Episode 128: ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria with Keynote Speaker, Jessica Fern
Join Tracy as she welcomes Jessica Fern to Ep. 128 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Jessica is a Senior Director of Training & Development for the 4th largest multifamily management company in the US and doubles as a national speaker, coach, and strategist. Jessica is a keynote speaker, who was most recently featured on a national panel for Women in Leadership. She has a series on Multifamily Leadership Studio that includes Legendary Leadership which earned her the nickname The Wolf of Leadership. Jessica's newest project is her solutions-oriented coaching/consulting and podcast called "Living with Einstein."
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Jessica Fern to Ep. 128 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Jessica is a Senior Director of Training & Development for the 4th largest multifamily management company in the US and doubles as a national speaker, coach, and strategist. Jessica is a keynote speaker, who was most recently featured on a national panel for Women in Leadership. She has a series on Multifamily Leadership Studio that includes Legendary Leadership which earned her the nickname The Wolf of Leadership. Jessica's newest project is her solutions-oriented coaching/consulting and podcast called "Living with Einstein."
Jessica shares:
- The circumstances surrounding her two ADHD diagnoses
- What has changed since her recent diagnosis
- Her struggle with and triumph over Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- How hyperfocus almost wrecked her
- How she discovered her gift of speaking
- Her advice on creating a winning speech every time
- The key to living successfully with ADHD
- Her ADHD workaround
Resources:
Episode 127: How to Improve ADHD & RSD Symptoms with Yogi, Adell Bridges
Join Tracy as she welcomes Adell Bridges to Episode 127 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Adell is an international yoga teacher, health coach, and author who applies her degree in psychology with her training in the neurology of movement to her yoga and movement teachings. She now splits her time between London and Florida, and shares her love for the power of mindful movement to her online community on MoveWithAdell.com and her half a million Instagram followers. She is currently coauthoring a book on hyper-mobility.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Adell Bridges to Episode 127 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Adell is an international yoga teacher, health coach, and author who applies her degree in psychology with her training in the neurology of movement to her yoga and movement teachings. She now splits her time between London and Florida, and shares her love for the power of mindful movement to her online community on MoveWithAdell.com and her half a million Instagram followers. She is currently coauthoring a book on hyper-mobility.
Adell shares:
- The circumstances surrounding her recent ADHD diagnosis
- What has changed since she was diagnosed?
- Her advice around managing RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria)
- What made her fall in love with yoga
- Why yoga is perfect for the ADHD brain
- The link between hyper-mobility and ADHD
- How she uses her Instagram to inspire and generate positive emotion not only for herself but also her followers
- ADHD and vertical heterophoria
- ADHD and cerebellar stimulation
- The key to living successfully with ADHD
Resources:
https://www.instagram.com/adellbridges/
MoveWithAdell.com
Episode 126: From Homeless Shelter to Covid Infection Control Scientist with Tiffany Jackson
Today Tracy welcomes Tiffany Jackson to the podcast. Tiffany shares her indefatigable childhood story of being abandoned by her mother, bouncing from one relatives home to another, and spending one perfect year at an elite boarding high school only to end up at a homeless shelter as a minor. Throughout all of this, Tiffany had a dream to make something out of her life. Since then she’s graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication from the Dan Rather School of Communications at Sam Houston State University, attended a year of law school which is where she received her ADHD diagnosis and in 2018 she graduated from Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with a Master of Biomedical Science.
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Today Tracy welcomes Tiffany Jackson to the podcast. Tiffany shares her indefatigable childhood story of being abandoned by her mother, bouncing from one relatives home to another, and spending one perfect year at an elite boarding high school only to end up at a homeless shelter as a minor. Throughout all of this, Tiffany had a dream to make something out of her life. Since then she’s graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication from the Dan Rather School of Communications at Sam Houston State University, attended a year of law school which is where she received her ADHD diagnosis and in 2018 she graduated from Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with a Master of Biomedical Science.
Tiffany plans to attend medical school and work as a physician epidemiologist. She loves photography and car racing.
