ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Anita Robertson is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, author, and ADHD specialist. She explores how pregnancy, hormones, sensory needs, birth trauma, and sleep challenges reshape motherhood. They unpack postpartum mental health, mom guilt, rage, boundaries, outsourcing, and why redesigning your environment may work better than chasing consistency. A candid conversation about self-acceptance and parenting with confidence.

Rosemary Hollinger is a certified ADHD coach for female lawyers and analytical professionals, after 32 years in federal legal leadership. She explores why billable hours, interruptions, procrastination, and workplace changes can derail even brilliant attorneys. They discuss supportive teams, delegation, perfectionism, rediscovering fun, AI as a thinking partner, and redesigning law firms around how ADHD brains actually work.

Why can an ADHD brain struggle at home yet thrive in a bustling coffee shop? Explore the power of ambient noise, movement, structure, deadlines, and body doubling. Discover how social facilitation, environmental cues, and the right amount of stimulation can transform getting started, plus how to identify the conditions that help your own brain work best.

Jenny Dietsch, a certified professional organizer and founder of a seven-figure Dallas company, discovered her ADHD in her forties after her children’s diagnoses. She shares her journey from childhood disorganization to entrepreneurship. They explore parenting neurodivergent children, medication, hyperfocus, and the systems, workflows, and routines that helped her scale without losing herself in the chaos.

Dr. Ann Bennett, an AuDHD researcher leading Applied Research and Evaluation at Understood.org, explores how ADHD podcasts are reshaping women’s self-perception. They discuss late diagnosis, masking, overlapping autism and ADHD traits, invisible disability, and the power of lived experience. Ann also shares research on podcasts, trust, validation, relationships, autonomy, and hope.

Holly Fowler, an Australian entrepreneur, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and founder of Wable, shares how her ADHD-fueled intensity helped build a global neurodivergent social network. She discusses late diagnosis, childhood labels, entrepreneurship, rejection sensitivity, overthinking, fundraising, and creating safer spaces for friendship, dating, work, and support.

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start with my this training: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up_____Tessa MacKay can spend hundreds of hours on a single painting. Her photorealistic work can look almost indistinguishable from a photograph, but for Tessa, that precision became more than technique. It became a way to work with her ADHD, dyslexia, and the way her brain processes the world.An Australian oil painter diagnosed with inattentive ADHD at 18, Tessa built a career around the kind of detail and focus that once helped her make sense of the world. But success also brought her face-to-face with the art world's complicated relationship with photorealism, forcing her to question how she thought, learned, and defended her own work.In this episode, Tracy and Tessa talk about what happened when she decided to retrain her brain, why painting could feel easier than everyday life, and how her latest project, Social Realism, turns forgotten Facebook photos into art.If you have ever wondered how someone can do something extraordinarily difficult while struggling with things that seem simple, this conversation goes there.Resources: Website: https://www.tessamackay.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamackayart LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-mackay-8a7121289 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tessamackayart Arrowsmith Program: https://arrowsmith.ca https://thetrailblazersbook.com Trailblazers by Howard Eaton - https://www.amazon.com/Trailblazers-Spearheading-Educational-Australian-Difficulties/dp/1779414250  The Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young - https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Who-Changed-Brain-Transformation/dp/1451607946  Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me:🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive  🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-upConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsukaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsukaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-bookVisit our w...

Jackie Kelley, neurodivergent illustrator and author behind viral ‘marriage rules,’ shares how ADHD shaped her marriage and family life. She talks about sensory overload, defensiveness, laughter as glue, and creating rules like Voted Off the Island, No Wrong Answer, Do It Yourself, and Love This Idea for Five Minutes. Practical visual tools like whiteboards and timers also come up.

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start with my this training: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up_____“Why can’t I just?” was the question Clare Edwin kept coming back to.Why can’t I just answer that email? Why can’t I just leave the house on time? Why can’t I just do the ordinary things everyone else seems to manage?Clare grew up in Nigeria, studied aeronautical engineering, earned a master’s in mathematical modelling, worked as a quality engineer, and became a secondary school maths teacher. She was rated a good teacher, but behind the scenes, she was struggling. The same pile of books came home to be marked night after night and went back untouched. Eventually, the demands of teaching contributed to repeated episodes of depression, and she left the profession.While off work, Clare started making beaded bracelets on her coffee table, mostly to get herself off the sofa. That small beginning became Lollamac, the jewellery business she still runs fifteen years later.Her ADHD diagnosis did not come until 2021, after a woman in her business group described her own experience and Clare found herself mentally ticking off the same traits.If you have ever worked hard, looked capable from the outside, and still felt like you were falling short, you will recognise yourself in this one.ResourcesWebsite: https://www.lollamac.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lollamac_Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lollamacSend a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me:🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive  🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-upConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsukaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsukaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-bookVisit our w...

Kalin Johnson, a licensed clinical pharmacist and functional medicine coach who cares for neurodivergent adults, joins to unpack GLP-1 medications. She explains gut‑brain signaling, why brain fog and food noise can improve, and how metabolic changes affect attention and emotion. They cover dosing strategies, inflammation and pain shifts, access hurdles, and what the research still cannot confirm.