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My guest, Kathy Casa is the expert on mindfulness practice. We start which strategies can help rewire the brain to alleviate some of the behaviors that can be concurrent with ADHD and chronic stress. She offers simple and accessible strategies to help that you can do right at home. Even a video on YouTube for a short morning meditation can set your day up for success. Kathy explains how exercise helps the endorphins in brain but with yoga you’re incorporating your breath. Even 20 minutes can move you from a stress response to a rest response. And the five layers of human beings from the yoga perspective and how we need to heal on every part of our being. We discuss the tools outside of medication, including somatic transcendence, that can help you reset and heal. About Kathy Casa Kathy is a transformational coach, wellness mentor and RYT-500 yoga teacher who specializes in yoga, mindfulness and breathing techniques as supportive neuro-psychosocial and physical therapies for states of imbalance such as C-PTSD,

Our guest Ari Tuckman’s expertise is ADHD from a psychological perspective. We focus on his story first and how ADHD knowledge is better today than it was when I was growing up in the dark ages. LOL! Ari calls ADHD a disorder of actualizing intentions.  We then discuss the diagnostic process and how it’s often two for one. And we delve into medications, especially the myths around stimulants. You’ll enjoy how Ari pulls no punches while providing a ton of timely information. We morph into the other essential structures we need to manage our ADHD. Sleep sets the foundation for a “productive, meaningful, satisfying day”. We also touch on my two favorites - exercise and routines. Tune in to hear how you can start and then keep your good habits going. Hint - it’s not just willpower. Note: “ADHD kids hear about 20,000 negative messages by the age of 10.” -William Dodson About Ari Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST is a psychologist, author, and speaker specializing in ADHD.  His “More Attention, Less Deficit” podcast has more

Catherine Avery was sick last week and unable to record a new podcast episode. Because we’re running a special series this month called March MADHDness, Catherine selected this episode which previously aired on June 23, 2021 (Episode 96). She talks about shifting your language from saying “have to” to “get to” and why this changes everything. She describes how she learned this lesson from cancer and shares how she managed her life at a time when life became unmanageable. And how there were many opportunities for deep gratitude. She also explains what her official ADHD combined type diagnosis looked and felt like. Finally, tune in as she explains the Productivity Power Hour and the Pomodoro Method and why it works so well for her clients. Accountability is a big part of it. She ends with an offer to check out her accountability group:  Exponentially Productive  To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery: Productivity by Design (link www.productivitybydesign.com) To connect with Catherine: Productivity Bre

Our guest in this first of the March MADHDness series, Katy Weber, is the founder of Women & ADHD. She shares her pandemic diagnosis story and how she couldn’t believe that a “lazy” gifted person could be ADHD. She gives examples of ways internalized ADHD hyperactivity shows up in adults. Katy is the quintessential connector helping women to share their ADHD experiences, finding them resources, and offering a space to support one another. Tune in to hear how societal norms affect the masking that so often occurs in women with ADHD. And how our ADHD can affect how we show up as parents. About Katy Katy Weber is an ADHD coach, author, speaker, and founder of Women & ADHD, LLC.  She is an outspoken advocate for neurodiverse women, and the host of the weekly Women & ADHD podcast, currently ranked among the top 1% of all podcasts globally. Links: Women and ADHD  Podcast: Women & ADHD Instagram: @Katyweber.adhd   To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:  Productivity by Design  Facebook Page and  LinkedIn  T

Future minded guest, Megan Dahle, will upend everything you ever thought about your numbers in your business. She understands the stress that business owners go through when dealing with their finances.  She focuses on making a plan for your business finances - think forecasting. Megan’s view of finances is the fun is in the what if.   Tune in to hear how to shift your mindset around money.  About Megan Dahle  Megan Dahle helps her clients fall in love with their numbers by creating meaningful tools for them to get beyond the barely-useful financial statements and see what the future holds and how to achieve their goals.   With a masters degree in accounting and over 18 years in the accounting industry, Megan became frustrated with the jargon and gate-keeping in the accounting industry that works against business owners getting the information that will most help them grow and thrive.   By narrowing in on the information that is insightful and translating it into easy-to-understand and fun-to-use models, Mega

Nicole Lewis-Keeber explains how trauma affect our business from the moment we open it to the day-to-day activities in our work. Nicole differentiates big T trauma from little t trauma.  Nicole discusses the impact of your inner kiddos on the board of your business. And who these personas are.  Tune in to hear Nicole’s take on the trauma of the pandemic and how it’s affecting our business and our colleagues, particularly how our mental capacity is tapped out. We discuss drawing the boundaries around working from home and the importance of clear transitions especially for people with ADHD.    About Nicole Lewis-Keeber  Nicole Lewis-Keeber is a business therapist and mindset coach who works with entrepreneurs to create and nurture healthy relationships with their businesses.   She's a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work and has a rich and varied experience as a therapist.   Certified in Brené Brown’s Dare To Lead™ methodology, she's also been featured on numerous media outlets includin

My guest today, Alexis Haselberger, shares ways to build and maintain new habits in baby steps and in the easiest way for you. She recommends finding “science backed strategies that are not willpower or motivation.”  Hear how Alexis balanced living a virtual ‘vampire’ life while quarantining in South Korea instead of at home in California. And how she was able to stay productive while on a completely opposite work schedule.  Learn why to never rely on your memory and some practical apps to help you be less distracted and more productive.  Bio  Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops and online courses.   Her pragmatic, yet fun, approach helps people easily integrate practical, realistic strategies into their lives so that they can do more of what they want and less of what they don't.   Alexis has taught thousands of individuals to take control of their time and her clients include Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, U

Today’s guest is my sales coach, Liz Dederer, who believes that coaches need to be available to their clients even if the coach is scaling their business. And she’s just too amazing not to share!  We discuss how we can do sales without being icky. Instead, cash comes through connections. We can build relationships on LinkedIn in just 15 minutes a day. Liz teaches this in her Conversation Creation Challenge, which is amazing.  Tune in to hear about power partners, the 8 languages of money, the entrepreneurial minimum wage, and how you can simplify your business with systems without breaking your budget.  About Liz Dederer  A 20-year, 5-time entrepreneur and advocate for social justice, Liz Dederer empowers women to make money and create change.   Her flagship program, the Sales School For Entrepreneurs provides a proven “business-in-a-box” framework to create a high-touch, low-tech service business so they can experience their first of forever 5-figure months!  Links:  Selling with Service  Schedule a Call wit

How do you maintain habits? It’s not easy. Tune in to part four of four in this two week Building Habits miniseries to learn how to build lasting habits with your ADHD brain without judgment. We’re differently wired. We need different solutions. This episode is chock full of strategies you can try to ensure that you keep those habits going past January. Hopefully this miniseries ensures that your February won’t be the land of abandoned planners, dropped exercise routines, and abandoned dreams. Links Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:  Productivity by Design  Facebook Page and  LinkedIn  To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call  *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cost to you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover how to create a new habit – hint it starts small. And hear several of the myths around them. There is no perfect planner for example. There’s only the system that works best for you. Tune in to part three of four in this two week Building Habits miniseries to learn how to build lasting habits with your ADHD brain without judgment. We’re differently wired. We need different solutions.   Links:  Atomic Habits by James Clear Badass Habits by Jen Sincero Million Dollar Habits by Stellan Moreira The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey   To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:  Productivity by Design  Facebook Page and  LinkedIn  To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call  *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cost to you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice

I explain why I hate New Year’s resolutions. I set intentions with a word of the year instead.  Tune in to part two of four in this two week Building Habits miniseries to learn how to build lasting habits with your ADHD brain without judgment.  We’re differently wired. We need different solutions.  To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:   Productivity by Design   Facebook Page and   LinkedIn   To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call   *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cost to you.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The AEC coaching model – awareness, engagement, completion – can help us to evaluate our habits.  Tune in to part one of four in this two week miniseries to learn how to build lasting habits with your ADHD brain without judgment.  We’re differently wired. We need different solutions.  To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:   Productivity by Design   Facebook Page and   LinkedIn   To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call   *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cost to you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this kickoff episode to the new year, Catherine takes a look back to move forward.   Catherine shares the wins and the challenges from 2021 all in a framework of three questions that will help you celebrate your wins, make informed decisions, and leave behind what doesn’t serve you without regret.  Tune in for the highs, the lows, and everything in between. And hear about the wonderful people in my business who made 2021 my best year yet.  Links:   Washington Post: How to get organized at home when you have ADHD or mental health issues  Coach Approach  Collaberex  Selling with Service  Podcast Team: Sound Advice Strategies  To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:   Productivity by Design   Facebook Page and   LinkedIn   To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call   *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cos

Our guest today, Cynthia Riggs, shares with us how and why to create a One Page Business Plan. We discuss the importance of high-level thinking about our business. There are five parts to the business plan and the key is it does not focus on the little tasks we do each day to move our business forward.  Cynthia explains why we have such resistance to writing things down – fear of failure, being held accountable. Yet there’s still fluidity and benefit in getting our thoughts on to paper.  We wrap up with the importance of defining your ideal client and how the business plan helps you do that.   About Cynthia Riggs  Cynthia Riggs is the Biz Diva!  A successful entrepreneur since the age of 23, Cynthia built several businesses from the ground up, including a multimillion-dollar company she sold in 2004.   She became a One Page Business Plan consultant in 2006 and has continuously used the process to support emerging and established businesses step into their next level of success and profitabi

