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AdjacentWeekend Update - East Texas to Favorite Things in Briggs- Jody heads to Fort Collins!Welcome Back Y'all! Welcome to Weekend Update! Jody and Shelly share what happened last weekend and what is coming up this weekend!Be on the look out for Evelyn's new businessUse Promo Code "SHODYMEDIA" for all my deals or just click the link:https://mydeals.page/lsqqhttps://cornucopiapopcorn.com/Check out our Blog:https://www.shodymedia.com/blogHere you will find our Amazon Favorites, various shows, our write ups about what is coming up!YouTubehttps...
2025-11-1427 min
Global Travel PlanningLadies Who Travel: When Things Go Wrong, Keep Calm and Travel On“The perfect trip rarely exists.” No matter how carefully you plan, travel throws curveballs. In this candid chat, the Ladies Who Travel unpack what happens when plans fall apart: a protest that blocks all roads, weather-cancelling bucket list moments, and train strikes that derail rail itineraries. You will hear different coping styles in action - Shelly’s calm in a crisis, Melissa’s quick “meltdown then regroup,” and Tracy’s pragmatic pivots. We also share practical tactics: build flexibility into your plan, book priority experiences early, research potential disruptions, and keep backups ready (including Shell...
2025-09-2436 minGlobal Travel PlanningStaying Healthy While Exploring: Travel Tips for Body and Mind [Ladies Who Travel]In episode 69 of the Global Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy is joined by Shelly and Melissa for a Ladies Who Travel episode all about staying healthy on the road.Together, they dive into the realities of travel wellness, sharing practical tips, personal stories, and lessons learned from decades of global adventures. From long-haul flights and disrupted routines to managing mental health and bouncing back from injuries, this honest chat covers it all.Melissa opens up about navigating mental health and healing after injury, Shelly shares how daily habits and supplements help her...
2025-08-2746 min
Translating ADHDRebroadcast: Introducing Asher: Shelly Comes Out as Trans
This episode is a rebroadcast. Dusty has handpicked episodes from the archive to air while she and Ash are on their annual summer break. New episodes resume in September!
Today Shelly shares very personal news. Shelly, living as a woman for 38 years, has come out as a transgender man. Meet Asher, listeners. Asher shares with Cam his journey to a more authentic life that fits. He discusses when one’s context changes almost overnight, sharing the dysphoria he felt living as a woman and reaching a pivotal galaxy-brain moment when disparate thoughts and fe...
2025-08-1828 min
Created, Called, + CommissionedMarks of True Spiritual Service - Summer Series Guest Speaker Shelly CollinsWhy do we serve God? Is it to be seen, accepted, or praised? Or is it the overflow of a heart transformed by grace?In this episode, guest speaker Shelly Collins unpacks Romans 1:8–16 to show us what true spiritual service looks like through the life of the Apostle Paul. From gratitude and humility to boldness and obedience, she outlines ten key marks that separate performance-driven service from Spirit-led worship.Whether you’re in full-time ministry or quietly serving behind the scenes, this message will challenge you to reflect on your heart posture and remind you that...
2025-07-2347 min
Translating ADHDRebroadcast: When your Partner isn’t Supporting your ADHD Journey
This episode is a rebroadcast. Dusty has handpicked episodes from the archive to air while she and Ash are on their annual summer break. New episodes resume in September!
It’s really nice when a partner is supportive and understanding as you begin your own ADHD journey of discovery. But this is not always the case. This week Cam and Shelly discuss the not so uncommon scenario when we embark on our ADHD journey without the support of our primary relationship. Years of misinformation, fear and shame can build to where the non-ADHD pa...
2025-07-2125 min
Translating ADHDRebroadcast: Opening the Door to Positive Emotions with ADHD
This episode is a rebroadcast. Dusty has handpicked episodes from the archive to air while she and Ash are on their annual summer break. New episodes resume in September!
This week Cam and Shelly pivot from the recent focus on negative emotions to positive emotions. Emotions are the on-off switch for action. Understanding how emotions come into play is key to motivation and taking action. Those of us with ADHD tend to over-utilize our fear neural networks or negative emotions to get things done. How often do you hear yourself prioritizing or taking...
2025-07-1424 minGlobal Travel PlanningTop Tips for Long Haul Flights [Ladies Who Travel]Dreading your next long-haul flight? In this month’s “Ladies Who Travel” episode of the Global Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy is joined by Melissa and Shelly, who collectively have logged thousands of hours in the air. Listen as they share their practical tips and hard-won wisdom to help make marathon journeys not just bearable—but genuinely enjoyable!The conversation kicks off by addressing a common dilemma: Is it better to endure one ultra-long flight or break the journey into shorter segments? While conventional wisdom might suggest multiple flights, Tracy, Melissa, and Shelly make a compel...
2025-05-2840 minGlobal Travel PlanningTravel Safe Travel Smart: Real Tips for Every Type of Traveller [Ladies Who Travel]In episode 52 of the Global Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy is joined by co-hosts Melissa and Shelly to share their expertise on the crucial topic of travel safety. Together, they explore various aspects of staying safe while travelling, addressing specific concerns for solo travellers, family travellers, and those adventuring across the globe.From essential pre-travel research and understanding local customs to practical tips for safeguarding your belongings, the episode is packed with valuable advice. They discuss the benefits of pickpocket-proof bags, the importance of using VPNs, and how to manage money wisely while abroad. Tracy, Shelly, a...
