ADHD PERI PUNKS

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

SUMMARY:

Therapist, trauma specialist, unapologetic ND-mom, and now coach,  Sera Gray joins ADHD Peri Punks to talk ADHD, perimenopause, feminist rage, creative healing, and what happens when women finally get seen—by themselves and each other.

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

What happens when you mix late-diagnosed ADHD, perimenopausal chaos, feminist rage, and four neurodivergent kids under one gloriously weird roof?
You get Sera Gray—Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, founder of Wild Lotus Therapy & Coaching, mother, artist, and unapologetic forest witch who’s helping women unmask, heal, and burn down the shame that kept them small.

In this raw, soulful, and laugh-out-loud episode, hosts Sarah Glasco and Chrissy Ingram sit down with Sera to talk about what it really means to wake up to your own neurodivergence in midlife—right when your hormones start rioting and the medical patriarchy tells you it’s “just stress.”

Sera has built her life and practice around helping women, girls, and parents untangle misdiagnosis, masking, trauma, and hormonal mayhem. Her approach blends clinical science, feminism, art, and archetype work, reminding us that healing isn’t linear—it’s creative, chaotic, and deeply human.

Join Sarah and Chrissy for a fierce, funny, and unfiltered convo. Sera shares her late ADHD diagnosis story, the hormone-fueled chaos of midlife, what the system keeps getting wrong about ND women and girls, and why creative, feminist care is the revolution we need.

From parenting in a house full of neurodivergence, to smashing shame with art and archetypes, this episode is required listening for anyone feeling unseen, too much, or just over the “good girl” act.

Together they dive into:
💥 The ADHD discovery story — how Sera finally recognized her own brain at 40 and why so many women don’t get diagnosed until midlife.
🔥 Hormones & rage — why perimenopause can amplify ADHD symptoms and unearth decades of repressed fury (and why that’s not a bad thing).
💬 Systemic failures — how women are gaslit by the healthcare and mental-health systems and what it takes to keep advocating anyway.
🧠 Parenting neurodivergent kids — what it’s like to raise four wildly different brains while trying to unmask your own.
🎨 Art & dreamwork as therapy — how creativity, imagination, and “witch energy” can become a form of nervous-system regulation.
💪 The future of neurodivergent care — why we need universal ADHD screening, trauma-informed systems, and a whole lot more compassion.

Sera doesn’t sugarcoat the messy middle—she’s lived through postpartum hell, domestic violence, burnout, and now perimenopause. Her story is a reminder that rage can be sacred, rest can be rebellion, and that there’s magic in the moments we think we’ve fallen apart.

This is more than a podcast episode; it’s a rallying cry for neurodivergent women who are tired of apologizing for existing.

🎧 Listen now to Wild Lotus Rising on ADHD Peri Punks—where hormones, humor, and holy rage meet the science of self-acceptance.

Follow Sera:

• Instagram:⁠ www.instagram.com/wildlotuscoachingwithsera⁠

Subscribe for more punk-fueled, science-backed, radically honest conversations about ADHD, menopause, and the power of neurodivergent women.

Keywords

Sera Gray, ADHD Peri Punks, ADHD, ADHD women, ADHD and menopause, ADHD and perimenopause, ADHD neuroscience, dopamine and estrogen, late-diagnosis ADHD, executive dysfunction, ADHD burnout, ADHD self-acceptance, neurodivergent women, ADHD education, hormonal health, brain fog, menopause mental health, ADHD research gap, ADHD and hormones, ADHD community, ADHD podcast, ADHD and autism, AuDHD women, HRT, bioidentical hormone replacemenet therapy, stimulant medication, mandalas, neurodivergent parents, neurodivergent parenting, ADHD Coach, ADHD therapist, neuroaffirming therapy

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!

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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

What happens when perimenopause hormones file for divorce and you realize your brain has been running on a completely different operating system your whole life? Enter today’s guest: Mandi Dixon, LPC, NCC — Licensed Professional Counselor, menopause mental health specialist, ADHD/executive functioning coach, and the therapist you didn’t know you needed until right this second.

Mandi works with midlife women in all their messy, magical “what the actual fuck” chaos—anxiety, identity unraveling, rage, executive dysfunction, and the hormonal storms that hit at the exact moment life is already asking more of us. She’s a proud member of The Menopause Society and ISSWSH, and she’s on a mission to finally bridge the massive gap between mental health and menopause education.

