Women & ADHD

Episode 87 with Amy Marie Hann. “We try so hard to do all these things, and we end up feeling like failures. In reality, we’re just supposed to be doing life in a different way.” Amy Marie is an ADHD advocate, entrepreneur and mom of 3 young kids. She was diagnosed with ADD in kindergarten but found motherhood and especially being a stay-at-home mom to be the most challenging season for her brain....

Episode 86 with Dr. Tamara Rosier. “We have a toggle like a light switch — we’re either on or off. We don’t have a dimmer switch.” Dr. Rosier is the founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, where she and her staff work with individuals with ADHD (and their families) to learn strategies and develop new skills to live effectively with ADHD.  Dr. Rosier is also the president of the ADHD Coaches O...

Episode 85 with Tennille Boyer. “After I googled rejection sensitive dysphoria, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this explains every fight we’ve ever had.’” Tennille is a full-time working mom of 3 who was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago in her early 40s.  After a brief stint as a TV reporter in the late 90s, she fell into the perfect career for her: sales for early-stage companies (which she discover...

Episode 84 with Jenna Wolfe. “The anxiety was crippling. I couldn’t tell anyone I was struggling because I had to be perfect and look like I had it all together.” Jenna Wolfe is a lactation counselor, parenting coach, and mom of two from Amherstburg, Ontario. She is passionate about giving moms and their littles the tools and confidence to have the relationship they deserve; one full of security,...

Episode 83 with Catherine Avery. “With neurodivergent folks, we need to recognize that if it’s already working, don’t try to fix it.” Catherine is an ADHD & productivity coach and the CEO of Productivity by Design. She believes that in order to be truly productive, you need to learn how to be intentionally unproductive.  Catherine coaches her clients through proven strategies that help them ma...

Episode 82 with KC Davis. “We work so much harder just to do the simple things everybody else can do automatically.” KC Davis is a licensed professional therapist, author, speaker, and the incredible maven behind the mental health platform Struggle Care. She is also the casual genius behind the TikTok account @domesticblisters, where her accessible advice on self-care, self-compassion, cleaning an...

Episode 81 with Rebecca Perkins. "I can take demands all the time, but if someone asks in just slightly the wrong way, my brain is like, 'Nope, I won’t do it.'" Rebecca is a neurodiverse speaker, writer, and educator based outside of Melbourne, Australia. She is the CEO and founder of My Spirited Child, an advocacy hub that provides strategies and support to parents, carers and edu...

Episode 80 with Dr. Loucresie Rupert. "Psychiatry doesn’t offer a lot of training in treating ADHD in adults and that’s a real deficit. Neurodevelopment disorders don’t just go away when we turn 18." Dr. Rupert is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who specializes in neurodiversity, children with trauma, children in foster care or who have been adopted, and adults with development...

Episode 79 with Casey-Lee Flood. "I did 5,000 things today, but I still feel inadequate because I have 10,000 things left to do." Casey-Lee is a Registered Nurse and a Holistic Health and Wellness Nurse Coach. Her company @nourishthenurturer supports other neurodivergent nurses and caregivers with their sustainable self-care.  If you work in healthcare or if you’re in a caretaking professi...

Episode 78 with Alisha Mays. "When I talk, my mind can be in 80 different places. Sometimes my brain just stops paying attention to what my mouth is saying." Alisha Mays is a PhD student in cultural anthropology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Alisha dropped out of high school, and went from getting her GED to getting her PhD. She is a first-generation college student, and she...

Episode 77 with Chelsea Uithoven. "We have this on/off switch. We can be so insanely competent when that switch is on. But when the switch is off, it’s like, ‘Uh uh, no.’" Chelsea is the founder of Part Time Wellness, the digital wellness resource for women with ADHD. Her goal is to share a more lighthearted approach to wellness and help women with ADHD see wellness as a tool to help them...

Episode 76 with Dr. Sharon Saline. "We all have different brains and we should honor neurodiversity in the same way we honor gender diversity or racial diversity or religious diversity." Dr. Saline is a clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life.  She lectures and facilita...

Episode 75 with Dr. Raafia Muhammad. "Now that more women are getting diagnosed, they’re able to talk about their experiences with each other and put their voices out there." Dr. Muhammad is the Clinical Division Chief at ADHD Online. She joined the company when they were first starting up back in August of 2020, and she focuses on individualized care of her online patients and believes th...

