ADHD In Women & Girls with Dr. Jennifer Gierisch & Dr. Julia Schechter

The Holderness Family Podcast

Kim Holderness

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When we wrote our book, ADHD Is Awesome, we got to meet a lot of you on tour. Many of you felt seen for the first time and many of you had no idea you had ADHD until you read it and got diagnosed. The majority of you were women. If we had one regret in writing our book, it was that we did not include more about how different ADHD presents in girls and women. But a big reason for that, is that it doesn't exist.

There is very little research on how differently ADHD presents in girls and women. So we invited Dr. Jennifer Gierisch and Dr. Julia Schechter from the Duke Center for Girls & Women with ADHD to help us understand why that is and what is being done about it. This week's episode is longer than usual, but so important. Learn more about their work here: https://adhdgirlsandwomen.org/

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Kim and Penn are award-winning content creators known for their online videos, including original music, song parodies, and comedy sketches. Their videos have resulted in over 2 billion views and 9 million followers across their social media platforms since they (accidentally) went viral in 2013. They have a New York Times bestselling book on ADHD, best-selling book on marriage communication, a top-rated podcast, a fun-filled family card game, and most recently, they were the winners on Season 33 of The Amazing Race.

The Holderness Family Podcast is produced by Ann Marie Taepke and edited and engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media and Sam Allen.

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0:00.0	and you are not alone. I might start crying. It took a long time for me to get to that point for
0:06.5	myself personally. And I feel like that is such a gift for my daughter now that I can have her
0:11.8	grow up to be a strong, confident girl, woman with ADHD.
0:22.8	Hi, everyone. I'm Kim Holderness. And I'm Ben Holderness and this is the Holderness family podcast.
0:27.0	Podcast. Did I use the right accent?
0:30.9	Podcast. Yeah. Hot tub. Makes it sound French. Welcome. Thank you for hitting play.
0:37.3	Yeah. This is a good one. Yeah.
0:39.4	I say that about everyone, don't I? But it's not a good sign if you say this one's kind of,
0:44.4	yeah. And this one, I don't know. No one's going to listen to that. This is great. Okay. Last week,
0:49.6	it was so fun to announce that we're working in a children's book about ADHD. We've been working with
0:54.8	our publisher. Contracts not totally been signed yet. But it's happening people. But it's happening.
1:00.2	But it is so we are expediting this to get it out into the world. And we want to take you along
1:07.9	with the process. But we are working so quickly on it.
1:10.9	I'm trying to document it, but then things have to be made.
1:13.8	Like we had to agree on a title in a day.
1:16.9	Yeah.
1:17.9	We had to interview illustrators over a weekend.
1:19.6	It's happening quickly.
1:21.6	Yeah.
1:22.6	And the book is essentially a children's version of our central messaging in our first book, ADHD, is awesome that we
1:29.7	wrote that did quite well, but we had a lot of people asking, is there a younger version
1:34.7	of this? And always wanted to do that. I want to talk more about that first book. We're very
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