ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Kate Moryoussef
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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 multi-award-winning podcast, which won Gold in the Parenting category at the British Podcast Awards 2026, 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!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ORDER NOW! Kate's new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit! https://www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk/adhd-womens-wellbeing-toolkit 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.

  1. 19h ago

    The ADHD Food Permission Slip: Stop Trying to Feed Everyone Perfectly and Why Good Enough Really is OK!

    Feeding yourself and your family shouldn’t feel like another daily test you’re somehow failing. Especially when you already know what you “should” be eating — but your ADHD brain, energy and capacity aren’t always able to make it happen. This episode is your permission slip to release the nutritional perfectionism and let “good enough” genuinely be good enough. 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. ________________________________________ You know you probably need more protein. You know eating regularly helps. You might even have plenty of food in the house. But then it’s 6pm, everyone needs feeding, you’re exhausted, you’ve made approximately a thousand decisions already that day and suddenly dinner feels like an emergency. In today’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I sit down with Amy Jones, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, Certified ADHD Life Coach, Ontario Certified Teacher and MSc Applied Neuroscience candidate. And this conversation is really about everything that happens in the gap between knowing what might help us and actually being able to do it. Because for ADHD women, food isn’t simply about nutrition. There’s executive function. Decision fatigue. Sensory needs. Hormones. Parenting. Working memory. Energy. Our nervous systems. And the fact that our capacity can look completely different from one day to the next. Amy was diagnosed with ADHD at 45 after her youngest son’s diagnosis prompted her to look more closely at her own experiences. She now brings together nutrition, ADHD coaching, neuroscience and lived experience to help neurodivergent adults make food and self-care feel more manageable. We talk about why traditional meal planning can ask far too much of an already depleted brain, why Amy believes we should plan for our lowest-capacity days rather than our ideal ones, and some wonderfully simple ways to reduce the number of decisions food requires from us. There’s also a lot of permission in this conversation. Permission to assemble dinner instead of cooking it. To use convenience food. To order the takeaway. To make the fridge work for your ADHD brain. And to stop believing that nourishing yourself or your family has to look perfect to count. In this episode, we cover: Amy’s late ADHD diagnosis and how her son’s diagnosis changed her understanding of herself Why knowing what to eat and actually being able to do it are two very different things The executive-function load hidden inside meal planning, shopping and making dinner Why ADHD women can know exactly what would support them and still struggle to follow through Reducing decision fatigue and building food around the life you actually have Planning for low-capacity days rather than relying on your most motivated self Using visibility and your fridge as a practical working-memory support Consistent eating, hunger cues and making food easier to access Parenting neurodivergent children, food, sensory needs and after-school overwhelm Letting go of perfection, “shoulds” and shame around convenience food and takeaway Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Amy Jones 02:15 - Amy’s late ADHD diagnosis and her family’s experience of neurodivergence 04:30 - How nutrition became part of Amy’s ADHD work 05:20 - “I know what I should do, but I can’t do it” 07:00 - The gap between knowledge and behaviour 08:20 - Why meal planning is an executive-function problem 09:00 - Mapping food around your actual life 10:00 - The hidden steps involved in making dinner 11:00 - Motherhood, neurodivergent children and the mental load around food 12:50 - Why there isn’t one food system that works for every ADHD brain 13:20 - Planning for your lowest-capacity day 14:00 - Using your fridge as a working-memory support 15:00 - Making food visible and reducing preparation 16:00 - Dinner assembly rather than cooking a full meal 17:00 - Food, regulation and the after-school crash 18:45 - Amy’s WTF’s for Dinner approach 20:00 - Hunger cues, mini meals and consistent fuel 22:10 - Capacity, visibility and remembering what’s actually in the fridge 23:00 - Perimenopause and changing capacity around cooking 24:00 - Perfectionism in the kitchen 26:00 - Parenting, control and knowing when to step away 27:30 - Learning alongside our neurodivergent children 28:30 - What to keep available for low-capacity days 29:20 - Sharing the shopping and reducing cognitive load 30:00 - What dinner can look like when you have very little left 32:00 - Why “good enough” food really is good enough 33:30 - Using AI and external tools to reduce decision-making 35:00 - Why takeaway can be part of the plan 36:30 - Letting go of food shame 37:00 - Keeping food simple and flexible 38:00 - ADHD, hormones and not knowing what capacity you’ll have tomorrow 39:00 - Cooking because you enjoy it rather than because you “should” 40:00 - A permission slip to stop trying to feed everyone perfectly 41:00 - How to work with Amy and her WTF’s for Dinner system Links and Resources: Join me in Manchester for The Next Chapter Find my ADHD Women’s Wellbeing workshops and resources ⁠here⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, ⁠here⁠ Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠ Visit Amy’s website: amyjonesnutrition.com Follow Amy on Instagram: @amyjonesnutrition Find Amy on YouTube: @amyjonesnutrition Download Amy’s free resource for ADHDWW listeners, What To Do When Food Feels Like Too Much: get it here 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

