SUMMARY:

What happens when a clinical psychologist known for helping ADHD adults “get it all done” joins two ragey, hilarious, perimenopausal podcasters who can’t remember what they walked into the room for?

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, hosts Sarah Glasco and Chrissy Powers welcome Dr. Ari Tuckman (PsyD) — psychologist, author of The ADHD Productivity Manual, and co-chair of the CHADD/ADDA/ACO Conference — to explore what productivity really means when your dopamine is crashing and your hormones have filed for divorce.

Together, they unpack: 🧠 Why “getting it all done” is the wrong goal for ADHDers 🔥 How perimenopause disrupts executive function, motivation, and emotional regulation 🩺 Why most therapists and researchers still ignore hormonal impacts in ADHD treatment 💬 How clinicians (especially male ones!) can better support women in midlife 💪 Practical strategies for working with your brain instead of fighting it

Plus, Ari bravely takes the ADHD Peri Punks Pop Quiz — a five-question test on ADHD and menopause that proves once and for all that even experts are still learning.

Dr. Tuckman’s decades of experience, humor, and humility make this one of our most balanced and insightful episodes yet — a bridge between evidence-based psychology and lived neurodivergent experience.

Whether you’re a therapist, an ADHD adult trying to stay afloat, or someone who’s ever screamed into the void over a broken to-do list, this episode reminds you: you don’t need to “get it all done” to be doing enough.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, and check out Dr. Tuckman’s work at adultADHDbook.com and on Instagram @arituckmanpsyd

KEY WORDS:

Dr. Ari Tuckman, ADHD Peri Punks, ADHD podcast, ADHD and perimenopause, ADHD women, ADHD productivity, ADHD executive function, ADHD and hormones, ADHD midlife, ADHD therapy, perimenopause and executive dysfunction, ADHD and estrogen, ADHD psychologist, ADHD burnout, ADHD coping skills, late-diagnosis ADHD, ADHD treatment, ADHD adult strategies

SUMMARY:

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, hosts Chrissy and Sarah talk with artist, Black feminist, and Mental Health Fairy Godmother Ronide "Roro" Comeau of Anxious Black Girl Comics. We discuss:

✨ Why it’s critical to start learning about neurodivergence and hormones before perimenopause

🌎 How she navigates racism and misogyny in mental health spaces and the reality of systemic racism in creative spaces, too

💖 Why softness and vulnerability are radical and revolutionary -especially for Black women - and how she holds onto them

🖕 How she balances marriage, magic, and middle fingers

If you’ve ever felt like your softness was weakness, or like the world didn’t have room for both your rage and your joy — this episode is your permission slip to take up space anyway.

Basically... you can be anxious but still that bitch — in art, advocacy, and mental health before, during, and after perimenopause.

Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars, leave a written review, follow us everywhere, and share this episode. Then go outside and scream your magic into the sky.

Find Roro :

📸 Instagram, TikTok & Threads: @anxiousblackgirlcomics

🛒 Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Anxiousblackgirl

KEY WORDS:

Anxious Black Girl Comics,
Black feminist artist
mental health & art
neurodivergence before perimenopause
softness as rebellion
systemic racism & mental health
ADHD podcast women
body-positive merch
early 30s mental health education

Neurodivergent Burnout & Belonging: ADHD Truths & the Importance of Community with Trina Haynes of My Lady ADHD

Short Summary:

Founder of My Lady ADHD and co-creator of NeuroDiversion, Trina Haynes joins ADHD Peri Punks to talk burnout, late diagnosis, community, and how peri/menopause magnifies it all.

SUMMARY:

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, Sarah and Chrissy sit down with Trina Haynes—founder of My Lady ADHD, Growth & Partnerships Manager at Shimmer ADHD Coaching, and co-creator of NeuroDiversion.

We talk about ADHD burnout, late-diagnosis chaos, the hormonal storm of peri/menopause, and why community is the antidote to shame. Trina shares her own story, why belonging matters more than ever in midlife, and how coaching + community are changing the game for neurodivergent women.

