Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black.

Joining us on this episode is Ty Pennington, who's very familiar to millions of television viewers,

thanks to the hit shows Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover Home Edition. And now Ty is sharing his

behind-the-scenes story in his new book, Life to the Extreme, How a Chaotic Kid Became

America's Favorite Carpenter. Ty, thank you so much for joining us.

Hey, thanks for having me.

It's a pleasure to be on.

Tell us why you decided to write your life story.

It's a fascinating story.

Why did you decide to share it at this point in time?

Well, I think there's two reasons.

One, I constantly meet families that, let's just say, have had some challenges like

parenting with some kids that have been, well, let's just say a little active. And for a while,

I was sort of the poster child for ADHD, and I guess I sort of still am in many ways because,

well, I show the success that like anybody who has these challenges can find a way

to really focus on something and get something done. I mean, let's face it, I've been

working with power tools for years and still have all my digits and philangies, which is

impressive, you know, about ADHD. So, yeah, I think half that. And probably the second part is is I recently had to start sort of looking after my mother and sort of looking at that sort of life coming full circle. And I think she always wanted to write a book sort of about ADHD because like I said, literally one of the first chapters of the book after you jump in because of course I wrote a book

in the way a person with ADHD would and I literally told the publishers that's how I wanted to.

I wanted to start in the middle just in chaos and then jump around to chapter five and then

seven and then eventually go by two chapter one because that's how people tell stories when you're

sort of being like oh and then this then this happened. Oh, but wait

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