PREACH!! Kristen. Loved the whisper part “Do you actually have the disorder”? On my journey for health, wellness, fitness, and I am struggling with eating properly, or managing it with DIET 😘😘

Kristen Is frequently my body double at work, and she doesn’t know that, but she does a great job anyway 😉 I love how real she is! No toxic positivity here, just kindness, support, and relatability from a fellow neurodivergent!

I love this podcast and have spent a lot of hours binge listening to all the great content. I learn so much about ADHD, how to work with my brain, and how to advocate for myself. I am so grateful I found this podcast when I did.

I have been a loyal subscriber of this podcast for 2+ years. Kristen Carder is amazing, as she possesses such great knowledge around ADHD and brings her unique personality to each show. Not to mention her amazing resources and ever inspiring guests who frequently join. I love this podcast!

I love listening to this podcast to help my self esteem…😘😊🤷‍♀️I love when I get a little nugget from a Podcast that make a lightbulb go off in my crazy brain. Recently the word… simple!!! If it isn’t simple it’s not gonna happen…. “Is that why a new make up palette is so difficult to learn, or a recipe with so many ingredients is too much for me.”

I appreciate this podcast so much 🥹 I’m a young mom of 3, (2,4&8) & when you speak on parenting & adhd, it’s been soo helpful to me & has made me a better mother. Coming across this podcast was a blessing. Thank you for doing this!!

I’ve learned so much listening to her & really appreciate her honesty and her capacity to stay positive while discussing what can be a messy and challenging diagnosis.

This podcast relates to my lifestyle so much! Me and my family listen to this almost every night!!!!

Kristen has the best content and is so relatable as a fellow ADHDer! She helps me understand myself and my world. 100 percent recommend this podcast.

My therapist suggested that I seem to show traits of ADHD, so after taking an assessment she gave me I scored a 21/21! She suggested I find a pod cast or read some books. Reading is not my thing… It’s too much lol. But this pod cast had me yelling out loud “oh my gosh YES! That’s how I am!” I’ve sent it to my oldest daughter (21) who when in kindergarten was suggested she had ADHD. Never teated her, but after listening to you I texted her at college and said baby girl I am so sorry, but listen to this, I think you have adhd. I relate so much and listen daily to catch up. LOVE THIS! I have also shared with my husband who is “normal” who has said I cannot believe how much this seems to mirror you. Please keep it going!!

Best, most relatable ADHD podcast! Love KC she is raw, authentic and allows us all into her life u apologetically. Thank you Kristen.

So relatable. Thought I was the only one who wondered what was wrong with me for 55 years. She validates the real struggle but with hope. Thank you!

Kristen has pushed me in the best way to understand myself and to finally seek an ADHD diagnosis, without being ashamed. Love this podcast so much! Thank you!!!!

Wish I could give this podcast 10 stars! Love love love this podcast so much! As an adult female who recently got diagnosed with ADHD, this podcast has helped me understand that I am not inherently “wrong.” Her topics are so relevant and relatable, and she gives the best advice on how to continue navigating through life with ADHD.

Thank you for your podcast. I have struggled with all of the symptoms and was first diagnosed with ADHD at age 5 and was on medication until I turned 18 when I refused to continue taking it because of the way it made me feel I tried taking medication again at age 23 when I got married and I had emotional reaction and it made me completely emotionally unstable. I owned my own business for 11 years and able to keep things up but always wondered why I have so much trouble and things have been up and down personally and in business and it’s all because I did not realize how many of these things or symptoms of ADHD.

You said something about ‘watching on YouTube’ in your last episode but I can not find you on YouTube. At least not your podcast. Can you post a link?

