Women & ADHD

Episode 137 with Michelle Swerin. “I can't tell you how many jobs I had as a teenager. I mean, easily 20. I was never fired, I just lost interest really quickly.” Michelle is a licensed therapist, certified meditation teacher, and certified instructional designer. She is also a neurodivergent mother of two and the founder of Create Space Health, a telehealth clinic focused on incorporating med...

Episode 136 with Georgia Yexley. “After my diagnosis, I was flooded with memories. There was all this footage that I was scrolling through and analyzing with a new lens.” Georgia is an inclusive sustainable mobility expert and advocate based in London. Having worked with hundreds of cities across the globe on achieving their sustainable transport aims, she now advises the public, private, and thir...

Episode 135 with Diana Costea. “Society wants us to focus on one thing and do it well, but that will never be me.” Diana is a 22-year-old from Romania. She has a degree in psychology and is currently volunteering in Turkey as a youth worker and English teacher with the European Solidarity Corps Program. Diana discovered her ADHD a little over a year ago, and since then, she feels she finally has t...

Episode 134 with Abby Lane. “I was always a ‘more, more, more’ kind of person. Then COVID came along and it was all too much.” Abby is a creative entrepreneur, furniture designer, wife, and mom to an amazing 9-year-old son. She has a nearly 20-year career designing furniture and has for the last 12 years successfully run her own company, Redhead Furniture Design, a freelance design firm based in C...

Episode 133 with Pippa Simou. “I think I’ve been tired my entire life. It’s absolutely exhausting having this brain.” Pippa is a former teacher, now ADHD advocate, trainer, and coach, and the founder of The ADD-vantage, a support service hub for girls and women with ADHD.  When Pippa’s son was diagnosed with ADHD, it never occurred to her that she also might have ADHD because his presentation was...

Episode 132 with Vanessa Torre. “I felt like I had no control over my chattiness. I kept googling ‛Why can’t I stop talking?’ And every single result came back with ‛Have you considered ADHD?’” Vanessa is a writer, speaker, and coach living her best life in Phoenix, Arizona. About a year ago at the of age 48, Vanessa quit her 20+ year corporate career to pursue her creative passions full-time. She...

Episode 131 with Annie Crowe. “I haven’t fixed my ADHD or Autism. I’ve simply embraced the chaos, and I’ve put a lot of systems and strategies in place to help me live.” Annie is a late-identified Autistic ADHD disability rights lawyer and internationally recognized neurodiversity advocate based in Australia. Annie is also a "twice exceptional" adult (or 2e meaning gifted and disabled) and...

Episode 130 with Anita Robertson. “What’s hard for us is easy for everybody else. And what’s hard for everyone else is really easy for us.” Anita is a psychotherapist in Austin, Texas, and the author of ADHD & Us: A Couple’s Guide to Loving and Living with Adult ADHD .  Anita works with adults and couples, and she created the ADHD Relationship Bootcamp to help neurodiverse couples develop new...

Episode 129 with Marie Ng. “My brain can get foggy. When thereʼs too much happening and my brain canʼt process everything, thatʼs when I zone out and just ignore everything.” Marie lives in Melbourne, and she is the founder of Llama Life , a desktop productivity app that helps you work THROUGH your to-do list, not just make never-ending ones. Marie was diagnosed with ADHD over a decade ago, and ev...

Episode 128 with August McLaughlin. “Puberty was really difficult for me. I used to think everyone had a really hard time, but now I realize hormones and ADHD played a big role in that.” August is a journalist, author of several books, and the host & producer of Girl Boner Radio , which was named “one of the best sex podcasts you should be listening to” by Romper and one of the top feminist po...

Episode 127 with Meghann Birks. “I remember always being surprised when people would say, ‛Stop interrupting!’ because I didn’t even know I was doing it.” Meghann is a Certified Professional Coach, embodiment educator and Steel Mace flow teacher based in Australia. She was diagnosed with ADHD at 38 (to nobody's great surprise) and now supports women in midlife who are seeking to show up as all...

Episode 126 with Susan Young. “There are so many women in midlife or older who are undiagnosed. As awareness grows, more and more people in midlife are getting diagnosed.” Susan is a certified holistic life coach, multi-passionate artist, and the founder of Triple Moon Coaching. She specializes in midlife reinvention for women over 50. Her recent ADHD diagnosis at the age of 56 was a complete shoc...

