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We believe that success with ADHD is possible... with a little translation. Hosts Asher Collins and Dusty Chipura, both ADHD coaches who have plenty of insight to share navigating their own ADHD experiences, discuss how to live more authentically as an adult with ADHD and how to create real, sustained change to achieve greater success. If you are an adult with ADHD who wants more out of their business, career, and life, this is the podcast for you!
Episodes
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Why do I not do what I know I ought to do? This is the universal ADHD question and the question that Cam and Shelly hope to help you answer throughout this podcast.
In today's episode, Shelly and Cam use metaphor to discuss the first barrier to answering this question: getting to effect. As adults with ADHD we are often acutely aware of the symptoms of our ADHD, however, we mistake these symptoms as cause when they really live at effect.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our cause + effect metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
- The Brown Model of ADD/ADHD
- Strengths and Challenges Reframe Chart
- Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
- About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Those of us with ADHD are often prone to problem based thinking, believing that if we could just solve the problem then everything would fall into place. In today's episode, Cam and Shelly offer an alternative approach of journey based thinking.
Based on their work with clients and their own experiences, Cam and Shelly discuss two major components of journey based thinking. The first is defining your big agenda as an adult with ADHD which allows you to connect the work you are doing to manage your ADHD to the positive impact you are trying to create. The second is learning to go narrow before you go wide, which allows us as adults with ADHD to take the first step without letting the potential outcomes of the bigger agenda prevent us from taking action at all.
Episode links + resources:
- Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
- Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
- About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Moving through the world with ADHD means learning how to cope and manage ADHD to survive in a world that isn't designed for us; however, Cam and Shelly believe there is a better approach.
Embracing your unique brain wiring means not just understanding the differences in your experience, but owning and leveraging those differences to ultimately work with the way that your brain works instead of trying to work against it.
In today's episode Cam and Shelly share stories about how embracing and working with their unique brain wiring ultimately lead to less stress, better outcomes, and greater success.
Episode links + resources:
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
To have ADHD is to have both positive and negative impact. The challenge that we face as adults with ADHD is that ADHD impairs our ability to be aware of all of our impact.
Using examples from client experiences and our own experiences Cam and Shelly discuss being aware of our impact as adults with ADHD in the areas of beliefs, behavior, task initiation, and more.
Episode links + resources:
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
In this episode, Cam and Shelly introduce the Essential Structures model, a model we use with our clients. This model is one tool to create awareness around your own ADHD experiences and to distinguish; both subjects we've discussed in previous episodes.
You can also use this model to identify both the challenges and supports that may not be immediately apparent to you as you embark on the process of change as an adult with ADHD. To demonstrate the model in action, we discuss it in the context of sleep which is a common challenge among our adult ADHD clients.
Episode links + resources:
- The Essential Structures Model
- Coach Approach for Organizers
- Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
- About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Monday Nov 25, 2019
How do you know if you are ready for change as an adult with ADHD? If you aren't currently ready for change, how do you prepare to be ready for change? In this episode of Translating ADHD, Cam and Shelly explain what we mean by readiness for change with ADHD.
In this episode, we discuss Cam's early experiences as an entrepreneur and his own process of being ready for change to demonstrate why the readiness steps we discuss in are crucial to our ability to create and sustain positive change as adults with ADHD.
Episode links + resources:
- 8 Questions to Determine if You're Coachable
- Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
- About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Awareness of our ADHD experience is not just about being aware of what works, it's also about developing awareness about the habits and behaviors that are getting in the way. In this episode of Translating ADHD, Cam and Shelly look at a common ADHD behavior that often gets in the way of change; that of delaying action until urgency forces our hand.
Using Cam's Adrenaline Response Cycle model, we look at how those of us with ADHD often rely on urgency or anxiety as a motivator while discounting the effects of the crash and recovery part of cycle. Using examples from our own experiences, we discuss creating awareness around the impact of living on the ARC roller coaster which is the crucial first step to finding other motivation elixirs.
ARC Model:
Episode links + resources:
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Change is really difficult with ADHD. Individuals with ADHD tend to delay and try everything they can before they are able to embark on real and significant change. We also tend to try to create a clean slate, restarting and reinventing over and over again.
