So Kate, thank you so much for joining me. I've been looking at your work for a while and I've

got your book, which is brilliant, the ADHD Women's Well-Being Toolkit. It's not often that

you get ADHD and women on the cover of a book. There's a lot of ADHD talk and it's really accelerated actually over the last few

months and I don't know whether it's because I'm more aware or whether it's just more people

are talking which is great. But I want to spend this time just talking a bit about like you,

who you are, what you do, what ADHD, AD, I can't even say it, can I, what ADHD means.

Because actually what the letters stand for doesn't really help that much, I don't think.

So if we just start, if you don't mind Kate, just saying a bit about your background and

what it means to have ADHD and what actually is ADHD?

Yeah, well, thank you for having me on the podcast. So I was diagnosed five years ago at the age of 40

with ADHD and I completely agree with you. I don't like the name. I don't like the letters.

It's a mouthful to say.

It doesn't really give me anything about my profile of how it shows up and many other women's

profile. Yes, there's a hyperactivity, but it kind of is just not, it's not quite how it shows up

for many women, which is often internalised. So I grew up with two brothers who were

diagnosed with ADHD back in the very early 90s and late 80s. They were really at the very

beginning of diagnoses. They were obviously boys. And I was the daughter, the sister in between

who was quiet, a bit sort of head in the clouds,

but I wasn't causing any distress to my parents who really did have the hands full with two

very hyperactive in different ways, boys who were really struggling academically.

I was getting by just about, but because I wasn't causing any problems, ADHD wasn't

even contemplated. We didn't even think ADHD was maybe genetic. It was, there just wasn't

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