EP. 105: ADHD, Emotion and Choosing the Right College with Collegiate Athlete, Mikayla Kee

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to 21 year-old, Mikayla Kee. Mikayla is currently a senior, finishing her bachelor’s degree at The Evergreen State College in Washington. She will be entering the Master’s in Teaching program next. Mikayla also volunteers as a para educator at a local elementary school and, in true ADHD fashion, Mikayla has been doing all of this while working as a semi professional soccer player for the past three years. Mikayla shares: The circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis Her ADHD symptoms Her struggles during her first year in college How collegiate athletics is the perfect ADHD compliment to her education When she connected soccer as a workaround for her ADHD How her college addresses different learning styles and why this works so well for her ADHD brain How important trust is in dealing with emotional dysregulation What has changed since she was diagnosed The ADHD traits that she feels are responsible for her success The key to living successfully with ADHD Her number one ADHD workaround Resources: Instagram - @mikaylakfit

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0:00.0	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan. Will Smith. That sounds like a list of highly successful
0:17.2	Titans in a variety of vocations. Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
0:25.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
0:29.0	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brokovich, Share. Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD and that's
0:47.2	exactly why I started this podcast ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm your host Tracy Otsuka. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a
0:56.9	lifelong student, now a coach. I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-O-K, a system that helps people like you figure out
1:07.4	what they should do with their life.
1:09.8	And we're here today to talk ADHD. Your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how you proudly
1:16.8	stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:20.0	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts and you know what? I spy a happier life for you too.
1:29.1	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now.
1:39.0	Hello, I am Tracy Atsuka, and I wanted to welcome you to episode 105 of ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:48.0	In this episode I am going to introduce you to Michaela Key.
1:53.3	Michaela contacted me a few months ago
1:56.1	and told me that she was a collegiate athlete
1:59.1	at the Evergreen State College in Washington State.
2:03.0	And she told me that she would be the perfect candidate
2:05.8	for our podcast, because, number one,
2:08.0	she had not seen an episode of this podcast
2:10.8	or heard an episode of this podcast about athletics and sports and
2:14.8	education and she felt that many in the ADHD community either are or were
2:19.6	athletes at some point in their life. Number two, Michaela wanted to talk about her college
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