Sharing autistic people's stories – with Amy Richards of the Squarepeg podcast

Amy Richards is a queer autistic podcaster and business owner from Cardiff in the UK. Amy became self-employed in 2015, after multiple burnouts culminated in a breakdown that ended her previous career as a high school English and Media teacher. With her business hat on, she offers business strategy sessions, builds websites and supports online business owners with their websites, email marketing and automation. In 2020, Amy started a podcast called Squarepeg, where she chats with one autistic guest at a time about their autism discovery journey and what they've learned along the way. Amy is also a Nervous System Regulation practitioner, working with other autistic adults to help them become better regulated, less anxious and have more energy. During this episode, you will hear Amy talk about: Her life before her autism diagnosis, including the first moment she strongly suspected she was autistic What inspired her to begin sharing her autistic experiences publicly and start her podcast, Squarepeg Her approach to selecting her guests and editing her podcast episodes The importance of including a diverse range of guests on our podcasts How a listener's email led Amy to make a major change to her podcast The most significant things she has learned while working on her podcast Learn more about Amy and her podcast on the Squarepeg website at or by email at hello [at] squarepeg.community . Support or sponsor this podcast: BuyMeACoffee.com/Beyond6Seconds Watch the video of this interview on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=u1jx3u_ev0E Read the episode transcript: carolynkiel.com/podcast/sharing-autistic-stories Follow the Beyond 6 Seconds podcast in your favorite podcast player: pod.link/1336740192

You can listen to Sharing autistic people's stories – with Amy Richards of the Squarepeg podcast online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Sharing autistic people's stories – with Amy Richards of the Squarepeg podcast is an episode from Beyond 6 Seconds by Carolyn Kiel.

This episode is 41:12 long.

This episode was published on Apr 27, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Beyond 6 Seconds when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.