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Join Tracy for Episode #131 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women as she celebrates the one-millionth download of her podcast and expresses her gratitude for your support and confidence. In this episode, Tracy shares how the podcast has changed her life, discussing what she has learned and how these insights might benefit you as well.

Discover what it means to be future-focused versus past-focused, how to determine your own ADHD formula, the importance of not believing everything you think, and why what others say about you is none of your business. Tracy also explores how action generates positive emotion, why it’s never too late and you’re never too old, how to never be bored again, what ADHD women have in common, and three simple steps to moving that big thing forward.

Resources:

• Ep. 93: ADHD, Positive Emotion and Being Future-Focused

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Join Tracy for Episode #130 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she discusses challenging kids with ADHD and the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) system developed by Dr. Robert Greene. CPS was created to diffuse power struggles between parents and their challenging children, particularly those with explosive behavior issues. It is utilized in juvenile detention facilities, prisons, schools, and, of course, with families worldwide.

Tracy explores why, even if you don’t have kids, you can gain insights about yourself from this podcast. She explains why telling an ADHD child what to do doesn’t benefit them or the parent-child relationship over time, and highlights the most crucial role a parent plays in their child’s life. Tracy also reveals the question she always asks when figuring out her next steps, the statement that underpins Dr. Greene’s CPS philosophy and transforms everything, and why switching from a drill sergeant to a coach and collaborator is much more effective with ADHD kids. Additionally, she addresses the problem with lagging skills, how to assess them, the 3-Step CPS system, and whose opinion must be considered to address challenging behaviors.
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Resources:

• Why Will No One Play with Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive, PCC, M.Ed
• The Explosive Child by Dr. Robert Greene
• https://drrossgreene.com/
• Dr. Ross Greene Video: Kids Do Well If They Can
• livesinthebalance.org

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Join Tracy as she welcomes her guest Mrinal to Episode 129 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Mrinal is a writer, business analyst, and mental health advocate based in the Midwest. She just published her first book, Saaya Unveiled: South Asian Mental Health Spotlighted, to increase education and acceptance on mental health in the South Asian diaspora. Her future goals include teaching self-defense and developing a health and wellness app.

Mrinal shares the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, her struggle with school, what has changed since she was diagnosed, what made her write her book, the model minority stereotype, how the model minority stereotype impacts ADHD, mental health, and affects self-esteem and increases shame, what ADHD strengths make her good at her job, her key to living successfully with ADHD, and her ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @mrinalg_
• Saaya Unveiled: South Asian Mental Health Spotlighted
• www.additudemag.com
• www.additudemag.com/mental-health
• www.additudemag.com/forced-smile

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Join Tracy as she welcomes Jessica Fern to Ep. 128 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Jessica is a Senior Director of Training & Development for the 4th largest multifamily management company in the US and doubles as a national speaker, coach, and strategist. Jessica is a keynote speaker, who was most recently featured on a national panel for Women in Leadership. She has a series on Multifamily Leadership Studio that includes Legendary Leadership which earned her the nickname The Wolf of Leadership. Jessica's newest project is her solutions-oriented coaching/consulting and podcast called "Living with Einstein."

Jessica shares the circumstances surrounding her two ADHD diagnoses, what has changed since her recent diagnosis, her struggle with and triumph over Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, how hyperfocus almost wrecked her, how she discovered her gift of speaking, her advice on creating a winning speech every time, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• Living with Einstein Podcast
• Linkedin: Jessica Fern-Kirkland

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Join Tracy as she welcomes Adell Bridges to Episode 127 of her podcast, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Adell is an international yoga teacher, health coach, and author who applies her degree in psychology with her training in the neurology of movement to her yoga and movement teachings. She now splits her time between London and Florida and shares her love for the power of mindful movement with her online community on MoveWithAdell.com and her half a million Instagram followers. She is currently co-authoring a book on hyper-mobility.

Adell shares the circumstances surrounding her recent ADHD diagnosis, what has changed since she was diagnosed, her advice around managing RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria), what made her fall in love with yoga, why yoga is perfect for the ADHD brain, The link between hyper-mobility and ADHD, how she uses her Instagram to inspire and generate positive emotion not only for herself but also her followers, ADHD and vertical heterophoria, ADHD and cerebellar stimulation, and the key to living successfully with ADHD.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @adellbridges
• Website: MoveWithAdell.com

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Today, Tracy welcomes Tiffany Jackson to the podcast. Tiffany shares her indefatigable childhood story of being abandoned by her mother, bouncing from one relative's home to another, and spending one perfect year at an elite boarding high school only to end up at a homeless shelter as a minor. Throughout all of this, Tiffany had a dream to make something out of her life. Since then, she’s graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication from the Dan Rather School of Communications at Sam Houston State University, attended a year of law school where she received her ADHD diagnosis, and in 2018, she graduated from Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with a Master of Biomedical Science.

Tiffany plans to attend medical school and work as a physician epidemiologist. She loves photography and car racing.

Tiffany shares her thoughts on how grit, drive, and determination allowed her to keep going despite so many setbacks and challenges, how she sees her drivenness as hyperactivity, the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, her childhood symptoms of ADHD, what happened once she was finally diagnosed, what she’s learned she needs to be successful and happy, what she thinks the key to living successfully with ADHD is, her workarounds, and how she discovered what she’s always meant to do with her life.
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Resources:

• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @Texas_Senator

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Tracy welcomes you to Episode #125 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, where she invites ADHD non-believers to join her for a little education. She receives requests for this podcast every week, so she decided to do something about it.

