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by Kate Moryoussef
Are you struggling with the challenges of life as a woman with ADHD? Perhaps you need support with your mental and physical wellbeing, so you can feel calmer, happier and more balanced? Perhaps you’re newly diagnosed with ADHD – or just ADHD curious – and don’t know where to turn for support. Or perhaps you’re wondering how neurodivergence impacts your hormones or relationships? If so, the ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast is for you. This podcast is hosted by Kate Moryoussef, an ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author, EFT practitioner, mum of four, and late-in-life diagnosed with ADHD herself. Each week, thousands of women just like you tune in to hear Kate chat with top ADHD experts, thought leaders, professionals and authors. Their powerful insights will help you harness your health and enhance your life as a woman with ADHD. From tips on nutrition, sleep and motivation to guidance on regulating your nervous system, dealing with anxiety and living a calmer and more balanced life, you’ll find it all here. The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast will help you live alongside your ADHD with more awareness, self-compassion and acceptance. It’s time to put an end to self-criticism, judgment and blame – and get ready to live a kinder and more authentic life. “Mindblowing guests!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Brilliant and so life-affirming” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “So, so grateful for this!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Obsessed with this pod on ADHD!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, Kate Moryoussef shares the psychology and science behind the challenges faced by women with ADHD and lays out a roadmap for you to uncover your authentic self. With practical lifestyle tools on how to manage mental, emotional, physical, and hormonal burnout and lean into your unique strengths to create more energy, joy, and creativity, this book will help you (re)learn to not only live with this brain difference but also thrive with it.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 3m
40 Years of ADHD: What Pioneer Dr Kathleen Nadeau Has Learned About ADHD Women, Late Diagnosis & Thriving
You're understanding your ADHD. But what happens when you’re ready to actually live differently? Join me live in Manchester this December for The Next Chapter — an immersive event for women ready to move beyond understanding their ADHD and explore what comes next with more confidence, self-compassion and permission to be themselves. All surrounded by like-minded neurodivergent women who truly get it. Ready for your next chapter? Find out more: Book your place here. ________________________________________ For decades, ADHD research focused overwhelmingly on hyperactive boys while girls and women with ADHD were missed, misdiagnosed or told they were anxious or depressed. ADHD expert, Dr Kathleen Nadeau has spent more than 40 years helping to change our understanding of ADHD in women. On this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by internationally recognised clinical psychologist, author and ADHD pioneer Kathleen G. Nadeau, PhD. Kathleen has written or co-authored 18 books on ADHD and was awarded the CHADD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025. Her ground breaking work has helped bring ADHD in girls, women and older adults into a conversation that once centred almost entirely on hyperactive young boys. And having ADHD herself, alongside decades of clinical experience and generations of ADHD within her own family, Kathleen brings a perspective that goes far beyond diagnostic criteria. We talk about what ADHD looked like when Kathleen entered the field in the 1970s, why so many intelligent girls and women were missed and what happens when a woman spends her life believing she simply needs to try harder. We also get into hormones, perimenopause and postpartum mental health, the physical conditions increasingly being seen alongside ADHD and why our healthcare systems still struggle when women’s physical and mental health needs intersect. But this isn’t only a conversation about what has gone wrong. Kathleen talks beautifully about finding the environment in which your ADHD brain can thrive, the healing that can come with a later-life diagnosis and why women need connection with other women who finally understand. You do not have to spend the rest of your life trying to make yourself fit the wrong environment. Sometimes, you need to plant yourself in a different garden. ________________________________________ In this episode, we cover: How our understanding of ADHD has changed since Kathleen began working in the field in the late 1970s Why ADHD was once seen almost entirely as a condition affecting hyperactive young boys The moment Kathleen