ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

By Tracy Otsuka

Want to fall in love with your ADHD brain and make it work for you? Learn more about my patented program, Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy

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Number 1: EP. 400: ADHD & Entrepreneurship: How Holly Fowler Built Wable from the Ground Up
Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start with my this training: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up _____ Holly Fowler was the kid who got told she was too loud, too distracted, too much. She was also a C-grade student barely passing maths and science until an academic scholarship gave her a reason to care. Then she got straight As. That same intensity now fuels Wable, the global social network Holly founded for neurodivergent people to connect across friendship, dating, work, and support. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, she has since scaled the company across four continents. Diagnosed with ADHD in her early 20s, Holly can now see the clues all over her childhood, including years of school reports calling her easily distracted and distracting to others. In this episode, Holly and Tracy talk about ADHD as an entrepreneurial advantage, what rejection taught her about RSD, how she manages overthinking and constant decision-making, and what building a company has revealed about how her brain works under pressure. If you have ever been told your brain is too much for the room, this conversation explores what can happen when you build around it instead. Resources: Website: https://www.hellowable.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itshollyfowler LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-fowler-3b36b9163 Mindbridge Coaching: https://www.mindbridgecoaching.com Wable: https://www.hellowable.com Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me: 🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive 🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift 📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn 📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book 🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok 🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/ Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book Visit our w...
September 02, 20261h 19min
Number 2: EP. 399: How Two Years of Cognitive Training Changed Her Brain
Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start with my this training: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up _____ Tessa MacKay can spend hundreds of hours on a single painting. Her photorealistic work can look almost indistinguishable from a photograph, but for Tessa, that precision became more than technique. It became a way to work with her ADHD, dyslexia, and the way her brain processes the world. An Australian oil painter diagnosed with inattentive ADHD at 18, Tessa built a career around the kind of detail and focus that once helped her make sense of the world. But success also brought her face-to-face with the art world's complicated relationship with photorealism, forcing her to question how she thought, learned, and defended her own work. In this episode, Tracy and Tessa talk about what happened when she decided to retrain her brain, why painting could feel easier than everyday life, and how her latest project, Social Realism, turns forgotten Facebook photos into art. If you have ever wondered how someone can do something extraordinarily difficult while struggling with things that seem simple, this conversation goes there. Resources: Website: https://www.tessamackay.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamackayart LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-mackay-8a7121289 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tessamackayart Arrowsmith Program: https://arrowsmith.ca https://thetrailblazersbook.com Trailblazers by Howard Eaton - https://www.amazon.com/Trailblazers-Spearheading-Educational-Australian-Difficulties/dp/1779414250 The Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young - https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Who-Changed-Brain-Transformation/dp/1451607946 Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me: 🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive 🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift 📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn 📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book 🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok 🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/ Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book Visit our w...
August 26, 20261h 23min
Number 3: EP. 397: Building a Business with ADHD: Clare Edwin on Finding What Finally Worked
Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start with my this training: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up _____ “Why can’t I just?” was the question Clare Edwin kept coming back to. Why can’t I just answer that email? Why can’t I just leave the house on time? Why can’t I just do the ordinary things everyone else seems to manage? Clare grew up in Nigeria, studied aeronautical engineering, earned a master’s in mathematical modelling, worked as a quality engineer, and became a secondary school maths teacher. She was rated a good teacher, but behind the scenes, she was struggling. The same pile of books came home to be marked night after night and went back untouched. Eventually, the demands of teaching contributed to repeated episodes of depression, and she left the profession. While off work, Clare started making beaded bracelets on her coffee table, mostly to get herself off the sofa. That small beginning became Lollamac, the jewellery business she still runs fifteen years later. Her ADHD diagnosis did not come until 2021, after a woman in her business group described her own experience and Clare found herself mentally ticking off the same traits. If you have ever worked hard, looked capable from the outside, and still felt like you were falling short, you will recognise yourself in this one. Resources Website: https://www.lollamac.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lollamac_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lollamac Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me: 🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive 🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift 📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn 📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book 🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok 🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/ Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book Visit our w...
August 12, 20261h 12min
Number 4: EP. 395: Why ADHD Brains Reach for Alcohol with Faye Lawrence
Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start here: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up _____ Faye Lawrence got blackout drunk at 13. What she remembers is not the drinking. It is the relief. She started drinking heavily as a teenager and kept going for decades. From the outside she looked successful and high functioning, right up until late 2017, when the wheels came off the cart and she found herself in inpatient detox. She got sober. Then she waited five more years to find out why she had been drinking in the first place. Faye was diagnosed with ADHD at 48, and suddenly the chaos, the burnout, the emotional intensity, the boredom, and the constant need to switch her brain off all made sense. Alcohol had not come out of nowhere. It had been doing a job. Faye is now a certified grey area drinking coach and ADDCA certified ADHD coach with degrees in psychology and counselling, and she has spoken at TEDx and SXSW. She founded Untoxicated, which grew into Australia's largest alcohol-free social community back when being sober was decidedly uncool. In this episode, Tracy and Faye get into grey area drinking and why the all-or-nothing label keeps people stuck, what alcohol is actually doing in an ADHD brain, the mummy wine culture that was sold to women on purpose, and why the carrot works where the stick never will. If you have ever needed a drink to get your brain to be quiet, this conversation is not here to shame you. It is here to give you clarity. Resources Website: https://fayelawrence.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_fayelawrence_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FayeLawrenceCoaching LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faye-lawrence-aus Free Wine O'Clock reset guide: https://fayelawrence.com.au/tracyo ADHD-alcohol small group coaching program also opens in mid-August: https://fayelawrence.com.au/loop Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me: 🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive 🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift 📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn 📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book 🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok 🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/ Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book Visit our w...
July 29, 20261h 16min
Number 5: EP. 384: ADHD Women Were Never Meant to Work Like This with Meghan French Dunbar
Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup _____ You worked harder than everyone around you and still felt like you were falling behind. This episode unpacks why the workplace was never built for your ADHD brain. Meghan French Dunbar, author of This Isn’t Working, is an entrepreneur, former business journalist, CEO, speaker, and workplace consultant. After years of building and selling a company, going to grad school, launching a media career, and burning out more than once, Meghan was diagnosed with ADHD only four years ago. That diagnosis reframed everything. Instead of forcing herself into traditional work models, Meghan started building systems around how her brain works best, from stronger boundaries and values-based decisions to AI support, intentional work hours, and a new definition of success. In this episode, Tracy and Meghan talk about late ADHD diagnosis, ADHD workplace burnout, entrepreneurship, guilt, toxic management, and why so many high-achieving women leave jobs before anyone connects the dots with ADHD. If achievement has always been your scorecard, this conversation offers a better one: purpose, passion, quality of life, and work your brain is able to sustain. Resources:Website: https://www.meghanfrenchdunbar.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meghanfrenchdunbar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghanfrenchdunbarTEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfuHsa27yk&authuser=0 Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message Explore more from me: 🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive 🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift 📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn 📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book 🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok 🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/ ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem. That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/ Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book Visit our w...
May 13, 20261h 13min