EP. 363: The Dopamine Crush: ADHD, Longing, and Romantic Obsession

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 62 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 _____ What if the intensity you’ve chased in relationships wasn’t love, but dopamine? Amanda McCracken is an award winning journalist, endurance athlete, and intimacy researcher who was diagnosed with ADHD at 36, long after she had built a successful career. From the outside, her life looked accomplished and disciplined. Inside, she struggled with distraction,...

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0:00.0	No sponsors, no ads, just real ADHD support, because I know how much bad advice is out there.
0:10.2	If you're ready to start falling in love with your ADHD brain, here's how.
0:15.7	Your ADHD brain is not the problem. The way you've been taught to use it is.
0:21.6	Ready to finally work with it and not against it?
0:24.6	Then check out my Your ADHD Brain is AOK Academy.
0:28.9	You'll find the link in the first line of this episode's description.
0:34.0	Now, let's get on with the show.
0:44.6	Music Now, let's get on with the show. Richard Branson, Michael Phelps.
0:48.5	Justin Timberlake.
0:50.2	James Carvel.
0:51.8	Wait a minute.
0:53.4	Where are the women?
0:57.2	Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling, Audra MacDonald, Simone Biles. That sounds like a list of highly
1:05.8	successful titans in a variety of industries. They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now,
1:12.9	do you? You know what else you don't hear about? Are the 43% of people with ADHD who are
1:19.3	in excellent mental health? Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?
1:25.3	I'm your host, Tracy Azuka, and that's exactly what we do here.
1:30.3	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student,
1:33.7	and now the author of my new book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women.
1:37.9	I'm also a certified ADHD coach,
1:40.2	and the creator of your ADHD brain is A-O-K,
1:44.5	a patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains.
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