But here’s where it gets personal: Mandi recently discovered she’s neurodivergent herself. She made a TikTok about her ADHD revelation in perimenopause, it went viral, and suddenly she found herself not only guiding women through their midlife meltdowns, but sharing her own.

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, we go deep into:

• 🌪️ Her viral TikTok ADHD confession — what it’s like to out yourself online and be met with millions of “me too’s.”

• 🧠 Shifting identities — from “menopause therapist” to “ADHD menopause therapist,” and what her own late diagnosis means for her life and work.

• 🔥 The rage is real — why naming rage hits so hard in perimenopause, how it intersects with neurodivergence, and how to process it without shame.

• 🛠️ Therapy + coaching strategies — practical tools that actually help when executive dysfunction is riding shotgun.

• 💔 Identity free-fall — how masks come off in midlife, what women are telling her in her DMs and therapy sessions, and how to find stability in the unraveling.

• 🖕 Myth-busting — why ADHD isn’t a trend, why menopause isn’t “just mood swings,” and what neurodivergent midlife women really want the world to know.

And because we’re ADHD Peri Punks, we also rant about:

• Content theft: why stealing reels and captions from smaller creators is unethical, harmful, and needs to stop.

• Religious shame: what it’s like for women in the Bible Belt to navigate perimenopause and neurodivergence while battling entrenched cultural + patriarchal narratives.

This episode is raw, validating, rage-fueled, and deeply funny. Whether you’re in the throes of hormonal chaos, wondering if you’re neurodivergent, or just sick of screaming into pillows instead of the damn void, you’re going to feel seen here.

👉 Where to find Mandi Dixon:
📲 Instagram + TikTok: @adhdmenopausetherapist
🌐 Website: mandidixonlpc.com

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🔑 Keywords

Mandi Dixon, ADHD menopause therapist, ADHD therapist Texas, ADHD women, perimenopause and ADHD, neurodivergent women, late ADHD diagnosis, executive dysfunction, menopause rage, religious shame and menopause, Bible Belt women, content theft social media, ADHD TikTok viral, ADHD mental health, therapy strategies ADHD women, ISSWSH, The Menopause Society, midlife identity crisis, ADHD podcast, ADHD Peri Punks

What happens when you hand a late-diagnosed, unapologetically real ADHD business coach a frying pan and tell her to serve tough love? You get Karrie Lemansky — better known as Karrie Out Loud — and this unfiltered, laugh-til-you-snort conversation.

In this episode of ADHD Peri Punks, we sit down with Karrie, a 51-year-old ADHD coach, entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed “Chief Weirdo,” whose mission is to help neurodivergent adults stop spinning, start thriving, and own their brilliance without apology. With her viral “Frying Pan of Love” approach, Karrie combines blunt honesty with deep compassion to cut through the shame and overwhelm so many ADHDers carry.

We talk about what it means to be diagnosed late in life and how that collides with the chaos of perimenopause. Karrie shares her own story of navigating hormones, brain fog, rage, and the cultural gaslighting that tells women to just “cope better.” And because this is ADHD Peri Punks, we keep it raw, hilarious, and a little sweary (okay, a lot sweary).

This isn’t a motivational fluff piece. It’s a real talk about:

• Why shame keeps ADHD adults stuck in cycles of self-doubt

• How Karrie turned her own struggles into a business that empowers others

• The intersection of ADHD + perimenopause (aka: rage, fatigue, and WTF moments)

• The importance of neurodivergent-led coaching and community

• Why women 35+ need to stop suffering in silence about their hormones and start demanding better care

• And yes… why sometimes the only cure is a good frying pan of love.

Karrie also dishes on her tough-love coaching style, and why being a “weirdo” is the ultimate superpower. If you’ve ever felt too much, too messy, or too behind, this episode will make you feel seen, heard, and maybe even a little fired up to finally stop apologizing for existing.

Whether you’re navigating late diagnosis, perimenopause, entrepreneurship, or just the daily chaos of ADHD life, this conversation is your permission slip to ditch the shame and grab your metaphorical frying pan.

Listen now for an episode that’s equal parts therapy, stand-up comedy, and punk rock pep talk.