Women & ADHD
201 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 506 ratingsA late diagnosis turned her world upside down. Now Katy Weber interviews other women who discovered they have ADHD in adulthood and are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both professionally and personally.
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Michelle Swerin: Anxiety, text therapy & meditating on our laundry piles
May 15, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBEpisode 137 with Michelle Swerin. “I can't tell you how many jobs I had as a teenager. I mean, easily 20. I was never fired, I just lost interest really quickly.” Michelle is a licensed therapist, certified meditation teacher, and certified instructional designer. She is also a neurodivergent mother of two and the founder of Create Space Health, a telehealth clinic focused on incorporating meditation into mental health therapy. Michelle saw big changes in her own life when she began pract...
Georgia Yexley: Professional disclosure & work/life balance
May 08, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBEpisode 136 with Georgia Yexley. “After my diagnosis, I was flooded with memories. There was all this footage that I was scrolling through and analyzing with a new lens.” Georgia is an inclusive sustainable mobility expert and advocate based in London. Having worked with hundreds of cities across the globe on achieving their sustainable transport aims, she now advises the public, private, and third sector on achieving inclusive sustainable mobility, through her business, Loud Mobility. Fo...
Diana Costea: Authenticity, acceptance & the road less traveled
May 01, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBEpisode 135 with Diana Costea. “Society wants us to focus on one thing and do it well, but that will never be me.” Diana is a 22-year-old from Romania. She has a degree in psychology and is currently volunteering in Turkey as a youth worker and English teacher with the European Solidarity Corps Program. Diana discovered her ADHD a little over a year ago, and since then, she feels she finally has the courage to allow herself to be different and instead of minimizing or masking it, to befri...
Abby Lane: Stress, overwhelm & panic attacks
April 24, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBEpisode 134 with Abby Lane. “I was always a ‘more, more, more’ kind of person. Then COVID came along and it was all too much.” Abby is a creative entrepreneur, furniture designer, wife, and mom to an amazing 9-year-old son. She has a nearly 20-year career designing furniture and has for the last 12 years successfully run her own company, Redhead Furniture Design, a freelance design firm based in Charleston, SC. Abby designs residential casegoods, accents, lighting, and collections for t...
Pippa Simou: Why ADHD looks different in girls
April 17, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 60 MBEpisode 133 with Pippa Simou. “I think I’ve been tired my entire life. It’s absolutely exhausting having this brain.” Pippa is a former teacher, now ADHD advocate, trainer, and coach, and the founder of The ADD-vantage, a support service hub for girls and women with ADHD. When Pippa’s son was diagnosed with ADHD, it never occurred to her that she also might have ADHD because his presentation was so different from hers. And while she was aware that she struggled with inattentiveness and c...
Vanessa Torre: Unmasking & rebuilding after a midlife crisis
April 10, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 56 MBEpisode 132 with Vanessa Torre. “I felt like I had no control over my chattiness. I kept googling ‛Why can’t I stop talking?’ And every single result came back with ‛Have you considered ADHD?’” Vanessa is a writer, speaker, and coach living her best life in Phoenix, Arizona. About a year ago at the of age 48, Vanessa quit her 20+ year corporate career to pursue her creative passions full-time. She sold her house in the suburbs, moved to an apartment in downtown Phoenix, and turned her writ...
Annie Crowe: AuDHD, 2E & Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
April 03, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBEpisode 131 with Annie Crowe. “I haven’t fixed my ADHD or Autism. I’ve simply embraced the chaos, and I’ve put a lot of systems and strategies in place to help me live.” Annie is a late-identified Autistic ADHD disability rights lawyer and internationally recognized neurodiversity advocate based in Australia. Annie is also a "twice exceptional" adult (or 2e meaning gifted and disabled) and we discuss the concept of 2e and how giftedness can mask and hide your disability growing up, leavin...
Anita Robertson: Explaining your ADHD to your non-ADHD partner
March 27, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBEpisode 130 with Anita Robertson. “What’s hard for us is easy for everybody else. And what’s hard for everyone else is really easy for us.” Anita is a psychotherapist in Austin, Texas, and the author of ADHD & Us: A Couple’s Guide to Loving and Living with Adult ADHD. Anita works with adults and couples, and she created the ADHD Relationship Bootcamp to help neurodiverse couples develop new skills to communicate effectively and improve their relationships. She also works with ADHD adults...