Tiffany shares:
- Her thoughts on how grit, drive and determination allowed her to keep going despite so many setbacks and challenges
- How she sees her drivenness as hyperactivity
- The circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis
- Her childhood symptoms of ADHD
- What happened once she was finally diagnosed
- What she’s learned she needs to be successful and happy
- What she thinks the key to living successfully with ADHD is
- Her workarounds
- How she discovered what she’s always meant to do with her life
Resources:
Email - [email protected]
Instagram - @Texas_Senator
Episode 125: ADHD and How to Respond to the Non-Believers
Tracy welcomes you to Episode #125 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she invites the ADHD non-believers to join her for a little education. She gets requests for this podcast every week so she decided to do something about it.
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Tracy welcomes you to Episode #125 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she invites the ADHD non-believers to join her for a little education. She gets requests for this podcast every week so she decided to do something about it.
Tracy shares:
- Why the authoritarian model of parenting doesn’t work with an ADHD child
- Nora Volkow’s research about ADHD and interest
- What the NIH, AMA, U.S. Surgeon’s General, American Association of Psychiatry and the U.S. Department of Education all say about ADHD
- Whether or not there’s ADHD in France
- If it’s true that ADHD is strictly an American phenomenon
- What it means that more kids are getting diagnosed with ADHD
- What happens when ADHD is not treated
- If it’s true that everyone has a little ADHD
- If ADHD is an invention of modern society
- If video games, social media, smart phones are making people more ADHD
- Whether or not medicating kids for ADHD turns them into addicts
- Why willpower, consequences, discipline and punishment is the wrong formula for the ADHD brain
- What happens to children when they’re told that they’re lazy, unmotivated and need to work harder
- What works to motivate ADHD children
- The one question you should ask yourself about your ADHD child
Resources:
Dr. Nora Volkow's regarding the Dopamine Reward Pathway in ADHD
Dr. Ross Greene: Kids Do Well If They Can
ADHD Child vs. Non-ADHD Child Interview
Father to Father: Robert Dendy
https://psychcentral.com/blog/do-french-kids-get-adhd-yes/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5510191/
https://adhdrollercoaster.org/adhd-news-and-research/do-french-kids-have-adhd-surement/
https://www.alcohol.org/guides/global-drinking-demographics/
https://ourworldindata.org/smoking
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/health/07essa.html
Sir Ken Robinson’s Ted Talk on Gillian Lynne who had to move to think. Here’s the excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dewkj80G4as Here’s the full TedTalk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity#t-77984
Erin Ez shared this link that gives you a real world snapshot of how your child feels struggling with attention and learning challenges: https://www.understood.org/en/tools/through-your-childs-eyes/player?simq=66dc223a-29e3-4956-ae1e-e7b1beff3584&gradeId=f774ec64-d556-4a06-abae-035bc8683bb6&personalized=true
Episode 124: ADHD, Art, and the Music Industry with Rebecca Brianceau
Join Tracy as she welcomes Rebecca Brianceau to Episode 124 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Rebecca is an autodidact artist and an international mindfulness art teacher who hails from Toronto, Canada. Rebecca has lived in Dubai, the UAE, London, England, Zurich, Switzerland and São Paulo, Brazil. She spent 15+ years in the music industry where she worked with multi-platinum selling and indie recording artists in hiphop, soul and RnB, as well as with producers, video directors, DJs, and fashion designers.
In 2011 she left a successful career in the music world to launch her art career. Her Ocean Soul Series of stunning ocean paintings has been exhibited in galleries and art shows throughout Canada and Mexico. She now lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Rebecca Brianceau to Episode 124 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Rebecca is an autodidact artist and an international mindfulness art teacher who hails from Toronto, Canada. Rebecca has lived in Dubai, the UAE, London, England, Zurich, Switzerland and São Paulo, Brazil. She spent 15+ years in the music industry where she worked with multi-platinum selling and indie recording artists in hiphop, soul and RnB, as well as with producers, video directors, DJs, and fashion designers.
