February 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Amy & Kat get into how Lion’s Mane (a fluffy mushroom) is becoming a go-to for brain health and ADHD support. Is it really "nature’s Adderall"? Maybe. Maybe not. They also go over several do-able ADHD hacks that might help you in your everyday life and Amy reads a heartfelt email from a listener in Albuquerque who found comfort in laughter after losing a friend. It’s a reminder that even the most random, ridiculous conversations can bring joy when we need it most.
Here's the Ryze Mushroom Coffee that Amy mentioned!
QUOTE: “Being a child is great. You get upset and everyone decides it’s best you take a nap. THE DREAM.” -Dustin Nickerson (comedian)
Email: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com
HOSTS:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
Kat Vanburen // @KatVanburen // @YouNeedTherapyPodcast // YouNeedTherapyPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the fifth Thing. I'm Amy and.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm Cat And today's quote comes from Dustin Nickerson, who
is a comedian, and he said, being a child is great.
You get upset and everyone decides it's best if you
take a nap. The dream, Oh yeah, those are the days.
I would love that if somebody, you know, banished me
up to my room.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I know. It makes me think about how my kids
just want to be grown up so bad so that
they can do whatever they want. No one's telling them
what to do. And I'm like, yeah, I would give
anything if I could have someone boss me around right now,
tell me exactly what to do and tell me to go.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
To bed and when to do it and how to
do it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, and pay for it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, I'd be like, it's bedtime, it's nine pm.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's amazing. So I got an email blast from I
don't know if it's Reformation or Reformation. Do you know
that clothing site?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And I feel like in my head, I say Reformation,
but I bet it's Reformation.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Probably sounds cooler. Well we're not cool because I was like, oh,
Reformation with the cute quote, because they had this whole
thing about linen. And the subject of the email intrigued
me because it's said, cancel your botox appointment, and I thought, what, Yeah,
I'm not doing botox. So I click on it just
(01:25):
to see what in the world the clothing company is
saying about it. And they had this whole thing, wrinkles
are in. Throw away your iron, cancel your botox appointment,
save money, also water because linen. And it's this whole
thing about how linen's.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
In and linen has a lot of wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, so embrace them. Twenty twenty five, wrinkles are in.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So do you think we were ahead of that trend.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
By canceling our bowtox departments?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But also I iron my linen.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, but then it gets rinkal pointless, Yeah, it is pointless.
I don't even know where my iron is or my
ironing board because I was looking for the other day.
Cannot find it. So you know what, I use my
go to a straightener here straightener.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
As I said that, I thought to myself, Catherine, you
don't own iron, so you don't iron anything.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I steam everything, so you steam your linen?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yes, I steam my linen. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I could see how getting out the door, wanting it
to look sharp and.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Good, but then you sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, so just embrace the wrinkles everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Plus face fitness because we're doing that too. But Kat
and I both have ADHD, and sometimes we're medicated, sometimes
we're not. So today we are going to be going
over some ADHD hacks that may come in handy if
you're trying to focus and be productive. Because Kat and
I were working on a project the other day and
we were actually doing that the mirroring thing, because we
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were working together.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We were doing that accidentally too.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You know, when you have a partner alongside you, even
if they're just in the room, they don't even have
to be doing the activity, but as long as someone
else is present there with you, you're more likely to
get done what you need to get done. And I
thought these tips or hacks or whatever might be.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Helpful for all.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But before we started recording, Kat was like, I don't
really know how I feel about the word hacks. So
what do you want to call them?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't know what to say. I guess in my hat.
In my head, hack means like it like gets rid
of something like if it's a.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Like like even the word life hack. I don't know.
I have a weird relationship with it. It's not a hack.
It's just a tip of how to do something simpler.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But maybe I'm being too hard on the word hack.
Coping skills is what I think of them as sure,
because it to me, you're you still have ADHD.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
These things don't eliminate or take away the struggle. It
just helps you cope with that easier.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, So I saw a parchment paper hack for lining
a baking sheeta. To me, the hack just made it
more efficient. Like, I'm gonna use the parchment paper and
my way is a little bit more wonky. But when
I saw the hack where you get it wet and
waded up in a ball and then it lays flat
onto the baking sheets so it's not sliding all over
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the place, I'm like, Okay, still using the parchment paper,
but this hack just makes it more efficient.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That sounds difficult.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's not difficult to get it wet and then spread
it out. It's way easier than it like sliding around.
You're trying to get it to stay in place when
you're putting stuff on it, but.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You have to dry it off then you put your food.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
On the water, doesn't it doesn't hold water. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh because it's parchment paper.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Why it's a hack?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Oy?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Really, I put, I promise it doesn't make it more difficult.
