Ep. 256 Cults, Child Marriage and ADHD Optimism with Dr. Tamara MC

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Show Notes–Ep. 256: Cults, Child Marriage and ADHD Optimism with Dr. Tamara MC Dr. Tamara MC is a cult, child marriage, and human trafficking Lived Experience Expert who advocates for girls and women to live free from gender-based violence worldwide. Married off at 12, Tamara has firsthand experience with fundamentalist cults, giving her valuable insight into how these organizations operate. She now uses her experience combined with her PhD in applied linguistics to research and educate others on how language is used to manipulate vulnerable populations. Join my conversation with the wonderful Dr. Tamara MC to hear about her harrowing story and the bravery it took to leave, how ADHD, autism, OCD, and complex PTSD contributed to both her confinement and her freedom, ways to identify when a community is exhibiting cult-like behavior, and how to find optimism in the face of hopelessness. Resources: Website: Facebook: Twitter: @ Instagram: @tamaramcphd LinkedIn:

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0:00.0	Oh my gosh, okay, so the way you tell if you're part of a cuck, because I think we have a lot of
0:06.2	cults in this country right now, you know? How do you know again? Say it again.
0:11.5	Are all people being given the same rules and are they all following the same rules?
0:17.1	Or are there only certain people that have to follow the rules and there's other people that don't
0:21.9	have to follow the roles.
0:23.2	Richard Branson,
0:30.2	Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel.
0:35.0	Wait a minute.
0:37.0	Where are the women?
0:39.0	Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling, Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles.
0:48.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of industries.
0:53.0	They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now, do you?
0:58.0	You know what else you don't hear about?
1:00.0	Are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in excellent mental health.
1:05.0	Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?
1:09.0	I'm your host Tracy Edsuka and that's exactly what we do here.
1:14.3	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student,
1:17.7	and now the author of my new book,
1:19.5	ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:21.9	I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is
1:27.2	a-ok. A patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains.
1:36.0	Here, we embrace our too muchness and we focus on our strengths.
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