ADHD Adventures with Suzi Payton

In this episode of Adventures with ADHD (YouTube and Podcast), I share my journey as an autistic individual with ADHD, Tourette's, and OCD. I discuss the importance of a strengths-based approach to neurodivergence, emphasising how focusing on strengths can help manage challenges. I reflect on my childhood experiences, the impact of my inner critic, and the significance of self-acceptance. I al...

In this conversation, I interview Melissa Kelly, an ADHD coach, who shares her journey of being diagnosed with ADHD and autism later in life. We discuss the challenges of neurodivergence, including rejection sensitivity, dysphoria and trauma responses, and emphasise the importance of self-care and energy management. The conversation also explores the debate surrounding the concept of neurodivergen...

In this episode of Adventures with ADHD, I speak with Joy Schulz, a holistic life coach and spiritual mentor, about her journey of self-discovery as a neurodivergent individual. Joy shares her experiences growing up in a cult, realising her neurodivergence, and how her spiritual awakening has shaped her identity. We discuss the importance of community, the role of human design in understanding one...

In this episode of Adventures with ADHD, I interview Gemma Hentsch about her experiences as a trans woman navigating the intersections of gender identity, neurodivergence, and the tech industry. We discuss the complexities of gender, the current climate for trans rights, and the importance of support systems. Gemma shares her journey of self-discovery, the challenges faced by the trans community,...

In this episode of Adventures with ADHD, I interview Vicki Jones, a mother of twin boys, one of whom is diagnosed ADHD and autistic (PDA). Vicki shares her journey of writing the children's book 'I've Got You', which aims to support children with neurodivergence and their families. The conversation explores the challenges and triumphs of parenting neurodivergent children, the impor...

Meet Ruth Berkoff Rubarb Cough, a talented performer who discovered her neurodivergence by writing a play! In this interview, Ruth discusses her journey to discovery and her passion for performing her play The Beauty of Being Herd, which is about a woman who goes to live as a sheep. See link to interview in the comments  Ruth gives an open an honest account of the struggles to get writing when her...

In this episode of Adventures with ADHD, I speak with Sam Roome about her journey to sobriety and the impact of alcohol on individuals with ADHD.Sam shares her personal experiences with alcohol, the challenges she faced, and the positive changes she has experienced since becoming alcohol-free. We discuss the science behind addiction, the role of dopamine, and the societal perceptions of alcohol co...

In this episode of Adventures with ADHD, I interview the multi-talented and creative Sammi Ford.   We discuss her journey to a late-in-life diagnosis of autism and ADHD and how her differently wired brain has enabled her to pursue a variety of careers (she has flown planes in the RAF and parachuted out of them!).   It hasn’t all been all highs, though, and Sammi discusses candidly her low point wh...

Victoria Russell is based in Oxford and runs two businesses - VGR Business Support, which offers accountancy and administration services and Inspired Mind UK Consulting that only launched this year, which is business coaching and mentoring for neurodivergent entrepreneurs and startups.   Growing up in the eighties it didn't even enter Victoria’s mind that she might be neurodivergent, despite h...

Tracy (Tig to her friends) has been a daughter, a mother, a grandmother, a mental health worker, a mental health patient, a singer, an actor, a lover, a writer, a friend, adrunk, a wife, fun, scary, a homeless projects worker, a customer service advisor, a museum manager, an educator, an addictions counsellor, a body harmony practitioner, dead, alive. She continues to be some of these, especially ...

Jemima Willcox is the co-founder of The Willcox Collective, The NeuroSpicy Entrepreneur, and XW3D Makes. In this podcast we learn from Jemima about: ·      What the Willcox Collective is and how it came about ·      What the heck ‘Neurospicy’ is ·      XW3D and their tactile, sensory objects that Suzi really, really wants! ·      Jemima’s own journey of neurodiversity discovers, but also from the...

Jenn Hodge is the CEO of Rama Life, a not-for-profit Alternative Education Provision, founded in January 2020. Her bold vision is to have a government funded, Rama Life provision within a 20 minute drive from every school in the country. Rama Life aim to revolutionise access to affordable alternative education for young people who are neurodivergent or who fall in the “needs gap” between mainstrea...

