A Conversation with author and fellow life coach Simon Arnold

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I am Dr. Diana Mercado Marmarosh. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my adhd, but I now. See it as a gift that helps me show up as a person. I was always meant to be both in my work and in a personal life. In the past two years, I've come to realize that unlearning some of my beliefs and some of my habits, We're just as important as learning the new set of skills.

Hello. Hello. How is everybody doing today? I have a very special friend with me today and I'm excited because I've been wanting to get more men to come to my podcast so that we can share all the resources. So I have a very special guest his name is Simon Arnold. And he comes all the way from Germany and isn't it exciting?

And he's here to talk to us about his journey with how he got diagnosed with A D H D, but also he's actually like changing the world. He has a book and it's called The 13 Hour Life Coach. And so I wanted to just bring him here and. Have him talk to us about why he wrote the book, and I will explain a little bit about his book a little bit later.

But first I wanna introduce you to him and hear how he came about. And I, some of this that I'm asking is in the book, so you gotta. Buy the book, but he will, he'll give us

Simon Arnold: a preview. Yeah, exactly. Thank you so much Diana, it's so nice to see you again. Really? So yeah, I'm the 13 hour life coach and I was diagnosed with a D H D Wow.

Three years ago now. And I went to a psychologist and he basically flipped his book through with what ADHD was and said, I think you're right. And I was like I'm right here. And I needed to help myself. There was really no. Help for adhd, certainly three years ago, and I wrote, I think about 107 strategies to help me live with A D H D.

And And I find them to be working. So yes, .

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Awesome. I'm gonna just read what the back of his book says, because this is gonna give us so much material to dive into the conversations of this book. Simon realized one day that the external life. Distractions had disappeared and that he could read and comprehend a book for the very first time.

And he came to face with his inner voice. We all know about that inner voice, right? He was recently diagnosed with a D H D and he labeled his inner voice or he Big Mo and Big Mo basically, Is able to add clarity to his life while he's on medication. So that's the key here. He feels like he's able to concentrate for about a full 13 hours while he's on medication and every da every day.

When Big Mo leaves, then he realizes that he's thrown into a world of confusion together. Big Mo and Simon. Learn to figure out a D H D in a unique way of using diaries. So he's able to understand himself through those moments of clarity. Not only does he do that, then he turns around and he creates a successful.

Group in his town in Germany so that he could, they could each help each other learn strategies every day. He has clarity and then confusion, but obviously a strong bond happens now here he is being a coach for others. So tell us what was it like to finally get

Simon Arnold: medicated? Okay, so I was, It was during my diagnosis process, really.

My son already had ADHD and was medicated for it. I was completely under doctor's orders, allowed to take a tablet just to see how it, worked in my body really. And I took it and I found that my outer distractions were all gone. Diana the sound of the trees, the chirping of the birds at the windowsill, the yeah the cars three, three roads away.

I would hear them on a daily basis and all of a sudden I just had clarity and that was really the first and we can go in into this later. I'd search for 34 years for this. And I got to where that I where I wanted to be since I was eight years old. I knew something was wrong with me from the age of eight years old and I was determined to find out what it was.

And it was a d h D really. Yeah, the, I could concentrate for about four hours, I think. I knew exactly how I was filing paperwork at the time and I was like, wow, that goes there and that goes there and that can go in the bin. And my inner voice came out and I call him Big Mo and we