.

You are not too much.

You are beautifully wired.

I live on the Gold Coast with my husband Chris, two of my children and Archie — my long-haired Mini Dachshund who does not identify as a dog and who slept through most of the writing of this book. I have an impressive collection of cowboy boots, a washing machine nobody is allowed to touch, and a sunroom full of unopened art supplies.

I wouldn't change a single thing.

The content on this website and in all Choose Your Next Life products and communications is based on the personal lived experience of Yasmin Wheatley. It is shared for informational and educational purposes only.

Nothing on this website constitutes medical, psychological, financial, legal or any other form of professional advice. Yasmin Wheatley is not a doctor, psychologist, therapist or licensed professional.

If you have concerns about your mental health, ADHD diagnosis, finances or any other personal matter, please seek advice from a qualified professional who can support your individual circumstances.