Hi, I'm Miami Alec. And I'm Jonathan Cohen. And welcome to our breakdown today in honor of ADHD Awareness Month. We're going to revisit one of our very popular episodes from 2023 with a very, very popular actress, Jodie Sweeton. You may know her as her most legendary role was Stephanie Tanner on Full house and also the spin off fuller house. She's also a producer. She's a host. She's an author. She's an activist. We speak to Jody not only about living with ADHD and how she thinks it has actually helped her, but what being diagnosed later in life meant for her and how it has informed her parenting style, really interesting. Back when we talked to Jody, I would say obviously ADHD was part of the conversation people were having, but since we recorded this episode, it's become even more. Talked about and understood, especially diagnoses later in life. So that's why we're airing it now in honor of ADHD awareness. One spoiler alert. My man, I actually took an ADHD quiz after speaking with Jody. Wasn't the next day, but we explored it and we had some fascinating results. I think there's an episode about ADHD and highly sensitive people out there on the internet. There's some overlap that we talked about. Here's the other spoiler alert. Jonathan thinks that I have more ADHD than he does, which I think is hilarious. Jonathan has a lot more of the externalizing features of ADHD. I have a lot more of the internalizing features as it were. You should watch what happens when mine and I try to sit down and complete a task together. Neither of us. That's not true. We focus in very different ways. Correct. We focus in different ways and we get things done. A friendly reminder to check out Substack where we release explosive content that you can't get anywhere else. There's an amazing community there of breakers talking about the episodes. We can't wait for you to check it out as well. We hope you enjoyed taking a look back at our episode or maybe hearing it for the first time with Jody Sweeten. Break it down. Jody, welcome to the breakdown and it's very exciting to sit with you because first of all you look amazing and you look like you're still a teenager. I appreciate that. which is how I, you know, I still sort of, I mean, I know you get this a lot and you still, you lose on TV. I know when you look at me and not, so, so that. And we recently had Candice Cameron Aburée on and people just love this era. People love full house. Like, so it's actually, it's really fun to have you on here. And I don't want to say that I've been wanting to speak to you even before I wanted to speak to her, but, you know, I've followed so much of your life and your journey and was just very excited to get to talk to you. Thank you. Also, as I mentioned to Candace, my first audition ever was to play DJ in Full House. Really?

Yes, and I know you're like doing the math.

That's amazing.

I'm 47.

I started acting when I was 11.

And that was the first audition I went on.

Oh, wow.

You had been acting long before 11.

But I had just started acting at 11.

What are some of the common notes that casting directors

will give feedback to an agent about?

Either, it's usually either one of two things either they're overly theatrical and they need to tone it down and they're like playing it like to the back of the theater or or or they go in and just don't really. They're just kind of really shy. Okay, so I already am more different than you thought.

Okay, okay.

Well, I just feel like that's often times

that I'm 100% like kids are like,

I love this and then you send them into an audition

and they're like, no, no, no, no. I'm just rushing, just speaking way too fast. Oh God, oh, the story of my life, I get it today. still that's yeah, no.

So that was the note.

Also, I'm gonna, I'm even gonna venture to say something.

I know for me, my brain works 5,000 miles an hour

and I'm even going to venture to say something. I know for me, my brain works 5,000 miles an hour and I have a feeling yours as well. And I feel like sometimes that's why we talk really fast because I'm like, if I don't talk fast and get all of this out quickly, I'm going to distract myself. Well, it's part of my... It's part of my delicate psychiatric profile, which I think is very charming. It is part of my charm now. At nearly 41, I've incorporated it to be charming. But... It's nice to be invited to someone else's breakdown. Oh, yes. And not always. Yes. Welcome to our breakdown. Yes, exactly. Where you get to share things that are not currently breaking down for you.

While we just share our current breakdowns.

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