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The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The power of neurodiversity
"In today's episode I speak to Catherine McCord about the power of neurodiversity. We discuss her neurodiversity and her work as an entrepreneur in people operations consulting. Catherine's different brain wiring influenced her innovative and forward -thinking approach to her work. We discussed the misconceptions surrounding bipolar disorder and its manifestations. Catherine shares clear strategies on how to manage her bipolar and how she uses her motivation and mindset to combat the depressed mood and continue moving forward. This episode talks about myth busting and biases surrounding neurodiversity and medical diagnosis. We ponder on the potential evolutionary aspect of neurodiversity as well as the benefits of embracing honesty and setting boundaries up front. Listen up to the rest of this conversation. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Catherine McCord. How are you doing? I'm wonderful. Thank you so much for having me today. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to have you too and I want to know why you're wonderful. Why am I wonderful? I would say probably my neurodiverse brain is the thing that makes me stand out the most. I absolutely love having a brain that's wired very differently. So what is your neurodiversity? So first of all, if anybody listening does not know, so neurodiversity simply refers to a medically visible and or diagnosable difference in how the brain processes information and stimuli. So this could be anything from epilepsy and traumatic brain injury over to, let's say, ADHD and even like bipolar obsessive compulsive disorder, etc, etc. My personal neurodiversity, the ones I talk about the most anyway, I actually have several, but the ones I talk about the most are my obsessive compulsive disorder and my bipolar. Interesting. OK, so you're an entrepreneur. What do you do? So what do I do? I work in people operations consulting. So basically all things human in H .R. I eat, live and breathe it. And I have kind of a different approach to these types of things. I have a very humanistic, very innovative and very let's face forward kind of approach to it. And it's and again, all that kind of came from the neurodiversity. So I kind of blame that part of me for that. And then I also speak and speak and teach internationally on topics of inclusion, typically focusing on either innovating inclusive hiring, neurodiversity or disability. Fascinating. So it's interesting because the neurodiversity that you mentioned the most, OCD and bipolar, are probably the ones that worry neurotypical people the most. Especially the bipolar, because people don't seem to actually know what it is. And so it's really funny. You get some funny reactions with that one. You do? Yeah, because I guess, you know, when it was called manic depressive. Right. That sounded very worrying because nobody kind of knew what that meant. And then it got, you know, a better name. So can you explain, first of all, what is bipolar and how does that manifest for you? So it's different for everybody to have it. And they're actually different categorizations of bipolar. So the type that I have is the kind of the main characteristics is that you will have long periods of down, long periods of up, and then a bunch of normal, quote, quote, normal average. Like when I say normal, I mean my personal normal. Like just kind of meaning chemically even keeled for an extended period of time. And people often think that it means you have like rapid mood changes. No, none of that. No rapid mood changes. It's just, you know, these are just the different things that happen chemically. And what it is is that different chemicals are being released in your brain in disproportionate amounts. And it's just causing these kind of funky waves. You'll get all kinds of symptoms. For me, the manic side presents a lot more strongly than the depressive side, which is not always true. When I first was diagnosed, the depressive side came out much more strongly. And as I've gotten older and hormone have adjusted and all of that, the manic side is definitely the stronger one of the two. I also learned to manage my depression very early on. And then it's kind of the same thing with the manic side. So for me, the manic side is a lot more present, which can have a lot of different pros and cons. Number one, you tend to get exhausted after several days of that because kind of picture like for people I know that have done this, they also have bipolar, they've likened it to doing a whole bunch of cocaine over and over and over again for days and weeks at a time. So after a while, you just kind of get exhausted from that. Excessive spending can be a real issue. I have some safeguards in place for that, but that can definitely be a real problem. But on the pro side is that I get this exponential energy right and I can work 90 to nothing. My brain processes super fast. It kind of puts me into a creative mode, which is kind of cool, especially for an entrepreneur and somebody who speaks. And right now I'm writing a book, so that helps with that. So it has definite pros, but it can also definitely be frustrating as well.
Recipes for Success
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"Yeah, it does. And I think it's a really interesting point. And I know, obviously, you're a reflexologist as well. And even personally, like that's something as I started to explore more around hormones that I actually found reflexology very helpful, because you're right, it's sort of like, to me, it's maybe a little bit around how we regulate ourselves. And like, that's where the hormones come in. But you're right, like, I think we always think that the brain is maybe the one that's driving things. But actually, in fact, sometimes it can be our hormones. But if we don't know anything about hormone regulation, then it's very kind of difficult to know and understand what's actually going on, isn't it? Yeah, and that's a very precise way to put it. Like, it is the hormonal regulation. And there's times, you know, we're going along, everything is hunky dory, and then boom, you know, mid cycle after revelation, we start to just go and we just normalise it, we don't connect that, you know, we assume it's the imposter in our brain. Yeah. You know, that's hijacked us for that couple of days or weeks for some people prior to the actual menstrual cycle. And we think, is this normal? Is this normal? And you just carry on with your everyday life because it happens on a monthly basis. So you made a very good point around hormonal regulation, the recommendation would look like and I work I work now as well with quite, you know, much younger women. And the recommendation would be that, you know, if you if you were experiencing hormonal dysregulation, that you would go for the likes of endocrine reflexology, just after ovulation, to support the regulation of the hormones that you can transition into your menstrual cycle with a little bit more ease. Yeah, it's interesting what you're saying, they're bringing in kind of like the experience of say, like younger women going through their period cycles, there's there's sort of like this, like, it's just something you put up with, right. And I think like, particularly then around menopause, that that's sort of become the narrative, right? It's just something you have to put up with. And because people are talking about it, people don't really like understand what is normal or not. And I think it might be interesting to sort of ground us, I suppose, in some because for me, I actually realised that I didn't have much language around this. So it was actually through a past work experience that somebody on my team started talking to me about perimenopause. I had never heard of that before. And when I was researching for this, I was hearing about like surgical menopause, early menopause, like there's a whole lexicon there, isn't there that like we probably don't have? Yeah, yeah. And again, like, you know, half, well, all the population of hormones, but half the population are experiencing it quite differently. So from point of view, in terms of perimenopause, my early symptoms would have started in my late 30s of perimenopause. Now, obviously, you know, you know, I have my babies from 20 to 33. And then, you know, I would imagine that my onset was induced by through trauma, right. But never, never didn't put the pieces together until I was in my mid 40s. So then what happened for me was it was the initial kickoff, what I noticed first was my hair loss, my hair started falling out. My periods became extremely heavy, off the Richter scale heavy. And again, it was I was going to my GP, it was, you know, going for tests for various different things. And, you know, just to bring it into context without going through the whole thing. This went on for about five to six years. And then it became like I had various different operations. Eventually, I ended up having open surgery to have ovaries removed. And that then, you know, set me into full on menopause, surgical menopause. And I remember talking to the female surgeon that done it. And she said to me, if you have any issues around, you know, menopause or anything, just make sure to visit your GP. And I'm like, what? What are you talking about? And then I ended up having to go back to my GP. And my GP said to me, but Roseanne, you were perimenopausal a few years ago. And exactly like you, Heather, I said, I was periwattsary? What's that? Do you know? What are you talking about? Yeah. So just for anyone listening, just so again, like if you were like myself, and you weren't really sure what the difference between the terms are, I suppose when we talk about menopause, we're probably like somewhat familiar of what it is in terms of our period stopping as women. And it's generally like the age bracket of like 45 to 55 is when that's happening. Perimenopause is where you get some of the early symptoms of menopause, but you're still having your periods. And then an early menopause is what you're saying there. It's induced by maybe like something like a hysterectomy or even having like chemotherapy for cancer treatments. Yeah. So that's like your perimenopause in years can last from, you know, up to 10 to 12 years. Yeah. And, you know, like during that time, so it's a bit of a sneaky one, it kind of creeps in on you. You know, you could have a symptom, you could start having symptoms like just for example, for hair loss, let's say. You could, obviously your periods become irregular, but you're still having them. So again, you know, it's your menstrual cycle. So that's what it is. And what we don't know, we don't know. Yeah. Then it's about putting those little nuggets of information together. You're suddenly, your skin is getting dry. You have itchy skin, you have, you know, symptoms like hot sweats, sleepless nights. And we, because life has become so busy for women nowadays, like years ago, if you even go back, say 50 years ago, women generally, you know, were work at home moms. So they wouldn't, they wouldn't have had the same stressors. Yes. As, as women nowadays do, because we're now in, in a society that, you know, we have careers, we have children, they have lives, we have mortgages, we have elderly parents, perhaps. And there's like, this whole thing is just thrown at us, you know, and women, I think, conditionally, there is an expectation around women to do everything. Yeah. It's very interesting what you're saying though. So you're like, you know, calling out some of the symptoms there. So like the hot flashes, and I know there's a lot around brain fog and even kind of mental health challenges like anxiety. And when I was preparing for this, like it did get me thinking because on season one, I had a guest on Carmel, and she was talking about how she got diagnosed in her 30s with ADHD and autism. And she was saying that actually ADHD diagnosis are quite difficult for women because A, we present differently than men with it, but B, it's often misdiagnosed as anxiety. So people are told that they have a general anxiety disorder and they're put on anti-anxiety meds. And it really got me thinking that it feels quite similar with things like perimenopause. And I know your own experience was, you know, you presented to your GP with anxiety and depression, and you were put on anti-anxiety and anti-depression meds. But if you had had more education and knowledge, Rosanne, of what was happening, like, do you think that that, like, do you think you would have advocated or had a different discussion with your GP at that time? So I just love you asked that question, because here's the thing. At the time I was, I had, it had gotten so deep and heavy for me to carry the load, the mental, physical, emotional, spiritual load just became exhausting. And I was, when I say, Heather, I was on my knees. I genuinely mean that. I mean, I had experienced an awful lot of stuff in my life and then this came along and I thought, is this the rest of my life? Have I gotten to my mid forties, you know, and now this? Is this what my life looks like? Because if it is, I'm out. And it got to that stage, the depression and anxiety got to that stage for me. It was so severe that I just didn't see if this was going to be what the rest of my life looked like. I'm like, no, I wanted quality of life over quantity at that time. I wanted the quality of my life to improve. It's interesting what you're saying there, because like, maybe this is just menopause, but it's really like, because we don't talk about it, you think like, it's just going to be like, like your period, right? Like you have a couple of days of discomfort, and that's it. But like, what I hear you saying is, well, actually, you can get menopause, like perimenopause. So you're getting the symptoms before you're even going through menopause. But even, and I know, like the symptoms can last even afterwards. So you could be in your sixties and still experiencing those. So it's not like something we have to deal with for like a couple of days or a couple of weeks. Well, here's the thing about that, Heather, right? So for, for, for, for the bones, I say a five years, like when you, when we talk about a couple of days of discomfort for me, and I know a lot of women are in this position. So for me, it was, you know, my menstrual cycle would start right. Extremely heavy, extremely debilitating for a couple of days. Then you would be, you know, that could last for up to seven days, the menstrual cycle. Yeah. Then at the end of that, right, you feel that little bit of normality, whoo, coming back. And it's like, gee, thank God for that. I can, you know, it's, I'm back to normal again. Now, bear in mind that, you know, from the first day of your period, within, you know, 10 to 14 days of that, you start to ovulate again, right? So now take seven days of a chunk out of that, for my period, let's say at the time, then that's seven days. So the normal, the normality was anything from four to seven days of feeling normal before I'd start ovulating again. And as soon as I started to ovulate, I could feel it. I'd know what was happening. Then the downward spiral would start again. And because I'd cystic ovaries as well, which I didn't know about for a long time, the pain was excruciating. Yeah, it's, you know, it's interesting when we're talking about, you know, how you present at your GP. And I think, like, what I sort of took away from preparing for this chat is, like, it's probably not enough to just know the symptoms, but it's sort of to understand the pattern of the symptoms. Because otherwise, you can think it's something else. And then it's very hard to kind of get the help that you need. And it's so, like, what you're saying, like, you know, is like everyone's experience of their period and their hormones is quite individual to them. There is sort of an Amy, a little bit of gaslighting then goes on when you go to your GP too, when like what you're saying, like, they're putting it down to the other stressors that maybe someone has in their life. If someone's listening to this and it's like resonating with some of these symptoms, like, how do you kind of advise that they, like, how can they advocate for themselves, I suppose, with their GP? So, yeah, and that, again, another very good point, Heather, because to be fair, OK, so like GPs, general practitioners are there obviously to do a job. Now, again, we have to recognise what's going on in our bodies. So we have to take a little bit of responsibility around educating our GPs, because to be fair, they've not been properly trained in hormone and women's health from that point of view. So I know there is a couple of pieces to this. So what it is is like, basically, if women are presenting with symptoms that they recognise it, that they say, no, this is not normal. This is me feeling like absolute crap. I need to do something about it. So it's about, again, you know, charting, noting, journaling what's going on on a monthly basis. And that could be something as simple as watching your cycle. So you could have just even a smiley face on the top of your diary, a good day. Right. Yes. Yeah. And something as simple as that, you know, and then as you transition through your monthly cycle that you start to notice the pattern of, you know, that downward feeling of hormonal change, like once we go armed with our own information. So what I do, basically, Heather, is when women come to me in, you know, mid 40s, early 40s, mid 40s, I'll go through a full symptom checker with them. Oh, very good. Yes, Heather. That is like, it is like somebody just shone a light on them and they just go, that's what it is. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And they're looking at it and they're going, I have all those symptoms. And that is when the light bulb flicks on. With that then it is important to, you know, once you have that piece of information and I don't mind sharing that menopause symptom checker with anybody or hormonal health symptom checker. But once you have that information, it's important that we understand and we are assertive enough to go to our GP and say, this is what's happening to me. Right. And if it's dismissed in any way, just, you know, to take it back respectfully and say, I'm sorry, but you're not living in my body. No. I love the word you use there, assertive, and it's true. I think sometimes I don't know if it's the kind of parochial conditioning, but you know, like you look up to the doctor and the priest and all of these like traditional roles, but you're right. Like no one else is living in your body and you know what's happening. So it could be even like maybe practicing like what you're going to see or having it like written out for yourself before you go in. And you know, you're like, no, like, I know you're saying anxiety, but that is not what I'm feeling. Like, why is this happening? Like, you know, I agree. I think having that understanding of your own body and that assertiveness to speak up is really important as well. And also how they're being aware that like, there's this notional nonsense around, you know, they won't like, you have to have blood tests done prior to the age of 45. That is pure nonsense. Right. Pure nonsense. Your hormonal fluctuation changes on an hourly or more basis. So the majority of women will go in, they'll say, I need a blood test for my hormonal site of regulation. And they'll, you know, they could get the hormonal blood test and it could come back. No, no change. Everything's grand. Then women are left sitting in this despair of, well, then what's wrong with me? And if the doctor said, it's not, that's not what's wrong with me. Well, then I have to believe that. The point I'm making is, no, you don't. That's the beauty of having a symptom checker. So you can go and say, this is what's happening to me. And I want to get some information about it. What is the best support I can avail of? Is it, you know, hormone replacement therapy or, you know, what can you provide me with? I don't want to use the word misinformation because it feels a bit fake newsy, but like when you're talking about HRT, like I've kind of read a bit that there's this misconception that HRT can cause breast cancer. So I feel like it's quite, now I don't know enough about the research to argue either side, but it seems like there's also a lot of people saying that, no, that's not the case, particularly with like the modern HRT, like patches and stuff that we're using now. But I'm just thinking like, if I was going through that, like not only do I have to get my GP to believe me, I have to first understand what's happening to me. I need to like track it. I need to go into my GP. I need to be assertive. I need to get him or her to believe it. I need to be diagnosed with the correct thing. But then even when we're getting to treatments, there seems to be like this kind of fog of confusion around that as well. Like what's your thoughts on that? So that's what you're talking about there in terms of the connectivity for cancer, breast cancer, was a research project that was done back in the late 70s, 80s. And it was based on, so there's a couple of things in this, it was, it's a falsified study, by the way, that study, you know, wasn't ethical because there was a couple of things. It was done on women in their mid 60s to mid 70s that would have very likely gotten breast cancer anyway. In addition to that, it was the hormone replacement was synthetic hormone. It was derived from synthetic format, whereas now, so versus now you have your body identical. And again, it's another recommendation that I will make to women that they, you know, they request body identical HRT as opposed to synthetic formats. So there's bioidentical and there's body identical. And again, the important piece in this though, Heather, is that we are then educating our GPs because they genuinely might not know which is which, what the difference is. So again, it's that piece of armed information, because when I went to find out about HRT, well, when it was recommended to me, I, my response was, I can't take hormones and I couldn't in the synthetic format. I could never take the pill or I could never, like, even the marina coil, which has a progesterone in it. And again, it's a synthetic hormone that never suited my body. But then, you know, the, the practitioner at the time came back and she said, nor is, and this is a body identical, the exact same hormone that's produced in your body. And I said, Oh, okay, well, I can try that for sure. And I did, and it suits me. And again, it takes a little bit of time. So we have to be mindful that hormones are depleting from our body over years. The replacement of it is just that it's just giving you back what you have depleted in over time. Yes. Yeah. So it's not this like kind of miracle drug overnight cure. It takes that. And thank you so much for sharing that language, because I think that's really useful to like have those terms. And I think like what I'm really getting from this conversation is it is really, like you said, important to be armed with that information. So you're having educated conversations with your GP or with someone like yourself. I was thinking about this when like, you know, I obviously know education is key to this, right? And like get like talking more about pen and pause. Then I was thinking like, where should we be educating women? Because like if I take back to me in secondary school, I mean, to think of like being 45, I mean, I couldn't like 21 was ancient. So like, where, where should we be learning about menopause then? You know something, Heather, we should be learning about hormonal health from a very young age. I mean, I mean, hormonal health now from the perspective of male and female. Yeah. So and give you an example of that, right? So I'm going to do an educational talk this afternoon in a secondary school for teachers. Amazing. Yeah. And I had gotten a message this morning, just in relation to, you know, because of the age difference between the teachers. And there was a little bit of concern around talking about menopause. And I just I just replied back in a voice note, I won't be talking just about menopause, I'll be talking about hormonal health. Like there is a secondary school full, full of hormones at different times all the time. So can you imagine the energetic hormonal field that's within a big secondary school? It's like a hotbed of hormones. But that's why I've decided, you know, rather because people have said, but I'm not menopausal. And I'd say, yeah, but you're hormonal. Yes, yeah. It's about sort of like, learning about it now. So like, when you, but you're right, like, you know, even when you're talking about menstrual cycles, like your your hormones are affecting you at that stage as well. I like that. I think that's a nice shift, because it's nearly like educating yourself through the cycle of womanhood, isn't it? I love that you're going into the school to talk about it, because I do think there is something there interesting about like, talking about this more in the workplace. And myself and like, I worked in say, corporate jobs, it was always like quite, I suppose those environments are getting more empathetic, right? And people coming in and talking about things like menopause, perimenopause, mental health, like all of this kind of things was becoming more the norm. But at the same time, there's always a sort of tension between, okay, that like, I'm empathetic that that's going on in your personal life, but I still need you to do all of these things. So yeah, from that perspective, Heather, right? It's important. And I'll tell you why, right? Because we're in such a career driven environment now, male and female alike. So I'll give you an example of that. Like, whilst it's very difficult to put a policy in place in the corporate environment, it is much easier to put in guidelines. Yes, and education. So I do that as well, you know, I do go to corporate environments to do talks on hormonal health. And I'll tell you the reason why because, because of the conditioning belief system that we've lived in for so many years, and, you know, women have worked, say, in corporate world or in their jobs, whatever that might be, for like, 20, 30 years, perhaps, and suddenly, they're hit with this, like, they're, you know, their bodies have been invaded by an imposter. Bodies have been hijacked, the brain fog sets in, they, they, they, they sometimes struggle with things that used to be automatic for them. Yeah. And what happens then is, you know, the imposter syndrome kicks in, I can't do this, I'm useless, the self-negative talk starts to babble in your head, you know, the mind monkeys are coming at you left, right and centre, and women are leaving their jobs. Yeah. And the backfall to that is for, you know, the organisations, the organisations that they work in, is that then they, they don't know exactly why the woman has left their job, except that she's the wise and, you know, what's going on, and they have to then retrain somebody. Yeah. To, to step into the shoes of a 30-year experienced person. Yeah. As opposed to looking at it from the point of view and, and the, again, the sick leave around this time of life for women is extremely high. Yeah. No, it's, it's like, it's a really good point, because I think it's a cohort of women that you absolutely want to keep in the workforce, to your point that experience and that experience they can pass on through mentorship and stuff. And you're right, like, you know, maybe with like some policies and some accommodations, like they can easily like still do their best work or, you know, still add impact to where they are. And I very much do believe that we should be talking about these type of things in the workplace, because it's not possible to like just park all of your stuff at the door, particularly when it's in your body, right? Like, you're not in control of it. It's like, it's the hormones. It's not like you can be like, we're at work now lads, like, switch her off. Yeah, yeah. It is, it's interesting, though, as well, like, you were talking there about, say, going to that school, are we talking about workplace? Obviously, these places are a combination of both men or women. And while a woman is the one going through the power of menopause or menopause, it obviously does take a toll on if there's a partner involved or a family. I just love to like, you know, maybe from your own experience, or if you can share from experience of talking to women in that situation, like what is, what is the role of the man in this, I suppose? So here's the thing, Heather, right? Women are experiencing it, but what they don't know, okay? And they're, you know, they can have like outbursts of anger, outbursts of emotions, absolute extreme fatigue, heavy periods, and that's half the month. Yeah. So that's effectively half your year. It's half your 10 years. You know, your libido can take a hit on it. And for men, if women can't understand what's going on in their bodies, then they can't communicate it. Again, it brings it back to what we don't know. We don't know. Men then are looking at it from the point of view, she hates me. She doesn't like me. What, like, why, why is she getting so angry when I'm eating my food? And then they internalize it. And then it becomes an issue within the relationship. And neither of them know what the issue actually is. But they can't last year. And he says to me, he made the mistake. Well, not mistake, but he says, man, what are we talking about on the radio? That's exactly what happened. I said, well, and I start talking about periods, immense recycling. And he was, oh, no. And I said, all right. I said, you have, you have a mother, sisters, you have a girlfriend, you know, it's important that you kind of understand what happens. Yeah. And in fairness, now he listened up, you know, and, and his dad and even my own new husband. I mean, like, God, it was so horrendous because I shut down, Heather. I mean, I closed the world out. I got into such a deep stage of anxiety and depression. And that's all of those negative connotations, right? And I literally caged myself in. Just totally insular. In complete isolation mind. And what broke, like, what broke that barrier for you, Rosanne? Like, how did you find your way out of that? To be honest with you, Heather, it was that when I went back to the GP and she said, Rosanne, you were perimenopausal. And I remember coming out with that thinking, Rosanne, you're stupid. How would you not have known something like this? You're an educated woman. Like, how did you never hear of it? And then that turned to like, almost anger, I'd say, at my lack of education, my lack of knowledge. But on the flip side of that, you know, there is a silver lining. Like, I believe I was always a person to believe in, be optimistic, you know, look at the glass half full. And I could slowly feel myself come and fill in my cup up. Yes. My cup started to fill up with education. I was, like, so determined. I was like a terrier. I was going for this information and I was going to educate myself. And I think the silver lining for me was I hit it. It hit me so hard. It was, what have I learned from this? Rosanne, what have you learned? How can you educate and how can you support? And that's how you kind of ended up, I suppose, getting certified as a menopause coach and going into business. I love that. I have such respect for people who kind of, like, reach back and, like, pull those coming behind them. You know, like, you used your personal struggles to, like, educate yourself and now educate and empower other women and their partners and families to understand what's going on. I was really interested when I was, like, learning about your business. So, obviously, you have the menopause coach side, but then they have, and please correct me if I pronounce this wrong, but the IRIA reflexology. I love that because I think often we think there's this battle between, like, you know, medication and, like, the GP and alternative or, like, holistic therapies. I'm a big fan of BOGE and kind of, I suppose, like, a treatment plan might include BOGE, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, I suppose, on, like, how you incorporate that holistic side into your menopause coaching. Yeah. So, like, and again, it has set me thinking over the time, how did I arrive at the name IRIA? Hmm. So, like, I don't know if you don't mind me sharing this story. I don't know, like, if it's of interest, but IRIA, my, when I was expecting my fourth child, my firstborn at the age of 13 was killed in an accident. Oh, God, Rosanna, I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah, no, I know. Thank you. And his name was Aaron. Yeah.
