What is Solo School?
We've set out to create the world's first entrepreneurship school for neurodivergent adults - and we're just getting started. This page will tell you more about where we're headed and how you can come along for the ride.
We're doing it for the income (equality.)
As most neurodivergent things, Solo School started kind of accidentally. While creating another program and set of services, we noticed that many of our students and clients were neurodivergent like us. So we started creating one-off, pop-up resources for them. A workshop here, a social media course there...
And the more we did it, the more people wanted to buy *everything* we did. To make it easier, we decided to put it all in one place.
So Solo School was born.
As we kept growing, we kept identifying new areas our students needed support. From executive functioning coaching to design support, courses and workshops and expert coaches started to fill in the gaps.
Over the next 5 years, our goal is to impact the lives of 2500 neurodivergent entrepreneurs through our programming. With expert coaches, peer-to-peer mentorship, courses, workshops, certification programs, books and tools, and even live meetups, we aim to become the definitive entrepreneurship school for neurodivergent adults.
Entrepreneurship is the path, not a path.
We believe that the autonomy, self-determination, self-authorship and flexibility that entrepreneurship can provide are an exact match for the needs of neurodivergent and disabled adults. Unfortunately, this group also disproportionately experiences income inequality due to our incompatibility with traditional employment.
Our goal is to resolve the income inequality issue with business education that centers:
- Accessibility: Created by and for neurodivergent and disabled adults, with our needs structurally at the center and not a secondary consideration.
- Entrepreneurship: Most business education is designed for people who will eventually become employed in corporate roles, written by people who have only held those roles. Very few entrepreneurship education programs are created by entrepreneurs, beyond those created by "celebrity" business experts.
- Consistency: The biggest reason neurodivergent and disabled adults return to employment is that in spite of all of the benefits entrepreneurship can provide, inconsistent income can make it unrealistic as a permanent option.
- Advocacy: We aren't just teaching the next generation of entrepreneurs, we want to advocate for neurodivergent and disabled business owners by increasing the accessibility of small business requirements like taxes and licensing, increasing equality in lending practices, expanding resources and programming available to micro-enterprise through small business programs, and shedding light on the systemic "blind spot" that is solo- and micro-entrepreneurship.
- Self-determination, self-authorship, self-advocacy, and autonomy: Neurodivergent people need to choose their own adventure. It's not a want, it truly is a requirement for this population if they want to have a fulfilling and satisfying life.
Join Solo School
Get support that was designed for you, with instructors and peer mentorship who really "get" you, in a place designed to make entrepreneurship work for you.
Join Solo SchoolNICE TO MEET YOU
I'm Cheryl Woodhouse
When I was 16, I received my very first neurodivergent diagnosis - though I had no idea at that time what that meant. I had already been in business for over a year and was struggling with burnout. All sorts of assessments told me there might be more to my quirky self and my inability to "just do the thing" (as if there could be only one.)
It would be nearly another two decades before I would come face to face with additional neurodivergent diagnoses and finally start understanding why my business had been built in very... Unconventional ways. I created Solo School to share those ways, including the tools, resources, and teachers I used, with others like me.
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