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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Amy Marie Hann: Mom guilt, the church & mastering the mundane
May 30, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBEpisode 87 with Amy Marie Hann. “We try so hard to do all these things, and we end up feeling like failures. In reality, we’re just supposed to be doing life in a different way.” Amy Marie is an ADHD advocate, entrepreneur and mom of 3 young kids. She was diagnosed with ADD in kindergarten but found motherhood and especially being a stay-at-home mom to be the most challenging season for her brain. Amy Marie now teaches moms with ADHD to manage their home life with ease in order to have m...
Dr. Tamara Rosier: Navigating emotions & battling the stigma
May 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBEpisode 86 with Dr. Tamara Rosier. “We have a toggle like a light switch — we’re either on or off. We don’t have a dimmer switch.” Dr. Rosier is the founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, where she and her staff work with individuals with ADHD (and their families) to learn strategies and develop new skills to live effectively with ADHD. Dr. Rosier is also the president of the ADHD Coaches Organization and author of Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions an...
Tennille Boyer: Life with a ‘Type A’ partner
May 16, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBEpisode 85 with Tennille Boyer. “After I googled rejection sensitive dysphoria, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this explains every fight we’ve ever had.’” Tennille is a full-time working mom of 3 who was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago in her early 40s. After a brief stint as a TV reporter in the late 90s, she fell into the perfect career for her: sales for early-stage companies (which she discovered is an ideal environment for her ADHD brain). Tennille and I talk all about what it’s lik...
Jenna Wolfe: Navigating the newborn years
May 09, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBEpisode 84 with Jenna Wolfe. “The anxiety was crippling. I couldn’t tell anyone I was struggling because I had to be perfect and look like I had it all together.” Jenna Wolfe is a lactation counselor, parenting coach, and mom of two from Amherstburg, Ontario. She is passionate about giving moms and their littles the tools and confidence to have the relationship they deserve; one full of security, joy and connection. Jenna is the founder of Own Your Parenting Story, where she supports mom...
Catherine Avery: Productivity, biorhythms & how to avoid burnout
May 02, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBEpisode 83 with Catherine Avery. “With neurodivergent folks, we need to recognize that if it’s already working, don’t try to fix it.” Catherine is an ADHD & productivity coach and the CEO of Productivity by Design. She believes that in order to be truly productive, you need to learn how to be intentionally unproductive. Catherine coaches her clients through proven strategies that help them master their time, space, and information so they can be more productive, more profitable, and have...
KC Davis: Self-care & keeping house with ADHD
April 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBEpisode 82 with KC Davis. “We work so much harder just to do the simple things everybody else can do automatically.” KC Davis is a licensed professional therapist, author, speaker, and the incredible maven behind the mental health platform Struggle Care. She is also the casual genius behind the TikTok account @domesticblisters, where her accessible advice on self-care, self-compassion, cleaning and organizational systems that actually work, has amassed nearly 1.5 million followers. KC’s c...
Rebecca Perkins: ADHD & demand avoidance
April 18, 2022 04:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBEpisode 81 with Rebecca Perkins. "I can take demands all the time, but if someone asks in just slightly the wrong way, my brain is like, 'Nope, I won’t do it.'" Rebecca is a neurodiverse speaker, writer, and educator based outside of Melbourne, Australia. She is the CEO and founder of My Spirited Child, an advocacy hub that provides strategies and support to parents, carers and educators of neurodivergent children, and to neurodivergent adults themselves. She also co-founded the National P...
Dr. Loucresie Rupert: Why ADHD gets overlooked in children of color
April 11, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBEpisode 80 with Dr. Loucresie Rupert. "Psychiatry doesn’t offer a lot of training in treating ADHD in adults and that’s a real deficit. Neurodevelopment disorders don’t just go away when we turn 18." Dr. Rupert is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who specializes in neurodiversity, children with trauma, children in foster care or who have been adopted, and adults with developmental disabilities. She’s also an activist and co-founder of Physician Women SOAR (Support, Organize, Ad...
