Episode 140 with Jennifer Salzman. “The alcohol was dulling the anxiety and the stress, but it was also dulling the joy and the happiness.” When Jennifer was diagnosed with adult ADHD in her 40s she realized that she had spent more than 20 years self-medicating her symptoms with alcohol. Drinking was the easiest and fastest way to shut off the constant chatter in her brain. She also discovered that alcohol abuse among people with ADHD is much more common than it is in people without the conditio...
Jun 05, 2023•44 min•Ep. 140
Episode 139 with María-Victoria Albina. “I'm a ‘get it done now or put it in a doom box and forget about it forever’ kind of gal.” María-Victoria is a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, a Somatic Master Life Coach, and the host of the popular Feminist Wellness podcast. She describes her narrative as the typical “kid with ADHD” story. As a child, she was in the gifted & talented program but always getting in trouble because of “behavioral issues.” It wasn’t until she was falling behind i...
May 29, 2023•55 min•Ep. 139
Episode 138 with Sara Kelly. “The only reason this is a disability is because neurotypical standards are outside of what comes easy for us.” Sara is an ADHD Mindset Coach from Vancouver. Despite studying mindfulness and trying countless coaching programs, she still couldn't find the inner peace and happiness she desired and struggled for years with depression, anxiety, and overwhelm. It wasn’t until she discovered she has ADHD and Autism that she realized traditional coaching programs with their...
May 22, 2023•48 min•Ep. 138
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 meditation into mental health therapy. Michelle saw big changes in her own life when she began practicing m...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 137
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 third sector on achieving inclusive sustainable mobility, through her business, Loud Mobility . Followin...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 136
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 the courage to allow herself to be different and instead of minimizing or masking it, to befriend her...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 135
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 Charleston, SC. Abby designs residential casegoods, accents, lighting, and collections for the home, ...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 134
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 so different from hers. And while she was aware that she struggled with inattentiveness and could be ...
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 133
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 sold her house in the suburbs, moved to an apartment in downtown Phoenix, and turned her writing an...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 132
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 we discuss the concept of 2e and how giftedness can mask and hide your disability growing up, leaving many ...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 131
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 skills to communicate effectively and improve their relationships. She also works with ADHD adults to...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 130
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 ever since then has been on a mission to figure out ways to help herself get things done. When she cou...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 129
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 podcasts by Bellesa. Her articles and expertise about sex and sexuality have been featured in a range ...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 128
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 of who they are — the joyful, the messy and everything in between. She describes her work as "where the...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 127
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 shock and the missing piece of a complex puzzle! As an empty nester, divorcee, and domestic violence sur...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 126
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 different way than society has defined it for us. After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2018 and ...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 125
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 children and families from all diverse backgrounds and helped families with their children's diagnos...
Feb 13, 2023•55 min•Ep. 124
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, particularly children of color. Using the power of her pen to lift the voices of the marginalized an...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 123
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 make me feel a little worse about my own ADHD. While it's so great to listen to so many successful a...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 122
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. Listeners in Australia can use the code DOPAMINE LOVE for 10% off. Abbie & I talk about the experience ...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 121
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 her own "experiment" with life as an ADHD mom. She helps moms with ADHD declutter their minds and f...
Jan 16, 2023•58 min•Ep. 120
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 and guided by Adlerian counseling theory and disability rights activism. Zoe & I talk all about so...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 119
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 her long and complicated road to an ADHD diagnosis after initially being diagnosed with depression....
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 118
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 clients — leaning into who they are and what they stand for. In addition to her business coaching, she a...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 117
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 Diversity and Belonging. JoJo was diagnosed with ADHD in the fall of 2021 and, like many of us, she’...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min•Ep. 116
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 language, using clear speech, reading, writing and social communication. In this role, she has worked ...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 115
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 about ADHD and works daily to empower others. In addition to her popular Instagram account, Trina t...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 114
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 for her, so she wanted to help out and give back by sharing her diagnosis story. Her journey has bee...
Nov 28, 2022•50 min•Ep. 113
Episode 112 with Annie Romanos. “We can get so busy that we just forget things. We’ll be so enthralled in what we’re doing that we forget to go to the toilet or we forget to eat.” Annie is an ICF-accredited executive and ADHD coach from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her late diagnosis at 49 was a profoundly life-changing moment, and represented a missing link after years of “underachieving”, observing her high-performing clients surpass her and not being able to figure out why. Since learning more about...
Nov 21, 2022•58 min•Ep. 112
Episode 111 with Linda Yi. “My internal monologue is always asking, ‛Why does this seem so easy for other people but it’s so hard for me?’” Linda Yi is a Sichuanese-American comic-artist, food entrepreneur, and mental health advocate based in New York. She is the creator of Panda Cub Dtories, a weekly comic series about Chinese culture, Sichuan food, and living with ADHD. Panda Cub Stories has an engaged global audience of over 15,000 followers on Instagram — and has been featured in Today.com ,...
Nov 14, 2022•57 min•Ep. 111
