EP. 203: Changing the Definition of Success with TedX Speaker Martha Barnard-Rae

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

When Martha Barnard-Rae was finally diagnosed with ADHD after years of being told it was just anxiety, she started structuring her home and work life around her brain’s unique needs and saw a complete transformation in how she lives and speaks to herself. Since getting her diagnosis, Martha has gone on to give an inspiring TedX talk about ADHD and start her own copywriting business, Word Candy, where she has the freedom to let her ADHD strengths shine. “I want people to understand that ADHD is a part of me and I can use these powers such as they are for good. And I think the more that I can kind of say about it, the more people will understand and they can go, ‘oh, I want to work with her because she does those hyperfocus weeks because she can work in that way.’ That's a feature, not a bug.” Join us this episode as Martha shares all the ways she’s redefining success for herself, her vulerable experience on the TedX stage, how she fills her “bowl of resilience,” and so much more. Resources: Website: Instagram: @wordcandycomms LinkedIn: Martha Barnard-Rae

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0:00.0	At that point, because I had it memorized, and I was like, I know this.
0:05.8	But then right before my TEDx talk, the speaker ahead of me basically told me that she didn't
0:15.0	believe in ADHD and that children just needed to climb more trees.
0:20.4	And this is an extremely respected community member.
0:25.3	So I just was bawling my eyes out and just so distressed and kind of had to pull it together
0:31.5	in the 15 minutes before my talk.
0:36.2	And that really rattled me.
0:38.6	And it was really unfortunate because I had the cards and at the beginning, I kind of
0:44.2	I made the cards a character in it.
0:46.6	And I put them down and I was like, I can do this.
0:49.0	And then I ended up needing to like bend down and look at the cards a couple times.
0:53.1	And they cut out the part, unfortunately, where I picked up the cards and everyone clapped
0:59.2	because it was like such a real moment and this audience was like so on board.
1:10.4	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:20.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
1:25.8	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
1:32.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:37.7	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brockovich,
1:46.5	Cher.
1:47.5	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:52.2	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women.
1:57.8	I'm your host, Tracy Otsuka.
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