I talk to interesting people with interesting brains about ADHD, their careers, and how they've managed to make it all work. New episodes every other Monday.
#15 - James K (American Hacker & Volunteer in Ukraine) in Kyiv, Ukraine
Laurel met James a week before this recording, when they shared a sleeper cabin on the overnight train from Warsaw to Kyiv. Within hours they'd worked out that they both have ADHD. James is a 27-year-old professional hacker from Colorado, paid by companies to break into them. He learned to build FPV drones as a hobby, and he's in Ukraine as a volunteer. When they recorded, he'd just come back from eastern Ukraine, where he lay awake listening to Russian attack drones fly over his building. Wh...
16 Sept 2026
#14 - Melanie Alves (Portuguese-American Multidisciplinary Artist) in Lisbon, Portugal
Melanie Alves once invited gallery visitors to shoot an ink-filled water gun at her sculpture — a deer built from thrift-store toy soldiers, for an exhibition about American gun violence. She'd budgeted enough ink for the whole opening. It was gone in ten minutes. The Portuguese-American eco-artist has never been diagnosed with ADHD and never felt the need: when friends and her own sisters started telling her "I think I have it, I'm going to get diagnosed," she just cracked up. She already kn...
31 Aug 2026
#13 - Matthieu Paley (National Geographic Photographer from France) in Palmela, Portugal
Matthieu Paley has spent his career walking — thousands of kilometers through the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Pamir mountains, photographing communities on the fringes of the map for National Geographic. He speaks eight languages, lived 13 months in northern Pakistan on a one-way ticket, and built a life around the exact things a classroom once told him he was bad at. What he didn't know, until about five months before this recording, was that there was a name for the way his brain works. His ...
17 Aug 2026
#12 - Lizzie Tilia (Psychic, Intuition Educator & Founder of Earth Mystery School) in Mexico City
Lizzie Tilia is a psychic, earth wisdom educator, and founder of Earth Mystery School — an online platform that teaches the intersection of intuition, instinct, and ecology to people who want a relationship with something larger than themselves but have been hurt by religion, or simply don't have the language for it yet. She also has ADHD and OCD, and found her way into this work after moving to Mexico City, hitting a major OCD spiral, and being told by a therapist that what she needed wasn't...
5 Aug 2026
#11 - Maddie McGarvey (Documentary Photographer in Columbus, Ohio) in LA
Maddie McGarvey is a documentary photographer based in Columbus, Ohio whose work examines grief, resilience, and the lives of people in the American Midwest — regularly published in the Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and others. She was diagnosed with ADHD at 30, after years of not understanding why she couldn't get out of her own way, eventually finding the right doctor and the right medication — including using the GeneSight genetic test to figure out which a...
1 Jul 2026
#10 - Dominic Bracco II (Photographer, Artist, and Cafe Owner in Baja California, Mexico) in LA
Dominic Bracco II is a photographer, journalist, author, educator, social practice artist, playwright, occasional actor, and co-owner of Uvas y Hojas — a bookstore, cultural center, and small publisher in Baja California Sur, Mexico. He was just diagnosed with ADHD and autism a week before this conversation, and he's still processing what it means. Recorded at the National Geographic Storyteller Summit in LA, this is a wide-ranging conversation between two photojournalists trying to figure ou...
15 Jun 2026
#9 - Svet Jacqueline (American documentary photographer based in Ukraine) in Kyiv
Svet Jacqueline is an American documentary photographer based in Kyiv, covering the war in Ukraine for the Wall Street Journal and others. Before Ukraine, she covered BLM, migration at the US-Mexico border, and wildfires. She was diagnosed with ADD at 11 — more than two decades before this conversation — and has spent her adult life building the systems, workarounds, and hard-won self-knowledge that keep her functioning in one of the most demanding, unpredictable environments on earth. This e...
22 May 2026
#8 - Eniola Mafe-Abaga (British-Nigerian Global Advocacy & Partnerships Director @ Fika, a Rural Infrastructure & Mobility NGO)
Eniola Mafe Abaga is a force of nature — a British-Nigerian global development leader, co-founder of civic movement #TheNewNigerian, and currently Global Advocacy and Partnerships Director at Fika (formerly known as Bridges to Prosperity), an NGO literally building trail bridges to connect isolated rural communities across Africa and beyond. She's also been diagnosed with ADHD since her sophomore year at Spelman College — a diagnosis she promptly forgot she'd even taken the test for. In this ...
