If you're ADHD, your executive function level is about a 30% deficit age-wise from a neurotypical brain, a 20-year-old.

Their executive function skills might be 30 to 40% their age younger.

So you're actually dealing with like a kind of 12-year-old, which is why you might have teenagers and you're thinking, why is this not working?

You don't grow out of your executive function.

Difficulties, I think you just find ways to manage it. Hester Granger is the ultimate ADHD coach

and viral sensation spreading her ADHD message to millions online. As an ADHD advocate and

renowned public speaker, she is an expert in all things ADHD. Our ADHD brains don't have

enough dopamine. Cleaning and sorting and life admin is really, really boring. So we can think of a hundred things as much more fun. The idea little and often, or doing a little bit every day, is wonderful in principle. But I do think that there are better ways. Can that trigger like a shame response? because you've kind of like not fulfilled a promise to

yourself? I think there's two things there. You've got the shame of not actually doing it, but also

the shame of... Huge announcement just before we start. Tickets to the ADHD chatter podcast, live

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will remind you that you're not broken, just different, and that you have always been

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I can't wait to meet you in person. Hester, welcome back. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

You've been very busy since you were last here. Yes, yeah. I think it's been a couple of years now and I was on tour last year, so I did 27 dates in theatres with a show called 8 HD Unmasked and then I'm going to go on tour later again this year with a show called 8 HD Unfiltered. It's been busy, but it's good to be back. That's good. How do you manage the complexities, the stress of touring?

Was that quite a lot? Do you know what? It was a lot. But equally, I've got an amazing husband, Kelly. He was at home, sorting the kids out, saw all the pets out. So actually, I feel slightly spoiled that I was just away. I could just concentrate on the show. Obviously, I went home, etc. I was kind of away for sort of, you know, 10, 11, 12 days at a time.

And it just meant that actually I could just concentrate on the show. Obviously, I went home, etc. But I was kind of away for sort of, you know, 10, 11, 12 days at a time. And it just meant that actually I could concentrate on what I was doing. So I loved it. I had like the best time. I met so many people. And I got to speak about ADHD every night on stage. So for me, there was nothing better. Sounds brilliant. And what was the state of the house

like when you got back? Actually spotless. Was it? Yeah, completely. He runs a military,

a military ship going on at home. And yeah, I would say Kelly is a lot tidier than I am,

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