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I Have ADHD Podcast

12 Relationships Part 1

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is the first in a series of episodes on relationships. This is for MEN AND WOMEN - it is not a touchy feely episode, so make sure to listen. This is the foundation for the tips and tricks and hacks that you're all wanting! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and

0:11.1

coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD.

0:17.0

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

0:26.0

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

0:33.0

Hello, my friends, you are listening to episode 12 of the I have ADHD podcast.

0:46.6

My name is Kristen Carter and I am medicated, I am caffeinated, and I am ready to roll. I am so excited to be here with you today.

0:55.3

My day got off on a very rocky, rocky start.

1:00.4

My husband and I both forgot to set alarms and so this morning we were jolted out of sleep by our youngest son.

1:09.0

His name is Crosby and he is five and he woke us up at 754.

1:16.0

That is so late.

1:17.6

We leave at 830 to take our kids to school

1:20.6

and it was just craziness. About 10 minutes after I woke up I was still in this like stupor of trying to find my whereabouts. I was just like so confused and like I was just so crazy. I

1:36.4

thankfully opened my Google calendar and saw that I had a meeting at 930 that I had not prepared for. I was hoping to on board a family into my day job

1:47.5

company and I wasn't ready for it. And so we were just scrambling. I cannot believe this but I just I put my big

1:57.5

girl pants on I kept my nose down and I just really worked hard and I got everything done for my meeting and it went great.

2:05.0

It went really, really well.

2:07.0

We can do the hard things guys, we really can.

2:11.0

If we don't melt down with anxiety at the first sign of failure, which I, you know, opened that app, saw that I was totally am prepared for this meeting. That was in an hour and a half. I was totally unprepared for this meeting that was in an hour and a half I was

2:24.3

still in my bathrobe. Yes I wear a bathrobe do you wear a bathrobe I don't

2:29.2

know if that's normal on that but I love my cozy bathroom so I'm'm in my bathrobe. I see that I have this meeting in an hour and a half that I'm not all prepared for and I had options right? I could

2:41.5

totally freak out, melt down, go through my cycle of self-loathing and blame

2:49.8

and self-destruction and shame, but I chose not to do that guys. I'm really growing up. I feel like I'm growing up.

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