In this episode, I’m joined by Catri Barrett, a Trauma-Informed ADHD Coach and Neurodiversity Educator. We discuss the power of working with your brain, especially for neurodivergent creatives. Catri shares her journey of being diagnosed with ADHD in her thirties and how it reshaped her life and work. We explore common ADHD challenges like procrastination and decision paralysis, while Catri offers practical tips to work with your brain’s natural rhythms. If you've ever felt your ADHD traits are working against you, this conversation will help you reframe those challenges and embrace your creative strengths.
About Catri
Catri Barrett is a certified Trauma Informed ADHD Coach and Neurodiversity Educator who has created wellbeing and development programmes for global brands and institutions like Lululemon and Oxford University, and is regularly featured in global media platforms such as Newsweek, Stylist and Cosmopolitan magasine.
Whether she's delivering one-on-one coaching, facilitating workshops, or providing workplace training, Catri's goal remains constant: helping ADHD and neurodivergent adults live and work with more confidence, ease and joy.
Combining her lived experience as a late diagnosed ADHD’er, with evidence-based techniques including positive psychology, cognitive behavioural coaching, and trauma-informed approaches, Catri helps individuals, workplaces and universities better understand, celebrate and manage Neurodiversity.
About me
Pascale Côté is a creativity guide, artist, and writer who helps creatives meet, understand, and express themselves by guiding them to work *with* their (creative, complex, unconventional) nature instead of against it. She helps artists, visionaries, disruptors and earth stewards break free from the vortex of overthinking and move forward with their bold, rebellious ideas. Her work challenges conventional norms, inviting creatives to explore what’s possible when they release outdated narratives and embrace their true, authentic expression. Pascale believes that art is a powerful vehicle for both individual and collective change when it’s grounded in truth—created outside the rigid systems that stifle our creative spirit.
About the podcast
Creative minds are the architects of a new world, and their art holds the keys to reimagining our reality. The challenge is, creative minds often spend just as much time crafting self-limiting narratives as they do creating their art. Dear Creative Mind is a space for creative liberation—a pathway out of the cycle of overthinking, burnout, and stagnation. This podcast is for artists & creative entrepreneurs where Pascale, creativity guide, shares grounding meditations, gentle coaching guidance and heartfelt conversations with inspiring artists. The podcast explores the real challenges that come with being creative—overthinking, self-doubt, burnout—and how to navigate them while staying true to our vision.
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A special thank you to Alexandra Moreno for the original music of the podcast.