So like I don't say sacks is like getting rid
of anything. It's just making it more efficient. Okay, So
I feel like that's what we're doing. That's't either here
nor there.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
We don't need to semantics.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, call it a hack, call it a tip,
caught a skill, call it a skill.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If you don't have ADHD, I feel like I do
you agree? People will get something out of these more
efficient little tips.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay. I have to defend myself because I feel like
maybe not attacking.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
When I feel like somebody might be like she's being
too hard on the word hacks.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I guess it comes from the space if I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
To a client about trying to cope or you know,
overcome something. I never am like, here's a hack that
you can I just don't use that language. That language
doesn't come to me. So when you're talking about something
in the kitchen, I guess hack it makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It goes.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But when we're talking about things with mental health, which
ADHD has to do with your mental health. In my head,
the word hack is a little bit I guess it
feels like kind of invalidating.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Let's call it tips. I don't want anybody to ever
feel invalidated with their disorder, yeah, or whatever they have going.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And I could be being too hard on this because
that's just where my brain's go from.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You're in the therapy space, So I totally respect that.
I do think that these tips, though, could work for everybody.
Even if you don't have ADHD. There might be times
where you feel a little scattered, or you might have
a day where you're very unmotivated, so you could implement
one of these tips.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And I think it only makes sense to add two
with you saying that because you might benefit from one
of these tips or coping skills, doesn't also mean that
you then have ADHD.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yeah, ADHD is totally my algorithm. It's ADHD and
face fitness all the time. That is what I am
fed And the amount of people that pop up and
start to just give all the things that they do,
which I can relate to most of them, and I'm
thankful for the content and the people that are putting
it out, like I go to their page and they
legit and know what they're talking about. But I could
(06:45):
see if that was just showing up for anybody and
they have like one or two of the ten listed,
they might be like, oh my gosh, I have this.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I have ADHD.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But I think you can have days again where you are,
you know, struggling acting in a way that might seem
like you have ADHD when it's not an everyday thing,
like some people are really struggling with it every single day.
And you know, I got off my meds what first
of the year, so January. Also, I'm still sober January February.
(07:14):
I haven't had any alcohol, so no adderall no alcohol,
which people with ADHD, that's another thing, they have alcohol.
Oh really, that's some algorithm.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Do you ever wonder what other people's algorithms are?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, like what's yours?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Nails? Yes, they're like olive in June. Everything, it's all
nails right now, and it's all super Bowl right now.
It's Super Bowl halftime show. I was dissecting that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, it'll die down the Serena Williams and Drake.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And it's nails and Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively still yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I'm curious to see what's gonna have first time they
have to go to, Like, is Taylor Swift gonna get subpoenut.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Patrick was sending me videos that he's even into the drama.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is sending you that?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Sending it from where? I don't sending it from work
because Kat told me the other day she's never called
her husband at work before ever, not to just be like, hey,
how's it going, what's what you do in And he does.
To be clear, he is not a first responder. He
is not in the military.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He's an accountant.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He definitely has a job where you could call and
casually be like, hey, just check it in and see
how your day's going. And she was like, oh, never.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, I would call him if it was an emergency,
one hundred percent I would call him. Or don't have kids,
so there's never like, oh, I'm gonna can you do
pick up? So I have no reason to call himbout that.
My thought is, I don't like talking on the phone
in general. I'm not a chit chatter. You are a
chit chatter.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You love to talk talk talk.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
And.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Which is a beautiful trait of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Thank you, But I just either want you to text
me or voice on me, or like talk in person.
So I think that's probably why I never have the
urge to call him. Also, he's very busy, I will say,
so I don't want to annoy him.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh he's so busy that he sent you Blake Lively.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He's done that at work.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I think he said it, but he was like in
the bathroom probably.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So Anyway, again, like I said, Kat, I both have
ADHD so little. He goes back to my original point,
which was that I'm unmedicated, can you tell? And I'm
loving life and it's great. But one thing that keeps
popping up for me, and I have been taking it
because I was seeing it enough is Lion's Main. Have
(09:44):
you heard of it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I've heard of it. I don't know, no correlation with
I don't. I know it's a mushroom.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh you know that. You didn't think it was. They
go to a lion and trim the maine and blend
it up into powder.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Even before I knew what it was. I don't think
I ever had that thought.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Just in case you think it's actual Lion's Main. It's not.
It is a functional mushroom and it's not from a cat.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Do you know what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
It looks kind of like white furry like a main.
