Mad About... with Maddy Alexander-Grout

Message Us! Advocating for Yourself, ADHD, PMDD, Perimenopause and Why Your Gut Might Be Trying to Tell You Something How many times have you left a GP appointment thinking... "I forgot to say the important bit." Or felt like you weren't being listened to? In this episode of Mad About... , I'm joined by pharmacist, nutritional therapist and self-proclaimed Godmother of Pharmaco...

Message Us! In this episode of Mad About, Maddy sits down with entrepreneur and marketing expert Laurie Burrows for a raw and honest conversation about grief, resilience, business, motherhood and finding the courage to start again. Laurie shares her extraordinary journey from launching a business in January 2020, discovering she was unexpectedly pregnant just weeks later, navigating lockdown, and...

Message Us! What do women’s pockets, ADHD, personal branding and billionaires have in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. In this thought-provoking episode, Maddy sits down with style consultant and author Samantha Harman to explore why clothing is about so much more than fashion. Together they dive into authenticity, self-expression, neurodiversity, personal branding, consumerism, gender expect...

Message Us! In this episode of Mad About , Maddy Alexander-Grout is joined by the wonderful Michael Bown , community champion, performer, theatre-lover, choir member, charity supporter, and quite possibly the busiest man alive . Michael shares what life looks like as an autistic person with big passions, a packed calendar, and a deep love for performing, community, musicals, festivals and making a...

Message Us! In this solo episode of Mad About Podcast, Maddy Alexander-Grout gets honest about ADHD, shame spirals, gym guilt, money avoidance, task paralysis, and the pressure neurodivergent people put on themselves to “do the thing.” From struggling to go to the gym without a PT, to investing money, overspending, procrastinating, and putting unrealistic expectations on herself, Maddy explores ho...

Message Us! In this episode of Mad About Podcast, Maddy Alexander-Grout sits down with Alyssa for a brilliantly honest, chaotic, funny, and emotional conversation about neurodivergence, identity, trauma, performance, and the pressure to fit into a world that often doesn’t understand different brains. Together they dive into the realities of living with ADHD, the long-lasting impact of bullying, re...

Message Us! Can ADHD Entrepreneurs REALLY Chill & Prosper? In this episode of Mad About , Maddy is joined by money mentor, bestselling author and fellow ADHD entrepreneur Denise Duffield-Thomas for a brilliant, honest and hilarious conversation about money, business, ADHD and what happens when big ideas meet dopamine. They talk about money shame, spending addiction, debt, low-ticket offers, ov...

Message Us! In this episode of Mad About , Maddy talks about something so many business owners, especially neurodivergent ones, get wrong: trying to run a business when you are already running on empty. Because let’s be honest, you cannot show up properly in your business if you are burnt out, overwhelmed, under-slept, under-fed, over-committed and ignoring your own needs. Maddy shares her VIBE Me...

Message Us! This week on Mad About , I’m joined by one of my favourite clients, the lovely Ben Gibbons. Ben is the founder of Nimble Photography, creating a safe and comfortable wedding photography experience for LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent people. But that is only part of his story. In this episode, Ben opens up about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, being outed, going through conversion therap...

Message Us! Why do autistic people take things at face value… and how can that actually put us at risk? In this episode of Mad About , I’m sharing a very real (and slightly painful 😅) story about accidentally ending up in the wrong gym class… and how that spiralled into a much bigger realisation about trust, neurodivergence, and the way we process information. We talk about:  Why autistic and ADH...

Message Us! This episode is a proper, unfiltered conversation between Maddy and Lucy Power about neurodivergence, trauma, identity, and what it really means to be yourself in a world that constantly tries to put you in a box . From ADHD and autism to trauma responses, masking, queerness, and visibility—this is a deep, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes heavy chat about how our experiences shape wh...

Message Us! Mad About with Maddy Alexander-Grout Episode: Internalised Ableism, Burnout & Owning Your Soundtrack 💥 What this episode is about This is a real, honest chat about internalised ableism — what it is, how it shows up, and why so many neurodivergent and disabled people end up pushing themselves to breaking point trying to “keep up.” Maddy shares what this has looked like in her own l...