2025-04-3039 min
God's Goodness | Real Stories of Faith & God at Work Today73: God’s Provision & the Power of Bold Prayers with Christine Collins-ReillyWhat if the prayers you’ve been praying aren’t big enough? Christine Collins-Reilly always prayed boldly for others—but when it came to herself, she held back. That all changed when she started writing down her prayers, laying them before God, and waking up to His divine revisions. In this faith-filled conversation, Christine shares how Jehovah Jireh has met every need—often in ways she never expected. From financial provision to complete healing from debilitating migraines, her testimony is a reminder that God doesn’t just answer prayers—He goes above and beyond.🔑 In this episode:✨ How to s...
2025-01-2447 min
At This Table - Taste and See His GoodnessBeyond Survival: Reclaiming My Life After I Survived Rape with Amanda Collins JohnsonAs featured on Fox and Friends and The Glenn Beck Show, in this deeply moving and inspiring episode, host, Shelly Brown sits down with Amanda Collins Johnson, author of the memoir Beyond Survival. Amanda shares her powerful story of overcoming trauma and learning to walk in the abundant life that Jesus promises. Together, they discuss the profound impact of faith, forgiveness, and healing, even amidst life’s most difficult circumstances.
2025-01-0933 minGlobal Travel PlanningTop 10 Travel Tips for 2025 [ Expert Tips To Maximise Your Travel Experience]Welcome to the first episode of 2025 on the Global Travel Planning Podcast! This week host Tracy Collins is joined by travel experts Melissa Kiely and Shelly Marie to share their top 10 travel tips for the year ahead.Whether you're a seasoned traveller or embarking on your first adventure, this episode is packed with practical advice to help you navigate your journeys with ease. From travel insurance to packing light, and maximising your travel dollar, discover essential tips to enhance your travel experiences.What you will learn in this episode:The importance of...
2025-01-0855 minGlobal Travel Planning2024 Year in Review [+ Announcing Exciting Plans for 2025]In episode 35 of the Global Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy Collins reflects on an incredible year of travel adventures and looks forward to the exciting plans for 2025. Join us as we revisit the highlights of 2024, from road trips in Pennsylvania with Rob Bruns to exploring the wineries of Margaret River in Western Australia with Kerry Heaney. Tracy shares her own travel stories, including a spontaneous trip to Puglia, Italy, inspired by previous guest Shelly Marie.As we wrap up the year, discover our plans for the new Global Travel Planning Monthly special and introduce a new s...
2024-12-2506 minGlobal Travel PlanningSolo Female Travel in Italy & Beyond with Shelly MarieIn this episode of the Global Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy chats with Shelly from Solo Her Way about her solo travel adventures and culinary experiences around the world. Join us as we dive into Shelly's journeys, from exploring local markets in Italy to cycling through Southeast Asia, and discover practical tips for solo travellers and the enriching experiences of connecting with cultures through food.Episode Highlights:Journey Through Pulia, Italy: Shelly shares her experiences in Italy, highlighting the importance of fresh ingredients and traditional dishes in the local culinary culture.
2024-07-1058 min
UnPerfect - Grow in Faith and Live Life to the FullestWhile Waiting: How to Make the Most of Waiting Through "Slower" MomentsWaiting. Not sure it's enjoyable for anyone. While waiting happened a lot to God's people in scripture, it also happens often to us in life. Sophia Light once wrote, "Once the waiting is over, whatever we were waiting for pales in comparison to the prize of his presence, which we already won in the waiting. "In Episode #36 of The UN-Perfect Podcast, I have a fun and meaningful conversation with author/poet Jody Lee Collins concerning our response and God's purposes for us while waiting.While we discuss everything from my poor gardening skills...
2024-04-0937 minTranslating ADHDIntroducing Asher: Shelly Comes Out as Trans
Today Shelly shares very personal news. Shelly, living as a woman for 38 years, has come out as a transgender man. Meet Asher, listeners. Asher shares with Cam his journey to a more authentic life that fits. He discusses when one’s context changes almost overnight, sharing the dysphoria he felt living as a woman and reaching a pivotal galaxy-brain moment when disparate thoughts and feelings gelled into a new truth. Coincidentally, this is Transgender Awareness Week. Asher reveals the challenges but also the moments of clarity, support from friends and resolve as he moves through the process of...
2022-11-1428 min
Translating ADHDADHD, Race and Culture: The Black Woman Lived Experience
We continue our theme on race and ADHD as we welcome fellow ADHD coach and psychotherapist Inger Shaye Colzie back to Translating ADHD. Inger Shaye helped Shelly and Cam kick off the PoC Voices series back in the summer of 2020. Inger Shaye shares how a lack of representation at the 2019 Annual ADHD Conference inspired her to become a coach herself and also inspired her to start The ADHD Black Professionals Alliance - an organization committed to addressing ADHD and mental health issues in the Black community.
Inger Shaye also discusses how years ago h...
2022-10-3129 min
Translating ADHDADHD, Race and Culture: The South Asian Lived Experience
The show pivots this week to explore race and culture and how they both inform one’s own lived experience. Shelly and Cam welcome fellow ADHD coach and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) advocate Sudhita Kasturi to the show. Similar to the show’s PoC Voices series, the hosts delve into the South Asian-ADHD experience with Sudhita as their guide.
Sudhita shares her own story of growing up in India with undiagnosed ADHD - the challenges she faced and the surprising sources of support and understanding. The conversation moves from Sudhita’s own story...
