I love doing therapy, presenting, writing, and volunteering. And I’m really lucky to have such great people to do it with—my clients who do the hard work, the friends I present with, the podcast hosts who create fascinating conversations, and the fellow volunteers who help organize one of the biggest ADHD conferences of the year. It’s important work that’s easy to motivate for.

I have always been one to seek out interesting opportunities and am a firm believer that things lead to things. If you do good work with a good attitude, new opportunities will come. It takes courage to put yourself out there, but the reward comes from the risk.
Meeting with clients, writing, and presenting all go together. Doing one makes you better at the other two. It’s all about understanding the situation and then communicating clearly, whether to an audience of one or thousands.

I say that ADHD doesn’t create new problems; it just exacerbates the universal ones. We all sometimes get distracted, procrastinate, misplace our keys, feel misunderstood, and doubt ourselves. Targeted strategies can make all the difference, whether about managing your time or navigating a difficult negotiation with your partner. And also, none of us need to be perfect in order to live a meaningful life and feel good about ourselves, so we also work on being OK with the parts of ourself or our situation that won’t change.

A brave life means being willing to take risks (but only wise ones) and also having the courage to accept the imperfections in ourselves and others.