Oh really, it does have that Harry that look. Oh, which,
since we talked about cats, maybe before we get into
the Lion's Main, we might need to read that email
that we got the other day about last week's podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, you should read that. I have it ready.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I wasn't sure how we're going to get into it
because I do want to be respectful of the person
and where they are in life. But I do think
that what they went through and how the person that
passed away was handling it, it may help with the
grieving process, Like beforehand, how they were able to be like,
don't grieve me in this way, like almost giving instructions
for grieving, which maybe you could think about how you
(10:50):
would want me to grieve you one day?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Or why do I grieve me? Why don't want to
grieve you? Either?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, yeah, but what if I'm like, look, don't I
need you to go have fun? Take some lines made?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That would help? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It also reminds me of a million little things. Oh, Gary,
you finish watching it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I don't think I finished. That's a good question. Like,
right now, I literally can't tell you. I know that
I wouldn't watch that show because of you, but right
now I have no memory of how that show ended.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was one of the crazy not crazy, but I
mean it was a very well done TV ending. I'll
say that. I don't want to say good because there's
some sadness in it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Okay, I might have to google what happened and then
maybe my brain watch it. Well. But if I already
watched it, well.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Then you won't. You'll be like, oh, this is good,
I'm glad I'm watching it again.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Or no, what's something that I have to watch for work?
Is chiefs Aholic? It's some Chiefs fan that was robbing banks?
What in every city? He would go to every Chiefs game,
and when he was in the town that he was
in for the game, he would rob banks.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Will you get caught?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Obviously there's a documentary, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Mystery. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I haven't watched it yet, so I don't really know. Okay,
I got this email here. It is from Samantha. She
lives in Albuquerque. Hey, Amy, I went into this week
losing a friend to cancer. Also, let me preface this
real quick before we read it. Do you remember what
I said after last week's episode? Because we got multiple
(12:22):
messages about last week's episode being enjoyable, funny, strange, but.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
People like that messages saying it was fun, Yeah, that
was good.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Like saying thanks, I needed the laugh whatever, that type
of vialue that energy. Do you remember what I said
to Houston whenever we finished.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yes, you said, I don't know, Houston, that might have
been weird. You might just want to put on a
best of.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And so let this just be a little thing that
even if you're not feeling confident about something, just put
it out there anyway, because what is confidence?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
What's the definition of confidence? Trying?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I said, bye, Mel Robbins. So I am thankful Houston
did that. He heard and he was like, you know what,
I'm not going to do a best of. We're gonna
hear a this. They did it, and even if one
person needed to hear it, that'd be great, but it
seems to multiple people you need to laugh. Because I
know you've got notes about it too. And it's not
(13:20):
that we get a note about every episode we ever
do like sometimes I'm like, Hello.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Really good episode. Nobody compliment ay of me.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm not compliment just even asking about it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I also think that speaks to when you are yourself.
This is for everybody, but specifically you can relate this
from that experience. When you're yourself and you're authentic and
you just allow things to flow and happen, you'll be
surprised on how well received that is. Like people genuinely,
like when people are genuine, and I think in that
episode you were being interesting but also very genuine.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, thank you, Yeah, same to you. Thanks, You're like
I was the only weird one.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think I said anything weird except my person I
dated didn't where to do it, Rent, I wasn't acting
like cat.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
To be clear, I never acted like a cat. I
told my boyfriend to tell his coworker colleague. I don't
feel like it's a coworker, but colleague that I was
raised by cats.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Anyway. To be fair, you're here nor there.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Let's read the email. Hey, Amy, I went into this
week losing a friend to cancer. He fought so hard
for as long as he possibly could. Due to his condition.
