Racial Identity, Trauma, and ADHD with Annahid Dashtgard

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

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

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My colleague and friend, Annahid Dashtgard, really elevates the podcast this week with a specialized look at racialization within the mental health space. I love that we’re able to broach this topic together as Annahid is so well-versed in creating safe places for people to have hard conversations.

Annahid is the CEO and Co-Founder of Anima Leadership, a consulting firm that helps organizations with everything EDI from diversity basics to advanced belonging.

Annahid has a special and unique perspective as an immigrant who’s been on the receiving end of racism throughout her life and also as someone with ADHD, having only recently been diagnosed in her 40s.

Listeners can expect to learn a lot about the overlap of racial identity, trauma, and ADHD that many communities experience with very little understanding from medical and therapeutic professionals. The truth is, many racialized groups are largely underserved, underrepresented, and underdiagnosed. It’s not always intentional, but it is happening.

I especially appreciate Annahid sharing her thoughts on how clinicians can do better to support these communities, understanding the stigma of mental health among racialized groups, and how the average white person can open themselves up to learning and honoring others without fear of making mistakes.

To glean more brilliant insights from Annahid, check out her two books:

No matter your racial identity, I want to encourage any listeners struggling with accepting or living with their ADHD to check out my group coaching program FOCUSED. I think you’ll find that we are open, honest, and honoring as we all work hard to overcome our neurodivergent struggles and unlock our unlimited potential.

Come hang out with me on Instagram HERE.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.
0:18.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships working and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:37.0	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated. I am caffeinated.
0:45.0	I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.
0:49.0	My nine-year-old son, back in the days when we used to say just medicated, caffeinated, ready to roll, he would always say, meditated, caffeated, ready to roll.
1:00.0	And I have a mug with that on it, medicated, caffeinated, ready to roll. And every time he sees it, he says, meditated, caffeated, ready to roll. And it is the cutest thing.
1:11.0	If you have a nine-year-old, you're going to understand. Or if you've ever had a nine-year-old, they're just so cute, and maybe it's because he's my youngest kid.
1:21.0	And there's something about the youngest child that you're just like, oh my gosh, you're the cutest thing I've ever seen.
1:28.0	But I think it's adorable. So anyway, medicated, caffeinated, regulated as we have added in recently, and very much ready to roll.
1:36.0	I hope all is well with you and yours.
1:40.0	Today on the podcast, I have a colleague and friend here to speak about the overlap of racial identity, trauma, and ADHD.
1:48.0	Anaheed Dashgard is an expert in helping individuals and companies go from diversity basics to advanced belonging.
1:57.0	I feel like I say this every time, but it is genuine. 100% sincere cannot wait for you to hear this conversation.
2:06.0	I think it is absolutely beautiful. And Anaheed is a deep well of wisdom. She's going to share all of that with us today.
2:13.0	I want to take a moment before we start to say that. I got a podcast review recently saying that my current content is not as ADHD heavy.
2:24.0	I don't want to speak to that because that's true. The older episodes are very much focused on the basics of ADHD.
2:32.0	I've been doing this since the very beginning of 2019. I dropped my first episode, December 2018.
2:39.0	I've been doing this for a long time, and we've got 230 episodes total.
2:44.0	And the first 200 are pretty much all the basics about ADHD.
2:50.0	And I just want to share with you that as I've evolved past the basics of ADHD, so has this podcast.
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