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I Have ADHD Podcast

Maybe I'm Not the Problem: Maggie Patterson @bsfreebusiness

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Maggie Patterson is a vocal advocate for humane business practices rooted in respect, empathy and trust. She’s the host of the BS-Free Service Business podcast, and the co-host of Duped: The Dark Side of Online Business.

In this episode we are SPILLING ALL THE TEA. Maggie and I talk about:

  1. Self help, cults, and MLMS
  2. Scammy online business practices
  3. Mystery offers
  4. "If I can do it you can do it"
  5. Steven Hassan's BITE model of culty practices
  6. How to avoid getting scammed
  7. How to be ethical (what does it even mean)

Maggie is the editorial director at Scoop Studios and the creator of BS-Free Business. With two decades of experience, Maggie has spent her entire career in client services and has been a successful entrepreneur for over 15 years.

Maggie works with service business and agency owners to build bs-free businesses that put trust first in everything they do.

To get in touch with Maggie, you can check out the following links:

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to a new bi-weekly series

0:13.3

on the I have ADHD podcast called Maybe I'm Not The Problem. This is a different type

0:19.0

of podcast where I have deep conversations with therapists, psychologists, and trauma-informed

0:24.8

coaches about how our pasts are upbringing, our parents, our teachers, our traumas, our

0:29.5

neurodivergencies, all of that have impacted us, and how maybe, just maybe, we are not

0:35.9

the problem. Now, this is not ADHD-specific content, so if that's what you're looking

0:40.5

for, just click on one of the over 200 episodes of the I have ADHD podcast and enjoy. You

0:48.2

can expect this bi-weekly series of maybe I'm not the problem to be a casual, long form

0:54.9

and really vulnerable conversation with someone that I deeply respect. For detailed information

1:01.3

about today's guest, check out the episode show notes for their bio and links, and now,

1:07.0

let's get started.

1:16.4

So I am really pleased to talk to you today. I have been dying to just get all of the

1:23.1

dirt and chat about all the things with you. Specifically, I've been following you,

1:28.5

I don't know, for a couple months, maybe six months, and I'm sure as this podcast goes

1:35.7

on, we'll talk about the journey that I've been on, which was really buying into all

1:41.3

of the scammy stuff and really being gross and scammy myself, and then, okay, I wouldn't

1:45.4

say scammy, but being gross, I would say. And then having a little bit of a reckoning

1:51.7

and being like, ew, and then waking up and looking around and, oh my gosh, so I just

1:57.5

cannot wait to get into it. I'm just so excited. So I really appreciate you being here,

2:05.6

and I did a deep dive on your Instagram and just wrote down all of these, like, spicy.

2:11.7

Actually, not even spicy, just very normal things that you're saying.

2:16.3

What's the thing that they've sometimes taken this spicy because they're counter-ported

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