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ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 308: Chaos: Why ADHD Minds Are Built for This Moment in Time

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

ADHD brains are built for brilliance.In this special Thanksgiving episode, Tracy reflects on the unique strengths of ADHD women and how they navigate a chaotic world. Drawing on her experience working with thousands of ADHD women, she explores why their minds excel at creativity, connection, and meaningful work.Tracy talks about the real challenges ADHD women face—overwhelm, juggling too many responsibilities, and feeling misunderstood—and offers practical strategies to create more focus and ...

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0:00.0

Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel.

0:12.0

Wait a minute. Where are the women?

0:17.0

Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling, Audra McDonald, Simone Biles.

0:24.1

That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of industries.

0:29.5

They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now, do you?

0:34.0

You know what else you don't hear about?

0:35.6

Are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in

0:39.8

excellent mental health. Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?

0:45.8

I'm your host, Tracy Edsuka, and that's exactly what we do here. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor,

0:52.6

a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book, ADHD for

0:56.7

smart-ass women. I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is

1:03.5

a-OK, a patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love

1:10.7

with their brilliant brains.

1:12.8

Here, we embrace our too muchness and we focus on our strengths.

1:17.4

My guests and I credit our ADHD for some of our greatest gifts.

1:22.5

And to those who still think they're too much, too impulsive, too scattered, too disorganized,

1:28.8

I say, no one ever made a difference by being too little.

1:36.8

Hello, I am your host, Tracy Otsuka.

1:40.0

Thank you so much for joining me here for another episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women.

1:46.5

You know, it's taken me some time to process this election.

1:50.6

I didn't know how to genuinely talk about how I was feeling, how I suspected many of you

1:57.6

were feeling, knowing our extreme empathy, our justice sensitivity, and the fact that

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