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A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: THE SBF TRIAL 9-19 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Sam Bankman -Fried stands accused of committing wire fraud and conspiracy to commit several other types of frauds. His once mighty crypto exchange FTX collapsed in dramatic fashion nearly a year ago shedding billions in value and in two weeks he'll begin his effort to convince a jury of his peers that he didn't commit any of many alleged crimes while running the company. If convicted of even one of the charges Bankman -Fried faces years in a federal prison. If convicted of all of the charges he could well spend decades if not the rest of his life behind bars but there are some nuances here. The maximum prison sentences are just guidelines and like any criminal defendant Bankman -Fried is innocent until proven guilty even if the evidence made public so far seems damning. This discussion itself may be premature given his trial hasn't even begun yet. So how did we get here? Samuel Bankman -Fried who is 31 years old was arrested last December a few short weeks after his empire filed for bankruptcy and ejected the Stanford and Jane Street alum who helmed it. Federal prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed an initial indictment bringing 8 charges including wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud, commodities fraud and launder money. They later filed a set of superseding indictments which the defense team led by famed attorneys Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell successfully argued can't be brought at this time due to international extradition treaty obligations. A second trial is tentatively scheduled for next year to address these charges. Over the estimated six -week trial prosecutors will place members of the FTX inner circle including former Alameda research CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX chief technology officer and co -founder Gary Wang and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh on the stand to testify against their former colleague, boss and roommate. They'll present information from FTX's systems and balance sheets and share audio recordings over the course of the trial all while the defense tries to poke holes in the case. In the lead -up these teams of attorneys will try to find 10 or 12 jurors out of a selection of hundreds most sympathetic to their case. Once Sam Bankman -Fried's criminal trial begins putting these months of paperwork docket fights behind us his fate will hinge on his jury's opinion. Is the former FTX CEO a crypto criminal or perhaps merely a victim of circumstance? They'll have to decide based on the facts of the case but their ranks haven't been filled quite yet. Right now the lawyers are debating how to determine who can make that decision. The process of jury selection heated up late last week after government lawyers blasted the defense team's proposed questions. A good number of them could influence potential jurors. They argued in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan. Some were too prying, others too specific the feds said. A handful are a thinly veiled attempt to advance a defense narrative the government claimed. Many of the questions they took umbrage with shared a common theme. They were about appearances. Sam Bankman -Fried is or was a master of appearances. From the first time this author spotted the sneakers and shorts wearing wild -haired billionaire on a yacht in To his final television interviews preceding his arrest the crypto wunderkind cultivated perceptions. He shuffled between personas that bolstered this image of approachable greatness. Sam was the guy you could trust to get it right even though he couldn't tie his dress shoes. I think it's important for people to think I look crazy the government quoted Sam as saying his crazy playing video games during interviews dressing like a dorm room schlub sleeping on a beanbag chair and oh yeah those disheveled curls made his greatness speaking on Capitol Hill pioneering massive philanthropic endeavors and oh yeah the crypto exchange FTX all the greater. But the government doesn't want to let the defense highlight any of that before the trial begins. They're calling on Judge Kaplan to reject jury questions that probe the righteousness of philanthropic philosophies and campaign finance. Sam's ADHD should be left off the table they say and don't even think about interrogating jurors FTX specific opinions. Real or engineered, Sam's game of perceptions has ended. He'll begin the trial as a well -dressed defendant just like any other. The government doesn't want his old image to dictate who might eventually put him in a khaki jumpsuit. We'll be in the courthouse each and every day of this trial bringing you news as it happens and keeping you updated. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, the SBF trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk podcast network. Thanks for listening.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: Bitcoin Outperforms Other Assets, FTX's SBF Jury Questions, Binance vs SEC, Anti-CBDC Bill, Grocery Inflation
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know in one place in one block. Let's go. Bitcoin started the week with a nice little green candle. But zooming out, Bitcoin is officially the best performing asset class in seven of the last 10 years. That's according to data shared by market strategist Charlie Bilello. Between 2011 and 2023, Bitcoin's annualized return was about 145 percent. Compare that to the Nasdaq 100 index at 17 percent, the S &P 500 at 12 .5 percent and gold at just 2 percent. Sorry, Peter Schiff. And for those lucky enough to buy Bitcoin in 2011 and hold, their cumulative return exceeds 8 million percent. Wish that was me. More institutions are eyeing a spot Bitcoin ETF, the latest being Franklin Templeton, another giant asset manager with 1 .5 trillion dollars in assets under management. Franklin Templeton's application joins BlackRock, Fidelity, ARK Invest and several others. As I've reported here on the news block, a spot Bitcoin ETF would make getting exposure to Bitcoin as easy as buying any other stock or bond in a traditional brokerage account. It would increase access to Bitcoin and make it easier for funds to flow into the space. But of course, that's dependent on approval from the SEC, led by Chairman Gary Gensler. The SEC's main complaint for why it has rejected spot Bitcoin ETF applications is market manipulation and fraud. In a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing last week, Gensler answered questions related to the SEC's oversight of the entire crypto industry. Gensler testified, quote, given this industry's wide ranging noncompliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen many problems in these markets. Thus, we have brought a number of enforcement actions, some settled and some in litigation, to hold wrongdoers accountable and promote investor protection. Gensler is continuing to hold the court decisions for him in the SEC's lawsuits against Grayscale and Ripple Labs. And when pressed in the hearing about how the SEC will protect investors from crypto fraud, Gensler responded by saying these companies need to be compliant with existing securities laws, adding this. But right now, unfortunately, there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud, abuse and misconduct. We saw some of that fraud and misconduct with the high profile downfall of FTX. FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried's case is set to go to trial October 3rd. But this week, a story gaining attention is related to the proposed questions SPF's lawyers want to send to potential jurors. And prosecutors are trying to stop this. The would attribute a crypto firm's failures to the owner of the firm and why, and whether they think it's wrong to donate large sums to political candidates and lobbyists. Another question was about SPF's effective altruism, the idea that he only wanted to amass wealth to give it away and improve the world. And yet another was about whether the juror had experience with people with the medical condition ADHD. Now, the DOJ's prosecutors are worried these questions are aimed at getting jurors that would see SPF in a sympathetic light and have written a letter to the judge to remove these questions entirely. SPF faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted of a number of charges, including fraud, conspiracy and money laundering after he allegedly stole and lost billions of his customers' funds. Meanwhile, Binance, another exchange in hot water with the SEC, also made headlines this night, including the CEO, the head of legal and the chief risk officer. Binance US has also cut a third of its staff. Binance issued a statement blaming, quote, the SEC's aggressive attempts to cripple our industry. Now, the layoffs arrived just as the SEC is accusing Binance of not cooperating with its ongoing investigation. The SEC says Binance US has failed to hand over proper documents that ensure that its customer assets are safe and in sole control of the organization. The recent resignations of Binance US leadership, including CEO Brian Schroeder, only added to the growing concerns. Binance CEO CZ responded saying, quote, there has been some speculation regarding recent management changes at Binance US. Brian Schroeder deserved a break after accomplishing what he set out to do two years ago. Ignore FUD. Keep building. Binance makes up about half of Bitcoin's trading volume, so the government complaints and investigations could delay any spot Bitcoin ETFs from being approved. So I'll be staying on top of this developing story. Now, in other news, in an industry first, Swann Bitcoin announced its plans to launch a Bitcoin only trust company with crypto custodian BitGo. This comes after Swann's former custodian Prime Trust filed for bankruptcy in August, and its current custodian partner, Fortress Trust, was acquired by Ripple Labs. The creation of a Bitcoin only trust company is a positive development given the risks that we've seen arise when custodians hold other cryptocurrencies or do business with companies that handle them. Let's turn now to a bill reintroduced by House Republicans that would outlaw a central bank digital currency or a CBDC. Last week, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, along with forty nine co -sponsors, reintroduced the CBDC Anti -Surveillance Act. The bill aims to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar due to the risk it imposes to privacy and individual freedoms. Tom Emmer tweeted, quote, if not designed to emulate cash, a government digital currency would dismantle Americans' right to financial privacy and embolden the administrative state. I won't let that happen. Specifically, the updated bill prevents the Federal Reserve from issuing a, quote, intermediated CBDC, which would be a digital currency issued by the Fed but managed by retail banks. This is a similar system to what's currently being deployed by China with its digital won. Congressman Emmer adds that this bill puts a check on unelected bureaucrats and ensures the U .S. digital currency policy upholds our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness. Whereas Republicans are focused on stopping a CBDC, the Fed is only concerned about bringing down inflation. But this past month, inflation was on the rise again. CPI rose to three point seven in July, and that's mainly driven by rising energy and food prices. But don't worry, economist Paul Krugman, the guy who famously said the Internet was a passing fad, notes that if you exclude everything people actually need, like food, energy, shelter and used cars, inflation is actually down. But here in the real world, people continue to struggle with the rising cost of essentials like groceries and gasoline. And instead of taking responsibility for their inflationary policies, some politicians are identifying scapegoats for the rising cost of living. In a speech last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed grocery stores for price rises and said the companies could be hit with new taxes if they do not take steps to control food prices. And let me be very clear. If their plant doesn't provide real relief for the middle class and people working hard to join it, then we will take further action and we are not ruling anything out, including tax measures. Leaders of the Canadian grocery store chains responded by saying they are not profiting from inflation because although prices have risen, so have their costs. Grocery store profit margins remain razor thin. In fact, the CEO of one major Canadian grocery chain, Loblo's, said that on a customer's $25 grocery basket, they earn just $1 in profit. Performing price controls or taxing these companies would only negatively impact the available supply of food even more and risk putting these grocers out of business. But once again, government policies are threatening to worsen the problem they helped create in the first place. This is true in America, too. Grocery store profit margins remain some of the lowest in the economy, averaging about 1 to 3 percent. Some grocery stores are struggling to keep their doors open here, especially in big cities amid massive waves of theft. This has even led to cities like Chicago proposing to open government -run grocery stores. Will this help the inflation picture? Doubtful. Of course, inflation isn't the result of grocery stores profiteering. It's the result of central banks and governments injecting trillions of dollars into the economy since 2020. As politicians continue to blame inflation on everything but their spending and central banks continue to raise interest rates to try to bring it down, inflation continues to erode the savings of every household holding the currencies that these institutions manage and control. Bitcoin fixes this. All right, let's wrap up this news block with the craziest Bitcoin headline of the week. It was reported that Paxos accidentally paid more than $500 ,000, that's more than 19 Bitcoin, in a transaction fee. Bitcoin fees are up in 2023, but not by that much. Now, the good news is the mining pool that won that block is going to refund that payment to Paxos. That's got to be a relief. If you want to learn more about Bitcoin fees, full blocks, and what Bitcoin block scarcity means for your investment, don't miss my latest Coin Stories episode with Bitcoin miner Bob Burnett. That's it for the news block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Nathalie Brunel. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. This show is for educational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice. Until next time, keep stacking.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 671:DOJ vs SBF Jury Battle & SECs Binance Unsealing
"Good evening, and welcome to The Crypto Overnight. I'm Nickademus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Saturday, September 16th, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnight, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight, we're diving into the DOJ's critique of FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried's proposed jury questions. Then we'll unpack both the SEC's reversal on sealing documents in its case against Binance US and the exodus of top brass at Binance. We'll also explore the legal tussle between Gemini and the digital currency group, scrutinize Japan's regulatory overhaul in favor of crypto startups, and close out with Mark Cuban's brush with an eight hundred and seventy thousand dollar crypto heist. The U .S. Department of Justice criticized FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried's proposed jury questions as unnecessarily intrusive. Both parties submitted questions to help select a fair jury. SBS questions probe jurors opinions on FTX and ADHD, which he takes medication for. Prosecutors argue these questions aim to cast SBF in the sympathetic light and advances defense narrative. They've also requested high -speed internet and headphones for the trial. SBF faces over 100 years in prison if convicted. He stands accused of using billions of dollars in customer assets for failed investments. He has shown no remorse, blaming everyone but himself for FTX's collapse. His lawyers want to question jurors about effective altruism, a philosophy that SBF claims to follow. Prosecutors see this as a tactic to portray him as a good guy. Prosecutors also post questions about political donations and lobbying, calling them irrelevant. They've accused SBF of witness tampering and he's currently awaiting his October 3rd trial in jail. The DOJ's pushback against SBF's proposed jury questions is a battle for narrative control. SBF wants to frame himself as a misunderstood altruist, but the DOJ isn't buying it. They see his questions as a ploy to manipulate the jury's perception, a tactic that could have far -reaching implications for the trial's outcome. SBF's lack of accountability is glaring. His refusal to accept responsibility for FTX's downfall and the billions in lost customer assets is a window into his mindset. This is someone who was willing to gamble with other people's money, all while cloaking himself in the guise of effective altruism. The prosecutor's focus on tech infrastructure for this case is noteworthy. It suggests they're gearing up for a complex, evidence -heavy case. That's not the kind of trial you intend to lose, and they're taking every precaution to ensure that. SBF's upcoming trial is a moment where the crypto community needs to ask itself tough questions about accountability, ethics, and the kinds of leaders it wants to champion. Because if SBF is the best we've got, maybe it's time for some soul -searching. Okay folks, that's the DOJ and SBF in a courtroom tug -of -war over narrative control. But guess what? The SEC is also doing its own dance with Binance US. If you're intrigued by courtroom dramas, you won't want to miss this. Don't forget to hit that follow button for more deep dives into the crypto world.