Good morning ☀️ On Monday, February 26, 2024, I first listened to the I Have ADHD Podcast with Kristen Carder. I started with Episode 251 The Importance of Autonomy as an ADHD Adult. I loved that episode, Kristen has a beautiful personality and she won my heart over with laughter. The next day, I listened to episode 249 Real-life Examples of Building Self-Trust with ADHD (which made me want to join her FOCUSED group), followed by episode 248 Stop Saying Sorry (wow did I relate). Later that night when I couldn’t sleep, I decided to start from the beginning. From 11pm into the next morning, I listened to episodes 1 through 7. Eventually I put my AirPods away and went to sleep. Since I was irresponsible and didn’t sleep well, I was understandably cranky the next morning. I didn’t have the best morning conversations with people. My mum called and I was very annoyed the phone was interrupting a task that I’ve trying to finish for literally over a year, hahaa. I didn’t answer the call, but soon after felt guilty and called her back. She asked me to come over and help her and I became frustrated on the phone. After the call, I was ashamed because I heard the hurt in my mum’s voice. I felt overwhelmed that as an adult I don’t have the ability to filter simple frustrations. I decided to listen to Kristen’s podcast. It was fated, because her latest episode was 252 How to Apologize (When You Have ADHD). I’m 36 years old and diagnosed with ADHD in my early twenties. Although, I’ve only started accepting the diagnosis the past two years. I’m on a determined path to get to know myself and create vision. I’m struggling a lot this month, I lost my job and with that my health insurance. At first I wasn’t out of my medication so I didn’t focus on getting the insurance straight, but once I ran out, as you can imagine I keep forgetting to take care of the important phone calls. I’ve haven’t had my therapy or medication all month. So I have been listening to more ADHD podcasts in the meantime to try and help me out. I love this podcast. I only started listening to podcasts this year, and this is my favorite. Kristen’s podcast feels like chatting with an intelligent friend that has your best interests at heart. She lifts me up with hope. I find Kristen inspiring and helpful. Sometimes when I’m talking too much, or my weirdness starts embarrassing me, I take a moment to put in my AirPods and listen to a podcast. I also listen while washing dishes. I often laugh out loud, she is so funny. I’ve listened to episode 7 Grocery Shopping Tips for Dopamine-Depleted Brains twice. I never realized that my grocery shopping phobia was tied to my ADHD. Kristen confessed she had been struggling with grocery shopping since she moved out of her parents’ house. I felt like she was speaking from my soul. I always needed an emotional support buddy, and usually took my mum because she loves me enough haha. I I really look forward to listening to all of the episodes. When Kristen shares the difficulties of raising three boys as an adult with ADHD, it really resonates with me. As a mother of 15- year-old twin girls, I have a lot of mom guilt and find it so challenging. It is very comforting and helpful to know others experience the same. Kristen also sparked a new goal for me. I want to start making more money, because I would like to join Focused group. Even though my budget doesn’t allow it now, I really think a coach and support group would help me achieve my full potential. Thank you so much Kristen for powering through the painful process of posting podcasts!! I know that you are helping everyone you reach. Even though it took me an hour to finish this review, I’m glad I completed it!!

Thank you so much for this episode!! I know (in a perfect world) you would not have wanted to do this episode based on this reason. However, this resonated with me on multiple levels!! The main takeaway was “I’m sorry—the trump card.” It’s apologetic gaslighting!! Uuuugh!! That was my WHOLE childhood and early adulthood. And sadly, I have imposed this on my kids…can I get a do-over?!? (Deep breath) It’s time for repair. Thank you, Kristen! 💚

Kristen, it’s so weird; I also blew up on my son recently over boundaries that I haven’t been consistent about keeping clear with him. I had to remind myself no one is perfect, and we’re both still learning how to deal with big ADHD/RSD emotions. At that moment, I was so activated that I felt justified yelling, but now I feel guilty and didn’t know how to apologize meaningfully. Apologies and boundaries were not something I could learn growing up, so this episode touched me! I learned from you at least one way how to handle it moving forward: try my best to remember to take a step back and breathe when I'm feeling those BIG emotions before reacting. Thank you for being so venerable and straightforward with such a touchy subject!

I love this podcast!

As someone diagnosed with ADHD later in life, I feel like I have a huge mountain to climb. Kirsten’s relentless, yet grounded positive mindset makes it possible to believe this is within my reach. She is the most stalwart cheerleader of her listeners, while at the same time not sugarcoating the seriousness of our challenges. She brings light, joy, hope and empathy to each episode. A true lifeboat in an ocean of uncertainty. Thank you KC!

