Why So Many Founders Are Neurodivergent, with Jam Mayer

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Jam Mayer, founder of two companies, the AI automation consultancy Conversologie and Divergity, a learning platform built for neurodivergent minds. Jam is neurodivergent, with ADHD and dyscalculia, and she's open about how that shapes the way she works and builds. She makes a compelling case for something the data backs up: a strikingly high number of founders and creatives are neurodivergent, and it's often not because they set out to be entrepreneurs. It's because the traditional workplace, the nine-to-five, the rigid systems, the one-size-fits-all expectations, simply isn't built for the way their brains work. As she puts it, the goal isn't to work around neurodivergent people. It's to work with them. A recurring idea in this conversation is what Jam calls a personal operating system: a way of designing your work around how you actually think, then using delegation and AI to offload the things that drain you, so your energy goes to what you're genuinely good at. It's the philosophy behind Divergity, which throws out the rigid step-one, step-two model of learning in favour of something adaptive enough to meet very different minds where they are. This is a conversation about building a business, and a life, that fits the way you're wired, rather than forcing yourself to fit someone else's system, and about why understanding that difference isn't a limitation, but often a genuine advantage. Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcasts Learn more about Jam here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jammayer/ Learn more about Jam's company here: https://www.divergity.co/ #waystowealth #neurodivergent #adhd #entrepreneurship #neurodiversity #founders #ai #automation #nzbusiness #divergity #futureofwork #productivity #learning #wealthbuilding