ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

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In Episode 89 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about how she receives numerous emails and DMs from young women with ADHD who have been positively affected by this podcast. This makes her want to feature more young women on the podcast because the younger we start to see our ADHD brains for the brilliant brains that they are, the better. Tracy wants them to hear stories of young, inspiring women who are just like them.

In this episode, she introduces you to Jade Le Quesne, who just turned 23 yesterday. Jade is from the U.K. and was diagnosed with ADHD at the beginning of the year. Jade struggled through school and was always behind her classmates academically, but since childhood, she had a dream. Her dream was to attend college in the U.S. Jade achieved this and graduated in 2019 with a bachelor’s in International Studies from the University of Tampa.

Jade is currently back in the U.K. studying nutrition and fitness, which she uses as a way to manage her symptoms. She believes that mental and physical health are intrinsically linked and looks forward to starting her own business very soon.

In this podcast, Jade shares her life-long battle with anxiety and emotional dysregulation, the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, and how she always felt different from others. She talks about her interest in motocross, what has changed for her since being diagnosed, and why she decided to write for ADDitude Magazine. Jade also discusses the ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success, how she manages her ADHD symptoms, the link between empathy and emotional dysregulation, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.

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Resources:

• Instagram: @jadeclxrisse
• “I Believed I Was Fundamentally Flawed. In Fact, the Blemish Was on Society.” ADDitude Magazine

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In Episode #88 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy shares her personal experience with rumination. She discusses how even when you’re in your own zone of interest and genius, doing what you really love, it’s still difficult to be on even the smallest platform because you will be roundly rejected by some.

She shares insights about her critics on Reddit, information on essential oils and medication, and her biggest fear around delivering this podcast every week. Tracy also talks about how she feels about paying it forward, what it means to be a Karen, and her commitment to BLM: diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism. She highlights her favorite podcast for learning how to be anti-racist and explains why you’re no different than she is, what to do when things don’t go so well, and the importance of getting back in the arena regardless.

Tracy emphasizes why what people say about you is none of your business, how ADHD women are meant to lead, and which ADHD women struggle the most.
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Resources:

• brenebrown.com

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In Episode 87 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy announces that this podcast is now the #1 podcast for ADHD women and among the top 10-14% of all podcasts regardless of subject.

Tracy then shares her experience with her amazing Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! students. She discusses the fear that many of her students have, thinking it’s too late or they’re too old to do something really meaningful that allows them to make a difference in the world and live to their potential. Tracy shares her story of why it’s never too late to live to your potential and find and do what you love.

She talks about her purpose and her big WHY, and how she became an expert in ADHD in an unconventional way. Tracy also highlights the ADHD trait she’s discovered in all her A-OK! women. She provides information about inspiring women who reimagined their lives after the age of 50 and shares statistics about startups based on age, explaining why she won’t share her own age.
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Resources:

• www.entrepreneur.com
• www.smallbizgenius.net
• www.inc.com
• www.turbify.com

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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

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Join Tracy Otsuka as she welcomes Dr. Kristen Nicole to Episode 86 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Always a feisty, fiery person who looks to be challenged to stay engaged, Kristen went to the Air Force Academy on a whim. After graduation, she left for Sub-Saharan Africa for a two-year stint in the Peace Corps. Deeply moved by this experience, Kristen went on to medical school in South Florida with the goal of responding to global humanitarian crises. She is also deeply passionate about the influence of lifestyle choices—food, rest, stress management—on one's ability to live a happy, productive life. Kristen has a health coaching business called Coach Kristen, MD. In her "spare" time, she loves tennis, running, and her three dogs.

In this podcast, Kristen shares the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis and her childhood experience with ADHD. She discusses her approach to mental health and pharmacology, as well as what she learned about herself at the Air Force Academy. Kristen also talks about her experience in medical school, the ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success, what she believes is the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.

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Resources:

• coachkristenmd.net
• mydayis.com
• Mini Phone Safe
• health.harvard.edu
• hopkinsmedicine.org

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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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Join Tracy as she welcomes entrepreneur Helena Hills to Episode 85 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Helena co-founded True Start Coffee with her husband Simon when they were both triathletes. True Start is a feel-good coffee company that is all about positivity and putting people first. It is one of the fastest-growing young drink brands in the UK and has won a host of impressive awards. True Start retails in over 1000 UK outlets and is exported to several international markets as well. Helena is also the mother of two little boys.

Helena shares how she started a business that she realizes today was literally her treatment and the circumstances surrounding her diagnosis. She discusses how ADHD affected her childhood, what kind of teenager she was, and her favorite subjects in school. Helena explains how she realized that drivenness is a form of hyperactivity, the importance of interest to her brain, and the significance of environment and positive emotion.

She talks about her experience with RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria), what she loves to do at True Start, and what she doesn’t love to do at True Start. Helena highlights the ADHD traits that she believes are responsible for her success, the key to living successfully with ADHD, the importance of reducing stress levels, and her best ADHD workarounds.

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Resources:

Instagram: @truestartcoffee
Website: www.truestartcoffee.com
Website: www.calm.com
Website: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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Join Tracy in Episode 84 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, where she introduces you to dietician and nutritionist Nicole DeMasi Malcher. Nicole is the founder of DeMasi Nutrition, a virtual private practice based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator with a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. Nicole spent 10 years working at Los Robles Hospital in the ICU, and as a nutrition coach at UCLA, Kaiser Permanente, and DaVita Dialysis. In her practice, she uses nutrition therapy and coaching to help people lose weight, improve their health, and prevent and treat medical conditions through personalized diet and lifestyle changes.

Nicole was diagnosed with ADHD (combined type) about a year ago at the age of 32 and has since been determined to understand how nutrition impacts ADHD symptoms. This episode is not for women with disordered eating.

Nicole shares the circumstances surrounding her later-in-life diagnosis, her ADHD symptoms, and those she always wondered about but now recognizes as clearly ADHD. She discusses how she always felt different than others and how her childhood and teen years were impacted by her ADHD. Nicole also explains what has changed since she was diagnosed, the relationship between sugar and dopamine, and the food group that spikes our dopamine naturally. She highlights what kind of carbohydrates help cognition and how she feels about intermittent fasting for the ADHD brain.

Further, Nicole provides information on the gut-brain axis and how inflammation affects the brain. She explains what the enteric nervous system is and how it affects our brains. Nicole also reveals the one food to get rid of to feel better, her number one ADHD workaround, and a page that she’s built just for us that’s all about nutrition for the ADHD brain.

