EP. 254: In the ADHD/Autism Trenches with Dr. Nanci Smith

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When Dr. Nanci Smith realized her neurodiverse childrens’ needs weren’t going to be met by the public school system, she knew she had to try a different approach to education. Luckily, Nanci has a background in psychobiology and is motivated by a challenge, so the transition to homeschooling was a no-brainer. Nanci learned how to support her childrens’ sensory, socio-emotional, and executive functioning needs, and along the way she learned how to support her own unique brain as well. She has since gone on to become certified with the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) social skills program, is an expert in teaching executive function skills, runs Improv classes for kids on the spectrum, and is training to become an ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider. Nanci’s belief is that kids do well where they can, and her empathetic approach to education will have you seeing neurodivergence in a whole new way. Resources: Get $15 off classes at Outschool by entering coupon code NORELPODCAST15 at checkout. Promo available until Nov 28, 2024.

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0:00.0	The one thing that I consistently see is these kids are brilliant.
0:05.0	Like they have so much to offer and it really is a skill.
0:10.0	So I always try to frame it.
0:12.0	It's a superpower. You just have to know how to use it. It can be destructive if you don't know how to use it. Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carville,
0:31.3	Wait a minute.
0:32.3	Where are the women?
0:35.0	Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling,
0:40.0	Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles.
0:44.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of industries.
0:49.3	They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now, do you? You know what else you don't hear much about that now do you? You know what else you don't
0:54.7	hear about are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in excellent mental health.
1:01.1	Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?
1:05.0	I'm your host Tracy Aesuka, and that's exactly what we do here.
1:10.0	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book
1:15.2	ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD
1:22.3	brain is A-O-K, a patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get
1:28.3	unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains. Here we embrace our too muchness and we focus on
1:35.8	our strengths. My guests and I credit our ADHD for some of our greatest gifts and to those who still think they're too much,
1:44.9	too impulsive, too scattered, to disorganize,
1:48.4	I say no one ever made a difference
1:51.1	by being too little.
1:52.6	Hello, hello, I'm your host Tracy Outscooka.
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