547 | Dopamine Dollars – Making Neurodivergent Friendly Financial Systems with Ellyce Fulmore

In today’s episode, we talk about connection! How do you connect with yourself, the people around you, and your life? What are the impediments to achieving these connections? Why bother? We answer these questions and more. 

Detailed show notes:

• How to connect with yourself, and how you will feel and operate as a consequence. [2:31]
• Link to #71 Authenticity – Normalizing ADHD
• Questions for reflection – connecting with self (it’s worth pausing!) [4:14]
• Impediments to connecting with the people around us, and what happens when we can overcome them. [4:49]
• The single question that will shape how you connect with other people – W.I.I.F.M.T.? [7:49]
• Questions for reflection – connecting with people [8:56]
• Purpose, happiness, and meaning – how connected are you with your life as a whole? [9:23]
• Questions for reflection – connecting with life [11:01]
• Practices to develop your sense of connection with your everyday interactions [11:34]

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In this episode, we’re meeting Jason Boughn, a life coach specializing in tools to address ADHD.  He also welcomes neurodiversity of all types and neurotypical people!  Jason has a comfortable way of evoking a person’s story, getting to the heart of the matter most relevant to the storyteller.  The stories we tell ourselves and the ones created to fit in better with others are affirmations which shape our reality.  Jason’s focus is exploring and reframing our personal story to create a beautiful life experience.  In this episode, Jason shares his story about his brain injury and how it has impacted his life, and how the manifestations of ADHD are similar traumatic brain injuries (TBI).  You’ll also hear about how Jason experiences emotion, not fitting in, acting, and his passion for learning. Then, you’ll also hear about his journey through relationships, his compassion throughout those relationships, how he overcame homelessness, and what led to that chapter in his life.  Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network: with Brendan Mahan with Will Curb with MJ Siemens

In this episode, Kody Lukens joins the podcast!  Kody was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and very quickly became frustrated with the lack of resources made for adults with ADHD.  He then set out to do something about it!  Kody started creating education and relatable ADHD content on social media to help people learn about their brains and feel a sense of community.  He also created and designed a magnetic stim fidget toy called Stimagz!  Get your Stimagz at stimagz.com! Find Kody on Instagram @kodylukens Find Stimagz on Instagram @stimagz Questions/Topics:  [00:01:06] Introducing Kody, and all about Stimagz  [00:02:35] A brief discussion on calming nerves  [00:04:17] Kody’s ADHD story & entrepreneurship  [00:06:37] Kickstarting Stimagz and all about fidgeting  [00:12:04] What’s been the hardest part about launching Stimagz?  [00:16:38] What are other challenges being a content creator and entrepreneur with ADHD?  [00:18:08] Creating structure and long-term goals   [00:24:44] Theming your week  [00:26:10] How to get stuff done when you’re not “feeling it”  [00:30:24] The ‘sprint’ of a new business  [00:37:52] How to deal with failure  [00:43:06] Kody’s favorite productivity tools  [00:46:37] Calendars and the benefits of Calendly  [00:48:40] Closing thoughts and where you can find Kody and get Stimagz! Resources & Honorable Mentions: Jeremy Andrew Davis – Tiktok, on Stimagz ADHD reWired Episode 476: When Potential and Opportunity Misalign with Nate Song: “Life Itself” by Glass Animals Tool: Calendly at Calendly.com  Article: Fail Hard, Fail Fast, Fail Often on Medium.com “Never put yourself in a position to where, if you fail, you’re toast. Always have a back-up plan, and a back-up plan, and a back-up plan.” – Kody  🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired’s award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!  

This episode is one honest back and forth between ADHD Coach and my good friend Sherri Cannon, and me. We each have some aha’s and do some existential pandemic pondering.
Sherri talks about the hairballs of unresolved stuff in our past that can block growth and stop us from becoming better versions of ourselves.
Then we talk about the times we want to let go and vent to a friend, but instead, tell ourselves how together or busy our friend is – who are we to complain?
Self-compassion and curiosity (which Cathy has been making friends with recently ) are essential. These keep us from endless ruminating and all those mental self-beatings.
At 22 mins, you might relate to our experience about the challenges for ADDers in making friends AND the goodness of discovering that lots of different types of friendships feed us.
Stay around (@33mins) for the close as we dive into a whole new topic on cognitive hangovers and talk about what kind of help our uniquely wired brains most need from us.
We felt that this was an important conversation to be shared publicly, as we often see this topic come up in our work with ADHD brains. So we hope that this conversation sparks a new insight for you and also know that you are not alone making sense of your complex brain wiring, we see you, we feel your struggle and are here to support you. 
Connect with Sherri Cannon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherricannon/  
Connect with Cathy Rashidian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathyrashidian/

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In this episode, Jessica Hicksted joins Eric on the podcast!  Jessica was late-diagnosed with autism and ADHD and brings together her life experiences and education to advocate for invisible disabilities.  Growing up the “awkward kid,” she faced life’s rough spots head-on, creating resilience and determination.  These skills proved valuable in completing her PhD and dedicating her research into invisible disabilities to help promote positive social change.  You’ll hear Eric and Jessica talk about workplace success for people with invisible disabilities, masking and executive-function drains, and ableism.  Then, you’ll also hear about how Jessica got diagnosed, self-advocacy, disclosure or nondisclosure in the workplace, what Jessica uncovered in her research, and the benefits and values to businesses for being more accommodating.   Find some of her writing on ADDitude Magazine!   Questions/Topics:  [00:01:06] Introducing Jessica & meeting at CHADD  [00:02:13] Diving into Jessica’s research, and, “How do we–from a systems perspective–help individuals be successful in the workplace?”  [00:05:23] Are the tides really starting to turn in the workplace about invisible disabilities?  [00:06:27] Masking in the workplace  [00:09:25] Jessica’s experience of being diagnosed as an adult after becoming a parent [00:16:14] What is an invisible disability? [00:18:56] Disclosure vs. intended disclosure [00:19:42] What does the data say about disclosure?  [00:21:10] What kinds of questions did Jessica ask while doing her research?  [00:24:24] A conversation on the prevalence of ableism in the workplace  [00:27:58] Transparency and opening the door of communication  [00:33:28] Money talk: What is the benefit and value for businesses to be more inclusive and accommodating for people with invisible disabilities?  What does the data show?  [00:38:30] In Jessica’s data, were there any industries that were ‘better’ with acceptance in the workplace than others?  [00:42:18] What are some questions a prospective employee could ask to try and gauge if they will be entering a friendly workplace for neurodivergent brains?  [00:44:52] If there could be one big change in the workplace to help individuals with invisible disabilities, what would that change look like?   [00:45:53] Closing thoughts  🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired’s award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!