🔥 Plus, details on NeuroDiversion Austin 2026—the event built for and by ND minds.

Follow Trina:

• @myladyadhd
  

• @shimmer.care
  

• shimmer.care
  

• neurodiversion.org

KEY WORDS:

ADHD burnout, ADHD late diagnosis, ADHD women perimenopause, ADHD midlife, My Lady ADHD, Shimmer ADHD Coaching, NeuroDiversion, ADHD community, neurodivergent women podcast, Christal Wang, Meredith Carder, neurodivergent community, Trina Haynes, ADHD conferences, CHADD

SUMMARY:

In this fiery episode, Dr. Emma Offord talks with Chrissy and Sarah on Trauma, Unmasking & the Social Justice Movement and how neurodivergence isn't a disorder.

That's right! You heard us. In this raw and revolutionary episode of ADHD Peri Punks, we sit down with Dr. Emma Offord—clinical psychologist, neuroaffirming coach, and founder of Divergent Life. Emma opens up about her late identification as neurodivergent during perimenopause, the trauma of being unseen, and why she rejects the “disorder” label in favor of the neurodiversity paradigm.

We talk invisible system trauma, unmasking after decades of survival mode, and why neurodivergence is not a trend but a social justice movement. Emma brings humor, rage, and radical compassion to a conversation that will resonate with anyone who’s ever felt erased by medical models or societal expectations. This episode has everything. Fire, earth, heart, rage, and lots of laughter.

Keywords: Dr. Emma Offord, Divergent Life, ADHD women, perimenopause ADHD, late-diagnosis ADHD, unmasking, invisible system trauma, neurodiversity paradigm, neuroaffirming therapy, neurodivergent women, social justice movement, ADHD podcast, ADHD Peri Punks, ADHD and trauma, ADHD identity, menopause and ADHD, Divergent Lives, neurohybridity, neurodiversity and creativity, OCD, autism, stimulant medication, women who lead, neurodiversity revolution, neurodivergence is political

SUMMARY:

What is ADHD coaching—and what do marathons, memory cushions, and zombie squirrels have to do with it?

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, hosts Chrissy and Sarah talk with UK-based ADHD coach, author, and all-around sparkle-machine Anj Cairns about what ADHD coaching really looks like, how it helps, and why our “impractical” side hustles actually matter.

✨ Learn what ADHD coaching can and can’t do

🐿️ Hear why creative ADHD “side quests” are medicine for your brain 🏃‍♀️ Discover how running marathons and writing novels became part of Anj’s journey

If you’ve been waiting for permission to chase the weirdest dream on your list—this is it.

If you’ve been telling yourself you’re too chaotic, too scattered, or too late to build something meaningful—this episode is your sign to go chase that squirrel.

Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars, leave a written review, follow us everywhere, and share this episode. And take your rage outside and scream it into the sky.

KEY WORDS

• ADHD coaching

• ADHD women over 40

• ADHD and creativity

• ADHD side hustles

• memory cushions ADHD

• perimenopause and ADHD

• late-diagnosed ADHD

• ADHD podcast women

• • zombie squirrel film
  • ADHD and menopause
  • ADHD and dopamine
  • neurodivergent women
  • ADHD coach
  • menopause and rage
  • hormones and ADHD
  • ADHD and sidequests
  • neurodivergent families
  • late-diagnosed ADHD women
  • ADHD assessment waitlists in the UK

SUMMARY

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, we sit down with the brilliant Meredith Carder, ADHD coach, writer, and author of It All Makes Sense Now, to talk about how mistakes turn into momentum — and how ADHDers can grow without fixing themselves.

We refer to a SubStack article that she had just published at the time we recorded this episode called "When mistakes lead to momentum" (you can read that article here), in which she tells the story of her first experience at the Int'l ADHD Conference. Long story short, she didn't have business cards there, so she quickly designed one and went to a printer's service shop to get them printed and they handed her 8.5x11" sheets of paper instead. GIANT flimsy business cards! She had ordered incorrectly. But instead of feeling awful about it, she handed out her enormous "cards" whenever someone wanted one, and everyone had a laugh.

