24: Brave Together Podcast - Jessica Patay, Susanna Peace Lovell and Dr. Zoe Shaw & guests Jeremy and Ilana Hamburgh24: Brave Together Podcast - Jessica Patay, Susanna Peace Lovell and Dr. Zoe Shaw & guests Jeremy and Ilana Hamburgh
UK Health Radio Podcast
Jeremy and Ilana Hamburgh explain how their Social Life 360 programme helps neurodivergent adults build friendships, community and dating confidence. Susanna Peace Lovell guides a heartfelt discussion on timing, motivation, funding and real success stories that offer parents a more hopeful picture of social futures.
46:01•8 Jul 2026
Building Real Friendships and Love for Neurodivergent Adults with Social Life 360
Episode Overview
- Social Life 360 replaces long classroom-style sessions with short, repeatable video modules spread over 16 weeks, supported by weekly community calls.
- Clients receive one-to-one coaching plus ongoing email support, helping them handle day-to-day social questions as they arise.
- A free 90‑minute strategy session with the family and young adult clarifies their “friendship dream” and whether the programme is a good fit.
- Many apparently unmotivated young adults actually want connection but feel stuck after repeated past failures, so clear strategies and timing are key.
- The programme functions as a long-term ecosystem where graduates keep access to trainings and community, supporting lasting friendships and relationships.
“I don’t want it to be novel that they make friends and find community and date and fall in love.”
How do different strategies aid in addiction recovery? Here, the focus shifts to parents raising neurodivergent and disabled young people who crave real connection just as much as anyone in sobriety or mental health circles. This conversation sits perfectly for those who know that social skills, friendship and dating often need to be learned step by careful step.
Host Susanna Peace Lovell chats with married duo Jeremy and Ilana Hamburgh, founders of Social Life 360, a coaching programme that helps autistic and neurodivergent adults build friendships, confidence and romantic relationships.
Jeremy shares how he moved from law into coaching after realising, as he puts it, that he has “a skill for breaking down social situations and social strategies into formulas and diagrams and schematics and step-by-step instructions.” His mission is clear: “I don’t want it to be novel that they make friends and find community and date and fall in love.” Ilana brings her 16 years in special education and a lifelong pull towards supporting people with additional needs.
Together, they explain how Social Life 360 uses short video modules, weekly community calls, one‑to‑one coaching and an ongoing chat community to create a genuine support ecosystem rather than a one‑off class. Parents hear exactly how their free 90‑minute “strategy sessions” work and why timing and the young adult’s own motivation really matter.
You’ll also hear honest talk about funding (including self‑determination programmes), the gender imbalance in autism diagnoses, and how social anxiety can show up even in seemingly confident young women. A touching highlight is Jeremy’s story of a former client who went from never having held hands to marriage, asking Jeremy to bless the couple under the chuppah.
If you’re parenting a neurodivergent young adult and wondering what their social future could look like, this conversation might just broaden the picture—what kind of “friendship dream” could you imagine for them?
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