Casey-Lee Flood: Sensory overwhelm, burnout & an adult autism diagnosis
April 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBEpisode 79 with Casey-Lee Flood. "I did 5,000 things today, but I still feel inadequate because I have 10,000 things left to do." Casey-Lee is a Registered Nurse and a Holistic Health and Wellness Nurse Coach. Her company @nourishthenurturer supports other neurodivergent nurses and caregivers with their sustainable self-care. If you work in healthcare or if you’re in a caretaking profession, you do not want to miss this episode. We talk all about burnout in its many forms, as well as why...
Alisha Mays: ADHD, poverty & food insecurity
March 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBEpisode 78 with Alisha Mays. "When I talk, my mind can be in 80 different places. Sometimes my brain just stops paying attention to what my mouth is saying." Alisha Mays is a PhD student in cultural anthropology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Alisha dropped out of high school, and went from getting her GED to getting her PhD. She is a first-generation college student, and she has devoted herself to studying systems of poverty and inequality in Kentucky, particularly as it rela...
Chelsea Uithoven: Cycles of productivity & the on/off switch
March 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBEpisode 77 with Chelsea Uithoven. "We have this on/off switch. We can be so insanely competent when that switch is on. But when the switch is off, it’s like, ‘Uh uh, no.’" Chelsea is the founder of Part Time Wellness, the digital wellness resource for women with ADHD. Her goal is to share a more lighthearted approach to wellness and help women with ADHD see wellness as a tool to help them live a more joyful, fulfilling life — not just another “have to” guilting them from their never-ending...
Dr. Sharon Saline: How do we know if it’s ADHD?
March 14, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBEpisode 76 with Dr. Sharon Saline. "We all have different brains and we should honor neurodiversity in the same way we honor gender diversity or racial diversity or religious diversity." Dr. Saline is a clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as understanding ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, m...
Dr. Raafia Muhammad: Online diagnosis & treatment
March 07, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBEpisode 75 with Dr. Raafia Muhammad. "Now that more women are getting diagnosed, they’re able to talk about their experiences with each other and put their voices out there." Dr. Muhammad is the Clinical Division Chief at ADHD Online. She joined the company when they were first starting up back in August of 2020, and she focuses on individualized care of her online patients and believes that ADHD can become a patient’s asset rather than a deficit when properly understood and treated. Dr. ...
Erica Saum: Hyperfixations & the Enneagram
February 28, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBEpisode 74 with Erica Saum. "My latest hyperfixation is candle-making. But before that, it was playing the ukulele. I learned it in a week and was like, I’m done." Erica is a teacher based in Nashville, Tenn. She considers herself a witch woman filled with love, warmth, and a love for personal growth. She is a writer for her own ADHD blog, called Unseen ADHD, she’s a photographer with her business Lavender and Lynne Portraiture, and a candlemaker for her witchy business. Erica was diagnos...
Cate Osborn: Sex, fruit snacks & coming as you are
February 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBEpisode 73 with Cate Osborn (aka Catieosaurus) "Neurodivergent people are told over and over again that they’re too much, or too loud, or that they need to be a certain way that they just fundamentally are not." Cate (aka Catieosaurus) is a certified sex educator and full-time content creator known for her frank conversations about living life with ADHD, depression, and chronic pain — all while sporting a fabulous array of eyewear. She currently has about 2 million combined social media ...
Elaine Taylor-Klaus: Shifting our expectations (without lowering them)
February 14, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBEpisode 72 with Elaine Taylor-Klaus. "When kids are diagnosed with ADHD, there’s an underlying belief that you just need to discipline them better. That stigma doesn’t exist with other learning disabilities." Author, parent educator & certified coach, Elaine is the co-creator of ImpactParents and the Sanity School® behavior therapy training program. She is also the author of “The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety and More.” Elaine provides training, coaching, and...
Sivan Hong: Parenting neurodiverse children
February 07, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBEpisode 71 with Sivan Hong. "After my diagnosis, I felt anger and sadness and joy all at the same time because it explained so very much." Sivan’s career spans over two decades in several industries and professions, including holding esteemed positions as a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and former partner at The Bridgespan Group. Sivan lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two neurodiverse sons, and is the author and illustrator of the Super Fun Day...
