about
Hi! I’m Nadia — Melbournian, needle felter, cat mum, anglophile and founder of Stardust Support Services.
I created Stardust in May 2023, after being diagnosed with ADHD and seeing a major gap in support services available to people like me.
So I got to work creating Australia’s first VA service that specialises in helping folks tackle the absolute beast that is modern life admin.
After nearly twenty years in admin (and one too many fluorescent-lit offices), I left corporate life to care for my dad and train in disability support. Around the same time, I was diagnosed with ADHD — and later Autism — and suddenly a whole lot of things just made sense.
Chronic illness has now become part of my story as well, reshaping how I think about capacity, energy, and support. Living in a body that doesn’t always cooperate has only reinforced why flexible, compassionate admin support — and good information — matters so much.
What started as a Google Sheet and a dream quickly became something bigger — a whole team of VAs offering compassionate, neuroaffirming admin support that reached hundreds of people across Australia and New Zealand.
These days it’s just me again (with the exception of my Office Manager, Lainie — pictured looking very smug in her desk-bed) so that I can provide truly personalised support, while honouring my own capacity.
Stardust has also grown into something more than a service. Because I’m constantly researching, trialling, and sharing information to manage my own health and neurodivergent life, this site has become a place where I gather and share resources I wish I’d had earlier — from practical supports to providers, and tools that actually make sense to us.
