Darren Smith is a pretty inspirational person! He's the man responsible for The Big ADHD Fundraiser, which is in its third year of raising funds for various ADHD charities.

In this episode Darren talks to me about his experience of neurodivergent diagnosis later in life and what lead him to getting together a gang of cycling heroes to cycle hundreds of miles all in the name of ADHD!

This year the money raised by Darren and the rest of the team will be going to two charities very close to my heart, ADHDAdultUK and ADHDAF+

Any amount of donation helps... as my mum used to say "Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves!"

To donate....

https://givestar.io/gs/the-big-adhd-fundraiser-2025?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLSYJNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpwKxzsM3DeJ6gKDw4URw6F3qu6Q4xJE3eyLr0TfLGIba_H2CGOJLPSmplDEm_aem_o2-8RY6BO_xYpCi2cJFKfg

I'm back this week with the second half of my super informative chat with the awesome Meghann Birks. In this week's episde Meghann talks about all things AuDHD and gives some vital advice on reframing the things we say to build on our self belief.

The usual triggers warnings apply to this episode because we do tackle a couple of tricky topics

Also, starting this week, I want to celebrate your small things that are actually big wins! Too often we struggle with daily tasks that would seem like a small thing to a neurotypical person, yet we struggle to do them. When we do finally manage to do them I think we need to get some praise because actually it's genuinely a BIG WIN! You can send your "small thing, big win" to me by sliding into my DMs on instagram instagram.com/audhdorjustabitweird or by emailing me at audhdorjustabitweird@gmail.com

Meghann Birks is an AuDHD Jack of all Trades, Master of Some. Her resume could be used as an example of what neurodivergence might look like in women with experience in a huge variety of industries including academia, community development, non-profit, corporate, fitness, performance, art and comedy. She currently works as a Certified Professional Coach and Embodiment Educator, specialising in helping neurodivergent folk in leadership positions and creating neuroaffirming work cultures. She believes that deep, transformative work can be both silly and powerful, and that the life changing power of Hold On by Wilson Phillips is seriously underestimated. I'm super excited to share this first half of my chat with Meghann, she is a fascinating, informed and super funny person who shared so much with me from coaching, life experience and raw dogging life unmedicated to cross fit and how movement is so important!

As usual this episode comes with the usual trigger warnings but hopefully people can gain from everything Meghann and I talk about over the next two episodes.

Buckle up and enjoy!