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from SBF Deserves Human Rights
"Welcome back everyone. I am Cass P. Ancy. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin. We're both good today. We have already recorded an episode, so we're dumping in... dumping in? That's probably the wrong way to put it. Get him out! What happened to the other? Can't even stop it! The episode's just sliding through its walls! We're pouring trash out of our mouths! We're vomiting and spewing all over you. Hey, works are all in! Not the way I wanted to start this episode, but there you go. Welcome back everyone. We're going to be talking about a subject that I wrote an op -ed about, and Bennett wrote a piece about as well in the newsletter for Protos. Something we both seem to care about that the reaction to was pretty mixed. Honestly, I expected more vitriol for my statement, but yeah, it was pretty mixed. Some people liked it, some people hated it. We're both making the argument that while it is pretty funny, in a sense, to see SPF struggling and in pain, I think everybody gets some real value out of that in terms of they're like, yes! A guy who's hurt so many people, and legitimately, right? This guy has damaged thousands of people, probably ruined dozens if not hundreds of people's lives for a significant, if not forever, amount of time. So seeing him in pain, people are enjoying a lot. But I think that it's a more important point that's being stated by him. And basically, he went to court and said that he's not getting his medications on time. He's on, as far as we know, I don't know how many medications he's on, but we know for sure that he's on NSAAM, and he's on Adderall. Now, Adderall, I'm sure most people are familiar with. It's for treatment of ADHD and some other mental disorders. NSAAM is a pretty serious drug, as far as I can tell, in terms of its effects on you. And it seems like he's taking a lot of it, for both of them. For both the, I guess I don't know, I don't know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know what a lot is. Basically, he's not getting his drugs, and he's not getting the vegan meals he wants. He wants vegan meals, and he's not getting those vegan meals, because I guess the prison system is basically like, why should he? He's not special. But therein lies the problem, which is, don't you think prisoners should be getting the medical treatment they need? And don't you think they should be getting basic food given to them, even if it's something demanded like vegan food or vegetarian food? Yeah, why don't you get us started off on that? No, I think this issue is kind of multifactorial and multifaceted, and I understand why a lot of people are having the feelings they're having. And so first I want to acknowledge that Sam Bankman -Fried's experience with the justice system has been one very much shaped by his privilege, right? Like he was able to find the people to put up his massive bond, and even after like repeated bail violations connecting with the VPN, doing all these other things, he remained free until he started doing what I'm not going to say is legally witness tampering, because I'm not a prosecutor, but that feels a lot like witness intimidation. As soon as he started doing that, now he has to go back to prison. In case anyone is unfamiliar, let me stop you right there. In case anyone is unfamiliar, just so you understand, Sam Bankman -Fried released Caroline Ellison's personal diaries. Now Caroline Ellison was the head of trading over at Alameda Research at the time of the collapse, and he released these very personal kind of sensational diaries to the New York Times, which is just wild, as you said, like he had been reprimanded before for his bail violations and kind of pulled to, he was skating on thin ice already. And I do get why people are like, well, if you didn't want to go back to jail and get treated like crap, maybe you should have thought about that. Understood. But anyway, sorry, I just wanted to give, paint a little color there. Like that's absolutely true. Sam Bankman -Fried was lucky to get the bail conditions he did and should not have been violating them. And repeated violation of bail means he should be in pretrial detention. And like one of the other things that's come up is Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional lawyer, wrote a motion, wrote a letter to the court describing Sam Bankman -Fried's treatment and like insisted that if Sam Bankman -Fried were to be detained, where he was talking about being detained, not having access to a computer would make preparing his defense much more difficult and that represented like a potential constitutional issue. And I think there's a bit of merit there. But, and this gets into like the bigger problem here, that these problems are so much bigger than Sam Bankman -Fried, right? Like not just Sam Bankman -Fried should be able to get their medications and like a diet in accordance with their moral wishes. Everyone being held in pretrial detention is presumed innocent until proven guilty. These are people who deserve to be, like, to have reasonable standards while they're being detained, should have access to things that help them prepare their defenses, should be able to receive medications they need, and the United States justice system fails to provide that for such a vast number of inmates, including, because he is there right now, Sam Bankman -Fried. Yeah, I mean, I think actually part of this for me calls into attention how serious the issues are in the justice and penal systems of the United States of America, right? Because here we have possibly one of the most famous white collar criminals of all time, not just of the past year or two, of all time. He's up there with Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. Like this guy is going to go down in history as one of the biggest financial scammers and possibly, allegedly, maybe he'll get off and no crimes were committed in fucking La La Land. But anyway, my point here being that this guy is as big as it gets. And the fact he's still being mistreated in prison or in, sorry, excuse me, in pretrial detention in jail speaks to how broken the system because imagine how the people with no voice are doing right now. Imagine how the people who don't have money to pay for bail even, so end up in prison or in jail for weeks, if not months before they go to trial. Like these are real issues that are happening every day to millions of people, not just SBF. And that's the important part of this. That's why I'm glad there's some attention being brought to it, whether or not people agree with whether SBF should be given these basic human rights. I think he should. Whether other people think so, I guess is just how angry they are with him. Yeah, I especially understand why like other people who have had experiences with the criminal justice system might end up feeling particularly frustrated themselves because they'll be, they may see it as, I had it even worse than that and I didn't even steal $9 billion from my customers, you know? And so I certainly understand there's lots of reasons for lots of people to be lashing out, but like you said, fundamentally the thing is people deserve rights. They deserve to have access to these things that help them form their defenses and they deserve a strenuous defense on their behalf in the justice system. And those things are important, those things, we should strive to provide those to everyone. And everyone happens to include him. Yes, and a lot of these issues are totally fixable as far as I'm concerned. Like vegan meals, there's a lot of people pushing back on my statements about that. I was like, oh, give him his vegan meals, just give it to him. Everyone's like, well, he doesn't necessarily deserve to have, it's not like it's covered by the Constitution. And i .e. there are prisoners who are Jewish or Muslim in prison who are given kosher meals and halal meals, right? To meet their religious needs. The pushback for the veganism that I heard was, well, this isn't a religious thing. I want to push back on that and just say one, vegan meals are incredibly easy to cook. We're talking about rice, bread and vegetables. Like if you're not already, if you don't already have those things available for prisoners, there's a problem. All of those ingredients should be actively there for you to be able to make this thing. I know that they make vegetarian meals for vegetarian, probably because there's Hindu prisoners, and some of them need to follow strict vegetarian meals and guidelines, right? But we are equipped to handle this. We have the money, we have the rules and regulations in place that this should not be an issue. It's crazy to me to push back on the idea that this guy can eat vegan food in prison. The thing I want to highlight there is there often are legal protections for people with sincerely held religious beliefs to get access to certain things, like you're talking about kosher halal and things like that, and often our prison system fails to do what it's legally supposed to in many of those cases as well. Again, this is just an example of the pattern and history of human rights abuses across the U .S. penal system. There's a reason international human rights organizations regularly raise alarms about the U .S. prison system, and it's because there are regular and massive human rights abuses in our prison system. Yep, and that brings up another point that I brought up, which is people I think like to assume like, oh, well, this guy's a big fucking scammer. He deserves to rot in jail and get shivved and get treated like shit. I hope that's what happens. And I go, okay, just for some perspective here, 5 % of the entire U .S. population is going to spend some time behind bars. So if you're not the one who ends up in jail at some point or in prison at some point, someone you know absolutely will, 100 % sure, 100 % sure, right? If you go outside and meet people, someone you know will go to jail or prison. Do you want them to be treated respectfully and with dignity, or do you not give a shit? Do you really think like anyone who's in jail, anyone who's in prison deserves the worst kind of treatment? It's time to reflect on these things, you know? We live in a society. It's true, though. Like we shouldn't be, the fact that it's such punitive measures, right, instead of worrying about recidivism, instead of worrying about rehabilitation, instead of worrying about making sure that these people don't repeat their fucking problems when they go back into society, we're focused on hurting people as much as possible. And the reality is, if Sam Bankman Freed gets 15 years in prison or something, 10, 15, 20, and is treated like horseshit the entire time, like no human rights, do you think he's going to come out a like capable and reasonable human being? At least if you try to rehabilitate him, he's not necessarily going to be as bad. At least you can say you tried. Like just damaging someone repeatedly, we know what that does to people. So I just don't understand this at all. And I think people need to reevaluate their, like vengeance is just so easy. And I think people really need to reevaluate where their morals and ethics lie when it comes to this. I get it. It's easy to hate SPF. He is a total scammer. He lies constantly. The dude cannot open his mouth and speak any honest truth for years on end. He's like, his behavior is disgusting. He's as despicable as it gets without getting into like murder and other horrifying crimes. Right. He's disgusting. Fine. He's also a human being. Like, I don't know, man. It just the reaction was just so it was kind of like, man, I don't understand how so many people think this is acceptable. Yeah. And like that's what you're up with. Ed was about. And there was definitely a lot of people who agree that human beings deserve treatment as human beings, which is good. The other thing I want to talk about besides this, which is also something we talked about a little bit in our Reggie Fowler episode, if people want to go back and listen to that. There's been still conspiracy theories about Sam Bankman Fried and his ongoing criminal prosecution, including the fact that as part of our extradition treaty with the Bahamas, we have certain responsibilities about when charges are introduced and when people are extradited. And those were not necessarily followed with Sam Bankman Fried, which has since required certain charges to be removed from the current trial date. And the allegations either incorporated in to other existing charges or other charges are pending reintroduction for months down the line. Yes. And so those charges are not really going away. And as we've talked about before in the case of Sam Bankman Fried, if prosecutors really wanted, they could go through and add one wire fraud charge for like every single person who sent money to Alameda Research under like the false pretenses that it was going to FTX or something. Right. And so prosecutors can and potentially will still scale up his prosecution in the future if that's what they think is justified and appropriate. So I've just been a little bit frustrated with some of the conspiracy theories around those dropping of charges. And like the other thing I want to emphasize, just to kind of make sure people understand this, just because Sam Bankman Fried is pleading not guilty right now does not mean he will continue to plead not guilty. Often you are required to plead not guilty initially, even if you think you are guilty, just because like the system's not ready for you to plead guilty yet. And like that's an actual thing that exists. And I want to be clear here, too. If you have a capable legal team behind you, which as far as I know he does, you're generally not going to plead guilty right away. Why? Well, you're not going to get anything in return, right? If they don't offer you anything and you go, I plead guilty. Well, they're going to accept your guilty plea and they are going to hang you from the gallows. You've got to get something in return. And to get something in return, you're going to play a little bit of a game. And that, unfortunately, whether we like it or not, is a part of the legal system. Right. So you have to have something for them, for you to plead guilty, give them something and them to be like, OK, well, then we'll cut you a deal. And that's what SPF is hoping will happen. That doesn't mean that's what happens. That doesn't mean he gets only five years or only 10 years or who knows. But that's what SPF wants to happen. And we don't know if it will. Yeah. Sam Bankman Fried's goal, as far as I can tell right now, is basically to muddy the waters, cast doubt on key witnesses and the evidence they're introducing. Try to place the blame like his mens rea, his head state for many of these decisions. Say that that state was induced by legal counsel and other things to make it so that prosecutors don't want to add more charges. That'll be hard to prove. So that, like you're saying, he can eventually come up with some deal where he shares whatever information he does have in exchange for a reduced sentence. Yada, yada, yada. That's the meta probably of what his team is planning to do. The other thing I want to emphasize to people is from where I'm sitting, and again, we're not lawyers, we're definitely not prosecutors, we're not experts. But it seems quite likely to me that Sam Bankman Fried is going to prison for much longer than Sam Bankman Fried would want to go to prison. Any time is more than he wants. Yeah, but there are already guilty pleas from almost all the rest of like the top executives at FTX. They have full cooperation, access to all the communications, like all the text messages, all the records, all the logs. They have such an over what, four million pages or something was the initial like discovery they're sending over to him. There are massive quantities of evidence, powerful cooperating witnesses, like he's in a really bad place. And that's just for evidence. I want people to understand that. This is just, we're just saying like, oh shit, there's a lot of evidence against this guy. So he's in trouble on that front. But I want to point people to a recent guilty white collar criminal, Elizabeth Holmes, okay? She is going to be doing nine years in a federal prison, okay? She just had her second baby. She was pregnant during the trial. If that isn't going to win you some, you know, benefit of the doubt and some, oh my gosh, well at least, you know, she's a mother now. We got to make sure that she's able to spend time with her kids and they don't grow up without a mom and blah, blah, blah. She's doing nine years behind bars for her crimes. She didn't hurt nearly as many people as Sam Bankman Fried. She only hurt mostly just very wealthy people. So like in terms of that, just reflect on that, right? That's nine years for someone who did essentially a smaller fraud that hurt less people and is a more sympathetic character. You think SPF is going to get off? Fucking wake up, dude. There's not a chance in the world. I'll bet anyone. If you think he's not going to, if you think he's genuinely going to do no time, I'll bet anybody. I'll bet anyone. But Cass, Cass, he donated to President Biden and was part of some vague conspiracy involving Zelinski. And he met up with Gary Gersler, right? Whatever. I just don't, it's so, it's so, I'm so past it. And then, and for me, the one thing I also want to emphasize here is how obviously failed the cash bail bond mechanism is in general, right? And I think proof of this is SPF. SPF gets $250 million bail bond. Obviously, the way it works, in case anyone's unfamiliar, is you pay roughly 10 % of that and you can get out. If you don't have the money to pay for it yourself or the collateral to pay for it yourself, you can usually get a bail bondsman to take on that, that collateral obligation for you partially, and then you have to pay back a loan on that obligation. What did this accomplish, right? We have to reflect on this. What did it accomplish? He put up, they put up $250 million to get Sam Bankenfried out of detention. Then he goes out, he starts spreading rumors, getting in touch with journalists he's not supposed to, breaking all the rules of the bail that he was given with this money and this collateral, and now he's back in detention again. So it accomplished nothing. It allowed him to break some rules and, as you said, muddy the waters and make things more complex and weird. Another individual who just got a big, gigantic, I think the largest in history in terms of actually being paid for, Joe Lewis, who is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur and the Albany, which is where SPF was living when he got in trouble. This guy just got in trouble, too, for insider trading and fraud, and he put up a $300 million bail with his yacht and private jet. So what do we think this is going to do? I mean, this guy's a billionaire. He can buy a new jet tomorrow. He can buy a new yacht tomorrow. It doesn't matter. He can go run away if he needs to. Nothing is going to stop him from doing that, right? Unless you put an ankle monitor around him. You ensure that you're tracking him with GPS and satellite tracking, that you ensure that he isn't leaving the country. You take his passport. There are protocols to ensure it, and none of it has to do with money. We need to get rid of this cash bail bond system, like, immediately. It doesn't make any sense at all. I strongly agree. I think the cash bail bond system is, like, one of the clearest examples in our criminal justice system of how we have codified a certain privilege for the most privileged, right? That once you have money, you can avoid these things that others can't. And as you're saying, the only real differentiator between these cases is whether or not you have money when you're accused of a crime. That shouldn't be the goal of our system. The platonic ideal of our legal system is one that treats, like, the most downtrodden and the most, like, wealthy and powerful as equal as you possibly can. And, like, there's limits within reason of how far you can take that, perhaps, but, like, that's the ideal, and cash bail bond is just one example of where we don't even try to do that. Yeah, that's right. It's just an obvious advantage for rich people, and really no advantage for anyone who doesn't have the income to deal with this kind of thing. Yeah, it's just a very gross, gross, broken system that needs fixing. Well, and if you listen to, like, testimony of certain convicts and stuff, like, when you are destitute prosecutors and DAs have been accused of using that as leverage, basically, because they know you're going back into whatever horrible detention facility you're in, they know you're more desperate to strike a deal or to say whatever to do whatever because you don't want to go back. Right. And to be clear, like, it's one of the founding principles of our country is kind of this innocent until proven guilty, right, that you aren't going to be treated like you are guilty, even if everyone, like, watched you do the crime. Like, until we prove it in a court of law, you are innocent, and so, like, reasonable bail without having to pay an arm and a leg just seems like the right thing to do here as a country to follow our guiding principles. Like, maybe I'm shouting into the void here, but like this, it's just something I think is necessary for us to talk about, and something I really do think can be fixed within our lifetime. Like, I don't expect the entire penal system to get overturned. I hate the idea that private prisons do what they do in our country. Yeah, that they exist. Like, that they aren't more heavily regulated. Like, that's why there's so many people in prison in our country. I have no doubt about that. But, like, if we're not going to change that anytime soon, and we're not, then the least we can do is ensure that bail bond is working properly, that prisoners are getting their medicine, that prisoners are getting the food that they need. Like, obviously within reason, right? If somebody says, I'm on an only Wagyu steak diet or something, I understand being like, go fuck yourself. Who's going to be the first indicted Bitcoiner to argue that they have a moral conviction that requires them to have only red meat? I would think they would already be in there, right? There's got to be a few dudes who are already in prison trying to argue that already. That I don't fucking buy. There's a limit to even how far I will go in terms of my sympathy. But yes, I do think we need to reform this stuff. SPF is a good jumping off point for that, so we thought it was worth talking about. I understand some people are just going to be like, SPF isn't going to change this. But we can make this a point of retention of this information for everyone in crypto. To be like, we need to change this. A lot of people do focus on this stuff and they understand the corruptness of it in cryptocurrency, and that's good. But a lot of people also don't care about criminal reform and the justice system. And I think it's probably time to think about it. Because some of you are definitely going to go to prison.
Mutually CoDopendent
A highlight from 110 - Wait What?
"I'm ready to smoke some fucking weed. I am too. Let's get this shit going. Hello, welcome to Mutually Codependent with Adam and Jen. I am Adam. And I am Jen. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us today. You giggle as soon like like we'd hit the record button and just totally different mood. I love it. I need to I need to figure out how to bottle this mood for you. So like when I do something wrong and you're irritated with me and I'll be like, hey, and then it'll be like podcast mode. I'll just throw you your headphones. That's the key. Like you put your headphones on and you're just suddenly in a better mood. You make me sound so grumpy. No, no. Yeah, no. I said when I do something wrong, I was very careful with my choice of words. Yeah, I guess that's true. As I usually am. What are we smoking today? We are smoking a new strain that we haven't had on the show before. Oh, shit. Super exotic lemon punch. Super exotic lemon punch. It's a hybrid. It gives a lot of energy, helps with focus. It's apparently really great for stress and ADHD is what I read on Leafly. I would say that's true. I have smoked it before. I'm going to I'm going to mention that we've been doing pre rolls up until now and I bought a bubbler today. He did buy a bubbler. And so I'm going to I'm going to be using that. So if you hear different sounds, that's why I just wanted to brag about it. But tell us more about the super exotic lemon punch. I will. Okay, so has twenty five point four percent of THCA and zero point two four percent Delta nine THC as our strain of the show. Super exotic lemon punch is courtesy of syntax CBD in Texas. Canna Health, our exclusive sponsor. The main term they buy that syntax CBD and syntax CBD dot net. And if you use the code pod 15, that's pod one five, you'll get 15 percent off your purchase. That's for listeners only. Obviously, yeah, so the the main terpene found in this strain is terpenolene terpenolene terpenolene. Yeah, so terpenolene if you don't know what a terpene is, the terpene is a different chemical compound. Compounds in the cannabis plant that make it have that supposed indica or sativa or hybrid feeling. Which people will argue with that, but don't listen to the terpenes and the the cannabinoids are what make the effect as far as any science knows. So, yeah, and terpenolene is found also in apples, sage, nutmeg and lilac. So it's a very herb and floral type flavor. It's delicious. I was I was playing with the new bubbler and like just fresh flower with no fire. And of course, like brand new clean piece. So there's no like grossness. Also super nice. I had a little cough, but not too much. But I was doing it without the fire and I could taste the terpenes in it like I could get the flavor of the flower. I think I might start doing that with flower as we get new stuff so I can taste it as soon as I burn it. I can't really taste the different terpenes as much. I mean, yeah, it has a different taste a little bit, but I just don't feel like I can be as precise. Yeah, with all that smoke. Yeah, it's supposed to give you a very uplifted feel. A very it's a focused, energized, uplifted feeling is what I read. Yeah, apparently it's great for people with ADHD. I needed this the past month.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Michael Saylor: Bitcoin to $5 Million is Inevitable | EP 824
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up for everyone. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo! Welcome to Simba the Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution cover breaking news called dramatic warfare will be your guide through the separation of money and state today is September 14th 2023 another day in Bitcoin another day on the Bitcoin roller coaster they don't call the Bitcoin roller coaster for no reason there's ups and downs we hit 25k we're back to 26 ,697 but if you zoom out if you zoom out in the grand scheme of things if you believe in the meme 21 million divided by infinity or infinity divided by 21 million I think it is we all know we're early but there's something I want to talk about today specifically there was a very famous spaces that Michael Saylor did and I think he did it with some some legacy media people there's a huge spaces and there was three things that he said needed to happen in order for Bitcoin to 10x and then during that spaces he even said if these thing if these three things happen Bitcoin will inevitably hit five million dollars per coin now what were those three things first thing was the changing of the FASB rules right with the accounting the fair value accounting rules and that happened not too long ago we broke the news I wasn't there I had some swan duties that day but Opti and I think it was Rustin were holding it down so we covered that and then number two was large banks right I'm not talking about like small banks or you know these these Bitcoin crypto focused banks I'm talking about large banks offering institutional custody of Bitcoin of digital assets for their clients check that off that's happening you have banks all around the world whether it's Panko Santander the news that came out today which is I wanted to cover this is Deutsche Bank is applying for a license to custody digital assets for their customers and then there and the third thing which has been like the big news of this year is the BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF or now I would even I wouldn't even call it the BlackRock just a Bitcoin spot ETF those are the three things that Michael Saylor said needed to happen in order for Bitcoin to just go parabolic into this five million you know etc etc and those things are basically already happening like the FASB check that off right that was a huge does a massive deal so check that off the list that doesn't start that doesn't start going into action until the year 2025 then you have so that's the FASB ruling then you have banks large banks cussing Bitcoin check that off the list as well really the only thing out of those three things is the BlackRock spot ETF or sorry the spot I keep saying BlackRock maybe it's a Freudian slip the spot Bitcoin ETF how long will Gary Gensler be able to delay this he got absolutely hammered in in Congress there was a hearing this week so yeah I mean this is pretty crazy and it's really interesting if you've been here for a while you know Opti and I are class of 2016 Opti's class of 2017 but it's the same epoch really you know one of the narratives that existed when Bitcoin was falling you know it fell from 20k back down to 3k and one of the coping narratives all the way down was the institutions are coming the institutions are coming the institutions are coming I think you could say without a doubt that the institutions are here you can't deny that now the thing is do the institutions have the necessary infrastructure to onboard on to Bitcoin and I think that's an open question but you can't deny that the institutions want exposure to Bitcoin that's undeniable right we broke the news the other day that BlackRock had a lot of micro strategy had a lot of exposure to public to publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies as well right so it's some very interesting stuff now here's the thing though right so yes this number go up whoop -dee -doo but remember the revolution is individuals taking back financial sovereignty by taking Bitcoin into self -custody so just because you're buying a Bitcoin spot ETF for BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF do Charles Schwab or Robin Hood or whatnot that that isn't real Bitcoin that's paper Bitcoin that's an IOU the only way that you get true real Bitcoin is by you know buying Bitcoin earning Bitcoin mining Bitcoin and taking that said Bitcoin into cold storage right and then preferably the step after that is stop trusting someone else's copy of the blockchain run your own run your own node the one I recommend personally because it's the one I use is start 9 they're freaking awesome so definitely check them out if you're interested in running a Bitcoin node but yeah it's a very interesting times that we're living in but uh you know I don't think I've ever been so bullish how you doing Opti and we're in the the simply Bitcoin merch today bro you're modeling I love it yeah yeah it's uh it's raining right now it's it's officially hoodie season so you're raining but you're inside yeah whatever I feel like wearing a hoodie today if it's nice it's comfy I'm wearing this all the time get yourself one at simply Bitcoin calm yeah man it's hey let your boy live for once geez yeah crazy you're not in uniform bro you you went from collared shirts to hoodies what happened you're regressing well suits coming soon I had a conversation with Chris yesterday I missed that episode man I love Chris shout out the coin shout out our boys over a Bitcoin mag but yeah crazy uh crazy developments and we really talked about it yesterday as well pretty pretty extensively on the show of how it is undeniable that the institutions want your Bitcoin there is so much institutional investment and there's just so much capital