Light It Up With Dr Lara Goode

For 35 years Dr Lara thought she was just fast paced, an energiser bunny with high energy. ADHD Didn't cross her mind. Until this year. 

This week she sits down with Alison, an AuDHD coach and founder of Our Neurodiverse Family, to unpack what happens when a late diagnosis lands in the middle of a busy life and a business you’ve already built.

Alison was diagnosed autistic and ADHD between her second and third child. She has four boys, all AuDHD, and she now helps parents, partners and workplaces understand the neurodiversity in their own lives. She works strengths based, because in her experience neurodivergent people are already hard enough on themselves.

This conversation goes straight into the stuff nobody warns you about. The identity wobble of not knowing where you end and your diagnosis begins. Why hyper-fixation will get you a week of flow and a hundred unreconciled transactions. What burnout actually looks like when your capacity and your sustainability stopped matching a long time ago.

It’s warm, it’s funny, and it’s genuinely useful if you are a woman in business who has been calling herself high functioning for a while now.

Alison’s diagnosis story, and why the shock was never about the kids
 Connecting the dots in reverse, and why that’s so validating
 The caveat nobody mentions, you can have ADHD traits without being ADHD
 Masking, hat swapping, and why being one person all the time is less exhausting
 Why neurodivergent people hire and attract each other, and why you can’t build a team of all firecrackers
 Hyperfixation as a strength and a trap, you get the focus but you don’t get to choose the subject
 Task initiation, deadlines, accountability buddies and system hacks
 The feather, the brick and the truck, and learning to listen to the whispers of burnout
 Why white space in your calendar is not nothing
 Communication, impulsivity, RSD and the cost of being too direct
 Alison’s three tips for fast paced women in business

This episode touches on burnout, diagnosis and mental load. This episode is not medical guidance. If any of it lands close to home, please talk to your GP or a qualified practitioner. 

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Karly Nimmo hit number one in podcasting, taught more than 500 women how to start shows of their own, and produced one of the country’s biggest podcasts. And as she puts it, nobody really knows who she is.

In this episode Lara sits down with the woman the industry quietly calls on when things need grounding. Karly is a radio kid turned voiceover agency owner turned podcaster turned producer, and she has spent the last few years building other people’s spotlights rather than her own. She is the chaos conductor: the person who walks into a messy, overflowing creative mind and finds the undercurrent running beneath it all.

Karly’s winding path from radio in Lismore to a voiceover agency she ran for 15 years, and what happened when AI arrived and took that industry out from under her.

The Byron Bay co-working space that cost her $100,000 and a year of her life, launched in 2012 before anyone knew what co-working was.

Being diagnosed autistic and ADHD and realising that the push and pull between structure and stimulation had been running her whole life.

Why her raw, unedited solo episodes, recorded on a phone with a $70 mic while she walked along the beach, eventually outperformed every polished interview she made.

Her husband’s heart surgery during COVID lockdown, the six months of chronic stress that followed, and the burnout that ended a seven year podcast.

Why she pulled her own voice out of AI after it started seeding doubt about her own uniqueness, and what happened when she and a friend fed completely different material in and got the exact same program name back.

Creative resistance: the small acts, sometimes as small as sitting down with a cup of tea, that she sees as the real work of staying human in an AI era.

The DJ decks that sat in a cupboard for five years, and the 50th birthday she plans to play.

This episode includes discussion of depression, postnatal anxiety, burnout, and a serious family health crisis. As always, we do have the occasional swear word in our ep! 

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This is part two of our anonymous questions episode with Tara Pavlovic, and it got spicier than part one. You sent them in, we opened them cold, and we answered them honestly. No script, no filter, and absolutely no professional qualifications between us. Think your bestie with a cup of coffee rather than actual advice.

