Becky Blake is a mentor, professional musician and loving mum of two daughters from Adelaide, Australia. She has a passion for travel and adventure, entertaining friends, physical fitness and a fascination with all things to do with the brain and how it works.

Becky’s “busy brain” was diagnosed as “hyperactivity” (before the days of the ADHD label) when she was a toddler. It’s not easy to focus on one thing with a busy brain, which was evident in her early school reports. Becky decided to “train her brain” and teach herself strategies help her concentration and organization. The result saw her win a scholarship to study music at Adelaide University before she started her final year at high school and she’s never looked back.

Millie, Dash and Sam are just like you. They are at school, dealing with friendships, relationships and all the other pressures of study, life and growing up.

Each have videos and stories telling you about them and their experiences, perhaps they can help you better relate to some of the struggles you may be having.

Hey! I’m Dash.

I like sport; I play tennis for a club and footy in the winter. And I swim. I like riding my bike and being outside.

Mum says I need to burn energy all the time otherwise I start climbing the walls.

School is ok, I guess. I’m not very focused on my work.

Hi, I’m Millie, I’m sixteen.

I play netball and I learn piano and I like hanging out with my friends.

I have a boyfriend, Josh, who’s a year older than me. He’s really cool. My mum hates him!

I live with my mum. We fight. A lot. Nothing I ever do is good enough.

G’day I’m Sam.

I’m 14 and live with my mum, dad and brother Ben.

Mum and dad work a lot. They both have their own businesses.

I’ve got a learning disability called dyslexia. Sounds horrible, disability. Like there’s something wrong with me.

WHAT DO YOU STRUGGLE WITH MOST?