Where late-diagnosed ADHD, self-worth, and business finally make sense.
Speaker for women in business, ADHD, recovery communities, podcasts, and panels ready for an honest conversation.
Angela Raspass is a Sydney-based speaker on late-diagnosed ADHD, self-worth, self-leadership and business fit for women in business and for ADHD and recovery communities more broadly.
She is available to speak at conferences, events and on podcasts across Australia and internationally, in person and virtually.
I speak on the intersection of late-diagnosed ADHD, self-leadership, self-worth, and business fit, and I also address an important but missing conversation - how addiction can often be a background story.
With more than two decades of business strategy and mentoring experience, a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, and a deep interest in why capable women stay stuck in what I call Perpetual Potential, I bring lived insight, strategic depth, and grounded humour to every conversation.
My sweet spot is the gap between capability and achievement for late-diagnosed ADHD women in business, and what changes when they finally understand why things have felt harder than they should.
These are conversations still missing from too many stages and podcast feeds, and it regularly lands with that unmistakable mix of relief and recognition: finally, someone is describing what I’ve always felt.
I speak in a way that helps audiences feel seen, anchored, optimistic, and equipped, not just inspired, but better able to understand what’s been happening and what to do next.
Recent conversations include.
ADHD for Smart Ass Women (USA) - with Tracey Otsuka
The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast (UK) - with Kate Moryoussef
ADHDifference (NZ) - with Julie Legg
True Power Podcast (Australia) — with Cassandra Goodman
Click on each podcast to listen to the episode.
Signature Speaking Topics
Here’s a taste of the conversations I love to lead - insightful, practical, and always tailored to the audience,
the event, and the kind of conversation you want to create..
Topic 1: Praise is teflon, criticism is velcro
The self-worth wound at the heart of ADHD businesswomen
Why do so many high-achieving women with ADHD struggle to believe in themselves, even when the evidence says they should? This talk unpacks the neuroscience behind why positive feedback fails to land, how the inner critic steps in to fill the gap, and what it means for the way women build (and sometimes sabotage) their businesses.
Candid, deeply resonant, and always met with a collective exhale of recognition.
Perfect for: ADHD events and communities, women in business audiences, podcast conversations on self-worth, confidence, or neurodivergence.
Topic 2: It's not a discipline problem. It's a design problem.
Reshaping business to work with sparky brains
Most business advice was written for a neurotypical brain. For women with ADHD, or those who suspect they might be wired differently, following that advice can create a cycle of effort, exhaustion, and self-blame.
This talk reframes the struggle as a structural mismatch, not a personal failing, and offers a practical framework for “Business Fit” - reshaping a business so it leverages the genuine strengths of a fast-moving, pattern-seeing, deeply creative brain.
Perfect for: Entrepreneurship events, neurodiversity-focused conferences, women's business communities, and podcast conversations on ADHD in business.
Topic 3: Rejection was the corkscrew. Alcohol numbed the pain.
Where undiagnosed ADHD, addiction, and self-worth intersect
For a lot of women, the drinking (or the food, the spending, the endless busyness) was never really about the substance. It was a way of managing a nervous system that had been invisibly, chronically overwhelmed since adolescence - years before anyone had the word "ADHD" to explain it. This talk traces that thread: why rejection lands so hard on an undiagnosed ADHD brain, why numbing it made a strange kind of sense at the time, and why sobriety and understanding turned out to be two completely different milestones, in my case, sixteen years apart.
It's not a recovery talk in the traditional sense, and it's not a lecture on neuroscience either - it's the missing, often messy, middle: about being unwell, what happens when you get well before you have the answers, and what changes once you finally have both.
Honest, occasionally confronting, and told from lived experience, not theory.
Perfect for: ADHD conferences and communities, addiction and recovery audiences, women's health and wellbeing events, mental health professional panels, and podcast conversations on ADHD, addiction, or late diagnosis.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS
I also speak and present on:
Strategy and Self-Leadership: Why business growth needs both
Reimagining Success: Building a business that fits your brain, values, and life
Late-Diagnosed ADHD in Business: the relief, the grief, and the opportunity
All sessions are tailored to the room, the audience, and the conversation you want to create, are available in person or virtually, and can also be extended into workshops.
Why book me?
A genuinely rare perspective: the intersection of late-diagnosed ADHD, self-worth, self-leadership, and business fit, informed by two decades of strategy work and lived experience.
Clarity and confidence: Audiences leave with a new understanding and language to describe their own exprience - identification is powerful and supports change.
Warmth and connection: I speak with your audience, not at them because of my real, not theoretical, experiences.
Practical takeaways: audiences leave with language, perspective, and next steps they can actually use.