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- Episode 6: Paul Unger on ADHD-Friendly Time Management, Distractions & Email
Tracey Goodwin introduces a replay from Season One of Make ADHD Your Genius®, featuring Paul Unger of Affinity Consulting Group. This conversation is geared toward lawyers and legal professionals who want practical, ADHD-friendly approaches to time management, distraction management, and email without rigid systems that backfire.
Paul shares how his experience as an attorney, technologist, and person with ADHD shaped his work in workflow design, coaching, and legal tech training. The episode focuses on simplifying systems, reducing decision fatigue, and creating structure that supports the ADHD brain instead of overwhelming it.
You can sign up for Season 4 here: https://www.traceybromleygoodwin.com/make-adhd-your-genius We get started November 3rd!Resources:
Website: www.traceybromleygoodwin.comFree Guide: 10 ADHD-Friendly Productivity Strategies
DISCLAIMER: By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to our disclaimers, which may be found in a link in the footer of our website.
48 min - Episode 5: Your Environment Is Part of Your ADHD Strategy
What helps your ADHD brain focus and get things done? In this episode, Tracey explores how your surroundings, boundaries, and mindset can affect your ability to work as a lawyer or legal professional. Rather than trying to force your brain to work like everyone else’s, Tracey invites you to notice the conditions that help you feel focused and productive. She shares a practical example of preparing for a challenging client meeting and shows how small changes—like clearing your desk, turning off notifications, setting a timer, and choosing a first step—can make a task feel more manageable.
In this episode
- Why your physical and mental environments both matter
- How to spot the conditions that support your focus
- What “guardrails” and boundaries can look like
- How to prepare for a challenging task without waiting for a crisis
- Why the goal is to understand what your brain needs, not to make it work like someone else’s
- A reflection exercise to help you identify your own focus patterns
Resources:
Website: www.traceybromleygoodwin.comFree Guide: 10 ADHD-Friendly Productivity Strategies
DISCLAIMER: By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to our disclaimers, which may be found in a link in the footer of our website.
16 min - Episode 4: Your Unique ADHD Blueprint™: Why Strengths Matter
This episode focuses on building a strong foundation of self-awareness around ADHD, rather than trying to force yourself to “try harder.” Tracey explains why understanding Your Unique ADHD Blueprint™ matters, how strengths shape better strategies, and why clarity can reduce overwhelm, shame, and confusion.Tracey leads a solo episode centered on practical self-reflection, ADHD strengths, and a real client example showing how pressure and late diagnosis can affect performance. The main takeaway is simple: when you know what works for your brain, you can build support that actually lasts.
Key topicsIn this episode: Tracey introduces the idea of a “Unique ADHD Blueprint™” as the foundation for sustainable growth, focus, and self-trust.ADHD is not one-size-fits-all: She explains that ADHD looks different from person to person, so copying other people’s strategies often fails.Why shaky foundations cause problems: Without deep self-awareness, people may spiral into comparison, shame, guilt, confusion, and chronic overwhelm.Strengths matter as much as challenges: Tracey emphasizes that ADHD is not a character flaw and not something to “fix” through more effort.A better self-assessment question: She asks listeners to identify what feels natural, enjoyable, and curiosity-driven, since those often reveal true strengths.Research on ADHD strengths: Tracey cites a 2025 University of Bath study that found people with ADHD commonly endorse strengths like hyperfocus, creativity, imagination, intuition, and spontaneity.Well-being improves when strengths are used: She notes that recognizing and actively using strengths is linked with improved well-being.Client example—Robin: A lawyer navigating perimenopausal symptoms and a late ADHD diagnosis lost confidence under high pressure, which made organization and performance harder.The role of pressure: Tracey shows how stress and fear can override strengths and make even previously successful areas feel inaccessible.The practical goal: Listeners are encouraged to slow down, name their strengths, and use that clarity to build strategies that fit their actual brain.Resources:
Website: www.traceybromleygoodwin.comFree Guide: 10 ADHD-Friendly Productivity Strategies
DISCLAIMER: By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to our disclaimers, which may be found in a link in the footer of our website.
13 min - Episode 1: What If ADHD Isn’t the Problem?
In this episode, Tracey Bromley Goodwin introduces the Make ADHD Your Genius podcast and reframes ADHD as a unique brain style rather than a flaw. She explains how curiosity, self-awareness, and strengths-based strategies can help legal professionals work with their brains instead of against them. Tracey also shares her personal path into ADHD coaching, rooted in her experience as a teacher and her work with high-achieving professionals who were silently struggling with executive function challenges.
You will learn:- Why ADHD is not the problem, but often misunderstood
- The impact of masking, stress, overwhelm, and limiting self-talk
- Flip-side traits of ADHD, including hyperfocus and task avoidance
- How to ask better questions to support executive functioning
- Tracy’s journey from teaching to ADHD coaching for lawyers and legal professionals
- The Make ADHD Your Genius framework and what listeners can expect from the show
Stop fighting your brain and find what works.