    The ADHD Food Permission Slip: Stop Trying to Feed Everyone Perfectly and Why Good Enough Really is OK!

  2. 3d ago

    After an ADHD Diagnosis: How to Build a Life That Feels More Like You

    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. Ready for your next chapter? Find out more: Book your place here⁠. ________________________________________ You understand your ADHD. So… what now? There can be such enormous relief in finally understanding your brain. The patterns make more sense. The struggles have context. You might start looking at your past, your relationships and even your family through a completely different lens. But at some point, another question starts to appear: What do I actually do with all of this understanding? In today’s More Yourself episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m sharing something I’ve been developing inside my workshops and that sits right at the heart of my upcoming The Next Chapter live experience. It’s called the SAFER framework, and it’s designed to help you look at your life differently now that you understand yourself better. This will provide you with a way of getting curious about what supports you, what drains you, what you’re forcing, what you might be ready to let go of and what you want more of moving forwards. This episode is really about intentionality. Helping you notice the environments where you feel calmer. The people you feel most yourself around. The commitments that leave you depleted. The places where you might need more freedom, more space or more support. Because understanding your ADHD is one thing but using that understanding to make choices that genuinely work for you is something else entirely. And that’s where my upcoming event, The Next Chapter Begins, comes in. In this episode, we cover: Moving beyond ADHD awareness and asking what comes next Why understanding your ADHD can change how you see your past, relationships and family Introducing Kate’s SAFER framework How to notice what supports you and what leaves you feeling depleted Why your physical and emotional environment matters Giving yourself permission to stop living according to who you think you should be Reducing commitments and stepping away from always being the fixer Asking for help and allowing other people to support you Creating more room for what genuinely matters Understanding your energy and recognising when you’re pushing too far The importance of rest, white space and nervous system recovery Building a life that feels more like your own Life Threads podcast: To Listen to the Life Threads podcast on Apple click the link HERE and to listen on Spotify click the link HERE Timestamps: 00:00 - Why understanding your ADHD is only the beginning 00:50 - The question: what comes next? 01:15 - Introducing the SAFER framework 02:10 - A different way of looking at your life 02:35 - The Next Chapter live ADHD Women’s Wellbeing event 04:00 - Moving from understanding into intentional living 05:20 - Exploring what helps you feel calmer and more supported 08:10 - Simplifying and reducing unnecessary choices 08:30 - Living more on your own terms 09:00 - What helps you feel most like yourself? 09:35 - Stepping away from decades of masking and “shoulds” 10:00 - Reducing commitments and letting go of the fixer role 10:25 - Learning to ask for help 11:00 - Creating more room for what matters 13:20 - Understanding your energy and capacity 14:15 - Protecting your energy and reducing the extremes 15:00 - Cortisol, adrenaline and knowing when you need to come back down 16:35 - One way to protect your energy this week 17:00 - Rest, recovery and recalibration 17:10 - Why ADHD brains need time to decompress 18:00 - Glimmers, nervous system regulation and meaningful connection 19:00 - More Yourself and continuing to understand yourself through a neurodivergent lens Links and Resources: Find my ADHD Women’s Wellbeing workshops and resources here. Get my book, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, here. Find out more about The Next Chapter event and book your place here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod. Kate Moryoussef is an ADHD women's 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

