Petra Bagust

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You've had an ADHD diagnosis.

I know, do it on purpose.

Be you on purpose.

Yeah.

And look, a tenet of this conversation has been, for me, the word that comes to mind is redemption.

We are able to redeem ourselves.

Our age can be redemptive.

We can be this age and be gloriously this age.

And we can redeem our pasts because I went back and I grieved the thoughts I'd had about myself as a young person and how I didn't fit in or didn't belong or how I tried so hard or how I had these ideas and

Like, Petra, why can't you do this?

Everybody else seems to be able to do this.

Why is this so hard for you?

And go back and look with a bit of compassion, right, just to be like, oh, yeah, okay, that was hard because it just was hard for your brain and you were just trying the best you could.

And here you didn't fit in because you don't fit in everywhere and that's okay.

You don't need to fit in everywhere.

That's so lovely to hear.

Thank you.

Yeah don't you think vulnerability is this unbelievable power that women have like I just adore that you share so viscerally and so authentically and I love it and it is a risk like you go I took a big deep breath before we released the episode I'm like okay P you going there and I'm like yep I'm gonna go there.

We'll just keep looking.