Please follow or subscribe to the podcast now so you don’t miss a single episode!Resources:
Website: www.traceybromleygoodwin.comFree Guide: 10 ADHD-Friendly Productivity Strategies
DISCLAIMER: By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to our disclaimers, which may be found in a link in the footer of our website.
22 min - Episode 3: ADHD Myths: What’s Actually True?
In this episode, Tracey Bromley Goodwin breaks down some of the most common myths about ADHD and explains why they’re harmful, especially for lawyers and legal professionals. She shares why ADHD is not a character flaw, why “just try harder” advice doesn’t work, and how understanding your brain can help you move from self-criticism to support and strategy.
You will learn:
- Why ADHD myths create shame, confusion, and miscommunication
- The danger of telling yourself to “just want it more”
- Why calming down is not the full solution for emotional regulation
- The limits of generic organization advice
- Why ADHD can look different from person to person
- How self-understanding and curiosity create better support
Start dropping the shame and guilt and build a life built off of your extraordinary mind.
Please follow or subscribe to the podcast now so you don’t miss a single episode!Resources:
Website: www.traceybromleygoodwin.comFree Guide: 10 ADHD-Friendly Productivity Strategies
DISCLAIMER: By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to our disclaimers, which may be found in a link in the footer of our website.
16 min - Episode 2: Why Can I Do Hard Things But Not Simple Things? ADHD Explained
Tracey Goodwin explains why lawyers and legal professionals can handle demanding, complex work yet struggle with seemingly simple tasks such as emails, phone calls, and time tracking. This episode reframes task avoidance as an executive functioning challenge rather than a character flaw, offering practical ways to reduce resistance and get started.
You will learn:
- Why difficult, stimulating work can trigger hyperfocus while routine tasks feel physically impossible to begin.
- How perfectionism, overwhelm, fear of conflict, people-pleasing, and uncertainty can create resistance beneath the surface.
- Why task initiation is an executive functioning skill, not a measure of motivation or character.
- How implementing some simple strategies reduce the friction of starting.
- A practical way to prepare for avoiding phone calls
- Why negative self-talk about a task taking forever keeps the ADHD brain stuck in a cycle of avoidance.
- How delegation can free up energy for high-value, creative, and hyperfocused work.
- Why comparing your workflow to someone else’s can be misleading
When you really understand what is going on in your brain new doors begin to open.
Resources:
Website: www.traceybromleygoodwin.com
Free Guide: 10 ADHD-Friendly Productivity Strategies
DISCLAIMER: By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to our disclaimers, which may be found in a link in the footer of our website.
16 min - Welcome to Make ADHD Your Genius®
Introducing Make ADHD Your Genius®, the podcast for lawyers and legal professionals who are ready to stop fighting their ADHD and start unlocking the incredible strengths that have been there all along.
Hosted by Tracey Bromley Goodwin, M.Ed., a certified coach, consultant, and speaker who has spent more than two decades helping people understand the ADHD brain, strengthen the executive functioning skills that matter most, and create success in a way that works with their unique brain.
Beginning September 8th, join Tracey twice a month as you discover what becomes possible when you stop believing ADHD is your limitation and start working with the way your brain was designed.
If you're ready to move beyond surviving and start thriving, you're in the right place.
Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode.
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About The Make ADHD Your Genius® Podcast
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Welcome to Make ADHD Your Genius®, the podcast for lawyers and legal professionals with ADHD who are ready to stop fighting against their brain and start unlocking the strengths, strategies, and systems that allow them to thrive.
Hosted by Tracey Bromley Goodwin, M.Ed., a certified coach, consultant, and speaker specializing in ADHD and executive functioning, with over two decades of experience helping individuals and organizations understand the ADHD brain and create strategies for success.
Through neuroscience, executive functioning strategies, subconscious patterns and reprogramming, and practical tools, you'll discover how to understand your unique ADHD blueprint, strengthen the skills that matter most, and create success in a way that works with your brain instead of against it.
If you're a high-performing lawyer or legal professional with ADHD, you know the demands of your profession: managing deadlines, navigating competing priorities, staying organized, maintaining focus, and consistently performing at a high level. You may have spent years trying to use strategies designed for a different kind of brain.
Your ADHD brain was never the problem to solve. Your brain comes with incredible strengths: creativity, innovation, problem-solving, big-picture thinking, passion, and the ability to see possibilities others may miss. When you understand how your brain works and learn to leverage your strengths, ADHD can become a powerful advantage.
Each week, you'll discover practical ADHD strategies, neuroscience-backed insights, empowering conversations, and actionable tools to help you improve focus, overcome procrastination, strengthen executive functioning skills, manage overwhelm, create systems that stick, and build a career and life aligned with your strengths.
Whether you're navigating billable hours, leading a legal team, managing a demanding practice, or simply trying to feel more in control of your day, this podcast will help you work with the brilliant brain you have.
Your ADHD isn't something you have to overcome. It's something you can understand, embrace, and learn to work with.
Subscribe now and discover how to make ADHD your genius.