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Women & ADHD
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Welcome to Women & ADHD, an education & advocacy hub for adults who have been diagnosed with ADHD and identify as women or were socialized as girls.
Women & ADHD, LLC, was founded by Katy Weber, an ADHD advocate & coach, author of the book Worth It: A Journey to Food & Body Freedom, and the host & producer of the popular Women & ADHD podcast, now ranked among the Top 0.5% of all podcasts globally!
Diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, Katy has made it her mission to help neurodivergent women learn to love their brains and live a more fulfilling, gratifying life!
Women & ADHD, LLC, was founded by Katy Weber, an ADHD advocate & coach, author of the book Worth It: A Journey to Food & Body Freedom, and the host & producer of the popular Women & ADHD podcast, now ranked among the Top 0.5% of all podcasts globally!
Diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, Katy has made it her mission to help neurodivergent women learn to love their brains and live a more fulfilling, gratifying life!
Unami Magwenzi: Lost passports & cross-cultural divides
Episode 194 with Unami Magwenzi.
“I always felt like something didn’t quite click for me. I was capable and doing all these things professionally, but I never felt on top of anything.”
Unami is a clinical psychologist, a pastor, a wife, and the mother of 4 children - 3 teenagers and a 5 year old. She is originally from Botswana in Southern Africa and now lives with her family in Perth, Western Australia.
Unami shares how her children’s diagnoses prompted her own self-reflection, especially when it came to her struggles with focus, organization, and sensory sensitivities. She was diagnosed recently at the age of 44.
We talk about some of the nuanced cultural perspectives surrounding ADHD, particularly in southern Africa versus Australia, and how those views have shaped Unami’s journey to self-acceptance.
Website: hopelives.live
Instagram: @hope_lives_creations
Links:
Unami’s Shopify store: hopelivestreasures.com
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Episode edited by E Podcast Productions
Find the transcript of this episode at www.womenandadhd.com/transcripts
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Small group coaching with Katy: www.womenandadhd.com/groupcoaching
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Work 1-on-1 with Katy: www.womenandadhd.com/coaching
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Order the “Hey, it’s ADHD!” course: www.womenandadhd.com/adhdcourse
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Did you love this episode? Click here to pledge a one-time donation to the podcast!
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If you are a woman who was diagnosed with ADHD and you’d like to apply to be a guest on this podcast, visit womenandadhd.com/podcastguest.
Instagram: @womenandadhdpodcast
Tiktok: @womenandadhdpodcast
Twitter: @womenandadhd
Facebook: @womenandadhd
“I always felt like something didn’t quite click for me. I was capable and doing all these things professionally, but I never felt on top of anything.”
Unami is a clinical psychologist, a pastor, a wife, and the mother of 4 children - 3 teenagers and a 5 year old. She is originally from Botswana in Southern Africa and now lives with her family in Perth, Western Australia.
Unami shares how her children’s diagnoses prompted her own self-reflection, especially when it came to her struggles with focus, organization, and sensory sensitivities. She was diagnosed recently at the age of 44.
We talk about some of the nuanced cultural perspectives surrounding ADHD, particularly in southern Africa versus Australia, and how those views have shaped Unami’s journey to self-acceptance.
Website: hopelives.live
Instagram: @hope_lives_creations
Links:
Unami’s Shopify store: hopelivestreasures.com
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Episode edited by E Podcast Productions
Find the transcript of this episode at www.womenandadhd.com/transcripts
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Small group coaching with Katy: www.womenandadhd.com/groupcoaching
- - - - -
Work 1-on-1 with Katy: www.womenandadhd.com/coaching
- - - - -
Order the “Hey, it’s ADHD!” course: www.womenandadhd.com/adhdcourse
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Did you love this episode? Click here to pledge a one-time donation to the podcast!
- - - - -
If you are a woman who was diagnosed with ADHD and you’d like to apply to be a guest on this podcast, visit womenandadhd.com/podcastguest.