Dr. Emily Anhalt: Emotional fitness & success beyond medication
January 31, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBEpisode 70 with Dr. Emily Anhalt. "The message we’re given is that we shouldn’t get support until we’re falling apart. That’s like waiting until you have heart disease to start doing cardio." Dr. Anhalt is a psychoanalytic psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the co-founder of Coa, an online gym for mental health. Emily was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 7, and her doctoral dissertation (inspired by her own life) was on ADHD and success beyond medication. We talk all about...
Julia Edwards: Complex trauma, grief & competitive athletics
January 24, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBEpisode 69 with Julia Edwards. "Even if I’m by myself, I can't relax because the guilt creeps in. ADHD comes with a very lovely side of guilt and shame." Julia is a therapist and certified ADHD-Clinical Services Provider who was diagnosed with ADHD in college after immigrating to the US from El Salvador. As a specialist who also has this diagnosis, she uniquely understands the innumerable ways that this neuro-developmental condition can impact every area of a person’s life as well as thos...
Alex Gilbert: Living with the label of ADHD
January 17, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBEpisode 68 with Alex Gilbert. "The most important thing, whether you’re officially diagnosed or not, is advocating for yourself." Alex was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD at the age of 8. She also knew by the age of 16 that she wanted to go into business for herself and help others who might have been struggling with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. After spending years working in leadership development, she has finally pursued her dream and now runs a consulting and coaching business ...
Carrington Bruton: SPECT brain imaging & late diagnosis autism
January 10, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBEpisode 67 with Carrington Bruton "I’m always pursuing something. I’m never chill. For someone who is inattentive, my brain is hyperactive." Carrington is an actress, best known for her breakout role as ‘Jill’, on the show ‘Empire’. She is also an influencer, a published author, and the CEO of Temple Face & Body, a clean luxury skincare brand. Carrington was diagnosed with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder back in October 2020 after a SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) br...
Karis Knight: Hyperfocus, masking & finding our voice
January 03, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBEpisode 66 with Karis Knight "I now realize why we’re all such great problem solvers — it's because we can’t stop thinking about the problem until it’s solved." Karis Yves Knight is a visual artist based in Scotland. Her ongoing project called “The V.O.W (The Voice of Women)” came about in an effort to showcase how diverse and multifaceted we are as women. She interviews and gets to know her subjects and encourages them to offer their unique perspectives and life experiences, and then she ...
Dr. Sam Hiew: Empowering girls & women with ADHD
December 20, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBEpisode 65 with Dr. Sam Hiew "Growing up in an Asian country, we didn’t talk about mental health. If you’re struggling, you need to suck it up and get over it." Dr. Hiew is the Director of ADHD Girls in the UK, and has an extensive background in communications and cancer research. Raised in Malaysia, she won the Malaysian Prime Minister’s scholarship to study her postgraduate degree in the UK, where she now resides. Having worked in 16 different business sectors over the years, she spent...
Raegan Cotton: Facing young adulthood with ADHD
December 13, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBEpisode 64 with Raegan Cotton "Even after I was diagnosed, I still had so much doubt. I wondered if I was just using ADHD as an excuse to make myself feel better." Raegan is 25 years old and lives in Denver. She works for the political advocacy non-profit New Era Colorado. Raegan reached out to me because she is a listener of the podcast, but noted that a lot of my guests are in their 30s or older and she felt she could offer an interesting perspective on what it’s like to be facing ADHD ...
Sari Solden: Why ADHD is different for women
December 06, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBEpisode 63 with Sari Solden. "A neurodiverse brain isn’t something to be fixed. Only dogs and furniture get fixed." If you had asked me when I first started this podcast who my dream guest would be, I would have said today's guest: psychotherapist, author and researcher Sari Solden. When she wrote Women and Attention Deficit Disorder back in the mid-90s, she was one of the first to look at how neurodiversity appears differently in women than in men and why that is. Now 30 years later, Sar...
Skye Rapson: What is ADHD coaching?