began recognising ADHD in parents, adults and within her own family Why bright, high-achieving children can have ADHD even when they're doing exceptionally well academically Looking beyond traditional ADHD diagnostic criteria to understand the wider experience How girls and women with ADHD were overlooked and the work that began changing that Rejection sensitivity, feeling different and the impact of growing up without an explanation for your ADHD Why ADHD can be both challenging and a source of curiosity, connection and different ways of thinking Whether our schools and workplaces are asking ADHD brains to function in environments that don't suit them ADHD hormones, puberty, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause and why the research is still catching up Why women's ADHD symptoms have so often been misdiagnosed as anxiety or depression What happens when psychiatry, women's health and other areas of medicine operate in separate silos The physical conditions and health difficulties increasingly being seen alongside ADHD Why connection with other ADHD women can be such an important part of healing Receiving an ADHD diagnosis in your 60s, 70s or later, and navigating grief for the life you might have lived Why a late diagnosis can offer more healing than regret Kathleen's “right garden” approach and finding the environments, relationships and work where you can thrive High-achieving ADHD women who hold everything together at work before collapsing behind closed doors The invisible expectations still placed on women to manage families, homes, relationships and emotional labour Why ADHD treatment needs to go beyond medication, coaching or therapy in isolation Learning to care for yourself, follow your heart and stop measuring yourself by how well you meet everyone else's needs Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Kathleen Nadeau 02:25 - Kathleen's personal ADHD “learning lab” 04:00 - Working with ADHD since the late 1970s 06:00 - How ADHD diagnosis and treatment looked in the early days 07:00 - Realising adults didn't simply grow out of ADHD 09:30 - Writing some of the earliest books about ADHD 11:20 - Who was being missed? 12:00 - Gifted children, hidden ADHD and looking beyond school performance 13:00 - Looking bey
- 2 weeks ago1h 1m
ADHD Business Burnout: Hyperfocus and Redefining Success with Amanda Perry
This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. Visit the Events page to see we're planning and get involved! Today's Podcast: One statistic changed everything for Amanda Perry. More than half of neurodivergent entrepreneurs say they only started a business because the workplace couldn’t support them. Not a dream. A necessity. This week’s More Yourself episode comes from my first-ever live podcast recording, with Amanda Perry, founder of Brain First and author of Brain First Business: The ADHD Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success. Amanda has spent 18 years building businesses, 13 of them undiagnosed. Burnout after burnout. Bankruptcy. A marketing agency that grew from five people to 40 in three months. After her ADHD diagnosis at 42, she sold it and started again, this time brain first. Champagne dreams and lemonade energy. The fear of burning out again. God mode and the crash that follows. And why so many of us end up building a prison instead of a business. Recorded live, with your questions answered in real time. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. In this episode, we cover: Why so many neurodivergent entrepreneurs start businesses out of necessity, not desire Amanda’s 13 undiagnosed years in business: burnout, bankruptcy and chasing the LinkedIn version of success What rich really means, and giving yourself permission to define success on your own terms How Amanda built a prison instead of a business twice, and what she’s doing differently now Why delegation feels so hard with ADHD, and the shift from VAs to an inverted Christmas tree structure FOBO, the fear of burning out, and why shrinking your life isn’t the same as healing God mode, hyperfocus and spotting the first sign of burnout Interruptions, motherhood and protecting your focus when you work from home Brain First Workplace, the dropped kerb and why neuro-inclusive design benefits everyone Live Q&A on breaking the burnout cycle, keeping things simple and disclosing ADHD at work Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and Amanda’s journey in business 00:43 - Why so many neurodivergent founders start businesses out of necessity 02:30 - 18 years in business, 13 undiagnosed: burnout, bankruptcy and borrowed goals 05:35 - Permission to create your own version of success 07:20 - “Disgustingly rich” and what rich really means 10:48 - Building a prison, not a business 12:07 - Purpose, values and the pressure to be nice as a female founder 13:30 - Delegation, communication and why it’s quicker to do it yourself 