EP. 85: ADHD, Emotion and RSD with Entrepreneur & Coffee Magnate, Helena Hills

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Join Tracy as she welcomes entrepreneur Helena Hills to Episode 85 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Helena co-founded True Start Coffee with her husband Simon when they were both triathletes. True Start is a feel-good coffee company that is all about positivity and putting people first. It is one of the fastest-growing young drink brands in the UK and has won a host of impressive awards. True Start retails in over 1000 UK outlets, and is exported to several international markets as well. Helena is also the mother of 2 little boys. Helena shares: How she started a business that she realizes today was literally her treatment The circumstances surrounding her diagnosis How ADHD affected her childhood What kind of teenager she was Her favorite subjects in school How she realized that drivenness is a form of hyperactivity The importance of interest to her brain The importance of environment and positive emotion Her experience with RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria) What she loves to do at TrueStart What she doesn’t love to do at TrueStart The ADHD traits that she believes are responsible for her success The key to living successfully with ADHD The importance of reducing stress levels Her best ADHD workarounds Resources:

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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 Otsuka, and I wanted to welcome you to episode 85 of ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:47.0	In this episode I am going to introduce you to entrepreneur Helena Hills.
1:52.0	Helena is the mother of two little boys, Leo and baby Arthur, a triathlete.
1:58.0	She co-founded True Start coffee with her husband Simon.
2:02.0	True Start is a feel-good coffee company that's all about
2:04.8	positivity and putting people first. It's an ethical British family business
2:09.4	that is one of the fastest growing young drink brands in the UK. True Start hasn't won a host of
2:15.7	impressive awards, retails in over a thousand UK outlets, and is exported to several
2:21.1	international markets as well.
2:23.0	Helena is a multi award winning entrepreneur
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