Women & ADHD

Episode 37 with Rihanna Teixeria. "I'm such a planner. It really throws me off when someone wants to change plans." Rihanna is the brilliant mind behind the Instagram account @thefightforbeauty , and she co-hosts a podcast of the same name.  She is passionate about sharing her story of recovering from eating disorders and chronic dieting and her Instagram focuses on showing women how t...

Episode 36 with Allie Sobool. "We are all or nothing. It's always one extreme or the other. I have a hard time being OK with being in the middle." Allie is a massage therapist, reiki healer, and SIT (Subconscious Imprinting Technique) practitioner.  Her virtual wellness business, Mortar and Mystery , was created to empower rebellious women who are ready to cut through the bullshit, con...

Episode 35 with Eir Atla. "I kept wondering: Is everyone else struggling with this, or is it just a 'me thing'?" Eir spent 15 years as a nurse, and about 10 years ago she got more involved in herbs when she was experiencing a health problem that wasn’t being properly managed with modern medicine. Herbs helped her tremendously during that time, and since then she has completed three...

Episode 34 with Dr. Lola Day. "We're hyperactive in our minds. We may be quiet, but we're thinking about 1,001 different things." Dr. Day is double boarded pediatric and fetal cardiologist as well as a productivity and work life strategist for women who have ADHD. As someone who did very well in school and was top of her class, so never thought she could have ADHD. But she also kne...

Episode 33 with Jess Keogh. "I hate relaxing. I really have to force myself to relax." Jess Keogh is the founder of The Body Positive , a counseling practice built on the principles of unconditional self-acceptance and body positivity. Jess is a qualified mental health and counseling professional with a degree in Psychological Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications. Jess first s...

Episode 32 with Sophie Gray "Feeling out of control has literally become the theme of my life." Sophie is the founder of DiveThru , a mental wellness company that helps you DiveThru what you go thru. They work with mental health professionals to create resources that help you to take charge of your mental wellbeing.  I recently joined forces with DiveThru as part of their podcast network a...

Episode 31 with Karen Broda. "Our brains keep the party alive for everyone around us." Karen is a certified personal trainer and wellness coach for women with ADHD. She lives in the beautiful province of British Columbia, and her coaching is rooted in mindfulness and learning to ‘get out of your head’ so you can begin to master your own mind and physical body.  We talk all about the variou...

Episode 30 with Patricia Sung. "We are the queens of rationalizing and overthinking." Patricia helps disorganized moms get their "it" together one step at a time and feel confident running their family life. After years of serial entrepreneurship and teaching middle school, she has a uniquely practical perspective on strategies for building a life that works when your brain is diff...

Episode 29 with Anna Lopez. “I really want patients to be able to advocate and push for what they deserve as a patient. You deserve good care. You deserve answers. You deserve to bring up questions and not be thought that you're stupid for asking these questions or thinking that you might have something.” Anna is a psychiatric physician assistant with a Master's Degree in Counseling and sh...

Episode 28 with Lisa Piana. "I am an absolute mess, and simultaneously quite organized. It’s a strange juxtaposition." Lisa is a coach specializing in organizing solutions for moms with ADHD. She considers herself a natural born organizer with a really messy brain! As an “organizing junkie,” Lisa has spent most of her adult life researching popular strategies on how to organize a home, man...

Episode 27 with Rebecca Del Pozo. "I’ve always loved learning. I just didn’t love school." Rebecca is a real estate agent who lives with her family in British Columbia and has learned to reframe her ADHD and use it to her advantage as a business owner (and she coaches others to do the same). Rebecca has been an entrepreneur since 2003, when she founded her first business, a top-producing r...

Episode 26 with Rachel Morgan-Trimmer "We are used to being told 'No.' Especially women with ADHD; we're invalidated all the time." Rachel is a neurodiversity consultant, entrepreneur of 16 years, and self-described “weirdo.” She helps companies recruit, retain and develop neurodiverse staff through a unique program of workshops and coaching. She’s autistic and has ADHD, and sa...

Episode 25 with Liz Cordeiro. "No one judges me like I judge me." Liz was diagnosed with combined type ADHD in 2020. Following her diagnosis, she started her Glitter Brain blog, in which she shares her journey, her stories, her tips, and educational information about ADHD and related conditions. She currently lives in Northern Virginia, and when she’s not blogging, she enjoys spending time...