2022-10-2431 min
Translating ADHDADHD and Your Lived Experience: Modality Sensitivities
Have you ever noticed being sensitive to too much noise or visual stimuli? Last week the hosts shared the concept of processing modalities as both strengths and challenges. This week they continue to look at modalities but introduce the concept of a sensitivity scale in addition to the strength scale. Modalities are the modes in which we prefer to process information and build knowledge.
For years organizer coach Denslow Brown observed that her clients demonstrated modal preferences when it came to developing and sustaining organizing systems. From this experience she developed her Processing...
2022-10-1729 min
Translating ADHDADHD and Your Lived Experience: Processing Modalities
Shelly and Cam continue to explore the ‘your context matters’ theme by looking at how modalities can inform an individual’s lived experience. Processing modalities, sometimes referred to as learning styles, are preferences we exhibit, often associated with physical senses like visual, auditory and verbal or additional areas like intuition and emotion. Much has been written about modalities including Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Recently, advances in brain imaging have called into question many of the claims of these ideas, but it is still thought that people have preferences in how they build knowledge and process...
2022-10-1020 min
Translating ADHDADHD and Your Lived Experience: Personal Narrative
Shelly and Cam continue to explore the lived experience theme for the new season with a deep dive into personal narratives. Our personal narrative is the narrative we tell ourselves to explain a situation or rationalize a behavior - ours or someone else’s. ADHD can make it really hard to distinguish our inner dialogue from our experiences in the world. The brain works hard to ‘tell a story’ to make sense of our experiences. Sometimes it gets it right, but often it omits or adds pieces to make the information more palatable, to fit a certain story...
2022-09-2626 min
Translating ADHDIs ADHD a Superpower?
Cam and Shelly kick off the third season of the Translating ADHD podcast entertaining an often-asked question in ADHD circles - Is ADHD a Superpower?
It turns out that one’s own experience or context informs how people will answer this question. Many are emphatic one way or the other - that it is totally a superpower! or that it is not at all a superpower! Shelly and Cam, in usual form, explore the nuanced middle ground and discuss superpowers in the form of strengths and how ADHD can get in the way of...
2022-09-1931 min
The REALLY BaD Mental Health PodcastEpisode 16. Special Guest - Children’s counsellor, Shelly Barter.In the final episode of the first series, the guys have an open and insightful chat with Children’s and Young People’s counsellor, Shelly Barter. In keeping with the tradition of going off beat, topics of discussion include field fires, the energy crisis, and shocking reading material revelation from our Lisa.Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe before visiting www.badco.uk and helping our mission to give everyone, regardless of situation, access to early intervention, lifesaving counselling.
2022-08-1459 min
The REALLY BaD Mental Health PodcastEpisode 16. Special Guest - Children’s counsellor, Shelly Barter.In the final episode of the first series, the guys have an open and insightful chat with Children’s and Young People’s counsellor, Shelly Barter. In keeping with the tradition of going off beat, topics of discussion include field fires, the energy crisis, and shocking reading material revelation from our Lisa.Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe before visiting www.badco.uk and helping our mission to give everyone, regardless of situation, access to early intervention, lifesaving counselling.
2022-08-1459 min
Translating ADHDTranslating ADHD Reflections
As season two comes to an end, Cam and Shelly reflect on their learning over the last year in hosting the podcast together. Cam appreciates the focus on practice in the episodes and reflects how he is using this approach to develop a lighter touch on moving his own initiatives forward. Shelly shares how she let go of pursuing or achieving “at the speed of capitalism” and regaining an important perspective on what matters most for her - to have more balance in her life.
Both hosts share about what they are looking forwa...
2022-07-2522 min
Translating ADHDADHD Interplay Overview: Physical Pain
Individual context matters and no more when we start to look at the interplay of ADHD and other areas of challenge like trauma or depression. A recent Canadian study that reveals factors and obstacles to succeeding with ADHD is the prompt for this week’s episode. Cam and Shelly talk about how listeners can read between the lines of a study and look for information that is actionable.
At first glance the study reveals fixed qualities like gender and marital status that contribute to happiness and satisfaction with ADHD. Looking deeper we see the...
2022-07-1826 min
Translating ADHDGreen Light Planning with ADHD
Hosts Shelly and Cam explore green light planning this week. This is a very specific example where expectations can go awry. Green light planning is a fascinating phenomenon and is the result of several ADHD challenges. It is when we predict the most favored outcome for some future event like catching a plane with time to spare. Most people will point to challenges with time estimation. Look closer and you can see more going on here.
Cam shares the example of a client trying to get to the airport and more often than...
2022-07-0420 min
Translating ADHDManaging Expectations in Romantic Relationships with ADHD
The hosts continue exploring expectations, shifting to personal relationships this week. Cam takes the lead sharing dynamics that he sees from his Melissa Orlov coaching classes. The same habitual responses are in play in personal relationships as they were in last week’s episode on expectation and work. Add the dynamics of emotional investment and less defined roles, and the result is more contentious engagements with more emotional flooding by all parties.
Cam and Shelly believe that many of the conflicts that come to a head in any romantic relationship often start with ill...
2022-06-2726 min
Translating ADHDManaging Work Expectations with ADHDShelly and Cam do an abrupt right turn with expectations, from camping in the woods on Phish Tour with Shelly to the environment and demands of work. Wherever there are people there are expectations, and wherever there are expectations there are different interpretations of those expectations. Burnout is actually an indicator of mismanaged expectations. ADHD makes it really tough to distinguish the priority of competing demands, and we often falter when we sense conflicting expectations.
Shelly and Cam explore a few client examples of habitual responses (from last week) and what the clients did to h...