He never wanted his friends or coworkers to see him
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so vulnerable. I assume it is because police officers never
want people to see them as weak. All he ever
asked for was prayers, and he tried to go into
each appointment with joy and hope in superhero references that
I never understood. When I got the news of his passing,
I was and still am heartbroken. But I remember him
prior to his diagnosis always telling me if something happens, no,
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I am okay, Please don't cry or mourn me. Remember
all the fun I had in life. He would say
things like if you cry, I will haunt you. He
had an infectious laugh and smile and brought so much
joy to my life. That said, I have followed my
normal routine and really tried hard to mourn in a
way that he would have wanted. Your fifth thing this
(15:41):
week has made that so much easier. I felt so
lucky to hear you and Kat talk about Maggie's model
sister and to see you being more playful. I laughed
out loud for the whole episode. I felt so much
comfort and smiling that big If you're ever in doubt
that the random things you and Kat say or do
on the fifth thing are getting listened into. They are
(16:01):
and they make people laugh. Raised by cats Lol, your
friend Samantha from Albuquerque.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I just love that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, it's such a good email. And Samantha were thinking
of you. And I know that it's hard to lose
somebody like that, and I do think it is special
that he was able to give you instructions on how
to mourn. And it doesn't make it any easier, but
the fact that you almost had this permission slip to
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live life and laugh and remember the good times, I
think helps.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, and that he did it with humor too. I
think that's sweet that if you if you mourn me,
I will haunt you.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Maybe that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Okay, not to change the subject, but we do have
to go back to the lion's main.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We were talking about that, yep, Okay, Well, I think
you're asking what it looked like, and it's like a
fluffy looks like a main, No, but like a picture
like a white.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Pomp pom like a dandelion.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Sure kind of looks like if you were to grab
like a lion's maine and hold it in your hand
like cup it and the hairs were poking out. It
kind of looked like furry. Google it, okay, just google
lion's main. But I would say, like a fluffy white
pom pom. Okay, but like a lion's main, but doesn't
look like a mushroom. No, I wouldn't see it and
think mushroom like I would think weird thing. Maybe even
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from the sea.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It looks like cauliflower. Also does look like a lion's main.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Thank you. It's been used in Chinese medicine for centuries,
so it's not anything new. But it is having a moment,
that's for sure. You know, like cottage cheese is all
the rage with protein people, is it? Yeah? I feel
like twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's not in my algorithm because I hate cottage cheese.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, that makes sense. Why you didn't know it was
like the food of the year last year?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was well that thing or you just mean like, okay, sorry,
I thought there was some like a word.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I mean, if you were to maybe ask like what
was the most like trendy food talked about item for
a recid, I don't know that we would call cottage
cheese trendy food, but like people were using it to
make pancakes and.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Patrick told me that he puts cottage cheese in his pancakes.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's a way to increase the protein out or.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I thought we were on the same page there.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, it can do both, Okay, two things can be true. Okay,
at the same time, that's true. Well, line's main is
making its way into my algorithm because a lot of
people take it for brain function, and it's in the
ADHD content that I'm constantly being given. But brain function
memory focus. That's why it's likely good for people like us,
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because we struggle with our executive function and you probably
know more about that than I do.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, it sounds like you're the one that is getting
all the content around us. You might know just as
much as me.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, but you like have a degree but not an
eighty HD But I thank you. Yeah, well, I like
to give credits due. Yeah, Like what are the little
letters you have after your name?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
LPC m HSP and that stands for Licensed Professional counselor
Mental Health.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Service provider aka therapist. That's a degree.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, with a degree, I do have to have a degree.
You have a degree, just not in therapy.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, agricultural development.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Always it was so surprising every time you say it.
Our agriculture. Look, that's why you know about lions Maine.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yes, yes, I could grow functional mushrooms potentially.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So has this I guess it's been used probably to
help with that stuff in general. And now people are saying, oh,
this is something that people with ADHD struggle with, so
why aren't we helping?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
We increasing their intake of it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So they're calling it quote unquote nature's adderall. Oh, so obviously,
you know when I saw that, I was like, click
by order, take me done me. So I've been having
it through Rise mushroom coffee. It's ry z.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Tell me about the mushroom coffee though. Does it taste
like coffee or is it just like a type of drink.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
There is a little bit of coffee in it, but
not as much coffee as I was having before, And
I will say, I don't get all jittery, I don't
have a crash. I just like it. Coffee for me though,
is an experience. I like having it in my little
mug with my milk, like I make it with my
almond milk, put a little honey in there, and that's
my me time. So this could be doing nothing it
(20:28):
could be placebo. I could be thinking that it's doing
amazing things for me. But I feel like Chinese medicine,
I believe in. We've been doing it for a long
time all that, so I do think that there is
something that's happening. They say it can reduce anxiety, mood swings,
shout out. I need some of that. It lowers inflammation,
which that's a really big deal for brain function, because
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when your brain is inflamed, that can cause more problems.
So anyway, the rise mushroom coffee. That's what I've been
having daily this whole year. Actually, I just haven't talked
to about it yet.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You aren't making your little coffee drinks with your fancy
coffee thing. What fancy coffee thing do you have the
coffee machine?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Do you not have that anymore?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I lost that in the divorce, meaning when we divide
it up assets.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You gave that he took, or you got that.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I guess that sounds weird. It was his too, it's
just that that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
No longer have it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I didn't realize that his list. Yeah, and it's been
a goal to get another one because I do like
a shot of espresso, like quite honestly, I would even
maybe make the rice coffee and throw in an extra
shot on the hard days because I love my sister's coffee.