Words cannot say how helpful Kristin has been to this community. She is a wonderful person and her podcast is incredible!

Wouldn’t be where I’m at in life without you…so love and appreciate your beautiful self…thanks for being vulnerable and real…I can relate above and beyond to all podcasts in some way! So seriously thank you for taking time to do what you do! Keep being the light….💞 Peace’Love’Godbless, Your sister in Christ Carrie

This podcast has been so incredibly helpful since my ADHD diagnoses in 2022. Kristin is truly a trustworthy source of information and support. She talks to people with ADHD with so much compassion and wisdom, and the topics she covers have brought freedom and understanding to my life. I recommend this podcast to everyone now. You won’t regret listening to any of these episodes!

I discovered this podcast in a list of “best ADHD podcasts” shortly after I was diagnosed (in my 50s, after my kid was diagnosed). Resonated so much with what Kristen Carder teaches that I joined her group coaching program, which has been life-changing! Since I listen to podcasts on Pocket Casts (and I have ADHD), it’s sadly taken me two years to open the Apple Podcasts app to leave a review (sorry, Kristen)…and now I need to find time for the rabbit hole of reviewing all the other podcasts I listen to.

This podcast is one of the most important supports I have found for making life as a mom with adhd more functional. It is a weekly reminder to accept my limitations, find supports, and trust myself! And it motivated me to finally seek medication. Truly, the information and encouragement in this podcast have been a cornerstone of my healing and growing these past few years.

i love this rambling conversation! i wish we could be friends! so fun + brave! ♥️

Ever on any subject. It *is* hard to be human. Then there’s all the extra conditions, ADHD for one. If ADHD is an invisible trip-wire or life rigged with criss-crossing ultra-violet alarm sensors, the host Kristen Carder is Tom Cruise. Mission: A.D.H.D. Except with more sharing.

I don’t hand out my trust to others like the medical community hands out pills. My trust has been earned by Kristen and her phenomenal team over the past ~ 6 months. Kristen is humbly knowledgeable, funny, endearingly authentic. She is able to join with top notch professionals as well as lay people, and she catalyzes each interview to create a truly exciting and motivational learning experience. The Community she has created is supportive and accepting, vulnerable and gracious. I have much work left to do, but I am so honored to do this work under the guidance of Kristen’s tutelage athe support of her gentle community. I give her googleplex stars!

Kristen had the number one spot on my brain dump list this morning ….check mark. Finding a podcast I make it through 5 min of is comparable to my nightly routine after my 5 yr old is in bed of shuffling through Netflix realizing it’s now 2am and I’ve watched NOTHING. Relatable (saying outloud to myself yes! Yes! Consistently), authentic, knowledgeable down to her slow sweet speaking voice, she’s become a staple in my ear throughout my days. Thank you for being you Kristen!!

I want Kristen as my friend. I just started listening to her podcast in the last month and everything she talks about is so relatable. I got diagnosed with both inattentiveness and hyperactivity last year at age 40, but have joked for a long time that I have ADD. It wasn’t (probably still isn’t) a thing in Yugoslavia where I grew up. I had a doctor that was very doubtful about my diagnosis, I present to the world as very neurotypical. He didn’t “buy into it” until I did very poorly at inattentiveness test (that I felt like I did amazing at). So this podcast has been life changing (big word I know) in helping me start to let go of blame I have put on myself for not doing enough. My only issue is I don’t know how to organize the order in which I want to listen 😂 I have been all over the place.

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This podcast has given me so much information that has really opened my eyes to my inner workings. I was late-diagnosed with ADHD (33F) and have struggled all of my life, and now I know why!!! This podcast has given me hope, information, and insight into my own experiences and daily existence since my diagnosis. THANK YOU so much for being faithful to this podcast and helping each of us. I feel less alone and empowered in who I am.

