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ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 59: ADHD and Justice Sensitivity with Immigration Attorney Taylor Levy

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #59 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces her guest Taylor Levy. Taylor is an immigration attorney in El Paso, Texas. She was the Legal Coordinator at Annunciation House, El Paso’s largest migrant shelter. During the summer and fall of 2018, Taylor worked with dozens of pro bono attorneys who traveled to El Paso from across the U.S. to provide free legal representation to immigrant parents separated from their minor children because of the “zero-tolerance” policy enacted by the Trump administration. Attorneys volunteering with Annunciation House provided legal consultations and pro bono reunification to more than 400 separated families. Currently, Taylor focuses her work on asylum-seeking families who have been returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program. She also mentors attorneys from around the country on these cases and does advocacy, media, and policy work centered on protecting vulnerable asylum seekers arriving at our border. Taylor talks about an article that ProPublica just published about her clients, Honduran refugees Mirza, David and their kids. Taylor also shares: How she ended up in law school while working full time and raising a child as a single mother The circumstances surrounding her own ADHD diagnosis Symptoms that she always wondered about but now with the benefit of hindsight she recognizes as clearly ADHD? What has changed since her diagnosis? How she ended up representing immigrants and asylum seekers before she even went to law school What she believes the key to living successfully with ADHD is? Her novel approach to medication Her number one workaround Her advice to a young woman just diagnosed with ADHD Information about the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Hybrid Program? Resources: Taylor’s email: The nonprofit that Taylor mentioned: www.santafedreamersproject.org And Taylor’s law school!

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0:00.0

Albert Einstein, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, John F. Kennedy, Tony Robbins, Michael Phelps, Will Smith.

0:13.2

That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans

0:16.2

in a variety of industries.

0:18.1

What else do they have in common?

0:20.1

Well, they all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that, do you?

0:25.0

You know what you hear even less about?

0:28.0

The successful women navigating ADHD, and that's exactly why I started this podcast,

0:34.0

ADHD for smart-ass women.

0:36.0

I'm your host Tracy Otsuka.

0:38.0

I'm an attorney, not a doctor,

0:40.0

a lifelong student, not a coach.

0:42.0

I'm also the creator of courtography. a lifelong student, not a coach.

0:42.8

I'm also the creator of Cortography,

0:45.4

a patent pending system that helps people like you

0:47.9

figure out what they should do with their life.

0:50.4

And we're here today to talk ADHD your superpowers your symptoms your workarounds and how you

0:57.3

proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in. I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest superpowers and you know what? I spy a

1:07.2

happier life for you too. So without further ado a shiny new episode is

1:12.4

starting now.

1:14.0

Hello, I am Tracey Ots, and I wanted to welcome you to episode 59 of ADHD for smart-ass women.

1:29.0

In this episode, I am so delighted to introduce you to Taylor Levy.

1:35.8

Before we started I asked Taylor, okay, how do you pronounce your name, your last name?

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