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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.
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Resources:

• YouTube: How to ADHD
• Jessica McCabe's Ted Talk
• STAR stands for Stop - Think - Act - Review
• The Brili App

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In Episode 81 of ADHD for Smart Ass Wome*, Tracy introduces you to the incomparable Gracie Dix. Gracie is a rising high school senior and the author of two books she released in 2020: Journey to Superhero School and Welcome to Superhero School, a fantasy fiction novel. Both books were Amazon #1 New Releases in their genre. Gracie lives in Dallas, Texas, with her parents, Richard and Jennifer, her brother Nate when he’s home from college, and her beloved dogs, Snowball and Sandcastle. She attends Shelton School of Dallas, which is a school for smart students who learn differently.

Learn about the article that Gracie wrote for ADDitudeMag, Gracie’s ADHD diagnosis, how she became so focused on her strengths, what she thinks her strengths are, and what she wishes she could change about her ADHD brain. Discover what made Gracie decide to write a book, what her books are about, whether there are any ADHD characters in her stories, and what she wants to study in college. Gracie shares the ADHD traits she feels are responsible for her success and her ADHD workarounds.
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Resources:

• “Don’t Buy Into the Myth That Your ADHD Characteristics are Flaws.”
• www.graciedix.com
• www.shelton.org

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Join Tracy in Episode #80 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she introduces you to Janet Murray, who was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45. Janet is a content marketing expert, author, and international speaker who has built a multiple six-figure business with multiple streams of income, including a membership community and online courses. She’s also the creator of a popular content planning tool for coaches, consultants, and entrepreneurs. Over the past five years, Janet has published over 400 podcast episodes, a book, and countless pieces of email marketing copy—despite, in her words, being one of the most disorganized people on the planet. How does she manage it all? Janet has developed easy-to-follow systems and processes to stay productive, strategies that can work for anyone struggling to stay focused.

Discover: The circumstances surrounding Janet’s diagnosis, what her ADHD symptoms were and are, how drivenness relates to ADHD, how her ADHD presented in grade school, high school, and college, and what has changed for Janet since her diagnosis. Janet and Tracy also talk candidly about female friendships and ADHD, the challenges of not knowing the rules of female friendships, and why entrepreneurship is such a good fit for ADHD brains. They discuss how interpersonal intuition can sometimes interfere with relationships, how intensity plays a role in choosing relationships, and when to just walk away.

Janet shares the ADHD traits that are responsible for her success, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her top two ADHD workarounds.
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Resources:

• Website: janetmurray.co.uk
• How I discovered my ADHD superpower
• www.onepeloton.com

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In Episode 79 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about imposter syndrome, where the term comes from, what it is and why so many women with ADHD have it. She shares: How Reward Deficiency Syndrome contributes to imposter syndrome, Why we rarely feel as we’ve accomplished enough, Why we might not trust our success and believe we can recreate it, How being hyper-critical of ourselves contributes to imposter syndrome, What inverse imposter syndrome is, What you can do to combat imposter syndrome, How to deal with shame, Why community and interest are so important to our ADHD brains.

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In Episode 78 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy updates her second most popular podcast episode which is all about what ADHD looks like. She discusses: The fact that there is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all formula when we’re talking about ADHD symptoms. That we all have our own individual ADHD puzzle to solve. What ADHD is Why she believes that ADHD is misnamed and is not a disorder The importance of a comprehensive strategy. Medication is not enough. Why does she believe that all ADHD women are brilliant at something? What executive function skills are, What ADHD is not ADHD statistics, The fact that the existence and impact of ADHD has been validated for decades by various medical organizations. How ADHD brains are wired for interest not information.

The role of trauma in ADHD The three subtypes of ADHD, The 18 symptoms the DSM uses to diagnose ADHD, What symptoms look like for hyperactivity/combined-type ADHD, What symptoms look like for inattentive ADHD, What presentation of ADHD is seen most often in girls and women, Why ADHD is often missed in girls, Why smart girls struggle more than girls of average intelligence, The positive side of ADHD, The key to living successfully with ADHD.
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Resources:

• DSM-5 Criteria for ADHD
• American Psychiatric Association - Symptoms and Diagnosis
• How to Prepare to Meet With Your ADHD Doctor, Ep. 40, ADHD for Smart Ass Women
• Understanding Girls with ADHD by Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman and Patricia Quinn

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Join Tracy in Episode #77 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she introduces you to Jaklin Levine Pritzker (“Jak”). Jak is a certified health/life coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and an ADDCA-trained ADHD coach. After graduating from law school and receiving her own ADHD diagnosis, Jak founded *AuthenticallyADHD*, where she coaches, runs retreats, and hosts a membership group for women and/or non-binary individuals.