It took me a few episodes to get used to her energy, and now I'm pretty obsessed with Kristen Carder and what she's created. This is an absolute MUST for adults with ADHD, especially if you've only just been told about your diagnosis. There is pretty much an episodes or series of episodes for every single issue you have that's related to your disorder. Kristen knows what she's talking about and she has tons of incredible experts on her show as well. She's extremely focused in each of her episodes, which is impressive in and of itself considering her own struggles. A+++

I am 43 and have gone my entire life knowing I was differently, but not understanding why I was different. I found your podcast when I hit rock bottom in my life, November 2023. You helped me understand why my brain was different and what to do about it. I started on episode 1 and listen every chance I get. Since starting on this journey, I have gone to my Dr and got on meds, I have stopped jumping to emergencies that aren’t with my top 10, I pause before making decisions, I started a business to help pay back my debt, and I do a brain dump everyday before bed and schedule my day based on my priorities. You have changed my life. So, thank you, you are an amazing human, and I am so glad for your friendship. Thank you!

I have listened to only a handful of episodes so far and literally everything that comes out of Kristen‘s mouth is something that I have either said, thought or believed. Currently listening to the superpower one and agree 110% that it is not the superpower. For all the exact same reasons she very eloquently pointed out. Doesn’t mean that I’m not going to try hard to find the benefits of it, but nobody should go into this believing that it is a super power because you will get crushed by the reality of this diagnosis. Thank you Kristen for offering so much information and wisdom. I can’t wait to listen to every episode..

I just got diagnosed with ADHD at age 52. I’ve only listened to 10 episode so far. This podcast hit so many nails on the head. What I thought were just my failings and blind spots in life turns out to be this ADHD thing. Sure no one noticed, I wasn’t a really discipline problem, I put on some masks and hit every wall regarding school and career. But now I have a little hope and feeling of community thanks to this podcast. I understand I’ll need treatment, some counseling, and to catch up decades of lost time. But there is so much good stuff here to listen to while I’m at work, driving and doing stuff around the house. So grateful.

Her honesty and self-awareness and tools for managing ADHD or even understanding it is beyond the best. She is funny and knowledgeable and shows up to each episode fully 100% and I have found it so so helpful for myself and my loved ones as well. Thank you so much, Kristen, for all the energy and information and love and kindness you bring to us.

I’ve learned more about my ADHD brain in three months of listening to this postcast than I had in the previous 30 years since receiving a childhood ADD diagnosis. With the solidarity, reframed narratives, information and wisdom Kristen offers through this medium I have become more regulated, consistent, and productive than ever before. It’s a must-listen for me!

Just discovered this podcast and I am finding it very helpful and informative.

This has been my favorite podcast for learning more about ADHD. I have learned so much about how it affects me. I had never been diagnosed myself, but my brother was at as a young age, as he was the hyperactive, “naughty boy” ADHDer. Of course, it never occurred to anyone I might have it as well. I was very shy and quiet, but I have struggled so much with motivation, the willpower to just do things, and focusing on subjects that were of no interest to me. I assumed everyone had these struggles, but were somehow better at overcoming than I was. Many thanks to this podcast for teaching me these aren’t “normal” struggles, but rather the struggles of someone with ADHD. I finally feel seen and not so intellectually inferior.

Just wow. This podcast has changed my life. Kristen Carder is amazing and a much-needed voice to adults living with adhd. I recommend it to anyone I meet who mentions ADHD. It’s just so empowering to feel like I have choices and tools and the ability to change my life and not just let it happen to me.

Kristen said 2 things that resonated with me: podcasts help people with ADHD get through mundane tasks, and people like her (and me) have a difficult time listening to long podcasts.

