🎙️ Burn It Down, Build It Better: Late ADHD Diagnosis, Accountability & Motherhood with Sandra Senn

✨ In This Episode

What happens when you know you’re capable… but your brain won’t cooperate?

In this honest, unfiltered conversation, Joanne sits down with Sandra Senn, founder of Business Mums Hub, to unpack late-diagnosed ADHD, dyslexia at 31, shame at 41, and the complicated layers of parenting while healing yourself.

This one is equal parts laughter, truth-telling and uncomfortable self-reflection — the kind that cracks something open.

Guest Bio

Meet Sandra Senn. An Irish powerhouse and the owner of Business Mums Hub. This bubbly ball of energy has worked around the world, running large teams, overseeing sales and marketing, and working in events. However, many of you will also know Sandra as the owner of Hashtag Insta Prints, a business she grew after having 2 gorgeous kids (3 if you count her techy-savvy gamer husband) to give her the freedom and lifestyle she wanted.

Facts about Sandra:

#1 Business Tip: Learn when to say no. As hard as it seems at the time, saying yes to the wrong things is even harder.

Guilty Pleasure: Chips and Gravy. I honestly love it!

Cause close to her heart: Helping to raise awareness about Post Natal Depression and encouraging women to seek help early when it comes to mental health issues and normalise the stigma around this

🧠 What We Talk About

00:01 – “TikTok diagnosed me first”: Sandra’s ADHD assessment at 41 and the unexpected shame that followed

00:02 – Recategorising 40 years of memories through a neurodivergent lens

00:05 – Discovering dyslexia at 31 (after years of reading slides out loud)

00:11 – Is ADHD a “superpower”… or is that pressure we don’t need?

00:14 – Why praising hard work over “being smart” matters more than we realise

00:21 – Parenting while healing: repair, accountability, and breaking generational patterns

00:31 – Trying ADHD medication (Vyvanse & Ritalin), burnout, and choosing lifestyle changes instead

00:35 – “Neurodivergence as a normal response to abnormal environments”

00:38 – Accountability as freedom (and why diagnosis isn’t a full stop)

00:46 – Safe and happy kids are loud kids — unlearning public shame

00:48 – Repairing with your children… and repairing with yourself

💬 Memorable Moments

“I always knew I wasn’t shit. There was just something shit going on.”

“Accountability is the key to freedom.”

“It’s not a full stop. You still have to do the work.”

“Safe and happy kids are really loud kids.”

📚 Resources + Mentions

Scattered Minds by Dr Gabor Maté

The Diary of a CEO podcast (episode featuring Dr Daniel Amen)

Dr Ash (parenting psychologist referenced in episode)

Business Mums Hub

Instagram: @businessmumshub

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🎙️ Episode Title
Late Diagnosis, Loud Identity: Cassie Day on Unmasking, Burnout & Belonging

✨ In This Episode
This episode, Joanne sits down with longtime friend and powerhouse human Cassie Day for an unfiltered chat about late-diagnosed neurodivergence, unravelling identity, and rebuilding from burnout. Cassie shares with raw honesty what it felt like to be diagnosed with ADHD (and a “side-serve” of autism) at 47 — and how she's still finding her place in a world that’s only just catching up.

🧠 What We Talk About

• 00:05 – Cassie’s late-diagnosis story and slipping through the cracks

• 09:00 – Parenting neurodivergent children while realising your own traits

• 14:00 – Processing diagnosis shame and the internalised “not enough”

• 22:00 – Imposter syndrome, self-trust, and deciding not to justify yourself anymore

• 27:00 – Burnout, business, and rediscovering identity beyond being a carer

• 35:00 – Neurodivergent communication quirks in relationships (kitchens beware)

• 42:00 – Cassie’s biggest message to other late-diagnosed women

💬 Memorable Moments

“I’m just me. This is how the world works, right? How can I be different when I’ve always just been... me?”

“I get to say no. I get to draw the line. I get to choose different.”

“Don’t second guess yourself. You already have everything you need — and you’re okay exactly as you are.”

📚 Resources + Mentions

• Cassie Day’s website: www.cassieday.com

• Instagram: @days_of_cassie

• Cassie on LinkedIn

• Joanne’s programs & offerings: https://betterbeingme.com.au

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🎹 Episode Title
Parenting, Burnout, and Finding Justice: Katie Price on Neurodivergence and the Innocence Project

✨ In This Episode
This is one of those episodes that sits in your body long after listening. Joanne chats with the passionate, hilarious, and no-BS Katie Price about late diagnosis, parenting four neurodivergent kids, and shifting from burnout to purpose. They unpack everything from the medical model to the prison system—and why Katie's now helping wrongfully convicted people through the Innocence Project. It's big-hearted, wide-ranging, and full of truth bombs.

🧠 What We Talk About

• 00:02 – Why Katie resisted a diagnosis and what finally changed her mind

• 00:14 – Raising four neurodivergent kids in rural Australia

• 00:30 – Rejection of the medical model and the harm of deficit-based labels

• 00:42 – The complicated relationship with NDIS and service providers

• 01:10 – Burnout, breakdown, and why hospital was the turning point

• 01:28 – How chickens (yes, really) and social justice shaped her career path

• 01:50 – From social work dropout to criminology and the Innocence Project

• 02:05 – Miscarriage of justice, systemic bias, and finding your purpose

💬 Memorable Moments

“You have to ride your worst day to get help. And even then, they make you prove it.”
“We're allowed to be shit at some things. It doesn't mean we're broken. It means we're human.”
“I was trying to fill holes in a bucket that was exploding. And then they gave me a sieve.”

📚 Resources + Mentions

• Katie Price on LinkedIn

• Edith Cowan University – Criminal Justice Review Project

• Law Society WA: Interview with John Button

• Innocence Network

• Australian Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (NetK)

• Joanne's Program: Be Me Completely

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