Author: Tracy Otsuka

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My Favorite Tech Tool: How The Apple Watch Saved My ADHD Brain

Read the full blog here: https://www.tracyotsuka.com/apple-watch/ This blog is all about the Apple Watch and how I use it to manage my ADHD brain. I didn’t want an Apple watch, I don’t want to wear anything that everyone else is wearing. 🙊 That said, once I did, I realized just how valuable it could be to […]

Reward Deficiency Syndrome

We know that with our ADHD brains we can often feel less motivation to work towards a reward but have you ever reached your goal and you feel less satisfaction than you thought you would feel in reaching this goal? Yeah, in college I coined it post final depression and it's exactly why we often […]

On Building a Backbone and Not Backing Down Ever, EVER Again

She folded in on herself in an instant, her legs tucking neatly under her body as her shoulders slumped. Her eyes shining bright with huge unshed tears, my beautiful friend Kate was crestfallen, her Princeton-educated brain fixated on the text that had just popped up on her cracked iPhone screen. “SORRY, SOMETHING’S COME UP. I’LL […]

For Lessons On Success, Add Will Smith, Football, a Teenager and Stir

Let’s be real. Will Smith is one of the most likable human beings in existence. (<–Not actually hyperbole.) In his movie, Concussion, he plays real life Bennett Omalu, a Nigerian born pathologist with no knowledge of football who fights the NFL after they try to discredit his research that repeated blows to the head ultimately leads to […]

Your Life’s Purpose Called (Spoiler Alert: Lighten Up)

To be honest, I don’t remember his name, just the red Schwinn bike he’d ride in on, ditching it on the lawn, his eyes gleaming as he excitedly gushed about how much he Loved washing windows—with a capital L. My husband and I had just moved into our very first house, and my 26 year-old […]

I Thought Parenting was My Life’s Purpose: I Was Wrong

My ambition is restless and my drive is relentless. There’s this need I’ve always had—a constant calling to do things differently than they’ve always been done, a calling to start something new. I’d already been an attorney, spending my days prosecuting Fortune 500 execs. I’d founded a luxury women’s wear company whose client list boasted […]

How Not To Raise a Teenage Brat: A Guide

I was newly pregnant with a baby girl, standing at a BabyGap check out counter. The saleswoman looked up at me, her thick acrylic nails toying with the ends of her permed, bleached hair. “Oh, honey. You’ll have your hands full when she’s a teenager.” “You think?” I responded, trying to force some semblance of easy, […]

Once Upon a Time I Accidentally Lost Four Hours of My Life & it Totally Changed My Business

It all started with a link on a client email, that led to a website, that led to a testimonial that led to a Facebook page, that led to a new marketing strategy, that led to a deep, resounding certainty that I had to completely change directions and run off to be a Russian ballerina […]

For My Daughter, Atea: A Proclamation On the Night Before She Moves Away to College

I never really wanted kids. When other girls my age were playing house with their dollies, I’d shoved the doll my grandmother had sent me into the farthest corner of my closet. (Real talk: I couldn’t sleep unless the closet door was completely and totally shut.) I was terrified my punishment for imprisoning her was beheading by […]

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