ADHD Wise Podcast
ADHD Wise Podcast is a welcoming, non-judgemental space for adults with ADHD, parents of children with ADHD, and professionals who support them.
Rooted in real conversation, this podcast brings together lived experience and professional insight to explore ADHD, broader neurodivergence, and the intersections that shape people’s lives. Each episode is designed to be useful, thoughtful, and accessible, without pretending to offer a magic wand or a one-size-fits all answer.
This is not a space that tells you what to think. It is a space that offers information, reflection, and honest conversation, so you can think about what feels right for you. With guests who are experts in themselves and/or their field, ADHD Wise Podcast invites you to listen in as though you are right there at the table, part of something real.
Come as you are. Listen as you are. Take what helps. Leave what doesn’t. Above all, this is a place to think, feel, reflect, and explore how to live well and wisely with ADHD.
Episodes
29 episodes
S2E9: ADHD in Women: Brilliant in a Crisis, Struggling with the Everyday
How can you save the day at work, then get pulled up for forgetting one small thing?This week, I’m joined by writer and director Shayna Langford and producer and composer Rebecca Doherty to talk about their upcoming short film, Deficit. ...
S2E8: ADHD & Dyslexia: Where They Overlap, What’s Different & What Helps at Work
October is ADHD Awareness Month, and this week is Dyslexia Awareness Week, with the 2026 theme Dyslexia in real life: At work.I’m diagnosed with both ADHD and dyslexia, and the more you look at the two together, the more interes...
S2E7: ADHD, Autism and Mental Health: The Cost of “Why Can’t You Just?”
Kathleen Helm had never pictured themselves retiring. When the thought of a future in Italy appeared one day, they realised how much had changed: for the first time, a future felt imaginable.In this episode, Jannine and Kathleen talk hon...
S2E6 - A Parent’s Place Is in the Wrong: Little Noah and the Reality of SEND Parenting
Content note: This episode discusses the death of a young child, accidental harm and parental grief.Every parent has a sliding-door moment. A second when something could have gone terribly wrong, but thankfully did not.Fo...
S2E5: ADHD Hyperfocus: How to Make It Work for You
Hyperfocus can feel incredible.You can lose yourself in an idea, a project or a piece of work and achieve more than you thought possible. The rest of the world quietens down. Everything narrows into one absorbing thing.But hyperfo...
S2E4: Volunteering, Belonging and Safe Spaces for Autistic Girls | Cath Parry
What happens when autistic girls are given a space where they do not have to mask, explain themselves or make themselves smaller?Jannine talks to Cath Parry from the Autistic Girls Network about the power of community, peer support and v...
S2E3: ADHD, Autism and Healthcare: Why Doctors Must Really Listen
What changes when future doctors are taught not only about conditions, but to listen to the people living with them?Jannine is joined by her long-time friend and collaborator Michele Gutteridge, Assistant Professor and Communication and ...
S2E2: The Great ADHD Myth? Jannine Perryman & Dr Helen Wall Respond
Channel 4’s controversial ADHD documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, has triggered anger, fear and widespread criticism across the ADHD community.In this episode of ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine Perryman and Dr Helen Wall bring together specia...
S2E1: Parents Mask Too: The Hidden Cost of Fighting for Your SEND Child
In the first episode of Season 2, Jannine is joined by Louisa Gray, author of We Are Not Seeing It: How and Why Mainstream Schools Break SEND Kids, for an honest conversation about what it costs parents to fight for their children....
Episode 20: The Lived Experience of ADHD and Broader Neurodivergence
Why can an email derail an entire task? Why does everything sometimes feel “times ten”? Why can capable neurodivergent people spend their lives trying harder, while still feeling as though they are failing?In this season finale, Jannine ...
Episode 19: ADHD Is Not a Debate: The Cost of Manufactured Doubt
What happens when established ADHD science is repackaged as a public controversy?In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, I’m joined by Rachel Boss from ADHD Jersey to discuss the growing media pushback against ADHD awareness, diagnosis...
