ADHD Self-Mastery: Customized Solutions for Your Unique Brain with Bonnie Mincu

ADHD Self-Mastery: Customized Solutions for Your Unique Brain with Bonnie Mincu

If you feel frustrated by traits of ADHD this show is for you! Bonnie Mincu, Senior Certified ADHD Coach, provides you with customized solutions for your challenging tendencies while honoring the strengths of your unique brain. Divergent thinkers like you have offered the most breakthrough innovations in science, arts, and leadership. But you may struggle with mental paralysis that keeps you from meeting daily intentions and getting basic tasks done. Stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Learn alternative approaches to time management and organization with strategies to break through ADHD productivity roadblocks. Bonnie is on a mission to help you and other adults with ADD or ADHD tendencies reach mastery over the challenges that frustrate you, so you can let go of toxic shame and end chronic overwhelm. She delivers actionable strategies in a concise, focused format so that you can start trying new approaches today. As you take steps towards ADHD self-mastery, you’ll gain confidence in your productivity and step into your power as a creative, out-of-the-box thinker. Lead with your strengths and be proud of your unique brain as you see yourself succeed!

Episodes

October 26, 2021 16 mins
Bonnie Mincu interviews Tracy Brown (Segment 3 of 4). Although Tracy had reached an extraordinarily high success in sales and leadership at Mary Kay Cosmetics by age 26, she had no idea that she was ADHD. It was only after reporting feeling mentally foggy after having her second child that her doctor told her she'd always been that way -- and was probably ADD.
Tracy was prescribed Adderall, and saw an immediate difference in her ab...
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Bonnie Mincu interviews Tracy Brown (Segment 2 of 4). Tracy describes her approach to doing well in her first job at Mary Kay Cosmetics as being "very coachable." She made a point of learning what the best salespeople and leaders did, and especially how they handled when things went wrong.
Tracy was highly attuned to what she was naturally good at, and thought about how to become the best that she possibly could through intentional...
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Bonnie Mincu interviews Tracy Brown, an extraordinarily effective leader with ADHD whose approach to life has taken her far. In this first of four short segments, Tracy shares how her father taught her poker along with his philosophy on life: "Play the Hand You're Dealt."
Tracy didn't dwell on why she wasn't able to sit still and read a book... or even a paragraph -- without her mind wandering to many other things. Instead, determi...
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Ambiguity is when something is unknown, uncertain or vague. With ADHD, we can easily get mentally paralyzed by all kinds of ambiguous situations, from not knowing where to find something to being unclear of what's expected of us. When you can't get started on something, if the words "I don't know..." come to mind, it's likely that ambiguity is the culprit.
Unfortunately, instead of identifying that there are unanswered questions or ...
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August 24, 2021 15 mins
With ADHD, sometimes we create overwhelm for ourselves by erroneous assumptions that we hold to be true. In this episode we'll look at 3 common beliefs that may be unconscious assumptions on your part. If you try to act upon them, it they'll contribute to your feeling perpetually overwhelmed by self-expectations you can't fulfill.
Assumptions like these aren't only damaging because they overwhelm you. They can lead you to feel shame...
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When you feel overwhelmed, your brain is telling you things are "too much." But what if your brain is tricking you? With ADHD, that can easily happen if you try to process information or learn in a modality that you're not strong in.
Modalities for learning and taking in information are the senses of visual (seeing), auditory (hearing) and kinesthetic (touching or movement). When you learn best with visual information, but you're...
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With ADHD, "overwhelm" may seem to be such a constant state that it feels normal. Sometimes overwhelm is the natural response when there's just too much going on in your life, or too many obligations. Think about how many of those commitments or to-dos are ones you're required to perform versus some you may have brought on yourself.
Do you volunteer your time to neighbors when you have unfulfilled obligations at home? Are you af...
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Many different traits of ADD or ADHD make it hard to get started. Most of the time, people say they're procrastinating or 'overwhelmed" when they 're really mentally paralyzed for other reasons. Plain old procrastination applies when you just don't feel like starting something out of boredom or lack of interest. When you can't focus on a dull task, it's as if there were a two-year-old inside your brain stamping her foot and saying ...
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As an adult with traits of ADD or ADHD, you may struggle with getting started, or doing what you intended to each day. Solutions for productivity or disorganization often don't work for you. To achieve self-mastery with ADHD, you need to develop customized strategies that address both the root cause and the trigger for your roadblocks.
ADHD Coach Bonnie Mincu introduces the concept of your brain as a private bus, with eight differ...
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