waiting on the sidelines for everyone for to get a shirt into Bitcoin you know like all the biggest asset managers well not all of them but many of the big asset managers of the world are looking to get exposure to Bitcoin we're seeing huge banks do the same thing and it just goes to show you that you guys are early and we are on the precipice of an amazing bull run as far as I'm concerned and now is the time to be stacking sats it's still what 26k so like we got the best opportunity ever and I know everyone is losing their mind because this bear market's been so long but this is where legends are made anyways on today's culture I saw this a couple tweets from Tom Luongo and if you guys aren't familiar with him he's a great I guess you call him like he is kind of low -key a gold bug and I know he's kind of maybe loosely understands Bitcoin but he created this meme in and I really wanted to touch on it today because it kind of changed my views on what we've been talking about we're always talking about you know the normies out there or in the not so nice way you know the sheeple out there and he coined this new phrase about like the masses comfortable are our wolves and I really want to cover this because I think it does change the framing and it's a little more positive view on what's going on in the world and we talk about it constantly that people need to feel pain and once they feel that pain and they wake up man shits gonna get really crazy and it really does feel like this is where we are right now so you know just prepare yourself it's it's you know are we on the precipice of a global recession who knows are we you know are we currently in a depression I don't know the official numbers are lying to us but we know that inflation is higher than they want and your purchasing power is going down the drain and I have these conversations with a bunch of my Bitcoin friends and we're all feeling the same thing it's like man dude things are getting more expensive and it's only a matter of time until people start to ask what the hell is going on right now and this is why we keep planting the seeds here on the show you know in personal conversations with people in real life and it's like we have built the foundation for people to protect themselves to get on the exit boat get on the safety net which is Bitcoin so get on the Bitcoin standard guys get on the Bitcoin standard that's right just get on the Bitcoin standard get on the life raft and you know you be watching the world around you doing doing its thing but you know that your future your family's future your wealth your time your energy your work is protected by the largest decentralized computing sorry I'm laughing at the chat you guys are wild breath the Bitcoin numbers is your Bitcoin in cold storage really secure is your seed phrase really secure stamped seeds do -it -yourself kit has everything you need to hammer your seed words into commercial grade titanium plates instead of just writing them on paper don't store your generational wealth on paper papers prone to water damage fire damage you want to put your generational wealth on one of the strongest metals on planet earth titanium your words are actually stamped into this metal plate with this hammer and these letter stamps and once your words are in they aren't going anywhere no risk of the plate breaking apart and pieces falling everywhere titanium stamp seeds will survive nearly triple the heat produced by a house fire they're also crush proof waterproof non -corrosive and time proof all things that paper is not allowing you to huddle your Bitcoin with peace of mind for the long haul stamp your seed on stamped seed that's right ladies and gentlemen don't put yourself in a position where you have to explain to your grandchildren while you lost your generational wealth because you decided to store it on paper store your generational wealth on titanium one of the strongest metals on planet earth you could scan the QR code on your screen right now to take you directly to stamp seed website use promo code simply get 15 % off at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is twenty six thousand six hundred and forty sats per dollar three thousand seven hundred fifty four block height eight hundred thousand eight hundred and seven thousand six hundred fifty blocks to having thirty two thousand three hundred and fifty having estimate April 22nd 2024 total lightning Network capacity four thousand seven hundred seventy six Bitcoin capacity value a hundred and twenty seven million US dollars realized monetary inflation 1 .75 % the market capitalization of Bitcoin five hundred and nineteen billion dollars with a B Bitcoin versus gold market cap four point zero seven percent very very very nice all right good numbers overall you know I love my favorites that I always tell you guys this is the realized monetary inflation of Bitcoin 1 .75 % that number is going to continue to go down forever so it continues to take fiat currencies absolute school even if they get it to their targeted Holy Grail 2 % inflation you know it's not even gonna come close anyways I do have some ways you got my favorite number is block height cuz that number is going up forever Laura that that that number just it just makes an all -time high every ten minutes the matter what next block it's almost like a coin walk next block anyways here's a clip I have two clips for you guys here's a clip from SEC chair chair Gary Gensler and he said some interesting things at the hearing we're gonna play you some clips of this hearing as the days go by though so let's check out this clip and I have another one then we'll talk about it and help protect Americans from the crypto abuses that cost consumers billions if they were to live up to the investor protection built into their current laws it would help investors but right now unfortunately there's significant non -compliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud abuse and misconduct and help protect Americans from the so I I want a friend two things right I agree in a way and I agree in the sense that it is full of fraud it is full of abuse it is full of misconduct now the initial part and help protect Americans from the crypto abuses that cost consumers billions I'm gonna reframes that right from the crypto abuse that cost consumers billions fine you could say shit coins you could say this what about from the governmental inflationary abuse that cost people all around the world millions if not billions of dollars why is that never talked about and that brings me to one of Tucker's episodes that he did in Argentina he did an episode about a 10 -minute episode covering what's happening in Argentina he's gonna cover he's gonna interview Javier Maly Javier Maly is he is he's a hardcore Austrian economist libertarian he wants to end the central bank you know he wants to cut down on the administrative state all of that stuff he said some pretty crazy stuff not gonna lie Tucker's gonna interview him tomorrow but what was really interesting about Tucker's opening monologue which we're going to cover extensively tomorrow is he said the quiet part out loud the invade and inflation is deft politicians aren't productive the way that they raise money is through direct taxation but they could only do that for so long until people revolt so they do that through the hidden tax of inflation we must continue to chip away at this like you know peacefully of course but Chico chip away at this move the Overton window start get start getting people to ask the question what is money why does my money lose purchasing power is it necessary for my money to lose purchasing power that's when people are gonna start asking really big questions and remember they do not have a response to this anyways talking about shifting the Overton window here's Joe squawk five years ago you would have never have believed this we did have a a Bitcoiner who was a writer for Forbes and he got a bit upset when I said that the legacy corporate media changed their tune because of the black rock spot ETF and he said no that's not true I was working at Forbes from before okay I take his word for it he's a cable are news you trying to tell me that the interest from black rock to launch a spot ETF has not influenced their change of tune whatsoever I don't know about that anyways here's Joe squawk it's about a one -minute clip and then we'll talk about it and move on to crypto if you'd indulge me for a second because we always have these crypto conversations and there seems to be this thing happening I don't know Joe we were talking about $25 ,000 with Bitcoin meanwhile black rock and all these folks all the folks that we thought were never gonna do this are now doing it and yet it's not moving at all well it's moving today well I mean sure 26 this is 26 it was for when when we started saying it wasn't going anywhere 4 ,000 oh okay but so but the question is is this now a risk on a risk off thing what do you how do you even correlate this to what's happening with the Fed because for a long time used to talk about crypto in regard to the Fed so I think crypto settling as part of the ecosystem I think people have recognized it is not the new global currency people have also recognized not going to disappear tomorrow is becoming institutionalized and I think actually if I were a crypto person I think this maturation process is a good thing where it moves from day to day is I can't really comment on that I still think it's outperformed every asset one year five year and ten year I mean I think I think he's pretty jaded a little bit right like you know it's going to zero at 4 ,000 and mind you like Pete Russo does a great job doing this but like he goes back in time and finds like original posts of people which is why it's so important to zoom out when in doubt of people posting a Bitcoin isn't going anywhere and Bitcoin was at like $100 Bitcoin was at like $200 at the time right so like when in doubt zoom out obviously Joe is completely converted he's like why have we been talking about the short -term volatility when we started when we started covering this it was literally at $4 ,000 it's at 26 ,000 at the at the you know depths of bear market he gets it I mean and this is actually one of the things that has helped me orange pill as many people as possible it hasn't been me saying the bitcoins better money it hasn't been me saying like oh look you know separate money from state hasn't been me saying you know it's a deflationary currency blah blah blah blah blah blah you know it's been the biggest converter of people you plant the seed you say Bitcoin right they ignore you for like a couple of years and two three years later pass number goes up and all of a sudden you get that text from that friend that you haven't talked to you in a long time and he's like hey about that Bitcoin thing ng you is the biggest converter of people it is the biggest orange pillar in my opinion is the most effective way and clear you could see that with Joe right he was like hmm yeah I mean we started covering this was at 4k I don't know why you're talking about the short -term volatility what the hell's wrong with you anyways why are you pulling that up Opti oh it's from wine it's from wine anyways why what's why you know all the disgrace you've ever done and all the controlling calling me why it might be the worst no I'm just trolling love you wine anyways first and foremost you know shout out the Joe Kernen absolutely love to see him just constantly battle the corporate BS FUD around Bitcoin and and I say this all the time you know like number go up love it or hate it is the fundamental thing driving all a Bitcoin adoption there's that and then on the negative side all of the crazy stuff coming out from you know the bureaucrats out there we covered the g20 stuff where they're trying to roll out a digital ID CBDC central bank digital control mechanisms and these two things together are in my opinion the driving forces for Bitcoin adoption it's like you we say it all the time and and the memes been catching on Nico I don't know if you've been seeing it on Twitter but Bitcoin is slavery it's starting to catch on and people are starting to notice that it's not even hyperbolic anymore but anyways starting with the first video I totally agree with that congressman or whatever like crypto is full of fraud like what a hundred percent agree hence why we're Bitcoin only like there's Bitcoin and there's shit coin and it triggered the thought in my mind about I think I brought it up last week it was the idea I forget what video it was but we played something on in the numbers about the the scene versus the unseen consequences of economics and it's very clearly visible the scene consequences of crypto scams and it very easily noticed and you know it's always rolled out as like the detriment to the whole Bitcoin industry and those are the scene consequences obviously there's been a lot of people getting rug pulled getting you know losing their their life savings because of shit coin scams and so it's very easily an emotional thing you can roll out so people are like ah let's protect the little guy but as we've going to cover and I really thought you were gonna play that Tucker Carlson video that you put on your Twitter I'm sick dude I mean so I was divided I was divided about what I wanted to make the show I was like I was like are we gonna make it about Tucker are we gonna make this about the sailor I think the sailor thing I was I was much more excited about the sailor thing it's a little little thing came out in my head I'm like holy cow the three things that Michael sailor said needed to happen for Bitcoin to hit five million all of those things have happened they've all happened right so I was like we have to cover this we will cover Tucker tomorrow's really actually made a thumbnail for everything it was awesome but I guess I guess you know we'll put we'll put a pin on that thought but tomorrow remember we're gonna be talking about the unseen consequences of money printing and that always gets obfuscated it always gets lost on people because it's not like a linear connection you know like you you gotta you know there's some nuance to this and most people can't think past like 20 seconds you know ADHD or whatever like we're all being inundated with so much dopamine from from social media that we either tune out or it just like it doesn't seem like it's important and and I can see people in the chat saying the same thing that we always hear is like once you start talking about Bitcoin once you say the B word people instantly tune out and it's only a matter of time until people wake up to what's going on here so you know plant those Bitcoin fundamentals into people's minds without using the B word usually helps and and goes a long way and then you find like hey you know have you heard about Bitcoin here's the pill take it but yeah man it just it just goes to show that the world is waking up and every metric that I'm seeing is pointing towards the fact that I think in 2025 more people are going to wake up to the scam that is Fiat and of course the safety boat that is Bitcoin and hey we're here for it so I'm I am super excited yes yes hold on hold on Arthur you can buy our merch with Bitcoin if you so want to yeah exactly go and go click scan the QR code it'll take you directly to the website and you could you could pay you pay in Bitcoin I think a lot I think wine set up the lightning yeah yeah yeah we got you got we got you guys back we got you guys rep some simply Bitcoin merch anyways so yeah man it's a really really exciting stuff alright guys let's jump into the news we got a lot to cover today before we get into news actually right now we are currently sitting pretty at 70 likes help us maintain our streak let's break a hundred likes within the out first hour of the live stream so if you're enjoying the show make sure to smash that like but it smashes mess mess wait wait wait can we do a legacy smash the like button Nico something like that anyways guys let's get to the news the daily news I want to give a shout out to our sponsor foundation devices it's self -custody done right 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The Breakdown
A highlight from WSJ Says Binance Facing Trouble Over Sanctions Violations
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, August 23rd, and today we are catching up with all the latest intrigue around Binance. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back to The Breakdown. When we survey the landscape, the wreckage, some might say, of this industry after the last year or year and a half, it is pretty clear what the biggest hanging chad or threat left is. One might argue that there's still contentiousness around DCG and whether it will be able to successfully get itself out of this Genesis situation. There's obviously a lot of jawboning about that and recriminations flying back and forth between Barry and the Winklevosses, but the bigger threat, at least that most people identify, or perhaps not threat but concern, is whether Binance is really doing as okay as they say they are. CZ has been quick to wipe away story after story with his customary four, indicating that everything is just FUD, and it is certainly the case that there has been an extraordinary amount of leakage from various US government offices around their investigations into Binance in ways that have led some to assume that they don't actually have the goods on Binance and so are just trying to try them in the court of public opinion. This week we got even more of all of that when on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Binance is still facilitating large amounts of Russian transactions, raising the question of whether the exchange is flouting Western sanctions. The article claimed that, quote, via layers of intermediaries, clients can turn funds at sanctioned banks into balances at Binance, while Binance also enables peer -to -peer trades of rubles for digital tokens that frequently involve banks that are on Western blacklists. A spokesperson for Binance said, Binance follows the global sanctions rules and enforces sanctions on people, organizations, entities, and countries that have been blacklisted by the international community, denying such actors access to the Binance platform. They added that in operating their peer -to -peer service, Binance has, quote, no relationship with any banks whatsoever, in Russia or elsewhere. Now, of course, US sanctions have not been imposed on Russian citizens generally. However, most of the Russian banking and financial system is subject to sanctions, which prohibit US citizens and firms from dealing with them. The EU and other US allies have similar levels of sanctions in place. In October, the EU tightened restrictions on crypto transfers to Russian wallets, removing a 10 ,000 euro limit to prohibit crypto transactions to Russian residents and entities entirely. The claim made by the WSJ is that Binance is facilitating international transactions for Russian citizens who have been cut off from the global financial system through their peer -to -peer platform. According to the Bank of Russia, around $428 million in peer -to -peer crypto transactions are taking place each month. The reporting claimed that there are hundreds of active peer -to -peer sellers willing to buy and sell rubles for crypto with a significant market for Tether. The main centralized exchange is also seeing significant volume in rubles. Volume is massively down from its peak of $80 billion per month in May of last year, but still processed $8 billion in ruble to crypto trades in July according to data from CC Data. Tatian Maksimenko, a Russian businesswoman who formerly worked at a crypto exchange, said, Now, according to a recent review of Binance's peer -to -peer services, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, the platform allows Russian clients to receive payment at at least five sanctioned Russian banks. Crypto sellers on the platform provide payment details to Binance, who allegedly disbursed funds out of escrow after the on -chain transaction has been completed. The article raised further concerns that payment provider Advanced Cash continues to facilitate ruble -denominated transactions with Binance through additional intermediaries. The Belize registered payments provider said it had severed ties with sanctioned Russian banks in March of 2022. However, its website provides links to, quote, Now, of course, the report comes after months of speculation that the DOJ is investigating Binance for money laundering and sanctions evasion, but to date, no charges have been filed and it's unclear whether any charges will be forthcoming. The reaction from the crypto community is basically one of, if this is true, it's a big deal. Investor Adam Cochrane writes, Can you imagine the sheer level of chaos if Binance is hit with OFAC violations? Like how do they deal with that seizure? If they blacklist the hot wallet, then your deposits are effed would be way worse than any regular DOJ action. Travis Kling writes, Sheesh, $428 million per month of P2P ruble to crypto, $8 billion per month of ruble to crypto trading on the main exchange. If you think the US government isn't going to drop the hammer hard on that kind of scale of sanctions violations, you've lost your mind. Now, as with basically every story that we've had on Binance this year, there are two possible explanations. One is, though, where there's smoke, there's fire. And these things are leaking out because there's just so much to leak out that it's coming out of all sides and that we're still just in the period before some action comes. The other possibility, however, is, as some have claimed, that because the DOJ or OFAC or whomever don't actually have a good enough case to bring charges, they're instead trying Binance in the court of public opinion and in so doing feeding sourcing for these types of articles. I don't know what the case is, and I think everyone is right, especially after the last 18 months, to be extraordinarily skeptical. A default position at this point in crypto of assuming there's fire where there's smoke is definitely sensible. But we're coming up on a year now of rumors of DOJ or criminal action. We still haven't seen anything yet. So I guess for now, we just have to wait until the next article comes out with all sorts of its accusations, just so that CZ can say four. The people who are concerned can say they are concerned. The people who are Binance stans can just say four as well. And we're right back to the beginning where we started. Now elsewhere in the Binance empire, some customers are reporting difficulties withdrawing euros. In response to a user complaint on Sunday, the Binance help desk responded that, quote, we have temporarily suspended euro withdrawals and deposits via SIPA. SIPA is the Single Euro Payments Area Network, a bank transfer protocol similar to ACH. Now Binance later deleted and revised this public statement, stating that the SIPA deposit and withdrawal service will continue until September 25th, as originally communicated. The customer service message was sent in error. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will have alternatives for our users in place before then, so stay tuned. Making their feelings known, the user experiencing the problem simply replied, lies. The issue comes a few months after Binance informed users that its European banking partner PaySafe would be discontinuing services on September 25th. A Binance spokesperson addressing the specific users issue said, some users may occasionally be asked for more information as part of routine compliance checks, which could lead to early closure of their accounts. They said that Binance will have alternatives for our users in place before the end of the SIPA service. Now, trouble processing euro payments comes just a few days after news broke that Binance were also being cut off by London -based credit card processing company Checkout .com. Binance were the single largest customer for the payments firm. Forbes reporting cited letters sent in early August, which cited concerns over anti -money laundering, sanctions, and compliance controls at Binance. The letters said termination of service would occur on August 17th, and a Binance spokesperson said that the exchange disagreed with the reasoning for the cutoff, but stated that it would have, quote, no impact on our services. Finally, making everything so much the worse for Binance, their native token BNB has been on a renewed slide. The token reached a low of $204 on Tuesday, but has since recovered and is now trading at around $217 as of Wednesday afternoon. Tuesday's level was BNB's lowest point since June of last year and represented a 14 % drawdown in under a week. Part of the downwards pressure on BNB relates to a massive $150 million loan on Binance smart chain lending platform Venus Protocol. The position was opened up by a hacker in October of last year. After exploiting a cross -chain bridge to mint a half a billion dollars worth of BNB, the hacker took a loan against some of the fraudulently created funds, presumably as an exit strategy with no intention to ever repay the debt. In November, a governance vote was taken on how to avoid a massive impairment accumulating on Venus Protocol. The BNB core team proposed becoming the sole liquidator of the position to ensure they could prevent any liquidation cascades. On Thursday night, the liquidation began with $33 million worth of BNB cleared to shore up the loan. Venus Protocol tweeted out that the account was quote, made healthy, but there's still another $126 million in outstanding debt sitting on the Venus Protocol waiting to be liquidated if the BNB price continues to fall. Now, summing up all of the chaos, Travis Kling, who it should be noted is warning, and intentionally so about Binance after being caught up in the FTX collapse, tweeted, Pretty wild price action in BNB. Not sure what's going on. It's almost as if Binance was sued by the SEC on numerous charges with damning evidence, Was sued by the CFTC on numerous charges with damning evidence. Had three senior executives quit in the same week? Had a billion -dollar -plus collateral hole in Binance peg BUSD? Had Paxos forced them to wind down BUSD? Got kicked out of Canada, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium? About to be charged by the DOJ's strong evidence of massive money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions violations? Under investigation in France for aggravated money laundering? Had their auditor quit and remove attestation? Lost multiple banking partners and payment processors can't process fiat in most countries? Had Binance US effectively closed? Laid off thousands of employees? Cut benefits for remaining employees? Dot dot dot. Oh. Wait. Like I said, I don't know what the truth is. The fog of war is thick. But a default position of defensiveness, and assuming that things are as bad or worse than they seem, is probably the safest approach right now. Speaking of things being as bad or worse as they seem, let's close on a quick Sam update. Sam Bankman -Fried has pleaded not guilty to a superseding indictment. Prosecutors formally presented the indictment during an arraignment hearing before a magistrate judge. The fraud and money laundering charges remain the same, but the campaign finance charge has been dropped. The details of campaign finance violations will be folded in as evidence for the remaining charges. Prosecutors said they were required to drop the campaign finance charge due to complications with their extradition arrangement with the Bahamas government. This was Sam's first appearance in court since he was remanded to jail earlier this month. The judge has not yet dealt with Sam's request to be released to prepare his defense at the However, Sam was allowed to meet with his lawyers on Tuesday until 3 p .m. when he was transported back to the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. During Tuesday's hearing, the issue of Sam's inability to review documents due to a lack of internet was raised, with his lawyer stating, Prosecutors noted that the matter had already been briefed to the judge overseeing the case. The magistrate responded to Sam's lawyer by noting that, Sam's lawyers also bemoaned conditions at the jail. He said that Sam had been denied vegan food options and stated that, The lawyer also noted that in the past 11 days of confinement, the jail has not provided Sam with Adderall, a drug for treating ADHD, and according to his lawyer, Sam is also running low on his supply of MSAM, which is a depression treatment. Prosecutors quibbled over the suitability of the jail conditions to enable Sam to prepare his case ahead of an October 2nd trial date, with ultimately the magistrate saying they would look into the issues once the hearing was adjourned, hoping to resolve them that day. Sam is still yet to provide details of legal advice regarding his conduct at FTX, despite prosecutor requests. He is seeking to rely on this as an advice of counsel defense. The judge set a deadline of documentation of this advice to be submitted by Wednesday. Now also the night before the arraignment, prosecutors and Sam's lawyers submitted competing sets of jury instructions for trial. The DOJ's document laid out the basis for each charge in detail and explained the difference between substantive crimes and crimes of conspiracy. Prosecutors outlined what jurors would need to determine if they decide to convict, specifically that there was a scheme to defraud, that Sam knowingly and willfully participated, and that the defendant used interstate wires to conduct the scheme which includes the internet. SPF's filing suggested that he may argue that he had an honest belief that use of customer funds was not unlawful. The filing suggests that his behavior amounted to honest mistakes in judgment and errors of management rather than crimes. It leaned heavily on the idea that unregulated crypto firms are in something of a gray area. Sam's filing said, If Mr. Bankman -Friede acted in good faith with respect to the use of FTX customer funds and with the belief that as a business matter FTX would be able to cover all customer withdrawal requests, he did not act with specific intent to defraud. It is also not relevant whether you believe certain conduct should have been regulated even though it was not regulated at the time. Now to put it mildly, the community does not have a lot of sympathy. However somewhat more sympathy is being extended for Nate Chastain, OpenSea's former head of product who was convicted of fraud and money laundering in May and has now been sentenced to three months in prison for insider trading. Chastain was responsible for deciding which NFT collections would be featured prominently on OpenSea's homepage. The scheme involved him purchasing NFTs ahead of them being featured on the website. All told, Chastain was accused of making over $50 ,000 in profits from this scheme across dozens of trades in 2021. At the time of his arrest, authorities referred to this case as the first ever insider trading scheme involving digital assets. Chastain's lawyers argued that the case should be dismissed because NFTs are not securities and Chastain leveraged information that was not confidential. The judge however was unconvinced and allowed the case to proceed to a jury trial in May, ultimately ending in his conviction. In addition to the three months behind bars, Chastain has been ordered to serve three months of home detention, to conduct 200 hours of community service, to pay fines of $50 ,200 and to surrender 15 .98 ETH, the spoils of his crime. US Attorney Damian Williams said, Nathaniel Chastain faced justice today for violating the trust that his employer placed in him by using OpenSea's confidential information for his own profit. Today's sentence should serve as a warning to other corporate insiders that insider trading in any marketplace will not be tolerated. So there you have it friends, that's the update from here. Another set of dreary but important events as we try to close the door on the last chapter of this industry and move to something hopefully a little bit better. Thanks for listening as always and until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other.