2022-06-2026 min
Translating ADHDHabitual Responses to Expectation with ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue on the theme of habitual responses by looking at expectations. An expectation is basically a belief that something will happen at some future date. You can appreciate how expectations may be problematic for those of us with ADHD - the delivery of something at some future point in time. Time estimation and struggles with activation go hand in hand here. So it makes sense we can develop some not-so-helpful responses to expectation.
Cam shares three examples - ‘running the flag up the flagpole’, where we elevate our own expectations and...
2022-06-1329 min
Translating ADHDHabitual Responses to Time with ADHD
Last week Cam and Shelly talked about habitual emotional responses to the stories we tell ourselves. This week they explore habitual responses in the context of time. Those of us with ADHD can have a complicated relationship with time. We can be extremely reactive to it, and we can be highly avoidant of it.
Today the hosts share client examples of some classic habitual responses to time. Shelly and Cam reference the Eisenhower Decision Matrix tool that distinguishes importance and urgency in a task, especially Quadrant I items that are important and urgent...
2022-06-0623 min
Translating ADHDEmotions and Stories: Getting to What is Real with ADHD
As a part of our trusting my brain theme, Shelly and Cam explore two client scenarios to illustrate the difference between the stories we tell ourselves and our emotional responses to those stories. The emotions we feel at any time are very real and dictate how we move forward in both thought and action. Stories that we tell ourselves are both real and not necessarily real. They can be informed by a past traumatic event as illustrated in our first client scenario or they can be based in a false belief as illustrated in the second one.
2022-05-3025 min
Translating ADHDMindfulness on My Own Terms with ADHD
There is a plethora of scientific data to support the effectiveness of mindfulness in managing one’s ADHD. Lydia Zylowska M.D. has done some excellent research to prove this. Yet many people with ADHD have mixed feelings about the practice, especially the frustration of not being able to do it ‘the right way’.
Cam and Shelly explore mindfulness in the context of orienting to the full impact of one’s experience. They discuss how mindfulness can be packaged like any other prescriptive offering with the off-putting instruction to “just start by sitting still and f...
2022-05-2322 min
Translating ADHDOrienting to the Full Impact of our Experience with ADHD
Inspired by the client story from episode 127, Shelly and Cam dig deeper into the common elements the client engaged with, in part through her coaching with Shelly, to create more space, start trusting her brain and regain her own power in a difficult relationship dynamic. Cam and Shelly discuss the concept of ‘full impact’ and how those of us with ADHD can struggle to see all that is happening in our experience. This echoes First Barrier dilemmas (Barrier to Awareness.) Cam draws in the four elements of emotional intelligence and how getting to awareness and then management with...
2022-05-1622 min
Translating ADHDTrusting our Brain when the Relationship Turns Toxic
Shelly and Cam continue with the relationship thread and when we have to travel the ADHD path of discovery without the support of our partners. Today Shelly relays a client story where the real challenge was not related to ADHD at all, but how ADHD can make it difficult to trust our own brains. ADHD can distort our own sense of reality, our perception of time and our recollection of events. Add to that a toxic partnership, and getting clear on what is actually happening can be extremely challenging.
Shelly shares how she first reframed the coaching work to h...
2022-05-0927 min
Translating ADHDIgnorance: The Common Enemy of ADHDIt’s a very human behavior to look for an easy and convenient enemy when we struggle to move forward. We see it in our current political landscape and we see it in the world of ADHD management. When ADHD is discovered in a relationship it can become an easy scapegoat for the dynamic that is not working. On a broader scale, we can point to neurotypicals as the source of our neurodivergent woes and vice versa. In this episode, Shelly and Cam continue to discuss the challenge of exploring one’s ADHD when one doesn't have the support of t...
2022-05-0226 minTranslating ADHDWhen your Partner isn’t Supporting your ADHD Journey
It’s really nice when a partner is supportive and understanding as you begin your own ADHD journey of discovery. But this is not always the case. This week Cam and Shelly discuss the not so uncommon scenario when we embark on our ADHD journey without the support of our primary relationship. Years of misinformation, fear and shame can build to where the non-ADHD partner throws up their hands and says “Enough!”. It's hard to play a game when everyone is playing Texas Hold’em and we are dealt a hand of Uno but this is the case often when we are s...
2022-04-2524 min
Translating ADHDCreating Value Around Identity and Purpose with ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue exploring the significance and process of creating value and dig into creating value around purpose and identity this week. They refine their Sense, Access, Value model through deeper discussion, new client examples and sharing practices for listeners. Value lives between attention and motivation, and ADHD disrupts the valuation process by limiting accessibility and awareness (Barriers I and II from episodes 94 and 104). Getting clear on what you need or what really matters is key to determining agency and is also highly dependent on timing. We need this information to be accessible at the times...
2022-04-1830 min
Translating ADHDThe Valuation of Time and Emotion with ADHD
Cam and Shelly go Big-Brain this week tinkering with the very structural elements of their Mt. Rainier Model (episodes 60-63). They introduce a concept not often considered in conventional ADHD conversations - language that often includes terms like interest, regulation, management and attention. The term introduced this week is valuation, and valuation matters because it lives between attention and motivation. Valuation is simply the amount of value we place on something. Cam argues that those of us with ADHD struggle to see the value of something because of the disruptive nature of ADHD. You can’t value wha...
