For ADHD women, we've grown up in a world where we've not really felt that we belong. We've had the feedback, oh, you're only going to be average at doing something. And we're living in a world right now, which is all about overachievement. And if you're not living up to that standard, you start to feel that you're falling short of it. And I think that's why a lot of us feel that we're not enough. Imagine having a bottle of soda and we shake it up.

If you get a top screw top, you can release a bit of the gas off and the little bubbles float on top

and you've got a what I call a happyish but slight excitement nervous system or you just take it off

really quickly. It just overspills. With that nervous system, because if we're struggling with that

sense of belonging and connection and safety, we might also go into collapse and withdrawal. So we won't pull ourselves into things. We turn up, but no one's really there. We withdraw. So you might see those two types of behaviours happening, the kind of ADHD nervous system at work. If you've got this nervous system that is so ready to explode, how does one soothe a nervous system like that?

Well, there's loads of different things you can do. One of the first things is to just...

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and you have always been enough. Sam, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for inviting me.

It's amazing. It's a pleasure to have you in the ADHD Chatter Studio with all of

the items behind us. Your item is patiently waiting under the cloth, which we will reveal later.

But firstly, Sam, just to sort of set a foundation for the episode, what's your mission,

would you say, in terms of ADHD? Great question. I think there's probably

three parts to it, as ever. There's never one is there in our heads. Number one is,

obviously I've been a leader in technology for a long time now as an ADHD coach for leaders,

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