In this one we get into influencers sharing their cosmetic surgery and whether they owe us the disclosure. Why we're not allowed to age anymore, who can actually afford to look like that, and what Lara is open about when it comes to her own face. Then it turns, and we talk about open relationships, why the freedom only ever seems to run one way, and the double standard that is still very much alive in 2026. We get into red flags in people and business. If you haven't heard part one yet, go back and start there.

Loving this format? Tell us. Comment, share, send it to the friend who needs it, and send your anonymous questions in for the next round.

This ep is explicit. 

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At 18, Brooke Kelaart was cast as "the beauty" on Beauty and the Geek. The producers told her she wasn't allowed to say she was at university. Nearly two decades later she's the one in the lab, doing a masters in healthcare innovations and researching how health misinformation spreads online.

In this episode Lara sits down with Brooke to talk about the long road from DJ-ing with her twin sister, to reality TV, to pharmacology and toxicology, and why she's spent years being underestimated by people who decided who she was before she opened her mouth.

They get into the peptide boom that's taken over everyone's feed, why people are suddenly comfortable injecting things they bought online, and the vitamin stacking trend that's sending people to hospital with liver damage. Brooke's research found that a huge portion of health content online is false or misleading, and that people are more likely to believe a stranger they follow than their own doctor.

It's also a conversation about being a woman who doesn't fit the box. Brooke talks about dressing down before going to uni so people take her seriously, the study that shows girls stop associating being smart with their own gender at around age six, and the moment her eight year old came home convinced boys were smarter than her.

Brooke opens up abput her recent separation and solo parenting two girls and why rest is not in her vocabulary.

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The information shared in this episode is general in nature and is not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It does not take into account your individual health circumstances. This episode includes discussion of peptides, supplements and prescription medications, some of which are not approved for the uses discussed and are not supported by long term human safety data. Nothing here is an endorsement or recommendation of any product, and nothing in this episode establishes a practitioner and patient relationship. Please speak to your own doctor or qualified healthcare practitioner before starting, stopping or changing any medication, supplement or treatment.

Lem Zakaria has produced some of Australia's biggest podcasts and now runs her own talent agency. But that is not where her story starts. She grew up in Jordan, in a culture where being different came with real consequences, and she spent years living a double life.

This episode contains explicit language and adult themes, and includes discussion of homophobia, police detainment and blackmail.

We talk about the secret girlfriend, the night they got caught by the cops, and the acting job that got them out of it. We talk about what living like that does to you, and why she describes that whole period as feeling numb even while the accolades were rolling in.

I also share something I have not talked about much on here. When I was twenty five I fell head over heels for one of my hockey teammates, and it turned my sense of who I was completely upside down.

From there we get into masking, labels, why so many of us perform a version of ourselves, and the codependency pattern Lem sees again and again in relationships. Then Lem tells me the real reason she walked away from a very good job to start her own agency, and it is not the reason you would expect.

If you have ever felt like you did not fit the mould, this one is for you.

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This week Light It Up looks a bit different. Lara is joined in person by Tara Pavlovic, and instead of a standard interview, they open the floor to the audience. Anonymous questions, sent in by listeners, answered without the usual polish.

Heads up, this episode contains strong language and frank discussion of separation, marriage breakdown, mental health, and sex.

The first one goes straight for the throat. How do you survive financially as a single mum, and what is your annual wage? Tara answers it properly, which almost nobody does. She talks about growing up with nothing, leaving home at seventeen, and why she has never once felt able to stop working. She names the number. She names the rent. She talks about legal fees, therapy costs, and the fact that ten Medicare-subsidised psychology sessions a year does not go far when you are in the middle of a crisis.

Question two comes from a woman who has been married seventeen years and still thinks about an ex from twenty-five years ago. Lara and Tara unpack why our brains run a highlight reel of the good times and quietly delete the rest, whether this is a nervous system safety mechanism, and what it might actually be pointing to in the current relationship.