We talk about: ✨ How her book came to life — and what it taught her 🌎 Why the “ADHD tax” & business card "flyer" mishaps are just part of the journey 🖕 How to walk into a conference (or life) without pretending to be neurotypical 💖 Building community — online and IRL — even when it’s messy 🔥 Why perimenopause deserves its own tax jar.

If you’ve ever felt like ADHD meant you couldn’t grow, or like your story wasn’t worth sharing — this episode is for you.

✨ Learn how Meredith turned her mishaps into connection & her book 🌎 Hear how she keeps it real with 180k+ followers & a thriving Hive 🖕 Discover why gender, hormones & the “ADHD tax” deserve attention.

Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars, leave a review, follow us everywhere, and share this episode. Then go outside and shout your magic into the wind.

And if you're like "why the hell does Meredith's audio sound a bit muffled?" well, that's on Trixie, Sarah's producer/editor alter ego who, in the excitement of Meredith coming on, forgot to check mic levels, and so while we were all just cackling our asses off and having such great conversation, Meredith's audio volume was overloading. Thanks, ADHD!

KEY WORDS

• ADHD book
  ADHD coach
  ADHD conference
  ADHD tax
  Meredith Carder
  It All Makes Sense Now
  Hummingbird Hive
  ADHD & perimenopause
  ADHD women
  ADHD community
  neurodivergence & growth

  neurodivergent parents

  parenting with ADHD

  hyperfocus

  emotional regulation

  ADHD writers

A powerful conversation with ADHD & Alchemy founder Paula Hirst about meditation, hormones, and turning chaos into calm.

SUMMARY:

What happens when your hormones riot, your ADHD brain is loud as hell, and everyone tells you to “just relax”?

This week on ADHD Peri Punks, hosts Sarah and Chrissy sit down with Paula Hirst, founder of ADHD & Alchemy, to talk about meditation, menopause, and making peace with a brain that never shuts up.

Paula is a UK-born coach-in-training now living in Dubai who specializes in helping professional women—diagnosed or not—navigate ADHD, emotional sensitivity, and the constant “not enough” soundtrack playing in their heads. With a background in hypnosis, guided meditation, manifestation, and life coaching, she brings both science and soul to her work, helping women turn ADHD into a strength instead of a shame spiral.

In this funny, grounding, and deeply empowering conversation, Paula opens up about:
🧠 Her late-diagnosis ADHD story — and why self-acceptance hit harder than the label itself.
🔥 How meditation became her anchor in chaos (and why it’s not about “sitting still”).
🌡️ The “WTF” moments of early perimenopause — from emotional whiplash to hormonal gaslighting.
💪 Advocating for yourself in medical systems that still dismiss women’s pain, mood, and intuition.
🌍 Navigating ADHD and mental health as a Black woman living abroad, and what it means to hold space for yourself in systems not built for you.
✨ The transformative power of slowing down, listening inward, and unlearning perfectionism.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever said “meditation isn’t for me” — and for every woman who’s ever been told she’s too emotional, too sensitive, or too much. Paula’s story proves that sensitivity isn’t weakness; it’s wisdom.

And yes, there’s plenty of laughter, rage, and the usual ADHD Peri Punks chaos—because transformation doesn’t have to be tidy.

🎧 Listen now and learn how to turn your overwhelm into alchemy, your sensitivity into strength, and your hot flashes into holy fire.

KEY WORDS

Paula Hirst, ADHD and Alchemy, ADHD Peri Punks, ADHD women, ADHD and menopause, ADHD meditation, ADHD perimenopause, ADHD burnout, ADHD and hormones, neurodivergent women, ADHD mindfulness, ADHD midlife women, meditation for ADHD, ADHD and emotional sensitivity, ADHD and self-esteem, perimenopause symptoms, ADHD and identity, neurodivergent mental health, menopause mental health, ADHD coaching women, ADHD empowerment, ADHD podcast, Black ADHD Women, People of Color Perimenopause, Neurodivergent Black Women