ADHD Wise Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Bought something to feel better, then felt worse when you checked your balance? Built a beautiful budget you never opened again? Keep telling yourself you should be better with money by now? In part two of this ADHD Wise Podcast conversation, Jannine Perryman and neurodivergent money expert and ADHD coach Abby Birch get practical about ADHD money management, impulse spending, savi...

Send us Fan Mail Why is managing money so hard with ADHD—even when you know what you’re supposed to do? You can run a business, manage a budget at work and support everyone around you, yet still struggle to check your own bank balance or work out what you have left to spend. And then there’s the shame. “At my age, I should be better at this.” In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine Perry...

Send us Fan Mail Roxana Tascu was a business psychologist helping major organisations understand neurodiversity. She hadn’t recognised her own ADHD. It was while training to become an ADHD coach that she kept asking, “But doesn’t everyone do this?” Eventually, her tutor suggested she get assessed. This week, Roxana joins me to talk about discovering ADHD in adulthood and what that understanding ch...

Send us Fan Mail How can you save the day at work, then get pulled up for forgetting one small thing? This week, I’m joined by writer and director Shayna Langford and producer and composer Rebecca Doherty to talk about their upcoming short film, Deficit. Both diagnosed with ADHD in their twenties, they’re creating a film that takes us inside the experience of a woman whose colleagues see her mista...

Send us Fan Mail October is ADHD Awareness Month, and this week is Dyslexia Awareness Week, with the 2026 theme Dyslexia in real life: At work. I’m diagnosed with both ADHD and dyslexia, and the more you look at the two together, the more interesting it gets. They are different neurodevelopmental conditions, but they overlap far more than many people realise. Working memory, organisation, processi...

Send us Fan Mail Kathleen Helm had never pictured themselves retiring. When the thought of a future in Italy appeared one day, they realised how much had changed: for the first time, a future felt imaginable. In this episode, Jannine and Kathleen talk honestly about the mental health impact of growing up neurodivergent in a world that keeps asking, “Why can’t you just?” They discuss suicidal thoug...

Send us Fan Mail Content note: This episode discusses the death of a young child, accidental harm and parental grief. Every parent has a sliding-door moment. A second when something could have gone terribly wrong, but thankfully did not. For parents of neurodivergent children, those moments can be frighteningly familiar. A child runs, hides, follows an impulse or moves towards something without re...

Send us Fan Mail Hyperfocus can feel incredible. You can lose yourself in an idea, a project or a piece of work and achieve more than you thought possible. The rest of the world quietens down. Everything narrows into one absorbing thing. But hyperfocus also has a cost. In this solo episode, I talk about what hyperfocus actually feels like from the inside, how I have learned to create the condition...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when autistic girls are given a space where they do not have to mask, explain themselves or make themselves smaller? Jannine talks to Cath Parry from the Autistic Girls Network about the power of community, peer support and volunteering. They explore how volunteering can provide purpose, connection and a supported route into contributing, particularly for neurodiverge...

Send us Fan Mail What changes when future doctors are taught not only about conditions, but to listen to the people living with them? Jannine is joined by her long-time friend and collaborator Michele Gutteridge, Assistant Professor and Communication and Lived Experience Co-Lead at Warwick Medical School. Their conversation begins with the shared roots of their work in arts and health and explores...

Send us Fan Mail Channel 4’s controversial ADHD documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, has triggered anger, fear and widespread criticism across the ADHD community. In this episode of ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine Perryman and Dr Helen Wall bring together specialist ADHD practice, medicine, education and lived experience to examine what the programme claimed, what it left out and the real-world harm alre...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of Season 2, Jannine is joined by Louisa Gray, author of We Are Not Seeing It: How and Why Mainstream Schools Break SEND Kids , for an honest conversation about what it costs parents to fight for their children. They explore the masking that happens behind closed doors: holding yourself together while your child falls apart, staying calm in intimidating meetin...