That leads into the conversation the episode is really about. Marriages get boring. Desire needs distance, and when you have kids climbing on you at the breakfast table there is no distance to be found. Lara and Tara talk about the seven year itch, why monthly date nights are easier to recommend than to execute, and why pretending none of this happens is doing everyone a disservice.

Question three comes from someone consciously uncoupling and living in the same house, wondering how long they are meant to do this for. The advice is practical. Start looking for your own space while things are still good, keep talking, and ask the harder question underneath it, which is if you are such a good team, why are you splitting up at all.

Honest, funny, occasionally filthy, and exactly the conversation most of us are only having in our group chats.

Part two coming soon

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Lauren met Jaymes on Instagram, flew to Australia, and married him six weeks later. Two weeks into their relationship they started her OnlyFans. Seven years and one baby on the way later, they explain why none of it is what you think.

Lauren and Jaymes Wright have broken pretty much every rule you have ever been given about dating, marriage and money. They got engaged on a mushroom trip near a waterfall. They ran into their celebrant the same morning they decided to get married. Lauren made 15,000 US dollars in her first two weeks online. And now, 24 weeks pregnant with their first daughter, Lauren says this career is going to make her a better mum.

In this episode Lara asks the questions everyone is thinking and nobody says out loud.

Here is what they get into:

• How a comment about the Amazon fires turned into a marriage proposal
• Why they say the six week wedding was not a visa arrangement, and what it actually was
• The moment Jaymes decided she was the one
• Why Jaymes is not jealous, and what he says to the men who ask how he allows it
• How Lauren went from teaching adult gymnastics in the UK to earning more in two weeks than she used to earn in three months
• The uncomfortable truth Lauren learned about the men who were already saving her photos, years before she ever posted anything explicit
• Where the boundaries sit when subscribers want companionship instead of content
• What actually changes when you get pregnant and your body is your business
• Why Lauren does not care what anyone thinks about a mum doing this work
• The one rule they will never break when it comes to their daughter and the internet
• What Lauren would say if her daughter came to her one day and said she wanted to do the same job

This one is honest, funny and a lot more thoughtful than the headline suggests.

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 This episode contains discussion of sex work, drug use and adult themes. Explicit language.

Meghan McTavish joins Dr Lara Goode and opens up about "cool girl" conditioning, divorce, solo travel and why having it all was never the win we were told it was.

Meghan McTavish spent years being whoever the person in front of her needed her to be. The cool girl who drank on a weekday. The Zen yogi. The woman on the dating app with a bikini photo and no opinions.

In the first episode of Light It Up, Dr Lara Goode sits down with Meghan, the writer, creator of the Plotline journal and self described divorce-fluencer, to talk about what it actually costs to be that agreeable, and what happens when you stop.

They get into the campaign Meghan ran on dating apps after her marriage ended, and why she felt uglier the more men liked her. The villain narrative that follows women as they get older. Why she has been celibate for two years and is happier for it. And the trick she and her ex used while still living under the same roof, taking turns being the 1950s husband, which turned out to be the thing that showed her she could do it alone.

Lara brings her own side of it. A recent ADHD diagnosis at 35 and the anger that came with realising how many choices were made while masking. A marriage that hit rock bottom and came back as marriage 2.0. And the burnout that landed her in a body that stopped cooperating.

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Light It Up with Dr Lara Goode is where women stop shrinking, start questioning the rules and finally say the things we’ve been conditioned to keep quiet.

Hosted by osteopath, business owner and late-diagnosed ADHD fire cracker Dr Lara Goode. This podcast is packed with honest, unfiltered conversations about ambition, identity, motherhood, relationships, burnout, reinvention and what happens when you decide the “good girl” script no longer fits.

Each episode features bold women who have gone against the grain, challenged expectations and built lives that feel true to them, even when it meant disappointing people, changing direction or burning the rulebook entirely.

Expect real stories, uncomfortable truths, plenty of humour and the occasional overshare.

Because sometimes you just need to light it up.

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