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from STOP BEING LAZY - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"I understand don't people who say they lack motivation in life because I'll make this extremely clear. If you're not pushing and striving for something, life is so mundane. I've always had this problem with literal crippling perpetual boredom. I was bored. I had no money. I'm carrying boxes of ice. I'm a smart guy. I'm not playing chess anymore, right? This is, I'm 34 now. So this is quite a few years ago. It's before the internet, before Facebook was all big and nothing. What do you do with your life? What's there to do? I thought the only, I need to do something which drains me so that I can go to sleep at night without frustration. And if I kickbox, if I run three miles to the gym and then fight for three hours and run three miles home, at least I can sleep. I literally couldn't sleep. I wouldn't say it's ADHD, but I was just frustrated. And then on top of that, I've always had this huge frustration in regards to money. Even though I was poor, I'd grow up around a bunch of other poor kids and we'd be walking to school or walking to college and a Ferrari would drive past and they'd go, oh, cool Ferrari. And I'd say, doesn't that annoy you? And they're like, what do you mean? And I'd be like, he knows he's hacked the matrix. Don't you see? How does he have 400 grand for a car? He knows something we don't know. Well, aren't you annoyed that there's people out there living a lifestyle that we can't ever aspire to. We're never going to work in a job and pull this off. Doesn't this bother you? And they all be like, no, but me, it was, I was always angry. I was always angry, not angry in a go to jail way, but just in a, I was angry. I was like, something isn't right. Something doesn't add up. So I kickboxing was my answer. I just started kicking, kicking people's ass and I felt a little bit better. That was kind of how it worked. At what point did you realize you were like world -class at this? So when I, my first day in the gym, I walk in my coach, it was four Bosnian men, men. I was a child. It was four Bosnian men in this tiny little terrible gym. It was not like a commercial gym or commercial class. And he said, can you fight? And I said, yeah, I've done karate for a few years that I got knocked clean out on my first day, of course. And I guess they expected me to never come back, but I kept coming back. And my coach said to me, look, after about a year, he said, look, I want to put you into a fight. And he took me down to a town called South End on C and my first fight was in kickboxing. My first fight was actually MMA and it must've been a little over a year because I was 18 and I was fighting a 24 year old security doorman. And being a stupid American, I thought pounds and kilos were the same because I weighed in at like 82 pounds. He weighed in at like 90. No, I weighed in at 82 kilos. He weighed in at 90 kilos, which is an 8 kilo difference, which is almost like 20 pounds. And I was like to my coach, is that a big difference? He's like, no, no, don't worry about it. I was like, okay. Thinking back, a 20 pound difference is a big difference in fighting, right? And I got in there and I won. I didn't win necessarily through skill, but I just kept going and I just outgassed him and towards the end, I'm just on top of him, just punched him in the face, right? And now I'm only 18 years old. So from there, my coach was like, okay, you have some potential. And I knew for a long time, it was, I believed it was my only way out because like once again, before the internet and stuff, I'm going to college, I finished college. I don't believe in university because I'm too smart to get in debt for formal education. I'm too smart for that job. So I finished college. I'm working these sales jobs. I was always a good salesman. So I'm working sales jobs. I'm bringing in, you know, 3000, 4000 a month, whatever, but I thought my only way to get rich rich is fighting. I couldn't think of another way to get rich and I didn't fight only to get rich, but I saw light at the end of the tunnel. So that's all I wanted to do was just fight, fight, fight. And so at what point do you go fight for the first world championship? So I fight for my first level world championship on two days notice. So I'm in Slovakia. There was a town. I'm going to tell everyone now on this podcast, I'm going to give the secret away. If you go, if you're bored right now, if you're watching this on the internet, load up Google maps, right? And there's a town called Kosice, K -O -S -I -C -E, and it's on the opposite end of Slovakia to Bratislava. So Bratislava is the capital and then you have Kosice on the other side. It's four and a half hours drive from Bratislava. It's about four hours drive from Warsaw and about four hours drive from Budapest. It's in the middle of nowhere, but all the villages and all the towns, everyone around this little town, every hot girl within about 400 square kilometers lived in this town because there's no, there was nowhere else to go. Right. And they were all there. And when I was going there, this is pre -EU. They didn't have the Euro and me and Tristan used to go there on holiday because we would clean up. And when I say clean up, my brother, and when I say clean up, I don't mean clean up, like you clean up on holiday with some in Mexico. I mean, clean up with tens, like supermodels, it was unbelievable. And a beer is like 30 cents. And we're the only men there who speaks English. So I was in Kishidze and then I got a phone call from Amir saying he has a world title fight in two days. So I was just really drunk at the time. And I was... Amir is my coach, sorry. He was Bosnian Muslim. He fought in the Yugoslav conflict. He got shot six times and didn't die. That's the deal. Right? So he's still like a father to me. And I must've been crazy. I was like, okay, I can't explain, and I want to say this in a way where it's truly understood. When I say I didn't give a shit if I lived or die, I don't mean that in a sad, suicidal way. I mean that in an empowered, charging at the gunfighter. Back then, I didn't think I had anything that really made me really give a shit about living. Not in a doo -doo -doo sad way, just in a, let's go out, in a blaze of glory then. I'm not rich. I don't have nothing. I'm just banging girls in Slovakia with us. Who is this guy? So it was against the French world champion Jean -Luc Benoit was his name. And the opponent pulled out and they needed a guy on two days notice. And I had to lose six kilos, which was around 13 or 14 pounds in two days. Is that easy or hard? That's hard, bro. 13 pounds in two days is a long way to lose. So I just stopped eating, stopped drinking, sitting in saunas, spitting out all the water, just dying. Finally made weight, went to France, fought in 12 rounds. My first ever 12 -round fight as well, fought him. And they gave the decision to him, but I was wrong. I beat him. I beat him. I beat him. I didn't knock him out, but I beat him. Is this one of the four world championships, or this is the fifth? Well, it should be, yeah. But the tape was so convincing, the tape was actually sent off to the ISKA, the fighting organization, and they demanded a rematch. They knew I won, right? But he's France. He's French. He's in France. And fighting has a lot of politics to it. You have to understand, I mean, UFC is UFC, the real big ones. But outside of the smaller ones, it makes more sense for the French promotion of a French champion. They'll sell a lot more tickets and a lot more pay -per -views of the French champion. So basically either you knock him out or it's going to go down. It's kind of like that, right? So they commanded a rematch, and I rematched him seven months later and knocked him out in the eighth, and I became world champion. Okay. Why keep going once you've won? There's always a new mountain to climb. I mean, that's kind of, that's a good question, because that's also kind of the reason I quit. Because it's like, why keep going? Well, there's always someone new to fight, and I'm still not financially where I want to be. And I don't know what else I want to do with my life, so I'll keep going, right? So I fought again. I beat another Frenchman, and then I fought again. And then I beat two Dutch guys to become four -time world champion. But one day I woke up and I was like, is becoming five -time world champion going to improve my life? I mean, I've already got, do I need five belts? How much money do they pay for these fights? 3 ,000 bucks, 2 ,000 bucks. It doesn't even, you need to work on the side. You're giving up all your free time to get punched in the face. Like, it's a terrible decision. Like, I don't know why I decided to do it. But eventually, once I was world champion, I'd get like 100 grand to fight, but I'd give 20 % to my manager. Then the UK, with the UK taxes, 40, 50 % would disappear. And sometimes you only fight twice a year or whatever. I was certainly not rich. I didn't consider myself rich. So you get like 30 to 40 % of what? Yeah. And I didn't consider myself rich. Like, 30, 40 grand chunks, but twice a year, maybe three times a year. I'm living in London. London rents. I need a car. I'm trying to know, like, you're not rich in any way. And that's actually the reason I retired, because I woke up one day and I thought, I'm giving six hours a day of absolute focus and energy to this. And I believe I'm smart enough that if I put that much tenacity into something else, I can be a multimillionaire. I truly believe that. I was like, I've realized now I've reached the pinnacle of kickboxing. My choice is either to change over to MMA, which I was offered to do earlier in my career, but at the time, the kickboxing contract paid more money. I had to pay the bills, so I went kickboxing. Change over to MMA, learn to wrestle, change over to UFC, blah, blah, blah. But this is also like seven, eight years ago, where even the UFC didn't pay the money it pays now. But the UFC still doesn't pay that much money, from what I understand. No, if you're like top five or champion, yeah. But most of the dudes you're going to see there on the prelims, they're getting 10 grand a fight, nine grand a fight. It's nothing, right? So it'd be like starting my career all over again. And at the age of 28, I thought, I don't have the gumption to start again. I've been through hell for this. I've broken my hand eight times. My ribs have been broken. I don't want to do this all over again. So what do you do when you realize that, hey, maybe I don't want to keep fighting? I decide to get rich, Rich. What does that mean to you? When you're sitting there, you're getting 30, $40 ,000 kind of net on a per fight basis. Is rich to you like, hey, I want a couple hundred thousand dollars, a million bucks, 20 million dollars, a billion dollars? I want 30 or 40 ,000 every month. 30 or 40 ,000 every month, so about half a million bucks a year. I thought if I had that much money, I could do whatever I want. Okay. That's what I decided. So what's step one that you do? So step one is, maybe that's how we ended up here together, my friend. Step one is, I decided to be very logical about it, chess player, right? So I was like, I want money.
Recipes for Success
Artist Carmel Behan Is Embracing the Labels of Sensitivity and Neurodiversity
"Being sensitive is probably one of my favourite things about me. But there still would obviously be occasions where I'm like, oh, which I wasn't so sensitive. But that's just a hangover from youth, I think. Yeah. It's what you were saying earlier. It's about being able to kind of recognise it and realise you're sort of in that like reaction mode. And like, that's what therapy can do is like that extra understanding of who you are and why you act, not necessarily that there's something wrong with how you're acting. But it's just like understanding it. And you're mentioning there about the ADHD and autism diagnosis, like how I suppose most people have heard of both of those. But if you could maybe explain a little bit about like what they are and also like, how does that impact you and how you show up in the world? Oh, gosh, I'm definitely not in authority on either of them. ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the official name. I don't really like the official name. I don't think of it as an attention disorder as such. But look, that's a whole different story. So I think a lot of us are familiar with ADHD. A lot of people of my generation anyway, will be more familiar as a young boys kind of thing where, you know, you have a hyper child running around. And I even worked in a business that was about ADHD. And I remember doing a lot of the quizzes and things and thinking, Oh, God, I can't finish this. I can't do this. And I have said before in you know, I wasn't not well, great at sitting in chairs, I was about to say I wasn't, I wasn't getting up out of my chair. But in a lot of women or female presenting people, it's often that hyperactivity of ADHD is internal in your brain. And a lot of women are diagnosed with anxiety and not ADHD. They're diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder or something like that. So I spent a lot a lot of the time thinking, Oh, my God, I have anxiety, which yeah, you know, I was anxious, because I was, I had a lot going on or that kind of thing. But it was only during the pandemic where this is going to sound totally baffling, when I got onto TikTok, and I started following people in America that had ADHD and have been diagnosed. And I was like, Oh, those women are they think the same as me, or the sounds that they're constantly not able to filter out, or the sensitivity to the light, or, you know, I spent a lot of my life wondering how everybody could just filter out that person across the room with a spoon making noise, silly things like that. And you're like, Oh, you're so sensitive, you're so, this kind of thing. But um, yeah, well, I went and finally looked into getting testing done on it. And the be like, I definitely have this. And the autism was probably a bit of a surprise, but I knew that the ADHD wasn't enough to, to kind of describe what what I was having to filter out in daily life to kind of, you know, function as one else would. And I, it was, it was interesting. And it kind of explained a lot of the sensitivity that I have to textures, to noises, to all that kind of things that I had been dealing with. And that was burning me out, kind of, in my mid 30s, I kind of hit a, which happens to a lot of women, because women are better at masking. So they're not diagnosed in school as easy and things like that. And it kind of hits right with a lot of women, it can hit them in their 30s or late 20s, depending on their support needs. And that's when they start finally realizing that, you know, this just isn't just anxiety and stuff like that. So there's been a lot of kind of, you know, self discovering and things with those diagnosis and a lot of learning a lot of
Dear Dyslexic Podcast
Episode 58 with Nicci Richman Neurodivergent OD Consultant - burst 1
"Hello there, and welcome to the D -Dyslexic podcast series brought to you by Rethink Dyslexia, the podcast where we're breaking barriers and doing things differently. I'm Shaye Wiesel, your host, and I'm so glad you can join us. I'm a fellow neurodivergent, and I'm coming from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, where I live and work, and I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to all the tribes across our beautiful country and to all First Nations people listening today. Our podcast was born in 2017 out of a need to give a voice to the stories and perspectives of adults with dyslexia, and our voice has grown stronger year after year. We're now a globally listened to podcast with guests from all around the world. Join us for insightful conversations about living with dyslexia and other neurodivergences across all walks of life. Our special focus is on adult education, employment, social and emotional well -being, and entrepreneurship. We're excited to be bringing you this episode and invite you to like and follow us, or even better, why not leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. So let's get started. I know I use this word excited all the time. I've got to find a new word. I need to build my vocabulary out. I think it's time to say elated, thrilled. I'm thrilled to have this guest on our show today, Nicky, who I met actually through LinkedIn, which is where I find a lot of wonderful people that I end up interviewing on this podcast. And Nicky and I connected because of the work we're both doing around coaching and supporting neurodivergent adults. And the conversation that Nicky and I are going to have today really forms the business and neurodiversity podcast series that I've started creating now. And I'd like to warmly welcome Nicky onto the show today. So welcome, Nicky. Thank you very much. Happy to be here. Excited to be here. You can use the word excited. Because I do. I use it a lot. Gosh, I'm always saying it's in everything excited and great. And I always say that I extend my vocabulary. It's very, very small, which is a very dyslexic thing. But if we find our words and they work, you know, why wouldn't we keep them? It's true. That's a very positive way of looking at it. So, Nicky, we did connect through LinkedIn, which was was very exciting because I haven't met a lot of people in Australia that are supporting or working with neurodivergent adults. And I love meeting people that have an H .R. background, because even though I don't have an H .R. background through my research, I'm developing a lot of understanding around how we support staff through our organisational practices. And I wanted to learn more about what you're currently doing and how you ended up working supporting neurodivergent individuals. Great. Excellent. So do we have a few hours? Because I have a long story. But no, I am I have always been fascinated by people. And I in later life realised that that fascination has been because I've been understanding, learning how to understand how we do things, how people do things in later life. You know, in my 40s, I learned that I was ADHD and autistic. So a whole new lens of that people understanding has come into my world. But I first started learning about neurodiversity and neurodivergence six years ago. So it's a very common story. We have our children have struggles in school. And my oldest daughter was diagnosed as autistic. And I just went down that rabbit hole because I needed to know, I needed to understand what her experience was. And as I did that, I started linking that to the H .R. world, to the world that I know. And I saw that change needed to happen. So once you know something, you know, you have to do something. Initially, because my daughter was struggling, the first thing I did was I thought was I'll start a school. You know, I have to make change immediately for my daughter. Then I realised, OK, let's go back to what I actually know. I know workplaces, I have a passion for organisational development, and I can make a change for when she's ready to enter the workforce. So that's how I started in this world. Well, there's a couple of questions running through my head. But that last point you touched on around support once they get into the workforce, because what we know is that once you leave school, if you're lucky enough to get that support in school, because a lot of neurodivergent children aren't, that that all falls away once we enter the workforce. And there's a whole range of challenges that we then face. Yeah, absolutely. And the interesting thing, as I said, I've been able to look at my world again with a new lens. And even some practices that I did as an HR professional, you know, I'm horrified. And I've spoken to, I've actually presented in front of groups of HR professionals. And one question that was asked was, do you feel you've ever performance managed a neurodivergent person out of the workplace now that you've heard what Nicky has to say? And approximately three quarters of the room put their hand up. So that's just one picture of my community, my professional community, where we all know we could do better. So yes, support, there are barriers to entering the workplace. Once you're in the workplace, there's barriers everywhere. Some people will mask and do everything they possibly can to fit into that workplace. But there are ramifications of that with burnout and huge mental health issues. So my focus has been on inclusive design for workplaces, because whatever we do for neurodivergent people is going to benefit everyone in the workplace. And the most important thing to me is that we don't other, that we don't have two streams. Neurodivergent people go this way and everyone else go this way, that we actually just create a workplace where everybody is appreciated and valued exactly as they are. They're in the jobs that suit them best, and they're in the environment that works for them so that they can thrive. I always like to talk about universal design principles when I go out and talk, and how if we are applying those principles and everybody is accepted and everyone has the access to everything they need to be able to do their job. And as you say, if we're supporting neurodivergent staff members, then we are supporting everyone in the workplace when we implement those strategies. But going back a step, what was it like for you being diagnosed as an adult in your 40s with two neuroimaginences, which is not uncommon at all, we've all got more time usually. And as you and I were discussing earlier, I don't know if I've reached the full gamut of my neurotype. But what it was like, ADHD was, that wasn't a surprise because as I learned about ADHD, and that was the first diagnosis I got, I actually went into the psychiatrist and I sat down and I just gave him a list of pretty much of my life. And he was just like, yeah, there's no doubt, you're absolutely ADHD. So that wasn't a surprise, but it was appreciated because then I could explain my experience better, particularly to my husband. You know, he was the one having to live with me.
Dear Dyslexic Podcast
A highlight from Episode 58 with Nicci Richman Neurodivergent OD Consultant
"Hello there, and welcome to the D -Dyslexic podcast series brought to you by Rethink Dyslexia, the podcast where we're breaking barriers and doing things differently. I'm Shaye Wiesel, your host, and I'm so glad you can join us. I'm a fellow neurodivergent, and I'm coming from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, where I live and work, and I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to all the tribes across our beautiful country and to all First Nations people listening today. Our podcast was born in 2017 out of a need to give a voice to the stories and perspectives of adults with dyslexia, and our voice has grown stronger year after year. We're now a globally listened to podcast with guests from all around the world. Join us for insightful conversations about living with dyslexia and other neurodivergences across all walks of life. Our special focus is on adult education, employment, social and emotional well -being, and entrepreneurship. We're excited to be bringing you this episode and invite you to like and follow us, or even better, why not leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. So let's get started. I know I use this word excited all the time. I've got to find a new word. I need to build my vocabulary out. I think it's time to say elated, thrilled. I'm thrilled to have this guest on our show today, Nicky, who I met actually through LinkedIn, which is where I find a lot of wonderful people that I end up interviewing on this podcast. And Nicky and I connected because of the work we're both doing around coaching and supporting neurodivergent adults. And the conversation that Nicky and I are going to have today really forms the business and neurodiversity podcast series that I've started creating now. And I'd like to warmly welcome Nicky onto the show today. So welcome, Nicky. Thank you very much. Happy to be here. Excited to be here. You can use the word excited. Because I do. I use it a lot. Gosh, I'm always saying it's in everything excited and great. And I always say that I extend my vocabulary. It's very, very small, which is a very dyslexic thing. But if we find our words and they work, you know, why wouldn't we keep them? It's true. That's a very positive way of looking at it. So, Nicky, we did connect through LinkedIn, which was was very exciting because I haven't met a lot of people in Australia that are supporting or working with neurodivergent adults. And I love meeting people that have an H .R. background, because even though I don't have an H .R. background through my research, I'm developing a lot of understanding around how we support staff through our organisational practices. And I wanted to learn more about what you're currently doing and how you ended up working supporting neurodivergent individuals. Great. Excellent. So do we have a few hours? Because I have a long story. But no, I am I have always been fascinated by people. And I in later life realised that that fascination has been because I've been understanding, learning how to understand how we do things, how people do things in later life. You know, in my 40s, I learned that I was ADHD and autistic. So a whole new lens of that people understanding has come into my world. But I first started learning about neurodiversity and neurodivergence six years ago. So it's a very common story. We have our children have struggles in school. And my oldest daughter was diagnosed as autistic. And I just went down that rabbit hole because I needed to know, I needed to understand what her experience was. And as I did that, I started linking that to the H .R. world, to the world that I know. And I saw that change needed to happen. So once you know something, you know, you have to do something. Initially, because my daughter was struggling, the first thing I did was I thought was I'll start a school. You know, I have to make change immediately for my daughter. Then I realised, OK, let's go back to what I actually know. I know workplaces, I have a passion for organisational development, and I can make a change for when she's ready to enter the workforce. So that's how I started in this world. Well, there's a couple of questions running through my head. But that last point you touched on around support once they get into the workforce, because what we know is that once you leave school, if you're lucky enough to get that support in school, because a lot of neurodivergent children aren't, that that all falls away once we enter the workforce. And there's a whole range of challenges that we then face. Yeah, absolutely. And the interesting thing, as I said, I've been able to look at my world again with a new lens. And even some practices that I did as an HR professional, you know, I'm horrified. And I've spoken to, I've actually presented in front of groups of HR professionals. And one question that was asked was, do you feel you've ever performance managed a neurodivergent person out of the workplace now that you've heard what Nicky has to say? And approximately three quarters of the room put their hand up. So that's just one picture of my community, my professional community, where we all know we could do better. So yes, support, there are barriers to entering the workplace. Once you're in the workplace, there's barriers everywhere. Some people will mask and do everything they possibly can to fit into that workplace. But there are ramifications of that with burnout and huge mental health issues. So my focus has been on inclusive design for workplaces, because whatever we do for neurodivergent people is going to benefit everyone in the workplace. And the most important thing to me is that we don't other, that we don't have two streams. Neurodivergent people go this way and everyone else go this way, that we actually just create a workplace where everybody is appreciated and valued exactly as they are. They're in the jobs that suit them best, and they're in the environment that works for them so that they can thrive. I always like to talk about universal design principles when I go out and talk, and how if we are applying those principles and everybody is accepted and everyone has the access to everything they need to be able to do their job. And as you say, if we're supporting neurodivergent staff members, then we are supporting everyone in the workplace when we implement those strategies. But going back a step, what was it like for you being diagnosed as an adult in your 40s with two neuroimaginences, which is not uncommon at all, we've all got more time usually. And as you and I were discussing earlier, I don't know if I've reached the full gamut of my neurotype. But what it was like, ADHD was, that wasn't a surprise because as I learned about ADHD, and that was the first diagnosis I got, I actually went into the psychiatrist and I sat down and I just gave him a list of pretty much of my life. And he was just like, yeah, there's no doubt, you're absolutely ADHD. So that wasn't a surprise, but it was appreciated because then I could explain my experience better, particularly to my husband. You know, he was the one having to live with me.