16:04 - From VAs to a chief of staff: the inverted Christmas tree 17:33 - Self-trust, perimenopause and not knowing how you’ll wake up 18:14 - Kate on leaving PR and shrinking herself to avoid burnout 22:01 - FOBO: the fear of burning out 24:48 - Champagne dreams, lemonade energy 25:19 - Interruptions, motherhood and the nervous system 27:41 - God mode, hyperfocus and the first sign of burnout 33:07 - Brain First Workplace and open conversations at work 34:26 - Tribunals, “them and us” culture and why managers are scared 36:30 - The dropped kerb and designing for every brain 42:20 - Live Q&A: breaking out of the prison cycle 44:58 - Awareness, alignment and action 46:57 - Don’t be afraid of simplicity 48:13 - Disclosing ADHD at work 50:17 - Ideas, strategy and getting from A to Z before anyone else 52:26 - Where to find Amanda Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Get Amanda’s book, Brain First Business: The ADHD Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success Visit Amanda’s website: amandaperry.co.uk Connect with Amanda on Instagram Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago50 min
Why Do I Need So Much Time to Recover From People? ADHD, Social Exhaustion and the Need to Decompress
What Actually Helps You!? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. _____________________ You leave the party first. You pay extra for the room on your own. You say yes, then spend the whole evening counting down until you can go home. And somewhere along the way, you decided that made you the difficult one. On this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by Alice Bramhill, registered mental health nurse, interpersonal psychotherapist and accredited therapeutic coach specialising in neurodivergent adults. Her first book, I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!): A Neurodivergent Guide to All Types of Relationships, is out now. Alice has nearly 30 years of clinical experience. She was diagnosed with ADHD at 47 and autism at 50, and is a parent carer to two neurodivergent children. Masking until there’s nothing left. Being the fixer, the capable one, the people pleaser. Families who keep casting you in your old role. A nervous system that panics every time you say no. You’re allowed to need your space. This is a fantastic conversation that I know will resonate so strongly with so many of you. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. _____________________ In this episode, we cover: Why relationships sit at the heart of our mental health, and what interpersonal psychotherapy can offer neurodivergent adults How masking leads to an erosion of self and a lack of authenticity in our relationships What an emotionally sustainable life looks like, and why so many social expectations simply aren't sustainable for us Why it's okay to leave the party after an hour, and how to communicate your social battery without shame Rejection sensitivity and why it isn't our job to manage other people's emotions Shrinking versus discernment, and how to navigate the fear of loneliness when you start pulling back Setting boundaries with family when you've always been cast as the fixer, the capable one or the people pleaser What emotional labour really means, and where information sharing ends and over-explaining begins Why your nervous system may push back when you start saying no, and how to practise it gently Noticing the shoulds, starting with a maybe and why it's okay to disappoint people Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Alice Bramhill 01:30 - Why Alice wrote I Need My Space 02:30 - Interpersonal psychotherapy and why relationships shape our mental health 05:30 - Masking, authenticity and the erosion of self 07:30 - Building an emotionally sustainable life 09:30 - Redefining the terms of engagement and leaving when you're done 11:30 - Rejection sensitivity and other people's emotions 14:00 - Needing space in friendships and on holidays 16:30 - Shrinking, discernment and the fear of loneliness 20:30 - Shedding, permission and life after diagnosis 21:30 - Perimenopause and caring less about what others think 25:00 - Who Alice wrote the book for 26:30 - Boundaries with family and stepping out of old roles 30:30 - What emotional labour really means 34:00 - The fixers, the capable ones and the people pleasers 36:30 - When your nervous system pushes back 39:00 - Cycle breakers and generational change 41:00 - Noticing automatic yeses and starting with a maybe 42:30 - Catching the shoulds and getting curious 44:00 - Asking why and giving yourself permission to disappoint people 46:00 - Where to find Alice's book, Substack and one-to-one support Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Visit Alice's website and join the waitlist for one-to-ones here Connect with Alice on Instagram Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago15 min
The Overlap of ADHD and Autism: Do I have AuDHD?