Marie Ng: Focus, time management & living the llama life
March 20, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBEpisode 129 with Marie Ng. “My brain can get foggy. When thereʼs too much happening and my brain canʼt process everything, thatʼs when I zone out and just ignore everything.” Marie lives in Melbourne, and she is the founder of Llama Life, a desktop productivity app that helps you work THROUGH your to-do list, not just make never-ending ones. Marie was diagnosed with ADHD over a decade ago, and ever since then has been on a mission to figure out ways to help herself get things done. When ...
August McLaughlin: Oversharing, disordered eating & girl boners
March 13, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBEpisode 128 with August McLaughlin. “Puberty was really difficult for me. I used to think everyone had a really hard time, but now I realize hormones and ADHD played a big role in that.” August is a journalist, author of several books, and the host & producer of Girl Boner Radio, which was named “one of the best sex podcasts you should be listening to” by Romper and one of the top feminist podcasts by Bellesa. Her articles and expertise about sex and sexuality have been featured in a range...
Meghann Birks: Embodiment practices & overcoming shame
March 06, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 58 MBEpisode 127 with Meghann Birks. “I remember always being surprised when people would say, ‛Stop interrupting!’ because I didn’t even know I was doing it.” Meghann is a Certified Professional Coach, embodiment educator and Steel Mace flow teacher based in Australia. She was diagnosed with ADHD at 38 (to nobody's great surprise) and now supports women in midlife who are seeking to show up as all of who they are — the joyful, the messy and everything in between. She describes her work as "w...
Susan Young: Reinvention after a midlife diagnosis
February 27, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBEpisode 126 with Susan Young. “There are so many women in midlife or older who are undiagnosed. As awareness grows, more and more people in midlife are getting diagnosed.” Susan is a certified holistic life coach, multi-passionate artist, and the founder of Triple Moon Coaching. She specializes in midlife reinvention for women over 50. Her recent ADHD diagnosis at the age of 56 was a complete shock and the missing piece of a complex puzzle! As an empty nester, divorcee, and domestic viol...
Marnie Bothmer: Neurodivergent approaches to fitness & movement
February 20, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBEpisode 125 with Marnie Bothmer. “I feel like society tells you that you’re weird, so you learn to not like who you are. But now I realize I really like my silly, impulsive side.” Marnie is a fitness professional who believes that fitness can be utilized as a tool for increasing confidence and empowerment. She works with people who are going through something in life to view movement in a different way than society has defined it for us. After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 201...
Raelene Sebastian: Mosh pits, military spouses & dismantling stigma within families
February 13, 2023 05:05 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBEpisode 124 with Raelene Sebastian. “I read a list of symptoms and tears just streamed out of my eyes. There was such relief but also sadness — like, how did I never know this?” Rae is a 25-year-old Australian-born Filipino woman and a military spouse who works as a Recruitment Consultant in an agency that hires childcare educators in Sydney. A former childcare educator herself, Rae has supported children and families from all diverse backgrounds and helped families with their children's ...
Denisha Michele Seals: Complex PTSD and childhood sexual trauma
February 06, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBEpisode 123 with Denisha Michele Seals. “I have ASD, ADHD, and C-PTSD. They’re all having conversations with each other about who’s going to be dominant today.” Denisha is a spoken word artist, award-winning filmmaker, and author from Omaha, Nebraska. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse and trauma, she advocates for more awareness and understanding of the emotional toll abuse victims experience, particularly children of color. Using the power of her pen to lift the voices of the marginali...
Emily Weinberg: Self-concept & the power of reframing our ADHD
January 30, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBEpisode 122 with Emily Weinberg. “Sometimes we just ramble and talk in circles. I frequently have to stop myself and ask, Did that make any sense?” Emily is currently a stay-at-home mom of 2 four-year-olds. She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2021 at the age 36. Emily reached out to me and had this to say: “At the start of my diagnosis, while I loved listening to your show, sometimes it would actually make me feel a little worse about my own ADHD. While it's so great to listen to so many succe...
Abbie Cardwell: RSD, Morning Pages & being “dialed to 11”
January 23, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBEpisode 121 with Abbie Cardwell. “I was always told that I was a bit too much. It’s like our volume has been ramped up to 11.” Abbie is an accomplished musician living in Byron Bay, Australia. She has won several awards and was also a competitor on Season 1 of Australia’s The Voice. In addition to her music, she also owns Abbie’s Alchemy, a gorgeous line of eco-friendly cleaning products. Listeners in Australia can use the code DOPAMINE LOVE for 10% off. Abbie & I talk about the experien...
