Mad About... with Maddy Alexander-Grout

Message Us! Big Brother's Rob Sterzaker: Too Much, Too Loud, Too Different? FUCK THAT! What happens when you put a loud, colourful, unapologetically neurodivergent human into the Big Brother house? Well, you get Rob Sterzaker. And bloody hell, what a conversation we had! In this episode of Mad About , I'm joined by former Big Brother housemate, radio presenter and all-round fabulous huma...

Message Us! You Don't Look Like You're Struggling: The Hidden Side of ADHD – with Dr Clare Stone Just because someone looks like they've got their sh*t together doesn't mean they actually have. In this episode of Mad About , I'm joined by the brilliant Dr Clare Stone, a counselling and coaching psychologist with a specialist interest in ADHD, burnout and supporting women w...

Message Us! Apparently, being disabled now comes with a league table. Who knew? 🙃 In this episode of Mad About , Maddy is coming to you from bed, in pain, and with a bit of a rant about something that has been seriously pissing her off: disabled people being made to prove that they are “disabled enough” — and sometimes other disabled people joining in. After sharing a video about accessibility in...

Message Us! This week, I’m mad at… myself. Because apparently I’m really bloody good at teaching other people how to build businesses around their capacity, energy, pain and neurodivergent brains… and significantly less good at taking my own advice. The last few weeks have been A LOT. Media appearances. Articles. LBC. Launching Access to Business. Writing my third book. Planning a documentary abou...

Message Us! It’s been six weeks since I last picked up the podcast mic… and quite frankly, A LOT has happened. In this episode of Mad About , I’m giving you a proper life update. I talk about burnout, navigating the summer holidays with two neurodivergent kids, the frankly horrific way disabled and neurodivergent people are being talked about online and in the press, and why it’s made me even more...

Message Us! This week I'm absolutely fuming. A new Channel 4 documentary, The ADHD Myth , asks whether ADHD is really a neurodevelopmental condition and questions whether too many children are being medicated. As someone who has ADHD, has spent years coaching people with ADHD, trained in ADHD, and literally wrote a book about it... I had a few things to say. In this episode I talk about:  Why...

Message Us! Getting an ADHD diagnosis can be life-changing... but what happens after that? In this episode, Maddy is joined by ADHD empowerment and mindset coach Ileana Wainberg for an honest conversation about everything that comes after the diagnosis—the grief, the relief, the anger, the overwhelm, and the journey of finding your voice again. Together they chat about the reality of raising child...

Message Us! Grief changes everything. In this deeply honest episode of Mad About , Maddy sits down with Sacred Life Coach Karen Wybrow to talk about what happens after unimaginable loss—and how you slowly begin to rebuild a life you never expected to be living. Karen shares the story of losing her husband, Ben, to bowel cancer at just 39 years old while raising two young daughters. Together, Maddy...

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...