Manifest Your Goals with Abbie Schiller

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Hello, hello. Welcome to Beyond ADHD, a Physician's Perspective. I am Dr. Deanna Medo Marm. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my adhd, but I now see it as a gift that helps me show up as the person I was always meant to be. Both in my work and in my personal life.

In the past two years, I've come to realize, That unlearning some of my beliefs and some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills. Well, hello. Hello. I am so excited today. Uh, I can't believe it's. Episode 51. It, it's crazy how you do things and you forget you're doing things and all of a sudden you get almost close to like a year of doing things.

So with that in mind, uh, I've had a couple of crazy weeks, um, the three sessions or. Workshops in the last six weeks and now I'm super excited to tell you that I have my physician retreat that's gonna happen in Costa Rica. Uh, yes. So it's May 1st through the sixth, so I will put all the information later on, but.

It's gonna be really fun retreat because you get to go have fun and get CME and it's gonna be divine half a day workshop at the actual place, and then the rest of the day you get to play. So, and of course at the end of the day, we have to do the coaching so we can reflect, so we can implement everything that we're learning.

So today I have an amazing, uh, treat for you. It's one of my good friends and, uh, Abby. Shiller and I might messed that up. And so she's gonna introduce herself and tell us all the wonderful things that she's up

Abbie Shiller: to. Hi, I, first of all, I wanna go on that retreat I honeymooned in Costa Rican. It's amazing.

And then did, gimme a break. Give me a break. .

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: You know, we went for our first year, uh, for, for, for honeymoon, right. And then, uh, we went at 11 years for like to celebrate like in September. I was like, before they tell me that Monkeypox is a, a thing and I can't leave the country. Right. So Costa Rica's

Abbie Shiller: awesome.

Yes, indeed. I, I, everybody who goes on that retreat is gonna be, have the best time. Yes. Um, okay, so I'm Abby Schiller. I am a goal coach. I help, uh, women transform their lives from one change to another. I help them reinvent. I help them grow businesses. I help them love parenting more. I am also the CEO and co-founder of the Mother company, which is.

Has a, it's a media company for young children and we have, um, the mission of helping parents raise good people. So I've co-authored 12 children's books and I have, um, a TV series that I created and, uh, just really grown a media company for children.

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Awesome. Yeah. And tell me, how did you get into that?

Abbie Shiller: You know, I was a mo so my career actually was in brand strategy and public relations.

I had been the head of PR for Keels, which is a skincare company, and after that I went to become the head of PR for ABC daytime television. So I was the one telling Barbara Walters for the View, like how to manage crises, um, which is a hilarious chapter in my life. Um, and an honor to work with such a. Um, and I kept thinking, I, so I had a real view of what was happening and at that time, baby Einstein had just launched and then sold to Disney for like 180 million.

And I was like, these are videos of toys for babies, and I could do this so much better. And there hadn't been any television to really help children with the issues that I needed. To help my children with, which were, you know, sharing and communication and expressing your feelings and becoming a good friend.

And really the only option at the time, and this really dates me, was Barney and I hated it. Yeah. And I thought for a generation of women who are reshaping stores like Target, so that they're like, design first. Why can't we have media for children? Is, you know, the, what is the Whole Foods version of Media for children?

And so we created a series called Ruby's Studio, which still airs on Amazon Prime. And, um, it's, it won an Emmy and it's just a beautiful series for children to help them learn about feelings and friendship and safety. We have, I think, the best program. Young children understand body safety, not like car, car safety or bike safety, but like personal safety, um, without any cringe factor.

And then we also have a show on siblings. So we did some beautiful content.

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Awesome. And so, you know, we, we, in this podcast, it's my perspective on what I think about, uh, ADHD or, or whatever, right. Um, is there anything ADHD related with you?

Abbie Shiller: Oh, a hundred percent. I am like poster child . Um, and for me, the h is for hyper focus.

So I definitely have kind of the manic moments of unfocus and what did, where did I? Just like three cup...