ADHD for Smart Ass Women Podcast
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Episode 82: ADHD with NASA Flight Controller, Natalie Cluck
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.
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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
Resources:
STAR stands for Stop - Think - Act - Review
Episode 81: ADHD with Teen Author, Gracie Dix
In Episode 81 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to the incomparable Gracie Dix. Gracie is a rising high school senior and author of two books that 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 the 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. MORE ---> SEE SHOW NOTES BELOW
In Episode 81 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to the incomparable Gracie Dix. Gracie is a rising high school senior and author of two books that 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 the 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
About Gracie’s ADHD diagnosis
How Gracie became so focused on her strengths
What Gracie thinks her strengths are
What Gracie wishes she could change about her ADHD brain.
What made Gracie decide to write a book?
What Gracie’s books are about?
If there are any ADHD characters in her books?
What Gracie wants to study in college
What ADHD traits Gracie feels are responsible for her success
What ADHD traits she feels are responsible for her success?
Gracie’s ADHD workarounds
Resources:
https://www.additudemag.com/success-story-finding-positives-in-adhd-symptoms/
https://graciedix.com/
https://www.shelton.org/
Episode 80: ADHD and Female Friendships with Janet Murray
In Episode #80 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy 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 is also the creator of the Social Media Diary & Planner - a content planning tool for coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs.
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In Episode #80 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy 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 is also the creator of the Social Media Diary & Planner - a content planning tool for coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs.
Over the past five years Janet has published over 400 podcast episodes, a book and thousands of words of email marketing copy - despite, in her words being one of the most disorganised people on the planet. How does she do it? She creates easy-to-follow systems and processes to help her stay productive (strategies that work for anyone who struggles to stay focused).
Discover:
- The circumstances surrounding Janet’s diagnosis
- What Janet’s ADHD symptoms were/are
- How drivenness relates to ADHD
- How her ADHD presented in grade school, high school and college
- What has changed for Janet since her diagnosis?
Janet and Tracy talk candidly about female friendships and ADHD.
- Not knowing the rules of female friendships
- Why entrepreneurs are such a good fit for ADHD brains
- How interpersonal intuition can get in the way of relationships
- How intensity plays a roll in choosing relationships
- When to just walk away
Janet shares:
- The ADHD traits that are responsible for her success
- The key to living successfully with ADHD
- Her number one and number two ADHD workarounds
Resources:
https://www.janetmurray.co.uk/
https://www.onepeloton.com/shop/bike
Episode 79: ADHD and Imposter Syndrome
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.
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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
Never Enough? Why ADHD Brains Crave Stimulation
https://www.verywellmind.com/adhd-and-imposter-syndrome-3888166
https://www.additudemag.com/adult-adhd-diagnosis-impostor-syndrome/
Episode 78: What Does ADHD Look Like in Women? The Update
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.
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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 she believes 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 sub-types of ADHD
- The 18 symptoms the DSM uses to diagnose ADHD
- What symptoms look like for hyperactive/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
Resources:
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
Episode 77: ADHD, Anxiety, Self-Care and Law School with Jaklin Levine Pritzker
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. She’s also 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.
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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. She’s also 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.
Jak shares information about:
- Receiving her own ADHD diagnosis at the end of law school
- Her own 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
- Her number one ADHD workaround
Resources:
Episode 76: Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! My 6-Step System
In Episode 76 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! It’s a 6-step system that she created for her ADHD brain, using her patented Coretography program to help her make better decisions around her career, relationships and interests.
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In Episode 76 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! It’s a 6-step system that she created for her ADHD brain, to help her 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% What 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
- Why we feel disconnected when who we are is not in alignment with what we do
- 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.
- 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 here. Here you will also find a behind the scenes video.
Episode 75: Why ADHD Coaching Works
In episode 75 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women Tracy talks about why she changed her introduction to her podcast. She shares her experience with coaching and why she didn’t believe that 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. MORE ---> SEE SHOW NOTES BELOW
In episode 75 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women Tracy talks about why she changed her introduction to her podcast. She shares her experience with coaching and why she didn’t believe that 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 this need of hers 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 Coretography 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 coaches who also have ADHD
- The steps of the ADHD coaching model and why they’re so successful with ADHD clients
Resources:
Episode 74: Overcoming Procrastination with Focusmate and Rachel Elliott
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. MORE ---> SEE SHOW NOTES BELOW
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 Focusmate for her morning routines and 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
- Her number one ADHD workaround
Resources:
Podcast Ep. 14: What's a Body Double and How Can it Help Me Get My Work Done
ADHD for Smart Ass Women Focusmate Group Link
Unlimited Focusmate sessions are free until July 28, 2020 using this link.
Rachel’s E-mail: [email protected]
Internet + App Blockers
- Freedom (Works across all browsers and devices) https://freedom.to/
- Stay Focused Chrome Extension: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stayfocused&hl=es
- StayFocused App: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji?hl=es
4-7-8 breathing
Rachel shared these additional Focusmate tips:
- Use two computers or a laptop + tablet or Chromebook ((Focusmate can take up a lot of CPU and drain your battery so many users have a main computer + a second device that runs Focusmate.)
- Use the recurring feature to set up Focusmate routines (Mouse over session on the FM calendar, then click on the pencil icon)
- Install an internet/app blocker.
- Turn off your phone or put it on airplane mode during the session. My phone has a “don’t interrupt feature” that automatically silences the phone for an hour.
- My friend Meg puts her phone in her desk drawer during sessions.
- Physically remove your phone from view- out of sight out of mind.
- Share your screen for added accountability if you are getting off-track.
- I actually learned about 4-7-8 breathing from a Foucsmate partner
- Be honest with your partner. Share what worked and what didn’t, your partner may have suggestions.
Episode 73: ADHD Hacks Recommended By Our Members
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. MORE ---> SEE SHOW NOTES BELOW
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
Resources:
ADHD for Smart Ass Women Podcast
ADHD for Smart Ass Women Facebook Group
https://www.think-board.com/collections/think-boards/products/small-dry-erase-sheets
Episode 72: What The Pandemic Taught Me About My ADHD Brain
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. MORE ---> SEE SHOW NOTES BELOW
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
- What you actually need to feel more connection to others
Resources:
ADHD for Smart Ass Women Podcast