Episode 18: Anxiety, Boxing and Finding Your Purpose
What happens when an anxious child finds the one place where he finally feels capable?For Bobby, that place was a boxing gym. Boxing gave him confidence, direction and a sense of purpose. It became the foundation for Fitness by Bobby, wh...
Episode 17: Why Can I Do the Hard Things… But Not the Easy Ones?
Have you ever wondered why you can solve complex problems, support everyone else, or perform under pressure… but still struggle to reply to an email, make a phone call or keep on top of everyday tasks?You’re not alone.In this ep...
Episode 16: ADHD Coaching: Why Your Strategies Stop Working, and What to Do Next
Have you ever found a strategy that finally worked for your ADHD brain — only for it to suddenly stop working?Perhaps the planner was brilliant for three weeks. The reminders helped until you stopped seeing them. The new routine felt lif...
Episode 15: ADHD, Trauma and Joy: Why Neurodivergent People Need More Than Coping
In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine explores the powerful connection between ADHD, neurodivergence, trauma, adversity and joy.Many neurodivergent people grow up knowing they are different. Misunderstood. Excluded. Misread. ...
Episode 14: School Attendance Difficulties: School Says They’re “Fine”, But You Know They’re Not
In this episode of ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine is joined by Louise Parker Engels from Define Fine for a powerful conversation about school attendance difficulties, neurodivergent children, parent blame, and what we really mean when...
Episode 13: ADHD, Divorce and Separation: What Every Neurodivergent Family Needs to Know
Separation and divorce are hard for anyone. But when ADHD, autism, trauma, emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitivity, executive functioning difficulties, financial overwhelm, parenting pressure and neurodivergent children are all in the mi...
Episode 12: Ryan Swain on misinformation, education, Tourette’s and the reality of living with ADHD
In this episode of the ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine is joined by Ryan Swain for a raw, energetic and honest conversation about ADHD, misinformation, lived experience and what happens when neurodivergent people are misunderstood....
Episode 11: Newly Diagnosed with ADHD: Relief, Grief, Self-Understanding, and What Comes Next
In this solo episode of ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine explores what it can feel like to be newly diagnosed ADHD or another neurodivergent profile might explain parts of your life.Diagnosis can bring relief, but it can also bring grief: gri...
Episode 10: You Are Not Alone: Neurodivergent Parenting, SEND Battles & Finding Your People
In Episode 10 of the ADHD Wise Podcast, Jannine is joined by Michaela from Spilling the Tea on Autism and ADHD for an honest, warm and powerful conversation about neurodivergent parenting, SEND, school struggles, advocacy, and what hap...
Episode 9: Why Time Gets Away From Us: Time Blindness in ADHD, Dyscalculia and Dyslexia
In this solo episode, Jannine explores time blindness across ADHD, dyscalculia and dyslexia, and why difficulty with time is not laziness, carelessness or a moral failing.She reflects on the idea of “now” and “not now”, the difficu...
Episode 8: ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia: Riding the Wave Without Burning Out
In Episode 8, Jannine is joined by Vicky Flood for an honest, warm and deeply relatable conversation about living with “the big three”: ADHD, autism and dyslexia.Vicky shares her experience of late diagnosis, the relief of finally unders...
Episode 7: Man on Pause: ADHD, Masking and Men’s Mental Health
In Episode 7, Jannine is joined by Daran, the voice behind Man on Pause, for an honest and wide-ranging conversation about ADHD, masking, men’s mental health, vulnerability, and breaking generational patterns.Daran shares why he...
Episode 6: ADHD in Girls: The Hidden Signs We Miss
In Episode 6, Jannine is joined by her daughter and colleague, Becca Channon, for a personal and research-informed conversation about ADHD in women and girls.Becca shares the focus of her psychology dissertation, which explored ADHD, sex...
Episode 5: ADHD and RSD: When Rejection Sensitivity Meets Rejection Attunement
RSD is currently one of the most talked about parts of ADHD. But what if the conversation is missing something important?In this solo episode, Jannine explores rejection sensitive dysphoria, emotional intensity, criticism, shame, boundar...