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Resources: 

• Website: www.eatingwithadhd.com
• Instagram: @eatingwithadhd

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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In Episode #83 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about the things you can do to increase your productivity, stop procrastinating, and just start when your ADHD brain doesn’t want to cooperate. Tracy shares her experience working with the incredible women in her ADHD Brain is A-OK! Program, her new discovery about ADHD women and their need to make a difference and live to their potential, and how she procrastinated around creating the A-OK! System and why that was.

Tracy discusses what she finally did to create forward movement on this big project, her favorite platform for an online business, what procrastination actually is and what causes it, and what to do every morning to make yourself more productive. Tracy explains why there should be no big things on your to-do list, why our brains are more productive when we’re having fun, how to get out of your head and into action, and how she “templates” whatever she can.
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Resources:

• The online application that made everything in my business easier
• My favorite way to get out of my head and into action
• Calendly scheduling app

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

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In Episode 82 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Natalie Cluck. Natalie is 24 and works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and is training to become a certified flight controller to fly the International Space Station from Mission Control Houston.

In this podcast, Natalie shares: The circumstances of her diagnosis which occurred shortly after arriving at NASA, The light bulb event that triggered her desire to find out more about ADHD, Information around her school career, They symptoms that she always wondered about but now sees as part of her ADHD, What has changed since she was diagnosed, The ADHD traits that she feels make her an even better flight controller than those without ADHD, The traits that she feels are responsible for her success, The ways she has always felt different than others, What she believes is the key to living successfully with ADHD, Her ADHD workarounds.
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Resources:

• YouTube: How to ADHD
• Jessica McCabe's Ted Talk
• STAR stands for Stop - Think - Act - Review
• The Brili App

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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In Episode 81 of ADHD for Smart Ass Wome*, Tracy introduces you to the incomparable Gracie Dix. Gracie is a rising high school senior and the author of two books she released in 2020: Journey to Superhero School and Welcome to Superhero School, a fantasy fiction novel. Both books were Amazon #1 New Releases in their genre. Gracie lives in Dallas, Texas, with her parents, Richard and Jennifer, her brother Nate when he’s home from college, and her beloved dogs, Snowball and Sandcastle. She attends Shelton School of Dallas, which is a school for smart students who learn differently.

Learn about the article that Gracie wrote for ADDitudeMag, Gracie’s ADHD diagnosis, how she became so focused on her strengths, what she thinks her strengths are, and what she wishes she could change about her ADHD brain. Discover what made Gracie decide to write a book, what her books are about, whether there are any ADHD characters in her stories, and what she wants to study in college. Gracie shares the ADHD traits she feels are responsible for her success and her ADHD workarounds.
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Resources:

• “Don’t Buy Into the Myth That Your ADHD Characteristics are Flaws.”
• www.graciedix.com
• www.shelton.org

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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Join Tracy in Episode #80 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she introduces you to Janet Murray, who was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45. Janet is a content marketing expert, author, and international speaker who has built a multiple six-figure business with multiple streams of income, including a membership community and online courses. She’s also the creator of a popular content planning tool for coaches, consultants, and entrepreneurs. Over the past five years, Janet has published over 400 podcast episodes, a book, and countless pieces of email marketing copy—despite, in her words, being one of the most disorganized people on the planet. How does she manage it all? Janet has developed easy-to-follow systems and processes to stay productive, strategies that can work for anyone struggling to stay focused.

Discover: The circumstances surrounding Janet’s diagnosis, what her ADHD symptoms were and are, how drivenness relates to ADHD, how her ADHD presented in grade school, high school, and college, and what has changed for Janet since her diagnosis. Janet and Tracy also talk candidly about female friendships and ADHD, the challenges of not knowing the rules of female friendships, and why entrepreneurship is such a good fit for ADHD brains. They discuss how interpersonal intuition can sometimes interfere with relationships, how intensity plays a role in choosing relationships, and when to just walk away.

Janet shares the ADHD traits that are responsible for her success, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her top two ADHD workarounds.
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Resources:

• Website: janetmurray.co.uk
• How I discovered my ADHD superpower
• www.onepeloton.com

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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In Episode 79 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about imposter syndrome, where the term comes from, what it is and why so many women with ADHD have it. She shares: How Reward Deficiency Syndrome contributes to imposter syndrome, Why we rarely feel as we’ve accomplished enough, Why we might not trust our success and believe we can recreate it, How being hyper-critical of ourselves contributes to imposter syndrome, What inverse imposter syndrome is, What you can do to combat imposter syndrome, How to deal with shame, Why community and interest are so important to our ADHD brains.

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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In Episode 78 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy updates her second most popular podcast episode which is all about what ADHD looks like. She discusses: The fact that there is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all formula when we’re talking about ADHD symptoms. That we all have our own individual ADHD puzzle to solve. What ADHD is Why she believes that ADHD is misnamed and is not a disorder The importance of a comprehensive strategy. Medication is not enough. Why does she believe that all ADHD women are brilliant at something? What executive function skills are, What ADHD is not ADHD statistics, The fact that the existence and impact of ADHD has been validated for decades by various medical organizations. How ADHD brains are wired for interest not information.

The role of trauma in ADHD The three subtypes of ADHD, The 18 symptoms the DSM uses to diagnose ADHD, What symptoms look like for hyperactivity/combined-type ADHD, What symptoms look like for inattentive ADHD, What presentation of ADHD is seen most often in girls and women, Why ADHD is often missed in girls, Why smart girls struggle more than girls of average intelligence, The positive side of ADHD, The key to living successfully with ADHD.
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Resources:

• DSM-5 Criteria for ADHD
• American Psychiatric Association - Symptoms and Diagnosis
• How to Prepare to Meet With Your ADHD Doctor, Ep. 40, ADHD for Smart Ass Women
• Understanding Girls with ADHD by Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman and Patricia Quinn

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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Join Tracy in Episode #77 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she introduces you to Jaklin Levine Pritzker (“Jak”). Jak is a certified health/life coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and an ADDCA-trained ADHD coach. After graduating from law school and receiving her own ADHD diagnosis, Jak founded *AuthenticallyADHD*, where she coaches, runs retreats, and hosts a membership group for women and/or non-binary individuals.

Jak shares information about: Receiving her own ADHD diagnosis at the end of law school, her struggle with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks, self-medication, her other health challenges, how she came to terms with walking away from the practice of law and instead found a new direction more suited to her, things she always wondered about but now sees as symptoms of ADHD, getting off medication when it doesn’t work for you and finding other workarounds, how her ADHD diagnosis changed her life, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @authenticallyadhd
• Facebook: Authentically ADHD
• Website: www.authenticallyadhd.com

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book

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In Episode #76 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces a 6-step system that she created for her ADHD brain to help make better decisions around her career, relationships, and interests. She shares why it’s so important for those of us with ADHD to pursue the right interests, how to stop getting sidetracked by the newest bright, shiny thing, why we need a process, structure, and system to tidy our brains, the 25/75% formula, the "Do I Do With My Life" formula, why it’s so important for those of us with ADHD to be clear on what we really value, how getting clear on your values helps you make better decisions, the importance of choosing a theme for your life, how knowing your character strengths helps you begin to live values that you’re not currently living, and why we feel disconnected when who we are is not in alignment with what we do.