Send us Fan Mail Why can an email derail an entire task? Why does everything sometimes feel “times ten”? Why can capable neurodivergent people spend their lives trying harder, while still feeling as though they are failing? In this season finale, Jannine brings together voices from across the ADHD Wise Podcast to explore the lived experience of ADHD and broader neurodivergence. They speak about br...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when established ADHD science is repackaged as a public controversy? In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, I’m joined by Rachel Boss from ADHD Jersey to discuss the growing media pushback against ADHD awareness, diagnosis and treatment. Our conversation was prompted by the provocative publicity surrounding an upcoming Channel 4 documentary. But this episode is abo...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when an anxious child finds the one place where he finally feels capable? For Bobby, that place was a boxing gym. Boxing gave him confidence, direction and a sense of purpose. It became the foundation for Fitness by Bobby, where he now helps children and adults discover their own strength through inclusive fitness. In this episode, Bobby talks honestly about growing u...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why you can solve complex problems, support everyone else, or perform under pressure… but still struggle to reply to an email, make a phone call or keep on top of everyday tasks? You’re not alone. In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, I explore one of the most common questions I hear from neurodivergent people: “Why can I do the hard things… but not the...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever found a strategy that finally worked for your ADHD brain — only for it to suddenly stop working? Perhaps the planner was brilliant for three weeks. The reminders helped until you stopped seeing them. The new routine felt life-changing, and then one day you simply could not make yourself do it anymore. That does not mean you have failed. In this episode of ADHD Wise P...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine explores the powerful connection between ADHD, neurodivergence, trauma, adversity and joy. Many neurodivergent people grow up knowing they are different. Misunderstood. Excluded. Misread. Corrected. Shamed. For some, those experiences become part of a wider picture of trauma, complex trauma, adverse childhood experiences, school ex...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of ADHD Wise Podcast , Jannine is joined by Louise Parker Engels from Define Fine for a powerful conversation about school attendance difficulties, neurodivergent children, parent blame, and what we really mean when schools say a child is “fine”. Together, they challenge the assumptions behind terms like EBSA and school refusal, exploring why many children are not...

Send us Fan Mail Separation and divorce are hard for anyone. But when ADHD, autism, trauma, emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitivity, executive functioning difficulties, financial overwhelm, parenting pressure and neurodivergent children are all in the mix, it can become even more complex. In this episode, Jannine is joined by Katy Harris , Founder of Mediation Matters Midlands, Family &...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast , Jannine is joined by Ryan Swain for a raw, energetic and honest conversation about ADHD, misinformation, lived experience and what happens when neurodivergent people are misunderstood. Ryan has been speaking publicly about ADHD for many years, long before it became widely discussed on social media. Together, Jannine and Ryan explore the d...

Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode of ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine explores what it can feel like to be newly diagnosed ADHD or another neurodivergent profile might explain parts of your life. Diagnosis can bring relief, but it can also bring grief: grief for what might have been different if you had known sooner, anger about what was missed, and doubt about whether the diagnosis is really “true”...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 10 of the ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine is joined by Michaela from Spilling the Tea on Autism and ADHD for an honest, warm and powerful conversation about neurodivergent parenting, SEND, school struggles, advocacy, and what happens when parents are expected to become experts in systems they never asked to fight. Together, they reflect on the reality of raising neurodiverge...

Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, Jannine explores time blindness across ADHD, dyscalculia and dyslexia,  and why difficulty with time is not laziness, carelessness or a moral failing. She reflects on the idea of “now” and “not now”, the difficulty many neurodivergent people experience with estimating time, reading clocks, sequencing tasks, managing transitions, and staying anchored in the da...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 8, Jannine is joined by Vicky Flood for an honest, warm and deeply relatable conversation about living with “the big three”: ADHD, autism and dyslexia. Vicky shares her experience of late diagnosis, the relief of finally understanding herself, and the grief that can come with realising how much has been misunderstood for so long. Together, Jannine and Vicky explore how...