EP. 92: ADHD, Trauma, Shame and Falling in Love with Your ADHD Brain at 59 with Isabelle Baker

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Join Tracy as she welcomes guest Isabelle Baker to Episode 92 of her podcast ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Tracy interviewed Isabelle as one of four students who completed her Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! program. That episode aired last week but Tracy didn’t include Isabelle because she felt that Isabelle needed her own episode. In this episode Isabelle talks about trauma, never fitting in, giving up, thinking it was too late for her because she was too old. She also talks about AOK and ultimately falling in love with her ADHD brain. Isabelle Baker is from Lakeland, FL. With over 25 years of business development, C-suite partnerships, and enterprise training; Isabelle is now her own CEO. Today she combines her professional experiences along with her love of problem solving, listening to understand, and relentlessness, to serve her clients whom she loves to see succeed. Some of her best successes are personal though: she is passionate about helping children in the foster care system and looks forward to being a coach to those who age out. Isabelle shares: Her childhood trauma Her struggle with school Her struggle with social problems and always feeling different Her discovery of ADHD Her experience going through the A-OK! Program Her new found love and appreciation of her ADHD gifts The key to living successfully with a non-linear brain Her number one workaround Resources: Sign up for Your ADHD Brain is A-OK! ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Isabelle’s

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0:00.0	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:14.8	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of vocations.
0:20.7	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
0:25.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
0:29.0	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brokovich, Share. Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD and that's
0:47.2	exactly why I started this podcast ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm your host Tracy Otsuka. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
0:59.7	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-O-K, a system that helps people like you figure out
1:07.4	what they should do with their life.
1:09.7	And we're here today to talk ADHD. your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how you proudly
1:16.7	stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:20.0	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts and you know what?
1:25.6	I spy a happier life for you too.
1:29.2	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now.
1:39.0	Hello, I am Tracy Otsuka.
1:41.0	Welcome to episode 92 of ADHD for smart-ass women. If you're a regular
1:48.2	listener, you know that I chatted with three women last week that had just completed my six-step system called
1:55.8	Your ADHD brain is A-O-K.
1:59.5	This is the program that I built off of my patented cartography system to show ADHD women
2:05.3	how to fall in love with their ADHD brains
2:08.2	and figure out what they're meant to do with their life.
2:11.3	We call it A-OK for short.
2:14.0	ADHD is completely misnamed.
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