When I was at Google, many people were taking Adderall, left and right. And so here I was thinking,

son of a gun, all these people are taking pills from their doctors, and here I am trying to do everything by myself.

No wonder I'm not getting as much done as quickly. Like what am I doing? What am I missing?

So everyone's talking about it and they say you got to go to your doctor. They're to ask you a bunch of questions here's how you answer it

just start taking a few and you'll notice you'll start to be able to do more quickly so that's what I did

midway through my time at Google I I went to my doctor,

answered the questionnaire, oh, I must have ADHD

because I can't get stuff done as quickly as I'd like to.

So five milligrams became 10 milligrams

and 10 milligrams became 20 and 20 became 30 and 30 became 40 and 40 became 50 and it got to a point where I started to have diminishing returns.

The pain that I was actually trying to numb of not feeling good enough. I was also numbing everything else.

I was numbing the thing that made me strong and connected, my connection to heart, my empathy, my compassion, my kindness, my presence.

I mean I was there but I wasn't there.

And so many people in tech are there, but they're not really there.

Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins and I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life, and in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've them in action or people who've directly

benefited from their work. And today I'm in conversation with someone who I met at

a retreat center in Baja California called the Modern Elder Academy, where I was facilitating a workshop, and then one day at dinner I find myself sitting next to this, I'll call him a luminary, someone who's just radiating and shining brightly his name is

Julio Alvarez and Julio is a coach and a podcaster out of New York City. Julio primarily coaches tech executives,

and that's because he actually worked in tech for many years.

He's had jobs at places like Google, Airbnb, Lift,

and he's got a podcast that helps leaders in the tech industry

who feel stuck to connect more with their heart.

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