This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. Understood.org's The ADHD Channel for Women features three shows hosted by three different hosts, unpacking a different side of life with ADHD. They cover everything from sex, dating, and relationships to deep dives into where neurodivergence meets the biggest news stories, like how a newly discovered gene variant could change the way we treat ADHD. There's also an ADHD coach who answers listeners' questions. Check out The ADHD Channel for Women here This episode from The ADHD Channel for Women is called ‘ADHD and autism: Do I have AuDHD?’ You’ll hear a clear and compassionate look at where ADHD and autism meet, where they part ways and what it means when you recognise yourself in both. AuDHD isn’t a formal diagnosis. But it’s everywhere online, and for many late-diagnosed women it’s the first language that has ever truly fitted. Dr. J, a licensed psychologist and host of Understood.org’s ADHD and podcast, explains why the overlap is the norm rather than the exception. Research suggests that 30 to 50 percent of autistic people also meet the criteria for ADHD. She unpacks the push and pull so many people with AuDHD describe. Craving routine but struggling to keep it. Wanting deep connection but hitting a wall of social exhaustion. She also talks honestly about what comes next, including the grief that can surface if a label you’ve found community in doesn’t become your diagnosis. This week’s episode is sponsored by Understood.org, the leading nonprofit dedicated to empowering the millions of people with learning and thinking differences, such as ADHD and dyslexia. For all things ADHD Women's Wellbeing, including the podcast, resources and events, head here: www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago59 min
ADHD, Progesterone and Hormones: Life-Changing Information Every Woman Needs to Know with Dr Jolene Brighten
This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, ADHD Women's Wellbeing is putting this community, lived experiences, and practical support front and center. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. We talk a lot about hormones and ADHD. But this conversation goes much deeper. What if the fatigue, anxiety, gut issues, difficult periods and the way your ADHD seems to shift throughout your cycle aren’t separate problems? What if they’re all giving you information about what’s happening in your body? This week on The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by Dr Jolene Brighten for a fascinating and powerful deep dive into the biology behind ADHD in women, and some of the connections we just aren’t talking about enough. Jolene is a board-certified naturopathic endocrinologist, nutritionist, certified menopause specialist and bestselling author of Beyond the Pill and Is This Normal? Her new book, ADHD and Women: A Guide to Understanding Your Hormones and Thriving with ADHD, is out now. And she does not hold back in this conversation. We get into progesterone, histamine, endometriosis, PMDD and perimenopause, and what they can mean for women with ADHD. We explore why symptoms that appear unrelated may be more connected than we realise, why so many women have spent years being passed between specialists and why understanding ADHD as something that affects the whole body can completely change the conversation. Jolene also shares her own story, from her son’s ADHD diagnosis to being diagnosed with endometriosis after 29 years of periods and later discovering she is autistic. This is one of those episodes that may have you joining dots you didn’t even realise were connected. If you’ve ever felt as though your hormones, brain and body are all speaking different languages, this conversation could help you understand the bigger picture. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at https://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. _____________________ In this episode, we cover: Jolene's late diagnoses of ADHD, endometriosis and autism, and why accommodations are so often mistaken for success Why fatigue and anxiety are among the most common symptoms of endometriosis, and how it can be present without any pain The links between ADHD, endometriosis, PMDD and fibroids, and why medicine so often treats them as coincidences How histamine and mast cells may be connected to 2am to 4am waking, irritability and emotional dysregulation What happens to dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine and GABA when oestrogen and progesterone drop Why hysterectomy and hormone suppression don't cure PMDD or endometriosis, and what this means for ADHD women Body identical progesterone versus synthetic progestins, progesterone intolerance and why starting low and going slow can help What research tells us about hormonal contraception and depression in ADHD women Why movement is so powerful for the ADHD brain, and an honest look at why it can feel so hard to do Alcohol, GABA and the luteal phase, and why we were never designed to be productive all the time Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Jolene Brighten 02:30 - Jolene's journey to ADHD, endometriosis and autism diagnoses 05:30 - Entrepreneurship, accommodations and the support nobody sees 08:00 - What endometriosis can look like, including when there's no pain 10:00 - Jolene's endometriosis story, from childhood gut issues to secondary infertility 15:00 - Mast cells, histamine and the brain, immune and hormone connection 17:00 - Kate's experience with endometriosis, adenomyosis and continuous progesterone 21:00 - Access