Fempower Health | A Women's Health Podcast
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"This is Georgie with Fem Power Health and while I am very serious about giving you the best information on women's health from amazing experts and thought leaders, we do also have a bit of fun behind the scenes, so take a listen. All right, we are here. Oh shoot, see my ADHD brain lost my train of thought because I'm thinking of 500 things right now. Okay. I can't believe I wrote that. I can believe I thought it. Like, did I really put that in the book? You did. Most people don't want their vulva to be steamy and sweaty. I think I've told you a lot. Do you know that people have actually come up to me and said, do all women catch the menopause? Bless her heart. Oh no, that's not funny. By the way, I can't see your face. Oh, I just thought I'd tell you that. Oh no. I can imagine that everything I say is witty and causing you to smile and so I can, I can easily picture that. So it's okay. Okay. I want to say something very blunt, but I'm not going to. So, um, so Tashi can edit that part out. So fingers crossed. Yep. Hope you got a kick out of that. Thank you so much for your support of FEM Power Health and be sure to follow where you listen to podcasts. Also follow FEM Power Health on social media for updates on upcoming episodes and other important women's health tips and events.
Dear Dyslexic Podcast
A highlight from Episode 57: Part 2 with Garth Robinson from Mindhabits
"Hello there, and welcome to the Dear Dyslexic podcast series brought to you by Rethink Dyslexia, the podcast where we're breaking barriers and doing things differently. I'm Shaye Wiesel, your host, and I'm so glad you can join us. I'm a fellow neurodivergent, and I'm coming from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, where I live and work, and I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to all the tribes across our beautiful country and to all First Nations people listening today. Our podcast was born in 2017 out of a need to give a voice to the stories and perspectives of adults with dyslexia, and our voice has grown stronger year after year. We're now a globally listened to podcast with guests from all around the world. Join us for insightful conversations about living with dyslexia and other neurodivergences across all walks of life. Our special focus is on adult education, employment, social and emotional well -being, and entrepreneurship. We're excited to be bringing you this episode and invite you to like and follow us, or even better, why not leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. So let's get started. Hello, everybody, and thank you for joining us again for the second part of my conversation with Gareth Robinson. I really hope you found the first part of our discussion helpful, and you can see how we got sidetracked talking about so many different things. But I think, you know, creating small habits that don't seem overwhelming when we're in really stressful periods of life, whether it's we're going through grief and trauma or we're having a challenge at work or we're facing difficulties in our personal lives, there's always space for us to be providing and doing some self -care. And I think that little habits where we're not feeling pressured to do different activities can really help us manage day to day. So I hope you enjoy the second part of our conversation, particularly around the stacking. And please remember that this episode does again contain sensitive discussions about grief, loss and suicide and mental health challenges. And again, while today's conversation aims at promoting understanding, reducing stigma and giving us strategies, we know that hearing about grief and suicide can be triggering for some of you listening today. So, please, if you find any of this content distressing, your well -being does matter, and it is essential that you prioritise your mental health above all else and consider seeking help. So remember, there's a lifeline that you can contact on 13 11 14 or be on Blue Councillors on 1300 224 636. I hope you enjoy this second part of our series. Thanks for listening. I've got Gareth on the line again today. We've got so involved in talking about our experiences around grief and loss and how we manage day to day that the whole point of the original podcast was around habits. So we thought we'd have this follow up conversation around the habits stacker. I think I've got that right. And how we can move through trauma of all different kinds. It doesn't have to be just losing a loved one. So thank you so much, Gareth, for joining us today again. You're welcome. Thanks for having me back. I'm so pleased that we could continue this conversation and hopefully I'll try and keep us on track this time so we don't end up having to do a third part to this series. But can you give any reflections on our conversation that we had last time? Great question. Thank you, Shay. I guess, yeah, I felt it turned into a little bit of a ramble, but I was glad that we talked we about how view time being so important. And I guess when it comes to habits, and yeah, you got it mostly right, a habit stack. When it comes to habits, it does start with what's in our head and how we view the world, our perception, if you like, our view of time, how we listen to that voice in our head. So yeah, I mean, I could talk about that stuff all day. So I think that was quite a good segue into what we're talking about here today. And for those listeners who haven't heard the initial part of our conversation, were you able to talk about some of the traumatic events that led you to the work that you're doing now? Sure. Okay. We love trauma, whether it's little t trauma or big trauma. So I guess the catalyst for meeting yourself, Shay, was the loss of my beautiful big brother Ben to suicide last August. And actually got a 30 year relationship with suicide, having lost a number of other friends. And I think maybe rather than directly answering your question, I might introduce myself in a slightly different way, even so those that were listening to the last episode, there'll be some value because I do want to acknowledge that for some of your listeners, as I share some tools and techniques to drive positive change in your life, legitimately so you could be thinking, well, you know, who's this guy who, you know, doesn't have dyslexia, doesn't have ADHD? Who's he to tell me how easy it is now? And that's a that's a legitimate concern. So I want to kind of call out that regardless of the trauma, the battles that we're fighting, we always have a choice when it comes to decisions and how we respond, and whether or not we want to change. You need to build that awareness first of that something actually needs to change, you need they need to accept that there's certain things we cannot change. And that comes back to what we talked about last on the circles of control, I guess. But you do then also need to take responsibility for making those changes. One way that helps is putting a more optimistic or positive spin on it. So I want to introduce myself properly at the risk of this turn into a ramble again, and share with your audience my last six years and eight traumatic events, mostly big T trauma that have happened to me. And I'm going to start with a negative bias because our brains are wired negatively and it's just easy to do that. But then I want to flip the script. And that could be a bit of a lesson, I guess, is that we are able to flip the switch the script, excuse me, when it comes to our past. So I'm going to run through these traumatic events for me. Firstly, I was made redundant, so I lost my job. And then over a number of years, bootstrapping a startup, that startup failed and cost myself, my brother -in -law and my family a reasonable amount of money in that in that commercial failure. Part of that is the third traumatic event, we had to sell our unit to fund our lifestyle and continuing this journey. So that was the third traumatic event. The fourth is over the last two, three years, my beautiful wife and myself have grown a little bit apart. The sixth, sixth and seventh traumatic event is that I lost one of my close high school friends to suicide. I then lost, or we lost, I should say, the best man in my wedding to suicide. And finally, as mentioned, my brother last year. So there are a pretty negative kind of traumatic events. Now I want to try and flip that script and take a more positive view on it. So look at that first one, I lost my job. And, you know, as I say, when one door closes, another one opens, because now what I do for a living is I teach, I coach, I train. And when I look back, I've always wanted to be a teacher. So I am far more content in a professional sense and personal effect than I ever was when I was working in the corporate world. And that's not for everyone. But that's me flipping the script. So that redundancy was amazing. The failed startup. Whilst I wouldn't recommend a personal development journey to be led by trying to develop an app and then starting a startup. It has for me been an incredible learning journey, a deep experience that has turned me into a far better human being. So you know, again, another cliche, we learn so much from these failures. So that has actually been an incredible process whilst I wouldn't necessarily recommend your audience to jump in and bootstrap a startup because they want to improve themselves. Now, so that's the first three. The other one was around selling the unit. Now, look, my wife and I at the time chose that we had equity in a unit. But it's sitting there. It's not doing anything. It wasn't enabling us to live the life we wanted to live. And again, this is about a shift in mindset to go well, yes, we need to be aware of the future and aim towards some financial security in the future. But we also want to enable ourselves to live the life we want to live today. So that's flipping the script on the fact that we had to sell that unit to survive financially. The fourth one, right, my beautiful wife and I, you know, we've been seeing a counselor, as you know, shout out my sharing my story and my lives for the last year and we are stronger, better together as a couple and a family unit than almost, you know, for a long time we've been so there's a nice positive end to that story. The last three traumatic events, losing people you love to suicide, you know, I'll be honest, particularly after the loss of my brother six months ago, I'm struggling to find the silver lining on that. So I want to call out two things that we talked about last time. Number one, circles of control. Like those traumatic events were outside of my control, so I need to be careful about attaching myself to them and the grief I feel that is involved with that. Certainly from a blaming point of view, number one. Number two, you can always turn an obstacle into an opportunity and it may simply be how you react and how you support your family members, your community in the event of such a traumatic experience. So those are the two kind of small at this point, but, you know, opportunities from those obstacles. I So that shared that, by the way, just I guess to let everyone know that we all have trauma of whether it's little T, big T, and because I don't have dyslexia or ADHD, it doesn't mean that I don't overthink, that I have anxiety, I suffer from the imposters I'm doing sometimes. But I work hard, partly through my habits, to ensure that I am flipping the script as much as possible. Wow. And you thought you were going to talk about habit sex. So yeah, I'll stop there. Hopefully that made sense to everyone. And yeah, I'll pass it over to you, Shona. Well, I just want to say thank you for being so open and vulnerable in all the conversations we've been having. And I think that it will resonate with our listeners regardless of whether you're dyslexic or not, because we all have traumas in our lives. And so I think it's really valuable conversation that we're having to, I think, also normalize that we all go through these types of challenges in life. And even though we're dyslexic, and we might have higher risk factors for these challenges, that normalizes that this is happening for everyone. And I think the most important message from our conversations is around how can we reduce that impact and try to put strategies in place to look after ourselves. Because I worked out after our conversation, been trying to think of what my word was for the year. And I really think it's around self -care. So I'm really glad that we're having these conversations and highlighting the importance of self -care, particularly, I think, coming out of COVID, which was a huge trauma for everyone. And that there are lots of things we can put in place to help us with our self -care. So yes, so now we will learn some self -care strategies. That's right, that's right. And just, you know, I've been learning about loving kindness meditations, and meditation mindfulness being one of the kind of what we would call some critical habit types we need to focus on. And yeah, that self -care is so important. And for me, there's a bit of a paradox there as a, I want to say as a white, middle class man, and in this kind of competitive society, we often exposed to and live in that loving yourself can be a bit of a challenge. And I think back to the conversations I had with my beautiful big brother, Ben, who, you know, that was, you know, and I'm glad you mentioned so that was a key issue for him, and very hard to understand when you're not in someone else's head, which we never are. That on the surface, you know, he should have loved himself more and taken more self -care. For some reason, he wasn't able to, but look, let's, I'm going to transition because I'm conscious I do tend to overthink, as I said before, and can over talk. So let's jump into habits. And the real question is, why is it so hard to make positive changes in our life by embedding healthy new habits? And one way of looking at this is this kind of three key problems, all right, which I want to briefly highlight, and then I'll go on to the two main discoveries my co -founder Jeremy Horne and myself discovered as we're building out ThriveWrap and what is now called Five Habits. So the first of the problem is something I covered already. This negativity bias, you know, some scientists will tell us that the mind is a little bit Velcro it's when looking at negative experiences, but like Teflon when it's looking at positive experience. So think about that, you know, Velcro, very sticky. So we have a negative experience and we remember that, right? We can catastrophize it, we can turn it into this bigger event. And then those positive experiences we just let go, you know, and I'm not sure about your listeners or yourself, but I know I'm guilty of that sometimes. So that's our first challenge around changing bad behaviors and embedding healthy behaviors is we have this negativity bias built on many of us anyway. The second problem we discovered is that over half your life you spend talking to yourself. Not necessarily out loud, but this is the self -talk or inner speech as some scientists will tell us. And it's dangerous when you have that negativity bias because often, as most of your audience will probably know, that when we talk to ourselves, it's often negative self -talk. So that again is a challenge, you know, I can't do this, it's too hard or I lack motivation. And by the way, that's one of the myths with habit creation is you can't rely on motivation because it's a slippery, nasty little devil. So you want to take some simple steps to reduce the need to motivate yourself to embed those healthy new habits. So that talking to ourselves, the negativity bias, those are real challenges or problems with driving positive behavior change in your life. The third one is that up to 90%, depending on the science you believe, between half to 90 % of your daily activities are habitual. I'll repeat that between 50 to 90 % of your daily activities are habitual. So what that means is you're on autopilot for a lot of the time, as am I. And so again, that makes it hard to drive positive change in our lives. So those are the three kind of problems that make it difficult to embed healthy new habits. The one I haven't mentioned, I mentioned last episode, which is from BJ Fogg, the founder of Stanford University's Behavior Change Lab and also the author of Tiny Habits that I think a link to that book will be in the show notes. He talks about, you know, we've been using the wrong instruction manual. So, you know, we've been looking, it's like you go to IKEA, you buy that bedside table, you open the box to look at the instruction manual and it's for a, you know, it's for a cupboard rather than a bedside table. So how's that going to go with building that bedside table? Almost impossible. So his kind of observation there is we're using the wrong instruction manual. And that's what we'll jump into shortly around the habit state. Before I do that, I'll pause and see if, Shai, if you have anything to add or questions or observations. I think for many dyslexic people, I'm not going to talk for everyone, but the, particularly for me, start with me, the negative bias and the second point around the way we're thinking and talking to ourselves, I think as someone who's dyslexic, I've really struggled with because from a young age, we're often told that we're not good enough because we can't do something that comes really easily to someone else. Or we might have labels put on us of dumb or stupid or, and that really does, it is like Velcro. It does stick to us, those types of terms. And so to try and switch that negative bias to look at how, like the strengths that we have, it's, I think we all talk about strengths, but sometimes I think it can be hard to find our strengths when we've grown up in that kind of space where it's been constantly negative for us and you're bringing that negative, that trauma of the way you've been spoken to and treated into adulthood. And so I think it's good for us to raise this, these conversations around the ongoing narrative that can be in our head that we're not good enough or we're dumb or I can't do that because of my reading or writing or I can't go for that job because what if I find out I'm dyslexic? So I think that being able to have this conversation around how we can reduce some of those tendencies is really important. Yes. No. And so thank you, by the way, for raising that, you know, you're talking for yourself because that's what I'm doing as well. Whilst I have spent many years studying this and believe our habit stack will work for most, if not all, people and help them drive positive change in their lives, I can only speak for myself just as you can only speak for yourself. And, you know, I'm not sure whether I acknowledge this on the last episode, but, you know, my brother was dyslexic. He had inattentive ADHD. The cause and effect between that and depression and then suicide, you know, I'm not qualified to draw that line. However, you know, that's probably one of the reasons also why I'm excited to be here and talk to your audience, even though I cannot necessarily walk in their shoes. So, okay, so those are some problems we have, right? So how do we go about driving effective change in our own lives? And, you know, again, I want to call out one of the major issues I see almost every day in this kind of personal development self -help space is this whole go big or go home, you know, 10X your income, all that, excuse my French, fucking rubbish, basically, the world and then also ourselves when we are our own worst critics set the bar way too high. So you do not have to 10X your income. You do not have to run a marathon. You don't have to run an ultra marathon, even a half marathon or 10K. You don't have to do that. So one of the challenges I find is that when people are looking to improve, they set the bar way too high. And that concerns me as someone who's interested in, you know, positive mental health. So let's jump into what my co -founder Jeremy and myself discovered about three or four years ago now is that there's actually about kind of five habit types that many of the world's hyper successful and extraordinary icons, athletes and artists do. And for most of your audience, these will not come as a surprise. So we we discovered that there's five types of habits or activities that a lot of these hyper successful people do every day or focus on improving that allow them to be more content, healthier and happier. And the first one is meditation or some form of mindfulness. I'll borrow from Tim Ferriss, who, you know, has interviewed over 500 of the world's hyper successful people over the last probably decade on his podcast. And, you know, according to one article that I read, over 80 % of his audience do some form of meditation every day. Now, that can be one minute. Could be 10 minutes, half an hour an hour. Again, it depends on your situation and the individual. So meditation is the first one or some form of mindfulness. In addition, the next one is movement. So no surprise there. You know, most of us recognize that some form of physical activity will help our mental muscle as well as our physical muscles. I don't think, well, you can't see me, but Shay can see me. You know, my big guns, they're not very big, but I spend a lot of time focused on my mental muscle. And help by my physical activity and or movement. So we've got meditation, movement. The next one is eating smart. Again, we could talk about eating the rainbow. So kind of vary now what we consume. The fourth is sleeping well. So some of you will be aware of Arana Huffington and her book, The Sleep Revolution. There are many people that talk about the power of sleep. And what I just want to remind your audience with this is that usually you're sleeping for a third of your life. And that's because your body needs that rest and recuperation. So there's a whole lot of different things we can do to improve our sleep. So that's the fourth of these kind of habit types. The fifth one, and this is probably the one I like the most, is giving. So I'll circle this back to your comment about self -care. Because the first person you've got to give to is yourself. So this is about giving to yourself and others and supporting your community. And that is such a powerful... And you're doing it with this podcast and your other business show and your coaching business. And as you all know, and many of your audience that do volunteer, that give, that are trying to contribute to their community, you get far more than you have to give yourself. So that's the fifth habit is find a way to give firstly to yourself and then to others. So those are the five habits. Just quickly again, meditation, movement, eating smart, sleeping well, and giving. That's the first thing we discovered. If you can build routines and habits that involve those types of activities into your world, you're going to be healthier and happier faster than you may think. So they all seem like... Well, you're right. They're habits that we would all know. Why don't we stick to them? Yeah, well, that leads me to the second discovery. That was the first discovery. Well, and then the second discovery was, how do we make habits stick? And why is it so hard? And we relied on a number of experts, but probably the three most popular. I've mentioned BJ Fogg before. Many of your audience members will recognize the name James Clear and the book Atomic Habits. So you can recognize the theme here. Tiny habits, atomic habits. We call them micro habits. You can call them small habits. It doesn't matter what you call them, but we start with small habits. That's one of the techniques and I'll expand on that a little bit later. So we discovered with them... Also, there's a gentleman called Charles Duhigg. And he popularized the habit loop, which effectively is that there is a trigger or cue and then there is the routine or activity and then there's a reward. So usually something triggers us to do that routine. So maybe we're finishing our dinner and we're turning the TV on and that triggers us to, okay, it's ice cream time, right? And then we go to the fridge, you get the ice cream out, we eat the ice cream, tastes nice. It rewards us and we feel good for a little while at least. So that's that habit loop. And what we discovered after researching this for many months is that there are these tools called habit stacks. And ours is a 4 -step habit stacking tool that allows you to embed habits more quickly without relying on much effort, your motivation, and a few other things. So that was this second discovery and I'm happy to expand on what our habit stack looks like. Again, for your listeners, I believe we'll have like a habit stacking guide that you can download for no charge. You can have a look at that and that will help you build out your own habit stack. But perhaps I should pause now, Shay, before I jump into kind of how that looks and some of the logic behind how it's designed. But I'll pause now just in case you've got any observations, questions.
