ADHD Roundtable Ep 2 | Emotional Whiplash & Communication Gaps: ADHD in Women

The ADHD Roundtable
May 26, 2022•2 min read

Episode Summary

This episode is an honest, tender, and hilarious ride through the real-life experiences of ADHDers learning to trust themselves, navigate neurotypical expectations, and redefine success on their own terms. Jess is joined by three brilliant humans—Sheena, Ebony, and Kerr—for a conversation that ranges from losing water bottles and cleaning for peace to soul contracts, emotional regulation, and what it means to actually come back to yourself. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or years into your journey, this one will meet you where you are and remind you—you’re not alone, and your version of success is valid.

✨ Highlights & Takeaways

  • ADHD Moments in Action: Water bottles lost mid-Zoom, late-night pen organizing sprees, and forgetting why you opened your phone. Just another Tuesday.

  • What Neurotypicals Don’t Get: The group unpacks frustration around vagueness, timelines, and being expected to “pick one thing” in life. (Spoiler: we don’t.)

  • Success = Happiness + Peace: For these ADHDers, success isn’t about status or productivity. It’s about inner peace, joy, and freedom.

  • The Beauty of Big Feelings: They dive deep into emotional overwhelm, rejection sensitivity, and how learning to process emotions instead of suppressing them changed everything.

  • Coping Strategies That Work: Writing things down, giving emotions space before responding, and creating boundaries that actually protect energy.

  • Advice for the Newly Diagnosed: Trust yourself. Give yourself grace. You’re not broken—just learning to thrive in a world that wasn’t built with you in mind.

👥 Meet the Panelists

Kerr – Multi-hyphenate creative, business owner, and badass from Toronto
https://www.instagram.com/therealmisskerr/

Ebony Smith – CEO support specialist, brilliant systems thinker, and epic ADHDer from Maryland
https://www.instagram.com/ebonysmith.co/

Sheena – Portland-based advocate, cannabis community leader, and heart-led human
https://www.instagram.com/alienbighead/

Jess DuBose – ADHD Coach, community builder, and founder of the ADHD Get Sh*t Done Bootcamp
https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithjess/
https://www.jessdubose.com/

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Jess DuBose is an ADHD coach and writer who uses words the same way she approaches coaching—with honesty, humor, and a deep respect for the messy human experience. She’s a published author whose work explores what it means to live, rest, create, and grow in a world that often demands too much. Through both writing and coaching, Jess helps ADHDers build lives and businesses that honor their energy instead of shaming it—and she writes to remind people they’re not alone in the chaos.

Jess DuBose

Jess DuBose is an ADHD coach and writer who uses words the same way she approaches coaching—with honesty, humor, and a deep respect for the messy human experience. She’s a published author whose work explores what it means to live, rest, create, and grow in a world that often demands too much. Through both writing and coaching, Jess helps ADHDers build lives and businesses that honor their energy instead of shaming it—and she writes to remind people they’re not alone in the chaos.

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