Translating ADHD
Cameron Gott, Shelly Collins
Subscribe
We believe that success with ADHD is possible... with a little translation. Hosts Cameron Gott and Shelly Collins, both ADHD coaches who have plenty of insight to share navigating their own ADHD experiences, discuss how to live more authentically as an adult with ADHD and how to create real, sustained change to achieve greater success. If you are an adult with ADHD who wants more out of their business, career, and life, this is the podcast for you!
Available episodes
Newest first
Oldest first
1 day ago
ADHD and the Stress Response of Fight, Flight, or Freeze
As ADHD people, we pay most attention to the the things that generate the biggest signals. This week on the Translating ADHD podcast, Cam and Shelly continue the conversation by discussing negative big signals.
We discuss how negative big signals often produce a stress response our ADHD clients. We then look at examples of each type of stress response: Fight, Flight, and Freeze. Cam and Shelly then share how clients were able to use awareness as a tool to begin to disrupt this type of stress response before it happens by noticing and naming the negative signal which creates an opportunity for a different outcome.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more of the Translating ADHD podcast:
* For episode transcripts visit TranslatingADHD.com and click on the episode.
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
* Episode Transcription: TranslatingADHD.com
Apr 5, 2021
Hyperfocus and Navigating Big Cognitive Signals with ADHD
As ADHD people, we pay most attention to the the things that generate the biggest signals. This week on the Translating ADHD podcast, we dive deeper into this signal based attention system.
We discuss our tendency as ADHD adults to rely on the Adrenaline Response Cycle (ARC) and hyperfocus as primary tools for getting to action. The challenge here is that these tools are only effective for the biggest signals, those generated by emotion or urgency. This leaves us ignoring the more nuanced signals, the ones that often speak to what really matters to us. Cam and Shelly discuss how many of our clients come to coaching with the limiting belief that their previous strategies "no longer work". The reality here is more nuanced - as life gets more complicated and our goals get more lofty, relying only on paying attention to the biggest signals and the subsequent ADHD response of adrenaline or hyperfocus no longer works because these reactive tendencies don't allow for forward progress.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more of the Translating ADHD podcast:
* For episode transcripts visit TranslatingADHD.com and click on the episode.
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
* Episode Transcription: TranslatingADHD.com
Mar 29, 2021
ADHD and Managing Signal Based Attention with REBEL
As ADHD people, we pay most attention to the the things that generate the biggest signals. This causes us to give our attention to things that may not be our priority, and to avoid the big signals that are painful. The big signal generators that often get our attention include: interest, urgency, avoidance, emotion, visibility, novelty, and perceived conflict.
This week Cam and Shelly bring the REBEL model together by discussing how we can apply REBEL model to navigate our ADHD brain's "signal based attention system". We discuss several successful outcomes with our ADHD coaching clients that demonstrate REBEL in action and how it can help us tune into more subtle signals. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balanced Attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* For episode transcripts visit TranslatingADHD.com and click on the episode.
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
* Episode Transcription: TranslatingADHD.com
Mar 22, 2021
An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Exposure to New Experiences
This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at the second E and Exposure to New Experiences. Exposure to New Experiences is at the heart of the work we do as ADHD coaches. When our clients commit to actions in coaching it is an opportunity to test and try and to be exposed to new and different experiences, regardless of the outcome of the action. This is the learning action model we talk about on the show: building knowledge of of the self and one's uniquely wired brain over time to create lasting change. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balanced Attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* For episode transcripts visit TranslatingADHD.com and click on the episode.
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 15, 2021
An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Exposure to Time
This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at the second E and Exposure to Time. Exposure to Time addresses how ADHD adults experience time differently. We discuss how those of us with ADHD often live in now or not now, and how we can begin to have a different experience with time. Exposure to Time is about practicing awareness so that we can step back and see beyond the big signals and begin to develop a better relationship with the smaller signal of time. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balanced Attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 8, 2021
An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Balanced Attack
This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at B and Balanced Attack. Balanced Attack addresses ADHD tendencies around motivation. The first is our tendency to follow what is interesting and to struggle to engage with tasks that do not engage the interest based attention system we have ad ADHD people. The next is our tendency as ADHD adults to rely on urgency and the adrenaline response to urgency to motivation, especially for tasks that we cannot motivate for based on interest. Balanced Attack is about managing tasks that are uninteresting or otherwise challenging for those of us with ADHD so that we have more time, space, and bandwidth for what matters. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balanced Attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 1, 2021
An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Remember to Remind the Brain
This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at R and Remember to Remind the Brain. Remember to Remind the brain addresses the memory challenges with ADHD, and especially remembering in the moment. As ADHD people we connect and make meaning in the moment, however, we often forget what we know outside of that moment. How do we keep what is relevant front and center? What are the things that we have learned about our own ADHD experiences and what we know to be true about ourselves? This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how listeners can use Remember to Remind the brain to make these key connections in the moment in order to keep what is relevant front and center and to remember and apply what we know about ourselves. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balance the attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 22, 2021
An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Expand the Mind
This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at the first E and Expand the Mind. For a group with wide ranging imaginations & perspectives those of us with ADHD can lock into a predetermined outcome then claim failure if our actions don't match our initial picture of success. Both Cam and Shelly discuss how Expand the Mind was instrumental in giant leaps forward as coaches and as neurodivergent souls. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balance the attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 15, 2021
ADHD PoC Voices: Rhashidah Perry Jones Shares on ADHD Advocacy in Black Communities
This week we are delighted to present another special episode dedicated to exploring the lived experiences of people of color with ADHD by presenting an interview with ADHD Parent Advocate and Coach Rhashidah Perry Jones.
