Hi, I'm your host, Tracy Atsuka.

And if you're wondering why you're hearing from me on a Monday, you're right.

This is not our normal Wednesday podcast.

We have decided to add something new.

Because after working with thousands of ADHD women over the years, I have come to believe

something that runs counter to a lot of the conversation around ADHD and

sits at the heart of almost everything I teach. ADHD is not primarily a productivity problem.

It's an identity problem. Many of us, well, we spend years trying to do things the way everyone

else does them because we've been told that is the right way.

So we buy the planner, we download the app, we create the system.

We spend years trying to force ourselves to operate like everyone else.

And sometimes it works until it doesn't.

Because even the best solution can't solve the wrong problem.

I mean, if you're spending your days doing work that doesn't fit your strengths around people who don't understand you

or chasing goals that don't actually matter to you, of course everything feels harder.

You are trying to solve productivity problems when the real problem is fit.

Fit with who you are. Fit with how your brain works. Fit with what matters to you. Look, I have watched women go from believing they're lazy to realizing they're under-stimulated.

From believing they can't trust themselves

to learning that they can. From believing they're broken to realizing their brain simply

worked differently. Not because they learned a new productivity hack, not because they found the

perfect planner, but because they saw themselves, their ADHD,

or their situation through a completely different lens. Sometimes a single insight changes

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