Thunder bolts and lightning, very very…frustrating! This episode is proof that three women failed by the system uniting really can cause a storm! Alongside being an award-winning Documentary Maker, Creative Director, Author, and Yoga Instructor, Hana Walker- Brown also has the patience of a Saint! This legendary lady persevered with this absolutely chaotic episode in which we battled the elements. A terrible storm caused internet problems, with Dawn getting booted off Zoom multiple times! There ...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 31
You will likely already have heard of the wonderful Sam Brown, aka Mrs ADHD. Whether you have or not, you are in for a right treat! Sam is a regular Co-host of The ADHD Adults Podcast. She is on the Board of Trustees of the charity ADHD Adult UK , and she is married to the legendary Professor James Brown from Episode 5; who incidentally, was the first to point out that Sam is ADHDAF! We are so very grateful to Sam for hopping aboard the late ADHD diagnosis rollercoaster with us for one hell of a...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE is a wee blether in which we hear the ADHD journey of Rebecca Cowley; the incredibly talented creator of our ADHDAF X Working Clasp collaborative jewellery collection . Rebecca contacted us at the start of August, when our listeners began requesting ADHDAF merchandise. We had put a poll on our stories asking what they would like, when Rebecca slid into our DMs offering us the gift of DOPAMINE! She very kindly gifted us her handmade Dopamine Molecule Collection as...
Nov 17, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 29
A massive thank you to Riona O Connor for sharing her very fresh ADHD diagnosis journey with us! If you haven’t already heard of Ireland’s finest, Riona is an actor; who prior to Motherhood performed in the West End. Finding theatre schedules too demanding once starting a family, she scratched her performing itch by creating comedic content on her social media platform, for which she has gained an enormous following: @rionaoconnor_ Alongside her content creation, and comedy songwriting { check o...
Nov 15, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Our late ADHD diagnosis rollercoaster ride is currently in a trough. But despite us both finding ourselves in the midst of a bit of a depressive episode, this is not a depressing episode! We kick off with some ranting about the appalling Guardian article that has left the ADHD community feeling like the butt of a very bad joke. Thank you to everyone who has shared our open letter to The Guardian. Here's a link if you've not seen it and would like to encourage an apology: https://www.instagram.co...
Nov 08, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 28
We are so grateful to ADHD Babes for joining us on the late ADHD diagnosis rollercoaster, and so excited to share this insightful interview with two absolute mega babes! ADHD Babes founder Vivienne Isebor & Podcast Producer Shauna Campbell share their late ADHD diagnosis stories and the work of their incredible Community Group for Black Women & Non-Binary people with ADHD. Us newly ‘diagnosed’ neurodivergent neighbours are on a mission to raise much needed awareness about ADHD! But we ar...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 27
We conclude ADHD Awareness Month with this VERY SPECIAL Episode in which some of our amazing listeners share what they want the world to know about ADHD. The theme for ADHD Awareness Month 2022 is ‘Understanding a Shared Experience’, and we feel incredibly privileged to be able to use our platform to empower our listeners to share their ADHD experience with the world! Back in August we ran a campaign on our socials called ‘It Only Takes a Minute ADHDAF’ in which we asked followers to share a one...
Oct 25, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Welcome to the wonderful world of Sheri Scott, aka @foreveryoursbetty We are both longterm fans of this incredible creative's content, so we feel very lucky and incredibly grateful to have had a blether with this absolute tangerine dream! Glasgow's finest Sheri, is a multi-hyphenate - very appropriately nicknamed 'the ideas factory'. Her flame haired head hosts a brilliant brain constantly buzzing with brightly coloured ideas, which she uses to put the fire into businesses. From high fashion to ...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 25
On Tuesday 4th October Dawn went for an NHS ADHD Assessment in Aberdeen. We couldn't believe that her long awaited diagnosis day was falling in ADHD Awareness Month, AND on the day we hit 100K downloads! Suffice to say, this was not the episode we thought we would be putting out! This is an Episode of two parts. As planned, we wanted to share this very important experience in real time, so began by the pre preparation and feelings the day before the big day to help others awaiting their assessme...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 24
This is a very special episode for ADHD Awareness Month! Part 2 of our collaboration with The ADHD Adults… In Part 1, Dr Alex Conner and Dr James Brown interview us on their Podcast - Tap here to listen: https://www.adhdadult.uk/podcast/ Or watch us squirm in our first ever interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/hyzm9AMjOqQ In this episode, we swap roles (PHEW!) and invite Alex and James onto ADHDAF for our standard, disorganised, rambling blether. The four of us have joined forces to highl...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Jenny Okolo is a lead psychiatric occupational therapist, and an award-nominated mental health advocate, with extensive experience in the criminal justice sector. This summer Jenny became a TEDx Speaker for TEDxNHS. In her incredible talk she invited listeners to challenge the limits of their empathy, displaying the enormous impact compassion can have. ‘TEDxNHS was founded as a unique movement to enable the voices of NHS staff and patients to be heard on a national stage and spread their learnin...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 22
This EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE is a wee blether with Phionna McInnes about her AMAZING Aberdeen event for ADHD Awareness Month🎗 We welcome you to team weird and invite you to ‘You, Me & ADHD’, a ladies lunch at The Chester Hotel on 2nd October 12-4pm Bringing the Aberdeen ADHD women’s community together and raising funds for Phionna’s incredible charity We Too! ,which empowers families of children with disabilities in NE Scotland. We are honoured to have been asked to join the panel; a Lo...
