EP. 245: When You Love What You Do, it Rarely Feels Like Work with Stephanie Calderon

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Caldero is a self-made, self-taught interior designer who owns a boutique design firm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Stephanie has always loved interior design starting when she was a child circling items in catalogs and learning from her seamstress grandmother. For years she designed for friends and family on the side while she worked various marketing jobs, until 2021 when she finally turned her side hustle into her main hustle and never looked back. Stephanie knew she had to turn interior design into a career when she realized it was the one thing she could always get lost in for hours, a decision that was only bolstered by her ADHD diagnosis. Stephanie now understands that this level of passion for her work isn’t just important, but crucial in order for her to find sustainable success in a fulfilling career. Stephanie’s story shows us how much easier things can be when we build our careers around our natural motivators and flow states. I hope our conversation inspires you to start thinking about ways to incorporate your own natural motivators into everyday life. Resources: Website: Instagram: @StephanieCalderonInteriors

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0:00.0	Our environments very much affect our psyche and kind of how we function and so being able to do that in my own home
0:08.2	I found it was just as much fun to do it for others because I don't think people realize how much their home affects them until they have a home in a situation where they're in love with it
0:17.2	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Montserr, Michael Jordan, Will Smith
0:32.2	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of occasions
0:38.2	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
0:44.2	And you know what we hear even less about?
0:50.2	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brockovich, Cher
1:00.2	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD and that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women
1:10.2	I'm your host, Tracy Otsuka, I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach
1:17.2	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is AOK, a system that helps people like you figure out what they should do with their life
1:27.2	And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds
1:33.2	And how you proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in
1:37.2	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts, and you know what? I spy a happier life for you too
1:46.2	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now
1:56.2	Hello, I am your host, Tracy Otsuka, thank you so much for joining me here for ADHD for smart ass women
2:04.2	I hope you'll subscribe to this podcast and our newsletter over at Tracy Otsuka.com
2:10.2	As you can see, I am still in my son's studio in New York City and we just had all kinds of cement mixers joining us earlier
2:19.2	So I was crossing my fingers that they would be gone by now and I think the gods have smiled on us
2:25.2	Anyway, you know my purpose is always to show you who you are and then inspire you to be it in the thousands of ADHD women that I've had the privilege of meeting
2:34.2	I've never met a one that wasn't truly brilliant at something, not one. So of course, I am just delighted to introduce you to Stephanie
2:43.2	Stephanie? Calderon, did I get that right, Stephanie? You did
2:49.2	Is a self-made self-taught interior designer who grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended college at the State University of New York, Suni at Fredonia
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