Barbara Trapp explains how we set our vision using vision boards, but she has a unique take on it, including one vision board for everything.  She describes her vision board workshop process. We talk about hiring VAs and how writing a job description is much like creating a vision board.  We delve into setting your word of the year and while I share mine, Barbara is still deciding hers, but gives us a sneak peek.  Tune in to learn about the game of Drop It. And hear ways to trim things down at the holidays so that we can have less stress, less clutter, and more joy in the season. We wrap up with several productivity tools that can help you move your business forward with more ease.  Bio:  Barbara Trapp is a Certified Professional Organizer®, and Productivity Coach.  She has over 15 years’ experience in Human Resources, Training and Development, and Process Improvement, and holds specialist certificates in Residential Organizing, Life Transitions, and Workplace Productivity. She is also a Certif

My guest, Aron Croft, and I discuss inattentive ADHD and how this presentation means people are frequently lost in the cracks. If you don’t fit that stereotype. Aron explains how inattentive type presents and shares his own story of being diagnosed later in life. With ADHD the passion alone isn’t enough. You have to have a goal that you’re genuinely excited about and identify our super skills. Streamlined productivity systems are a necessity for people who can’t get off the couch. Finally, Aron shares his three productivity strategies. Bio  Aron Croft appeared to have it all when he got into Harvard but that was the beginning of his demise. He struggled nonstop for 15 years until he was broke, divorced, and earning minimum wage, failing out of his first 7 jobs and businesses.  After getting a Master's degree in Coaching Psychology and a diagnosis of Inattentive ADHD, his life changed and he built a successful Fortune 500 career consulting to companies such as Marriott, Deloitte, Johnson & Johnson, McDona

Kerstin Rao taught for 34 years with a focus on gifted and twice exceptional students. Her Master's in Special Ed is from Bank Street and her undergrad from Vassar is in studio art. She's now a solopreneur, having launched CuppaCards, which carries stationery based on her own artwork, and Curate Your Mate, a dating coaching service to boost the confidence and strategies of midlife women seeking a life partner. She's also a comedy nerd and performs improv with her troupe Fairfield of Dreams.  To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery:    Productivity by Design   Facebook Page and   LinkedIn     To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call   *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cost to you.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest Jennifer Raphael tells a story so many of us with ADHD can relate to – that we discovered our diagnoses through our children.   We discuss how we can be here even more for our clients because we have brain-based challenges ourselves. We explored Jen’s take on Essential Structures and their importance to the mind that struggles with some challenges. She describes them as table legs – what’s going to support your table for your day to day?  You’ll be delighted by Jen’s approach to the world of ADHD and human being’s brains. Stay tuned for a lively discussion of neuroplasticity and cognitive memory collections.  Links:  Ari Tuckman Understand Your Brain Get More Done  Edward Hallowell and John Ratey ADHD 2.0  Planner Pad  Bio: Jennifer Raphael loves helping people live their best lives and believes it is possible to thrive with the right tools & supports at every stage of life.   She is a professional organizer and productivity specialist, a trained coach, & worked in hea

Part three of three in the series about executive functions continues our focus on the last three executive functions from the workbook ‘Understand Your Brain Get More Done’ by Ari Tuckman. In this episode, I kick off with Emotional Self Control and the importance of the almighty pause. Then I journey through Self Activation before wrapping up with Hindsight and Forethought. I offer ADHD friendly strategies to deal with each so that you can get motivated, control your feelings, and make good decisions. Tune in to hear how our ADHD brains can sometimes be like toddlers or teens depending on the day and the circumstance. Links: Ari Tuckman Understand Your Brain Get More Done Edward Hallowell and John Ratey Delivered from Distraction To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery: Productivity by Design  Facebook Page and  LinkedIn  To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call   *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a mean

Part two of three in the series about executive functions and how the brain works differently with ADHD from Ari Tuckman’s workbook Understand Your Brain Get More Done. In this episode, I focus on Working Memory, Prospective Memory, and how ADHDers experience Time. I offer some tricks that help you manage your differently wired brain, so you remember (hopefully) and get places on time (lawd willing). Tune in to hear about the non-working key fob and other funny stories about life with ADHD. Links: Time-Timer Flip Timer Timeular Ari Tuckman Understand Your Brain Get More Done Edward Hallowell and John Ratey Delivered from Distraction To learn more about your host, Catherine Avery: Productivity by Design Facebook Page and LinkedIn To connect with Catherine: Schedule a Call *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites at no cost to you. Learn more about your