Episode 24 with Kamden Hainsworth. "Do you want to be organized or less messy because you want it, or because society tells you that’s what a functional adult looks like?" Kamden was diagnosed with ADHD in the fall of 2019 at the age of 36. Even though she was a teacher for years and taught lots of kids with ADHD, and even though her own daughter was diagnosed with ADHD, she still didn’t r...

Episode 23 with Marcy Solis. "It's not so much a problem that we can't pay attention. It's more like we don't have control of the wheel. The car is going, but we can't steer where it's heading." Marcy is a 35-year-old, non-binary parent who was diagnosed with ADHD last May. Looking back over their life, they knew they thought and functioned a little differently from...

Episode 22 with ADHD Bri. "I think ADHDers often get treated like they’re immature. We need to have more respect when explaining how ADHD works." Bri started drawing her comics last year after receiving a late diagnosis of predominately inattentive ADHD at the age of 29. Upon learning about ADHD, she felt like her whole world started to make sense. Already a freelance illustrator by trade,...

Episode 21 with Kerry Mead. "It's almost like you attract other neurodiverse people to you when you are neurodiverse." Kerry is a music obsessive, book obsessive social butterfly and escaper of responsibilities. Kerry is a full-time single parent and registered carer to her oldest child who is autistic. When she isn’t busy with all of that Kerry is a writer and music editor . She write...

Episode 20 with Maaya Hitomi. "If there is anything that defies labels more than autism, I don't know what that is." Maaya is an ADHD Coach and Academic Strategist who supports ADHD, autistic, and otherwise neurodivergent clients to build strategies for better coping.  In Maaya’s coaching and consulting practice Structured Success , she builds upon her Master’s training in Psychology,...

Episode 19 with Annabel Louise Walker. "I don't view it as a deficit; I view it as a difference. I believe it's difficult, but only because we live in a neurotypical world." Annabel was diagnosed with ADHD during lockdown, and since then she has made it her mission to inspire other ADHDers to see the positives of living with a ‘galaxy brain’ and to educate people about what it is l...

Episode 18 with Taucha Post. "Whenever my boss asked to see me in his office, I would think, ‘That's it. I'm done. I've been found out. Better pack up my desk.’" Taucha is a certified yoga teacher and registered speech therapist who teaches yoga to empower fellow ADHDers through breath, movement, and the occasional f-bomb. Taucha was diagnosed 3 years ago at the of 31, after li...

Episode 17 with Kate Moryoussef. “I feel less exhausted, less mentally drained, because I’m no longer constantly trying to figure out what’s wrong with me.” Kate is a UK-based wellbeing & emotional freedom coach, host of The Ambitious Mum Podcast and a mother to four kids. She’s passionate about helping people rediscover their confidence, wellbeing, creativity and clarity, while tapping into t...

Episode 16 with Yakini Pierce. "I don't know if ADHD is connected to being an empath, but I just feel people. I feel their happiness, I feel their pain." Yakini is a mom with ADHD who has two children, both with ADHD. She has an MBA and degrees in engineering and mass communications, but her strong passion is advocating for parents that have children with ADHD, parents and adults in ge...

Episode 15 with Katy Weber. “My ADHD diagnosis has shifted how I talk to myself in such a radical way.” As you probably know by now, I was diagnosed last year at the age of 45. We go into more detail about what led to my own diagnosis, as well as some of the early signs of ADHD in my own life, including my complicated relationship with academia, my career as a newspaper journalist, my PPD and PPA...

Episode 14 with Elizabeth Brink. “It’s a lifelong process of seeing yourself in the past — even from just last week — and realizing, 'Yeah, that was the ADHD.’" Elizabeth is an ADHD coach who helps women with ADHD get unstuck. Her clients are building skills to live with less shame while managing ALL the things of life, work, and family. She’s also trained and mentored by some of the ADHD...

Episode 13 with Emily Prokop. "I absolutely love my hyper focus as long as I can harness it." Emily is a speaker, author, podcaster, and journalist. She’s been podcasting since 2015 and a podcast listener even longer. She has two podcasts: The Story Behind , which was nominated for a Webby Award in 2019 and has since turned into a best-selling book , and Hate to Weight where she and her co...