Is there life after Adderall? Andrew K. Smith’s hooligan pranks and social impulsiveness paints a picture of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) before medication, and it would seem that the little orange pills could cure his mischief. But readers will furrow their brows as they enter The Adderall Empire, traveling with the author through the chemically conflicting mind states. Is working-memory training a feasible alternative? Readers will beg for the answer, hoping Andrew stops getting into trouble before his parents disown him or he winds up in jail. Again. Everyone is curious about Adderall. Young people abuse it, adults are addicted to it, teachers wish their students would take it, and parents consider prescriptions for their children. The Adderall Empire gives honest evidence of how working-memory training can change the life of a person with ADHD and provides readers with information about an alternative to ADHD prescriptions. Find out what it’s like to exit the Empire! Please find and purchase The Adderall Empire. It can be found on Amazon.

A rebel "only girl" made in China, Bernice has always been an outsider and the one who beats the odds. After graduating from Peking University (Harvard of China), she came to America by herself 16 years ago and established herself as a successful woman leader in Tech. In 2021 Bernice left her corporate job at Hulu to focus on stand-up comedy full-time. She has performed comedy all over the west coast. Her RV travel story was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal. She is a recipient of Grants for Artist Progress by WA State Artist Trust.

“Scott Dikkers founded the world’s first humor website, TheOnion.com, in 1996. A few years earlier he helped found the original Onion newspaper. He’s served as The Onion’s owner and editor-in-chief, on and off, for much of the last quarter century.

Scott co-wrote and edited The Onion’s first original book, Our Dumb Century, a look at recent history through front pages of The Onion. It's sold over a million copies, debuting as a #1 New York Times and #1 Amazon bestseller. He also co-wrote and edited The Onion’s second original book, Our Dumb World, a world atlas parody, which also debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.”

https://www.thegreatnowwhat.com “Maggie has it all: brains, beauty, an education, a fiancé, and plans for a family. Then a rare stroke leaves her with permanent disabilities. She leaves school, loses her body, her voice, her face, her vision, her man, her money, her ability to work, and nearly -- her mind. She links up with other artists and performers with disabilities, chronic illness and chronic pain. Creating theatre and art together, they inspire a community to heal and connect with empathy, compassion, and humanity. #ArtHealsPain”

Artist/author from rural Eastern Kentucky. I specialize in writing about languages, art, and creativity. I enjoy a spiritual and quiet life with family and pets. I started doing Zoom comedy in June 2021.

Funny things:

- I have gotten hilariously bad "celeb lookalike" results/crazy troll comments. Kurt Russell and John Cena to name a few.

-I was once handed a dog treat in a bank drive thru. There was no animal in the car.

-My thick Southern accent presents many challenges. Alexa/Siri do not understand me. I have trouble with long "I" words.

Danny Dechi’s stand-up comedy has been described as “Woody Allen doing vaudeville”. His humor, most often directed at himself, is a quirky combination of clean comedy & a unique #2 pencil musical act.

He was honored to perform at the Annual Comedy Day 2011 in San Francisco, and is currently helping the growth of the Bay Area standup comedy scene by hosting a number of Open Mics & Showcases.

He’s available for private & public standup comedy engagements, commercials, TV & movie work, book signing events & theater roles.

I was born in Germany.My brothers still try to convince me that I was adopted. My mom really wanted a girl but when I was born I ended up being a girl but she stuck with the E-R-I-N spelling. I am married to my high school sweetheart. I am a father. I LOVE football (Soccer). I am a librarian/teacher. And I am pretty much open to anything as long as its appropriate in respect to me being a teacher and not wanting to put anything out there that might be deemed in appropriate.

The first comedian to feature in the Seattle Grunge Comedy Scene at The Waterwheel Lounge Wednesdays at 9pm.

I was born just outside Albany, New York. Moving every few years due to my father’s job (in finance) promoting him and relocating us throughout my childhood. I’ve lived as far south as Raleigh, North Carolina living back and forth between Virginia and NC for the better part of a decade. I grew up with basketball as my favorite sport and got pretty good over the years. My experience with the school’s coaching staff turned me away from the sport and ultimately, one of two reasons why I became a Coach myself later on. I got into combat sports at the age of 21 with Breon Rucker as my first coach. The day I walked into the gym and started training my life made a hard change from then on. My coach cared about me and I worked hard because I knew it made him proud. My coaches in school were not the greatest so this was new to me and sparked the interest of being a good caring Coach myself so that people didn’t have to go through what I did. I ended up switching to classic Boxing as my only combat sport and fell in love. I fought professionally in my first ever sanctioned fight with no amateur experience outside the gym. I went on to fight three more times, breaking even with a 2-2 record. Life took a hold as it does with many boxers and things started pulling me away from the sport. I later got heavily into coaching making that my full time career and unfortunately let the night life and “post-fighter” lifestyle get in my way. I sank to a very low point in life, contemplating what the point was at all. That led me to my biggest fight to date, my fight with alcohol. It took a little over a year of consistent hard work and determination to finally break the mental and physical addiction and move on with my life. I am now living back in New York where I live close to family and am currently moving in with my beautiful girlfriend and her almost 5 year old son. I’ve been back coaching since the first few months of covid, starting out in my mother’s driveway, moving on to a karate gym that has been home to me since October 2020 and now hoping to land a new full time coaching gig. I’m the happiest overall I have probably ever been and excited about what’s to come.

Andy deejayed for 20 years and has a buncha stories

surrounding that and putting on raves.

Andy backyard wrestled for awhile.

bio:

Andy is a trans gal comedian from Seattle (by way of Baltimore).

With her eight-plus years of comedy she brings a witty, sardonic and slightly profane

style

to her jokes about navigating marriage, having a disability,

and, most importantly, boob puns.

She has opened for Kyle Kinane, Whitmer

Thomas, James Adomian, Gareth Reynolds and Cameron

Epsosito. Festival-wise, she has done Bumbershoot, SF Sketchfest, Women in Comedy NW, Ha-Ha Harvest Festival,

Intersections, and All-Jane.

She also appeared in the HUMP! film-festival award-winning film "Queer Safari" and the Emmy award-winning movie "Star Wars Uncut"

She was also a past Comic of the Week on the

“Jackie & Laurie”.

You also may have heard her as a guest on many podcasts

including: “The Sarah Silverman Podcast”,

“Bananas with Kurt Braunholer & Scotty Landes”,

“Improv4Humans with Matt Besser”,

and “Lady 2 Lady with Brandie Posey, Tess Barker

and Barbara Gray”.

"She’s a real cool lady" --Horatio Sanz (SNL)

"She's really funny. Her last name has a lot of vowels too." --Laurie Kilmartin (CONAN)

“Awesome.” - -Kyle Kinane (Comedy Central)