yeah

it's been getting quite busy for a lot of the early bands here like more than other uh yeah yeah a green man just seems like everyone's up for it straight away

I don't blame him for it.

It's very generous of you.

It was quite conspicuously.

But then Freya smashed it out with a different drum machine that another band just brought that day.

It basically made all the tracks as we were playing.

It was scary, but people booked us again.

So

I guess there's three components that come together to create a situation where dandruff occurs.

Number one, you have oil on your scalp, which everyone has, and that's normal and it's natural.

The second component you need is the yeast, which feeds upon the oil and causes the inflammation.

And the third part that you need is susceptibility.

So some people are more susceptible to it than others, i.e. the process of the yeast consuming the oils, creating them these fatty acids that they produce causes like an irritation of that scalp.

And that's where you get the redness, itching, and the flakes.

So if you had some words of advice to any parents listening now, what would you say? How can they calm and comfort their teen or somebody else who's stressed about looking

So you've got 10 hairdryers ready to go, and then-

And, and the reason is, is basically I didn't sleep as a baby, and this is very common with neurodivergent kids, especially ADHD kids.

The brain is just hyperactive.

It doesn't sleep.

But the only thing that really put me to sleep is when they put the hairdryer on.

So my mum would, like, wash her hair, right? And I'd be on the bed or wherever I was, and I'd go to sleep.

So she realized that I would sleep well with a hairdryer, and that transcended to, um, when I was even very young.

Mm-hmm.

And now, interestingly, I do exactly what, you know, you talk about in the book and what those psychologists have told you, where I can-- my, my little girls can come home crying, and I don't fix it.

Mm.

What's your experience been like with processing and learning how to feel your feelings? Is that something that you had to learn? How did you learn it, and how would you coach a parent through learning that?

Well, it's brilliant that you do that, and it's kind of...

Yeah, I mean, your children are very fortunate to have someone that's a pa- a mum that is kind of so introspective and able to kind of work on that stuff.

'Cause, uh, ultimately, I can't remember the exact saying, but the, the stuff that you don't work on, you just pass on to the next generation, right? So we've gotta deal with our own stuff.

And even if it's not our fault necessarily, we've gotta deal with it so that we don't pass it on, so we pass on the right stuff.

So it's brilliant.

That's clarity to sort of be able to put in your own checks and balances.

And other people understand as well.

If you, you know, other people start understanding you and how you are, and even in your own life you can go, "Am I...

As someone that knows they have ADHD, does it make sense to work in an office 9:00 to 5:00 where I can't move, can't be outside? Or maybe I should use this skill set," 'cause there are brilliant skills that come with it.

We do have out- outside the box thinking.

We do have that part of our brain that kind of looks at the world in a different way.

It's so helpful.

What's one piece of health advice that you would give to someone that you swear by?