November 29, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBEpisode 62 with Skye Rapson "Families are often like, 'Oh, that’s normal. That’s just a family trait.' But maybe that family trait is actually ADHD." Skye lives is Auckland, NZ, where she is an ADHD coach and the founder of Unconventional Organisation, a growing network of coaches who provide individual and group coaching for adults with ADHD or executive function challenges. Skye is also an academic with over seven years of experience working in adult education. She has studied in variou...
Samantha Absher: Money management & borderline personality disorder
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBEpisode 61 with Samantha Absher. "I'd been labeled as lazy, underachieving and disorganized my entire life." Sam Absher is a personal finance professional with a twist — she has borderline personality disorder & ADHD, and also has degrees in finance and risk management. Sam uses her knowledge and experience to help fellow neurodivergent people learn how to manage their money, save and get out of debt without the shame and judgement of traditional finance professionals. Sam & I talk all ...
Samantha A: Money management & borderline personality disorder
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBEpisode 61 with Samantha A. "I'd been labeled as lazy, underachieving and disorganized my entire life." Sam is a personal finance professional with a twist — she has borderline personality disorder & ADHD, and also has degrees in finance and risk management. Sam uses her knowledge and experience to help fellow neurodivergent people learn how to manage their money, save and get out of debt without the shame and judgment of traditional finance professionals. Sam & I talk all about the var...
Janet Murray: ADHD & our insatiable appetite for planners
November 15, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBEpisode 60 with Janet Murray "I've always struggled to switch off. I find weekends and holidays really hard." Janet is one of the UK’s leading content marketing experts. She’s also a public speaker and host of the Courageous Content podcast and creator of the Courageous Content desk planner and she runs an annual content planning event as well as an ongoing accountability group for business owners who struggle with planning their online content. Janet & I talk about entrepreneurship and o...
Dr. Sasha Hamdani: Educating the masses & the benefits of trans-magnetic stimulation
November 08, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBEpisode 59 with Dr. Sasha Hamdani "I feel like half of what I do is clean up messes from other physicians who have misdiagnosed their patients." Dr. Hamdani is a Board Certified psychiatrist and ADHD specialist. In addition to her private practice, she had a robust social media following across multiple platforms where she provides accessible and accurate information about ADHD. We talk about her diagnosis as a child and how her parents kept it a secret from her until she had a meltdown ...
Dr. Sasha Hamdani: Educating the masses & the benefits of TSM
November 08, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBEpisode 59 with Dr. Sasha Hamdani "I feel like half of what I do is clean up messes from other physicians who have misdiagnosed their patients." Dr. Hamdani is a Board Certified psychiatrist and ADHD specialist. In addition to her private practice, she had a robust social media following across multiple platforms where she provides accessible and accurate information about ADHD. We talk about her diagnosis as a child and how her parents kept it a secret from her until she had a meltdown ...
Katherine Ellison: Learning from ADHD mistakes
November 01, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBEpisode 58 with Katherine Ellison "I try to talk openly about my mistakes and humiliating moments in order to normalize them and make them less shameful." Katherine is a Pultizer prize-winning journalist, author and public speaker. She's written or co-written several books about ADHD, and is a regular contributor to ADDitude magazine. She also recently gave a Ted Talk on the gifts of having ADHD during a pandemic. Her most recent book is "Mothers & Murders: A True Story of Love, Lies, O...
Gloria Joy Sherrod: Is it ADHD or something else?
October 25, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBEpisode 57 with Gloria Joy Sherrod "People look at me and think, 'You’re so calm.' And I’m like, 'It’s chaos in here.'" Gloria is a licensed professional counselor who works with children, adolescents, and adults. In addition to her counseling work, she also provides ADHD coaching services. Gloria is passionate about advocating for equity in education, access to care, and ending mental health stigma. We talk all about how to know whether it’s ADHD or something else entirely, as well as ...
Amy Brown: Sports, jokes & slow processing speed
October 18, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBEpisode 56 with Amy Brown "I have trouble remembering what I’ve read. I have to read the same paragraph over and over. It drives me nuts." Amy is a Director of Outbound Transportation for Dollar Tree, where she’s responsible for shipping the company’s merchandise from their distribution centers to the company’s stores. Amy & I talk about her experience with sports growing up — she was a Division 1 basketball player in college — and looking back she feels like athletics and an active life...