Her you always make that, and I could just do
an espresso shot and throw it in there because it's
like good quality stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So this is a little off topic, but if you
were to make coffee that wasn't the mushroom coffee, what
are you making it in right now?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Well, it's just powder and you just put a like
a heat up the milk.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I mean like, if you weren't having mushroom coffee, do
you have a coffee machine? No?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I was just buying iced coffee in a that.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Made because you loved your coffee making experience. I know, Okay,
I didn't mean to bring.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Up a sad that's okay, Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Anyway, it's over, and tell me about your ritual with
the rice coffee. That sounds fun too.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well that it has the functional mushrooms in there. So
I don't know if anybody else has tried lions made
and other things. I think it's also in my I
don't have a bar, so I can't look at the ingredients,
but I love those alpha ten bars, and I know
there's functional mushrooms in there, but I don't know if
one of the mushrooms is actually Lines Main. But it
depends on the milligrams that you're getting, right, So you
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need to get a certain amount if you're wanting to
have the benefits of whatever it is you're trying to achieve.
Because there's different mushrooms for different things. I might overdose
online Lines made now that I think about it, because
in my mushroom alcohol.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That I want.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Called Little Saints now, I think it might be in
my Alpha ten bar, it's in my Rise coffee, and
then now I think gets in my Little Saints' mocktail stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Which that was good. Yeah, that was really good.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And I'm pretty sure it's Lions Main. Can you od
on it? No, not like to your death, but I
mean can.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I wonder if you can take too much that, like
it cancels out the benefits exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
If so, I need to research that and dial it
back because I want to do good things with my
Lion's Main. I mean, too much of water is harmful.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, but you're gonna have to drink a lot. You're
never going to hit that. Do you not know?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
About we for a week, hold your Wii for a week.
It was a radio bit from early two thousands where
they were giving away a Wii. Remember when We's were
very popular or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
This wasn't you right, dear? No, okay, no.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But people in radio I can't remember the station, but
they were giving away a Wii and you had to
drink water and then hold your PN and whoever could
hold it the longest one the WI. So hold your
Wi for a WI and a woman?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Oh my dang, her is this days that you're doing this?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No? Remember all the details. I don't even remember if
I finished that show you told me to watch, so
I don't remember the details of this. But I mean
too much of anything can.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Be much have a good thing, we can become a
bad thing. Yes, yes, correct?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Any who'sy That's that I'm doing over here with my
lions main If anybody else is more well versed, would
love to hear from you. You can email us four
Things with Amy Brown at gmail dot com. Or if
you have a product that you have really enjoyed, something
natural that has helped you with your adhd let us know,
and something that, oh my gosh, natural what well, this
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just hit me. You know.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I went to the doctor today and I talked to
her about so Patrick and I are going to try
to have a baby soon, and she said, this is
not for everybody, so this is not medical advice. But
I was talking to her and she said, well, you
might want to try to not be taking your medication
while you're trying to conceive it, and definitely while you
are pregnant. Some people do and it's fine. I just
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am not going to do that. And we were talking about, okay, well,
is there anything I can take that's not a simulant
that would be safe for whatever, versus having to just, like,
you know, not have this at all for a prolonged
who knows how long it's going to take for me
to get pregnant.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Lion's main shut up.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
She said that, no she didn't, but I thought you
said that and you were just now I forgot putting
two and two together.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
No, I'm just thinking, like, oh my gosh, this is
perfect timing that you're telling me about this, because I
want to look into it, because that is something that
did kind of scare me. If I'm going to be
trying to get pregnant for a long. If it takes
a long time, that would that's kind of scary to
not be able to take something that's been so helpful
for so long.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
We should ask her about it. Yeah, ask her what
she thinks about Lion's maine. Okay, I'm curious, like actual
doctor's advice, because.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, good it's very natural too.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh goody, she'll likely know about it. But this isn't
medical advice in any way, shape or form, but just
other things that are out there that you might be
able to take if you're trying not to take things.
When you were talking about getting pregnant on medication, it
made me think of when college. I did accutane for
about six weeks because I couldn't last. I wasn't able
to finish all the way through because why because it
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couldn't even open my mouth to chew chat. Yes, like
the corners of my mouth were so cracked. And honestly,
I don't even really think that I needed it, and
I think it started to scare me what it was
doing to my body. And my roommates were on it too.
We were all on it. So if you came over
to our house, because each individual pill was behind like
a little.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Little I had. I had it. It was like the firf rated.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, is that the word.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It was like the foil with the then.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You heard the pill out with the little card that
you would have to pop out. Every single pill was
covered with a little pregnant person with a circle and
a line through it to remind you do not get
pregnant on this drug, which that wasn't a problem for
any of us anyway at that time in our.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Life, but you had to have.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
If you came over to our apartment, you'd be like,
what the heck are y'all on?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Because there was.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
This little those little pieces of paper with like the
pregnant lady in the circle line through it all over
our house. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I took that twice. It was hard because I also
had chapped lips and stuff like that. But it wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I mean, I was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I just think I was responsible enough to like do
the things to take care. Yeah, probably wasn't drinking water,
Probably really danks rizing. Oh yeah, I definitely didn't drink.
