Today on the podcast I’m joined by Susie Gutierrez a singer, songwriter, actor, and all-around creative soul. We talk about her journey to being diagnosed with ADHD, how being empathic has impacted her relationships, and how important sleep schedules are.

We talk about topics ranging from her short-lived career as a mascot to her songwriting journey. We also discuss the reasons she stopped seeing a therapist and instead started working with an ADHD coach. She also shares how important giving yourself permission to practice self-love is. 

Susie was a blast to have on the show! She has an amazing upbeat personality and sheds light on different facets of living with and managing ADHD. Check out our conversation to gain some insights on how ADHD may be affecting your life.

Your Resources

https://hsperson.com/ | Dr. Elaine Aron
https://tannergers.com/ | Tanner Gers
ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability groups
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You’ll Learn:

• [01:21] Welcome back! Susie Gutierrez and I chat all about HSP and related topics.
• [05:18] Working as a mascot was a way of hiding for Susie, is she still hiding? 
• [08:28] Susie describes what it means to be a highly sensitive person (HSP).
• [11:50] HSP is not a DSM but it is something that we need to be careful about.
• [16:08] Susie chats about her weird sensory triggers like whispering and baby talk.
• [22:35] Back from the break and we move into stimulation seeking behaviors we have.
• [26:07] Susie chats about how her high level of empathy and her ADHD diagnosis has affected personal relationships.
• [33:30] Susie shares her sleep issues and her belief that they are related to her ADHD.
• [39:38] Susie was diagnosed two years ago and is on her first round of medications. We chat about the changes in her life since introducing meds (when she takes them).
• [52:36] Therapy and coaching help in completely different ways but both are valuable.
• [55:29] Does being an empath connect with improv? 
• [1:01:11] Self-love is so important, give yourself permission to take care of you.
• [1:03:27] Check out Susie on Medium, Instagram, and YouTube
• [1:05:11] If you’re a regular listener, consider becoming a patron and click on our Patreon button at www.ADHDreWired.com

Today we are sitting in an ADHD mastermind session, where our group will chat about how clutter affects our lives, what we can do about the clutter on a day-to-day basis. How can you be proactive about not making the clutter, how to keep the house clean, and how you can get your family involved to work together to keep your place organized.

We talk about how you can get a hold of clutter by making decisions on the spot and taking a few minutes to take care of the mess, so the clutter doesn't pile up in the first place. What you need to do for the first "domino" to get your family started on a team effort for household chores. Tying one habit to a habit that's already in place can quickly transfer into more work done.

Your Resources
The One Thing Book | How you can make a difference on outcomes

You’ll Learn:

• [02:39] Marisol shares her troubles with clutter and her family’s role in clearing clutter in the house.
• [06:01] Does Marisol fulfill society’s role as a female who should do the housework even though she’s a full-time mom and she works full-time.
• [07:39] The processes Marisol have tried to get her family to pitch in to clear the house.
• [09:55] What can her children do that are 10 and 6 years of age?
• [12:50] List of house chores and who has responsibility for different house chores
• [16:34] What is the first domino of getting the family involved in household chores?
• [20:52] Fit one thing here and there and add small items one at a time to achieve your goal.
• [27:10] Atomic Habits is the book recommendation for this episode from Eric.
• [27:54] Carrie talks about having goals for the month and to pick one goal at a time.
• [32:51] What is the self-talk when you put something down where it doesn’t belong?
• [39:09] How to use the two sticky note strategy for a reminder.
• [42:44] How can we queue ourselves to remind us to do an activity when we don’t want to?
• [54:07] Methods to make sure things have a “home” to place them repeatedly to keep track of items you can easily lose.
• [58:40] The open loops we have created the anxiety which we feel on a daily basis.
• [60:18] What Marisol can get rid of from her craft space to make her space a place she can craft with her kids.
• [64:45] Is not giving things away Marisol isn’t using a way of not saying goodbye to her friend?
• [65:56] What would Marisol’s friend say to her if she saw her craft table?
• [67:03] Marisol decides to donate the art supplies she hasn’t used to her daughter’s preschool teacher, who her daughter is very fond of.
• [70:13] Marisol’s teacher will be receiving the supplies by a certain date for a sense of urgency.
• [74:45] Using pictures to show others what you would like them to do.

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Early registration for ADHD reWired’s Spring season of our online, video-based coaching and accountability group has ended, and the groups are full. Our next registration signups begin May 10th.  To sign up on the email list, which allows you to register on May 7th, visit http://coachingrewired.com.

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ADHD reWired Facebook Group:

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Productivity Q&A

Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30 pm.  Go to http://erictivers.com/events.

Want to be a guest?

Hey, What about you?  Do you have a story? Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call here.

Welcome back to the monthly Q&A episode. Brendan Mahan and I take questions from the group about everything from setting boundaries to setting and accomplishing goals. Learn about finding your “Why” Q, and how setting S.M.A.R.T. goals helps you stay on track in the long-term.

