Brain Soup

Brain Soup is a conversational podcast hosted by Tee Barr and Kate Chapman, where curiosity, chaos, and neurodivergent brains collide. Each episode dives into candid discussions with technologists, researchers, and interesting humans about leadership, tech culture, neurodivergence, careers, and the strange ways people navigate work and life.The tone is informal, thoughtful, and occasionally delightfully unhinged—part deep conversation, part late-night bar talk among friends who happen to have built serious things in tech and public-sector ecosystems.Tee and Kate explore topics like building better workplaces, navigating ADHD and autism in high-performance environments, lessons from leadership failures, emerging technologies like AI, and the personal journeys that shape how people show up in the world. The conversations wander freely—from management philosophy to role-playing games to productivity hacks—because the best insights often appear in the tangents.At its core, Brain Soup is about how smart, curious, slightly chaotic people think, learn, and build communities in complex systems. No scripts, minimal rules, and plenty of room for honest stories and unexpected insights.