Ebony Newton is the founder of Dotty Black, an online gift shop which spreads positive kindness, celebrating and empowering the wonder of you, through bright and bold, gifts, cards and prints. Ebony is proudly neurodivergent, and lives in a neurodiverse family. Her autistic son lead her to discover her ADHD after years of misunderstanding what it really was.  She believes we should all live unapol...

Sara Kedge (she/her) works with corporate leaders to create inclusive, healthy and more productive workplaces that work for everyone. In this episode we discuss: ·      Sara’s journey to finding out she was neurodiverse and how that has developed her as an entrepreneur  ·      Being authentic and not covering up our lovely ADHD ways  ·      How Sara has removed tiny frictions to make life less com...

Esther Nagle discovered a new way to live when she trained to be a yoga teacher, learned new ways to manage stress and view her life, and chose sobriety after 20 years of addiction.  Now with over 9 years of sobriety under her belt, she is a recovery and embodiment coach for midlife misfits who want to have fun and remember it, helping people to find their own inner power, and see the gifts sobrie...

What is it really like to have sensory processing challenges? Have you ever felt shamed because of your response to a noise that is deemed unacceptable by society? Nikki Butler - The Autistic Joyologist and I discuss how certain sounds can be painful, change our emotional state and send us in to fight or flight mode in an instant! What prompted this raw, unedited and uncut discussion was how I fel...

In this episode I chat to the lovely Pam who was diagnosed ADHD and autistic at age 59 and says “it was enlightening because it allowed me to let myself off for so many things I’d beaten myself up for over the years”. Pam is a counsellor/psychotherapist and is also a Registered Mental Nurse with over 30 years’ experience prior to qualifying as a therapist. She has helped people with all degrees of...

In this episode I meet and chat with the fabulous Luna Rose. Luna is a neurodivergent (AuDHD/PDA) fitness consultant. A qualified personal trainer who teaches yoga, pilates and aerobics. I chat with Luna whilst she is sitting in her own Yoga & PT Studio in her local town, where she feels “happy & warm” We talk about late diagnosis Autism & ADHD and the profound impact it has had on her...

Welcome to episode 2, season 3 of Adventures with ADHD where I interview fabulous ADHD/ND folk who share their stories, the challenges and top tips to help others on their journeys. This episode features the fantastic Julia Seymore, a Solution-Focused Hypnotherapist and Coach. Find out how a vivid dream about a tiger prompted Julia to change careers! Julia also talks of how the menopause caused he...

In this episode my guest Michelle Allen & I talk about how Mindset is linked to feelings, thoughts and your physical self. Listen to find out how Michelle went from “analysing being a human , rather than being a human” to embracing her late diagnosed Autism by writing a book , and helping others with Mindset as a Business coach. We discuss how mindset is a step by step journey, and is not as e...

`Nikki and I discuss how we feel that the recent documentary which exposed a small number of private ADHD clinics as carrying out non-detailed assessments has highly likely have caused psychological harm to the ADHD community. We offer our opinions, insights and discuss our own assessments which we both sought privately. What are your thoughts? Has this documentary and the backlash affected you? F...

In this episode Nikki Butler & I share our thoughts about the BBC documentary with Chris Packham “Inside our Autistic minds” (Episode 1) We both had so much to take away from it , Both of us had so many emotions watching the doc, from pure empathy towards the young people featured in the show, to connecting a few more dots about our own journey growing up as undiagnosed females with Autism. We...

In this episode I meet with the fabulous multi passionate Abi Lemon. Abi is a Positive Psychology Coach and Business Mentor for Leaders + Entrepreneurs with ADHD, and an advocate and spokesperson for late-diagnosis ADHD women experiencing perimenopause. Find out how whilst re educating during lock-down Abi’s masters degree in psychology and applied science led her to convey these words: “At that p...

Nikki and I discuss how shocked we are that high profile celebs on ITV's This Morning encouraged a person to put other's wants before her needs on a 'People pleasing' phone in! Oh the irony! Neurodivergent folk are massively susceptible to being chronic people pleasers and this messaging via the media is so dangerous! If you want to address your people pleasing tendencies and work...

In this Episode Nikki & I dig deeper into how we came to be two Solopreneurs after years of trying to prove ourselves & fit in in two drastically different, but equally hard industries; corporate law and education. I talk about how I struggled with “trying to fit a square peg into a round hole”. How masking and constantly putting on an act while working twice as hard as neurotypical peers...