ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___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 Master's Degrees in education and Special Education.Like you, she's also learned how to manage the demands of her life and career while 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 decided to start the ADHD Job Squad, and a special deal just for ADHD for Smart Ass Women listeners.______________Resources:www.adhdjobsquad.comInstagram: @lynn_miner_rosenLinkedIn: Lynn Miner-RosenFacebook Group: ADHD JOB SQUAD Hosted By LMR Coachingadhdpalooza.com/women/Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Experts Dr. Kathleen Nadeau, Dr. Ellen Littman, Dr. Patricia Quinn, Dr. Sari Solden, Dr. Sandra Kooj discuss ADHD, women, and hormones. They delve into topics like ADHD misdiagnosis in women, societal pressures, hormone impacts, and the connection between dementia and ADHD symptoms.

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___Join Tracy on Episode 113 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she talks about how to live a life of meaning and to your potential with an ADHD brain.Tracy shares: How to know that the decisions you're making in your life are the right decisions for you, What are the questions that you need to ask regarding if you're in the right career, relationship, friendships, etc. Her 6-step Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! system, How to answer the What Should I Do With My Life question, Whether or not ADHD women care more than neurotypical women of living a life of meaning and to their potential, Her favorite ADHD strength-focused resource, What ADHD women need to be doing in order to be happy, Her 25%/75% theory, The sweet spot that plays right into our ADHD brilliance, Why environment is so important to our ADHD brains.Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Raven Baxter. Raven is also known as, she is an award-winning science communicator, educator, and molecular biologist who is working to share science and champion for inclusivity and diversity in STEM. Raven is also the founder of Science Haven, a non-profit organization that operates at the intersections of science, education, and the public. Science Haven houses a live web series that connects the public with science and technology professionals, and a group that works to build relationships in the science community, equipping others with the knowledge and resources necessary to share science with the world in their own flavor.Raven is an entertainer and content creator known for her unique style of combining science and hip-hop music that teaches and empowers those in STEM and beyond. She has recently been featured in Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 List of the most influential young leaders for the year, BuzzFeed News, and Mother Jones Magazine, on the mayor of Buffalo's social media accounts trying to convince teenagers to stay home in the age of Covid; and of course, she has her own TedX Talk.Raven shares: The circumstances surrounding both her ADHD diagnoses, The tweet that she shared regarding her struggle to memorize even small snippets of text, What has changed since her last diagnosis, Why she started her science rap music videos, What she thinks the key to living successfully with ADHD is. ADHD brains work so that they too may discover their amazing strengths. And your reviews really help in that regard.______________Resources:Instagram: @raventhesciencemavenTwitter: @ravenscimavenFacebook: raventhesciencemavenWebsite: scimaven.comSend a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___Join Tracy as she welcomes Dr. Diana Mercado to Episode 111 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Dr. Mercado is the daughter of Mexican immigrant workers. She graduated from St. Mary's University in San Antonio with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry, earned her medical degree from the University of Texas, and did her residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Diana became a family medicine physician so that minority patients would have a physician who "looks like them." Today Dr. Diana Mercado is a Nurse Practitioner mentor and clinic Medical Director and was just elected Chief Medical Officer for Jackson County Hospital in Texas.Diana shares with us:Her struggles in medical schoolThe circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosisHer symptoms in childhoodWhat changed once she was diagnosedHer struggle with imposter syndromeThe medication that works best for herThe ADHD traits that make her a better doctorWhat she believes to be the key to living successfully with ADHDHer interest in coaching______________Resources:The Life Coach SchoolMydayis_USA_ENG.pdfEmail: overachievewithadhd@gmail.comSend a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Dr. Amy Cain. Dr. Cain is a Molecular Biologist who uses genomics to study deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria. She completed both her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (graduating with first-class honors) and then her PhD in Microbiology at the University of Sydney, Australia. After PhD submission, she moved to Cambridge, UK, for a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (where they first sequenced the human genome!) and was awarded a prestigious fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Cain then moved to Malawi in sub-Saharan Africa to track outbreaks in hospitals, employed by the Wellcome Trust charity. Since 2018, Dr. Cain has been a Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, having received a number of grants to develop new antibiotics and study antibiotic resistance; setting up her research group across 3 different labs. Dr. Amy Cain is also Deputy Director of the JAMS organization, a microbiology society that runs over 5 countries and she has just started a podcast called JAMSpod to spread microbiology knowledge far and wide. She loves traveling (having visited 70-odd countries so far), scuba diving, live music, and cooking.Amy shares: The circumstances surrounding her diagnosisThe ADHD symptoms that she always wondered about but now recognizes as clearly ADHD.Why she became an infectious disease and genetics expert?What has changed since her diagnosis, Why she loves science so much?Why she started a podcast interviewing microbiologists?Her advice to young women with ADHD.Her ADHD workarounds.What she believes the key is to living successfully with ADHD?