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ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 357: Seeing Is Freeing: Dr. Kalaki Clarke on ADHD Without Shame

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup _____ A 10-year-old boy sat across from Dr. Kalaki Clarke, MD during her psychiatry rotation, and she saw herself. Smart, charming, good grades but couldn't get it together. That's when she knew she had ADHD too. Dr. Clarke was in her first year of residency at UC Irvine, working 80-hour weeks in a system designed to test you constantly. She'd been the good kid, the...

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0:00.0

This podcast has no sponsors, just free content for ADHD brains like yours.

0:09.1

But if you want more, here's how.

0:12.6

If your ADHD brain feels like an enemy right now, that's because no one ever taught you how to work with it.

0:19.5

But that changes today. Join My, Your ADHD Brain

0:24.0

is AOK Academy, and start making ADHD your advantage. For more information, find the link

0:31.5

in the first line of this episode's description. Now, let's get on with the show.

0:36.9

Music description. Now, let's get on with the show.

0:55.7

Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel. Wait a minute. Where are the women?

1:06.4

Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling, Audra MacDonald, Simone Biles. That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of industries. They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about

1:13.3

that now, do you? You know what else you don't hear about? Are the 43% of people with ADHD

1:19.4

who are in excellent mental health. Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?

1:26.5

I'm your host, Tracy Edtsuka, and that's exactly

1:29.3

what we do here. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my

1:35.9

new book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of

1:42.3

your ADHD brain is AOK, a patented system that helps ADHD women

1:47.9

just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains. Here, we embrace our

1:55.3

too muchness and we focus on our strengths. My guests and I credit our ADHD for some of our greatest gifts. And to those

2:04.3

who still think they're too much, too impulsive, too scattered, too disorganize, I say no one ever

2:11.3

made a difference by being too little. Hello, hello, hello. I am your host, Tracy Atsuka. Thank you so much for joining me

2:23.4

here for another episode of ADHD for smart-ass women. You know that my purpose is always to show

2:30.7

you who you are and then inspire you to be it. In the thousands of ADHD women that

2:35.6

I've had the privilege of meeting, I've never met a one that wasn't truly brilliant at something

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