In this episode Cam + Shelly share their own experiences and failures with try everything and clean slate thinking. We then discuss how ultimately how the process of understand, own, and translate allowed each of us to create the real and sustainable change we were seeking.
Episode links + resources:
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Monday Nov 04, 2019
In April of 2019, Shelly presented at the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals conference on the topic of time management for ADHD clients. The challenge she ran into was how to translate the unique ADHD experience to a room full of neurotypical professional organizers and productivity consultants.
The presentation was not only successful, but Shelly noticed that the strongest reactions came from the few participants in the room who also have ADHD. Shelly heard over and over again from these colleagues that her presentation helped them understand their own ADHD experiences in a new way and that they felt understood in a way they never have before.
Thus was born the concept of Translating ADHD.
Cause + Effect
The experience of having ADHD inhibits our ability to get to cause. It's like being in the wake of your motorboat: we feel the effects of the experience but we are not in the experience itself. Having ADHD puts a veil between the the wake and the boat itself.
Cam and Shelly are fascinated with how those waves are made and the ADHD connections. Translating ADHD is being able to get into the boat, to understand how it does what it does, and to make real connections between cause and effect.
When we put consistent focus in an area, we can make gains around understanding, owning, and translating ADHD.
Understanding ADHD: Awareness + Distinguishing
Having ADHD is a paradoxical experience, because having ADHD inhibits our ability to understand our ADHD experiences. We lump the negative effects in our lives under the umbrella of ADHD without differentiating what is really going on.
ADHD has us default into a binary approach to things, it's black or white or all or nothing. Either everything is right and we're killing it, or everything is wrong and we're getting killed.
The big idea today is that it's not all or nothing. Distinguish by asking: What is and what is not ADHD? How is ADHD coming into the mix? What is not useful awareness?
The 4 States of Awareness
You are listening to this podcast because you want to create positive change, and you suspect that ADHD is inhibiting your ability to change. The place to begin is to understand the power of awareness and the different types of awareness.
Unhelpful Awareness: Self doubt, negativity, lack of self confidence, self blame, victim-hood. This is a side track that keeps us in pre-contemplative awareness because we are not in a place to contemplate our options, our choices, or how to move forward.
Pre-Contemplative Awareness: The state of not knowing what you know, not knowing that there is an opportunity for change. We don't yet know there is help that we can find.
Acute Awareness: Painful, but necessary. The place where life is now painful enough that we know we cannot keep going the way we are going.
Contemplative Awareness: The place where we know that we need to make a change.
Practicing Awareness with Curiosity
As coaches, Cam and Shelly don't just help people make plans. We are curious about motivation and how we can diversify motivators so that urgency is no longer the primary way our clients with ADHD are able to get to action.
The Pause: Practice pausing for awareness in your day. What state of awareness are you in? What are you noticing?
Curiosity: To move from unhelpful awareness to contemplative awareness, try practicing curiosity. It is not possible to have fear, self doubt, or negative self talk if you practicing curiosity because they exist in different parts of the brain.
Journey Thinking: Your ADHD wants a solution right now. Part of understanding ADHD is recognizing that you are on a path of development and that real, sustained change happens slowly over time.
Episode links + resources:
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Saturday Nov 02, 2019
Saturday Nov 02, 2019
Translating ADHD Hosts Cameron Gott and Shelly Collins are not only ADHD coaches, we also both are adults with ADHD finding our way. We believe that you can be more successful with ADHD and this is the work that we both do as ADHD coaches with clients every day.
Why Translating ADHD?
Only 20% of adults with ADHD are actively managing their ADHD.
To further complicate things, many adults with ADHD believe that they must first solve their ADHD before they can be successful. We believe there is a better way, an integrated approach that allows us to to embrace our authentic selves as adults with ADHD as we learn to better navigate our individual ADHD related challenges.
We started this podcast with the belief that success and ADHD can go hand in hand, and with the hope that more adults with ADHD will see the value in managing their ADHD in a way that allows them to live authentically as an adult with ADHD while creating sustained change over time.
Our process of understanding, owning, and translating ADHD is intended to help our listeners do the work that we do with clients every day: to better understand the impact and influence of ADHD, to own and distinguish our ADHD experiences, and to translate by giving language and meaning to our ADHD experiences.
Episode links + resources:
For more Translating ADHD:
- Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD