Ever start "cleaning your closet" and somehow end up sitting on the floor in a feather boa listening to old Avril Lavigne CDs, surrounded by stuff you forgot you owned?

This week on I'm Not Crazy, Right?, Hillary sits down with Candace Evia, professional organizer and ADHD decluttering coach behind Simply Minimally Me, to talk about why traditional organizing advice fails ADHD brains and what actually works instead. Candace breaks down her go-to method for decision paralysis (floor, surfaces, details), why "dress for comfort and potential" should be your new closet mantra, and how to tell the difference between stuff you love and stuff you're keeping because of guilt or an old identity you've outgrown.

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Hillary shares her personal journey to being diagnosed with adult ADHD — from the terrifying post-COVID brain fog and cognitive symptoms that started it all, to the long, frustrating road of doctors, testing, and misdiagnosis before finally getting answers. She opens up about the everyday realities of living with ADHD that rarely get talked about: masking, hyperfixation, the "ADHD tax," forgetting to eat, struggling to text back, and the exhaustion of constantly explaining yourself to people who don't understand how your brain works. If you've ever wondered whether you might have ADHD, or you're already diagnosed and looking to feel less alone, this honest, unscripted episode is for you.

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Why does one unanswered text send you into a full friendship-ending spiral? In this episode, Hillary unpacks the anxiety of thinking someone is mad at you, where that fear of rejection really comes from, and how to stop taking other people's boundaries personally. If you struggle with people-pleasing, overthinking friendships, or reading into silence, this one's for you.

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This week, host Hillary Bautch is joined by award-winning journalist Stefanie O'Connell, author of #TheAmbitionPenalty. They unpack why women get told they're not ambitious enough — from the double standards around traits like "assertive" and "independent," to "you're never quite right" bias in leadership, Queen Bee Syndrome, the unpaid "second shift" that costs women a month of leisure time a year, and how girlboss and tradwife culture sell the same lie that women are their own biggest obstacle.

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Connect with Stefanie @stefanieoconnell, tooambitious.com, and on her Substack.

This week, Hillary sits down with Vallean J. — journalist, author (including her latest novel Her Worst Enemy), and founder of the Young Readers Literacy Experience and the Dear Me Experience — to talk about the reflex so many women share: saying "sorry" for things that need zero apology. Enjoy!

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If you've ever been told "that's not a real thing" by a doctor... this one's for you.

Hillary sits down with her work-wife-turned-real-life-bestie Addy for a vulnerable story that she's never shared publicly: her years-long fight to get diagnosed with endometriosis.

From being put on the pill as a teenager to "fix" mystery pain, to collapsing and ending up in the ER, to a doctor finally saying six words that changed everything — "I believe you, and I'm sorry" — this conversation is about what happens when women stop doubting themselves and start trusting their own bodies.

In this episode:

• Getting dismissed by doctors for years before getting answers
• Why endometriosis can only be diagnosed through surgery (yes, really)

• Trying every diet, every elimination protocol, every "fix" — before realizing the real problem was never being believed
• What it felt like to finally hear "I'm sorry you went through that"

This one's raw, it's real, and it's a reminder: you know your body. Trust yourself. Enjoy!

People mentioned:

Dr. Camran Nezhat, MD @camrannezhatmd

@sophie.richards

@found.womenshealth

NOTE: One of the surgeries mentioned was miscalled "abalation" - the correct term is "ablation."

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We grew up on Cinderella and boombox-outside-the-window rom-coms — love as a rescue mission, not a partnership. Then reality hit, and we were told to just lower our standards.

But what if the standard was never the problem?

This week Hillary breaks down why male characters written by women (hi, Garrett Graham 👀) aren't setting an unrealistic bar — they're proof the bar was reachable all along. We're talking book boyfriends, real-life "men written by women," and why effort has become the new grand gesture. Enjoy!

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Have you ever been totally confident in a decision… until everyone around you started weighing in? Suddenly you're second-guessing yourself, outsourcing your choices to anyone who'll give an opinion, and wondering how you got here.

This week, I'm joined by Fiona Simpson — corporate baddie by day, mindset coach and founder of Reflect Path by night — to talk about one of the most relatable struggles women face at work: losing touch with our own instincts. Enjoy!

We get into:

• How to tell when you've stopped trusting yourself
• The difference between helpful external feedback and just... noise
• Why your gut feeling is never actually gone — it just gets quiet
• How to build a track record so your coworkers trust your instincts too
• The "hype file" hack that will change how you approach your annual review
• The difference between risk and uncertainty (and why most decisions aren't as scary as we think)
• When quitting your job might be exactly what your gut has been trying to tell you

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If you grew up as a millennial woman, you probably remember the era of low-rise jeans, bodycon dresses, and crash diets that promised to help you lose 30 lbs in 30 days. But what happened if you weren't quite "plus size" — and weren't quite "straight size" either? You fell through the cracks. Literally.

In this episode, Hillary gets personal about growing up mid-sized — always feeling like the biggest girl in the room, even when the math didn't quite support it. From Forever 21 dressing rooms to frat house basements, she unpacks what it actually felt like to exist in a body that the fashion industry, diet culture, and society at large simply didn't have a category for.

She also talks about the exhausting reality of crash diets, and the moment she finally stopped waiting for a magical day when she'd wake up and love her body.

This one's for every woman who never felt thin enough, or just... enough.

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Have you ever had a four hour phone call that started as a quick check-in and ended with you Googling the same random celebrity at the same time as your best friend — without either of you saying a word about it first? If you have a long distance bestie, you know exactly what that's like. And if you don't, you're about to wish you did.

In this episode of I'm Not Crazy, Right?, host Hillary Bautch sits down with her long-distance best friend Dakota — a friendship that started entirely over Slack messages and early morning phone calls back in 2019, and one that didn't become "in person" until four years later. Together they get into the question every woman with a far away best friend has quietly wondered: does distance actually make some friendships better, not worse?

From the "What The F*ck Is Up Wednesday" video tradition that's kept their friendship going for years, to the very different communication styles that almost broke them (and ultimately made them closer), Hillary and Dakota get honest about what long distance friendship really looks like — the good, the hard, and the deeply, deeply random. Enjoy!

In this episode we cover:

• Why so many women end up with their closest friendships being long-distance — and why that's not something to feel guilty about
• The "anonymity" of long-distance friends — why it's sometimes easier to be completely honest with someone who isn't tangled up in your daily life
• Navigating different communication styles in friendship — texting anxiety, phone calls, and finding a middle ground that works for both people

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