Rhashidah has spent the last 20 years educating parents and individuals with ADHD through her work with CHADD. Rhashidah is an executive with a non-profit organization addressing fair housing issues and homelessness in the greater Philadelphia area.
Join Cam in exploring Rhashidah’s own education in learning about ADHD through raising her own child and the obstacles and opportunities facing communities of color. This conversation is a powerful testament to the value of optimism, resilience, courage and hope.
Episode links + resources:
* Find Rhashidah Perry Jones
* Rhashidah’s Book
* ADHD Coach Inger Shaye Colzie Interview
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 8, 2021
An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Limit Scope
This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at L and Limit Scope. Those of us with ADHD know a thing or two about over committing and over-extending. Limit Scope is all about knowing your limits, limiting what comes onto your plate and how to effectively move things to completion. Cam pulls out the metaphorical stops on this episode with melon patches, half baked cakes and stairwells with one key missing element. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balance the attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 1, 2021
Developing Competence and Confidence through Practice
As ADHD adults we often undermine ourselves in the areas of building confidence and competence. We find ourselves overwhelmed with choices in these areas, not knowing where to start or which actions will serve us best. This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how ADHD adults can help us develop confidence and competence and introduce a model for this practice that we will break down in detail over the next several episodes. The REBEL model: Remember to remind the brain Expand the mind Balance the attack Exposure to time, to new experiences Limit scope, start with what you know
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jan 25, 2021
Beyond Imposter Syndrome: Cultivating Confidence and Competence
This week, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on ADHD and Imposter Syndrome by examining how listeners can begin to move beyond Imposter Syndrome. In addition to naming and distinguishing Imposter Syndrome when it is happening, there are ways that we can develop supports for ourselves as ADHD adults to be able to more readily step out of Imposter Syndrome. Today, we look at the concept of a skill development practice to develop confidence and competence as one critical support here.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jan 18, 2021
ADHD and Imposter Syndrome
This week, Cam and Shelly dive into the topic of Imposter Syndrome. This topic comes up frequently both in our client work and in our Discord community. Imposter Syndrome tends to show up despite evidence to the contrary. Using examples from our own experiences and our client work, we discuss why this happens for those of us with ADHD brains and how listeners can recognize and create change around Imposter Syndrome for themselves.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jan 11, 2021
Grieving for our Past Selves after an ADHD Diagnosis
This week, Cam and Shelly dive into the topic of grieving our past selves. As coaches, we often work with people who come to us with a new ADHD diagnosis, and with that diagnosis comes new context. With that context comes both the awareness that there are real reasons that we struggle, and the grief for our past selves as we wonder what might have been different had we known sooner that we have ADHD brains. We then discuss how grieving our past selves as ADHD adults isn't a process we go through once, but rather a process that will happen many times as we do our own understand, own, and translate work. We bring in client examples and metaphors to illustrate how and when this type of grief shows up and how listeners can recognize this grief for what it is and begin to work through it.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: Translati…
Jan 4, 2021
Revisiting our ADHD Cause and Effect Metaphor: How to Use this Model to Create Change
This week, Cam and Shelly finish a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode, we bring the component parts of the metaphor we've discussed in the last few weeks together to show the whole picture. In addition to discussing how the metaphor comes together, we discuss the bigger purpose the Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect metaphor. This metaphor is a more detailed version of our Understand, Own, Translate process. The goal of both frameworks is to discuss how ADHD people can most effectively create long lasting change.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Dec 28, 2020
Revisiting our ADHD Cause and Effect Metaphor: Above the Lunch Counter
This week, Cam and Shelly continue a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode, we continue to break down this metaphor to help listeners better understand language we use regularly in the show. In this episode, we continue to look at Cam's own ADHD journey in the context of our metaphor. We start by looking at the point that Cam first found himself up above the metaphorical Lunch Counter, the place where he came to ownership of his own ADHD experience. We then discuss the work that Cam did above the Lunch Counter in examining combinations of symptoms and learning about his individual ADHD manifestation and what was at causation for him.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating AD…
Dec 21, 2020
Revisiting our ADHD Cause and Effect Metaphor: The Lunch Counter
This week, Cam and Shelly continue a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode and in the coming weeks, we will break down this metaphor to help listeners better understand language we use regularly in the show.
