EP. 336: Nancy Shapiro on ADHD, Leadership, and Her Legacy at the GRAMMYs

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Want to fall in love with your ADHD brain and make it work for you? Learn more about my patented program, Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy here: programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup ___ How do you thrive in one of the most demanding industries in the world, while quietly navigating ADHD the whole time? Nancy Shapiro spent 33 years as a senior executive at the Recording Academy, home of the GRAMMYs, where she led all twelve regional chapters and built groundbreaking programs that changed ...

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0:00.0	Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel.
0:12.0	Wait a minute. Where are the women?
0:17.0	Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling, Audra McDonald, Simone Biles.
0:24.1	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of industries.
0:29.5	They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now, do you?
0:34.0	You know what else you don't hear about?
0:35.6	Are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in
0:39.7	excellent mental health. Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?
0:45.7	I'm your host, Tracy Edsuka, and that's exactly what we do here. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor,
0:52.5	a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book, ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book, ADHD for
0:56.7	smart-ass women. I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is
1:03.4	A-O-K, a patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains. Here, we embrace our
1:14.5	too muchness and we focus on our strengths. My guests and I credit our ADHD for some of our
1:20.8	greatest gifts. And to those who still think they're too much, too impulsive, too scattered, too
1:27.4	disorganized,
1:28.8	I say no one ever made a difference by being too little.
1:38.2	This podcast has no sponsors, just free content for ADHD brains like yours. But if you want more,
1:49.8	here's how. If your ADHD brain feels like an enemy right now, that's because no one ever taught you
1:56.3	how to work with it. But that changes today. Join My Your ADHD Brain is AOK Academy and start making ADHD
2:05.9	your advantage. For more information, find the link in the first line of this episode's
2:12.1	description. Now, let's get on with the show.
2:22.0	Hello, I am Tracy Outsuka, your host.
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