Tracy also discusses the importance of knowing what you’re passionate about, how to choose which of your many passions to pursue by discovering your purpose, her purpose formula, why purposes that give meaning to your past are often the best purposes to choose, the importance of identifying the overlap or the sweet spot where your interests, natural abilities, positive emotion, and motivation converge, and how to never forget what’s important to you again. If you’re interested in learning more about Your ADHD Brain is A-OK, you can find it.

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Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? 

ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. 

That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy

Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.

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In Episode #75 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about why she changed her introduction to the podcast. She shares her experience with coaching and why she initially didn’t believe it worked. Since she's always concerned with authenticity, she felt she owed her community an explanation and wanted to tell you why she changed her mind—and why she now believes that ADHD coaching is the best thing for anyone struggling with ADHD symptoms to try.

Tracy shares: How she connected her need to be crystal clear on her values and purpose with her ADHD, her constant quest around living to her full potential, her experience with regular life coaching, how developing a program to coach herself ultimately led her to create Cartography and Your ADHD Brain is A-OK!, how her desire to learn more about ADHD and how to respond to women and help them get out of their victim mindset in her Facebook group led her to consider ADHD coaching, why telling people with ADHD what to do never works, why regular life coaching doesn’t work for the ADHD brain, how the ADHD coaching model needs to go much deeper than traditional life coaching to be effective, how important prompts are to the ADHD brain, what it means to charge neutral and why ADHD coaches can’t do this and be successful with ADHD clients, why the best coaches for ADHD people are those who also have ADHD, and the steps of the ADHD coaching model and why they’re so successful with ADHD clients.
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• addca.com
• Your ADHD Brain is A-OK!

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Join Tracy in Episode #74 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, where she introduces you to Rachel Elliott. Rachel is a life-long resident of Washington, D.C., where she earned a BS in Biology at Salisbury University and will begin classes for her Doctorate of Physical Therapy Program at George Washington University. Rachel has been using Focusmate to conquer her short-term and long-term goals for over two years. She has more recently realized the power of Focusmate to maintain daily routines and now uses it for her morning routines, to meditate, practice yoga, and finish those nagging projects that need to get done.

Rachel shares with us: The circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis as a sophomore in high school, the symptoms that she always wondered about but now recognizes as clearly ADHD, how Focusmate works, how Focusmate revolutionized her life and increased her productivity, why Focusmate is so effective for her, how she has made friends on Focusmate, tips for using Focusmate, how 4-7-8 breathing can help with anxiety, panic attacks, and focus, the ADHD traits that are responsible for her success, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• Email: crush.all.your.goals@gmail.com
• Podcast Ep. 14: What's a Body Double and How Can it Help Me Get My Work Done
• Internet + App Blockers
• freedom.to
• Stay Focused - Bloqueador apps
• StayFocused Chrome Extension
• 4-7-8 breathing

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In Episode 73 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy shares ADHD hacks contributed by members of her Facebook Group, also of the same name. There were so many good tips but here are some of the most popular ones.

Discover: What every ADHD women needs in the shower, how big is too big for a bathroom clock, the trick to keep your bathroom clean, how much time you really take for your morning routine, how music might help you get to work on time, the one thing you need at your front door, how many laptop chargers do you really need, how to never forget anything when you travel, the best place to write down your morning and nighttime routines, how to finally schedule appointments so you’re on time, how to sign up for free trial apps or software without ending up paying for it, what a Not Now List is, what to keep in your desk at work, why you should always hit snooze and not turn off an alarm even though you’re going to get to the item next.
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Resources:

• ADHD for Smart Ass Women Podcast
• ADHD for Smart Ass Women Facebook Group
• EllieGrid
• Bullet Journal
• Facebook Minimalist Bullet Journals
• OurGroceries
• Focusmate

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In Episode 72 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy shares what social distancing has taught her about her ADHD brain. This episode is for those of you who have been practicing social isolation for a while, are growing weary, and are struggling to find more positive emotion in your life.

Discover: why awareness is so important to our ADHD brains, how one little shift that we don’t even realize can contribute to a downward trajectory in our positive emotion, how quickly we can bounce back if we’ve just recently fallen in the hole and haven’t yet buried ourselves in it, how important routine and structure is not only to our ADHD brains but also to positive emotion, the importance of nature to the ADHD brain, how Covid reconnected me to nature, my family, and myself, and what you actually need to feel more connection to others.
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Resources:

• ADHD for Smart Ass Women Podcast
• Facebook Group: ADHD for Smart Ass Women
• Focusmate

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Tracy is delighted to welcome Dr. Kirsten Milliken to Episode #71 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Dr. Milliken is a licensed clinical psychologist, an ADHD Coach, and the author of PlayDHD: Permission to Play. A Prescription For Adults With ADHD* Dr. Milliken lives in Portland, Maine, with her two amazing children, her partner, Perry, and her two dogs. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Kirsten has worked in various fields including juvenile justice, geriatric mental health, school psychology, community mental health, and nonprofit development. Currently, she has a private practice where she offers services to military veterans, provides diagnostic evaluations, and coaches teens and adults with ADHD.

Kirsten shares with Tracy: the circumstances surrounding her late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, the symptoms she struggled with, how she missed the diagnosis in herself, what has changed since she was diagnosed, how and why she educates her clients on the value of play as a naturopathic treatment for ADHD, the exciting project she started with Kris Mitchell to increase awareness of the positive impact of ADHD on society, how to submit written and visual works for potential publication, what ADHD traits she feels are responsible for her success, and her favorite ADHD workarounds.

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Join Tracy in Episode #70 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she introduces you to Kelsie Elizabeth. Kelsie grew up in NH and attended a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, earning a BS in clinical and research psychology and a second BS in music with a concentration in piano. Kelsie was also three credits short of a third degree in social welfare because she couldn’t make up her mind. Sounds pretty ADHD, doesn’t it? Kelsie was diagnosed with ADHD last year at the age of 25. At her young age, she has so much insight, wisdom, and a remarkable sense of who she is. Tracy just knew that you would love Kelsie’s story.

