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Women & ADHD

Emily Donahoe: Theater, sexism & working memory

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Episode 52 with Emily Donahoe.

"I’m one of those people for whom Ritalin is like putting on a pair of glasses."

Emily is an accomplished actor, writer and producer. She has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters around the country. She won an Obie Award, she’s a recipient of the Helen Hayes Award, and was a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama. 

This fall she will be guest starring on NBC’s FBI’s Most Wanted and Amazon’s Dead Ringers with Rachel Weisz. She also has a recurring role in American Rust on Showtime, which just premiered September 12. 

Emily is also the founder of WOMENSPEAK Training (WST). WST gives women, diversity partners, and organizations the best tools available for building female share of voice and increased visibility in the public arena.

Website: IMDb; WOMENSPEAK

 

 

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Transcript

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Hey friends, it's Katie here. Have you spent your whole life wondering why things feel harder for you

0:05.2

than they do for everyone else? Do you struggle with motivation even for the things you actually want to do?

0:10.6

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then I've got some exciting news. I've recently expanded the women and ADHD team by joining forces with a few

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when you have the right support. Head to women and ADHD.com slash coaching to book your free

1:00.7

consult today. One of the things about women in ADHD is there's so many potentially confounding

1:06.7

variables like perimenopause, their menopause or hormones or even, you know,

1:11.7

babies, infrastructural bias against, you know, the fact that we don't have infrastructural

1:16.2

supports in this country. And so perhaps even neurotypical women are having problems with

1:20.7

their memories these days, you know, and that women as a group have been neglected in terms

1:25.3

of research and how, so there's so many, it's like a bowl

1:28.3

of fish hooks. You know, you pick up one and 15 seem to come up with it.

1:36.3

Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. Before we get

1:41.5

started, I want to take a moment to give a shout out to the women and ADHD online community.

1:46.7

It's been so great getting to know each other in this space and sharing our idiosyncrasies in a safe way with other women who really understand what we're going through.

1:57.0

I think one member, Autumn, said it best in one of her posts when she said, I really appreciate this group and the fact that I can just throw out all my thoughts and not have you guys give me the this girl is nuts side eye.

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