Tracy shares why the authoritarian model of parenting doesn’t work with an ADHD child, Nora Volkow’s research about ADHD and interest, what the NIH, AMA, U.S. Surgeon General, American Association of Psychiatry, and the U.S. Department of Education all say about ADHD, whether or not there’s ADHD in France, if it’s true that ADHD is strictly an American phenomenon, what it means that more kids are getting diagnosed with ADHD, what happens when ADHD is not treated, if it’s true that everyone has a little ADHD, if ADHD is an invention of modern society, if video games, social media, and smartphones are making people more ADHD, whether or not medicating kids for ADHD turns them into addicts, why willpower, consequences, discipline, and punishment are the wrong formula for the ADHD brain, what happens to children when they’re told that they’re lazy, unmotivated, and need to work harder, what works to motivate ADHD children, and the one question you should ask yourself about your ADHD child.
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Resources:

• Dr. Nora Volkow's regarding the Dopamine Reward Pathway in ADHD
• Dr. Ross Greene: Kids Do Well If They Can
• ADHD Child vs. Non-ADHD Child Interview
• Father to Father: Robert Dendy
• Putting the efficacy of psychiatric and general medicine medication into perspective: review of meta-analyses
• ADHD: Types, Symptoms, and Treatment Options

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Join Tracy as she welcomes Rebecca Brianceau to Episode 124 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Rebecca is an autodidact artist and an international mindfulness art teacher who hails from Toronto, Canada. Rebecca has lived in Dubai, the UAE, London, England, Zurich, Switzerland and São Paulo, Brazil. She spent 15+ years in the music industry where she worked with multi-platinum-selling and indie recording artists in hip-hop, soul, and RnB, as well as with producers, video directors, DJs, and fashion designers.

In 2011 she left a successful career in the music world to launch her art career. Her Ocean Soul Series of stunning ocean paintings has been exhibited in galleries and art shows throughout Canada and Mexico. She now lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Rebecca shares the story of what inspired her to create her beautiful resin ocean paintings, her ADHD diagnosis, her ADHD symptoms, what changed once she was diagnosed, how she fell into the music industry and traveled all over the world as a band manager, the ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success, the key to living well with ADHD, her number one workaround, information about her Ocean Soul Series and Riviera Maya art exhibit in Playa Del Carmen.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @rebeccabrianceau

Music:

• Taj & Director
• Director X
• Hamdan Al Abri
• Kamal Musallam, creator of Arabic/Jazz Fusion
• Kamal Musallam - Ibanez "Oriental Series" signature guitars - Interview on The National 2010

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This week, Tracy welcomes you to episode #123 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she is going to talk about ADHD, procrastination, and tapping. Tapping combines Ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology. You tap specific meridian points on your body while focusing on negative emotions and/or physical sensations. Tapping can resolve stress, anxiety, phobias, emotional disorders, chronic pain, and limiting beliefs and there's science behind why it works.

Tracy shares the science behind tapping, how the VA uses tapping for veterans with PTSD, why body-based somatic therapies work better for trauma, what tapping can do for gene expression, how tapping can help reduce anxiety for ADHD women, how trauma encodes itself in the body, what EFT/tapping can do to the brain's learning, how tapping calms the nervous system, the difference between tapping out and tapping in, how she uses tapping to start work that she doesn't want to do and the tapping process and how to do it.
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Resources:

• www.tracyotsuka.com/tapping/
• bessel van der kolk
• The effect of emotional freedom techniques on stress biochemistry: a randomized controlled trial
• Psychological trauma symptom improvement in veterans using emotional freedom techniques: a randomized controlled trial
• EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and Resiliency in Veterans at Risk for PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Effect of the emotional freedom technique on perceived stress, quality of life, and cortisol salivary levels in tension-type headache sufferers: a randomized controlled trial
• Emotional Freedom Techniques for Anxiety: A Systematic Review With Meta-a

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Join Tracy as she welcomes Dr. Carolyn Lentzsch-Parcells to Episode #122 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where the conversation will be all about ADHD and medication.

Dr. Lentzsch-Parcells is a board-certified pediatrician and the owner and President of Girls to Women/Young Men's Health and Wellness Fort Worth, a multi-faceted clinic providing integrated medical care dedicated to meeting the physical and emotional needs of young women and men from 10-25 years old. As a physician with ADHD herself, Dr. Carolyn Lentzsch-Parcells has a special interest in caring for patients with ADHD and learning issues.

She regularly speaks to parents, students, and professional audiences on subjects such as parenting, ADHD, depression, anxiety and stress, adolescent development, sexuality, preparing for college, and medication.

Carolyn shares the circumstances surrounding her own ADHD diagnosis, what changed once she was diagnosed, what it means to be a slow metabolizer, the importance of setting expectations around medication, her opinion around women, anxiety and ADHD medication, the various types of medication used for ADHD, medications used for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, the medication that reduces the chance of misuse, her thoughts on genetic testing, the medication that most 40+ women are usually prescribed and what she believes the key to living successfully with ADHD is.
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Resources:

• Website: Girls To Women Health and Wellness
• ADHD Medication Chart

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