Instagram: @womenandadhdpodcast
Tiktok: @womenandadhdpodcast
Twitter: @womenandadhd
Facebook: @womenandadhd
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Yes yes yes! Exactly
This was so helpful 😢 I am a late diagnosed AuDHDer and I am in recovery from anorexia x This was absolutely enlightening and gave me so many helpful tips without sounding patronising or being inaccessible 🥲💗 Thank you for discussing such an important and overlooked topic ❤
I'm so glad to hear this! Thank you for the lovely feedback 🥰
Is there a correlation between adhd and post partum depression?
Complex/childhood PTSD symptoms overlap with ADHD
amazing but I dont really get the ok was planning to do this but cause you just now told me to I cant part. I mean makes me mad but ya I can do it. Yet I identify with demand avoidance so much. I have ADHD but wonder if Im not on spectrum too
Aw. :/ It was rough hearing this kind of talk around STDs. As someone with GHSV1, STD stigma is very real and painful. It results in people feeling deeply ashamed (myself included!). It might be worth reflecting on your beliefs around STDs as someone with a platform. All that being said, take care!
I live a Halo, too!
Mini ADHD is a greta resource but you dont help ADHDer's with so many adverts on your website. Its shocking how many distractions are on there
Love it 🥰
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Oh my God. You described me when you gave your history. I have suspected that I have ADHD but never had a problem with focus. I get hyper focussed on stuff.
Thank you for sharing ❤
Great video! I wish we all didn’t have to struggle like this! It’s so hard! It’s like I need a brain transplant! Was diagnosed in my 30’s and it never really disrupted my life that much. But now that I’m 60 it has morphed into a living hell and nightmare. Thanks to menopause. I’m taking adhd medications, stimulants and non stimulants. I’m taking hormones, HRT. And I’m still a mess 😢 I asked my psychiatrist and my gynecologist wtf ? Do we just have to live like this forever?
I have so much admiration and respect for both of you ladies 🌸 I’ve had very similar experiences myself. This is so important for us to be heard, understood, and supported. And respected! We need acceptance, accommodations, and inclusion! Thanks ladies! 🌺 we will endure 🦋
I received a fibro and chronic fatigue diagnosis before an ADHD diagnosis as well, just recently learned that the way the brain works with ADHD can actually CAUSE chronic pain sensation... and for me at least a combo of Cymbalta for anxiety & chronic pain and Adderall for combined ADHD has worked wonders
With hypomobility to CFS fybromyalgia b27 years have you had SPD growing up to ? Also have autism awaiting to try ADHD meds and sleep apnea surely the ADHD yes😊
@@Truerealism747 I do also have SPD and am hypermobile
This was great! Thanks 🙏🏼 totally totally relatable
Thank you for talking about how people worked out workarounds to deal with their problems. And that it can be exhausting.
Thank you
Super important information! it's so frustrating that this is not researched and considered enough
I really enjoyed, most of I agree. But have a problem with opinion that ADHD is not pathological. I agree with people who say don’t take that out from ADHD because nobody will help otherwise… that’s sad true . Without support I mean good support, empathy and understanding we have a more chance to have pathological life path… I really appreciate your work I hope more people will try to understand and listen us.
The vast majority of ppl I've mentioned ADHD to believe EVERYONE has ADHD. It can get very discouraging so I have to remind myself that "they just don't know as much as they think they do." I'm adding an edit: I'll be 75 in a matter of a few days. I was diagnosed at 47. I've never heard anything that I could relate to as much as this video!! Thank you both so very much!! ☮️💞🙏🏼
Sometimes all Podcaster and coach's who are so focus on pumping us up with positivity..it feels like they're not really listening!
Thanks, Emily for tge realness. Feel the same when hearing podcasts with all tge adhd success stories...people with successful careers and mastering their adhd
This is very useful . I take a very similar approcah myself.
So glad on both accounts!
Seems to be a scheme "phoenix from the ashes" and then burning out after being diagnosed 😂
Oh No, I want to comment on everything. Regarding the gaslighting in the UK vs. US: Germany might be similar to the UK if not worse. It's horrendous. And as a person that binged all the experts podcasts before getting diagnosed, I was so bummed as no one could treat me! No therapist has a clue! No Psychiatrist knows about stimulants! I had to do the research and tell my psychiatrist what I want, and now I inform all my now newly diagnosed friends and family members about medication and so on.
Such a great episode! Thanks so much
So glad you liked it, thank you!!
70 yo and new to all this and BOY HOWDIE do I have traits. I've heard women get down over not realizing sooner but personally I'm thrilled! I also have experienced that terrible bottom-out depression that thankfully I have never been reactive in that way. Taking notes on meds, med combos, voooo breathing & breath work, chewing gum for blabbering, journaling again. Making friends YES ME TOO! (And my overactive sense of justice enforces me not to be on Facebook, X, and collaterally Snapchat, Instagram.) Retired in November, so interesting mentioning The Villages. Looked into it and really it's just too perfect! (what trait is that?) I had never heard of a Geriatric Psychiatrist, taking pointers on ADHD/trauma coaches and good questions to ask when interviewing professionals to help. Thank you gals for being 'point-man' for me in my journey along with other sisters a step ahead. Our race is in my imagination a relay race featuring a baton. Reach back, bring your relay partner forward and let the baton go. Rinse, repeat, rinse repeat.
SO relatable! You are not alone xo
Thank you, loved this :)
Love color feature on llama life... great product and can't wait until it's available on Android!
Omg!!! Kathleen Nadeau! ❤❤❤
It sounds like your sister and you are very similar to my sister and me.
I wish I’d had all of this information when my son was in school. He ended up dropping out. That being said he’s a successful 23 year old today. I keep advocating for him to get a diagnosis so that he can work on finding systems. I wasn’t diagnosed until 50 and wish I had workable systems in place when I was younger.
Omg thank you for that! “No, Idk where I was going with that.” I felt so SEEN!!!!
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My dad is still trying to convince me that i dont have adhd at 38. For a while i believed him over doctors and went untreated.
This sounds like what myself and my partner are talking a lot about at the moment... As an adult I'm currently engaged in my unmasking journey... For my partner... They don't understand why I'm "acting out". I honestly just don't know how to explain it to them anymore..
I can deeply and surprisingly relate. Being missed/misdiagnosed/mistreated for all of my life (until last year) pretty sure I have the supposed "female version of ADHD" and so do a similarly large set of missed and late-diagnosed (and un-diagnosed) men who often eventually have trouble late in Life (the overtly hyperactive ones are more likely to get diagnosed and/or get into trouble younger). Not just ADHD> Having life-long undiagnosed ASD/ADHD (AuDHD) and ending up being attacked for it is confusing and exhausting. Being twice-exceptional might explain the masking. I had 4 cancers since childhood - and it was the fourth one that caused hypercalcemia and that could have upset the ASD/ADHD balance. Lack of diagnosis destroyed my family and marriage - even now I get no understanding - everyone else is playing the victim (of my very rare overt symptoms) but it is clear that battling undiagnosed ADHD is the bigger problem. Work in progress.
Thank you so much!!
Wowza.. FYI, I tried doing ABA in my early 20s and was just like NOPE! Just not my jam. Thanks for sharing these stats.
Wow 50percent have PTSD from ABA. Ugh and I wanna know how much is CPTSD.
Can so relate. Bane of my existence. Would love to hear more about PDA and ableism. So debilitating 😢
Loved this interview! Would love to hear more about PDA - and more from Connie
Thank you
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Omg I've never found a video that more perfectly describes my life and relationship with finances. I spent this morning discouraged as I tried to sort through my finances again and was really encouraged and helped by your video. Thank you both so much!
Yay! So glad you found us and that this conversation was helpful! 💞
Richard McNalley? My brother was Richard and he went to McNally High in OC CA. I think he was undiagnosed ADHD and he was on Ritalin when young for a time around 1968 I can totally relate to the social media thing.
“Wait, what was the question?!” 😅😂
So interesting!
Exactly what I have been going thru. Was sexually abused by others, also neglected and emotionally abused and part of that was being told to relax and don't worry about things when I really just wanted someone to talk to and relate with. Lots of narcissists in my life. Finally got away from it all 3 years ago and now trying to figure it all out. I am on a 3-year waiting list for ADHD here in the UK (moved from SoCal) as autism was ruled out since it did not seem to begin as a child.
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Dr lenz is high up in this