2022-04-1128 min
Translating ADHDEvoking Awareness as a Practice with ADHD
Hosts Shelly and Cam continue on the theme of practice and look at evoking awareness. Evoking Awareness is actually an important coaching competency and is key to the coaching process. Within this category is the all-important aspect of self-knowledge - personal values and strengths, challenges and needs, best practices, and what we like to call the client’s worldview. Also remember that awareness is one of the three barriers of ADHD. It can be hard to create new awareness and keep that awareness once we have it. Today Shelly and Cam discuss practices beyond coaching that can he...
2022-04-0425 min
Translating ADHDCultivating a Self-Care Practice with ADHD
Shelly and Cam discuss the significance of cultivating a self-care practice in this episode and start with distinguishing “should” activities and activities that “fill you up”.They first introduced self-care as a topic back in episode 95. In this episode, they look at self-care through the lens of cultivating a practice. Self-care is something both Shelly and Cam introduce to their ADHD coaching clients because it is the perfect vehicle to identify core values, key needs and practice making space for something that only matters to the client. ADHD can make it very difficult to identify and practice key self...
2022-03-2826 min
Translating ADHDAnchoring as a Practice with ADHD
Shelly and Cam explore anchoring as a practice this week. With the three barriers of awareness, action and learning, those of us with ADHD can lose touch with tried and true knowledge and proven practices. Seeing ourselves in the picture matters, but over time the picture can fade. Anchoring to what we know to be true is a proven practice to keep us tethered to our best practices and keeps us front and center in the picture. With ADHD we can set down knowledge and practices like setting down a set of keys. Eventually the keys become...
2022-03-2127 min
2022-03-1613 min
Translating ADHDCultivating a Metaphor Practice with ADHD
Continuing with the theme of cultivating a practice, Shelly and Cam discuss the practice of working with metaphors. Some of us, like Shelly, make meaning through language. Others, like Cam, make meaning through imagery, metaphor and analogy. Shelly and Cam explore the power of metaphor by looking at Cam’s own progression of metaphor use - as a daydream escape in his early years, to weaponizing imagery to reinforce his own imposter syndrome to finally turn it into a constructive coaching tool.
Cam relays the story of how he used imagery to articulate his own ADHD experience, namely the dif...
2022-03-1428 min
Translating ADHDCultivating a Practice of Articulation with ADHD
Continuing with the theme of cultivating a practice, Shelly and Cam discuss the practice of articulation - giving language to our ADHD experiences, and to our thoughts and feelings. Articulation is a universally beneficial practice, meaning that everyone can benefit from this practice regardless of modality preference. Articulation is a key component of coaching and helps to break down the barriers of awareness and learning (from the Three Barriers of ADHD).
ADHD, with its related verbal working memory/EF challenges, makes it difficult to put words to an experience. In coaching, we create a safe space for a client t...
2022-03-0732 min
Translating ADHDBigger Perspective Work with ADHD: A Client Scenario
Shelly and Cam continue in the vein of cultivating a practice and perspectives, looking at deeper perspective work over a longer period of time. People change and grow. The worlds and realities they create and live in change too. It only makes sense that their thinking evolves with that change. This is at the root of perspective - how we look at a situation is just as relevant and informing as the actual situation. There is a plethora of scientific data that supports how exploring mindset can better inform one’s experience.
Shelly br...
2022-02-2830 min
Translating ADHDCultivating a Practice: Perspective Shifts and ADHD
Cam and Shelly step into their first deep dive into the greater cultivating a practice theme with an exploration of perspective work, a core element of ADHD coaching. When one thinks of cultivating a practice one can think of an action or a strategy and how to step into a task or behavior. With ADHD it is also important to develop a practice or habit of stepping back from a situation or experience.
Stepping back is a reflective practice and allows us to view how we are looking at a dilemma or a s...
2022-02-2131 min
Translating ADHDCultivating a Practice with ADHD
Hosts Shelly Collins and Cameron Gott pivot away from their exploration of emotions and emotional dysregulation and introduce a central coaching element - Cultivating a Practice. They lay out general concepts of developing a practice, distinguishing universal practices from more selective individual practices. Cam and Shelly introduce the idea of a practice mindset and discuss how perspective work in coaching is a good place to start when wanting to introduce a new practice.
Cam and Shelly integrate their Pause, Disrupt, Pivot model and share stories about how their own clients develop a practice o...
2022-02-1434 min
Translating ADHDEmotional Modes with ADHD: Empathy
Shelly and Cam continue to explore emotions beyond ‘emotional dysregulation’ looking at a phenomenon they call emotional modes. Because of emotional variability and volatility, those with ADHD can be prone to ‘lock’ into a preferred emotional stance. They illustrate this autopilot approach by looking at how empathy tends to present in their own client population.
Cam shares how he sees two distinct polar presentations of empathy - too much empathy for others with zero empathy for self or zero empathy for others resulting in isolation and lack of connection. Shelly brings in a metaphor...
2022-02-0725 min
Translating ADHDCultivating Trust in Relationships with ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue their exploration of the connection between positive emotions and positive structures. This week they focus on supportive people and cultivating trust in a relationship. Shelly shares a story where a client’s definition of trust evolves as she navigates hardship, setbacks and trauma to eventual learning and change regarding a desire to help her community in need. Listen for the client’s own ‘translating’ work as she redefines what trust actually is for her.
In relationships, those of us with ADHD can lead with hope and intention, but without clear nee...
2022-01-3122 min
Translating ADHDPositive Emotions and Positive Structures with ADHD
As Shelly and Cam shift in the direction of the role of positive emotions in motivation and activation, they pause to consider the importance of positive structures. It’s almost impossible to embrace and utilize positive emotions like hope, curiosity and love if the signal of negative emotions, like anger or shame, is still too intense and if one has not considered positive emotions in the context of positive structures. Those of us with ADHD are masterful at responding and reacting to negative structures to create urgency and to activate an adrenaline/dopamine response. This approach comes at...