The Dan Bongino Show
James B. Comey: FBI Did Nothing Wrong in Trump Investigation
"Okay. Okay. Okay. Dan, you have ADHD. I know it's a problem. I get it. I know. I want you to listen to Comey's clip here, it was this pseudo fake apology. And then when asked at the end, he's like, Oh yeah, but I don't really think the FBI liked anything wrong. This is an agency full of like, integrity and fidelity and bravery. They were just caught making up and completely fabricating a case to spy on the listen to this. Check this out as for the Durham report, 300 pages, four years investigating the investigators. One of the things that did come out of it was that procedures, regular FBI procedures were ignored, that steps were missed along the way in this investigation. In fact, director Ray said when the report came out, yeah, we acknowledge that a couple of ago, years and we've changed all that, those changes are already in place. Do you acknowledge perhaps that some mistakes were made along the way? Oh, definitely. And they were found four years ago by the inspector general. So there's nothing new in this new document. What were some of those mistakes from your point of view? Oh, that the FBI didn't communicate clearly the status of certain sources. They double checked certain information before putting it in a court application for a foreign intelligence wiretap and a bunch of others. And so do you believe now as these, some of these politicians call for defunding of the FBI, that that has been corrected and that now the procedures are in place to avoid those kinds of mistakes in the future? I think so. But in complex investigations, there's always going to mistakes. be It doesn't mean the FBI is incompetent, honest, and independent. So director with some distance now from from your time there with that investigation and everything that came into that 2016 election. Are there things that you wish you had done differently? Oh, plenty. I mean, plenty of
Dear Dyslexic Podcast
A highlight from Episode 56 with Garth Robinson from Mindhabits
"Hello there, and welcome to the Dear Dyslexic podcast series brought to you by Rethink Dyslexia, the podcast where we're breaking barriers and doing things differently. I'm Shaye Wiesel, your host, and I'm so glad you can join us. I'm a fellow neurodivergent, and I'm coming from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, where I live and work, and I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to all the tribes across our beautiful country and to all First Nations people listening today. Our podcast was born in 2017 out of a need to give a voice to the stories and perspectives of adults with dyslexia, and our voice has grown stronger year after year. We're now a globally listened to podcast with guests from all around the world. Join us for insightful conversations about living with dyslexia and other neurodivergences across all walks of life. Our special focus is on adult education, employment, social and emotional well -being, and entrepreneurship. We're excited to be bringing you this episode and invite you to like and follow us, or even better, why not leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. So let's get started. Hello there, and welcome to this two -part podcast series. My guest today, Gareth Robinson, and I had so much to talk about that we had to create two episodes, so I really hope you can stick around for both of them. Gareth is a family man first and foremost, a coach, sales leader, startup founder, and mental health advocate. He brings 20 years of blue chip corporate experience and over five years of coaching and consulting to the party. So as you can tell, we had a lot to talk about. Gareth's professional and personal purpose overlap, as he does his bit to help people live better and organizations grow. He loves contributing to his community, shining a light on the importance of developing good mental health and redefining success. I asked Gareth to come onto the show today, as I was looking to talk to some other business owners, founders, dyslexics, who had experienced grief and loss. And I was seeking these conversations after losing my mum late last year. And I came across Gareth's videos. He's been creating a series called The Grief Train, following the loss of his brother. Gareth shares tips about how we can manage during times of stress, grief, and loss by implementing tiny habits that can really change our lives and help us manage during some of our toughest days. Before we get started, though, I must note that this episode contains sensitive discussions about not just grief and loss, but also suicide. It's including Gareth's experiences and my personal experiences and some of the mental health challenges. Well, today's conversation aims to promote understanding and to reduce stigma. We acknowledge that hearing about grief and particularly suicide can be triggering for some of you listening today. So please, if you find any of this content distressing, your wellbeing matters, and it is essential to prioritise your mental health above all else and consider seeking support. You can access Lifeline on 131114 or contact the Beyond Blue counsellor on 1300224636. I really hope you get as much out of this two -part series as I have done in implementing little habits to help me manage through some of my toughest and darkest days. I'm super excited to have on the show today, Gareth. Welcome to the show, Gareth. Thanks, Shay. I was doing some research recently following the passing of my mum to try and find people that I could talk to as a business owner around how we manage business and life when we're going through a traumatic time and whether it's grief and loss or something stressful has happened at work or you're not well or someone you're with is not well. I was struggling to find people that I could talk to about this topic. I came across Gareth's work on Instagram through the Grief Train. And so I followed Gareth and contacted him and he kindly said he would be happy to come and talk to me today about his story and how we manage life when we're going through traumatic events. So thank you so much, Gareth, for coming on the show today. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. Would you be able to give our listeners a little bit of a background about yourself and your work and how the Grief Train started? Sure. So firstly, I think I'm a pretty lucky guy. I was born into a middle class family in New Zealand. I now live in Sydney, Bondi's home. I'm very lucky to have a beautiful wife, two kids, 16 -year -old daughter and a 12 -year -old son. I have a roof over my head. I have a couple of jobs, which I'll talk a little bit more about later. So, you know, overall, I'm a really lucky guy. My story, I don't believe is particularly unique in that about six years ago I was made redundant. I'd spent 20 -plus years in corporate. And over the last five or six years, I've been on a few different journeys. One was to start a consultancy, failed at that. Second kind of work -based adventure was bootstrapped a startup with my brother -in -law around creating a community to support people. Launched an app with that. And again, to date, failed with that adventure. So from a work point of view, you could look at my last five, six years as an amazing adventure, perhaps not the most commercially successful. That's when I started MindHabit as a consultancy coaching business. Alongside that journey, in the last three years, I've also lost three people close to me to suicide. One was the best man at my wedding. One was a close childhood friend. And then the third person I lost to suicide, August 22nd last year, was my brother, my big brother Ben. So that probably brings us to why, you know, we've connected. And again, thanks for having me. And that's probably why I'm here, is that I've dealt with loss over the last few years, and in particular with my brother, who I was very close to. And yeah, so that probably some set up. Yeah, and I really connected when I was watching the Grief Train and such raw conversations. So early on in losing someone we love, it's really challenging to be so vulnerable in sharing our experiences, particularly the way you've been sharing yours through the Grief Train. But with your work, with Mindful Habits, we were talking about how do we keep going when we're in such a situation? And it could be we've lost someone or there's a variety of reasons where we could end up feeling grief and loss. And through the work you've done, what is some of the ways that we can look after ourselves, but still keep going during these difficult times? Yeah, it's a great question. And as with most things in life, it's very complex. And before I jump into my answer or answers, I do want to mention, so I'm not a qualified psychologist. However, in the last four or five years, in part through the Bootstrap startup, but also in my own journeys with mental health and working with and, you know, communicating and loving my brother over the last three years as he struggled with the Black Dog, I've invested a fair amount of time and money in understanding what makes people tick and how habits in particular can help us get through these difficult times. So I just wanted to kind of set the scene on that. The thing with habits is, as BJ Fogg will tell us, and he is the founder of Stanford University's Behavior Change Lab and the author of a book called Tiny Habits, as BJ will tell us, most of us have been using the wrong rulebook or instruction manual when it comes to embedding healthy new habits. It's a little bit like buying a bedside table from IKEA, as many of us have done, bringing it home, opening the box and suddenly finding, you know, the instruction manual for a dining table. It's not going to go very well for you. And that's an example of how many of us, including myself, up until a few years ago, how we viewed habits and, you know, shifting positively our routines in the wrong way. Before I jump into the kind of habit stuff that I would like to unload a little bit on, on just how we view time as well, because I feel like with most things, a lot of this is around mindset and how we listen or not listen to the voices in our head, which we all have. And obviously this ties back, my view on this is slightly biased or very much influenced by my experience with my brother and his battles with anxiety, depression over 18 years, and in particular the last three years. So if that's okay, Shay, can I talk a little bit about just different views of time? Yes, of course. And I think for our listeners, because they might be thinking, this is a bit of an unusual topic for me to be talking about on our show, but I just want to bring them back also to the fact around that not just in business and managing challenges, but also day -to -day people that are neurodiverse generally face higher rates of anxiety and depression and are likely higher rates of suicide or likely to attempt suicide. And so the reason I wanted to speak to Garrett today was we've got so many different topics we want to talk about, but part of it was around managing when we're in challenging times and the importance of having some habits and some structure to help support that. And I think I should have given that context to our listeners today because they'll be like, this isn't a dyslexic conversation, but we will be bringing it back around to dyslexia. So hold on to your hats while we unpack. So please, Garrett, go ahead. Yeah, no, that's a good, you can put it in the show notes, Shay. So, and by the way, this is something that Shay did not know when we first connected, but my brother was dyslexic and he was later in life diagnosed with inattentive ADHD. Okay, so yeah, as a side note. Well, okay, where to go with this? Right, just again, when I unpack that, because why I'm here in part is the loss of my brother, so obviously what I'm about to share did not help my brother. So, well, let me rephrase that. It helped, but it helped not enough in my eyes. So, you know, again, just want to call that out. But let's talk about our view of time and how that affects our mental health and helps us cope in moments of stress, whether that's loss of a loved one or simply just difficult times at home or at work. I want to talk about past, present and future. At a high level, how we view the past, present, future can affect our mental health, our happiness or how contented we are and how we deal with stress in our lives. So firstly, when we think about past, often people let their past define who they are today, and that can be a risk for all of us. Therefore, from what I've learned and what a lot of experts talk about is that you need to be a little bit conscious or conscious, I should say, of your past and ensure that certainly the negative events that you can no longer change don't define who you are today, recognizing that every day we have the opportunity to be a different person, to get a little bit better. So that's the past. The present is more around how we compare ourselves to others. And I can put my hand up. This is something that I've been challenged with as most, is that I compare myself to others, my commercial success, my health, a whole lot of things. Human beings, we compare ourselves to others. And the technique here that I want to talk a little bit about is comparing the right things. So rather than comparing that external material stuff, if you like, the house, the car, the holidays, the family, even as a parent, the ability to parent, we should really focus in on what I would call our core values and behaviors. And that's the stuff we should compare if we're going to compare anything. So I'm going to pause now just in case you have anything to add. Otherwise I can move from the past, the present onto the future. I think it's an important point around the past, because as someone with dyslexia, it's very easy for us to carry with us a trauma that we've experienced, particularly in school. And it's really hard for us to leave that trauma behind when we're moving into environments where we're in situations where we've got to read or write and may not be able to disclose. So it will be interesting to talk to you further about how we can move beyond some of that by using the techniques you're going to talk about today. Well, one of those techniques or tools is looking at those events in our past. And similar to the cognitive behavioral theorists, talk about reframing them. In particular, one of the issues of the past is you cannot control it because it's already happened. So if I talk a little bit about circles of control, which move us also into the future, a really nice technique and tool is to think about those circles of control, influence, and concern, and often the stresses that are amplified when we're dealing with loss or grief, or when perhaps you're a person. And again, we have some things maybe harder that someone who isn't would not expect to be difficult, perhaps that that everything just becomes harder. Therefore, understanding what we can control within that inner circle of control, which is often tied to our thoughts and feelings, and then what we can influence, which is the ring outside the inner, which is again, we can only influence some of those things. How our friends behave, our jobs, we can't always control them. Sometimes we can only influence in the situation we're in. And then outside of that is what people call the circle of concern. And when you think about it, the past and the future sit squarely in the circle of concern. We can't change what's happened in the past. We can only change our perception and all the narrative we tell ourselves around that. We can't actually change the future because it doesn't exist here. So I feel that view of time and, you know, certainly in my world around helping manage my stress levels and anxiety is trying to remind myself through visual and verbal cues to focus in the present, which many people talk about, to recognize from the past that it doesn't have to define who I am today. And part of that can also be letting go of even letting go of friendships, perhaps if they're not productive for you or certain environments that are not helping you change positively. And then future state, and for me personally, this is the hardest bit, is try not to stress about an event that hasn't happened yet. And I'll talk a little bit about kind of reverse engineering that shortly. But for now, perhaps I'll pause because I've been talking for a little while and see if Shae's got anything to add. There's lots of things going around my head because the reason I contacted you was around grief. And listening to you talk then, I had my dyslexic hat on of what happens to us as dyslexics. But then as you were just talking, I was always also thinking, you know, how do we, when we've been in a traumatic event like losing someone or losing our job or marriage breakdown, how do we kind of move out of that past? Because it's easy to get, and I know as being someone who's been divorced as well, it's easy to get caught up on, not caught up, but you're reflecting constantly on if you've lost someone or your relationship's broken down, you're in that state of the past a lot in your reflecting time or your grief. And so sometimes it's hard to be in the present when you've constantly got those thoughts going around your head. And again, I qualify that I'm not a psychologist, but I feel there are some actions or activities that we can take to perhaps if we are ruminating about anything, it doesn't have to be the past, there are small actions we can take that can try and perhaps break that rumination if you like. In addition, something my brother -in -law in fact shared with me is tries he and not always successfully to only take the baggage from his past with him that is adding value to him today. So that's a question we need to ask ourselves. Is that baggage or that event in the past and my reaction to it and response, is that helping me deal with my present day and future state? And I can only speak for myself, but I've found when I ask myself that question and analyse it a little bit, some of the baggage, some of the issues that I still have and are still concerns for me, it helps me because I realise that it's not actually helping me today and here and now to be concerned about that something that is outside my circle of control and influence and doesn't help me do anything better today or be more content or happier. So hopefully that makes sense. Yeah it does and it's a good way to frame it and also as you're talking about the circle of influence, we will have that diagram up for people that love visuals like myself. If you haven't heard of this concept before, it's one I love to use as well and we'll put a diagram up that kind of shows you how the flow works from the inner to the outer as well. I think reflecting on what you just said about how does that help me in the now is a positive way to reflect on what's going on. Yes and another, just to expand on that and we haven't even got into habits yet goodness, but another technique that I learned from the stoics that some of your listeners may have heard, you know stoicism has kind of regained popularity as a philosophy through many people. It's only one philosophy but there's some quite good techniques and in fact I mentioned cognitive behavioral theory earlier and quite a few people feel that kind of CBT is based on a lot of stoic principles from you know from thousands of years ago. Quite a few stoics talk about turning obstacles into opportunities and so you know that is something again for me language and just almost a mantra or a saying or something and I will write these on post -it notes. You know if you look at my home office I have probably seven or eight post -it notes with almost mantras and just reminders for me to remind myself when I'm stressed what is actually important to me and just to kind of again shift gears or get out of that in a dialogue with myself. Now sometimes like the loss of your beautiful big brother, that's a pretty big obstacle. So if I unpack that a little bit like how can I turn that into an opportunity and there are actually many ways that I can turn that into an opportunity. It's not an experience you'd wish anyone to go through but there are positives from the loss of my brother and they're small but they're there and one is the gift that he has given me and others and this is quite common to embrace life more fully. It's very common when we lose things whether it's a brother, a husband or a job you know you reset and so he has given me that gift. I believe his entity is still around in some form or another so my relationship has changed with my brother but I try and again I try and be more in the present. I try to enjoy life more fully because life can be short. So certainly back to that turning an obstacle into an opportunity, that's one opportunity. Another opportunity and this is where giving which is actually one of kind of a key pillar within Habits I believe is giving, volunteering, however you give and most of us do in some form or another, it's extremely valuable and so when you are dealing in the, can I swear on this? Yes of course mate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Chloe Cole Tells Her Story of Barely Escaping the Transgender Cult
"Welcome to the program. Chloe, remind our audience of your story and let's talk about the story at hand right now. Chloe is the floor is yours. Thank you for having me on, Charlie. I'm an 18 year old detroiter and former transgender child from the state of California and I transitioned socially starting at 12 and medically starting up 13 with puberty blockers and testosterone and I had a double mastectomy at 15. I stopped transitioning roughly about a year afterward at 16. And I've been speaking about my story since last year. Well, great. Well, thank you for sharing that. So Chloe, what is your current opinion? What should we know about, let's just say the drugs that are given to children or people that want to change genders, what it can do to you specifically, whether it be SSRIs or whether it be the generic is really called bupropion or the brand name. I believe it's called wellbutrin. I might be mispronouncing that. Some of the drugs that you were put on and yeah, and the drugs you were put on and the state of mind that you were in when you were prescribed these incredibly aggressive pharmacological agents. Right, so I was not only on blockers and testosterone, but I was also. On various other pharmaceutical drugs throughout my childhood, including wellbutrin, and I switched between various ADHD medications, including short form ones like Adderall and longer release ones like Concerta. And I had experienced negative effects from all of them and none of them had really helped with my actual psychiatric issues.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Arizona School Board Member Says No Teachers With Christian Values
"Okay, I want to play this piece of tape here from a school board member in Arizona. Do we know what school board it is? I want to get that. It's her name is quite something. Her name is tamiya Valencia. That's quite a name. I got to tell you. So tamia valence suela is on the governing board of the Washington elementary school district. And she has some very strong opinions. And so the Washington elementary school district is right in northwest Phoenix right near Glendale and right near Peoria. This is an extraordinary piece of tape. She first describes herself as bilingual, disabled, all right? This is a new one. I gotta be honest. I am pretty up to date on all the new labels of the left. Neuro divergent, anybody? That's a new one. She's a neuro divergent queer black Latina. Oh, is that another way of saying she has ADHD or autistic? I've never heard that word used in that way. Okay. Well, I wish the best for her. So she's bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent, queer, black, Latina. That's her title, right? Oppression Olympics look at me, look at my metals. Look at all these different things I have. And there's other labels too that I think I might give her after the tape. So effectively, the Washington elementary school district in Phoenix, which serves students in Phoenix and Glendale areas had an ongoing contract with Arizona Christian university, ACU, great school for 5 years, enabling their students. Their student teachers to be placed in its schools for field experience. The contract opened up opportunities for recruitment and hiring. On February 23rd, the board of green on a motion to dissolve the partnership with the Christian university, they did not immediately respond to a question, request for comment on whether they would buy bicyclist Christian beliefs, but listen to her. Again, this is tamiya valenzuela, who is the bilingual disabled neurodivergent queer black Latina who is serving on your school board in suburban Phoenix, play cut one 14. Oh by the way, she wears cat ears, play cut one 14. Part of the their values is influence engage in transform the culture with truth by promoting the biblically informed values that are foundational to western civilization. I want to know, I'll bring you people from an institution that is ingrained in their values. That will very directly one impact three of your board members who are a part of the LGBTQ community, where we only performing performative, solidarity, or are we going to dig deep and actually look at the partnerships that we're doing.
The Spiritual EFT Tapping Podcast
"adhd" Discussed on The Spiritual EFT Tapping Podcast
"And you've got floor seats, which are like standing room only, and maybe people are bumping around and everything else and you're enjoying the show, but you don't really have the full picture. And I feel like when I do a round of EFT, I go from like that mosh pit vibe. Yes, I grew up in the 90s. And elevate up to nosebleed seats, where you can see everything. It's calm, it's peaceful, it sounds a little different up there. It's like you can really get clear. And that's kind of what it feels like to me when I do a round of EFT. Like I'm just kind of like up and just like, I can see it all now. It makes sense. I know I need to do next. I feel better grounded and I'm ready to go. Yeah, same with me. Have you, do you feel like as a person you always kind of struggled with regulating yourself? Because I know you said you found it like later in life. But do you think that's a struggle you've always had and then now it's kind of like, oh, this helps me kind of move past that. Yeah, I don't know that I really understood what being dysregulated was. You know? And all those ways that I was perhaps showing up dysregulated or a little bit more hyperactive or unfocused or whatever. And it wasn't until I really learned to regulate that I could recognize more of like even like my ADHD, my high functioning anxiety, the actual anxiety, all of that stuff. It was like, oh, okay. Now I can feel the difference of the other side, and now it makes sense to me all the ways that I had been holding myself back by not doing anything about it all those years. Yeah, I think that's so true for a lot of people. I mean, for myself, included, because I mean, the way that I grew up, like the childhood I had was very chaotic and all over the place.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"adhd" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"Obvious that there are certain foods that help your brain perform better. Well, exercise is brain specific. I mean, there is a ton of research to back up. How effective exercise is in that exercise is actually more beneficial than anti anxiety medication and antidepressant medication. So that's and I'm happy to do it. Right, see but that's how I grew to be an exercise person because I was so terrified because I have an addicted brain. So I'm so terrified to take those medications because my brain internalizes those medications in a very different way than a non addicted person. So, and listen, plenty of people take those medications and they're fine. And medication definitely has its place. I am probably not one of those people and I'm not going to poke the bear if I don't have to. Yeah. Totally. So I think this is a really perfect place for me to say that the research does show that people with ADHD are two to three times more likely to struggle with substance use disorders. So I think that's really, really important for everyone to understand. We are predisposed to be addicts. We really are in so many ways. And so many ways. So many ways. And so especially now with the digital world. It's just magnified now. Yes. 100%. There hasn't been research on adults that I know of. But the research shows that if you are treated for ADHD as a child or an adolescent, it actually lowers the risk of becoming an addict. I love that. I love that statistic. Yeah. It also, there's research to show that something like 20% of people incarcerated today have ADHD. So when you think about all of the implications of ADHD, the decision to medicate or not Medicaid needs to be taken really seriously. And I love that you've thought it through. You're like, I absolutely know how I'm going to treat it and it's not going to be with medication. I think that's very respectable. I think also if you go if you are seeing a Doctor Who understands addiction and understands ADHD and they tell you if the doctor themselves tells you, I think that this would be actually more beneficial for you to take it. I just want to empower anyone listening that if that's the right decision for you, that is okay. So I will do that too. If I continue what I'm doing now, if I continue this path and my symptoms of ADHD continue to be what they've become, I can not go on that way, right? So if I don't have some improvement, I will definitely be trying something else. I love that you said a doctor that knows addiction and knows ADHD 'cause I think that's a unicorn. I don't think that is a really I don't think that's a real person. It would be nice, but I don't think that's a real person. Could you specialize in addiction and ADHD, please? That would be great. Yeah. And start a podcast and a YouTube channel and call me to collaborate because I've got lots of work for you. I love it. Well, thank you again for coming on and doing this with me. What a great conversation. I think there's been so much value here and especially sharing personal experience that's always so much more impactful. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. You've reached the end of another great episode of the addiction unlimited podcast. Candid and honest conversation about addiction and recovery. Be sure to visit us at addiction unlimited dot com to join the conversation. And access show notes and links to everything we talked about. Love this episode, please take 30 seconds to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes to help us improve and give you the information you want. Thanks for listening. See you next week.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"adhd" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"And then there were other things that I didn't have any idea where ADHD that shocked me. And I also had all of those. So I think where I would love to start is what are some of the most common symptoms behaviors that everybody knows and is aware of, and then what are some of the less common symptoms that maybe people aren't equating with ADHD? Love. Yeah, so I think that right now there's a really big shift in our culture moving from the stigma or the stereotype is what I mean of ADHD just being for 11 year old white boys is essentially what like everybody thinks about, right? Like when you, when you hear the term ADHD, we picture a little white boy in a classroom kind of bouncing off the walls, or we all had that one classmate that just couldn't keep their hands to themselves or like we're always getting in trouble. And that's what we associate with ADHD. And so when you're a, you know, a grown woman who's just kind of like hanging out on TikTok being assaulted by all of this information. You're just like, excuse me, what? I had no idea. And I think that a lot of people, especially women, are kind of waking up to this knowledge of ADHD and so while not everyone on TikTok is an expert and not everyone on TikTok is a friend. It is still really a good thing that all of that information is out there readily available to the public. So things that are considered symptoms of ADHD would be impulsivity. So not having a stop and think moment before you take action or before you say something. So you interrupt people a lot, you make rash decisions, you jump to conclusions, you have a lot of difficulty with patience and waiting your turn. Being distractible is obviously another one that is right up there in our level of consciousness. So like impulsivity, I think most people would associate that with ADHD. And then distractibility as well. So what's interesting about this though is most people most people associate the distractibility as a deficit of attention. And I just want to take just a little pause here and say, it's not actually that we don't have enough attention. We just struggle to regulate our attention. We have just as much attention as everybody else. We just have trouble putting it on the right thing for long enough to accomplish the goal, okay? So I think that's an important note there. Things that might be lesser known, you know, we have fewer dopamine receptors. And so I think this is really pertinent to our conversation today. So dopamine is a neurotransmitter, and we have fewer dopamine receptors, meaning essentially, like our brain gets less dopamine than the average typical brain. Which means things like laundry and dishes, they can really feel like death. It's not just that we are lazy or that we just don't feel like doing the laundry of the dishes or whatever it is. It's like, we have an actual physical reaction because we don't have the dopamine that the average human does. And so we don't get those little hits of like, oh, this is going to feel so good when it's done. We have to consciously create that four ourselves, which is something that can be done through therapy and coaching. But that is a very important part. And just decide note here, when we do talk about just like the timing of your diagnosis, estrogen is also a neurotransmitter. I never knew this. I just had a podcast interview in the spring with doctor Patricia Quinn, who explains me that estrogen is a neurotransmitter. And so when your estrogen levels drop, your ADHD symptoms increase a ton. And so it makes sense a lot of women are diagnosed in their mid life when they're starting perimenopause or going through menopause because of the lower levels of estrogen, the heightened ADHD symptoms are now not being able to be managed. That was just a ravager. I'm going to hop back on here. Now, it's, I love that you say that you don't like the word hyperactive, it's very cute. I understand. It's adorable, but it doesn't feel cute. It's rocky. Okay, so for people who even have inattentive type of ADHD, which is the more like Spacey kind of like not able to pay attention type of ADHD, there is still a level of hyperactivity, but the hyperactivity happens in our brain. The hyperactivity is the spinning of the brain, the constant intrusion of thoughts. The never ending barrage of like, maybe I should do this. Maybe I should do this. I'm not sure what this is. I don't know. And just like the spin cycle inside of the brain, that's where the hyperactivity often takes place and because we who are because women are so socialized to be pleasers and to be rule followers, most women with ADHD internalize so much of that hyperactivity. So I am actually like physically hyperactive. I did not have the ability to internalize all of it. I was bouncing off the walls. I was jumping around. I was always knocking things over and just being really, I was a lot. It was a lot. And but most of the time, if you're not super hyperactive, you're going to internalize it and it's going to be an internalizing of an internal hyperactivity, which I think is absolutely fascinating. And it makes perfect sense. When you set it to me like that, that makes perfect sense. I'm like, yes, that's exactly who my brain is. Like it's sheer madness. My brain moves so fast. Totally. 24 hours a day, and yeah, it is really
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"Like if the aliens came down, like I'm not even a believer, but if aliens came down, like, oh, makes sense. Like, I'm just always like, yep, that's what you want. The aliens come or are you in the camp of aliens don't show up? If I had to pick one, I'd be for it, just for like a different change up. It might unite the world and do a little bit better where we have to fight these things off. So it might be actually to our benefit. We got some aliens attacking us. But they must have left like 10 billion years ago because it takes forever to get here. So they still be that mad when they get here? I hope not. I want like super chill aliens, like the stoner aliens to show up. Those would be my aliens. I kind of like the Mars attacks aliens because they're like my height and then you can just start square and I'll put them like the Men in Black aliens. It's like zombies. It's like if zombies run, I'm just gonna lay on my back and wait until they get me. I'm not doing cardio for the rest of my life. No, no, I'm dead immediately, for sure. Also, shoot me. Just shoot me. If I become a zombie, it's not me anymore. Just kill me. It's fine. Yeah. Take my head as a trophy. I don't care. Just take me out. For sure, absolutely. Running like a mile every two seconds, so these zombies are booking it and they don't even I'm a smoker. My lugs would give out. I'm done. If it was me and you, I'd push you right to the ground first to get some extra stuff. Yeah. These are the worst. Oh, it would be over so fast. And then just roll credits. You'll be over so fast. So anyway, back to ADHD. Yeah, that's like, this conversation is pure ADHD. Unfiltered raw ADHD. Yeah, which is great, 'cause that's kind of the point so that's awesome..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"Perfect, perfect. And this week we're talking about our relationship with ADD and ADHD. So I guess let's just dive in. Did you figure out that you had this? Or did it did somebody tell you, how was that? Oh, I think at an early age, I think they must have known I had it. Being 36, I think back then, it was just like, oh, he's just being a boy. He's just being like that. But come high school is one of my friends will like, you definitely have ADD and which is now ADHD. And it's funny because looking back, I definitely had it. I didn't care about school. I was not interested. I'd always be looking around. I was like, chasing girls, not caring about anything. And then once they, once they said I had it, I go, oh yeah, I know. I've been waiting to get like just medication. And I wish I wish I got at the age of 18 instead of 34. And I probably would have stayed in school. So stay in school kids. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, I very recently. So I'm 28. I'll be 29 and April. And I very recently got a diagnosis of ADHD. And on medication, I take Adderall for it and it's like a miracle. It was one of those things where it was like, if I had had this when I was in high school, everything would have been different. Totally different. And for a little while there, I was a little bit pissed that nobody said anything and that nothing was ever done about it. I still carry a little bit of animosity about it. Do you have any of that? What are your feelings? Not really, because I think it made me who I am today with having it. It was definitely delayed. It would have been cool to have an earlier like that. Would have made so much more sense to get the help back then. But I think with our ages, it's tough back then. I know you're not that much younger than me, but I feel like it's getting better now in a way, but there's still kind of some gray areas because some people can't abuse it. Some people don't abuse it. Some people use it for the wrong reasons, but yeah, I'm.
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"It's kind of fun though to like learn about it. A little bit. I like that part. I don't really mind that part. The learning part. Yeah, that part doesn't bother me very much. And I know I can do it. I'll figure it out. I don't know. We'll figure it out together. It'll be fine. What else? Am I afraid of what this? I feel like this whole episode is like, it's fine, because the episode is about ADHD. So maybe give you a little bit of a peek behind the curtain there. Sorry, my voice is all gross now because I started crying. Goodness. See, and that's what I mean kind of like by emotional regulation. I wasn't able to. Like do that before. If that makes sense, like I wasn't really able to, I wasn't able to do that before. And I think that's good that I'm figuring that part out. Difficult to learn how to do. Especially when you feel things like the way that I do. Not that it's like special or anything because I do think that everybody feels things in varying degrees. And so, you know. Like for some people, it seems like even for myself, it seems a little bit ridiculous that I started crying there in earlier and that's okay because it was kind of ridiculous. And just what I mean by that is that it's not that bad. I will figure it out. I'm not doing this by myself. It's going to be hard. Yeah, it's going to be difficult and I'm going to have to be teachable, which I've never been very good at as being teachable. I have to teach myself. That's why I have to teach myself is because I've never been very good at just being teachable. I'm working on it. We're figuring that part out too. See, all these things I got to figure out. And that's why it's like, oh, now the list is just like so much longer. Just add that one more thing to the list. And it's. Yeah, it's just a whole situation..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"That's part of having ADHD and it's like, oh, yeah, the medication that I'm on a pretty low dose of Adderall. They put me on a very low dose of federal. I don't hold on just a second. I think it is, oh, here we go. I just have the bottle in front of me. It is. Shouldn't it tell me? It should tell me. How much? Oh, 15 milligrams. Of the extended release. Of Adderall that I am on, and yeah, it turns out that medication, I forget that I take the medication too to be perfectly honest. I did that today. I was like, okay, so I have to take this, I have to take this medication. Okay. And so I took it. I did take it. And then literally like 30 minutes later, I was like, did I take that? Oh my gosh, did I take that medication? And then I had to go and count them to make sure that I took them. Because I don't want to I definitely don't want to overdo it. I don't want to take another one if I didn't. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. That would be just way too much. I'd be awake forever, and I already have insomnia. So that's not that would not be helpful. And so it's just like little things like that. That I didn't even realize were part of having ADHD, and I don't know. There are things like that that I don't know how I feel about it. And it does make me angry sometimes because sometimes stuff like that, will make me angry because I will, I will be like, well, if I had known all of this sooner than. I could have been working on this, I could have, I could have been really working on this for a while and figuring out what I need to do to manage this. And as you can tell, I'm not over it. I'm just simply not over it. And I don't know when I'm going to get over it. Eventually, I hope I just. Little things. Things like that, like brushing my teeth, or my taking my meds, or. Realizing that. I make things called doom boxes. And they're not really doom boxes. I'm more have doom piles..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"Because that's the part where it's like I don't even know where to begin. I don't really know where to start. With my diagnosis, other than just reading materials and articles and scientific papers and those kinds of things. It's just. With the ADHD. I tend to latch on to one idea and then I get, but then so once I latch onto this one idea, I want to understand everything about that one idea. Unfortunately, that one idea generally is comprised of a bunch of other ideas that are older and that means that I have to do more research, which means I get very distracted by that other research, and then I have to go back and forth and back and forth. Yeah, it's a whole thing. But we're learning. We're figuring it out. We're getting there. It's a, like I said. It's a slow process for me. It's. You know. I. Thought that I would feel lonely. Which is weird. I don't know why I thought that. I think that a lot of that stems from.
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"It's still would be alive, though, if I said that those thoughts didn't occur to me. Because they have, and you know, I don't know. I just simply don't know what would have happened. What could have happened? What should have happened? All I know is that I got diagnosed with ADHD and when I was diagnosed, I felt a certain type of way. And there was a lot of anger. And frustration when I was diagnosed, there was relief, there was relief and validation. That occurred as well, but there was so much frustration and. I can't say that I've completely let all of that go. Just yet, I'm not fully in a place of acceptance with that yet. And mainly, but I am kind of excited about it. I am kind of, you know, there is a little bit of what are the possibilities. Now, kind of a thing. And so that's a little bit exciting. Excuse me, you know, so that's kind of exciting. I don't know. I. Am excited for the future and to see what it holds. Now that I have, I feel like I have a better grip on it. It's just I'm taking it slow. I'm taking it sort of at a snail's pace. Because that's what I need to do right now, I think, is take it as slow as humanly possible. As slow as I can manage it and that kind of thing, because it is new to me. And I'm still learning about it. I have absolutely no idea, you know. I've got zero clue. About. What this means, I'm still learning, I just, and we talk about this a little bit next week. In the episode next week, about ADHD. With Tim from the 22 minutes show, I'm really excited for you guys to listen to that interview. But he's telling me about something that I had no knowledge of. It's called pressured speech..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"There was, though, and it would be alive, I didn't say this part too. There was a part of it that, you know. Was validating. Because ever since that drug dealer told me that it had always been sort of a creeping suspicion in my mind. It had been, it had always kind of like hung in the back of my mind as maybe you do. Maybe you have this. Do not ask me why I took the word of a drug dealer. Over. A physician or whatever or a psychologist, but I did, and I don't know why that specific conversation stuck with me, but it did. And so there was always this sort of creeping suspicion that I had that maybe I do have ADHD. Maybe I do have something like maybe it's not just anxiety and depression that I'm suffering from. Maybe it's maybe I do have some form of ADHD too. And so when I got the diagnosis, there was a part of me that was like ha ha, like I fucking knew it. And then that I fucking knew it turned into I'm fucking furious because I knew this for so long and nothing had been done about it. And I didn't feel like I had been taken seriously. And. That was. That was hard for me to come to grips with. Especially when we're talking about years and years of my life where it's like, well, what could have happened if I had been treated for this? Earlier, not necessarily, I'm not saying that I needed to be treated for this when I was 5 or 6 years old. I'm saying like, what would have happened if I had been treated for this? Even when I was in college, what if I had known? Because I haven't finished college yet. I'm actually going to go back to school in the fall and a lot of that stems with stems from the fact that I think. Not only do I think but I feel like I have a better understanding and a better grip. And a more stable situation where I can actually be able to do what I need to do. And I and I don't know what my life would have been like if I had been treated earlier. Would I have been able to finish school earlier? Would I have been able to focus more? Would I have been all these what ifs, all these should have with us? And I know it does no good to sort of look back and see because there's no way to see. There's no way to know any of those things and sort of the past is the past and you can't change it. All you can do is what you can do now with what you have kind of a thing..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"I remember thinking, and this probably has a lot to do with how I was raised. And I even remember there was an incident where I said something. To one of my parents, and I was like, I think I have ADHD. I probably didn't say it that nicely. I most certainly did not say it that nicely. I think it was more of a demand where it was like I have ADHD and I need this. I think you know what? That's probably what it was. It was more of a. Why are you acting like this kind of a thing? And I used it as an excuse, and I was like, I have ADHD, and I remember my parent being like, no, you don't. You do not have ADHD, stop it with that. And probably rightly so, they said that because I probably was acting crazy or whatever. And. But that was sort of the attitude that I grew up with. It depression and anxiety were different, but something like ADHD was very much like no. You do not have ADHD. You're fine. That's for people with severe. Basically, it had to be super severe. In order to be recognized if that makes sense. And. Yeah. I think I'm just now sort of realizing that, yeah, it had to be super severe in order for it to be recognized sort of within our my little cohesive groups that grew up in, and because that wasn't just the sentiment of my family. That was the sentiment of everybody, my Friends, their parents, it was like a hive mind collection of. That was just the way that it was. I mean, these are also the same people where it was like, if you're not bleeding, barfing or dead, then you're fine. And if you are bleeding or barfing, it better be in copious quantities..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"adhd" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"What's up weirdos? Hey, yo, me? Shit. I got me a little something rolled, the lights are low and we're about to chop it up with Abigail on a manic pixie weirdo podcast. Okay, okay. A safe space for weirdos of all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds to relax and speak their piece. So grab your glass of wine and grasp the chief as I get off the mic so the main weirdo can speak. Peace. Peace God. What is up weirdos? You're listening to the manic pixie weirdo. I'm Abigail your host, and this is the podcast where we talk about all the different kinds of relationships that we have in our lives. And this week we're talking about my relationship with my ADHD. Yeah, so I guess I'm just going to start at the beginning. And go from there. So I very, very recently, like within the last year, got diagnosed with ADHD. Now, I had always kind of had my suspicions about, you know, having ADHD, and I think, okay, so honesty time. My first clue that I had ADHD was actually when I was using drugs. And I needed something to help me because my thing was downers. But I needed something I had never tried uppers before, and but I needed something to balance me out and get me back up. This was sort of just the experience that I had. And somebody gave me an Adderall and I, so I took it and, you know, it turned out that I was able to actually get stuff done. I didn't like the feeling, like the physical feeling of it because it made me very jittery. It made me very. Shaky, I don't know how much the milligram was. But probably much too high for what I needed. What I actually needed. And I was just very shaky, and I couldn't and very restless, couldn't keep my body still, but I was very focused. Very able to focus on my things that I needed to get done, especially since I had a test that I needed to do really well.
She Podcasts
"adhd" Discussed on She Podcasts
"It's got a lot of really great actionable things. Or if you are living with an ADHD person, it's also really awesome for you to learn what's going on with their little brains with their little brains. I just subscribed. I want to listen to this. Yeah, yeah, it's really cool. And it's great because those shows that I like with those, I just look at the titles and I'm like, what am I in the mood to listen? What kind of conversation do I want to listen to? And I love it when it's topic driven, which is not what our show is. Our show does not have what his show is. Meaning, I went in and I was like, I want to know about caffeine. I want to know about therapy with kids. It's very specific. And I love that. So, any who? That was that. A good resource. A good resource. All right, speaking of resources, speaking of resources, multi mount. Oh, yeah, so do you want to do some tool tips?.
"You're In Charge: Conversation that Spark Change" with Glenn Pasch
"adhd" Discussed on "You're In Charge: Conversation that Spark Change" with Glenn Pasch
"When you hear the word or the letters ADHD, what comes to mind? I know that there are a lot of people who suffer with this and are diagnosed with this. And they struggle. I know that one of my sons has a slight case of this, and he does have some challenges, but overall he's just moving through the world and I couldn't be more proud of him. But what if you thought about it differently? What if you thought having ADHD was a superpower that could actually help you if you understood it and harnessed it? Well, that's the conversation that I'm having in this power episode with Brian fanzo. For many, he is truly successful. International speaker, well-known content creator, business owner, social media expert. I mean, you look at his life and you'd say, wow. But when he shared his journey and how this has led him to be more productive once he understood it, I think this is such an impactful episode to help so many. So let's dive into this power episode of you're in charge conversations at spark change with the one and only Brian fanzo. You.
ON BOYS Podcast
"adhd" Discussed on ON BOYS Podcast
"They can see that. So we just we dial it back to what works for all of us. I like that. You pointed that out because Sometimes we parents and I think Mom's, especially agree with me, maybe your or not data, you know, we this is what our kid needs. So this is what I will do without necessarily considering our own capability and our own needs. So you know, if that Rewards program didn't work for you, it's not going to work for your family. Yeah. The best therapist that we've had recognized my ADHD in terms of parenting my kids, you know, I had one therapist who gave us a sheet of, here's what you're supposed to do with. Like here are the ways to handle these behaviors and I'm like, I feel like a familiar cuz I can't do it versus the other doctors. Like you have this approach, I'm gonna give you. Yeah, that's, that's not going to work. Let's talk about you and how this can work with your family. And, you know, I would say that any listeners of yours that have kids with ADHD, make sure that the doctor you're working with like really get to you and it's like looking at the whole family. That's cold. That is really gold because whether you have ADHD or you don't or your parenting partner, does whatever your stuff is and we all have it. We've talked about that before. It affects what you can and can't do on any given day. And especially, you know, going forward parenting long-term, you alluded before that. You know, this is a work in progress and I think that is such an important point to stress as well. There aren't any easy answers or quick fixes for any of this in terms of getting your kids up and ready and out the door for whatever it is, doctors appointments, childcare school. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm coming up with some kind of structure or routine that works for school or homework, takes a while. Getting kids to contribute at home chores..
ON BOYS Podcast
"adhd" Discussed on ON BOYS Podcast
"So get to be here, it's fun to be dead. On a podcast. That's not my own. All right. Tell us about your specific brand of chaos. What is your family like home? So, I have two, boys, eight, and twelve. And I guess when my, my second one, and when he was about three weeks old, he started crying and it really never stopped took. We, we thought it was colic and it kind of knows what everybody says it's colic. He's going to grow out of it. We went to all these gastrointestinologist sand. All these doctors trying to figure it out and then he wasn't talking by the time he was two and a wonderful teacher said to me, you know, you may want to get him evaluated and we went to an early intervention and local one. And I thought they said, yeah, it's something's going on here and it was like this huge relief of like I'm not crazy. And that kind of put us on the path of him, that we knew something was different, his behaved. He just had extreme behaviors and by the time he was for a doctor looked at him and said, it's ADHD, it's pretty clear, which is a very early diagnosis and they said to me, you're going to want to medicate. So we we're on a path with him. We had doctors and therapists and we were on it, I was still very, very difficult me. And while we had our older child who's four years older and he completely different, and there was one day, I was reading a book about ADHD about my younger son for my younger son and I'm reading this ten signs of ADHD like huh? Wow this kind of sound. This looks like my older son, who just doesn't have a lot of focus. Misses social cues things like that, showed it to my husband. He looked at my son, my older son and said I think this is him to. I've got us on the path for him who was diagnosed when he was dead. Nine. We have one who's extreme Behavior. Who's just loud? And takes up all the space in the room and the other one who lacks focus and can just walk, you know, it's very inattentive. So it makes for fun times in our house where we're sitting around, trying to get them out the door, trying to create structure to support them when they're trying to push all those boundaries..
Psychologists Off The Clock
"adhd" Discussed on Psychologists Off The Clock
"Own. It if you're a teen and you're an adult with adhd This is you like being diabetic own it and once you own it there is a freedom to accept yourself for who you are and this is part of me and my baggage and what i have to. You know to tote around just like you know. I'm going bald. And i'm colorblind. And i'm not good at sports and i actually challenged. I can't hang wallpaper. And god knows you wouldn't want me to do any artwork for you but know we. We all have our pattern profile of strengths and weaknesses. And there's nothing wrong with owning that in fact like you said it's very liberating because now can get on with life you know and this is who i am. I like who i am. So part of to me is the ownership of this. When it comes to being a parent it means that you have to understand that you were given at birth due to no fault of your own this very unique genetic combination of traits part of which involves adhd. And here we are. This is the lamb. You've got and so i tell parents in principle number one in my book is that you are a shepherd you are shepherd to a unique child with a certain set of traits and aptitudes and guidance they will blossom. But you're not gonna turn them into a cat or a dog. They're you know this is what you have and so you have this. Adhd child at birth. Or i think parents have to do that. We talk about is get over this stop yearning and longing for their child. You thought you were going to get when you were pregnant and prepared for and instead open your eyes be in the moment and accept this child that you have for all of their strengths and weaknesses and difficulties. Because if you don't get past that you're going to be grieving for years and you're going to be causing conflict between you and your child because your expectations are your child..