to care in the UK, US and Canada 23:00 - Why ADHD is the operating system you were born with 25:00 - What happens to the brain when oestrogen and progesterone drop 27:00 - PMDD: why it may be more than one condition 29:00 - NAC, mitochondria and the ADHD brain in perimenopause 32:00 - Progesterone, progestins and the research on contraception and depression 35:00 - ADHD as a full-body condition and the gut microbiome 37:00 - Progesterone intolerance, dosing and different ways of taking it 42:00 - Serotonin, dopamine and how the ADHD brain adapts 43:00 - Exercise, BDNF and giving your brain more energy 46:00 - Hysterectomies, unsupported women and the generations before us 48:00 - Alcohol, GABA and the luteal phase 49:00 - Rejecting productivity culture and honouring the need to rest 53:00 - Superpowers, kryptonite and asking what it's costing you 56:00 - Where to find Jolene's book and resources Links and Resources: Find my
- 4 weeks ago21 min
A Community of Support: What's Coming to ADHD Women's Wellbeing
What Actually Helps YOU: This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, I'm putting community, real experiences, and practical support throughout the month. There are live podcast recordings, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. This one is a little different. No guest, no workshop clip — just me, talking to you about what's coming next and why community is at the heart of everything we're building here. Today I'm sharing a personal update about what's happening at ADHD Women's Wellbeing this October and beyond, including some exciting plans for live events in 2027, how you can get involved in ADHD Awareness Month right now, and how I want your wisdom to shape something I'm creating for this community. This one is warm, unscripted and very much from the heart. Sign up for the ADHD WW events waitlist here Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. In this episode, I cover: What the first-ever ADHD Women's Wellbeing live event in Manchester taught me, and why I want to do more My plans for in-person events in 2027, what they'll look and feel like, and how to get on the waitlist Why ADHD Awareness Month 2026 is all about community, lived experience and what actually helps The Google Form I'm creating to collect your wisdom — what makes your daily life easier with ADHD — and how your answers will shape a community workbook How to attend free live podcast recordings this October and ask experts your questions in real time Why I believe lived experience often comes before the research, and why I want more of your voice in this space The legacy I want to leave through ADHD Women's Wellbeing and what I'm building towards Why I'm doing all of this with very finite energy, a tiny team, and a genuine commitment to keeping things accessible Links and Resources: Visit the Events page and join the live events waitlist here Fill in the What Actually Helps You Form here Explore the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Workshop Library here Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 30, 202649 min
Creating a More Meaningful ADHD Life
What Actually Helps You? This ADHD Awareness Month, I’m putting real experiences, community and practical support at the heart of the conversation. Join live conversations, podcast events and opportunities to share what actually helps you. Add your name to my event waitlist as well! Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. _________________________________________ What if the burnout, the guilt and the relentless doing weren't signs that you were failing, but signs that the playbook you'd been given was never designed for you in the first place? On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Meghan French Dunbar, bestselling author, business anthropologist and founder of Conscious Company Magazine, the first nationally distributed print magazine in the US focusing on impact-driven business. Meghan's book, This Isn't Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success, is a USA Today bestseller and Next Big Idea Club selection. She works with companies including Coach, John Deere, Torani and Kate Spade on leadership and culture strategy, writes for Forbes, Fast Company and Inc, and hosts the podcast Unbehaved. She was diagnosed with ADHD four years ago, and this conversation made a lot of sense of a lot of things. We talk about purpose burnout, motherhood, identity, joy and what it actually looks like to build a life and career around meaning rather than productivity. Meghan is warm, honest and brilliantly funny, and this is one of those conversations that leaves you feeling both validated and quietly ready to do something differently. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. In this episode, we cover: How Meghan's ADHD diagnosis four years ago reframed her entire career and the relentless curiosity that drove it Why she burnt out running her own organisation, resigned from it, and spent two years rebuilding from the ground up The difference between social success and soul success, and the three elements the most fulfilled leaders Meghan interviewed all had in common Why sustained leadership is about the quality of your being, not the quantity of your doing The six key predictors of burnout, and why ADHD makes several of them almost inevitable without the right support What the broaden and build theory tells us about joy, and why nurturing it is not indulgent but a genuine performance strategy The joy trip: what it is, why Meghan introduced it into her family and what it has given her every