The “lived experience” of ADHD as motivation to help others deal with it.

05/07/24 • 58 min

If anyone had doubts about whether my guest or I have ADHD, in this episode of ADHD Focus we provided decisive proof that indeed we do. In a wide-ranging discussion we touched on girls/women with ADHD, student struggles with ADHD, the shame experienced by women with ADHD due to impossible-to-meet societal expectations of a woman, a housewife, a mother, and a person with a business – in any combination of those roles. And probably more...(I was in the moment, not taking (detailed) notes).

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Pippa Simou has “lived experience” as the mother of an ADHD child and a woman surprised by her own “late diagnosis” of ADHD as an adult. The desire to help her son cope with his ADHD in every way possible led her to in-depth reading and inquiry about ADHD. She changed careers after teaching for 20 years to one of training teachers about ADHD and coaching other parents with ADHD children, after returning to school to get her Masters in Psychology degree. She is a coaching psychologist in London (yes, the London, the city in the UK), a coach/trainer, and is developing a unique program for mentoring young teen girls with ADHD, to “give them hope, to be the voice I wish I had heard”.

She is actively pursuing grants to fund research in ”proof of concept” for her mentoring program, the concept being that mentoring can prevent the painful “lived experience” girls with undiagnosed ADHD so commonly go through. [ If you have access to funds for this research, or know someone who does, please contact Pippa! ]

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Brent Newton of myOwl

Do you:

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flounder in the maze of school apps and programs simply to find your child’s assignments, or where to turn them in, or how they are doing in the class?
Have heated discussions about missing assignments which leave both of you upset, frustrated, and hurt?
Watch your child become overwhelmed, frustrated, anxious, or depressed struggling every day with this mess, or worse, just give up on school?

You need to hear and/or watch this show!! A solution is at hand!

Brent Newton is CEO and co-founder, along with his 12 year-old daughter, of myOwl, a program which integrates all apps and programs used by a school into one easy-access point which shows all assignments in all classes on the same page.

myOwl does all of this:

ALL classes on one dashboard;
Daily progress tracker on all assignments due that day;
Rewards for completing/submitting assignments, these can be redeemed for stickers and avatars to customize the Dashboard;
Parent view includes ALL of your children, see the Dashboard for each one from one login;
Teachers continue using the same apps and programs they use now;
And more coming!

Join us to discover a major advancement in making schools family-friendly online! Listen and learn!

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Finish homework on time and stress-free? For real? Use studyzen™

Which assignment do I work on now? Which is more important? When is that one due? These are questions every High School and college student has to answer every day. What if there was an app that consolidated all of those answers into a single list “do these today” and completing that daily list resulted in all assignments done by the due date, even long-range ones? AND it included other activities like sports, clubs, family time!

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Thanks to Nathan Hanamaika’i, that app exists! While in grad school Dr. Nate had to figure out how to complete his doctoral studies, job tasks, home chores and include personal and family time with his wife and four children. He made a spreadsheet then combined it with a calendar of due dates. As he learned more about ADHD and the challenges students have with time management, he refined his system into a composite of all the activities and tasks to be done over the coming few months for school, job, rest/restore time, personal time, exercise, and whatever else, then distilled that into day-by-day segments. Just do everything on the list for that day and due dates will be met, appointments kept, family time enjoyed!

Studyzen personalizes that for each student, using input from student, parents, school and class schedules/assignments to create the daily task set unique for the needs of the student. No more worrying about which of 5 things to do first, or at all that day! Assignments, sports, clubs, refresh time – it is possible to track it and get it done step by step.

Studyzen is available at trystudyzen.com. Download iOS or Android version. Go for it!

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