EP. 355: Heartbreak, Rejection, and ADHD: A Survival Guide (with Kiersten Lyons)

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup _____ Kiersten Lyons spent most of her life being told she was too much. Too loud, too dramatic, too many feelings all at once. She was also told she wasn't enough. Not pretty enough, not the right fit, not what Hollywood was looking for. The dichotomy nearly broke her. But it also became the foundation of her story. As a working actress in LA for over a decade, wit...

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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
0:39.8	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,
0:52.6	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
1:03.5	a-OK, a patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love
1:10.7	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,
1:27.3	too disorganized,
1:28.8	I say no one ever made a difference by being too little.
1:41.8	Hi, this is Tracy.
1:50.7	Before we start today's episode, I want to tell you about something new that basically grew out of this community.
1:55.4	It's called Shift, and it's the next step after everything you're learning here.
2:04.1	If this podcast helps you understand your ADHD brain, Shift helps you train it in 10 minutes a day.
2:10.0	From the start, that was the goal to make mindset work short enough that your brain would actually do it. Because our ADHD brains, well, we don't need more pressure. We need momentum.
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