EP. 205: How Luzia Tschirky, correspondent at Swiss Public Broadcasting SRF Uses Her ADHD Strengths to Cover the War in Ukraine

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Luzia Tschirky was born and raised in the Swiss Mountains in a small town close to the border of Austria and Lichtenstein. As a child, she knew she wanted to become a journalist, so much so that she started her own newspaper at the age of eight and began working for the local newspaper at 14. Now 28, not only is Luzia a professional journalist, she’s the first-ever female correspondent in Moscow, where she covers all post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine. For the past nine months Luzia has been covering the war in Ukraine, which she says has given her a newfound appreciation for her ADHD. She credits her ADHD brain for her intense curiosity, her intuition, and her hyperfocus and quick thinking in moments of crisis, all of which have helped her to thrive in high-intensity situations and produce impactful journalism even in a warzone. What sets Luzia apart (on top of everything else) is her incredible empathy for the humans behind the stories, which shines through in everything she does and is one of the many reasons why I’m so excited to share her story with you this episode. Resources: Instagram: @luziatschirky Twitter: @luziatschirky

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0:00.0	In zones of conflicts, it's like this very kind of strange situation that you can walk
0:08.1	around the house and on one side is like totally destroyed and it looks devastating and
0:15.4	on the other side, they're like people following their lives as before.
0:20.6	So I would say on one hand, this is actually very beautiful to see that life goes on, right?
0:26.4	That people are managing and trying just to go on with their lives, no matter what.
0:31.2	And on the other hand, of course, it's very kind of a disturbing image like how can you
0:35.2	like follow your lives well around there, it's like death and suffering.
0:39.4	But I would say it's some, the resilience of people in this moment that is stronger
0:44.6	than the brutal force of any weapon.
0:48.8	So I would say in a way, it's positive.
0:56.2	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:05.7	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
1:11.6	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
1:17.8	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:23.4	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brockovich,
1:32.4	Cher.
1:33.4	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:37.8	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women.
1:43.5	I'm your host, Tracy Auxica.
1:45.8	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:50.6	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is AOK, a system that helps people like you figure
1:58.0	out what they should do with their life.
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