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 our conversation on the ADHD signal-based attention system. We look at several ADHD coaching client scenarios in this episode. Through these scenarios we examine how big signals can disrupt. We then look at how our work to help our clients access the more subtle signals gave nuance and clarity to the situation. This clarity ultimately leads...
May 10, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 81
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 discuss how big positive signals can be as disruptive here as big negative signals. We discuss how listeners can build awareness around big positive signals, including our tendencies as ADHD people to use positive signals to avoid negative ones and to hyperfocus on positive signals to the detriment of other important but more subtle signals. Episode...
May 03, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 80
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 working with the stress response metaphor we introduced last week. We discuss how listeners can use this metaphor as a way to build awareness around the stress response and to leverage that awareness to have a different experience with the types of dilemmas that cause us to end up in fight, flight, or freeze. Episode links + resources: Join...
Apr 26, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 79
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 our conversation on big negative signals and the corresponding stress response. Using a metaphor that Cam first presented at CHADD in 2019, we discuss how ADHD adults can build awareness of our stress responses. We then talk about how we can use that awareness to disrupt the stress response before it happens. Episode links + resources: Join...
Apr 19, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 78
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 res...
Apr 12, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 77
As ADHD people, we pay most attention to 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, t...
Apr 05, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 76
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 b...
Mar 29, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 75
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 o...
Mar 22, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 74
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 t...
Mar 15, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 73
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 urgen...
Mar 08, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 72
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 hav...
Mar 01, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 71
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 neurodiverge...
Feb 22, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 70
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 Rhashi...
Feb 15, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 69
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 ke...
Feb 08, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 68
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 attac...
Feb 01, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 67
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. Episod...
Jan 25, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 66
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 O...
Jan 18, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 65
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...
Jan 11, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 64
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 go...
Jan 04, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 63
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...
Dec 28, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 62
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 plac...
Dec 21, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 61
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 ...
Dec 14, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 60
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 ...
Dec 07, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 59
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. Epi...
Nov 30, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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...
Nov 23, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 57
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...
Nov 16, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 56
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 ...
Nov 09, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 55
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 P...
Nov 02, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 54
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 Commu...
Oct 26, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 53
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, Ow...
Oct 19, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 52