Episode 125 with Marnie Bothmer. “I feel like society tells you that you’re weird, so you learn to not like who you are. But now I realize I really like my silly, impulsive side.” Marnie is a fitness professional who believes that fitness can be utilized as a tool for increasing confidence and empowerment. She works with people who are going through something in life to view movement in a differen...

Episode 124 with Raelene Sebastian. “I read a list of symptoms and tears just streamed out of my eyes. There was such relief but also sadness — like, how did I never know this?” Rae is a 25-year-old Australian-born Filipino woman and a military spouse who works as a Recruitment Consultant in an agency that hires childcare educators in Sydney. A former childcare educator herself, Rae has supported...

Episode 123 with Denisha Michele Seals. “I have ASD, ADHD, and C-PTSD. They’re all having conversations with each other about who’s going to be dominant today.” Denisha is a spoken word artist, award-winning filmmaker, and author from Omaha, Nebraska. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse and trauma, she advocates for more awareness and understanding of the emotional toll abuse victims experience,...

Episode 122 with Emily Weinberg. “Sometimes we just ramble and talk in circles. I frequently have to stop myself and ask, Did that make any sense?” Emily is currently a stay-at-home mom of 2 four-year-olds. She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2021 at the age 36. Emily reached out to me and had this to say: “At the start of my diagnosis, while I loved listening to your show, sometimes it would actually...

Episode 121 with Abbie Cardwell. “I was always told that I was a bit too much. It’s like our volume has been ramped up to 11.” Abbie is an accomplished musician living in Byron Bay, Australia. She has won several awards and was also a competitor on Season 1 of Australia’s The Voice. In addition to her music, she also owns Abbie’s Alchemy , a gorgeous line of eco-friendly cleaning products. Listene...

Episode 120 with Tracy Nolin Beerman. “I have a list called the Green Room. It’s where I put all of my thoughts and ideas so they’re safe and don’t keep running through my mind.” Tracy is a certified Life Mastery Consultant and host of the Vision Driven Mom with ADHD podcast. She has combined her experience with decades of yoga, meditation, and mind/body work, with life transformation coaching and...

Episode 119 with Zoe Darazsdi. “Even though I don’t necessarily have the desire to fit in, I think being understood is the greatest feeling on Earth.” Zoe is a neurodivergent mental health counselor who specializes in empowering autistic and ADHD clients. She has helped countless teens and adults to navigate the challenges and gifts of living with a unique brain. Her practice is trauma-informed an...

Episode 118 with Priyanka Patel. “We can’t stand injustice. We like to fight for what’s right. And when something isn’t right, we can get really riled up.” Priyanka is a mental health pharmacist based in Manchester who was diagnosed last year and is now working to raise awareness of ADHD among healthcare professionals and help improve the assessment & diagnosis process in the UK. We talk about...

Episode 117 with Megan Dowd. “I always listened to music while doing homework. It was like I had to distract one half of my brain so the other half could focus.” Megan is a neurodivergent entrepreneur, brand therapist, business strategist, and coach. With her Human First, Biz Second® approach, she helps new and seasoned business owners build a better human connection with themselves and their clie...

Episode 116 with JoJo Abdi. “The beautiful thing about this diagnosis is that my mask has come off and now I get to be me.” Khadijo (Jojo) Abdi is a Somali-born writer, poet, and educator living in Minneapolis, MN. Her poetry and essays have been published in Lyricality, Minnesota Women’s Press, and in the anthology by Freedom Voices, Muslim American Writers At Home: Stories, Essays, and Poems of...

Episode 115 with Lauren Yuile. “My friend had this really good analogy: It’s like all this time you were trying to put a puzzle together without the lid of the box. And finally someone has given you the lid.” Lauren is a speech pathologist who lives in Sydney, Australia. She supports children and young adults with difficulties in different areas of communication, such as using and understanding la...

Episode 114 with Trina Haynes. “I’m in perpetual burnout. I try to do all the things and then my body gives up on me and I’m on my couch for a week. It’s been this way for as long as I can remember.” Trina is an ADHD advocate and founder of My Lady Adhd, a robust online community for ADHDers. She was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in her mid-30s and immediately began working to educate the public...

Episode 113 with Marisa Gonzales. “When I want to learn about something new, I really dive deep. And then who knows how long it’ll take for me to get out of that hole?” Marisa is a Mexican-American brand strategist and website designer from Kansas. She reached out to me because she started listening to this podcast after her diagnosis and these interviews and conversations have been life-changing...