This week, we continue our discussion by discussing where awareness work begins as ADHD adults: at The Lunch Counter. The Lunch Counter the place that ADHD adults find themselves in after diagnosis; the place where we start to learn about level-1 ADHD symptoms.
We then discuss the limitations of the Lunch Counter and why our model does not end here. While there is helpful information to be had in examining level-1 ADHD symptoms, the real work begins by examining combinations of symptoms and learning about one's individual ADHD manifestation.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Communi…
Dec 14, 2020
Revisiting our ADHD Cause and Effect Metaphor: The Valleys
This week, Cam and Shelly begin a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode and in the coming weeks, we will break down this metaphor to help listeners better understand language we use regularly in the show. This week, we start by reminding listeners why we chose Mt. Rainier as the center of our metaphor. We then discuss the area of the metaphor that most of our ADHD adult clients find themselves in when they come to coaching: The Valleys below Mt. Rainier. We then use Cam's experience to examine how we see The Valleys as the area of being in the effect of our ADHD behaviors, and how listeners can apply this model to begin to examine their own lived experience and start to move toward the next portion of the model, which we will discuss next week: The Lunch Counter.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
* J…
Dec 7, 2020
Big Brain Fast Brain: An ADHD Modal Model
One of the best things about doing this show is that, as your hosts, we are also learning. We are constantly examining our models, concepts, and language as we deliver episodes to you.
This week, we examine the language we've been using for modes of operation as ADHD people. Taking our previous "Planner and/or Doer" language, we introduce and discuss a new model that we feel better describes a range of ADHD experiences: "Big Brain and/or Fast Brain"
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 30, 2020
Developing Keystone Habits with ADHD
Building habits can be a challenge as ADHD adults. This week, Cam and Shelly introduce the concept of keystone habits. We discuss how learning what the important large and small keystone habits are for ourselves as ADHD people is so important because keystone habits are the foundational habits that we can build other habits on. We then give examples of keystone habits from our own lives and our client work and talk about how listeners can begin to discover what your keystone habits might be.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 23, 2020
Activating for the Tasks that Matter with ADHD (pt. 2)
In today's episode, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on what is really happening for us ADHD people in the gap between awareness and action. We discuss the "pain portal" that exists in this space and give several examples of how clients have used our our understand, own, translate model to pass through the painful place and get to action.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 16, 2020
Activating for the Tasks that Matter with ADHD (pt. 1)
ADHD makes us unaware, makes us disengage, or makes us fail to engage. Much of the work that Cam and Shelly do with our adult ADHD clients is discussing how to bridge the gap between awareness and action: We know what we want to do but we don't know why we don't do it. Today, we discuss the what is really happening for us ADHD people when we fail to bridge the gap between awareness and action.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 9, 2020
ADHD and Avoidance
As ADHD adults, we are masters at finding ways to not do what we know we ought to do. We often think the problem is procrastination, but procrastination is not a helpful description of what is actually happening for us. In this episode, Cam and Shelly dive into one ADHD manifestation that can look like procrastination: avoidance. Using several examples we discuss how avoiding behavior can show up, and how listeners can learn to start to recognize avoiding behavior when it is showing up, and how to begin creating change here.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 2, 2020
Distinguishing High Value Work with ADHD
As ADHD adults, we struggle to distinguish high value work from low value tasks. We lose sight of our priorities during the work day, or we get sidetracked and lose sight of the bigger picture when working on a project. In this episode, Cam and Shelly discuss how listeners can begin to distinguish high value work as a way to prioritize and to focus on what matters when tackling a bigger project.
Episode links + resources:
* 2020 Virtual Conference on ADHD
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Oct 26, 2020
ADHD and Decision Making (pt. 2)
This week, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on ADHD and decision making by looking at decision making during the work day. We look at where missed decision points can happen during our work day. We then discuss how listeners can apply a learning action model to create change by catching more opportunities for decision, considering what the decision at hand is when a decision point is identified, and saving bandwidth for the decisions that matter.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Oct 19, 2020
ADHD and Decision Making (pt. 1)
This week, Cam and Shelly turn our attention to decision making at a high level. We discuss how so much of what we struggle with as ADHD people comes down to indecision or missed decision points. We then give examples to highlight the different ways in which ADHD impacts decision making and give several scenarios to highlight ADHD related challenges that have learning to make good decisions at their core.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Oct 12, 2020
ADHD and Task Management (pt. 2)
This week, Cam and Shelly build on last week's episode by discussing steps listeners can take to start to take control of task management. We discuss the 3-Step method that Shelly uses with clients to start building good habits around task management, and how listeners can use this method as a starting place to learn what works best for them.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Oct 5, 2020
ADHD and Task Management (pt. 1)
This week, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on creating a meaningful work day as ADHD adults by looking at task management at a high level. We break down the many ways in which ADHD can interfere with task management and discuss ways in which listeners can begin to examine how their ADHD is showing up each day and how it might be interfering with effective task management.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Sep 28, 2020
The Power of Explicit Agreements with ADHD
This week, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on creating a meaningful work day as ADHD adults by looking at agreements. We discuss the implicit agreements that we make with ourselves and others, and how we can fail to uphold those agreements when they are not clear or when a bigger signal grabs our attention. We then look at why explicit agreements are much more powerful for our ADHD brains. When we make explicit agreements with ourselves and others we know our commitment, our role, and how others around us can support. Finally, we discuss how listeners can begin to examine their existing agreements to look for opportunities to strengthen those agreements.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Sep 21, 2020
ADHD and Reimagining Accountability
This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how ADHD adults often view accountability as a negative value judgment that requires us to always use our time productively. We then discuss how ADHD can reimagine accountability to create positive support and mutual accountability with our collaborators. We also share our accountability practices in producing this podcast together, and some lessons learned from other accountability relationships. Use code cam for a $5 discount on Cam's book: Curious Accountability: Three Coaching Conversations for Better Client Results
Episode links + resources:
* Cam's Blog: The Six Cs of Completion
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Sep 14, 2020
ADHD and Emotional Organizing
This week, Cam and Shelly continue the conversation on how ADHD adults can reframe what it means to have a meaningful work day. We discuss how ADHD brains often determine what we will or will not do based on what we "feel like" doing, and present alternatives to emotional organizing to prioritize and plan your work day as an ADHD person.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Sep 7, 2020
Creating a Meaningful Work Day with ADHD
This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how ADHD adults can reframe what it means to have a meaningful work day. We examine the limited usefulness of workplace motivational statements for ADHD adults, many of which place importance on being accountable for our time, and discuss other ways in which we can measure a meaningful work day. Use code cam for a $5 discount on Cam's book: Curious Accountability: Three Coaching Conversations for Better Client Results
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
Aug 31, 2020
ADHD and Sleep (pt. 2)
This week, Cam and Shelly continue our discussing on ADHD and sleep by exploring how Shelly worked over time to change her relationships with sleep from chronically under slept to well rested.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Aug 24, 2020
ADHD and Sleep (pt. 1)
Adults with ADHD are significantly more likely to have problems with sleep than the general population, and to make matters worse our ADHD gets in the way of being able to create change around sleep. This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how listeners can start to create change around sleep using our understand, own, and translate model.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Aug 17, 2020
ADHD and Self Advocacy
As ADHD adults, our own ADHD can often get in the way of good self advocacy. As coaches, Cam and Shelly often see this in clients who seek out coaching when relationships at work or at home have deteriorated to a point where recovery may not be possible. In this episode we discuss how listeners can have a different experience with self advocacy using the understand, own, and translate model.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Aug 10, 2020
ADHD and Identity
This week Cam and Shelly discuss how our relationship with our ADHD changes and evolves over time as we learn more about ourselves and our neurodiverse brains. We also discuss how this relates to ownership, and how owning our ADHD looks different for each individual.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Aug 3, 2020
Why Individual Manifestation and Awareness Matter
This week Cam and Shelly zoom back out to look at ADHD brains at a more global level. We revisit the topic of individual manifestation and our belief that understanding ones own unique brain wiring is the best way for an ADHD person to create change.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jul 27, 2020
Honoring Who You Are
This week Cam and Shelly revisit the major shifts that Shelly discussed in the "Stepping Into Who You Are" episode to discuss what happened next. With the powerful shifts that Shelly experienced, she realized that a major piece of her life wasn't allowing her to live authentically which led her to make a difficult and life-altering decision.
Episode links + resources:
* How To Maintain Connection In Relationships with ADHD - René Brooks
* ADHDyou.com Couples Connect & Reset - Kate Barrett
* ADHD & Marriage - Melissa Orlov
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jul 20, 2020
Defining Big C Coaching
This week Cam and Shelly revisit the topic of "Big C" Coaching. We discuss what defines a "Big C" coach and why this style of coach approach is such a powerful tool for our ADHD brains.
Episode links + resources:
* What is Executive Function? Russell Barkley, PH.D.
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jul 13, 2020
ADHD PoC Voices: Inger Shares on Being a Black Woman with ADHD
This week we are delighted to present our first special episode dedicated to exploring the lived experiences of people of color with ADHD by presenting an interview with our friend and colleague Inger Shaye Colzie. Inger is a Black woman with ADHD and a coach + therapist. Join Cam in exploring her lived experience as they discuss her current coaching + therapy career, her experience as a child with ADHD, and the unique challenges she sees for Black women with ADHD.
Episode links + resources:
* Find Inger: IngerShay.com
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jul 6, 2020
Stepping Into Who You Are
This week we try something a little different to demonstrate how ADHD brains can be an asset when we know how to manage our attention and focus on what matters. Join us as Cam coaches Shelly to help her examine and articulate the powerful shift she recently experienced that brought her life's purpose into full view and allowed her to step into a new more powerful version of herself.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jun 29, 2020
Managing All of Life's Roles
This week we revisit the idea of knowing your role as adults with ADHD. However, this time we look at it from a different angle that Cam and Shelly often see show up with their clients; when we get so focused on one role that the others seemingly vanish. Using real world scenarios we examine the different ways that we and our clients have experienced disappearing roles, and discuss what listeners can do to examine and create change around this experience in their own lives.
Episode links + resources:
* Join the Community | Become a Patron
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jun 22, 2020
Making Anti-Racism Part of the Show Culture + Community Announcement
This week we are taking a pause to discuss our plans to make anti-racism a part of the culture of Translating ADHD. Both of your hosts believe that silence is complacency, and that we have a responsibility to use our platform to speak out against racism and to amplify the voices of our Black colleagues doing great work in the ADHD space. Here's the plan:
Financial Support for Anti-Racism.
We launched our community for show patrons today. Gain access to our Discord community when you become a patron at the Translator level ($5/mo) via Patreon.
* 100% of our proceeds earned via Patreon through 12/21/20 will be donated to anti-racism causes.
* 10% of our proceeds earned via Patreon will be donated to anti-racism causes forever.
Amplifying the Voices of Black ADHD Professionals and ADHD Professionals of Color.
For the most part, the show you know and love will not be changing. Our primary format will still be conversations between Shelly and Cam. However, we recognize that the…
Jun 15, 2020
The Power of Being At Choice
When we are at choice as adults with ADHD it can make difficult tasks easier and help us shift from a perspective of being free from pain to one of being free to do what matters. Today, we talk about how seeking relief from your level 1 symptoms works but can't sustain a long term management plan. Enter freedom and choice.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jun 8, 2020
How Clean Slate Thinking Harms Us
Have you ever found yourself believing that if you could just start with a "clean slate", things would be different? Today, Shelly and Cam ask our listeners to examine clean slate thinking. We look at the circumstances that compel us to want to start over and the appeal of a clean slate as an answer to complexity or overwhelm. We also dig into our own experiences to discuss the past damaging behaviors and patterns that each of us experienced in pursuit of a clean slate.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jun 1, 2020
Living With ADHD Does Not Make You Broken
Because we struggle with things that seem "easy" for most people, those of us with ADHD tend to develop the belief over time that there is something inherently wrong with us. Taking it a step further, we often try to hide our differences by bending over backwards to blend in with the neurotypical majority. Today, Shelly and Cam ask our listeners to question the limiting belief that having ADHD makes us broken; and instead to consider how owning both your strengths and challenges as an adult with ADHD empowers you to adapt to methods that work for you and honor the fact that your needs are different.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
May 25, 2020
Stepping Out of the "I'm Not Doing This Right" Mindset
Because our brains are wired differently than the neurotypical majority, those of us with ADHD can often fall into the trap of believing that we are not doing things right. Today, Cam and Shelly use client examples to demonstrate how the "I'm not doing this right" mindset can show up in friendships and work relationships. We then discuss how these clients were able to shift their perspective from a a place of inferiority to one of different, but equal.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
May 18, 2020
Utilizing Supportive People with ADHD
Today, Cam and Shelly come back to our conversation on resources to discuss how we can better utilize the supportive people in our lives . We discuss how we as adults with ADHD often resist asking for help because we view it as a sign of weakness. We then ask listeners to consider the perspective that together, we are stronger.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
May 11, 2020
Letting it Be Easy with ADHD
Today, Cam and Shelly discuss a guiding philosophy that Shelly lives by in her own life and uses frequently with clients: Let It Be Easy. We discuss how we as adults with ADHD often get in our own way, over-complicating problems or approaching them from the wrong angle. We then give examples of how we and our clients have used this philosophy to find the "let it be easy" approach and how listeners can apply this philosophy to their own challenges.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
May 4, 2020
Finding the Right Path with the Big Agenda
As coaches, we use The Big Agenda to help our clients understand the bigger reasons they are working to create change and to link the work they are doing to positive outcomes, and to provide signposts that we are on the right path. In today's episode, we discuss how listeners can begin to consider what defines their own Big Agenda, and how we use our clients Big Agendas to provide signposts on their journey.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Apr 27, 2020
Managing Distraction to Reach Completion
For those of us with ADHD, distractions are a struggle. When we are distracted by a compelling thought or idea, we are often not only taken off task but taken down a rabbit hole. In today's episode, Shelly and Cam discuss a model for managing distractions so that we can reach the completions that matter to us.
