Is the ADHD Brain an Intuitive Brain?

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What if the traits you've spent a lifetime apologising for are actually the source of your greatest ability?

On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Laura Day, New York Times bestselling author, teacher and intuitive consultant who has spent four decades working with individuals and some of the world's largest companies to help them identify and achieve their goals.

Laura's new book, The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, is the book she describes as an ADHD manual — a practical, evidence-informed framework for building the scaffolding that helps neurodivergent brains thrive. With two New York Times bestsellers to her name and a 40-year teaching community, Laura is also someone who has lived with ADHD her entire life, and this conversation is one of the most honest, warm and genuinely surprising I have had on the podcast.

We talk about Laura's childhood in a household where neurodivergence was everywhere but unnamed, why girls of her generation were never allowed to act out and what that suppression cost them, how she built a career advising billion-dollar companies using her intuitive mind, and why the ADHD brain is uniquely suited to intuition, just not always in the way we expect.

In this episode, we cover:

Laura's diagnosis at 10 or 11, and why girls of her generation were never treated

Growing up in a household where neurodivergence showed up in multiple family members, often with devastating consequences

How Laura used survival, focus and necessity as her prosthetic scaffolding before she understood her own neurology

Why the ADHD brain is the intuitive brain, and how to make that