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ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 317: ADHD, Addiction, and Advocacy: Jennifer’s Inspiring Story

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How do generational trauma, ADHD, and addiction intertwine—and how can understanding them save lives?In this deeply personal episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy Otsuka speaks with Jennifer Nicole Schmitz, whose journey is one of survival, resilience, and purpose. Jennifer candidly shares her experiences growing up in a home marked by trauma, her mother’s undiagnosed ADHD, and struggles with addiction, and how these shaped her own path. Diagnosed with ADHD later in life, Jennifer reflec...

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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.

0:24.0

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

0:39.7

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

0:45.7

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

0:52.5

a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book, ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, 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

1:03.4

A-O-K, a patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains.

1:12.7

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

1:17.3

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

1:22.4

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

1:27.4

disorganized,

1:28.8

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

1:36.5

Hello, hello, hello.

1:38.1

I am your host, Tracy Otsuka.

1:40.1

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

1:45.9

You know that my purpose is to show you who you are and then inspire you to be it.

1:51.3

And in the thousands of ADHD women that I've had the privilege of meeting, I've never met a one that wasn't truly brilliant at something, not one.

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