Practice Putting on Focus Goggles- Back-to-School Armor Series
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Release Date: 07/17/2025
Let's Celebrate Your Aim!
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Now that you've created your New Year targets and have had some time to shoot for them, let's refocus on the celebration of any amount of progress on your journey of aiming for targets made!! In this episode, we will celebrate hitting the target and the resilience built when missing the target and trying to aim again. We want to pause and celebrate how far you've come- not just where you landed. Wheather you hit your target, got close, changed your aim, or learned something new along the way, this episode is all about progress over perfection! As ADHD warriors, we often put in a...
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Discovering Your Target Team
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Sometimes living with an ADHD brain can feel lonely! This is why discovering your team in different environments at a young age is important. These are those trusted adults you can safely turn to when things feel tough, or problem solve with when we make a mistake and need support/encouragement! These are individuals who love us for who we are and they are in our corner when we feel misunderstood, unseen or unloved in different situations. A target team helps us find success on different days and in different ways. In this episode, we will talk about what a target team look like at home,...
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Missing the Target Doesn't Mean You Failed!
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Living with an ADHD brain is often accompanied by negative self-talk and if we don't stay on top of it, then that bully can speak louder than the truth of the incredible creation that you were created to be in all of your amazing strengths and gifts! You may notice that I continue to circle back to the same message of becoming self-aware of the inner voice and what it is speaking to you! That is because, this is the key to moving forward and growing through each moment of challenge we face when shooting for tricky targets!! In this episode, we will make it crystal clear how missing...
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Zoom Into Your Target
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
HAPPY NEW YEAR my fabulous ADHD warriors!!! Let's charge into this year with purpose and start the year off zooming into the targets you create! In this episode, I will recap the difference between a goal and a target, as well as the different between motivation and momentum! Our busy brains need targets to practice shooting for and momentum maker to keep us refocusing on that target you've made! Practice makes progress every time! Be ready to talk to your trusted adult about a target you want to create and how you want to shoot for that target! Is it the target of getting to...
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New Year, New You: Who am I investing time and energy into? Interview with Coach Ryan Mayer
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Are you putting your oxygen mask first before helping others!? I LOVE how your BIG feelings comes with a compassion compass that can be such a gift to others! Let's pause and talk about how we need to be sure that we are actively regulating our own big emotions in order to have the capacity to use the gift of helping others with their big emotions! In this episode, you will meet my dear friend and ADHD brother, Coach Ryan Mayer! He has a super fun way of talking about the importance of putting your oxygen (regulation/self-care) mask on, how to choose friends wisely, and how to be mindful...
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The Gift of Trying Again
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Tis the season of SO much fun and often SO much frustration at the same time! That's why we are going to lean into cozying up to the idea of celebrating the gift of trying again when things feel tricky or sticky throughout this season of changes, mistakes, BIG feeling that burst, the many transitions that triggers many emotions too! You are not alone my friends! In this episode, we will unwrap the topic of trying again. Imagine that you walk outside and your boot makes a muddy, messy print in the snow, but then a fresh snow falls that night and the next day, the messy footprint is covered with...
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Cozy Targets- Little Wins in Big Seasons
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Do you ever feel like you have one "ugh" moment after the next!? On our ADHD journey, we are often faced with many frustrations and feelings of failure...this is WHY celebrating little WINS is so very important on the path toward thriving with ADHD! In this episode, I want you to cozy up and connect with the ones you love to talk about how you too can create tiny targets to shoot for during this big season of holidays, transitions, and a whole new year coming up! What is a cozy target? It's a tiny , kind goal- something small and doable that helps your ADHD brain feel calm, focused...
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Power Over Your Inner Voice: Interview with Author Renee Marie- The Secret Playbook of Life
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
You all are in for a treat with this episode! Have you been looking for a book that helps build confidence, grit, taming that inner voice and strengthens social skills!? If so, look no further! The Secret Playbook of Life is a book filled with 50 short stories that speak straight to day to day struggles we face and sometimes have a hard time knowing how to navigate through! In this episode, you will meet author and December podcast sponsor, Renee Marie, who has become an expert in the area of developing confidence, grit and social skills through the younger years. Even I have taken some...
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Thanks for the Mess: Choosing an attitude of gratitude
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Hold UP!? Thankful for a mess!? YEP, I did type that right!! In this episode, we are going to talk about how we can find gratitude, even when life, and/or our brains feel a little messy... Let's be honest, Having ADHD can feel like a living in a world of post-it notes, racing thoughts, and ideas that zip around! We forget things, our attention drifts, and our feelings get super big, really quickly! BUT, guess what? Inside that beautiful mess, there are some pretty incredible gifts too! Let's say a BIG "thank you to our differences! You might notice that your brain works differently from...
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Cozy Up to Connection: Fall Series
Journey With Me Through ADHD: A Podcast for Kids
Imagine when you feel the coziest!? Is it cuddled in a blanket? Is it sitting by a warm fire with a blanket? Or is it just cuddling up with someone you love? Now let's hold that cozy feeling while we start talking about cozing up to CONNECTION! In this episode, we will talk about how our brilliant brains have a special circuit that lights up when you feel connected. It helps us find calm, focus, and feel cared for. When we talk, listen, or share feelings with a trusted adult or friend, our connection circuit gets stronger! Our ADHD beautiful, colorful brains also feel big feelings,...
info_outlineFOCUS! That word can be so haunting to those of us with busy brains! We can't "just focus...." BUT here is the crazy part... it's not that we have an inability to focus, it's actually a superpower that we need to learn how to tame and control in different environments!
In this epsiode, you will hear about a formula for focus as you take ownership of your focus on a new level as you enter a new school year!
F ind a space that fits your focus bubble...
O wn your focus goggles by recognizing and responding what you need to refocus...
C uriosity is key to refocus in class
U nderstand what your brain and body need to succeed in that environment
S ay something- Self-advocacy is your best bet in your classroom environment so you can get the support you need. (Use "I feel ____, I need _____" statements!
Here is the most important part... PRACTICE now! We know that practice makes progress and if you practice putting on and owning your focus goggles in the comfort of your own home during the summer, you can find what works and be more confidence in what to advocate for when school starts! You've got this! I believe you that it's tricky and I am here to support and guide you along the way!
You can reach out to me at www.katelynmabry.com for more resources, to connect with me about my 1:1 coaching program, future episode ideas, or to simply share your ADHD journey with me! Love you all!
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