We then move into ADHD medications, irritability, and the stigma surrounding the disease and its symptoms. Finding the right kind of medication and dosing is paramount to reducing symptoms of the medication. Brendan and I also help walk through post-school and work activities and how making minor tweaks helps with the medication crashes and over-stimulation.

Brendan and I also address the stigma surrounding medications. For most people, medications are safe and effective. Seeing your doctor and finding the right medication for you is the most important piece of that. Knowing that you are not alone in the symptoms you are experiencing is also helpful, but realize that the stigma surrounding ADHD is daily being debunked by science.

Join us as we chat about the good and bad of medication, overstimulation, and setting goals and boundaries. We cover so many topics in this episode and share so many great coping tips. You won't want to miss this epic Q&A session!

Your Resources

ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability groups
www.ADHDreWired.com/events

You’ll Learn:

• [01:51] Welcome back! Brendan Mahan helps in our monthly live Q&A.
• [03:22] Nick asks about strategies for long term focus and motivation techniques.
• [05:32] We dig into Nick’s current strategy and ways he can improve by setting S.M.A.R.T. goals.
• [11:55] Eric asks Nick to define his “Why”Q for language learning.
• [13:33] Brendan and Eric provide tips on reinforcing long-term motivation and goals.
• [15:07] Kerry asks about resisting the urge to blurt out every opinion, how do you overcome this?
• [21:00] Use reflective listening to resist the urge to blurt and validate the thoughts the other person is sharing.
• [27:31] What are some strategies to handle irritability with and without medications?
• [35:23] Consider listening to the music you like in middle and high school. That music brings a great deal of comfort and helps set the emotional tone.
• [39:25] Jacinto seeks out advice for being diagnosed and treated with ADHD because his mindset is affecting his family.
• [49:03] Michael asks how to scale the wall of awful and Brendan shares more about the wall and how it’s built.
• [54:18] Find your time wisdom. Figure out how long it takes to do things.
• [57:36] Attention is not just about focus. Learn how to make smooth transitions.
• [1:00:06] Create a monthly reminder to review the things you’ve learned and keep track of your “aha’s” and “re-ha’s.”
• [1:02:16] Don’t feel disappointed when you looking to scale the walls of awful in your life. Just start fresh each time.
• [1:03:47] This episode of ADHD reWired is brought to you by falafel waffles - just kidding… making sure you read to the bottom!
• [1:05;54] If you’re a regular listener, consider becoming a patron and click on our Patreon button at www.ADHDreWired.com

Today we are sitting in an ADHD mastermind session, where our group will ask Will Curb questions about different aspects of ADHD, how Will moves through and deals with certain obstacles. You can check out our panel guests on previous episodes of ADHD rewired.

We talk about the value of information, how to create habits after learning executive functioning skills, what ARC can do for you. Will talks about why he likes being an admin in the coaching group. Will’s mom recently passed away and we talk about how he is dealing with his grief and the steps he is taking to move through this emotional time. He talks about his podcast and his current and future plans.

Your Resources
The One Thing Book | How you can make a difference on outcomes

You’ll Learn:

• [02:15] Will shares the mastermind schedule, starting with ARC.
• [05:30] The why behind this type of learning.
• [08:49] Marisol’s question for Will. Does Will want to keep his podcast a set number of episodes?
• [12:12] Why sponsorship is difficult to do with ADHD podcast.
• [13:10] Cary asks Will about his five Whys.
• [19:03] Why Will feels validation is important.
• [21:00] Carl suggests setting monetary goals.
• [26:23] What kind of subject trees can Will create for his podcasts?
• [29:32] Marisol asks how Will plans to keep up his interest throughout keeping up his podcasts, especially without immediate feedback.
• [33:32] Carl suggests using his podcast as an open forum for creating a course on social media.
• [37:49] Will called himself the “fraud police” and how covering everything isn’t a good idea.
• [41:07] Eric asks Will to shoot him questions point blank.
• [45:41] What subjects and ideas are important to an ADHD podcasting community.
• [48:38] Do the podcast you would want to hear and be yourself.
• [49:41] What charity would Will donate to if he could have used funding to give back to the community.
• [51:55] Do you think your podcast would be able to extend the ADHD brand?
• [56:30] What to do when someone in your classroom knows more than you do.
• [57:13] Potential names for Will’s podcast

Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles:

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ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group

Early registration for ADHD reWired’s Spring season of our online, video-based coaching and accountability group has ended, and the groups are full. Our next registration signups begin May 10th.  To sign up on the email list, which allows you to register on May 7th, visit http://coachingrewired.com.

Support the podcast on Patreon

Patreon allows listeners like you to support content creators like me.  With a monthly contribution, you can get access to different levels of perks.  One perk example is our Patreon-only Adult Study Hall. Learn more at http://patreon.com/adhdrewired

ADHD reWired Facebook Group:

If you would like to join the ADHD reWired secret Facebook group, go to EricTivers.com/community and fill out an application.

Productivity Q&A

Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30 pm.  Go to http://erictivers.com/events.

Want to be a guest?

Hey, What about you?  Do you have a story? Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call here.