5 May 2026
#7 - Cesar Harada (French-Japanese Ocean Tech Designer & Entrepreneur with Dyslexia & Dyspraxia) in Paris
This week Laurel sits down in Paris with César — French-Japanese designer, ocean technologist, educator, environmentalist, TED Senior Fellow, and PhD candidate — who has never been diagnosed with ADHD, but was diagnosed with dyslexia, dyspraxia, and an epileptic condition after a truly unforgettable childhood head injury. What follows is one of the most wide-ranging conversations yet: shapeshifting boats, the BP oil spill, floating oyster farms, hydrogen energy, sea level rise, Fukushima radi...
21 Apr 2026
#6 - Mom Lindsay Jang (Hospitality, Wellness & Media Entrepreneur) & Teenage Daughter Lili Jang-Abergel in Hong Kong
In this episode, Laurel sits down with serial entrepreneur Lindsay Jang — co-founder of Yardbird and Ronin, founder of Family Form and Always Joy — and her 17-year-old daughter Lili Jang-Abergel. Both have ADHD, diagnosed years apart, and neither knew the other had it when Lili was first diagnosed. They talk about what untreated ADD looks like when it masquerades as depression, why Lindsay didn't recognise herself in Lili's symptoms, the "Limitless" moment of finding the right medication, an...
6 Apr 2026
#5 - Mary HK Choi (New York Times bestselling author with AuDHD)
Mary HK Choi is the New York Times Bestselling author of Emergency Contact, Permanent Record, Yolk and Pool House (now available for pre-order). She was diagnosed with both ADHD and autism in her 40s. Permanent Record is being adapted for a feature film, while Yolk will become a TV series. Mary is an executive producer and writer for both, because her talents are endless. Mary is a third-culture kid: she was born in South Korea, grew up in Hong Kong and Houston, and now lives in N...
23 Mar 2026
#4 - Fer Ligabue (Documentary Filmmaker) & Isa Luz (Social Activist) in São Paolo, Brazil
In this episode, I speak to Fer Ligabue, a documentary filmmaker who works on indigenous issues, and Isa Luz, who works for social NGOs and focuses on gender issues, about getting diagnosed as an adult (or feeling resistant to getting formally diagnosed) and living together as a neurodivergent couple. Recorded April 23, 2025 in São Paolo, Brazil. Send us Fan Mail Watch episode videos on YouTube Follow us on Instagram: @allmyfriendshaveadhd Follow Laurel on Instagram: @laurelchor ...
9 Mar 2026
#3 - Felipe Fagundes (Brazilian Surfer & Actor)
Felipe Fagundes, a Brazilian actor and surfer (who also teaches acting and surfing), talks about getting diagnosed with ADHD as a child, the difficulties he had in the Brazilian education system, and finding peace and purpose in acting and surfing. Recorded in Rio de Janeiro on March 27, 2025. YouTube video: https://youtu.be/e9YVTl6Rkew Send us Fan Mail Watch episode videos on YouTube Follow us on Instagram: @allmyfriendshaveadhd Follow Laurel on Instagram: @laurelchor New episodes e...
24 Feb 2026
#2 - Alex Kwon Colby (Commercial Filmmaker & Entrepreneur in NYC)
Alex Kwon Colby is a Colorado-raised Korean adoptee who was diagnosed with ADHD a year before we recorded this episode. From falling asleep in class every day in middle school and getting suspended in college, to finding filmmaking and now running multiple successful content production businesses (working with the likes of Paris Hilton and The Rock), Alex talks about how getting treated for ADHD is teaching him to slow down and be kinder to himself. Recorded in NYC on Feb. 22, 2025. &nb...
My very first guest is Anand Varma, a National Geographic photographer and Explorer based in Berkeley, California. With his background in biology, Anand uses innovative photographic techniques – sometimes making his own equipment – to capture the natural world in ways that have never been seen. His photographs have shown the hidden life cycles of bees, lightning-fast hummingbird behavior, and jaw-dropping close-ups of parasites that take over insects' bodies. On this episode he shares how he ...
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