Translating ADHD

This podcast discusses Cam's productivity tool REBEL and focuses on the concept of Limit Scope. They delve into the challenges of overcommitting and overextending, emphasizing the importance of knowing your limits and effectively completing tasks. The episode uses metaphors of melon patches, half baked cakes, and missing elements in stairwells to highlight key points. The REBEL model is introduced, consisting of reminding the brain, expanding the mind, balancing the attack, exposure to time and new experiences, and starting with what you know. The podcast also explores how ADHD impacts career transitions and provides practical tips for implementing limit scope in daily tasks to enhance productivity.

As ADHD adults we often undermine ourselves in the areas of building confidence and competence. We find ourselves overwhelmed with choices in these areas, not knowing where to start or which actions will serve us best. This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how ADHD adults can help us develop confidence and competence and introduce a model for this practice that we will break down in detail over the next several episodes. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balance the attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly For more Translating ADHD: Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD

This week, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on ADHD and Imposter Syndrome by examining how listeners can begin to move beyond Imposter Syndrome. In addition to naming and distinguishing Imposter Syndrome when it is happening, there are ways that we can develop supports for ourselves as ADHD adults to be able to more readily step out of Imposter Syndrome. Today, we look at the concept of a skill development practice to develop confidence and competence as one critical support here.   Episode links + resources:   Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly   For more Translating ADHD:   Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD  

This week, Cam and Shelly dive into the topic of Imposter Syndrome. This topic comes up frequently both in our client work and in our Discord community. Imposter Syndrome tends to show up despite evidence to the contrary. Using examples from our own experiences and our client work, we discuss why this happens for those of us with ADHD brains and how listeners can recognize and create change around Imposter Syndrome for themselves.   Episode links + resources:   Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly   For more Translating ADHD:   Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD  

This week, Cam and Shelly dive into the topic of grieving our past selves. As coaches, we often work with people who come to us with a new ADHD diagnosis, and with that diagnosis comes new context. With that context comes both the awareness that there are real reasons that we struggle, and the grief for our past selves as we wonder what might have been different had we known sooner that we have ADHD brains. We then discuss how grieving our past selves as ADHD adults isn't a process we go through once, but rather a process that will happen many times as we do our own understand, own, and translate work. We bring in client examples and metaphors to illustrate how and when this type of grief shows up and how listeners can recognize this grief for what it is and begin to work through it. Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly For more Translating ADHD: Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD

This week, Cam and Shelly finish a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode, we bring the component parts of the metaphor we've discussed in the last few weeks together to show the whole picture. In addition to discussing how the metaphor comes together, we discuss the bigger purpose the Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect metaphor. This metaphor is a more detailed version of our Understand, Own, Translate process. The goal of both frameworks is to discuss how ADHD people can most effectively create long lasting change. Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration: Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor. Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly For more Translating ADHD: Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD

This week, Cam and Shelly continue a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode, we continue to break down this metaphor to help listeners better understand language we use regularly in the show. In this episode, we continue to look at Cam's own ADHD journey in the context of our metaphor. We start by looking at the point that Cam first found himself up above the metaphorical Lunch Counter, the place where he came to ownership of his own ADHD experience. We then discuss the work that Cam did above the Lunch Counter in examining combinations of symptoms and learning about his individual ADHD manifestation and what was at causation for him. Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration: Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor. Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly For more Translating ADHD: Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD

The podcast revisits the Cause and Effect metaphor to better understand ADHD. They discuss the Lunch Counter as the starting point for ADHD awareness in adults. The hosts emphasize the importance of examining individual ADHD manifestation beyond level-1 symptoms. The Mt. Rainier metaphor is explained. The podcast explores barriers, procrastination, and the power of curiosity. They encourage listeners to embrace their lived experiences and seek resources and support for ADHD.

This week, Cam and Shelly begin a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode and in the coming weeks, we will break down this metaphor to help listeners better understand language we use regularly in the show. This week, we start by reminding listeners why we chose Mt. Rainier as the center of our metaphor. We then discuss the area of the metaphor that most of our ADHD adult clients find themselves in when they come to coaching: The Valleys below Mt. Rainier. We then use Cam's experience to examine how we see The Valleys as the area of being in the effect of our ADHD behaviors, and how listeners can apply this model to begin to examine their own lived experience and start to move toward the next portion of the model, which we will discuss next week: The Lunch Counter. Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration: Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor. Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly For more Translating ADHD: Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD

One of the best things about doing this show is that, as your hosts, we are also learning. We are constantly examining our models, concepts, and language as we deliver episodes to you.  This week, we examine the language we've been using for modes of operation as ADHD people. Taking our previous "Planner and/or Doer" language, we introduce and discuss a new model that we feel better describes a range of ADHD experiences: "Big Brain and/or Fast Brain" Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly For more Translating ADHD: Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD