Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

Hello, my chickens. I am very excited today to share with you this conversation about ADHD

and other neurodivergent brains and how we can think about some of the traditional self-help,

self-development, coaching advice that we get when our brains are maybe neurodivergent

and don't necessarily line up with all of that advice, I think, in my own experience

in my life, my loved ones, coaching people with neurodivergent brains, like some of what's

recommended I think in coaching and the self-development world is actually great for people with

neurodivergent brains and then some of it maybe not as helpful. So we are going to dig into

all of that with Kristen Carter, who is an expert on this topic. So Kristen, so good to have

you tell us a little bit about who you are and kind of where your expertise on this topic

comes from.

Well, first, hi, Carla. Thank you so much for having me. Super pleased to be with you. I have ADHD

and I have a coaching practice where I help adults with ADHD just kind of figure out how to accept

themselves and their brains and make forward progress in their lives without hating themselves.

I also host the I have ADHD podcast and I've been in the ADHD space actually for about a decade.

I worked with students who struggled in school. Most of those students had ADHD and so that

was like my first introduction into the space and actually where I began to learn about my own

diagnosis and what it meant to have ADHD, which was very eye-opening for me because I had already

been diagnosed for over a decade at that time and then began to learn about what it actually

meant to have ADHD as I was trying to help others. And so for the last four years, I've been

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