In 2011 she left a successful career in the music world to launch her art career. Her Ocean Soul Series of stunning ocean paintings has been exhibited in galleries and art shows throughout Canada and Mexico. She now lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Rebecca shares:
- The story of what inspired her to create her beautiful resin ocean paintings
- Her ADHD diagnosis
- Her ADHD symptoms
- What changed once she was diagnosed
- How she fell into the music industry and traveled all over the world as a band manager
- The ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success
- The key to living well with ADHD
- Her number one workaround
- Information about her Ocean Soul Series, Riviera Maya art exhibit in Playa Del Carmen
Resources:
Rebecca's Ocean Soul Series Riviera Maya art exhibit in Playa Del Carmen
Music:
Kamal Musallam, creator of Arabic/Jazz Fusion
Kamal's created a new guitar "the glissentar" that allowed him to play oud guitar sounds on a more comfortable guitar face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbTqZp4KFDE
Episode 123: ADHD and Tapping for Procrastination
This week Tracy welcomes you to episode #123 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she is going to talk about ADHD, procrastination and tapping. Tapping combines Ancient Chinese accupressure and modern psychology. You tap specific meridian points on your body while focusing on negative emotions and/or physical sensations. Tapping can resolve stress, anxiety, phobias, emotional disorders, chronic pain and limiting beliefs and there’s science behind why it works.
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This week Tracy welcomes you to episode #123 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she is going to talk about ADHD, procrastination and tapping. Tapping combines Ancient Chinese accupressure and modern psychology. You tap specific meridian points on your body while focusing on negative emotions and/or physical sensations. Tapping can resolve stress, anxiety, phobias, emotional disorders, chronic pain and limiting beliefs and there’s science behind why it works.
Tracy shares:
- The science behind tapping
- How the VA uses tapping for veterans with PTSD
- Why body-based somatic therapies work better for trauma
- What tapping can do for gene expression
- How tapping can help reduce anxiety for ADHD women
- How trauma encodes itself in the body
- What EFT/tapping can do to the brain’s learning
- How tapping calms the nervous system
- The difference between tapping out and tapping in
- How she uses tapping to start work that she doesn’t want to do
- The tapping process and how to do it
Resources:
Tracy's Diagram of the EFT Tapping Points
Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22986277/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23364126/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27543343/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23452711/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26894319/
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Ftra0000563
https://www.energiepsy.com/uploads/3/1/7/7/3177769/andrade_feinstein_paper-1.pdf
Episode 122: Women and ADHD Medication with Dr. Carolyn Lentzsch-Parcells
Join Tracy as she welcomes Dr. Carolyn Lentzsch-Parcells to Episode #122 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where the conversation will be all about ADHD and medication.
Dr. Lentzsch-Parcells is a board-certified pediatrician and the owner and President of Girls to Women/Young Men’s Health and Wellness Fort Worth, a multi-faceted clinic providing integrated medical care dedicated to meeting the physical and emotional needs of young women and men from 10-25 years old.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Dr. Carolyn Lentzsch-Parcells to Episode #122 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where the conversation will be all about ADHD and medication.
Dr. Lentzsch-Parcells is a board-certified pediatrician and the owner and President of Girls to Women/Young Men’s Health and Wellness Fort Worth, a multi-faceted clinic providing integrated medical care dedicated to meeting the physical and emotional needs of young women and men from 10-25 years old.
As a physician with ADHD herself, Dr. Carolyn Lentzsch-Parcells has a special interest in caring for patients with ADHD and learning issues. She regularly speaks to parent, student, and professional audiences on subjects such as parenting, ADHD, depression, anxiety and stress, adolescent development, sexuality, preparing for college and medication.
Carolyn shares:
- The circumstances surrounding her own ADHD diagnosis
- What changed once she was diagnosed?
- What it means to be a slow metabolizer
- The importance of setting expectations around medication
- Her opinion around women, anxiety and ADHD medication
- The various types of medication used for ADHD
- Medications used for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- The medication that reduces the chance of misuse
- Her thoughts on genetic testing
- The medication that most 40+ women are usually prescribed
- What she believes the key to living successfully with ADHD is?
Resources:
Episode 121: ADHD and Hypersensitivities in Women with Terry Matlen, LMSW, ACSW
Join Tracy as she welcomes Terry Matlen to episode 121 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Terry Matlen, LMSW, ACSW, is an internationally recognized expert on ADHD in women. She is a psychotherapist, author, consultant, and coach.