I was first diagnosed with ADHD in my early 30’s. No coaching just an Rx, just like you did. Then move to a different state, and needed to find new Dr and get my meds. New Dr changed meds. In my 40’s I really struggled with anxiety and depression, so new additional Rx. In the last year I had a Dr retire, and a new Dr move out of state who had also took me off my adhd med and changed my depression med. Now I’m with a new Dr, which put me back on my adhd meds, but no anxiety or depression med. Things started going down hill. Recently my current wife said, you haven’t been the same “you” lately. I needed to figure out what changed. The meds. I went on a super focus dive into ADHD for the first time, and learned what I thought was only an “attention deficit”, really was so much more. Which made me mad, that this was the 1st deep dive in the 20 yrs I knew I had it. It made me mad that I’ve let down my kids that are now in their 20’s who have it, (Their mom, my ex of 7 years doesn’t believe in ADHD) didn’t get the support they needed from me, which took me down a negative self talk journey that really took me to a dark place. Over the past couple weeks I have been trying to soak up as much info as possible, so that I can own it and treat it. Now, I have an appointment with my new Dr to discuss my meds. I have found so many tools and comfort in the information of this podcast, that I’m not stupid, or lazy, etc. Thank you for your support. I’m still on episode 17, and have so much to still learn, but you have given me hope. Thank you. Sorry for the brain dump. I’ve been meaning to give you this review for awhile now.

I would love to continue and explore me joining Focused on the simple fact that I felt seen. I would love to have more hard topics that’s have made me feel alone. This was a great start. I felt so respected and safe so I’m ready for more. Thank you (I’m having a hard time, so moments to be seen are a God send)

I am almost 43 and I just found out that I have ADHD; still trying to find a psychiatrist to start managing it. I stumbled upon your podcast because I am trying to understand myself to be able to move forward with my life peacefully and successfully as a person, wife, mom and friend. Thank you so much for explaining who and what I am and how i can work around and for letting me understand that I am not lazy, a failure and just obnoxious and mean. Thank you for giving me hope, you’re awesome! N.B. I am still in S1 E10 🫣

I’ve loved listening to these podcasts. My favorite is the lady named Ellen, 74 years young. That one really struck a chord with me, as I was diagnosed a few months ago at 59! Indeed it is never too late! One is not too old to learn, grow, change and DARE. It was a surprise when I began to suspect I had ADHD, wasn’t that just hyperactive little boys (haha, nope, I qualify as Combined presentation), yet when I look back at my life, it is all there. The presentation changed with hormones, puberty, adulthood, finally menopause, but it fit. The crazy life I’ve had, the difficulties with so much, the oddities of two college degrees sandwiched in somehow…and the heartache of masking for all of it. My diagnosis was a relief, validating, and yet a part of me still remembers that scared, sad and so lonely little girl that everybody looked past and never saw. Kristen’s podcasts are a good way to listen to others that are like us, that understand and through them, I’m not alone anymore. Give her a try, you won’t regret it. Jump in, the water is fine!

Kristen’s podcast has literally changed my life. Her topics are perfect for anyone looking to learn more about their own ADHD or learn how to support a loved one with ADHD. This show gave me the courage to talk to my providers about my symptoms and ultimately seek a diagnosis. Today I was finally able to get medicated. A year ago , I truly had no idea what this disorder was, much less that I had it. This has been the missing piece for me in so many ways and I just want to thank thank thank thank Kristen for putting this amazing information and encouragement out into the world. If you have any suspicion you or your loved one might be struggling with this disorder don’t hesitate to click play on this show.

This podcast has been absolutely fabulous. I am newly diagnosed at 37years old. Kristen’s podcast is a life changer. I have been learning to implement skills to help me with my adhd and at the same time. I am able to recognize my negative self talk. Thank you Kristen for this podcast.

If you are looking for a good podcast to help you understand your or your loved one’s ADHD, stop looking. You’ve found what you need. There are others, but bookmark this one right now. I don’t care if you have not yet listened to one episode, you will. And when you do, you may cry, you may feel relief, you may feel seen, heard, loved. But you will feel. Rate it now though, lol, because if you don’t, I will not be surprised if you wait five months before rating the podcast, not because it is not valuable, but because you have ADHD. And it takes us more to do things than it does neurotypicals. Listen to an episode, and at the very least, enjoy the dopamine it brings. Kristen Carder, I am going to need to email you to communicate all you have done for me. I have been listening to this podcast for … ummm … maybe 5 months…? I am recently diagnosed, and as you have said many times in your episodes, I did not receive a manual with my diagnosis. Thank you Kristen. Please enjoy the dopamine that this 5-star rating and review provides you with today. Peace. hug. -Battles