EP. 82: ADHD with NASA Flight Controller, Natalie Cluck

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 82 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Natalie Cluck. Natalie is 24 and works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and is training to become a certified flight controller to fly the International Space Station from Mission Control Houston. In this podcast, Natalie shares: The circumstances of her diagnosis which occurred shortly after arriving at NASA The light bulb event that triggered her desire to find out more about ADHD Information around her school career They symptoms that she always wondered about but now sees as part of her ADHD What has changed since she was diagnosed The ADHD traits that she feels make her an even better flight controller than those without ADHD The traits that she feels are responsible for her success The ways she has always felt different than others What she believes is the key to living successfully with ADHD Her ADHD workarounds Resources: STAR stands for Stop - Think - Act - Review

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0:00.0	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:14.8	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of vocations.
0:20.7	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
0:25.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
0:29.0	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brokovich, Share. Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD and that's
0:47.2	exactly why I started this podcast ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm your host Tracy Otsuka. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a
0:56.9	lifelong student, now a coach. I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-O-K, a system that helps people like you figure out
1:07.4	what they should do with their life.
1:09.7	And we're here today to talk ADHD. your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how you proudly
1:16.7	stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:20.0	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts and you know what? I spy a happier life for you too.
1:29.0	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now.
1:39.0	Hello, I am Tracy Aatsuka.
1:41.0	Welcome to episode 82 of 80 for smart-ass women and in this
1:46.4	episode I am going to introduce you to Natalie Cluck. Natalie graduated last year
1:52.1	with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University
1:56.5	and was offered a job at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
2:00.4	She is now training to become a certified flight controller to fly the International Space Station from Mission Control Houston.
2:09.0	So the flight controllers, they're the people on the ground who talk to the astronauts and manage the space station systems.
2:15.3	They do the commanding to the space station from the ground that the astronauts don't do in space.
2:21.2	What Natalie does specifically is she manages the on-board
2:25.9	computing and communication systems. So she sent me a picture of her sitting in
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