524 | Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and ADHD - with Justine Clay
Release Date: 02/27/2024
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Summer coaching groups start on July 24th. LIstners can save $200 by signing up at the registration kickoff event on June 18th. Learn more and get on the interest list at Eric shares updates about prioritizing sustainable energy practices and coping with recent family challenges, including the passing of his grandmother and his father's health issues. The main segment features Dr. Shannon Palma, founder and CEO of ITI Assistive Technologies, discussing her late autism and ADHD diagnoses. She shares insights into her decades-long journey with executive function challenges, her...
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info_outlineIn this episode, Eric is joined by Justine Clay! Justine, who is a neurotypical mom of a neurodivergent kid, is also a speaker, writer, business coach, and ADHD coach, for creative entrepreneurs and freelancers. Using her actionable-profitable-by-design framework, Justine helps established creative professionals and business-owners identify and articulate their unique value, position themselves to high-quality while paying clients, and build a fulfilling, efficient, and profitable creative business!
Find more from Justine!
- Website :: justineclay.com (click here!)
- Instagram :: @justine_clay (click here!)
- LinkedIn :: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justineclay
In this episode, you’ll hear tips and discussions about:
- Helping people articulate what they want among a sea of ideas and different ways of co-collaborating
- Getting down to what someone needs vs. what they think they need & finding the fundamentals
- What do you do when you’re procrastinating? / Monetizing your zone of genius and accepting your gifts
- What is unique about the ADHD entrepreneur vs. a neurotypical entrepreneur?
- Starting three things as a way to get unstuck and finding the “goldilocks” amount of pressure
- Creating structure with flexibility and options / “Don’t check your email first thing in the morning.”
- The importance of understanding your own tendencies / the power of the pause
- “So many ‘fires’ are just bright shiny objects that don’t actually need our attention right now.”
- “If you don’t run your own attention, someone (or something) else will run it for you.”
- Identifying an area of focus / Building on longer term goals and long-term coaching
- Who am I, who am I for, and how do I serve them? / “Be in community with other people who are doing what you’re doing.”
- The benefits and immense value of having diversity of life, experience, and ideologies within a team
- Mindset hurdles that show up for ADHD entrepreneurs and addressing negative thoughts and noise in our brains
- “What are you actually afraid of? What’s the worst that could happen? What is within our power?”
- Creating a, “You’re Awesome!” folder to mitigate negative messaging
- Addressing the topic of money with compassion / “Numbers don’t define who you are as a human being.”
- “A moment spent worrying about money is a moment you’ve stolen from yourself where you could be working on your unique brilliance…”
- Finding a good financial advisor who will meet you where you’re at, who understands your needs, understands your ADHD, and understands your goals
- The importance of taking away 3 actionable steps and a deliverable roadmap
- Systemizing to make things easier so we’re not constantly reinventing the wheel
- Burnout and dealing with the stressors vs. processing physical stress
- Benefits of a morning journaling practice, using it as a brain dump, and addressing limiting beliefs
- How to start a morning journaling practice / Handwriting vs. typing
- “The things that pay the most dividends can tend to have the hardest onramp.”
- “Just try harder” doesn’t work / “Why might this help?”
Resources & Honorable Mentions
- Article :: How to Find your Zone of Genius (click here)
- Article :: How to Get Into the Zone of Genius and Unlock Your Highest Potential (on Forbes) (click here)
- Article: Gay Hendricks and Andy Wang on the Inspired Money Podcast (click here)
- Website :: Hendricks Institute @ hendricks.com (click here)
- Website :: Ten Percent Happier @ www.tenpercent.com (click here)
- Podcast :: Ten Percent Happier @ www.tenpercent.com/podcast (click here)
- App :: Loom - for video recording and collaboration - at loom.com (click here!)
- Book :: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle - by Emily (PhD) and Amelia (DMA) Nagoski (at www.burnoutbook.net) (on Goodreads) (Official Website)
- Book :: The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron (official website) (on Goodreads)
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