Annie Romanos: Underachievement, Gen X diagnosis & ‘Aroreretini’
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Episode 112 with Annie Romanos.
“We can get so busy that we just forget things. We’ll be so enthralled in what we’re doing that we forget to go to the toilet or we forget to eat.”
Annie is an ICF-accredited executive and ADHD coach from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her late diagnosis at 49 was a profoundly life-changing moment, and represented a missing link after years of “underachieving”, observing her high-performing clients surpass her and not being able to figure out why.
Since learning more about her ADHD, being coached intensively, and gaining professional ADHD coaching development, Annie wholeheartedly believes that ADHD can be an ‘adhdvantage’. She believes that while you might have ADHD for life, ADHD doesn’t need to be a life sentence.
While Annie has been coaching for over 8 years, she is one of New Zealand’s first executive ADHD coaches, with her own practice, as well as working with a recently launched ADHD-centric service for New Zealanders called @beehyve.health .
Annie and I talk about some of the unique experiences of getting a late diagnosis as a Gen-Xer. We also talk about the nagging feeling of underachievement and missed potential that so many of us experienced in life and some of the coaching strategies she uses with her clients. We also talk about energy management and productivity and making sure we’re taking care of ourselves as we age.
And while ADHD is widely considered a deficiency in attention, she likes to remind people of the Māori definition of ADHD — aroreretini — which means “attention goes to many things.”
Website: annieromanos.com
Instagram: @theadhdvantage
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| 1:02.7 | I've literally got reminders in my house, in my office here, up by the coffee machine. |
| 1:09.3 | It's that, you know, accepting that, you know, this is a mercurial condition. |
| 1:15.9 | It's going to be up and it's going to be down and, you know, even asking myself the question |
| 1:20.0 | on these notes, you know, are you in that? |
| 1:22.1 | Are you in a cycle? |
| 1:23.1 | Where are you at in the cycle? |
| 1:24.6 | It's that, oh, right. |
| 1:26.4 | It's that disruptor, that visual disruptor |
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| 1:35.9 | Hello and welcome to the Women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed |
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