Kelsie shares: the circumstances around her diagnosis, what her symptoms were, her struggle with disabling social anxiety, her love of psychology, her early career struggles, what she finally did to right herself, how the correct diagnosis helped her regain her confidence, what her favorite ADHD traits are, how her ADHD makes her even better at her job, her keys to living successfully with ADHD, and her ADHD workarounds.
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• Email: pianoforteanima@gmail.com

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In Episode #69 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Sally Mouzon. Sally is a member of the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Chorus. She has appeared in numerous roles with the company, including Second Priestess in Iphigénie en Tauride, Second Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro, Second Girl in Show Boat, and Second Orphan in Der Rosenkavalier. She has also created roles in three world premieres: La Popolana in Two Women, Joan in Heart of a Soldier, and Sister Lillianne in Dead Man Walking. In real life, Sally is an avid reader, union activist, baseball fan (Go Giants!), and single mother of a collegiate Shakespeare nerd. She is a dedicated alumna of the University of Virginia and now lives in the Bay Area.

In this delightful interview, Sally shares how an article about time blindness resulted in her adult ADHD diagnosis, her ADHD symptoms which were present since childhood, her music-filled childhood, why structure was so important to her academic success, how she pivoted back into music and ultimately parlayed her love of music into an audition with the San Francisco Opera, how her degrees in African American Studies and Russian Literature help her to be a better opera singer, the ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her professional success, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her ADHD workarounds.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @sallymezzo
• Twitter: @sallymezzo
• Circa Levenger SmartPlanner Master Agenda - Weekly Jr
• Circa Starter Kit

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In Episode 68 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about how to train your ADHD brain to deal with fear. This is an extension of last week’s episode and Tracy’s stab at simplifying concepts so they can be applied today if her listeners are struggling with their emotions.

Learn about: Abraham Hicks The first place you should go if you’re feeling fear? how your inner guidance system (your intuition) can help you, how fear can act as your rudder and is just information, what it means to always reach for a better feeling, why controlling your environment doesn’t make you happier, how to use your thoughts to always feel better regardless of the circumstances, the importance of the journey, the only freedom you will ever experience, how to train your brain to always tune into positive emotions.
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Resources:

• EP. 65: Managing our Children and our ADHD in the Time of COVID-19 with Jaime Fisher
• The Biggest Missing Piece
• Abraham: APPRECIATION VS. GRATITUDE - Esther & Jerry Hicks

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Join Tracy in Episode #67 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women as she welcomes her guest, Vera Bruursema. Like many of us with ADHD, Vera has crafted a diverse career path from volunteer firefighter/EMT, soccer coach, Trader Joe’s Assistant Manager, and bookkeeper. While earning her MBA, she worked as a staff accountant for many different companies but still struggled to find her place. It all finally came together when Vera decided to seek help for her ADHD and open her own practice as owner and founder of Verified Accounting. Tracy wanted to talk to Vera because many believe that the ADHD brain is incapable of a career in accounting or finance. In fact, Vera is going to tell us how she took her nonlinear brain and created a really interesting niche for herself in accounting.

Vera shares with us the circumstances around her ADHD diagnosis in sixth grade, her very difficult teen years, the ADHD program in Wyoming that changed her life, how she finally learned executive function skills, how she ended up in bookkeeping and ultimately accounting, the “social handbook” that she finally read that explained so much of her struggles with other people and helped her to build her confidence back up, the thing she started to embrace that turned her life around rapidly, why accounting plays into one of her biggest strengths—hint: it’s problem-solving—and how her dog Atlas gives her the structure she needs to succeed.
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Resources:

• Braving the Wilderness
• The Four Tendencies Quiz
• Academy at SOAR

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Join Tracy in Episode #66 where she talks about the coronavirus, why the ADHD brain struggles so much with uncertainty, and how the only thing that we have control over is our thoughts.

Discover: What Mister Rogers taught journalist Tom Junod, why anything that is mentionable is manageable, how panic comes from uncertainty and trying to control what we can’t control whether we’re talking about a pandemic or anything else, what you really fear when you’re feeling uncertainty, why worrying has nothing to do with being prepared, why the journey is so important, the importance of our thoughts, what dictates our feelings/emotions, what fear really is, how the ADHD brain is motivated, the formula that involves our thoughts, feelings/emotions, actions and results, how to control your thoughts, what mindfulness is, how mindfulness helps ADHD, who connected mindfulness with brain science, ADDitudeMag’s mindfulness acronym STOP, Tracy’s list of 100 experiences, and observations that generate positive emotion and wouldn’t have come about but for the coronavirus.
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Resources:

• ADDitude’s FREE Mindfulness and Other Natural Treatments eBook
• Podcast #53: Neuroplasticity, Mindfulness, Meditation and ADHD
• Podcast #50: Meditation That Even You Can Do with ADHD Life Coach Diann Wingert

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In Episode #65 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Jaime Fisher. Jaime lives in Connecticut where she is raising four kids and an infant while transitioning back into the workforce. With over 100,000 hours of parenting experience, Jaime is a strong advocate for both moms and babies. She runs a Facebook site called Hey New Mama, and is working on a book on the optimal care and feeding of new moms.

Jaime shares: the circumstances around her ADHD diagnosis why ADHD mothers make great parents, how her and her husband manage their household of five children under normal circumstances, how her family is actually doing in the midst of COVID19 good news on the resilience of children, what she works on paying attention to during this time her advice around learning and children, why rituals are important during times of stress her personal ADHD workaround.

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In Episode #64 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces Francesca Joy Rizzo. Francesca is an award-winning actor, writer, producer, and director in theater, film, television, and digital media. Her powerful and provocative ideas are fueled by a mission to explore, illuminate, and celebrate the female experience with passion, humor, and imagination. Fran believes that the way the world sees women affects how the world treats women, so she uses female creativity to balance the scales. 

A college dropout, Fran mined her creative talents to pay rent in New York City, carving out a career as a children’s book illustrator, professional actor, co-founder of a downtown theater company, and eventually a filmmaker and CEO of MovieBaby Productions, a Tribeca-based media company. After 9/11, Fran returned to her roots, earning her degree in Media Arts and receiving the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. 

Fran's accomplishments in the fine arts and interior design include penning and performing three theatrical productions, curating *The Cinema-Femina* film series, and creating *Believe Women*, a rape activist initiative supporting the Cosby survivors. She is also one of the founding members of *ADHD for Smart Ass Women* and now serves as an administrator of the group. Tracy often introduces Fran as the most creative person she knows, and some women join the Facebook group just to meet her.

 Fran shares with us: The circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, her ADHD symptoms, how her symptoms got worse in midlife?, how important interest is to her driven brain, the ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success?, what she feels is the key to living successfully with ADHD, and some ADHD workarounds. 

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Resources:

• Website: www.francescarizzo.com
• Facebook: Francesca Joy Rizzo
• Instagram: @francescarizzonyc

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In Episode #63 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about how complaining, venting, feeling sorry for yourself, and playing the victim are the gateway drug to an unhappy life that puts you at the mercy of your ADHD, by completely focusing on your weaknesses and not your strengths. Learn about: BMW - and it’s not the car The science behind why rumination is bad for our brains Why what we say to ourselves matters What my definition of high-functioning with ADHD looks like What kinds of people I choose to have in my life.

Discover: A different way to see your ADHD and it’s not disordered, what demotivates the ADHD brain, what you need to focus on to drive your motivation, how to become the hero in your own life, the importance of mindset, the importance of gratitude, the easiest thing you can do to start slowly shifting your mindset, what makes the ADHD brain happier, Tracy then shares an amazing lesson that a young woman in her FB group taught her about her own beliefs around the brain, honesty, her own power, and abilities.
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Resources:

• EP. 23: ADHD and Rumination
• EP. 12: Learned Helplessness and ADHD
• EP. 32: What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and How Can it Help ADHD?
• EP. 50: Meditation That Even You Can Do (Especially if You’re Inattentive or Have RSD) with ADHD Life Coach, Diann Wingert
• EP. 26: Tracy’s Strength-Focused ADHD Book List

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In Episode #62 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about ADHD and cannabis. She specifically focuses on the adolescent ADHD brain. Discover: The history of cannabis in the United States Why the name was changed from cannabis to marijuana How immigrants popularized the recreational use of marijuana What state first passed the Cannabis Prohibition law. How the propaganda film Reefer Madness effectively criminalized marijuana What happened to cannabis in the 60s and 70s What the reports commissioned by Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson said about marijuana Tracy then shares why she initially thought that cannabis was safer than substances like alcohol and her experience at a cannabis dispensary close to her home.

Learn: The truth about whether or not there really are medicinal and or therapeutic benefits of cannabis to the ADHD brain, the two active compounds that make up cannabis, if research supports the use of CBD oil as a treatment for ADHD At what age the frontal lobe is fully matured in the ADHD brain, what THC actually does in the brain, what the FDA has approved medical marijuana for, what rates of cannabis use look like for adolescents and young adults, the negative effects of cannabis and how this mimics the symptoms of ADHD, how dendrites help a healthy brain process and learn better, how THC can alter the architecture of your brain, why fully formed brains are at much less risk for damage by THC, if THC is a gateway drug Cannabis’ effect on the heart, cannabis’ effect on mental health, if cannabis is addictive and if so, who is more likely to be addicted, what it means to be chasing dopamine and why those with ADHD are at a greater risk for this, what Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) is, what the link between CUD and psychosis is, why cannabis is so appealing to the ADHD brain, and how to treat CUD.
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Resources:

• 1-800-662- HELP to locate a treatment center
• FindTreatment.gov
• Reefer Madness! The Twisted History of America's Marijuana Laws

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Join Tracy as she welcomes her guest Laurie Harwood Peterson to Episode #61 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Laurie is the owner and director of Diagnostic Learning Services. Alongside her husband, Laurie runs five offices across Texas, specializing in ADHD and learning challenges in children. She spends every day helping kids get identified and teaching parents how to support them. Laurie holds a bachelor’s degree in Special Education and spent eight years teaching students with learning disabilities in grades K-12. She also has two Master’s Degrees—one in Special Education with an emphasis on assessment and the other in Professional Counseling.

Laurie is also the mother of two boys. In this episode, you’ll learn about: the circumstances surrounding Laurie’s ADHD diagnosis, her symptoms in childhood, how she got into diagnostic testing, the difference between neuropsychological testing and diagnostic testing, where diagnostic testing fits into the ADHD picture, signs parents should look for when considering diagnostic testing for their children, the cost of diagnostic testing, how testing for giftedness and ADHD differs from standard ADHD testing, how Laurie’s ADHD makes her better at what she does, what Laurie believes is the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• How to use a bullet journal 
• www.diagnostic-learning.com
• ediagnosticlearning.com

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Join Tracy in Episode #60 of *ADHD for Smart Ass Women* as she welcomes her guest, Brandi Noll. Dr. Noll is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Akron in Ohio, where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses. With 23 years of experience in education, she has taught children how to read and write, as well as adults how to best teach children to read and write. Brandi is also an author, presenter, and consultant in K-12 schools. She has co-authored a book on preschool literacy curriculum, written numerous articles for national journals on literacy instruction, and presented at education conferences across the country, sharing her passion for helping students succeed. Brandi is also the mother of three.

In 2016, while recovering from her second major hip reconstruction due to hip dysplasia, Brandi founded the Bucket List Adventure Company Ohio. Her focus was on bringing people together by encouraging them to step outside of their comfort zones and overcome their fears. Over the last few years, Brandi has jumped out of a plane, free-dived with sharks in the Atlantic Ocean, walked across fire, kayaked in alligator-infested waterways, ice climbed, rock climbed, and rappelled through some of the United States' most strenuous and iconic trails. No surprise—Brandi also has ADHD!

Brandi shares: how she completed her Ph.D. in three years while working two part-time jobs and raising three children, the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, symptoms she had always wondered about but now recognizes as clearly ADHD in hindsight, what has changed since her diagnosis, why she decided to start her travel company, why she founded the "Adventure Club," the knowledge she imparts to all of her students, what she believes is the key to living successfully with ADHD, her number one ADHD workaround, and her advice to a young woman just diagnosed with ADHD.
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In Episode #59 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces her guest Taylor Levy. Taylor is an immigration attorney in El Paso, Texas, and was the Legal Coordinator at Annunciation House, El Paso’s largest migrant shelter. During the summer and fall of 2018, Taylor worked with dozens of pro bono attorneys who traveled to El Paso from across the U.S. to provide free legal representation to immigrant parents separated from their minor children due to the “zero-tolerance” policy enacted by the Trump administration. Attorneys volunteering with Annunciation House provided legal consultations and pro bono reunification to more than 400 separated families. Currently, Taylor focuses on asylum-seeking families who have been returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program. She also mentors attorneys from around the country on these cases and does advocacy, media, and policy work centered on protecting vulnerable asylum seekers arriving at our border.

Taylor talks about an article that ProPublica just published about her clients, Honduran refugees Mirza, David, and their kids. Taylor also shares how she ended up in law school while working full time and raising a child as a single mother, the circumstances surrounding her own ADHD diagnosis, symptoms that she always wondered about but now, with the benefit of hindsight, she recognizes as clearly ADHD, what has changed since her diagnosis, how she ended up representing immigrants and asylum seekers before she even went to law school, what she believes the key to living successfully with ADHD is, her novel approach to medication, her number one workaround, and her advice to a young woman just diagnosed with ADHD. Information about the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Hybrid Program is also discussed.
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Resources:

• Email: taylorlevylaw@gmail.com
• www.santafedreamersproject.org

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In Episode 58 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy shares five hacks that have changed her professional and personal productivity and play well with her ADHD brain. They are: Stickies app for IOS (or Sticky Notes for Windows), Multiple Desktops which is available for both IOS and Windows, TabResize app, Bear app; and New Kajabi, a platform for online businesses.

