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Two best
friends,
one brain.

ADHD, chaos, and enough shared experience to fill an entire podcast. Meet the girls behind the show.

Megan Richards
Co-host
"I started this podcast because I was tired of feeling like the only chaotic one in the room." — Megan, probably while making a voice note
Megan Richards

The impulsive
storyteller.

✨ chronic overthinker, trauma-dumper, accidental comedian

Megan is the kind of person who sends a 12-minute voice note when a text would do and the note is somehow both chaotic and deeply insightful. She talks too fast, feels too much, and would absolutely tell a stranger her entire life story in a Tesco queue.

Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, Megan spent years thinking her brain was broken. Turns out it was just wired differently and that reframe is kind of what the whole podcast is about. She brings emotional intelligence wrapped in absolute chaos, and genuinely cannot keep a secret.

When she's not recording, she's hyperfocusing on a new hobby she'll abandon in three weeks, spiralling about something someone said in 2019, or finding profound meaning in a random Tuesday.

Oversharer Hyperfocuser Tangent queen Thinks she's a doctor
Emily Southwell
Co-host
"I'm not a therapist. I just play one accidentally when someone starts crying mid-tangent." — Emily, describing her entire personality
Emily Southwell

The philosophical
rambler.

💭 deep-thinker, accidental therapist, no-filter navigator

Emily is the one who starts a sentence about matcha and somehow ends up somewhere profound about generational trauma. She's got zero filter, an unexpected vault of life experience, and a talent for saying the thing that everyone else was thinking but afraid to say out loud.

Like Megan, Emily was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult — and realised retrospectively that it explained, well, quite a lot. She brings philosophical depth, raw vulnerability, and an ability to pivot mid-topic that keeps every episode genuinely unpredictable.

Off mic she's collecting experiences, reading things she'll quote at inopportune moments, and being the accidental therapist in every friendship group she's ever been part of.

Deep thinker Accidental wisdom No filter Pivot master
Megan vs Emily

The important
differences.

Megan
VS
Emily
"I already know what I'm getting."
Ordering at a restaurant
"Wait, can I change it?" (after 10 minutes)
15 different paragraphs across an hour
Texting style
A 40 minute voice note, three days late
Internalises for a month, then blows up
Handling anxiety
Cries. all. the. time.
Toxic relationships (too relatable)
Fave episode
Emotional dysregulation & RSD (felt personally attacked)
"He was a walking red flag and I dated him for 4 years."
Hot take on dating
"Love bombing should be illegal"
New notebook, immediately loses it
Organising strategy
Random bits of paper that end up in the bin
Slightly scientifical and tries to be funny
Podcast contribution
Philosophical and accidentally profound
Currently Obsessed With

What's living
rent-free right now.

Updated roughly whenever the hyperfocus shifts. Which is often.

Megan

Megan

this week's hyperfocus

Books

  • I'm Glad My Mom Died — Jennette McCurdy (re-reading for the 3rd time)
  • Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros (sorry I love dragons and smut)
  • Any true crime book I find at a charity shop for 50p

Songs on repeat

  • Anything I can sing along too
  • Michael Jackson, as the new biopic is making me emotional
  • A playlist called "crying in the car at 11pm" (self-made)

Snacks / drinks

  • An incredibly sugary coffee
  • Anything that is cinnamon flavoured
  • Whatever is my current hyperfocus snack is (changes monthly)
Emily

Emily

this week's hyperfocus

Books

  • The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk (it's a lot)
  • Women Don't Owe You Pretty — Florence Given
  • Whatever I'm reading that I'll quote at an unexpected moment

Songs on repeat

  • Maribou State
  • Something indie I found at 2am and won't stop mentioning

Snacks / drinks

  • Matcha lattes (I'm a matcha girly)
  • That specific type of crisps that are "actually a health food"
  • Fruit I bought with good intentions and forgot about

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