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Women & ADHD

Katherine Ellison: Learning from ADHD mistakes

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

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

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 58 with Katherine Ellison

"I try to talk openly about my mistakes and humiliating moments in order to normalize them and make them less shameful."

Katherine is a Pultizer prize-winning journalist, author and public speaker. 

She's written or co-written several books about ADHD, and is a regular contributor to ADDitude magazine. She also recently gave a Ted Talk on the gifts of having ADHD during a pandemic.

Her most recent book is "Mothers & Murders: A True Story of Love, Lies, Obsession ...And Second Chances," a memoir about a major mistake she made as a young reporter and how she recovered and came back stronger than ever.

Website: KatherineEllison.com

Twitter: @kathellison

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We know better than other people, how often everybody makes mistakes, you know, and we know

1:07.9

what to do with mistakes better because we make so many of them.

1:11.2

So that you should, if you're feeling overwhelmed by all the information coming out of the

1:15.7

pandemic, you should talk to somebody with ADHD because even if we don't follow the best

1:20.4

advice, we know what it is.

1:27.3

Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. We're going to jump right in with episode 58 in which I interview Catherine Ellison. Now, way back in episode 18, I interviewed Tasha Post. And if you haven't yet listened to it, go listen.

1:44.7

She is amazing.

1:46.1

And she told me about how it was an episode of the current, a CBC radio show, back in 2016,

1:53.0

that led her to her own ADHD diagnosis.

1:56.0

So after I interviewed her, I went and listened to that old episode.

1:59.3

And Catherine Ellison was one of the guests

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