Sep 20, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Joe Charlan is both a legend, and ADHDAF family! Freshly diagnosed Joe was born and educated as female in the 70s and 80s - which will likely play a large role in why he’s only just been diagnosed at the age of 46! Mancunian Joe, a Commissioning Manager supporting people with disabilities, now identifies as a transgender man. Right at the very start of this podcast, Joe reached out thanking us for our statement of inclusion re gender and sexuality and we hit it off. We’ve had a mutual appreciati...
Sep 20, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 21
We can’t believe we’ve made twenty episodes… ironically, that’s probably due to imposter syndrome! This is a really meaty episode(!) in which we share our insta story poll results, our personal reflections, and answer your ‘ask us anything’ questions. Never has their been a week where we have achieved so much and felt like such total failures! Comparison is the thief of joy, and imposter syndrome and dopamine deficiency suck all of the glory out of the wins! We’ve ended up letting the above upse...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Hanna, is so driven to achieve her healthy eating and fitness goals that she motivates others to do the same online: @hannabfitness So it could be a surprise to hear that Hanna was diagnosed this year with ADHD at the age of 40! BUT, what we have learnt on our late diagnosed ADHD mission is that THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL! Despite the similarities between ADHDers there are as many differences. The areas in which some of us struggle to survive, some thrive and vice versa. Unlike us, and many o...
Sep 06, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This episode comes with an ENORMOUS TRIGGER WARNING! Containing mentions of: ED, BN, AN, ABW, BDD, BI, BETRS, COE, EDNOS, MH, SH, CA, SUI Please handle this episode with care, and don’t listen if any of the above or any mentions of disordered eating are triggering for you. If you are struggling with disordered eating in any form, please reach out for the help you need. One example of a fantastic charity: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ We cover this topic extremely reluctantly! As we bum...
Aug 30, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Imagine getting a private diagnosis after hearing the lengthy wait for an NHS ADHD assessment, only to then have said diagnosis denied by the NHS! That’s exactly what happened to our next guest earlier this year… New Yorker, Nicole followed her heart to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lives with her Scottish husband and works as a writer. She’s currently reviewing acts performing in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ADHD Shared Care, in a nutshell: is where a specialist (ie a private Psychiatrist) s...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Undiagnosed ADHDers can’t cope. The NHS can’t cope. And we can’t cope with constantly hearing from listeners just how broken the ADHD (in particular the adult ADHD) diagnostic system is! We haven’t started this podcast to get internet points, we’ve done it to help others like us. We get multiple messages daily telling us our ramblings are helping people feel validated and less alone in their suffering, which is incredible! BUT, what we really want is to help (even in a tiny way) to influence sys...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 16
We are so grateful to Helen Anderson for joining us on the late ADHD diagnosis rollercoaster, and so excited to share this insightful and hilarious interview with an absolute powerhouse! Helen humbly introduces herself as an ‘Internet Person’ (ADHDers tend to self deprecate) Helen is in fact an internet sensation! She has an ENORMOUS online following of her YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/helenmelonlady which she began vlogging on a decade ago. Her straight- talking, no BS attitude, body po...
