Translating ADHD

This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how ADHD adults often view accountability as a negative value judgment that requires us to always use our time productively. We then discuss how ADHD can reimagine accountability to create positive support and mutual accountability with our collaborators. We also share our accountability practices in producing this podcast together, and some lessons learned from other accountability relationships. Use code cam for a $5 discount on Cam's book: Curious Accountability: Three Coaching Conversations for Better Client Results Episode links + resources: Cam's Blog: The Six Cs of Completion 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 the conversation on how ADHD adults can reframe what it means to have a meaningful work day. We discuss how ADHD brains often determine what we will or will not do based on what we "feel like" doing, and present alternatives to emotional organizing to prioritize and plan your work day as an ADHD person. 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 discuss how ADHD adults can reframe what it means to have a meaningful work day. We examine the limited usefulness of workplace motivational statements for ADHD adults, many of which place importance on being accountable for our time, and discuss other ways in which we can measure a meaningful work day. Use code cam for a $5 discount on Cam's book: Curious Accountability: Three Coaching Conversations for Better Client Results Episode links + resources: Join the Community | Become a Patron Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate. About Cam and Shelly

This week, Cam and Shelly continue our discussing on ADHD and sleep by exploring how Shelly worked over time to change her relationships with sleep from chronically under slept to well rested. 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

Adults with ADHD are significantly more likely to have problems with sleep than the general population, and to make matters worse our ADHD gets in the way of being able to create change around sleep. This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how listeners can start to create change around sleep using our understand, own, and translate model. 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

As ADHD adults, our own ADHD can often get in the way of good self advocacy. As coaches, Cam and Shelly often see this in clients who seek out coaching when relationships at work or at home have deteriorated to a point where recovery may not be possible. In this episode we discuss how listeners can have a different experience with self advocacy using the understand, own, and translate model. 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 discuss how our relationship with our ADHD changes and evolves over time as we learn more about ourselves and our neurodiverse brains. We also discuss how this relates to ownership, and how owning our ADHD looks different for each individual. 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 zoom back out to look at ADHD brains at a more global level. We revisit the topic of individual manifestation and our belief that understanding ones own unique brain wiring is the best way for an ADHD person to create change. 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 revisit the major shifts that Shelly discussed in the "Stepping Into Who You Are" episode to discuss what happened next. With the powerful shifts that Shelly experienced, she realized that a major piece of her life wasn't allowing her to live authentically which led her to make a difficult and life-altering decision.   Episode links + resources: How To Maintain Connection In Relationships with ADHD - René Brooks ADHDyou.com Couples Connect & Reset - Kate Barrett ADHD & Marriage - Melissa Orlov 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 revisit the topic of "Big C" Coaching. We discuss what defines a "Big C" coach and why this style of coach approach is such a powerful tool for our ADHD brains. Episode links + resources: What is Executive Function? Russell Barkley, PH.D. 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