Tracy Nolin Beerman: Shiny objects, brain dumps & a vision driven life
January 16, 2023 05:05 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBEpisode 120 with Tracy Nolin Beerman. “I have a list called the Green Room. It’s where I put all of my thoughts and ideas so they’re safe and don’t keep running through my mind.” Tracy is a certified Life Mastery Consultant and host of the Vision Driven Mom with ADHD podcast. She has combined her experience with decades of yoga, meditation, and mind/body work, with life transformation coaching and her own "experiment" with life as an ADHD mom. She helps moms with ADHD declutter their minds...
Zoe Darazsdi: Mental health stigma & neurodivergent self-advocacy
January 09, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBEpisode 119 with Zoe Darazsdi. “Even though I don’t necessarily have the desire to fit in, I think being understood is the greatest feeling on Earth.” Zoe is a neurodivergent mental health counselor who specializes in empowering autistic and ADHD clients. She has helped countless teens and adults to navigate the challenges and gifts of living with a unique brain. Her practice is trauma-informed and guided by Adlerian counseling theory and disability rights activism. Zoe & I talk all about...
Priyanka Patel: Medication myths & revamping the diagnostic process
January 02, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBEpisode 118 with Priyanka Patel. “We can’t stand injustice. We like to fight for what’s right. And when something isn’t right, we can get really riled up.” Priyanka is a mental health pharmacist based in Manchester who was diagnosed last year and is now working to raise awareness of ADHD among healthcare professionals and help improve the assessment & diagnosis process in the UK. We talk about her long and complicated road to an ADHD diagnosis after initially being diagnosed with depressi...
Megan Dowd: Enneagram, entrepreneurship, and ADHD best practice
December 26, 2022 05:05 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBEpisode 117 with Megan Dowd. “I always listened to music while doing homework. It was like I had to distract one half of my brain so the other half could focus.” Megan is a neurodivergent entrepreneur, brand therapist, business strategist, and coach. With her Human First, Biz Second® approach, she helps new and seasoned business owners build a better human connection with themselves and their clients — leaning into who they are and what they stand for. In addition to her business coaching...
JoJo Abdi: Poetry, trauma & our sensitive wiring
December 19, 2022 05:05 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBEpisode 116 with JoJo Abdi. “The beautiful thing about this diagnosis is that my mask has come off and now I get to be me.” Khadijo (Jojo) Abdi is a Somali-born writer, poet, and educator living in Minneapolis, MN. Her poetry and essays have been published in Lyricality, Minnesota Women’s Press, and in the anthology by Freedom Voices, Muslim American Writers At Home: Stories, Essays, and Poems of Diversity and Belonging. JoJo was diagnosed with ADHD in the fall of 2021 and, like many of u...
Lauren Yuile: ADHD & communication disorders
December 12, 2022 05:05 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBEpisode 115 with Lauren Yuile. “My friend had this really good analogy: It’s like all this time you were trying to put a puzzle together without the lid of the box. And finally someone has given you the lid.” Lauren is a speech pathologist who lives in Sydney, Australia. She supports children and young adults with difficulties in different areas of communication, such as using and understanding language, using clear speech, reading, writing and social communication. In this role, she has w...
Trina Haynes: Finding humor and embracing our lady ADHD
December 05, 2022 05:05 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBEpisode 114 with Trina Haynes. “I’m in perpetual burnout. I try to do all the things and then my body gives up on me and I’m on my couch for a week. It’s been this way for as long as I can remember.” Trina is an ADHD advocate and founder of My Lady Adhd, a robust online community for ADHDers. She was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in her mid-30s and immediately began working to educate the public about ADHD and works daily to empower others. In addition to her popular Instagram account,...
Marisa Gonzales: Self-acceptance & embracing creative genius
November 28, 2022 05:05 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBEpisode 113 with Marisa Gonzales. “When I want to learn about something new, I really dive deep. And then who knows how long it’ll take for me to get out of that hole?” Marisa is a Mexican-American brand strategist and website designer from Kansas. She reached out to me because she started listening to this podcast after her diagnosis and these interviews and conversations have been life-changing for her, so she wanted to help out and give back by sharing her diagnosis story. Her journey ...