Tracy talks about: Her love - hate relationship with Post-it-notes, the two things that new applications need in order to work well with her ADHD brain, how to organize your computer workspace with multiple desktops. how to automatically organize your desktop so it’s never a mess. the application that keeps her the most focused because it allows her to stay within the four corners of one computer screen, the application that ensures you will never lose another note, book or restaurant suggestion or link again, and the application that finally allowed her to understand all parts of her online business rather than delegating that which she didn’t understand.
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Resources:

• Stickies User Guide
• Work in multiple spaces on Mac
• Use desktop stacks on Mac
• Tab Resize - Split Screen Layouts
• Bear App
• adhdforsmartwomen.com/kajabi

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In Episode #57 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy invites her good friend Sandra Centorino to the podcast to talk about her recent mid-life ADHD diagnosis. Sandra is currently the founder of RealWomenGoLive where her mission is to help, inspire, share and connect real women to the power of their voice through audio and video.

Prior to that, Sandra ran a non-profit called, the CUREchief Foundation where she recruited and trained thousands of volunteers for more than a decade. Sandra shares: Why she decided to seek a diagnosis, how her symptoms got worse in midlife, her family's response to her diagnosis, what has changed since she was diagnosed, her experience with medication, her number one ADHD workaround, and her advice to anyone who’s listening who has not yet been diagnosed.
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Resources:

• Facebook Group:: RealWomenGoLIVE

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Join Tracy and her guest Linda Karanzalis, M.S., BCCS in Episode #56 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Linda is a board-certified cognitive specialist and parent/student coach who provides executive function training and social-emotional learning programs for people of all ages. Linda recently wrote an article for ADDitude magazine’s Winter 2020 issue on ADHD and Non-verbal Learning Disorder (NVLD).

Linda shares with us: Her symptoms in childhood, her ADHD diagnosis, how she figured out that she had something more than just ADHD, her Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) diagnosis, what NVLD looks like What percentage of communication is verbal vs non-verbal and why that matters, why those with NVLD actually talk more, not less, what it means to not understand the meaning behind words and take things literally, how to tell the difference between ADHD and NVLD, why those with NVLD are often misdiagnosed with ADHD, why NVLD is still not recognized in the DSM even though they are both brain-based conditions, what happens to those with NVLD who are left untreated. 

Linda then discusses current treatment options for NVLD and explains why she believes they don’t work. She also shares what she has discovered does work.

Resources:

• Addvantageslearningcenter.com
• Symptom test for adults: Could I have Non-Verbal Learning Disorder?
• Article that appeared in ADDitude magazine on NVLD
• Another article by Linda Karanzalis for ADDitude magazine

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Resources:

• [Self-Test] Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) in Adults
• ADH

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Tracy talks about what she’s learned in the year since she started her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. She hopes her story might inspire you to tackle that one big bucket list item that you’ve been scared to start. After all, she’s been there.

Tracy shares: Why she started the podcast, What her biggest fear was around having a podcast, How she feels about planning, Her thoughts on accountability vs. responsibility, The importance of structure, Why she listens more and talks less, How her podcast helped her develop more tools and strategies for herself, The importance of reminders, How starting a podcast solidified her belief that ADHD isn’t a disorder but rather a brain difference that just requires another way of doing things, How those with ADHD are gold star people, How members of her ADHD for Smart Ass Women Facebook Group and listeners of the podcast helped her grow her knowledge of ADHD, and What her podcast taught her about confidence.
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Resources:

• addca.com
• Facebook Group: ADHD for Smart Ass Women

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In this episode, Tracy invites Esther Nagel to the podcast. Esther is a yoga teacher, author, and writer from South Wales in the UK. She is also an expert in breathing and was recently diagnosed with ADHD.

Esther shares: Why learning to breathe properly is a powerful tool in managing the ADHD brain, How she connected breath to so many of her own personal struggles stemming from ADHD and how it changed her life, How proper breathing reduces stress, stabilizes emotions, and makes us more mindful, How breathing balances the autonomic nervous system and helps us to be more attentive (focused) and more relaxed, and Some simple steps for breathing properly and doing it anywhere in her FREE 10-day breathing course.
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Resources:

• spacetobreatheacademy.com(this is the FREE 10-day breathing course that Esther mentioned) 
• How Deep Breathing Opens Up the ADHD Brain
• Just Breathe: Diaphragmatic Breathing for ADHD

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In Episode #53 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy tackles the science behind meditation, specifically neuroplasticity. Tracy introduces the book Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD, An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions and Achieving Your Goals* by Lidia Zylowska, MD.

Learn: what neuroplasticity is and how it affects not only our ability to learn but also the brain’s ability to change and adapt, when neuroplasticity occurs in our lifespan, several interesting examples of neuroplasticity, what one key factor is in neuroplasticity, how the concept of neuroplasticity has completely changed the thinking around meditation, what long-term meditators' brains look like in regions related to attention, self-monitoring, and emotional regulation, what long-term meditators' brains look like as they age, what attentional blink is and how it is affected by meditation, how long you must meditate in order to start seeing its benefits, what areas of the brain are enhanced by mindfulness or meditation training and why this is important to those of us with ADHD, and why meditation is especially important to those of us with inattentive ADHD, especially those suffering from Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria.
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Resources:

• The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Adult ADHD Brain
• Mindfulness Meditation Training for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adulthood
• Your Child’s Brain on Mindful Meditation
• Yes, the ADHD Br

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In Episode #52, Tracy shares a New Year hack that has helped her to be more productive and move her life forward in a manner that is consistent with her values and purpose. It also happens to work especially well for her ADHD brain in that she’s able to stick with it throughout the entire year.

Discover: how the word NERVY helped her to get completely comfortable with live video and visibility in her business, how the word CONSISTENCY helped Tracy create this podcast and show up every week for a year to consistently deliver it, why choosing just one word every year works so well for our ADHD brains, how to choose a word that represents what you’d like to have more of in your life, and how Tracy chose her word for 2020. Tracy also tells us what big project she has planned for 2020, and how her word will help her achieve it. She also lists some resources for options beyond the traditional one-word bracelets that she’s been using for the past two years.
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Resources:

• myintent.org
• www.etsy.com
• www.etsy.com/listing/

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In Episode #51, Tracy talks about an article that she wrote for *ADDitude* (It’s the leading media network for parents and adults living with ADHD and for professionals working in the field of ADHD). Since the article touches on the importance of hope, positive emotion, focusing on strengths, and how her 17-year-old son did just that to successfully crack his learning code, she invited him on the podcast as her guest and he accepted! If you’re looking for a real ADHD underdog success story, you’ll like this one.