Sydni Rubio: Insatiable curiosity & dismissive doctors
October 11, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBEpisode 55 with Sydni Rubio. "My hyperactivity manifests as really aggressive driving, as well as impatience and impulsivity." Sydni is the creator and founder of What in the ADHD? She started the brand in January 2021 with the simple hope of sharing accessible ADHD information with others and the science behind *why* we have certain traits and behaviors. With a strong background in teaching and science, she breaks down a lot of obtuse concepts in relatable, humorous and easy to digest You...
Aleta Storch: All-or-nothing thinking, nutrition & dirty dishes
October 04, 2021 04:01 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBEpisode 54 with Aleta Storch. "Details? Not great. But I'm fantastic at the big picture stuff." Aleta is an anti-diet dietitian, therapist, and Certified Body Trust Provider. She specializes in providing anti-diet, values-centered, body liberation work with folks that have disordered eating/a history of dieting, and/or ADHD. Aleta currently works with individual clients in her virtual private practice (Wise Heart Nutrition), and also runs an online group program to support ADHDers in na...
Holly Slater: Spontaneity, intensity & ‘Pure O‘ OCD
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBEpisode 53 with Holly Slater. "I'm the kind of person who always wants to have deep, meaningful conversations — I've realized not everyone wants to do that." Originally from the UK and now living in Sydney, Holly is a freelance copywriter and craft beer aficionado, as well as a vocal advocate for supporting women in the craft beer industry and changing stereotypes. We talk all about spontaneity and wanderlust, as well as visual memory vs remembering names or tasks, emotional intensity, me...
Emily Donahoe: Theater, sexism & working memory
September 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBEpisode 52 with Emily Donahoe. "I’m one of those people for whom Ritalin is like putting on a pair of glasses." Emily is an accomplished actor, writer and producer. She has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters around the country. She won an Obie Award, she’s a recipient of the Helen Hayes Award, and was a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama. This fall she will be guest starring on NBC’s FBI’s Most Wanted and Amazon’s Dead Ringers with Rachel Weisz. She al...
Tessa MacKay: Dyslexia, hyperrealism & neuroplasticity
September 13, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBEpisode 51 with Tessa MacKay. "People with any kind of neurodivergence can just feel it in each other. It’s like sparks happen." Tessa MacKay paints contemporary realism and large-scale hyperrealism portraiture and is based in Perth, Western Australia. Despite being diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD from an early age, she only recently started to embrace and work on the kind of quirks that are associated with ADHD in women. We talk all about introversion and the emotional intensity of th...
Lafaya Mitchell: Hypersensitivity & moving beyond labels
September 06, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBEpisode 50 with Lafaya Mitchell. "We have traits, not symptoms. This isn't an illness — it’s not like diabetes." Lafaya is a licensed therapist with more than 20 years of experience working closely with families overwhelmed with socially, emotionally, and or behaviorally challenged children, and offering effective strategies and healing those relationships. She is also the author of The Lafaya Way book series for parents of hypersensitive children, and you can find out more about all of t...
Denise Brodey: Neurodivergence in the workplace
August 30, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBEpisode 49 with Denise Brodey. "Looking back, I realize I just never had the right words to explain what was going on with me." Denise is a senior contributor at Forbes, focused on the role of invisible disabilities in the workplace. Her candid, deep dives into new research, ability to decode medical jargon and her personal style of storytelling have won her the respect of CEOs, lawmakers, and people with disabilities, who appreciate her writing openly about her lived experience with ADHD...
Patty DeDurr: Sensory processing & spatial awareness
August 23, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBEpisode 48 with Patty DeDurr "Creativity is such a large aspect of ADHD. I think it’s important to hone that as much as you can." Patty is a neurodivergent author and advocate who educates and provides educational information and resources for individuals looking for guidance on an engaging platform. She lives in Iowa and is the founder of Sensing Greatness, and has also been a physical therapist assistant for almost a decade. We talk all about the sensory systems and Patty’s resources o...