She is also the author of the award-winning book, The Queen of Distraction and Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD. "The Queen of Distraction” and "Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD”.
With over 25 years of experience helping women with ADHD, Terry is a sought-after presenter at conferences, webinars, and interviews. She has written hundreds of articles for various publications, including ADDitude Magazine, Attention Magazine, Healthline.com, and more.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Terry Matlen to episode 121 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Terry Matlen, LMSW, ACSW, is an internationally recognized expert on ADHD in women. She is a psychotherapist, author, consultant, and coach.
She is also the author of the award-winning book, The Queen of Distraction and Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD. "The Queen of Distraction” and "Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD”.
With over 25 years of experience helping women with ADHD, Terry is a sought-after presenter at conferences, webinars, and interviews. She has written hundreds of articles for various publications, including ADDitude Magazine, Attention Magazine, Healthline.com, and more.
She served for many years on the board of directors of ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Assoc.) and is an immediate past coordinator of the E. Oakland County CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD) Chapter in Michigan.
Terry has been interviewed by NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Glamour Magazine, and now ADHD for Smart Ass Women.
Terry shares:
- The circumstances surrounding her own ADHD diagnosis
- What hypersensitivities are
- Whether or not ADHD women have more hypersensitivities than neurotypical women
- If hypersensitivities are more prevalent in one type of ADHD over another
- Whether or not women with hypersensitivities tend to have more comorbidities.
- Her own experiences with hypersensitivities
- How hypersensitivities make parenting with ADHD even more difficult
- Ways to work with hypersensitivities
Resources:
Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/ADDconsults/, https://twitter.com/addconsults, https://www.instagram.com/terrymatlen_adhd/
Terry can be reached at [email protected].
The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done
Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD: Beyond Piles, Palms & Stickers
ADDITUDEMag: “I’m a Sensitive Woman:” ADHD Sensory Overload in Adults
Episode 120: ADHD, Medical School and Receiving Accommodations for the USMLE Board Exams with Dr. Elizabeth Sanchez
Today on Episode 120 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy invites Dr. Elizabeth Sanchez to her podcast. Dr. Sanchez earned her medical degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago and will join Adventist Health White Memorial (Los Angeles, CA) as a Family Medicine resident. While working with many underserved communities in Chicago and Los Angeles, Elizabeth found her niche in primary care where she integrates her passions of caring for underserved communities, public health advocacy, research and mentorship for the next generation of doctors.
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Today on Episode 120 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy invites Dr. Elizabeth Sanchez to her podcast. Dr. Sanchez earned her medical degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago and will join Adventist Health White Memorial (Los Angeles, CA) as a Family Medicine resident. While working with many underserved communities in Chicago and Los Angeles, Elizabeth found her niche in primary care where she integrates her passions of caring for underserved communities, public health advocacy, research and mentorship for the next generation of doctors.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Sanchez spent over 5 years working in translational and clinical research at the UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, and later at UC Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia. Most recently, Dr. Sanchez worked as medical data manager for COVID-19 testing at a San Jose medical start up called Work Health Solutions. She also is dedicated to mentoring medical students with adult ADHD and eliminating the stigma within the medical community.
Dr. Elizabeth Sanchez shares:
- Her ADHD story and the circumstances surrounding her diagnosis?
- Her experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- How her ADHD challenged her in medical school
- Her struggle with the NBME board and being denied additional time for the USMLE exams
- How socioeconomic status can affect a person’s ability to succeed with ADHD in medical school
- The importance of mentoring underrepresented minority medical students
- The key to living successfully with ADHD
- Her number one ADHD workaround?
