Michelle grew up as an army kid travelling all over, she found this a struggle and asked to be sent to boarding school. She thrived at boarding school with structure and routine. However, she feels she fell into the good girl behaviour model, not speaking unless spoken to and not standing up for herself. As an adult and having gone through relationship breakdowns Michelle started to understand herself differently and realised that she may have ADHD. Having gone all, ‘Hermione Granger’ in gathering the information, she was diagnosed with combined ADHD.
Michelle wants to help others -especially women (as it’s much rarer for women to be diagnosed) to think about ADHD. She also wants to stop women from being silent and is in the middle of writing a book, ‘Good Girl deprogramming’ which is out in the autumn. Michelle and James are also releasing their new podcast ‘How to unfu*k work in early summer.
Links:
Website - https://www.workpirates.com/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mminnikin/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/workpirates/?hl=en
Michelle chatting about ADHD on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-ever-feel-like-youre-just-normal-michelle-minnikin/