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Dr. Amanda Wilson (she/her)
Dr. Amanda Wilson (she/her)
Dr. Amanda Wilson joined Momma on July 27, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about Healthy Relationships & Eastern Medicine
About Dr. Amanda
Dr. Amanda Wilson is a Gen-X orthodontist, global lecturer and founder of StraightSmile Solutions, the consulting company she built after a decade in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She created the company out of frustration with the lack of quality, airway-focused education for general and pediatric dentists, and has since built a 3,000-video educational library and lectured on airway health and palatal expansion to dentists across Europe and Asia.
Amanda is also part of the neurodivergent community, and that lens shapes both her clinical work and how she shows up on stage and on mic. She's known for pairing hard-won expertise with unfiltered, laugh-out-loud storytelling, whether she's talking pediatric sleep-disordered breathing, leveraging neurodivergent strengths in leadership, or navigating scaling roles during a $1B NASDAQ orthodontic IPO.
She lives in Honolulu, has raised two nationally ranked competitive swimmer kids, and now brings that same "figure it out, do it your own way" energy to every conversation she's part of.
Socials / Links for Guest Connection
Website - https://www.straightsmilesolutions.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/straightsmilesolutions/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dramandawilson/
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Favorite Poem / Song: Allison Eide - HIPS
Episode Summary
Anyone dealing with perimenopause, a late neurodivergent diagnosis or relationships that wear them out will want to hear how one orthodontist quit waiting for doctors to take her seriously and found what actually worked.
Dr. Amanda Wilson is an orthodontist, a Gen X mom of two competitive swimmers and a self described mad scientist with strong opinions about how we treat our bodies and our brains. On this live episode of Even Tacos Fall Apart, she talks healthy relationships, Eastern medicine and the messy, funny, frustrating road she took to get her mental health back on track.
Amanda did life on a strict schedule. Top of the class, specialty training, marriage, kids and a career all came fast and in order. Then perimenopause hit and nobody in the medical world wanted to talk about it. Doctors offered antidepressants and sent her on her way. So she started reading the research herself, pulled studies from Asia, Europe and South America and showed up to appointments with stacks of papers. Her advice is to be your own advocate and keep looking until a provider actually listens.
Along the way she discovered she is autistic and ADHD. Hormone support helped, but learning she was neurodivergent changed how she saw her entire life, including why so many relationships felt like work. Amanda opens up about years of masking, why traditional therapy often misses the mark for late diagnosed women and what it took to find a no nonsense therapist who gave her real tools to work with.
Once she got honest about what was happening, some friends and family walked away. She used to chase people back into her life. Now she lets them go and leaves the door open. We talk about people pleasing, learning to say no, feeling like the black sheep and the grace everyone deserves while going through changes nobody warned them about. Amanda now says no to almost everything and puts herself first.
Amanda shares what Eastern medicine has meant for her, from acupuncture and Chinese herbs to a medically supervised session that she says finally helped her sleep again after years of running on an hour or two a night. She also went through a Christian recovery program called Regeneration Recovery, which she credits with helping her face old patterns and stop living by everyone else’s opinions. Her take is that healing can come from more than one place. Faith, therapy, hormones, Eastern practices and Western medicine can all share the table, and you keep what works for you.
We also tackle the myth that women over forty are just crazy, a line Amanda heard from male professors again and again. She explains how perimenopause rage and autistic meltdowns can leave you embarrassed and foggy about what you said, and why telling the people around you what is going on made her life a whole lot easier. Expect some dentistry drama and a plea for a little grace for older women too.
Anyone sorting out which relationships are healthy, which need work and which should go will find plenty here. This one covers mental health, perimenopause, neurodivergence and recovery with honesty and a lot of laughs. Grab your tacos and settle in.
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