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The Vibe With Ky Podcast

The Vibe With Ky Podcast

The Vibe With Ky 321 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

Join Kyrus Keenan Westcott for honest, funny, and deeply relatable conversations about ADHD, mental health, and the chaos of being human. The podcast ditches toxic positivity to bring real talk with therapists, content creators, coaches, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Whether you are navigating burnout, anxiety, or a late diagnosis, this is your safe space to unmask and breathe. Subscribe now for new episodes that educate, entertain, and empower.

Episodes

S7 E48: ADHD Friendships and Finding Your People (ft. Trina Haynes)
S7 E48: ADHD Friendships and Finding Your People (ft. Trina Haynes) Oct 12, 2026 00:39:14 Making friends with ADHD can be hard. Keeping them can be harder when it takes everything you have just to get through the day. So what do you do when you can’t find your people?My guest is Trina Haynes, the founder of My Lady ADHD, a community for late-diagnosed women with ADHD, and a community builder with NeuroDiversion. She’s not a clinician, and neither am I. When Trina was diagnosed in her t
S7 E47: Do You Need an ADHD Diagnosis as an Adult? (ft. Paul Bowers)
S7 E47: Do You Need an ADHD Diagnosis as an Adult? (ft. Paul Bowers) Oct 7, 2026 00:43:17 Do you need an ADHD diagnosis to understand your own brain? Paul Bowers is 67, has never been formally assessed, and has spent decades learning how his brain works anyway.Paul is a commercial photographer and video director with more than forty years behind the camera. He's not a clinician, and neither am I. He's also a motorcyclist, a mechanic, a landscape designer, a husband and a father
S7 E46: Autism Support for Grandparents (ft. Jennifer Kaufman)
S7 E46: Autism Support for Grandparents (ft. Jennifer Kaufman) Sep 23, 2026 00:28:23 They're not giving you a hard time, they're having one. That single sentence is the heart of autism support for grandparents, parents, teachers, and first responders.Jennifer Kaufman is a school principal with over a decade serving students with autism in northern New Jersey, and the grandmother of a child with autism. She's an educator, not a clinician, and she's honest about the
S7 E45: ADHD Task Paralysis and the Wall of Awful (ft. Brendan Mahan)
S7 E45: ADHD Task Paralysis and the Wall of Awful (ft. Brendan Mahan) Sep 15, 2026 00:51:44 ADHD task paralysis is not a wanting problem. Brendan Mahan named the Wall of Awful, and he explains what is actually happening when a small task feels impossible.There is something on your list right now. Not the big thing. The small one. The phone call, the form, the email you have opened four times and closed four times. At some point it stopped being a task and turned into evidence about you.B
Rebellious Curiosity: You Are Your Own Rescue (ft. Dr. Yemi Penn)
Rebellious Curiosity: You Are Your Own Rescue (ft. Dr. Yemi Penn) Sep 12, 2026 00:43:39 Rebellious curiosity means asking the question no one wants to ask, and answering it without blame. Dr. Yemi Penn says the one you've been waiting to save you is already you.That is the heart of this conversation. Dr. Yemi Penn is an engineer by first profession who became a researcher, keynote speaker, and filmmaker, and she hosts the Decolonising Trauma podcast. She holds a PhD, and to be cl
When Cancer Returns: Rebuilding After a Setback (ft. Tim McDonald)
When Cancer Returns: Rebuilding After a Setback (ft. Tim McDonald) Sep 8, 2026 00:41:49 Nobody prepares you for the second time. The first climb out of something hard gets support and attention. The second one is quieter, because you already used up the big reaction and you already told everybody you were okay.Tim McDonald is living inside that right now. A few weeks before this conversation, he learned his cancer is back after almost six years. He is a patient advocate, a speaker, a
You Don't Have to Earn Rest (ft. Brea Segger)
You Don't Have to Earn Rest (ft. Brea Segger) Aug 23, 2026 00:40:38 You don't have to earn rest. The calm you keep chasing is not something you arrive at after enough effort. It is already in you, and something else is in the way.Most of us were taught the opposite. Push harder, optimize more, stay disciplined enough, and eventually you get to relax. Brea Segger has spent over twenty years working with leaders, entrepreneurs, and high achievers, and she says t
The Parts of Yourself You Threw Out Too Fast (ft. Michael Kopper)
The Parts of Yourself You Threw Out Too Fast (ft. Michael Kopper) Aug 18, 2026 00:39:28 There is a version of you that you already decided was worthless. Michael Kopper spent years proving his was, and then went back for the pieces worth keeping.Michael is the Executive Adviser and Coach at Basis Technologies, where he works with executive teams on the conversations they have been avoiding. He is not a therapist or a clinician, and nothing in this conversation is clinical advice. Wha
Burnout and the Power of Play, with Gary Ware
Burnout and the Power of Play, with Gary Ware Aug 14, 2026 00:42:28 There is a version of rest that never arrives. You will relax once the list is done, except the list is never done. Gary Ware has a name for that, and it is not laziness.He calls it living on a proving ground. It is what happens when play drains out of a life. The people around you stop being people you enjoy and start being competition, and work turns into something you have to earn by proving yo
The Neurodivergent Friendship Gap, with the Synchrony Team
The Neurodivergent Friendship Gap, with the Synchrony Team Aug 10, 2026 00:53:27 For a lot of us, the support just stops. You finish high school and the programs end, the services end, and nobody hands you a replacement. Your social life quietly becomes your own problem to solve.Jamie Pastrano said something in this conversation I have not stopped thinking about. There is no milestone for loneliness. You get one for a first job, a first apartment, riding the train alone. There
Space, Expectations, and Real Intimacy, with Simone Milasas
Space, Expectations, and Real Intimacy, with Simone Milasas Jul 27, 2026 00:44:19 A man came in from three hours of surfing and asked his partner if she was angry at him. She said no. Why would I be angry? You love surfing. He only asked because the woman he dated before her used to yell at him every single time he went.That story stopped Ky cold, and it is the heart of this conversation.A lot of us were trained to read somebody needing space as the beginning of the end. Your p
Procrastination and ADHD, with Sean McCormick
Procrastination and ADHD, with Sean McCormick Jul 24, 2026 00:49:10 In this episode of The Vibe With Ky Podcast, executive function coach Sean McCormick explains why ADHD procrastination is a signal that a task needs a different person, not more willpower.This one is for you if you have been called lazy your whole life and always suspected that word never quite fit what was actually happening.Sean McCormick, M.Ed., is a credentialed education specialist who taught

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