2022-01-2425 minTranslating ADHDOpening the Door to Positive Emotions with ADHDThis week Cam and Shelly pivot from the recent focus on negative emotions to positive emotions. Emotions are the on-off switch for action. Understanding how emotions come into play is key to motivation and taking action. Those of us with ADHD tend to over-utilize our fear neural networks or negative emotions to get things done. How often do you hear yourself prioritizing or taking action through urgency or on the greatest consequence? How often does worry, fear or anxiety inform what you are trying to do?
Accessing this negative neural network too much leads to s...
2022-01-1724 min
Translating ADHDBig Signal Emotions with ADHD: Rejection
This week we continue our exploration of big signal emotions as we explore rejection. Cam and Shelly discuss that with ADHD on board it’s not just rejection, but the fear of rejection that has the biggest impact.
Cam and Shelly discuss the relationship between fear and rejection and how rejection comes from a place of fear. To examine this more closely, Cam takes listeners back to a time in life when he felt rejected frequently despite the fact that he was not being rejected. Cam felt rejected at work because he was in...
2022-01-1024 min
Translating ADHDBig Signal Emotions with ADHD: Shame
This week we return to our exploration of big signal emotions as we dig into shame. Shame is no stranger for those of us living with ADHD. Shame is often the root of many downstream emotional responses, like imposter syndrome and rejection sensitivity. As one walks through the world with an invisible disability like ADHD, one can see how shame can manifest. Cam and Shelly discuss how years of dismissal and rejection, deliberate and not, and years of struggling to explain or account for the unexplainable, plant the seeds of shame. Cam and Shelly share how factors...
2022-01-0327 min
Translating ADHDA Different Take on Emotional Dysregulation with ADHD
This week Shelly and Cam use a client story as a vehicle to explore emotion and emotional dysregulation. To have ADHD is to have challenges with managing appropriate and measured emotional responses. But that is not all. Emotion is key to the motivation system and developing new awareness and learning (All three barriers).
Cam and Shelly look at emotional dysregulation beyond the term and, in Translating ADHD fashion, dig into a client situation revealing language and dynamics that go far beyond a “failure to regulate”. Shelly shares in detail how her client located advo...
2021-12-2728 min
Translating ADHDBig Signal Emotions with ADHD: Blame
Emotions are key to driving beliefs and behaviors. They also play a big part in effective ADHD management. Emotions also drive big signal responses like rejection, sensitivity or imposter syndrome. Those big signal responses can really impact our ability to identify and circumvent First Barrier dilemmas. The First Barrier of ADHD is the barrier to new awareness. Emotions like blame can cloud our judgment, disrupt our own agency and take us offline down some negative emotional rabbit holes (one of our Valley experiences).
Shelly and Cam look closely at blame, one emotion they see often...
2021-12-2030 min
Translating ADHDNavigating the First Barrier of ADHD
Shelly and Cam revisit the First Barrier of ADHD - the barrier to new awareness - by illustrating a client’s own experience with struggling and eventually succeeding to generate new awareness. In Shelly’s words “to walk this world as an ADHD person is to walk this world misunderstood”. Because of the first barrier of ADHD, it can be extremely frustrating to know when we are struggling, and - when we do have this awareness, - it can be doubly hard to articulate our dilemmas to those around us.
In the client example...
2021-12-1328 min
Translating ADHDThe First Barrier of ADHD
Why is it that we stray off the path we know - of best practices, best strategies and best resources? Why is it we struggle to recognize we have left the path and additionally, struggle to relocate the path once we have realized this? This challenge with generating valuable awareness at the right time is a signature ADHD dilemma and creates the biggest obstacle to meaningful change and even addressing our ADHD, including pursuing a diagnosis. This is the first barrier of ADHD - The barrier to new awareness.
Shelly and Cam discuss...
2021-11-2930 min
Translating ADHDContextual Wiring and Your Unique Value with ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue with the ever-expansive topic of context with respect to ADHD with a deep dive into how our unique wiring is connected to our unique value at work and in the world. In this episode, they explore how contextual wiring presents in a few examples and how to leverage this ‘super strength’ throughout the week. They distinguish how big value is not the same as the big signal (episode 80). Our big value is often downplayed or dismissed because of societal norms and our own negative internal dialogue.
Shelly shares how vuln...
2021-11-2228 min
Translating ADHDMindset and Shifting Context with ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue the theme of exploring context by introducing a process for shifting to a better mindset. Context informs our current narrative and our narrative informs our mindset or the way we perceive our world.
They share a simple three-step process of Pause, Disrupt, Pivot to shift from a negative context to a positive one. Shelly shares an excellent story of how she uses the process to interrupt a potential spiraling event and move to a better frame of mind. As they often do, Cam and Shelly share typical ADHD challenges...
2021-11-1527 min
Translating ADHDContext and the Tone of Your ‘Why?’
Shelly and Cam stay on the topic of context but shift to its positive elements. They distinguish the value of ‘Who’ and ‘Why’ questions and how they inform the frame or context those of us with ADHD put around our experience. Both Shelly and Cam share how the tone of their own ‘Why’ questions early in their careers led to very different outward manifestations but similar feelings of frustration and confusion.
They then talk about how changing the tone of the ‘Why’ questions can open us up to curiosity, creativity and possibility. When we have a sense...