Markus shares: his experiences at his various high schools (he went to 3!), what worked for his ADHD brain and what didn't, whether he now regrets any of these experiences, how a summer in Europe changed his life, what made him decide to reconsider going to a four-year college right out of high school, the good news he received a few days ago, the invaluable lessons he’s learned, how being open about his ADHD serves him well, his advice for a teacher who has an ADHD student, how his creativity makes him different, and advice for a teen who might be listening to this podcast and might be where Markus was a year ago.

Tracy talks about: the fact that there is no such thing as failure, only lessons, the importance of focusing on strengths, the importance of understanding why we have to learn something in order to learn, how environment is so important to the ADHD brain, the importance of structure to the ADHD brain, positive emotion, how focusing on weaknesses ruins our self-esteem, and how you don’t find your purpose—you step into it because it's always been there.

Markus also shares a song he wrote, performed, and recorded as part of his college portfolio.
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Resources:

• ADDitudeMAG Article: “What If My Intense Drive Is Because of — Not in Spite of — My ADHD?”
• Korematsu Kuraun: https://soundcloud.com/user-107027875/korematsu-kuraun

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This episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women is definitely among my favorites. In fact, it might be my favorite. In Episode #50, I invite ADHD expert, psychotherapist, former USC adjunct professor, and life coach Diann Wingert back to discuss meditation for the ADHD brain.

Look, I don’t really get meditation. My thoughts are: I have ADHD, and you want me to sit still and stop my brain from thinking, thinking, thinking? It’s an oxymoron, I tell ya! Or at least that’s what I told Diann. That’s when she took on the challenge of selling me and my ADHD brain on meditation.

You have to listen to this episode because it completely changed my beliefs about what meditation is and how it will work for my ADHD brain. And she made it stupidly simple. I can do it! Bottom line, Diann knows ADHD, and she knows meditation for the ADHD brain. With her guidance, even I was successful.
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Resources:

• pemachodronfoundation.org
• choosemuse.com
• insighttimer.com
• Calm App
• www.headspace.com
• Diann's podcast The Driven Woman will launch February 6, 2020 diannwingertcoaching.com LINK TO SCHEDULE FREE 30 MIN CONSULTATION FOR POTENTIAL COACHING CLIENTS
• calendly.com

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Our podcast on Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), Episode #19, is among our most downloaded episodes, and members continue to post about it. Since it’s such a popular topic, I wanted to revisit RSD with the optimism that I didn’t fully deliver in Episode #19. Since recording that first episode, I’ve discovered that there’s actually a lot you can do to reduce and even eliminate symptoms of RSD, and that’s what this episode is all about.

We discuss: a Cliff Notes version of what RSD is (if you haven’t listened to Episode #19, you can do that), how RSD and social phobia differ, how RSD and bipolar disorder differ, the reasons why those of us with ADHD and RSD tend to have low frustration tolerance, less patience, and more difficulty with temper and excitability than those without these conditions, and what flooding is.

Join us as we explore what women with RSD have done to reduce and even eliminate their symptoms. This includes learning about their ADHD and RSD, medication, a change of environment, and a discussion of the new term VAST. We also talk about the importance of choosing your Gold Star people and resources, the three things that will always help to motivate those with RSD, what it means to be an amplifier, and the importance of acknowledging your creativity.

We’ll also discuss how planning ahead prior to an RSD episode can help reduce and even eliminate symptoms, the importance of “taking the emotion” out of it, and considering other perspectives that may be more accurate than what we perceive when our RSD flares up. Lastly, we cover why you need to continue to trust your own intuition, and I’ll share my suggestions on RSD, ADHD, and dating.
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Resources:

• I have created the Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) Protocol for ADHD as a resource for you. When we have a plan, we’re less reactionary and more successful in managing not only our RSD but also our ADHD. You may download it: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Sy

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In Episode #48 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, I invite you to meet Sandra Coral. Sandra is a 41-year-old Black woman who was adopted at 3 by a poor, white family in Canada and was diagnosed with ADHD last year. She joins us from London, where she lives with her husband and 5-year-old son. Sandra was a K-12 teacher for over 15 years. She has an MA in Educational Psychology as well as post-graduate certificates in English As An Additional Language, Gifted Education, and Special Education. She has taught internationally, including in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, Oman, and Turkey.

Sandra will share her fascinating story, including her childhood where she and her little brother were the only people of color, how she was bullied and traumatized, and because of this, suffered from emotional dysregulation and anger. Her 7-year-old brother was diagnosed with ADHD, but she remained undiagnosed until last year. Up until recently, Sandra thought her issues were solely related to her race.

Sandra and I will also talk about how she finally discovered that she had ADHD, what childhood symptoms Sandra now recognizes as ADHD, what additional issues come up for those with ADHD when you’re Black, and how one even starts to unravel this and figure out what is related to adoption, race, trauma, or ADHD. We’ll discuss the importance of focusing on our strengths when we have ADHD.

Since being diagnosed, Sandra has decided to make it her mission to give children, teens, parents, and adults the support that she didn’t have growing up, so they can manage their ADHD and thrive in life.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @nd.narratives
• Facebook Group: The ADHD Life

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In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Tracy talks about ADHD and gratitude. A practice of gratitude is important for everyone, but for those of us with ADHD, it’s even more important. Why? Because processing emotions starts in the brain itself, and emotions motivate action. This means that if your emotions are negative, you will be completely unmotivated. But if your emotions are positive and you’re working in an area of high interest, the sky's the limit.

Discover:

• Why we can’t get anything done without positive emotion
• How positive emotion is directly related to dopamine, memory, behavior, focus, and motivation
• How gratitude directly influences our emotions
• How a practice of gratitude helps our ADHD symptoms
• How gratitude affects sleep
• How gratitude affects executive function, including focus
• How gratitude makes it more likely that we will stick to our goals and start new habits
• How gratitude boosts dopamine and serotonin in our brains
• How gratitude allows us to focus on what’s going right in our lives rather than what’s wrong
• How gratitude will make you more friends and attract people who want to be around you

Tracy also explains how to start a Gratitude Journal, where you begin and end each day with positive emotion. Learn what Tracy’s *Positive Emotion Dossier* is and how it can help you. She also shares how the idea in the book *29 Gifts* helped her increase gratitude and uplevel her holidays last year. Additionally, Tracy discusses how Abraham Hicks can help you change negative thoughts to focus more on gratitude, and why your thoughts will always determine how happy you are.
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Resources:

• ADHD and the Practice of Gratitude by Dr. Kari Miller
• The Five Minute Journal

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Caryn wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until she was 46, but she’s known that she has ADHD since grade school. Caryn always felt that her ADHD worked for her until one day she woke up and it suddenly didn’t. She decided then and there to go visit a doctor. Like many of our first experiences with doctors and ADHD, her doctors didn’t want to talk about ADHD because they knew little about how it presented in women. Instead, they wanted to prescribe her anxiety medication.