    After an ADHD Diagnosis: How to Build a Life That Feels More Like You

  3. Oct 29

    The ADHD Sweet Spot: How to Find Work and a Life You Don’t Need to Recover From

    You understand your ADHD. But what happens when you’re ready to 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 neurodivergent women who truly get it.Ready for your next chapter? Find out more and book your place. ______________________________________ In today’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I sit down with Amy Marie Hann, author of Master the Mundane: How to Manage Your Life, Home and Family as a Mom with ADHD. And this conversation is for anyone who can do really big, complicated, creative things… but still feels completely floored by the dishwasher, laundry, meals, forms, life admin and all the tiny repetitive jobs that somehow never stop coming. Amy was diagnosed with ADHD at just five years old, and ADHD runs through her whole family. But even with that early diagnosis, medication and years of understanding her brain, adulthood still brought a whole new layer of challenges. The mental load. The overwhelm. The pressure to keep everything running. The feeling that everyone else seems to be managing it better. Then perimenopause hit, and everything got harder. We talk about why so many ADHD women swing between over-functioning and burnout, why complicated productivity systems rarely stick, and why the answer might not be becoming more organised or disciplined at all. Amy shares how she learned to simplify, work with her actual capacity and focus on the small number of boring-but-important things that keep life moving. This is a very practical conversation, but it’s also such a compassionate one. Because if you’ve ever looked around your house, your to-do list or your family life and thought, Why can’t I just keep on top of this? — there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. You may just be trying to carry far too much. In this episode, we cover: Being diagnosed with ADHD at five, and what Amy understood — and didn’t understand — about ADHD growing up Why medication helped with school and focus but didn’t teach the life skills needed for adulthood How perimenopause can intensify ADHD symptoms, even when you already understand your diagnosis ADHD medication alongside sleep, exercise, lifestyle support and practical strategies Losing confidence in your abilities and choosing an “easier” path because of ADHD Finding the ADHD “sweet spot” between intense challenge, boredom and burnout Why ADHD brains may need meaningful challenge without an unsustainable pace Building work and a life around your energy instead of expecting eight-hour-a-day productivity Why ADHD mothers carry such a heavy mental load Unrealistic expectations, perfectionism and the feeling of never doing enough Why everything can feel urgent when prioritisation is difficult The cycle of long to-do lists, overdoing it and burnout Applying compassionate parenting strategies to yourself Amy’s “taxing tasks” approach and identifying the boring things that genuinely matter Why new planners and complicated systems often work temporarily because novelty is doing the heavy lifting Reducing daily executive-function demands by making basic routines repeatable Defining “good enough” instead of aiming for a perfectly organised home Why understanding your capacity matters more than copying someone else’s routine Simplifying when outsourcing isn’t financially realistic ADHD, motherhood and the shame attached to domestic expectations Sharing the load with partners and finding the household tasks that suit each person The power of ADHD women finding spaces where they can ask honest questions without shame Life Threads podcast: To Listen to the Life Threads podcast on Apple click the link HERE and to listen on Spotify click the link HERE Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Amy Marie Hann 02:00 - Being diagnosed with ADHD at five 03:00 - What an early diagnosis did — and didn’t — explain 04:00 - ADHD, adulthood and perimenopause 05:00 - Medication, school and self-belief 08:00 - Medication, lifestyle and practical strategies 09:30 - Finding the right pace for an ADHD brain 10:30 - The cycle of challenging work, boredom and burnout 11:30 - Finding your ADHD sweet spot 13:00 - Trying different paths and discovering what fits 15:00 - Building work around your actual energy 16:00 - Why your best work may not require eight-hour days 17:00 - Finding something you can stay interested in 18:00 - ADHD, organisation and the myth that every ADHD woman looks the same 20:00 - Perfectionism, over-functioning and coping behaviours 21:00 - The mental load of ADHD motherhood 22:00 - Unrealistic expectations and the endless to-do list 23:00 - Parenting yourself with more compassion 24:00 - The six or seven boring things that matter 25:00 - Why complicated systems fail 26:00 - Executive-function energy and removing daily decisions 27:00 - Amy’s three daily “taxing tasks” 28:00 - Working full-time, parenting and the pressure to do everything 29:00 - Self-care, capacity and realistic expectations 30:00 - Letting things go and simplifying 31:00 - Replacing shame with “good enough” 32:00 - Domestic expectations and ADHD women 33:00 - Sharing household responsibilities 34:00 - Knowing your capacity before dividing the load 36:00 - Master the Mundane and Amy’s practical framework 37:00 - Coaching, body doubling and accountability 39:00 - Why ADHD community can reduce shame 41:00 - Where to find Amy and her work 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 Amy’s website: amymariehann.com Follow Amy on Instagram: @amymariehann Get Amy’s free resource, Thriving in Motherhood, here Find Amy’s book, Master the Mundane: How to Manage Your Life, Home and Family as a Mom with ADHD. 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

