Take 5 seconds and reflect with Marshall Lichty

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I am Dr. Diana Mecado 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 my personal life. In the past two years, I've come to realize that unlearning some of my beliefs.

And some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills. Oh my goodness. I am so excited today. I have an amazing treat. New Year, new goals, right? So I have a really good friend of mine here. It's really so important to have him here. He's one of been one of my guest coaches and.

Been treat and the, it went wild. My group went wild when we had him. He is actually an a lawyer and his name is Dr. Oh, sorry. I'm so used to saying doctor. But he is an honorary doctor in our group. Okay. So Marshall Litchy and I might have mis spelled or Miss said that, but he's here and he will tell us all about himself.

And he actually has a D H D and he coaches lawyers with a D H D. What an amazing service that is. And he has his podcast and he's just changing the world on his end. And so I'm so happy to have him here today. Marshall, would you tell us a little bit about us about.

Marshall Lichty: Yeah, you bet. I'm Marshall Litchy and yeah, I'm a lawyer, a Juris doctor, which the JD doesn't quite have the same ring that the MD does.

And yeah, I practiced law. I do no real lawyering these days, but I practiced law for about 15 years. And I was 43 when I was diagnosed with a D H D. For a lot of folks it will resonate with them that I had a kiddo who was having some STR struggles in school and we got curious about it and brought 'em to a specialist doctor, diagnosed him.

And as we were sitting in that meeting room, the doctor says, kinda looks at my wife and says, Now is there anybody else in the family that you know that has any of these characteristics? And all the heads snap over to me. And and then I got, I did some assessment and I did a full on assessment. I did the whole nine yards and kind of diagnosis.

And my life has been very different ever since then in almost all good ways. At the end of.

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Tell me, when you look back and they were asking you those questions, could you see all those characteristics in yourself as a kid, as a as a, high school and college? Could you see any of those things?

What stood out? To you.

Marshall Lichty: I think I, I was talking about this with a client of mine yesterday. If you're the mango juice and you're trying to read the label, you have a hard time doing it because you can't see the label, you're inside the bottle. And I think there were some elements of it that I saw plain as day, but some of them I just didn't. Really see them or I didn't know what I didn't know. And it was the, as diagnosticians, yes. Any, anybody who has a clinical practice knows that there's a gaping difference between somebody who really has thought about what they might have and they've been on the internet and they might be, Self-diagnosing a bunch of stuff, but they've been in the symptoms, they've been in the differential diagnosis, and they know what to play with so that it makes your job easier.

Sure, you gotta talk 'em down from having cancer, but at least they have talked about, I have this and I have this and I have this and I have this. And they can talk about it in a way that shows that there's been some self-reflection. And for me, that was the most interesting part was watching my son go through.

It led to this process of self-reflection, talking to my spouse about it and. Doing all of the research and looking for resources, and that's when I realized that there were no meaningful resources for lawyers with A D H D. And as I started thinking about what all of the implications of executive function challenges would be for a lawyer, I was.

Gobsmacked. I was like this is a huge challenge for lawyers because our jobs in many ways are just dripping with executive function. And I found very quickly that that there was a big need for what I was. Going through myself, great fortune of writing a book with some friends about how to run a small law firm