Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.

I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast.

I am medicated, I am caffeinated, I am regulated, and I'm ready to roll.

That's up, that's up. How are you? Welcome to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here. I know there are millions of podcasts that you could choose from, and the fact that you pressed play on this one makes me so happy.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. I'm so grateful to you for your time and attention. I sure don't take it for granted. I really don't.

I'm so excited to tell you that it's my birthday. It's my birthday. Okay, technically, it's the day after my birthday, but I'm the kind of person who thinks birthday should be celebrated for days, weeks, maybe even the entire month.

So let's just go ahead and say it's my birthday, my whole birthday, and I actually really like getting older. I've always wanted to be older.

I've always looked forward to the future. I still do look forward to the future. I am 42 years old and still looking forward to getting older.

I'm glad to be here on this earth. I'm glad to be part of this ADHD community. What a gift. What a gift.

I'm going to take just a quick second and make an awkward request, which is just a small and free birthday gift from you to me. My dear listener, it's totally free, totally free.

Would you please make sure that you're subscribed? Would you please make sure to add this podcast to your library? Would you please make sure to rate and even review if you have the time and the executive function to review like, oh my gosh, that would be amazing.

But just simply tapping that five star rating button means so much. So like that's enough and it would make a huge difference to this show. As of this week, this podcast has 4.7 million downloads and we're number 19 on the mental health charts, which is really amazing and cool and crazy.

And you rating the podcast matters, you subscribing to the podcast matters, not just because if you have ADHD, you're working memory totally sucks. And so if you're not subscribed, you'll probably forget to listen again.

But it also matters because the more people subscribe, the more ADHDers can find us. And so it gets the word out about this helpful resource. And it just, it makes a really big difference.

So if you have a second for a quick birthday gift, please rate the podcast. Please make sure you're subscribed. I haven't asked you to do this in a while. If you're super weird, if you're super self serving, but also it's my birthday. So I would just love, love, love for you to take a second.

Rate review if you have the capacity to do it. And it would just mean so much to me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Today we are talking about 10 books that change my life. And I'm someone who has always really liked self development. And I, I like to read what I go in spurts. And I'm sure you can relate to this. Like sometimes I read a ton. And sometimes I can't be bothered. And it really does kind of ebb and flow. I like to have paper books.

But also just like with the way my life is set up, I'm, I listened to books on audible as well. And so I'm going to go through 10 books that have changed my life. I thought this was fitting for like a birthday podcast episode.

Not all of these books are ADHD related as a matter of fact, most of them are not. I've read so many books on ADHD. And I don't know if you can relate. But it's like, how many can we really, how many can we really like digest?

I know what I'm saying. So I'm going to go over like my couple favorite books on ADHD. But other than that, these are going to be ADHD friendly books that have really made a big difference in my life.

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