Resources:
Anki : https://apps.ankiweb.net/
How to use anki in medical school: https://www.yousmle.com/5-keys-rock-usmle-step-1-anki-spaced-repetition/
Peloton Desk Accessory: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088D88FP8/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_A5FT6FQDMTHXNSSQEDSE?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
My email: [email protected]
Episode 119: ADHD, Entrepreneurship and Workarounds with Dr. Lola Day
Join Tracy as she welcomes her delightful guest Dr. Lola Day to Episode 119 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Dr. Lola Day is the mom of 3 amazing children. She also is a double-boarded physician (pediatric and fetal cardiologist) who has ADHD herself. Dr. Day is the CEO and Founder of Lollie Tasking where she specializes in work-life balance for easily distracted women (ADHD) and high achieving moms who have the will to accomplish their goals, but their brain keeps sabotaging them.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes her delightful guest Dr. Lola Day to Episode 119 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Dr. Lola Day is the mom of 3 amazing children. She also is a double-boarded physician (pediatric and fetal cardiologist) who has ADHD herself. Dr. Day is the CEO and Founder of Lollie Tasking where she specializes in work-life balance for easily distracted women (ADHD) and high achieving moms who have the will to accomplish their goals, but their brain keeps sabotaging them.
Lola coaches women on productivity strategies that help them harness their superpowers and put blocks on their kryptonite so they can thrive in their zone of genius without sacrificing time away from family or being overwhelmed.
Dr. Lola Day shares:
- The circumstances around her ADHD diagnosis in medical school
- The surprising statistic her mentor shared with her about doctors and ADHD
- The two things that drove her hyperfocus in school
- Why getting diagnosed actually helps us to come to terms with just how smart our brains are
- How structure and organization help her to be happier and less anxious
- How she manages to not only work as a busy physician but also to carve out time in her day to work as a productivity and work-life strategist for struggling women
- Her five keys to entrepreneurial success
- How we can combat overlearning
- Why we should buy for just in time learning rather than just in case learning
- The ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success?
- The key to living successfully with ADHD is?
- Her number one ADHD workaround?
- Information about the programs that she offers
Resources:
- https://www.subscribepage.com/2xproductivityatwork
- Instagram: @lollietasker
- Lollietasking.com
- [email protected]
Episode 118: Sizing Down and Creating An Organized Home for ADHD Living with Francesca Rizzo
Join Tracy as she welcomes Francesca Rizzo to Episode 118 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women to share her tips on downsizing and setting up an organized home for ADHD living. Francesca Rizzo is a multi-media artist expressing powerful, provocative ideas in funny, human ways. Her work is prolific. The multiple medias she has distinguished herself in range from the fine arts and interior design to her work as an award-winning actor, writer, producer and director in theater, film, television and digital media.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Francesca Rizzo to Episode 118 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women to share her tips on downsizing and setting up an organized home for ADHD living. Francesca Rizzo is a multi-media artist expressing powerful, provocative ideas in funny, human ways. Her work is prolific. The multiple medias she has distinguished herself in range from the fine arts and interior design to her work as an award-winning actor, writer, producer and director in theater, film, television and digital media.
As a college dropout, Francesca left NJ and struck out on her own at 19, mining her creative talents for skills she could use to pay the rent in New York City. Along the way she carved out a career as a children’s book illustrator, professional actor, co-founder of a downtown theater company and eventually, as a filmmaker and CEO of MovieBaby Productions, a Tribeca-based media company creating innovative videos, independent films and tv promotional campaigns. Does that sound ADHD or what?
When she lost Moviebaby and her Manhattan apartment after 9/11, she landed back in Jersey and went back to the basics, earning her degree in Media Arts as well as the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. While making her mark in the fine arts and interior design, she penned and performed three theatrical productions, curated The Cinema-Femina film series and, created Believe Women, a rape activist initiative that championed the Cosby survivors along their journey to justice.
Francesca shares:
- What made her downsize from a 3,000 square foot, 3-story home in New Jersey to a 600 square foot apartment in New York City
- The 3 requirements every item must meet to end up in Fran’s world
- How to let go of things and make room for those things that you really want in your life
- Her decision making tier of
- I love it
- I like it
- It does its job
- It annoys me
- I hate it
- When you need to just “pick the best”
- How she feels after getting rid of 98% of her possessions
- What she would do differently if she had to do it again
- How you can use Fran’s downsizing mindset to move through anything that causes you fear and overwhelm
- What the key to living successfully with ADHD is
Resources:
Episode 117: ADHD and How to Control Rumination, RSD and Depressive Thoughts
Join Tracy in episode #17 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she shares the #1 most impactful concept that she has learned this year. She talks about this concept every day with students and those who contact her because they’re struggling with rumination, RSD, and just plain not feeling good.