    The ADHD Sweet Spot: How to Find Work and a Life You Don’t Need to Recover From

  4. Oct 21

    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 beyond the diagnostic criteria 15:00 - What the early ADHD criteria left out 16:00 - Rejection sensitivity and why girls changed the conversation 17:00 - Kathleen's pioneering work on ADHD in women and girls 18:00 - What decades of following ADHD families can teach us 20:00 - ADHD as a type of brain, not simply a disorder 21:00 - Curiosity, connection and the strengths within an ADHD brain 23:00 - Do our education systems actually suit ADHD brains? 25:00 - Different ways of learning 26:00 - ADHD, hormones and the stages of a woman's life 27:00 - Why women were excluded from so much medical research 30:00 - The resistance to recognising hormones as part of the ADHD conversation 32:00 - Postpartum mental health and the research still desperately needed 35:00 - Why women's healthcare needs a more integrated approach 37:00 - ADHD and associated physical health conditions 39:00 - Why ADHD women connect so powerfully with each other 40:00 - Groups, validation and finally feeling like you fit in 42:00 - Late diagnosis, grief and understanding a lifetime through a new lens 44:00 - Planting yourself in the right garden 46:00 - Kathleen's next chapter and the Institute for Lifespan ADHD Training 47:00 - Why ADHD treatment needs a more integrated approach 49:00 - Giving yourself permission to do life differently 50:00 - High-achieving ADHD women and what happens behind closed doors 52:00 - The expectations still placed on women to hold everything together 53:30 - The ILAT Global Summit and training professionals to better support ADHD 56:30 - Kathleen's advice for women diagnosed later in life Articles Mentioned: www.additudemag.com/lindsay-clancy-postpartum-adhd/ 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 Learn more about Kathleen and the Institute for Lifespan ADHD Training at ilat.org Visit Kathleen's website at drkathleennadeau.com Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn Find out more and register for the ILAT Global Summit (online) at ilatglobal.org ⭐ADHD Women's Wellbeing listeners can use the code ILAT50 at checkout to save $50 on online summit registration. 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

    40 Years of ADHD: What Pioneer Dr Kathleen Nadeau Has Learned About ADHD Women, Late Diagnosis & Thriving

  5. Oct 18

    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

    ADHD Business Burnout: Hyperfocus and Redefining Success with Amanda Perry

  6. Oct 14

    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

    Why Do I Need So Much Time to Recover From People? ADHD, Social Exhaustion and the Need to Decompress

  7. Oct 11

    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

  8. Oct 7

    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 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 Jolene's book, ADHD and Women (also available in ebook and audiobook): drbrighten.com/adhd-and-women Visit Jolene's website for free articles on hormones, ADHD, PMDD and endometriosis: drbrighten.com Listen to Jolene's podcast: The Dr. Brighten Show Connect with Jolene on Instagram: @drjolenebrighten Watch Jolene on YouTube: @DrJoleneBrighten See Explore Worldwide's range of destinations in the link HERE If today’s episode brought up anything for you, these organisations offer support and information:⁠⁠ Endometriosis UK Support Network⁠⁠ ⁠The Miscarriage Association helpline and support services⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Campaign Against Living Miserably 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

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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 multi-award-winning podcast, which won Gold in the Parenting category at the British Podcast Awards 2026, 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!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ORDER NOW! Kate's new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit! https://www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk/adhd-womens-wellbeing-toolkit 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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  • Creator
    Kate Moryoussef
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    323
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    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2026 Kate Moryoussef
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    ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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