Founder of World’s No.1 ADHD Coaching company: The real reason ADHD women are still struggling

ADHD Chatter

Alex Partridge

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Shanna Pearson has over 26 years of experience providing one-on-one action-based coaching for easily distracted adults seeking personal, professional, and financial success. She has designed and led focus and goal-achievement programs for executives and directors at Fortune 500 companies and world-class institutions, including Google, X, Tesla, PayPal, Pfizer, Intel, Ford Motor Company, Yale School of Medicine, Disney, Meta, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, and SpaceX—and has helped tens of thousands of adults transform their lives through her results-driven, brain-based approach. Chapters: 01:57 Shanna’s mission 09:04 How to define ADHD 11:42 Nature vs Nurture 15:53 How to connect with your inner child 18:35 What is ‘normal’? 20:28 How to embrace your differences 21:49 The hack that’s helping thousands of ADHD adults 28:41 Tiimo advert 29:42 How to turn ADHD into a superpower 36:38 Why ADHD women were missed 41:45 Why some ADHD women feel unlovable 48:07 How to manage Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria 53:00 Why ADHD women get misdiagnosed with anxiety 59:06 Shanna’s ADHD item 01:02:17 The ADHD agony aunt 01:04:32 A letter from the previous guest Visit Shanna’s website 👉 https://www.adhdcoaching.com Pre-order Shanna’s book 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-ADHD-Proven-Management-Scattered/dp/1035082667 Get 30% off an annual Tiimo subscription 👉 https://www.tiimoapp.com/offers/adhdchatter Buy Alex's book entitled 'Now It All Makes Sense' 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-All-Makes-Sense-Diagnosis/dp/1399817817 Producer: Timon Woodward Recorded by: Hamlin Studios Trailer Editor: Ryan Faber DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everyone with 80s, regardless of their personality, we all have a very difficult time compartmentalizing.
0:06.0	When you have that experience, you're attuned to everything.
0:09.2	If you're born with a brain that can't compartmentalize very well, and you've also grown up being completely on the outside of the vast majority of everyone around you, you will end up hypersensitive to all things that are happening around you and
0:21.6	you'll take it personally.
0:22.9	Shanna Pearson founded the largest ADHD coaching facility in the world.
0:27.0	With over 26 years experience in ADHD coaching, she's helped more than 22,000 people.
0:32.6	And overseen over half a million coaching sessions in her glittering career.
0:35.9	Why can't you just? That's what we've been
0:37.6	hearing our whole life. It's like really, why can't you just? You know, when you're a kid,
0:41.3	you hear that from your parents, when you're a student, you hear it from your teachers. When you're an adult, you hear it from your partner. It's like this nonstop message. Why can't you just you start to internalize it it's like well why can't i just we're so disconnected from ourselves
0:55.1	how do you think someone can become more connected to their self their inner child You start to internalize it. It's like, well, why can't I just? We're so disconnected from ourselves.
0:55.4	How do you think someone can become more connected to their self, their inner child? What exercises can
0:59.7	someone do to try and minimize that gap between their true self and their masked self?
1:04.1	I think for people who have ADHD specifically, we have to do a lot of things very intentionally.
1:10.3	Quick one, before I get distracted.
1:12.1	I just wanted to say a very brief thank you to all of my listeners.
1:15.5	Thank you for tuning in and thank you for subscribing and following the podcast.
1:19.6	It really, really helps.
1:21.2	At ADHD chatter, my mission is to ask the world leading experts, the hard questions,
1:25.8	to give you access to the most pioneering
1:27.9	advice the world has to offer, and with an aim to help you feel seen. Following and subscribing
1:33.1	helps me on my mission to book these incredibly insightful guests and to give you these
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