______________Resources:Facebook: Amy CainTwitter: @flamycainThe waking up appSend a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Sarah Gise. Sarah is an award-nominated Chicago actor who got her BFA degree for Acting at the University of Southern California (USC). She's worked a thousand different jobs and gigs because she experiences intense FOMO (fear of missing out), so in addition to acting, she's dipped her toes into teaching, writing, directing, podcasting, bartending, and coaching. She is currently an ensemble member with the Interrobang Theatre Project and has performed in numerous shows with different companies around Chicago. Her performance in the Interrobang Theatre Project's production of the one-woman show THE AMISH PROJECT (2016) was nominated for Best Solo Performance at the 2017 Joseph Jefferson Awards.In addition to theatre, she has appeared in several web series, films, commercials, and audiobooks. Sarah currently works as an Executive Functioning Coach for Effective Artistry and is the Host/Producer of The ADHD Artist Podcast, which explores and celebrates the lives of artists with ADHD.______________Resources:Website: sarahgise05.wixsite.com@TheadhdartistpodEffectiveArtistry.comUCLA Mindfulness (the one Sarah uses every day is the first one, "Breathing Meditation" 5 min)The Headspace AppInterrobang Theatre ProjectSend a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___Join Tracy in episode 108 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she introduces you to Judith Houlding. Judith has been a professional organizer for 11 years. She is also an ADHD coach who has trained in "brain-based differences" and has received certification from the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, Coach Approach for Organizers, and the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals. Judith is the mother of three adult children, two of which were diagnosed as having ADHD. She describes herself as being on the ADHD spectrum … but not quite at the tipping point. Judith understands the frustrations and struggles that the ADHD brain deals with when it comes to organization. She believes that perfection is an illusion that no organizer will ever promise you. Judith believes that, good enough is truly Good Enough!Judith shares: Her own personal story with ADHD, Why she decided to become a professional organizer, What the Institute for Challenging Disorganization does Concepts that she uses with ADHD clients to help them with organization, The questions to ask when you're trying to decide what to keep and what to get rid of Organization tips and workarounds for the ADHD brain, What to start with when everything is a mess Tips on school organization.______________Resources:Website: Judith Houlding ADHD Life Coachingwww.challengingdisorganizationwww.napo.netSend a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup___Join Tracy and her delightful guest, 18-year-old Lucy Van den Heuvel. At 16 Lucy left high school, not knowing how she was going to go forward with her education. She eventually found a college that accepted students as young as 16, and applied. In May, Lucy will graduate from Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts, where she will receive her Associates of Arts degree instead of a high school diploma. In college she is studying sustainable agriculture, and co-manages the campus farm. When she's not farming or studying, she spends her time hiking, oil painting, rock climbing, and crocheting.Today she looks at the decision to leave high school without graduating as one of the best she's ever made. Lucy shares the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, Her childhood symptoms, How her love of storytime got her into trouble in pre-K, Her life-long struggle with school, Her struggle with anxiety, Why she decided to drop out of high school, Why Bard college was the perfect fit for her curious brain, Her plans after graduation, What has changed since she was diagnosed, The ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success?______________ Resources: Facebook: Lucy Van den HeuvelBard College at Simon's Rock Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it. Practice mindset work in just 10 minutes a day. Learn more at tracyotsuka.com/shift Instead of Struggling to figure out what to do next? ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick—they weren’t designed for how your brain actually works. Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy is different. It’s a patented, science-backed coaching program that helps you stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits. 👉Learn more here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/aok-academy Learn more by connecting with Tracy through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or visit adhdforsmartwomen.com.Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/book2 Visit our website: https://tracyotsuka.com

Dr. Edward Hallowell, a leading ADHD expert and bestselling author, shares his transformative journey in understanding ADHD. He highlights reframing ADHD traits like distractibility as creativity. Discussing the new science behind ADHD, he emphasizes a strength-based approach that addresses the positives often ignored by traditional views. Hallowell also explores how hormones impact women's ADHD symptoms, the importance of community in managing worries, and encourages creative pursuits as essential for those with ADHD. His insights aim to empower individuals to thrive amidst distractions.