They said don't drink because you're liver. But that's why
I'm doing dry February is because I've already gone four weeks,
and did I tell you how? They say going six weeks,
giving your liver a break for six weeks is life
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changing for it. Like your liver's like thank you. They're
like your liver's like wow, I feel amazing. You have
a whole new liver. I've completely turned over.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
What is that word? Turned over? This gonna be the
word of the week when it turns a new leaf,
like I've completely.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, turnover, rejuvenated, rejuvenated. I think that's rejuvenation.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Maybe that's a rejuve, reformation, reformation.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, okay, so something else that is totally natural and
drug free. Are our tips.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Our brain natural and drug free.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
So Cat, we'll go back and forth. If you've got
five to share, Cat, you go first.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So the first one is the five four three two
one focus reset.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And these tips are for focus and productivity, right.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yes, so first one five four three two one focus reset.
This is best for when you're overwhelmed, when you're having
task paralysis brain fog. Basically, when your brain is stuck,
you can use your own sensus to ground yourself. So
you do five things you can see, four things you
can touch, three things you can hear, two things you
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can smell and.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Then one deep breath. I love that just skill in general.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I love this too. I feel like I read an
article a while back in the New York Times about
this for anxiety, and my sister and I were talking
about I think that's why I remember specifically is New
York Times. You're like sharing the article and she was
having a lot of anxiety at the time, and it
was a way for her to completely reset.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And this is good too. I use this with clients
a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
It's good for grounding in general, when you're feeling dissociative
or yeah, just overwhelmed, for anybody, because it forces you
to focus on the present versus all of the external stimuli.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So boom comes in handy even if you don't have ADHD.
Second hack is the body doubling trick. This is best
for getting through tasks that you avoid, which is kind
of what Kat and I were talking about earlier. Are mirroring.
So people call it mirroring, some people call it body doubling,
but it's you working alongside someone else, even if they're
doing something unrelated, like they just have to be there.
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And this can be a real person but Guess what,
even if you have someone virtually there with you, it
can work as well. So even if you've got someone
on FaceTime or zoom get this, I was reading about it.
It could even work if you were watching a YouTube
video or something like someone else that you're watching because
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it feels like there's someone there with you, Like, just
take your compute, you've got a bunch of clothes to
hang up, take your computer in your closet, and watch
someone on YouTube, which coming soon you're gonna be able
to watch a me incount on YouTube, so you can
take us everyhe you go. We'll be your body double.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, Wait, I thought you meant something different. That's why
I made that face. That makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I thought you were saying, like, watch a YouTube video
of somebody doing work.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
No, I mean, and really it's not supposed to be
like of us doing our podcast. It should be a
YouTube video of someone do there. If you like, you
can look up study with me videos and it will
be someone on YouTube studying. Okay, and they'll study with you.
Have you seen those funny jokes of like I'm going
to read this book for as long as this candle
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is burning or I'm going to study for as long
as this candle burns. And you light the candle and
then they find a way to casually get it blown out.
Then they shut their book and it blows out, and
they're like, Okay, I.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Guess that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I'm done studying. Why body doubling works is our brains
struggle with self motivation. But we thrive when there's accountability,
external accountability. We thrive. We thrive with the deadline.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
We thrive with something to somewhere. I will be there.
If not, I don't know if I'll show up. Yeah, yeah, okay.
So third hack is the ten minute.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Third tip I prefer to calumn tips, I really do.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Third coping skill is the ten minute rule for procrastination,
and this is best for starting tasks that you dread
or just in general, starting tasks that feels.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Big or hard or overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And basically what you do is you just put a
timer and say I have ten minutes to do this.
You could make it fifteen minutes, you can make it
twenty minutes, but ten minutes is an easy number that
I think people can think in their mind, oh, that'll
be over really soon. So set a timer you can
either put a playlist on that's ten minutes. You can
actually just set a timer. You can do anything like that,
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And most of the time when you do this, you'll
end up going longer.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I do this when I clean.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I'll say I'm just going to clean the counters and
the mirror in the bathroom. That'll take me like what,
fifteen minutes, and then I end up like scrubbing the floors.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, like a lot of times, That's what I've found.
When I do my timer things, I'll go longer.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's because it's hard, and I assume that you feel
the same way. When I'm looking at the wholeness of
a task, it often feels like too big to even start,
like I'll never finish it, so I don't even want
to start it.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
But if I just start it, then it starts to
break down.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
What are your thoughts on trusting yourself, because sometimes if
we say I'm only going to do this ten minutes
and then you keep going, it's like the next time
you do that, you're like, oh, but last time I
said I was only going to do it ten minutes,
I kept going and it was like thirty. So I
don't trust myself and then that becomes the whole thing.