Annie Romanos: Underachievement, Gen X diagnosis & ‘Aroreretini’
November 21, 2022 05:01 - 57 minutes - 53 MBEpisode 112 with Annie Romanos. “We can get so busy that we just forget things. We’ll be so enthralled in what we’re doing that we forget to go to the toilet or we forget to eat.” Annie is an ICF-accredited executive and ADHD coach from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her late diagnosis at 49 was a profoundly life-changing moment, and represented a missing link after years of “underachieving”, observing her high-performing clients surpass her and not being able to figure out why. Since learning mo...
Linda Yi: Cooking, community, and panda cub stories
November 14, 2022 05:01 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBEpisode 111 with Linda Yi. “My internal monologue is always asking, ‛Why does this seem so easy for other people but it’s so hard for me?’” Linda Yi is a Sichuanese-American comic-artist, food entrepreneur, and mental health advocate based in New York. She is the creator of Panda Cub Dtories, a weekly comic series about Chinese culture, Sichuan food, and living with ADHD. Panda Cub Stories has an engaged global audience of over 15,000 followers on Instagram — and has been featured in To...
Meredith Carder: Chaos closets and unlearning perfectionism
November 07, 2022 14:30 - 1 hour - 57 MBEpisode 110 with Meredith Carder. “One of the best things we can do for ourselves is to get support, rather than thinking ‛I should be able to do this.’” Meredith is an ADDCA-trained ADHD coach and one of my favorite Instagram creators. As a true multi-passionate adult with ADHD, Meredith has gained varied experience over the last 20 years working in employee training and development as well as creating several small businesses. In 2019 Meredith decided to pursue ADHD coaching after s...
Miranda Carlu: ADHD assets in the workplace
October 31, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBEpisode 109 with Miranda Carlu. “It’s not just a diagnosis, it’s an identity — because you realize that almost every part of you has been impacted in some way by this brain wiring.” Miranda is a freelance business analyst living in Belgium. She has worked for a Fortune 500 company and other large corporations, and she has also recently started her training as an ADHD coach and is preparing to consult with her first client on how to achieve neurodiversity inclusion in the workplace. Mirand...
Robin Zheng: Performance anxiety, academia & the pressure to succeed
October 24, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBEpisode 108 with Robin Zheng. “My family always called me the absent-minded professor. I’d walk into a room and forget what I was doing, and I’d have to walk back to the room I came from in order to remember.” Trigger Warning: Talk about suicide and suicidal ideation. Dr. Zheng is an academic philosopher. She’s originally from the U.S. but spent several years working in Singapore and currently lives in Scotland working as a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He...
Carolina Ramirez: Emotional dysregulation & re-parenting our inner child
October 17, 2022 04:01 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBEpisode 107 with Carolina Ramirez. “When my son was diagnosed, I hyperfocused on research. His doctor said, ‛That’s not healthy for you; you’re not sleeping.’ But that’s what my brain needed to do in order to feel calmer.” Carolina is a Latina licensed therapist and parent coach who is based in North Carolina. She specializes in supporting parents of neurodiverse children, as well as helping others to heal from emotional wounds, honor their truth and reclaim peace in their life. We talk ...
Mallory Band: Learning when and how to ask for help
October 10, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBEpisode 106 with Mallory Band. “When I’m talking, I have to give the whole backstory to the story. I can’t stop. It drives my husband nuts. It drives me nuts. But I can’t stop.” Mallory was diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety at the age of 8. She now works as an executive function specialist who helps children, teens, and young adults work toward independence, increased organization, and improved time management and follow-through. She recently founded Band Together Education, a community th...
Paulina Chełstowska: Slavic women and ADHD
October 03, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBEpisode 105 with Paulina Chełstowska. “I was always told that I’m talented but lazy. Nobody could understand why such an intelligent person could fail so badly at school.” Paulina is a social worker and a soft skills trainer and facilitator living in Poland. She specializes in using games as tools for team-building and education, working mostly with underprivileged youth at risk of exclusion and in foster care, and she advocates for play as a fundamental human right. She is also the host ...