Episode links + resources:
* Cam's Blog: The Six Cs
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Apr 20, 2020
Managing Mental and Emotional Energy with ADHD
As we do the work of adjusting to this temporary new normal, we often feel like we are at our mental and emotional limits. This week, Cam and Shelly open up about our own experiences in this unique time, including what we are aware of and what we are working to adjust.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Apr 13, 2020
ADHD and Setting Boundaries
As our world shrink and our access to other people is limited, there is a need for us and the people in quarantine with us to set healthy boundaries so that we don't sacrifice our own well being to meet the needs of those in our households. This week, Cam and Shelly discuss setting boundaries and managing expectations both in the context of quarantine and in general as adults with ADHD.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Apr 6, 2020
Managing Mental and Emotional Overload with ADHD
This week, Shelly and Cam continue our discussion of ADHD experience in the context of the current coronavirus pandemic. Though the pace of life may be slower for many of us, our bandwidth is being stretched by uncertainty, powerful emotions, and the effort of trying to find our new normal. Using Cam's DAM model, we discuss how to manage the mental and emotional overload brought on by these uncertain times by evaluating and adjusting what we can control: our behavior.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 30, 2020
Shifting from "Snow Day" to Opportunity Mentality while Social Distancing with ADHD
This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how different clients are experiencing the slow down in the pace of life as they practice social distancing amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As the number of urgent items that need our attention decreases, our clients are turning our attention to activating on items that are important but not urgent. Using several recent client examples we discuss how our clients are uniquely experiencing reduction in urgency and demands on their attention as adults with ADHD. Using these examples, we then discuss how listeners can adjust in the absence of urgency by looking for the opportunities created by this slower pace.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 23, 2020
Navigating COVID-19 Related Disruptions with ADHD
As coaches, Cam and Shelly are working with clients on managing the many disruptions caused by the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The individual challenges are as unique as our clients, the individual impacts they are experiencing, and their individual ADHD experience. In today's episode, we bring that conversation to our listeners by discussing what we and our clients are working through: lost or reduced income, loss of crucial supports (environments, people, routines, structure), managing time when everything happens all under one roof, and more.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 16, 2020
Identifying and Accessing Resources with ADHD
As adults with ADHD, we often do do not see the many resources available to us. However, when we are operating from a place of strength, we can start to identify and access those resources. In today's episode, Cam and Shelly discuss the importance of approaching resources from a place of strength, identify several areas in which to look for and identify resources, and give examples in a few crucial resource areas.
Episode links + resources:
* Essential Structures Model
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 9, 2020
Shifting to a Strengths Based Perspective with ADHD
This week we continue the conversation around strengths by looking at Shelly's client Sally and her limiting belief that she had to "pass as neurotypical" to be successful. Cam and Shelly break down how Sally shifted from this limiting belief to a strengths based perspective. We also discuss why this shift is so important and why it is often the place we begin with our clients.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Mar 2, 2020
Tapping Into Strengths with ADHD
This week we turn our attention to tapping into our strengths as adults with ADHD. Cam and Shelly break down why we are strengths based coaches and discuss how accessing and leveraging strengths is a powerful way to help our clients create the change they are seeking. We then cap the conversation by discussing how accessing and leveraging strengths helped one of Cam's clients turn a scenario at work from one of challenge to one of opportunity and success.
Episode links + resources:
* Strengths & Challenges Reframe Chart
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 24, 2020
ADHD, Hyperfocus, and Flow State
As adults with ADHD we often have a black or white view of hyperfocus. On one hand we see it as a powerful elixir or superpower that allows us incredible focus and productivity. On the other, we know that hyperfocus can distract us from what is important by dragging us down Alice in Wonderland style rabbit holes. In today's episode, Shelly and Cam discuss how to create awareness around hyperfocus by distinguishing when we are hyperfocusing on tasks that are timely and relevant from tasks that are not. We bring in examples from our own experience, discuss popular examples of hyperfocus portrayal, and discuss how hyperfocus differs from flow state.
Episode links + resources:
* Tim Urban: Wait but Why
* Cal Newport: Deep Work
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 17, 2020
Distinguishing ADHD and Time Management
As adults with ADHD we often view time as the enemy, because many of the effects of ADHD look like poor time management. Today, Shelly discusses her experience working with neurotypical adults and adults with ADHD in the areas of time management and breaks the differences in experiences. Shelly and Cam then distinguish time management challenges from ADHD challenges. We also discuss how effects of our ADHD challenges are often mistakenly believed to have cause in time management issues, both by ourselves and the neurotypicals around us.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 10, 2020
Time, Transitions, and Hyperfocus (pt. 1)
Transitions are difficult for those of us with ADHD. Often we can become stuck in one of two gears: the neutral gear of "the planner" or the 5th gear of "the doer" with little access to the gears between the two. This inability to access other gears tends to keep us stuck in either a pre-action or reaction mode. In today's episode Cam and Shelly discuss how to identify which gear you tend to be stuck in, and how those of us with ADHD can begin to access the gears between neutral and 5th.