But maybe if it's just you give yourself permission to
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go with the flow, and if you want to stop,
you stop, and if you want to keep going, keep going.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I don't think that that comes into play because
when I keep going, when I told myself I'm only
going to do it for ten minutes, it's not like,
oh I have to keep doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
It's not like a feeling of dread.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's like, oh, I actually am enjoying getting this test
and it's not so bad. So I guess in my head,
if I'm thinking why did that last time, it doesn't
feel negative.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I think I'm just thinking about that because I've had
to work to like trust trust YOURSELFLF.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, and like, well, you have permission to change your mind,
right right, So just because you did it once doesn't
mean you're going to do it every time. And I
think trusting yourself is also trusting that if I change
my mind, I'm allow myself to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's just being breezy, breezy and easy and fun. I'm breezy, yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Breezy, that's me.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So our brains they tend to freeze up sometimes and
things feel really big. But I like the ten minute
thing because it makes it more bite size.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
All right, for the skill.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
The first step only rule. Now, this is best for
executive dysfunction when you don't really know where to start,
So like when a task feels overwhelming, identify just the
first step, not the whole thing, just step one. So
like an example might be instead of clean the kitchen,
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you might say, okay, I'm I'm just gonna put one
dish in the sink. Step one, dish in the sink,
Step two, rinse the dish. Step three, put the dish
in the dish water, and then you'll pick up momentum
and your brain will start to do things naturally. But
sometimes there's just that getting started. We get frozen for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I feel like when that happens, because it's similar to
the ten minute when we start to do the task.
When you start to get into it, your body remembers, oh,
this feels good to get this done, so it wants
to keep doing that. And I think we struggle with
because dopamine it's not the feel good near our transmitter,
it's what it's associated with that, But really it is
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it helps with motivation because it helps you remember that
it feels good. But we lack that sometimes, so we
forget that that thing feels good, so we don't create
these habits. But once we get in it, then we
get that hit of dopamine. I'm like, oh, this does
feel good.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That makes me think about making my bed first thing
in the morning. That's become a habit. Yeah, that feels
really good. Yeah, and it's like step one. I know
this is something that feels good and it's a great
way to start my day.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yes, okay, So I have the fifth and final tip
skill hack ready.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
About every time we've changed to something else, so for
the final one, it's a tip skill hack.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
We're combining them off.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
This is the task pairing and basically it's habit stacking
if you're familiar with that. So this is best for
remembering things and staying consistent. I think this is so
helpful for me personally because I am one of the
most forgetful people that you will ever meet. And what
you do is you just pair something that you need
to do with something that you already do daily. So
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the example of this would be taking your medication while
you are making your coffee. If you make your coffee
every day, and that's just a habit you've already started.
Then you pair that with something that you need to do,
like take your medicine, do your skincare. While listening to
a podcas stretch why brushing your teeth.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Which sounds done it, I've done it.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
What kind of stretches do you do? You name it.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I've been doing a lot of post exercises lately, and
I do them kind of. While I'm brushing my teeth,
I go over half moon to the right, and then
I'm brushing with my other hand, and then I switch hands.
Sometimes I'll brush my non dominant hand to exercise that
part of my brain. Interesting, it's more challenging. Although a
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wee bit ambidextros. So it's not that I was gonna
say you are a cheater. It just doesn't feel natural
because I do most things with my right hand, so
if I switch it up and try to brush with
my left hand, it just feels different. Yeah, and it
is good, like fires and wires, different things than the brain.
But I've done squats while I heat food up, brush
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my teeth, stuff like that, which makes me think of
Aaron Andrews back in the day. Remember when that peeping
Tom pervert guy. She's probably top of mind because the
super Bowl just happened too. But do you remember when
someone put cameras in her hotel room and was spying
on her and she was getting ready and she didn't
have clothes on. She was doing her hair and about
to get dressed, and like while she was doing her hair,
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I mean, she has a very busy day, and that's
what sometimes people have to do if they want to
get some squats in.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Was that what she was doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Horrible, Yeah, very terrible. And what's sad is that I
think that happens more than we know.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I know, if like I mean, and she was a
well known person and still is. So that's just terrifying itself.