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 15
We are reunited in Aberdeen, after Laura's couple of weeks on the road selling her handmade wears at The Secret Garden Party. Not only does that explain the length of this episode (us neurodivergent neighbours had a lot of catching up to do!) but it also led us to the topic of this Episode. With Dawn studying 3D Design at University and Laura into her 12th year as a creative entrepreneur with @hathor.hedonism, evidently we are both very much creatives. However, as we always say - ADHD is not a o...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 14
We are so excited about this Episode. It’s a bit longer than usual; as Louise shared so many pearls, we didn’t want to cut any out! (Hence why there’s minimal into/outro from us) As many of you will be aware, Louise Williams is an absolute LEGEND! She has an incredible blog - Pink Pear Bear - and ADHD support groups of the same name. Louise has been making much needed noise about mental health for seven years online. She has helped so many ADHDers and continues to do so with her ENORMOUS online ...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Apologies in advance that the sound isn’t the usual standard. We had to record this on the road - literally! In every Episode of ADHDAF we invite you to join us on our late ADHD diagnosis journey, but in this particular instalment you are joining us on an actual journey too(!) from north east Scotland down to Blackpool in a car full to the rafters of festival accessories, with a surprise guest appearance from Laura’s Husband Big. Reason being, we have to hold our hands up at this point and admit...
Jul 19, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 12
We still can’t believe this happened! Award winning Australian Author, feminist icon and absolute legend Clementine Ford shares her ADHD story with us in this very special episode. Clementine’s bestselling book ‘Fight Like a Girl’ is the essential feminists manifesto. Her other incredible writing work includes: ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ and her latest book: ‘How We Love.’ Previously a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life; Clementine is also a regular contributor to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald....
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Following on from our slightly controversial opinions voiced in our interview with Dr Alex Conner of The ADHD adults Podcast; this week we are deep diving into booze. NOT LITERALLY! We reveal our story poll results, which we were pretty surprised by, whilst giving our personal answers and reflections. After divulging our own experiences as undiagnosed ADHDers and alchohol we share some information from experts. We conclude with our weekly segment ‘the most ADHD thing we’ve done this week. We hop...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This is a really special one! In this episode, we interview the other half of the duo who inspired us to start this podcast with theirs - The ADHD Adults Podcast. Dr Alex Conner: - Reader in Biomedical Science Communication at the University of Birmingham Medical School - Co-founder of the charity ADHD Adult UK - Co-founder of Focus, a free online magazine about Adult ADHD - Co-host of the aforementioned podcast with Dr James Brown (ADHDAF Episode 5), which continues to be an enormous help to us...
Jun 28, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This Episode comes with multiple trigger warnings, and it was incredibly triggering for us to record. We explore the many ways in which undiagnosed ADHD has cost us in ‘romantic’ relationships throughout our lives. We distinguish this type of relationship, as we will cover other types of personal relationships ADHD Tax has cost us in a future episode. The quotation marks are also there for irony! LOLS! We deep dive into how undiagnosed ADHD can destroy romantic relationships, backed up with some...
Jun 21, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 8
We still can't believe that our second ADHDAF guest is the one and only Sophia Hilton! The owner of the Not Another Brand has completely disrupted the industry in the last 6 years. Starting with the most talked about salon, Not Another Salon. She then went on to open 3 more companies, including an the biggest selling in-person academy in the UK, a social media consultancy company and retail. Recently, her Not Another Online learning Platform has over 4000 students across 52 countries worldwide a...
Jun 14, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this Episode we discover the meaning and horrifying statistics of ADHD Tax. We share our story poll answers before exploring our own experiences in answering those questions. ADHD Tax is an enormous topic! Deep diving into it, we realised that we’ve already explored the health aspect in our Self-Care Episode. For this one, we focus more on money, employment and financial struggles, before divulging how we personally rebel against ADHD Tax. In a future Episode we will explore the relationships...
Jun 07, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This one's totes emosh! In this episode, we interview one half of the duo who inspired us to start this podcast with theirs - The ADHD Adults Podcast. Dr James Brown: - Associate Professor, School of Biosciences Aston University - Co-founder of the charity ADHD Adult UK - Co-founder of Focus , a free online magazine about Adult ADHD - Co-host of the aforementioned podcast with Dr Alex Conner, which continues to be an enormous help to us both on our late ADHD diagnosis journeys Despite causing Ja...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Unmasking...how do we do it?! No really! Trying to unlearn the learnt behaviour of hiding our neurodivergence to ‘fit in’. In this episode we divulge the stats from our Masking insta Poll {@adhdasfemales} before answering the questions ourselves. We share the ways in which we have historically masked ADHD, and explore how to take off the mask. We conclude with our weekly segments; ‘Differences’ to display how differently ADHD can present from person to person and ‘The most ADHD thing we have eac...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 4