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Join Tracy in episode #17 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she shares the #1 most impactful concept that she has learned this year. She talks about this concept every day with students and those who contact her because they’re struggling with rumination, RSD, and just plain not feeling good.
Tracy shares:
- Who she learned this concept from
- Why our ADHD brains can get stuck in a loop of negative thoughts which leads to rumination, RSD and general brooding
- The role environment plays in all of this
- What epigenetics and neuroplasticity can teach us
- How you can change your brain at any age and be happier
- The network in our brain that lights up when we’re in action
- The network in our brain that is responsible for our creativity
- The network in our brain that is responsible for many of our negative, depressive thoughts
- The reason why so many people are starting to look so distracted whether or not they have or don’t have ADHD
- The part of our brain that is responsible for addiction and what we can do about it
- What 6-3-8-3 breathing is and why it works
- When our ADHD brains are happiest
Resources:
https://drhallowell.com/read/books-by-ned/
https://www.theactivetimes.com/travel/how-to-be-a-better-lgbtq-ally-pride-month
5 Days to Fall in Love With Your ADHD Brain
Episode 116: ADHD and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about ADHD and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and why she took such an interest in this episode. Tracy starts by mentioning the connection between OCD and repetitive body focused behaviors (RBFBs) and then discusses what they are.
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In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about ADHD and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and why she took such an interest in this episode. Tracy starts by mentioning the connection between OCD and repetitive body focused behaviors (RBFBs) and then discusses what they are. She then goes on to share:
- What OCD is
- What obsessions are
- What compulsions are
- The conditions that make up the OCD Spectrum
- What OCD is not
- What Pure Obsession is
- At what age does OCD typically show up
- Where ADHD and OCD look very different
- Where ADHD and OCD look similar
- What those with OCD are most concerned about
- The role that executive functions play in both ADHD and OCD
- How hoarding plays into ADHD and OCD
- How OCD is best treated
- What Exposure Response Prevention is
- The reasons why ADHD with OCD is often misdiagnosed
- A Do I Have OCD? Survey
Resources:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12402-014-0146-x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006322306005877
https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/symptoms-of-ocd/
Episode 115: The Pandemic Job Market and Re-Entering the Workforce wih Lynn Miner-Rosen
Join Tracy as she welcomes Lynn Miner-Rosen to Episode 115 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Lynn Miner-Rosen, M.Ed., ACC, CDCS is the founder of LMR Coaching and the creator of the ADHD JOB SQUAD™ where she provides coaching, instruction, and support to college students and adults with (and without) ADD, ADHD, Executive Functioning Deficits and Learning Differences worldwide.
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Join Tracy as she welcomes Lynn Miner-Rosen to Episode 115 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Lynn Miner-Rosen, M.Ed., ACC, CDCS is the founder of LMR Coaching and the creator of the ADHD JOB SQUAD™ where she provides coaching, instruction, and support to college students and adults with (and without) ADD, ADHD, Executive Functioning Deficits and Learning Differences worldwide. Lynn is a leading expert on ADHD career coaching and is an ICF Credentialed and Board Certified Career Development Coach, and an ADHD, Executive Function and Life Coach. She’s been a Special Education Teacher and an IEP coordinator and has a BS in business administration and two Masters Degrees in education and Special Education
Like you she’s also learned how to manage the demands of her life and career whil navigating symptoms of ADHD.
Lynn shares:
- Her ADHD diagnosis story
- The truth about our current pandemic job market
- Why women are struggling the most
- What we need to consider when trying to decide if we should make a career change
- Advice for those of us who are reentering the workforce decades after we left
- Why she decide to start the ADHD Job Squad
- A special deal just for ADHD for Smart Ass Women listener
Resources:
learn.adhdjobsquad.com/smartasswomen
Instagram: @adhdcoachlynn
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnminerrosen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/adhdjobsquadcommunity
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