Ep. 241: ADHD, Adventure and Doing Things Her Own Way, with Expat Entrepreneur, Jessi Kingan

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jessi Kingan left the United States at age 22 for what was meant to be a six-month adventure of traveling and teaching scuba diving around the world. Like so many ADHDers with a plan though, she ended up on a completely different path than she was expecting. Now almost 13 years later, Jessi lives with her husband and children in Iceland, where she owns and operates a restaurant, hostel, and apartment hotel on the south coast, and she couldn’t be happier. Jessi makes entrepreneurship work for her by leaning into her ADHD strengths and letting others take over in the areas where she struggles, which keeps her work engaging and saves her unnecessary stress. Join our conversation to hear more about Jessi’s ADHD journey, including the unique experience of going from a freshman in high school to a freshman in college, how she ended up where she is today, what she’s learned about entrepreneurship so far, and much more. Resources: - restaurant - hostel, apartment hotel and cabins - chocolatier

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0:00.0	For me, it's been figuring out what my strengths are, and playing to my strengths instead of
0:07.6	feeling like I always have to make up for my weaknesses.
0:11.6	Because I spent a lot of time trying to get good at things that I'm not naturally good
0:16.1	at, and I made progress.
0:19.2	But was always going to end up behind other people that those skills come naturally to.
0:25.7	And realizing that I have a lot of strengths that other people don't necessarily have that
0:32.1	are in demand.
0:39.3	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Montserre, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:48.9	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of occasions.
0:54.7	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
1:00.9	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:06.6	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich,
1:15.5	Cher.
1:16.5	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:21.0	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:26.7	I'm your host, Tracy Auxica.
1:29.0	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:33.8	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-OK, a system that helps people like you figure
1:41.2	out what they should do with their life.
1:43.8	And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how
1:49.8	you proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:54.0	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts.
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