The ADHD Strategist with Michelle Raz Podcast

In this podcast, we are focusing on training neuro-diverse employees that have different challenges with executive function regulation. This is affecting our workplace because research shows that a large population of our current and future workforce has challenges with executive functions. College graduates are reporting a disability at a rate of nearly 20 percent, with ADHD disabilitiy forming part of these conditions. Employees with neurodiversity struggle with different challenges including time management, emotional regulations, procrastination, organization, and motivation. This can not only affect their performance but also lead to anxiety and depression, leaving them frustrated with little motivation.   Just as weaknesses can pose challenges and derail ambitions of long-term employment, strengths may be developed through their disability and can have a positive effect and outcome. Employees with these challenges have a laser-like focus, attention span, and drive like no other. With the right strategies, tools, and mentoring, they can be the shining star of a company. Often, they are just the very person capable of turning a failing business around with fresh ideas, well-thought-out visions, and the drive to make it happen! Companies can take advantage of this by offering apprenticeships, mentoring, and training programs to retain all of their employees, even those with executive function challenges, and empower them to perform with the company’s best interests in mind.  A sound employee apprenticeship or intern mentoring program can foster the positive attributes of all employees by establishing a best practice training plan with boundaries, routines, and clear expectations with high accountability. It will also foster a work environment that promotes community and self-empowerment. The result is a win-win for company productivity, lowering overall training costs and developing strong skillsets for future employees. Listen to the Podcast to Learn More Michelle Raz, is a career specialist & coach, owner of Razcoaching.com, author of Happiness+Passion+Purpose and Co-founder of Thrivister.com, an academic coaching company for high school and college students. As a Board-Certified Coach, she uses her expertise with executive functioning challenges to help people find their purpose and success in the workplace through the lens of ADHD. She has been contributing her knowledge and expertise in this field since 2010.

Emotional Regulation: Help students manage overwhelm so they can get work done!   (Free download link below) some days can be hard to ‘show” up For the students that I work with “some days” often can turn into “many days”. Today's focus is on self-management – the ability to control emotions as it relates to academic success.   Parents hire me to help improve their student’s executive function skills so they can get their work done. BUT most of the time they’re stuck on emotional issues that turn into roadblocks Those roadblocks get in the way of any action steps that we create ----it really hinders potential success. I look at emotional regulation as the umbrella to addressing all other executive function challenges. It almost always has to be addressed first before change can really take place!  You need a strategy. Board Certified Coach, Michelle Raz shares her strategies and stories of success. Click for Free PDF Download of the strategies she discusses.    

From Despair to Hope In this episode  Academic Coach Michelle Raz shares a story of an ADHD student who came close to failing out of college,   Through grit and hard work, she managed to pull it together and pass her classes.  It is a true story of how one student was on the verge of shutting down, but through coaching and self-determination, she pushed through. Michelle is an academic coach for high school and college students and is the owner of www.razcoaching.com and co-founder of www.thrivister.com  

Thrive More Than Survive Do you ever feel like you need to survive every day? Do you sometimes think of just getting through a day? If you have ADHD, it can be easy to feel this way daily. Putting too much pressure on yourself can cause trouble to organize things, create mistakes, lack focus, unfinished tasks, and emotional turmoil. So instead of getting yourself into survival mode, try thriving. Thriving and surviving are often being mistaken as the same words. These two words are the total opposite of each other. Surviving is stressing yourself out on how to get through the day. Thriving is doing things according to plan, with the flow, and with a positive outlook. Be the person you want to be without pressuring yourself, allow yourself to grow and make progress, and the most important thing is to always don a happy heart. Thriving is a process of planning for the future, being the best version of yourself, creating experiences, and doing the most significant work that you should do. Having ADHD can sometimes keep you away from the will to live life fully, but you can always make a change. You just have to start. Thrive More with ADHD For more podcasts and articles visit Coach Michelle Raz at www.razcoaching.com Michelle Raz is the founder of Raz Coaching & Thrivister and specializes in helping people thrive with executive function challenges. Read more at www.razcoaching.com OR www.thrivister.com She is also the author of the book Happiness+Passion+Purpose.