2021-11-0826 min
Translating ADHDContext Pitfalls and ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue to explore contextual pitfalls and ADHD. Last week they introduced contextual mad-libs. This week they explore two more contextual challenges, ‘locking in’ to a limiting narrative and conversely ‘spinning through’ multiple narratives. Both are contextual in nature and a very ADHD Valley experience. We constantly tether to how we relate to our world, drawing frames of reference that meet a need that may be keeping us in a current state or mode and delay real and positive change.
ADHD is partially an ‘access and regulation’ dilemma; accessing and regulating attention, e...
2021-11-0123 min
Translating ADHDContextual Mad-Libs and ADHD
Shelly and Cam continue to discuss the concept of context as it relates to coaching and to the lived experience with ADHD. We are wired for context and the compelling narratives that can drive behaviors good and bad. Today we delve into how being wired for context is not so helpful as Shelly shares a concept that one of her clients termed ‘contextual mad-libbing’ - where one inserts their own narrative and meaning into an incomplete context like a short text message or a rushed meeting in the hall where key bits of data are missing.
2021-10-2525 min
Translating ADHDADHD, Coaching and Context
Shelly and Cam bring forth a topic that is synonymous with coaching and the ADHD lived experience but rarely, if ever, discussed overtly in ADHD circles. Context drives so much of the coaching conversation from discovering big agendas to exploring limiting perspectives, yet we often don’t recognize when context is at work influencing our thoughts and behaviors.
Shelly and Cam define context and how it is of particular interest to those of us with ADHD. Part of the neurodiverse experience is in part because many of us are ‘wired for context’ - that w...
2021-10-1829 min
Translating ADHDNavigating The Three Barriers with ADHD
Shelly and Cam do what they do best, taking listeners on a journey through an ADHD-lived experience. Today they integrate all three barriers of ADHD as Shelly shares her own discovery and learning process. She digs into a recent dilemma around a breakdown with getting house chores done. Listen as Shelly and Cam explore Shelly’s journey as she bumps into and then develops workarounds for all three barriers, to new learning that she converts into new action resulting in systems and practices that reflect her current reality - the captain of her own abode.
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2021-10-1135 min
Translating ADHDThe Third Barrier of ADHDShelly and Cam look at learning and its role in creating positive and sustained change. Deemed The Third Barrier of ADHD, learning is the most significant element of a change process and the one most impacted by ADHD. In ADHD land so much focus is put on the first two barriers - knowing what to do and doing what you know - that many miss this third and so essential step in moving one's agenda forward. Learning is key to our higher level TA concepts of agency, integrity (doing what matters) and living a life of purpose.
2021-10-0428 min
Translating ADHDSelf-Care and ADHD
Surprisingly, this is the first episode dedicated to the topic of self-care. Shelly and Cam discuss self-care in the context of the coaching process. They discuss why they start with self-care in every coaching engagement. Clients often come to coaching looking for a quick win but they're often seeking that win from an urgent state of mind or in an ARC perspective.
Shelly and Cam go on to discuss certain obstacles to self-care including “shoulds”, getting hung up in the “how”, diminishing or downplaying the value of a self-care practice and attaching extra meaning to the acti...
2021-09-2729 min
Translating ADHDThe Second Barrier of ADHD
Shelly and Cam pick up a thread from a past client conversation who was shifting from a knowing place to a place of action. Shelly shares more about her client in an active state of ‘cultivating safety’. This is significant because it is an excellent example of breaking through the ‘Second Barrier of ADHD’ - the first barrier is to new awareness, the second barrier is to new action and new behaviors. The Second Barrier is ubiquitous with the ADHD experience and likely the most maddening aspect of living with ADHD - we don’t do what we know we...
2021-09-2032 min
#CreatorSpacesElevating ADHD Coaching with Shelly CollinsShelly Collins is an ADHD coach & the host of the @translatingadhd podcast.In this episode, we talked about:Importance of seeking immediate feedbackUsing word of mouth to build up your audienceThings you need to do before starting a podcastFollow @coachshellyc on Twitter to learn more about productivity, time management, and organizational systems best for people with ADHD.
2021-09-1313 min
Translating ADHDEnduring Covid Stressors with ADHD
Continuing the theme of resilience, Shelly and Cam revisit COVID as a topic, discussing the stress of living with an ongoing pandemic. They share personal stories and stories from clients and how the current uncertainty in daily life creates additional stressors. Building effective resilience is about identifying and managing stressors, distinguishing what we can and can not control.
With ADHD we can diminish or downplay negative inputs and just try to ‘soldier on’. Acknowledging the stress and impact is a first step in processing feelings and moving through their Understand, Own, Translate process. Shelly and Cam...
2021-09-1326 min
Translating ADHDResilience and Building a Reflective Practice with ADHD
Hosts Shelly and Cam continue down the road of resilience with a focus on developing a reflective practice. A reflective practice is a key element of coaching and an absolute linchpin in the action/learning process. Research in neuroscience and meditation shows the benefits of cultivating a reflective practice. The population as a whole under-utilizes this practice and those of us with ADHD can really struggle in developing a consistent reflective practice.
We introduce the idea of The Keen Observer, the objective partner to explore and reflect on experiences, thoughts, feelings and how we make...
2021-09-0633 min
Translating ADHDResilience Practices with ADHD
Hosts Shelly and Cam continue to explore the concept of resilience and focus on resilience practices. Episode 60 laid out the ‘valley’ experience - getting stuck and not finding a way out. In today’s episode we explore practices to manage those valley moments. We share more examples of challenges when we are ‘deep in the emotion of an event’ like ‘blame sponge’ and our old friend from Episode 4, Adrenaline Response Cycle.