Ellie Hopley: Task paralysis and internalized negative beliefs
August 16, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBEpisode 47 with Ellie Hopley "We have to go above and beyond just to do the simplest task, and I feel like people just don’t understand that." Ellie is the artist and mastermind behind the successful print and merchandise company Shuturp. Ellie & I talk all about her previous diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder and borderline personality disorder before she was eventually diagnosed with ADHD — and how it felt like everything in her life finally made sense! We also talk about task p...
Emily Olsen: ADHD & feeling things deeply
August 09, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBEpisode 46 with Emily Olsen. "There were those days where I'd black out a little and get everything done on my to-do list, and then wonder, Am I manic?" Emily is a digital broadcast journalist for Global News in Saskatchewan. She has spent a lot of her career connecting with people and facilitating others to share their stories …and is finally settling into the task of telling her own. We talk about her ADHD diagnosis in her early 20s during her time in an eating disorder recovery program...
Dusty Chipura: Oversharing, boundaries & hyperactive brains
August 02, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBEpisode 45 with Dusty Chipura. "I definitely feel like I’ve never read the instructions to life." Dusty is an AACC certified ADHD Coach who lives in Abbotsford, BC, and she coaches people from all walks of life with ADHD, and specializes in coaching pregnant people with ADHD. Dusty’s interest in supporting people with ADHD during pregnancy began when she realized there were little to no resources that addressed the experience of having ADHD during pregnancy outside of confusing medical li...
Julie Uhernik: Coming out of the ADHD closet
July 26, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBEpisode 44 with Julie Uhernik. "I've spent so many years researching what is wrong with me — I call it 'me-search.'" Julie is an insurance agent who was diagnosed during the pandemic after an abrupt pivot in her career path left her feeling out-of-sorts. She is a self-proclaimed clumsy, spontaneous, child-like lover of life - who is still trying to understand how a late diagnosis of ADHD may have affected her whole life. She is a life-long learner and collector of credentials. She is a...
Nicole DeMasi: Perfectionism, interoception & the dieting trap
July 19, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBEpisode 43 with Nicole DeMasi. "I woke up one morning and I was so frustrated with myself. I googled 'Why can't I concentrate?' and ADHD popped up. I read an article and I just burst into tears." Nicole DeMasi, MS, RDN, CDCES, is a registered dietitian & certified diabetes educator who provides 1:1 nutrition coaching to help people with ADHD stop dieting, stop binge eating & improve their relationship with food & their bodies. She helps identify the connection between lifestyle habits, die...
Inger Shaye Colzie: Self-acceptance and reframing your ADHD
July 12, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBEpisode 42 with Inger Shaye Colzie. "Your struggle is your struggle. It's real and it's valid. Sometimes you can get it all done, and sometimes you can’t make dinner." Inger Shaye is an ADHD coach and psychotherapist specializing in making a difference for Black woman executives and entrepreneurs with ADHD. She has successfully run her practice, Alchemy Coaching & Counseling, as a therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker for 15 years in spite of being undiagnosed until in her 50s. W...
Liz Westinghouse: Chronic burnout & the MTHFR gene
July 05, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBEpisode 41 with Liz Westinghouse. "I equate my brain with being a train station. Some people have 1 or 2 tracks, where I have 30 different trains coming and going." Liz and I have been friends for nearly 10 years, and after I (accidentally) came out about my diagnosis on Facebook, I quickly discovered she, too, had ADHD. According to Liz, she fits the ADHD personality type to a T. After growing increasingly frustrated (and bored) in the health care field for 14 years, she saw a proverbial...
Lindsay Fleming: ADHD & the TikTok generation
June 28, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBEpisode 40 with Lindsay Fleming. "When I come up with an idea, I don’t think twice — then suddenly I’ve got a whole business plan." Lindsay is a Licensed Professional Counsellor who owns her own private practice in Chicago. If you’ve ever fallen down any ADHD rabbit holes on TikTok, then you’ve probably come across Lindsay on your For You Page. Lindsay’s videos de-stigmatize ADHD, anxiety, trauma and the therapy experience, especially for young people. She does an incredible job connecti...