Episode 74 with Erica Saum. "My latest hyperfixation is candle-making. But before that, it was playing the ukulele. I learned it in a week and was like, I’m done." Erica is a teacher based in Nashville, Tenn. She considers herself a witch woman filled with love, warmth, and a love for personal growth. She is a writer for her own ADHD blog, called Unseen ADHD, she’s a photographer with her...

Episode 73 with Cate Osborn (aka Catieosaurus) "Neurodivergent people are told over and over again that they’re too much, or too loud, or that they need to be a certain way that they just fundamentally are not." Cate (aka Catieosaurus) is a certified sex educator and full-time content creator known for her frank conversations about living life with ADHD, depression, and chronic pain — all...

Episode 72 with Elaine Taylor-Klaus. "When kids are diagnosed with ADHD, there’s an underlying belief that you just need to discipline them better. That stigma doesn’t exist with other learning disabilities." Author, parent educator & certified coach, Elaine is the co-creator of ImpactParents and the Sanity School® behavior therapy training program. She is also the author of “The Essen...

Episode 71 with Sivan Hong. "After my diagnosis, I felt anger and sadness and joy all at the same time because it explained so very much." Sivan’s career spans over two decades in several industries and professions, including holding esteemed positions as a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and former partner at The Bridgespan Group. Sivan lives in Connecticut wit...

Episode 70 with Dr. Emily Anhalt. "The message we’re given is that we shouldn’t get support until we’re falling apart. That’s like waiting until you have heart disease to start doing cardio." Dr. Anhalt is a psychoanalytic psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the co-founder of Coa , an online gym for mental health.  Emily was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 7, and her doctoral...

Episode 69 with Julia Edwards. "Even if I’m by myself, I can't relax because the guilt creeps in. ADHD comes with a very lovely side of guilt and shame." Julia is a therapist and certified ADHD-Clinical Services Provider who was diagnosed with ADHD in college after immigrating to the US from El Salvador. As a specialist who also has this diagnosis, she uniquely understands the innumera...

Episode 68 with Alex Gilbert. "The most important thing, whether you’re officially diagnosed or not, is advocating for yourself." Alex was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD at the age of 8. She also knew by the age of 16 that she wanted to go into business for herself and help others who might have been struggling with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. After spending years working in leade...

Episode 67 with Carrington Bruton "I’m always pursuing something. I’m never chill. For someone who is inattentive, my brain is hyperactive." Carrington is an actress, best known for her breakout role as ‘Jill’, on the show ‘Empire’. She is also an influencer, a published author, and the CEO of Temple Face & Body , a clean luxury skincare brand.  Carrington was diagnosed with ADHD and A...

Episode 66 with Karis Knight "I now realize why we’re all such great problem solvers — it's because we can’t stop thinking about the problem until it’s solved." Karis Yves Knight is a visual artist based in Scotland. Her ongoing project called “The V.O.W (The Voice of Women)” came about in an effort to showcase how diverse and multifaceted we are as women. She interviews and gets to kn...

Episode 65 with Dr. Sam Hiew "Growing up in an Asian country, we didn’t talk about mental health. If you’re struggling, you need to suck it up and get over it." Dr. Hiew is the Director of  ADHD Girls  in the UK, and has an extensive background in communications and cancer research. Raised in Malaysia, she won the Malaysian Prime Minister’s scholarship to study her postgraduate degree in t...

Episode 64 with Raegan Cotton "Even after I was diagnosed, I still had so much doubt. I wondered if I was just using ADHD as an excuse to make myself feel better." Raegan is 25 years old and lives in Denver. She works for the political advocacy non-profit New Era Colorado. Raegan reached out to me because she is a listener of the podcast, but noted that a lot of my guests are in their 30s...

Episode 63 with Sari Solden. "A neurodiverse brain isn’t something to be fixed. Only dogs and furniture get fixed." If you had asked me when I first started this podcast who my dream guest would be, I would have said today's guest: psychotherapist, author and researcher Sari Solden. When she wrote Women and Attention Deficit Disorder back in the mid-90s, she was one of the first to loo...