Caryn stuck to her guns, and the rest, as they say, is history. I asked Caryn Prall: What made her finally seek out an ADHD diagnosis? If she always knew that there was something different about her than her peers? About her childhood, relationships with friends, and school? What she thinks her biggest strengths are? How is it that she’s so successful but yet so open about her ADHD? If she thinks she’s successful because of her ADHD or in spite of it? What workarounds has she developed to reduce her weaknesses? The best advice she can give to women of any age who feel that they’re not living to their potential?

Caryn also shared her reasons for starting her fantastic podcast, *The Messy Empire*, which is all about what it takes to build a 2 billion dollar real estate empire and how this all relates to her ADHD. You can subscribe to The Messy Empire.

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In Episode #45 of *ADHD for Smart Ass Women*, Tracy introduces you to 27-year-old MMA fighter Emma Elizabeth Megan ("Em"), who was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 18.

Em began struggling after facing a lot of stress during her first year of college. Initially diagnosed with depression, she was prescribed citalopram, which caused her to feel “buzzy” or hyper. This reaction ultimately led to her misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Em accepted the diagnosis, being young and unaware of alternatives. The bipolar medication, however, made her suicidal, and she spent time in psychiatric units. During this period, Em also pursued a Master's in Psychology to better understand bipolar disorder.

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This week's topic is all about bipolar disorder and why ADHD often gets misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder. Tracy posted a simple question to her group: "HAVE YOU BEEN MISDIAGNOSED WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?" She was shocked at how many women had been, so she decided to research the subject. In this episode, you’ll learn when bipolar disorder is often misdiagnosed, what symptoms bipolar disorder and ADHD share, and what bipolar disorder actually is. The DSM requirements for diagnosing bipolar disorder are also discussed, along with why bipolar disorder can’t be ignored and must be treated.

Learn what mania and hypomania are, understand the symptoms of a major depressive episode, and recognize the greatest risk of bipolar disorder. Tracy discusses the different types of bipolar disorder, the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II, and the distinction between episodic and contextual emotional changes. She also explains how sleep patterns differ in ADHD versus bipolar disorder, and how uncontrollable talking and distractibility present differently in the two conditions.

Explore how emotional sensitivity varies between ADHD and bipolar disorder, and how bipolar disorder manifests differently in kids, specifically around emotion. Discover if having an ADHD diagnosis makes you more likely to also have bipolar disorder, and if a diagnosis of bipolar disorder makes ADHD more likely. Tracy explains why it’s so difficult to get an accurate diagnosis of bipolar disorder and explores the link between bipolar disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder in kids. Learn whether a fiery, intense temper is indicative of ADHD, and how bipolar disorder is linked to creativity and artistic temperament and intelligence. Tracy also explains why heightened creativity or artistry only happens in hypomania, and which part of the brain is involved in this.

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In Episode #43 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy speaks with the delightful Megan Margaret Burlingame. Megan is 34 years old, a wife and the mother of two very busy boys. Throughout her childhood, Megan struggled mightily with her ADHD but is clear about the fact that her struggles also led her to discover her Superpowers. Today Megan lives in Arlington, WA, where she works with cities, counties, and government agencies to advise them on zoning and legal land issues. In her free time, she operates a small flower farm where she also grows a large variety of organic heirloom tomatoes.

Tracy invited Megan to her podcast after she posted this response to another member who said she was having trouble seeing anything positive about her ADHD:

“The more I educate myself about it, the more I realize that it makes me who I am. I am so so good with people, I understand their natures and moods. Sometimes it is like a wave of emotions that hits me when I enter a room and, while inconvenient, let me see the true nature of people. I am also much more empathetic because of how much I was picked on for skipping around school constantly, saying the wrong things, laughing too loud, etc. I love to root for the underdog and think that cruelty from others for any reason is horrendous. In a crisis or when someone is swamped with work, I can jump in and formulate a plan, execute it with a maniacal glee, and excel beyond my peers.”

Megan’s revelation around taking medication, non-pharmacological workarounds, and her best advice to those who are struggling with their ADHD and/or are parents of children with ADHD are also discussed in the episode.
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• Youtube: How to ADHD
• www.summitflowerfarm.com

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In this episode, Tracy talks about the myth that “everyone has ADHD.” Discover what behavioral characteristics the general population shares with those of us with ADHD. You’ll learn about the following: What distinguishes adults with ADHD from the general population who display ADHD characteristics?, the survey that Russell Barkley and his colleagues Kevin Murphy and MariEllen Fischer conducted that finally put to bed the EVERYONE HAS ADHD myth. The three different types of ADHD, the questions that those of us with ADHD often respond “yes” to, the domains of life in which those with ADHD often feel impaired by their symptoms, how we often don’t even realize we struggled or we’re struggling until we really reflect back on our experiences.
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Resources:

• Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
• ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says

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In this episode, Tracy talks to ICF and board-certified ADHD coach, Certified Career Development Coach and Life Coach, Lynn Miner-Rosen. Lynn works with high school seniors, college students, and young adults with ADHD, EF deficits and learning differences. Previous to coaching Lynn was a Special Education Teacher for 12 years. She was also an IEP coordinator. Lynn Miner-Rosen has a BS in business administration and two Masters Degrees in Education and Special Education. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, and will be speaking at CHADD in November. Lynn spoke to us about ADHD and the workplace.

We discuss: If you should disclose your ADHD to your boss, work colleagues, human resources, etc?, what are the positives and negatives of disclosure?, if you do choose to disclose, how do you go about doing so?, how to make your strengths clear so you’re not just focusing on everything you struggle with?, if tardiness can be overlooked in the ADHD workplace?, how to ask for help without disclosing your ADHD?, if you’re going to disclose who should you disclose to first?, how to create a descriptive and reasonable list if you are going to ask for accommodations, the Top 10 challenges of ADHD employees and how to manage the Time Management Long-term projects Paperwork Procrastination Poor Memory Distractibility Impulsivity Boredom Hyperactivity Social Skills.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @lynn_miner_rosen
• FREE downloadable checklist: www.lmrcoaching.com

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In this episode, Tracy gives you a simple, ADHD brain-friendly understanding of what is required to obtain an ADHD diagnosis. She also includes a checklist that she created to help you prepare for your meeting with an ADHD professional.
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• adhdforsmartwomen.com/adhd-doctor

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