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -Japanese Proverb
Episode links + resources:
* The Stages of Change Model (Prochaska and DiClemente)
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Feb 3, 2020
ADHD and Experiencing Time
Those of us with ADHD experience time differently. To complicate matters, our perception of time can vary based on individual ADHD manifestation and a number of outside factors. Today Cam and Shelly discuss some of the ways in which they and their clients experience time differently. We also discuss how to begin developing awareness of your own experience of time as an adult with ADHD so that you develop strategies to get what matters to you while managing the amount of time that is given to or taken by others.
Cam's Seven Factors to Action:
Take the item or goal on your list that has not budged and rank each of these areas from 1-10. The areas that fall below a 7 are the ones that speak to why this item is not moving forward.
* Level of interest
* Level of ease
* Level of urgency
* Level of fun
* Level of accountability
* Level of relevance or importance
* Level of emotional load
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About C…
Jan 27, 2020
ADHD and Doing What Matters
As adults with ADHD we respond well to urgency, but not necessarily to importance. This often leads to us failing to act on the things that are important to us but will never be urgent; items such as career and business goals, self care goals, and self improvement goals. Today, Cam and Shelly discuss why these items are so difficult for us to get to action on as adults with ADHD, and how we can objectively evaluate what has us stuck here.
Cam's Six Factors to Action:
Take the item or goal on your list that has not budged and rank each of these areas from 1-10. The areas that fall below a 7 are the ones that speak to why this item is not moving forward.
* Level of interest
* Level of ease
* Level of urgency
* Level of fun
* Level of accountability
* Level of relevance or importance
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on…
Jan 20, 2020
ADHD and Sense of Self
This week Cam and Shelly continue the conversation around ADHD and negative self talk by exploring how we have each shifted in this area over time. We each discuss a recent scenario in which ADHD caught us off guard, what the consequences were, and how we were able to manage both the situation at hand and our ADHD tendencies. We then reflect on what might have gone differently prior to having done the understand, own, and translate work we advocate for on the podcast and with our clients.
Reflecting Questions for Listeners:
As we hit episode #13 (and counting!) Cam also pointed out that now is a great time as a listener to pause and reflect on your experience with the podcast so far. Here are the four questions he posed:
* What are you aware of?
* What are you learning?
* What is resonating?
* What is your practice?
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: Tran…
Jan 13, 2020
ADHD and Negative Self Talk
As adults with ADHD we can be our own harshest critics. In today's episode, Cam and Shelly explore negative self talk in the context of our cause and effect metaphor. Using examples from our own experiences, we discuss the causes behind our negative self talk, the impact negative self talk has, and how to start shifting the signal to a more balanced and realistic view of ourselves and our experiences.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Jan 6, 2020
Cause, Effect, and the Universal ADHD Question (pt. 2)
In this continuation of last week's episode, Cam and Shelly use examples from their own experiences as adults with ADHD to further illustrate both the difficulty and the importance of getting to cause with ADHD. We also offer alternatives to the metaphor we've been using to illustrate the relationship between cause and effect and the impact of ADHD, and we expand on our existing metaphor to set up for next week's episode where we bring the metaphor together.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our cause + effect metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
* The Brown Model of ADD/ADHD
* Strengths and Challenges Reframe Chart
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Dec 30, 2019
Cause, Effect, and the Universal ADHD Question (pt. 1)
Why do I not do what I know I ought to do? This is the universal ADHD question and the question that Cam and Shelly hope to help you answer throughout this podcast. In today's episode, Shelly and Cam use metaphor to discuss the first barrier to answering this question: getting to effect. As adults with ADHD we are often acutely aware of the symptoms of our ADHD, however, we mistake these symptoms as cause when they really live at effect.
Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:
Cam's illustration of our cause + effect metaphor.
Episode links + resources:
* The Brown Model of ADD/ADHD
* Strengths and Challenges Reframe Chart
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Dec 23, 2019
Embracing Journey Thinking with ADHD
Those of us with ADHD are often prone to problem based thinking, believing that if we could just solve the problem then everything would fall into place. In today's episode, Cam and Shelly offer an alternative approach of journey based thinking. Based on their work with clients and their own experiences, Cam and Shelly discuss two major components of journey based thinking. The first is defining your big agenda as an adult with ADHD which allows you to connect the work you are doing to manage your ADHD to the positive impact you are trying to create. The second is learning to go narrow before you go wide, which allows us as adults with ADHD to take the first step without letting the potential outcomes of the bigger agenda prevent us from taking action at all.