Cam shares a humorous “brain under assault” story and Shelly does a little spot coaching to reveal how Cam used resilience practices to help him manage the stre...
2021-08-3031 min
Translating ADHDReframing Resilience, Support and Practice with ADHD
Shelly and Cam kick off the second season of the Translating ADHD podcast! In this episode, we lay out what listeners can expect in the next 90 episodes. We reflect on our biggest learnings getting a 20,000ft. view of the podcast and review what our audience is wanting to see more of in each episode.
One request from our listeners is to have more examples of live coaching. Another is for us to provide listeners with more insight into how they can practice the concepts presented in the show in the "other 167 hours in the week".
2021-08-2321 min
Translating ADHDReflecting on the Translating ADHD Journey and What's Next for The Show
This week, Cam and Shelly take some time to reflect on their journey in creating and producing the Translating ADHD podcast. We take some time to reflect on where we started, how we've grown, and what we've learned so far after 89 episodes of Translating ADHD.
We also discuss what we're considering in the future, and how we plan to use our six week summer break. We examine ways in which we are considering evolving Translating ADHD as a show and discuss how strengthening engagement with our amazing community as a primary goal.
2021-07-0522 min
Translating ADHDDisclosing ADHD
One of the biggest dilemmas we face in our professional lives as ADHD people is the when, what, and how of disclosing our ADHD. Through client examples and years of experience, Shelly and Cam discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of ADHD disclosure.
The hosts focus on the rich middle ground between ‘share everything’ and ‘share nothing’ and how the Understand, Own, Translate work listeners are doing can be an effective resource. Cam and Shelly talk about the preconceived notions neurotypicals can have about the term ADHD. They also discuss how to share ADHD challenges in a way to...
2021-06-2119 min
Translating ADHDNavigating Romantic Relationships with ADHDRomantic relationships can present tremendous challenges with ADHD in the equation. Romantic relationships produce big, intense signals that can block out other things. This is especially true because of the emotional investment that comes with a romantic relationship and the emotional dysregulation that comes with ADHD.
Shelly and Cam continue their discussion on ‘seeing oneself in the picture’ as they explore romantic relationships. We delve into how developing a healthy, meaningful, complimentary relationship with ADHD in the mix largely lives in Quadrant 2 (important, but not urgent). We also discuss how success is largely connected to the...
2021-06-1426 min
Translating ADHDManaging Personal Relationships with ADHD
Personal relationships can often be more challenging than professional relationships with ADHD in the mix. Just remove all of the work related structures like role, goal and objective and add elements like emotional investment and historical baggage and watch out!
Shelly and Cam continue their discussion on ‘seeing oneself in the picture’ as they explore personal relationships - typical personas like rescuer or bulldozer, common pitfalls like over extension or ‘making up for’ behavior and strategies to develop new understanding and exercise choice. They continue to delve into the significance of concepts like expectati...
2021-06-0730 min
Translating ADHDManaging Professional Relationships with ADHD
Continuing their discussion on agency and advocacy, Shelly and Cam tackle the all important area of managing professional relationships. The workplace is where translating opportunities and challenges will be ever present. In this episode, Shelly and Cam share a number of client stories as they highlight the significance of setting clear agreements, managing expectations and addressing needs.
They continue the ‘seeing self in the picture’ concept with more of a focus on the picture part - is what is being asked reasonable or even feasible? The discuss the challenges of negotiating from a perce...
2021-05-3126 min
Translating ADHDDefining Your Roles and Knowing Your Value with ADHD
This week, Shelly and Cam continue their discussion on "seeing yourself in your picture" and the broader concepts of agency and advocacy. In this episode they focus on role definition and value creation. As divergent thinkers we can believe that we need to cast a broader net when it comes to roles and value. Shelly and Cam make the case for limiting scope here.
Shelly introduces the coaching skill of co-creating and how anyone can use this skill to further define role and value in everyday conversations reintroducing terms like needs, expectations and...
2021-05-2426 min
Translating ADHDPutting Yourself in the Picture: Agency and Advocacy with ADHD
As ADHD people, we can be so focused on the biggest signals that we lose ourselves in our own pictures. This week on the Translating ADHD podcast, Cam and Shelly pivot to introduce a new concept of agency and advocacy that will inform the next several episodes from articulating needs in relationships to whether to disclose your ADHD at your workplace.
The definition of agency we introduce is the social science definition that includes acting independently and exercising free choice. Often there are two camps when it comes to navigating conventional (and neurotypical...
2021-05-1727 min
Translating ADHDAccessing Nuance and the Subtle Signals with ADHD
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 to positive outcomes as it disrupts the binary all or nothing, black...
2021-05-1028 min
Translating ADHDADHD and the Stress Response of Fight, Flight, or Freeze
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 response before it happens by...
2021-04-1226 min
ADHD EssentialsTranslating ADHD and Time with Shelly Collins, ADHD Coach & Co-Host of the Translating ADHD podcastToday, we’re talking to Shelly Collins!
Shelly is an ADHD coach, and, along with friend-of-the-show Cameron Gott, hosts of the Translating ADHD podcast.
In this week’s episode, Shelly talks about the relationship between ADHD and time. She discusses why ADHDers don’t really procrastinate, the difference between big brain mode and fast brain mode, the time horizon, the importance of understanding the ADHD causes of our challenges, and ways to solve email drama.
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Learn more about Shelly and her work at https://shellylcollins.com
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2021-03-1343 min