Ep. 216: Building an ADHD-Friendly Career with Elly Linam

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

After grooming her own Shih Tzu during the pandemic and posting a picture online, Elly Linam started having neighbors reach out to her, asking if they could pay her to groom their dogs. One thing led to another, and within a month of that first neighbor asking, she knew there was a passion brewing and enrolled in grooming school. Now, only a few short years later, Elly is a Certified Pet Groomer with her own dog grooming business and a career she’s endlessly passionate about–one that’s dynamic, creative, and perfect for her ADHD brain. Elly found her dream profession at 35 by putting herself out there and growing her spark of passion into a flame, but she’s been able to maintain that flame by supporting her ADHD needs and giving herself permission to do things differently. Join our conversation to hear Elly’s ADHD entrepreneurship story, what changed once she got her official diagnosis, how she builds a balance of work, creativity, and rest into her daily routine, and much more. Resources: Instagram: @ellywentwest; @elly.scissorhands Time Timer:

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0:00.0	There is a wealth of knowledge and I don't think most people like you said realize what
0:06.7	goes into grooming and how it's an entirely holistic thing as far as behavior like not only
0:14.1	are you doing something aesthetic, but also your goal is to keep them healthy.
0:19.4	It's to also check their body.
0:22.2	We're usually the only ones seeing things on a routine enough basis to where we could
0:27.6	notice if there's a change in a mole or you know they're acting different, but also we're
0:34.3	training them in a sense as well with being a okay with grooming but be handling you know
0:41.5	being able to touch their paws and being able to look in their ears and their mouth and
0:46.5	that is to me invaluable for the clients too.
0:51.0	So yeah I say it's a lot more involved than most people think, but I think if you apply
0:55.9	yourself and you have that artistic eye you can be great.
1:05.4	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Muntsar, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:15.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
1:20.8	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
1:27.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:32.7	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Wippy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brockovich,
1:41.4	Cher.
1:42.4	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD and that's exactly why I started this podcast,
1:50.2	ADHD for smart ass women.
1:52.8	I'm your host Tracy Auxica, I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:59.9	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is a okay, a system that helps people like you
2:06.9	figure out what they should do with their life.
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