Dr. Kellie Stecher: Rejection sensitive dysphoria & professional burnout
September 26, 2022 04:01 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBEpisode 104 with Dr. Kellie Stecher. “Many of our parents were of the mindset that you don’t need help, you don’t need therapy, you don’t need coaching, you don’t need medicine. You can just figure it out.” Dr. Stecher is an OBGYN and Co-Founder and President of Patient Care Heroes, as well as the Governor of the 7th district of the American Medical Women’s Association, and advisor to multiple other companies focusing on patient and staff safety, and mental health. She has won the Minneap...
Christine Syrad: Subtitles, procrastination & fermentation
September 19, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 65 MBEpisode 103 with Christine Syrad. “Our attention is like a river. Sometimes you could do with a dam because you can’t stop yourself from focusing. And other times you go through massive droughts.” Christine is a gastronomist and fermentation enthusiast who also happens to speak 5 languages. She grew up between the UK, Japan, and Italy and has spent the last decade or so in Switzerland, where she now resides with her husband and daughter. She is also the face of fermentable, where she not...
Dr. Janina Elbert: ADHD & executive functioning coaching
September 12, 2022 04:01 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBEpisode 102 with Dr. Janina Elbert. “I’m not sure if I would call ADHD my superpower, but certain strengths or ideas I get from my creative brain is definitely a superpower.” Dr. Elbert has a PhD in clinical psychology with an extensive background in prenatal risk factors and child development. She is also an ADHD advocate and a certified ADHD coach. Through her ADHD Empowerment Coaching practice, Dr. Elbert helps individuals with ADHD to learn, understand, and work with their unique brai...
Robyn Buchanan: Decluttering & minimalism for ADHD brains
September 05, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBEpisode 101 with Robyn Buchanan. “I call it ‛reasonable minimalism,’ where we only keep what we use. Having less stuff around means less distraction and better focus.” Robyn is a registered nurse, life and focus coach, and Youtube creator who specializes in the topics of minimalism and decluttering. Living in a house full of ADHDers, including three teenage boys, Robyn learned firsthand the value of minimalism and decluttering and recognized how important a decluttered environment was to...
Nancy Armstrong: “The Disruptors” & tackling ADHD stereotypes
August 29, 2022 04:01 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBEpisode 100 with Nancy Armstrong. “There’s a lot of finger-pointing that this is your fault and if you were trying harder, you could overcome this, but clearly you’re not trying.” Nancy is the executive producer of the powerful, award-winning documentary “The Disruptors,” which debunks many prevailing negative stereotypes around ADHD and includes interviews with celebrities, athletes & entrepreneurs with ADHD, as well as many prominent ADHD experts. Nancy’s husband, their son and their tw...
Anne Bartolucci: ADHD & common sleep problems
August 22, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBEpisode 99 with Anne Bartolucci. “I now look back at some of the stupid things I did when I was younger and think, ‛Oh, that’s why!’ I’m more compassionate with my younger self now, which has been healing.” Anne is a licensed psychologist, certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist, and the founder and chief psychologist of Atlanta Insomnia & Behavioral Health Services. She is also adjunct faculty at Emory University and enjoys sharing her knowledge as an author, speaker, trainer, and ...
Sarah Wheeler: Tangents, curlicues & life lessons from a nomadic tribe
August 15, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBEpisode 98 with Sarah Wheeler. “I was like, Why do I have all these ambitions, yet so much incompetence? Like, I know I’m smart. Why can’t I just get it together?” Sarah is a writer, educational psychologist, and neurodiversity trainer based in Oakland. I first discovered Sarah through her Substack newsletter Momspreading. She wrote a piece reflecting back on her adult ADHD diagnosis, and it was just so compelling and nuanced and thought-provoking and hilarious that I kind of started stalk...
Kalin Johnson: Navigating medications & developing your treatment plan
August 08, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBEpisode 97 with Kalin Johnson. “When I was growing up, my mom used to ask, ‘Don’t you ever get tired of thinking?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, but what am I going to do? Is there an alternative?’” Kalin is an American healthcare provider, mental health advocate, and entrepreneur. She shows high-achieving, neurodivergent individuals how to unmask their health and feel their best through concierge whole person care. As a licensed clinical pharmacist, functional medicine specialist, healthcare adv...
Diana Heldfond: Online assessments & the future of empowered learning
August 01, 2022 04:01 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBEpisode 96 with Diana Heldfond. “No child shows up to school wanting to be the anxious kid in class or the disorganized one. There’s something else going on that’s inhibiting that child from succeeding.” Diana is the founder and CEO of Parallel Learning. As early as 7 years old, Diana realized she was not progressing at the pace of her fellow classmates. Soon thereafter, she was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. Diana was fortunate enough to have the support to get the help she needed in...
