EP. 273: Empowerment Beyond Misdiagnosis with Alyssa Fontaine
ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka
Tracy Otsuka
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Alyssa Fontaine's life story highlights the crucial need for mental health diagnosis and care accuracy. Misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, she faced the challenges of ADHD and medication mismanagement, which set her on a path to self-advocacy and profound change. This experience fueled her passion to support women entangled in cycles of incarceration and addiction and to lead a transformative cheerleading program in her hometown, demonstrating the power of empathy and proper care.
In her current roles, Alyssa combines her journey with professional dedication. As a Community Support at Crossroads for Women and a Cheerleading Coach in Highland Hornets, she empowers women and children from her community to overcome mental health challenges and social barriers. In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Alyssa and I put highlight on the impact of self-advocacy and community support, offering practical wisdom for those navigating similar struggles.
This episode showcases triumph over misdiagnosis and advocates a relentless drive to empower others facing mental health challenges and social obstacles.
Resources:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alyssafontaine89
- Highland Hornets: https://www.instagram.com/highlandhornetscheerleading
- Crossroads for Women: https://crossroadsabq.org
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| 0:00.0 | Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvelle. |
| 0:12.1 | Wait a minute. Where are the women? |
| 0:15.0 | Greta Gerwick, Lisa Ling, |
| 0:20.0 | Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles. |
| 0:24.0 | That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of industries. |
| 0:29.0 | They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now do you you know what else you |
| 0:34.9 | don't hear about are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in excellent |
| 0:40.4 | mental health why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right? |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host Tracy Edsuka and that's exactly what we do here. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book |
| 0:55.6 | ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of |
| 1:01.4 | your ADHD brain is a okay a patented system that helps |
| 1:06.1 | ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains |
| 1:12.0 | here we embrace our too muchness and we focus on |
| 1:16.1 | 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, |
| 1:25.0 | too impulsive, too scattered, too disorganize, |
| 1:28.0 | I say no one ever made a difference by being too little. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello, hello, hello. I am your host Tracy Otsuka. |
| 1:41.0 | Thank you You may find my book with Harper Collins William Morrow. |
| 1:53.0 | Did you not know that I have a new book out called |
| 1:55.9 | ADHD for Smart Ass Women, |
| 1:57.8 | and you can find it wherever you buy your books. |
| 2:01.1 | It's a compilation of all of our learnings here on this |
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