Understanding ADHD with the Holderness Family

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What if the traits that once got you in trouble could actually be your greatest strengths? Viral creators Penn and Kim Holderness have built careers—and a family life—around embracing ADHD. They join Jessi Hempel to talk about how understanding the ADHD brain can transform frustration into creativity, connection, and confidence. Penn and Kim Holderness—viral content creators, parents, and partners—have built an entire career on laughter, honesty, and showing what real family life looks like. With over 5 million followers and hundreds of millions of views, they’re known for turning everyday chaos into hilarious and heartfelt videos about marriage, parenting, and mental health. In this episode of Hello Monday, they sit down with Jessi Hempel to talk about how embracing ADHD has reshaped their lives, their marriage, and their work—and why understanding neurodiversity can be the key to unlocking success. In this episode, Penn and Kim open up about: How shame and misunderstanding often mask ADHD’s gifts The systems and strategies that make their partnership work Why reframing “fixation” as “hyperfocus” can change everything How parents and leaders can support ADHD brains—at home and at work The growing cultural awareness around neurodiversity and creativity Whether you’re raising a neurodivergent child, leading a team, or navigating your own diagnosis, this conversation offers a roadmap for understanding difference as strength. Check out Penn and Kim’s new children’s book: All You Can Be with ADHD Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us Wednesday at 3 PM ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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0:00.0	There was no diagnosis, at least in our community of ADHD.
0:03.5	There was no one around you who had it.
0:05.5	It wasn't a thing.
0:06.5	It was you're a space cadet.
0:08.0	His working memory works so completely different than mine.
0:12.0	Like the second he pours the cup of coffee,
0:14.5	the cup of coffee is the only thing you exist.
0:16.5	So his arm just kind of goes up here and the milk goes away.
0:20.0	But then now we know that if the keys are gone, let's look in the fridge.
0:26.5	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:31.2	Today we're talking about ADHD.
0:33.9	That's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
0:41.0	Now this is a huge topic of conversation in my own house my wife was diagnosed with it in college and my son he's seven he has it too and i'm just here
0:48.9	to tell you that this is why every shoe in our house is lost and every sock is mismatched, among so many other things.
0:57.0	And in recent years, the attention that ADHD has gotten has grown, as we've come to
1:02.8	understand it better and understand exactly how many people are impacted by it.
1:07.8	Look, I know a lot of you are also impacted by ADHD because you've written to me
1:13.4	and you have asked for this conversation. And who better to have it with than today's
1:19.6	guests in the studio? We have Penn and Kim Holderness. Now, you probably know them even if you don't know their names. I first learned
1:29.9	about them from the Christmas Jamies video. Gosh, it's probably a decade ago because now those
1:35.6	little kids in that video are teenagers, even heading off to college. You know, Kim and Penn
1:41.7	are entertainers on the internet. Really, they make incredible, funny parody videos, they make their own music, you can find
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