Courtney Ruckman: Music, memory & the myth of ‘so much potential’
July 25, 2022 04:01 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBEpisode 95 with Courtney Ruckman. “At first, I didn’t see the hyperactivity piece in myself, until I realized it applies to thoughts. My brain is like 20 radio stations at the same time.” Courtney was diagnosed with ADHD in October 2021 and the Women & ADHD podcast was one of the first resources she found (yay!). Courtney spent 11 years as a professional opera singer before retiring about 2 years ago and transitioning into arts marketing. Following her ADHD diagnosis, she looked back at h...
Ebony Washington: Masking & multitasking in the TV industry
July 18, 2022 04:01 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBEpisode 94 with Ebony Washington. “On tests, I would read a sentence over and over and over again because it wasn’t processing in my brain. I’d think, ‘I’m smart. Why can’t I understand this?’” Ebony is a writer, artist, martial artist, and writers’ assistant on ABC’s hit medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy. Ebony was officially diagnosed with ADHD back in 2012 while in college, and we talk all about the various coping strategies she relied on while in school before and after her diagnosis. We ...
Izzie Chea: ADHD & mental health in Latino culture
July 11, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBEpisode 93 with Izzie Chea “There are families that don’t want to think of the idea that their child might be different. It makes it very hard to be yourself or to be an authentic person.” Izzie is a Dominican-Mexican-American creative, music educator, storyteller, and mental health advocate. After a late diagnosis of ADHD at age 35, she took her talent of content creation to Instagram, where @izzieandadhd has experienced tremendous growth through her Reels, expressing with incredible rela...
Sharon McCarthy: Decoding a dual diagnosis of ADHD & autism
July 04, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBEpisode 92 with Sharon McCarthy. “I will start talking and lose my train of thought mid-sentence because my brain has suddenly gone off on a completely different tangent.” Sharon is the founding director of Autism Journeys, a training and consultancy service based in Cork, Ireland, where she supports autistic children and young people and their families from both an advocacy and educational standpoint. She is also the host of Autism Journeys, the fabulous radio show & podcast that shares ...
Lisa Dos Santos: Codependency & multipotentiality
June 27, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBEpisode 91 with Lisa Dos Santos. “Since I was 5 or 6, I was told I was lazy, messy, and forgetful. They used to call me lostkop in Afrikaans, which literally means your head is lost.” Lisa is a 35-year-old South African who was recently diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type. She suspected something was different about her growing up but always assumed it was due to the trauma of being raised in an abusive home. However, when a teacher suggested Lisa’s 6-year-old daughter might have ADHD, Li...
Laura Key: Anxiety, perfectionism, and ADHD “a-ha” moments
June 20, 2022 04:01 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBEpisode 90 with Laura Key. “ADHD is that thing you didn’t know you had, but once you do realize you have it, everything else makes sense.” Laura Key, a longtime editor and content creator, is the editorial director at Understood.org, a resource for the millions of people with learning and thinking differences like ADHD and dyslexia. Laura is also the host of the ADHD Aha! podcast, where her guests talk about the single moment when it clicked that they — or someone they know — has ADHD. N...
Layla Touchet: Teaching schools to spot signs of ADHD in girls
June 13, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBEpisode 89 with Layla Touchet. “I was actually a hyperactive child, but the school told my mom that I’m just gifted and bored. I mean, y’all were right. But y’all were wrong, too. It was more than that.” Layla is a 29 year old neurodivergent female who works as a school counselor in Louisiana, working with tiny humans in grades pre-k through 2nd grade, most of whom are neurodivergent as well. She’s also a licensed mental health counselor with certifications in Autism and ADHD and she’s w...
Candin Phillips: Grief, big feelings & the power of music
June 06, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBEpisode 88 with Candin Phillips. “I’m one of those people who keeps chugging along, and it takes something really big to knock me off course before I step down and take care of myself.” Candin is a licensed clinician and supervisor in South Carolina. She specializes in diagnosing ADHD and educating others — especially other therapists — to recognize traits of ADHD. She is the founder of Humanity Hive, an online platform and business focused on providing information to support those with ...