Jak shares information about: Receiving her own ADHD diagnosis at the end of law school, her struggle with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks, self-medication, her other health challenges, how she came to terms with walking away from the practice of law and instead found a new direction more suited to her, things she always wondered about but now sees as symptoms of ADHD, getting off medication when it doesn’t work for you and finding other workarounds, how her ADHD diagnosis changed her life, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• Instagram: @authenticallyadhd
• Facebook: Authentically ADHD
• Website: www.authenticallyadhd.com

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In Episode #76 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces a 6-step system that she created for her ADHD brain to help make better decisions around her career, relationships, and interests. She shares why it’s so important for those of us with ADHD to pursue the right interests, how to stop getting sidetracked by the newest bright, shiny thing, why we need a process, structure, and system to tidy our brains, the 25/75% formula, the "Do I Do With My Life" formula, why it’s so important for those of us with ADHD to be clear on what we really value, how getting clear on your values helps you make better decisions, the importance of choosing a theme for your life, how knowing your character strengths helps you begin to live values that you’re not currently living, and why we feel disconnected when who we are is not in alignment with what we do.

Tracy also discusses the importance of knowing what you’re passionate about, how to choose which of your many passions to pursue by discovering your purpose, her purpose formula, why purposes that give meaning to your past are often the best purposes to choose, the importance of identifying the overlap or the sweet spot where your interests, natural abilities, positive emotion, and motivation converge, and how to never forget what’s important to you again. If you’re interested in learning more about Your ADHD Brain is A-OK, you can find it.

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In Episode #75 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about why she changed her introduction to the podcast. She shares her experience with coaching and why she initially didn’t believe it worked. Since she's always concerned with authenticity, she felt she owed her community an explanation and wanted to tell you why she changed her mind—and why she now believes that ADHD coaching is the best thing for anyone struggling with ADHD symptoms to try.

Tracy shares: How she connected her need to be crystal clear on her values and purpose with her ADHD, her constant quest around living to her full potential, her experience with regular life coaching, how developing a program to coach herself ultimately led her to create Cartography and Your ADHD Brain is A-OK!, how her desire to learn more about ADHD and how to respond to women and help them get out of their victim mindset in her Facebook group led her to consider ADHD coaching, why telling people with ADHD what to do never works, why regular life coaching doesn’t work for the ADHD brain, how the ADHD coaching model needs to go much deeper than traditional life coaching to be effective, how important prompts are to the ADHD brain, what it means to charge neutral and why ADHD coaches can’t do this and be successful with ADHD clients, why the best coaches for ADHD people are those who also have ADHD, and the steps of the ADHD coaching model and why they’re so successful with ADHD clients.
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Resources:

• addca.com
• Your ADHD Brain is A-OK!

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Join Tracy in Episode #74 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, where she introduces you to Rachel Elliott. Rachel is a life-long resident of Washington, D.C., where she earned a BS in Biology at Salisbury University and will begin classes for her Doctorate of Physical Therapy Program at George Washington University. Rachel has been using Focusmate to conquer her short-term and long-term goals for over two years. She has more recently realized the power of Focusmate to maintain daily routines and now uses it for her morning routines, to meditate, practice yoga, and finish those nagging projects that need to get done.

Rachel shares with us: The circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis as a sophomore in high school, the symptoms that she always wondered about but now recognizes as clearly ADHD, how Focusmate works, how Focusmate revolutionized her life and increased her productivity, why Focusmate is so effective for her, how she has made friends on Focusmate, tips for using Focusmate, how 4-7-8 breathing can help with anxiety, panic attacks, and focus, the ADHD traits that are responsible for her success, the key to living successfully with ADHD, and her number one ADHD workaround.
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Resources:

• Email: [email protected]
• Podcast Ep. 14: What's a Body Double and How Can it Help Me Get My Work Done
• Internet + App Blockers
• freedom.to
• Stay Focused - Bloqueador apps
• StayFocused Chrome Extension
• 4-7-8 breathing

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In Episode 73 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy shares ADHD hacks contributed by members of her Facebook Group, also of the same name. There were so many good tips but here are some of the most popular ones.

Discover: What every ADHD women needs in the shower, how big is too big for a bathroom clock, the trick to keep your bathroom clean, how much time you really take for your morning routine, how music might help you get to work on time, the one thing you need at your front door, how many laptop chargers do you really need, how to never forget anything when you travel, the best place to write down your morning and nighttime routines, how to finally schedule appointments so you’re on time, how to sign up for free trial apps or software without ending up paying for it, what a Not Now List is, what to keep in your desk at work, why you should always hit snooze and not turn off an alarm even though you’re going to get to the item next.
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Resources:

• ADHD for Smart Ass Women Podcast
• ADHD for Smart Ass Women Facebook Group
• EllieGrid
• Bullet Journal
• Facebook Minimalist Bullet Journals
• OurGroceries
• Focusmate

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