Episode links + resources:
* Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: Transl…
Dec 16, 2019
Embracing Your Unique Brain Wiring with ADHD
Moving through the world with ADHD means learning how to cope and manage ADHD to survive in a world that isn't designed for us; however, Cam and Shelly believe there is a better approach. Embracing your unique brain wiring means not just understanding the differences in your experience, but owning and leveraging those differences to ultimately work with the way that your brain works instead of trying to work against it. In today's episode Cam and Shelly share stories about how embracing and working with their unique brain wiring ultimately lead to less stress, better outcomes, and greater success.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Dec 9, 2019
ADHD and Impact
To have ADHD is to have both positive and negative impact. The challenge that we face as adults with ADHD is that ADHD impairs our ability to be aware of all of our impact. Using examples from client experiences and our own experiences Cam and Shelly discuss being aware of our impact as adults with ADHD in the areas of beliefs, behavior, task initiation, and more.
Episode links + resources:
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Dec 2, 2019
ADHD, Sleep, and the Essential Structures Model
In this episode, Cam and Shelly introduce the Essential Structures model, a model we use with our clients. This model is one tool to create awareness around your own ADHD experiences and to distinguish; both subjects we've discussed in previous episodes. You can also use this model to identify both the challenges and supports that may not be immediately apparent to you as you embark on the process of change as an adult with ADHD. To demonstrate the model in action, we discuss it in the context of sleep which is a common challenge among our adult ADHD clients.
Episode links + resources:
* The Essential Structures Model
* Coach Approach for Organizers
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 25, 2019
ADHD and Readiness for Change
How do you know if you are ready for change as an adult with ADHD? If you aren't currently ready for change, how do you prepare to be ready for change? In this episode of Translating ADHD, Cam and Shelly explain what we mean by readiness for change with ADHD. In this episode, we discuss Cam's early experiences as an entrepreneur and his own process of being ready for change to demonstrate why the readiness steps we discuss in are crucial to our ability to create and sustain positive change as adults with ADHD.
Episode links + resources:
* 8 Questions to Determine if You're Coachable
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 18, 2019
ADHD and the Adrenaline Response Cycle
Awareness of our ADHD experience is not just about being aware of what works, it's also about developing awareness about the habits and behaviors that are getting in the way. In this episode of Translating ADHD, Cam and Shelly look at a common ADHD behavior that often gets in the way of change; that of delaying action until urgency forces our hand. Using Cam's Adrenaline Response Cycle model, we look at how those of us with ADHD often rely on urgency or anxiety as a motivator while discounting the effects of the crash and recovery part of cycle. Using examples from our own experiences, we discuss creating awareness around the impact of living on the ARC roller coaster which is the crucial first step to finding other motivation elixirs.
ARC Model:
Episode links + resources:
* More on ARC: Cam's Blog
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @Translatin…
Nov 11, 2019
ADHD and Creating Change
Change is really difficult with ADHD. Individuals with ADHD tend to delay and try everything they can before they are able to embark on real and significant change. We also tend to try to create a clean slate, restarting and reinventing over and over again. In this episode Cam + Shelly share their own experiences and failures with try everything and clean slate thinking. We then discuss how ultimately how the process of understand, own, and translate allowed each of us to create the real and sustainable change we were seeking.
Episode links + resources:
* The Eisenhower Matrix
* Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
* About Cam and Shelly
For more Translating ADHD:
* Visit our website: TranslatingADHD.com
* Follow us on Twitter: @TranslatingADHD
Nov 4, 2019
The Power of Translating ADHD
In April of 2019, Shelly presented at the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals conference on the topic of time management for ADHD clients. The challenge she ran into was how to translate the unique ADHD experience to a room full of neurotypical professional organizers and productivity consultants. The presentation was not only successful, but Shelly noticed that the strongest reactions came from the few participants in the room who also have ADHD. Shelly heard over and over again from these colleagues that her presentation helped them understand their own ADHD experiences in a new way and that they felt understood in a way they never have before. Thus was born the concept of Translating ADHD.
Cause + Effect
The experience of having ADHD inhibits our ability to get to cause. It's like being in the wake of your motorboat: we feel the effects of the experience but we are not in the experience itself. Having ADHD puts a veil between the the wake and the bo…
Nov 2, 2019
Introducing Translating ADHD
Translating ADHD Hosts Cameron Gott and Shelly Collins are not only ADHD coaches, we also both are adults with ADHD finding our way. We believe that you can be more successful with ADHD and this is the work that we both do as ADHD coaches with clients every day.
Why Translating ADHD?
Only 20% of adults with ADHD are actively managing their ADHD. To further complicate things, many adults with ADHD believe that they must first solve their ADHD before they can be successful. We believe there is a better way, an integrated approach that allows us to to embrace our authentic selves as adults with ADHD as we learn to better navigate our individual ADHD related challenges. We started this podcast with the belief that success and ADHD can go hand in hand, and with the hope that more adults with ADHD will see the value in managing their ADHD in a way that allows them to live authentically as an adult with ADHD while creating sustained change over time. Our process of understanding, owning,…