year since Why ADHD women are often the outliers who model a different way of working, and why that matters for everyone around them What enough looks like, and why deciding that with your partner is one of the most radical acts available to us Why autonomy is the non-negotiable for so many neurodivergent entrepreneurs Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Meghan French Dunbar 02:00 - What drives Meghan's passion for business, impact and entrepreneurship 05:00 - How her ADHD diagnosis reframed decades of relentless curiosity 08:00 - Burning out as founder, resigning in 2020 and two years of rebuilding 12:00 - What the outliers taught her: soul success, purpose and quality of life 16:00 - Sustained leadership: why quality of being beats quantity of doing 19:00 - The practical foundations: sleep, movement, joy and professional support 22:00 - Why younger generations are already rewriting the playbook 25:00 - The joy trip: how it started, what it involves and why it changed everything 31:00 - The broaden and build theory: the science behind why joy makes you better at everything 35:00 - Modeling a different way for other women 38:00 - What Meghan's working life looks like now, and what enough means to her 42:00 - Autonomy, ADHD and why working for yourself so often becomes the answe Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Visit Meghan's website: meghanfrenchdunbar.com Connect with Meghan on Instagram Connect with Meghan on LinkedIn Subscribe to Meghan's Substack: Unbehaved Listen to Meghan's podcast: Unbehaved Watch Meghan's TEDx talk Get Meghan's book: This Isn't Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps ove
- Sep 28, 202635 min
The Collision Between ADHD, Femininity, and Gender from Understood.org
ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. Understood.org's The ADHD Channel for Women features three shows hosted by three different hosts, unpacking a different side of life with ADHD. They cover everything from sex, dating, and relationships to deep dives into where neurodivergence meets the biggest news stories, like how a newly discovered gene variant could change the way we treat ADHD. There's also an ADHD coach who answers listeners' questions. Check out The ADHD Channel for Women here This episode from The ADHD Channel for Women is called 'I’ve never felt like a good woman...' You'll hear a complex conversation about ADHD, femininity, gender, and why talking about the hard stuff is important. Cate sits down with Rae Jacobson, host of Understood.org’s Hyperfocus podcast, journalist, and a producer on this show. They talk about something they’ve both struggled to name: the collision between ADHD, femininity, and gender expression. They dig into what it felt like to watch other girls “get it.” The tidiness. The calm. The effortlessness. All things that executive dysfunction made feel out of reach. They talk about the pressure to be nurturing, organized, and endlessly available — and what happens when your brain doesn’t cooperate with any of it. And they look at the research on outcomes for women and girls with ADHD." This week’s episode is sponsored by Understood.org, the leading nonprofit dedicated to empowering the millions of people with learning and thinking differences, such as ADHD and dyslexia. For all things ADHD Women's Wellbeing, including the podcast, resources and events, head here: www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Are you struggling with the challenges of life as a woman with ADHD? Perhaps you need support with your mental and physical wellbeing, so you can feel calmer, happier and more balanced? Perhaps you’re newly diagnosed with ADHD – or just ADHD curious – and don’t know where to turn for support. Or perhaps you’re wondering how neurodivergence impacts your hormones or relationships? If so, the ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast is for you. This podcast is hosted by Kate Moryoussef, an ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author, EFT practitioner, mum of four, and late-in-life diagnosed with ADHD herself. Each week, thousands of women just like you tune in to hear Kate chat with top ADHD experts, thought leaders, professionals and authors. Their powerful insights will help you harness your health and enhance your life as a woman with ADHD. From tips on nutrition, sleep and motivation to guidance on regulating your nervous system, dealing with anxiety and living a calmer and more balanced life, you’ll find it all here. The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast will help you live alongside your ADHD with more awareness, self-compassion and acceptance. It’s time to put an end to self-criticism, judgment and blame – and get ready to live a kinder and more authentic life. “Mindblowing guests!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Brilliant and so life-affirming” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “So, so grateful for this!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Obsessed with this pod on ADHD!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, Kate Moryoussef shares the psychology and science behind the challenges faced by women with ADHD and lays out a roadmap for you to uncover your authentic self. With practical lifestyle tools on how to manage mental, emotional, physical, and hormonal burnout and lean into your unique strengths to create more energy, joy, and creativity, this book will help you (re)learn to not only live with this brain difference but also thrive with it.
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