Message Us! This one’s for my fellow multipotentialites - the humans who do all the things and want to know how to promote them without totally confusing people. I got a great question from one of my Invisible to Influential members who asked: “How do you promote your business when you do multiple things?” As someone who’s a money coach, ADHD business coach, speaker, author, visibility strategist,...

Message Us! This episode got real. I sat down with Sara-Louise Ackrill, founder of Wired Differently and co-author of The ND Lovers Club , to talk about something that's not spoken about enough: what it really means to be neurodivergent when it comes to love, money, and healing from trauma. We covered everything from late autism and ADHD diagnoses (Sara at 38, me at 37), to the impact of coer...

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Message Us! In this episode of Mad About, I’m joined by the brilliant Sophie Jane Lee, coach for voice, visibility and strategy, and author of Beyond Palatable: A Manifesto for Unapologetic Women . We chat about Sophie’s journey from running a successful business on paper while struggling deeply underneath it all, to doing the hard inner work that helped her step into who she really is. We get int...

Message Us! 100 Neurodivergent Voices This episode is different. To celebrate the 100th episode of the Mad About… Podcast , I didn’t want to make it about me. Instead, I wanted to do something bigger. For years, neurodivergent people have been spoken about, researched, analysed, labelled and misunderstood. But far too rarely are we simply given the microphone to speak for ourselves. So for this ep...

Message Us! This episode was hard to record - but also deeply needed. I'm in the thick of it right now.  My dad passed away suddenly, and I've been trying to navigate the heartbreak, PMDD, business, burnout, and the wild mess that is life with ADHD. And today, I'm sharing what it's really like to grieve with a neurodivergent brain. I talk about the guilt, the impulsive spending...

Message Us! Have you ever felt THREATENED by people in your niche? Have you avoided looking at what others are doing... or feared you'll be seen as a copy cat? In this solo episode of Mad About Business , I open up about how I used to feel paralysed seeing someone in my industry “doing better” than me... and why that feeling comes from scarcity, not strategy.  We dive into why avoiding your c...

Message Us! In this in-person episode of Mad About, I sat down with one of the most influential people in my personal transformation – Naomi Holbrook, The Unconventional Weight Loss Coach who’s completely changed how I see food, my body, and my ADHD. We talk food noise, emotional eating, PMDD, and how my impulsivity used to show up in the Lidl middle aisle (yep, I’ve brought home a sofa).  If you’...

Message Us! Today, I take you behind the scenes of what it’s really like to run a business while navigating ADHD, PMDD, and burnout. When I recorded this, I was in a dark place.  Deep in the PMDD spiral where suicidal thoughts felt consuming.  The next day, after my period came early, I feel like a different person. That’s the brutal truth of PMDD: it hijacks your brain, wrecks your energy, and di...

Message Us! This week I’m joined by the incredible Beth Thomas from Unbound Mind Coaching for a raw, relatable conversation about perfectionism, money stories, and what it really takes to love yourself as you are. We talk about growing up with mixed money messages, the shame that comes from feeling “not good enough,” and the messy middle seasons of business nobody sees on Instagram.  Beth shares p...

Message Us! I’m diving deep into the content boundaries I live by.  What I share, what I won’t share, and why visibility doesn’t have to come at the cost of your privacy. So many of us feel pressure to overshare online to be “authentic.” But the word “should” can go straight in the f*ck it bucket! You don’t owe your audience your trauma. You don’t need to crack yourself open just to stay visible....

Message Us! In this episode of Mad About Podcast , Maddy Alexander-Grout talks to Logan Blackburn-Issitt, a trans dad of six and creator of Dad’s Business .  Logan shares his powerful story of leaving a 70-hour job, embracing home education, and building a life that prioritises presence over paychecks. They discuss: Why Logan quit a high-paying job for more family time The pressure dads face to “p...

Message Us! For the past four months, I’ve been deep in what I call the ADHD funk hole. No motivation, zero focus, overwhelmed by impostor syndrome and a big fat case of “everyone hates me.” On this episode of Mad About , I’m getting brutally honest about what it’s like when visibility feels like a lie, grief and PMDD are wrecking your nervous system, and business starts slipping because you’re ju...