Like if someone just has a video of me from
somewhere a dressing room, a public bathroom something whatever, if
they're keeping to themselves, I hate that they have it,
but like just please don't put it on, you know,
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like I don't want you to have it, like ew,
you're disgusting and you know you don't want to know,
like the hell either, don't ever realize Oh that's Amy
from the Bobby Bone Show. I'm going to send it
into the Bobby Bone's mail bag, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
God or something. No, then they would get arrested. They're
not going to do it. Yeah, true, I think you're safe. True. Well,
so there you go.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Boom five tips, tricks, skills, sacks, and just a message
to anybody that does have an ADHD brain and something
that I continue to tell myself during the season, like,
I'm not broken at all. I'm just wired differently, different,
not better, not worse, and I'm trying to lean in
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to the different ways that work for me. Embrace them,
invite them in, make a little home for them at
the table, feed them, brush their teeth, give them water,
stretch them, give them cute little socks like Cat has
on from Amazon. Cat does, she has on the cutest
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socks and she's like, oh, yeah, they're from Amazon, and
I like link them.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Did I not get these socks from you? Not like
take these from you?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
But I thought, oh maybe no, you had these kinds
of socks from somewhere else, And I said, I can
find those on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I got omit our Ritzia.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
So I paid way too much, yep. I And you're right.
They do look like that. They look exactly like them,
but don't tell me how much you paid.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I won't, but I'll link them and then you can
buy them. Okay, we'll send me the link.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I'll put them in the show notes, okay, along with
the Rites coffee, because you can also get that one
on Amazon. But I don't.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I do know.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Well, Amazon has a subscription, but Rise has a subscription too,
and I think you say more if you sign up
for that, but I don't know. I haven't subscribed yet.
I'm not totally candid. But you know what, I'll do
a lot of to a lot of things that I'm
trying lately. I subscribe so that I get the discount
and then you can sl it and then I can't
sl I duh. But some stuff, if I end up
liking it, then.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I had to stop doing that because I always see
this is the ADHD thing. I have to realize that
this is not something that I'm capable of doing. In
the season of my life. Every time there's a free trial,
I'm like, oh, I'll just remember to cancel it. Not
one time have I ever canceled on time. I always
end up paying for the subscription. So I'm gonna not
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encourage myself to do that I can help.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Okay, I think my list is too long of things
that I'm.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
How do you see what you're subscribed to?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Oh, you can go on your phone or I go
on shop that's just like or not shot my but
it's the purple app.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Shop Shop shot shop. What is that shot pay shot pay?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I don't know, but surely people know what we're talking about,
Like when you check out it's purple. You can use
Apple pay or you can use shop pay.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Shop.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
I don't think it's shot pay.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I swear it is and on my phone right now,
so I would.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Shot pay whatever. You know, it's the purple lenk. I
love when they have that because I have everything entered
and with that one shop pay you can enter codes.
So if there's a discount code, you can do that.
If you do Apple.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Pay, you can't take the disco code away exactly. I
was having that struggle yesterday. I was trying to buy
some olive and jud nail punch, and it kept taking
my discind of a way, and I got so frustrated.
Finally I was like, I just I'm not going to
get it, and so then Patrick just took the phone
and he ordered it.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Not through Apple Pay. But what kind of cahoots are
we in with Apple pay or yeah, like who are
they in business with the non code people?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
But I don't understand why you can't put the code
in and then pay Apple pay, but it kept taking
it away.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Well, it should be like when you click on the
purple one the.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Shop, you can add the code. You go and it.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Takes you and it's like, hey, do you want to
add a code? Boom, It's easy, it does it. It's
all simple inside wherever it takes you. If you go
to Apple Pay, it just takes takes you to the
Apple Pay and then there's no option to add a code.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, who do we need to call? Apple pay? Guy?
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Who is Tim Cook?
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Kick there?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I think it's Tim Cook, like he don't know that
he's like the CEO after Steve Jobs died. I do
you know there's another founder with Steve Jobs? Oh, Steve
Wozniak Wozniak or Wozniak, one of those.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And then there was.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Another guy too, but I think he sold his shares
to the Steves, maybe because he's like, I'm gonna get
out and it was before it took offt Oh, you
know that.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Guy is sad.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yeah, but you know what, I think if I ended
up making as much, I'd probably be like, you know what, dude,
here's some money, here's a little and maybe they did that.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
I don't know. Some of those people can be a
little selfish. Yeah, but well, we'll call Tim kick.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
And we'll ask, Okay, Kat, where can people find you
on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (43:45):
At Kat van Buren.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
And I am at Radio Amy and Kat and I
are well at least one day closer to making our announcement.
We're working on it TVD can't wait. Wish we could
say something, but I don't know. I'll just leaving these
little easter as spoil it. So we're not gonna spoil it.
But we do want to say that we're very very
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very very excited about it. And I think that our
friend Samantha and Albuquerque, she's gonna be excited. At least
there's one person.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Hey, that's all that matters. One person.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
We're gonna we got it all right. Hit us up
four things at Amy around at gmail dot com. But
a hint will be that that will not be our
email anymore for much longer. Mike drop bye or something
like that, Bye say bye bye, say bye bye bye. Oh,
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that's why you're looking at me. Okay, have the day
you need to have.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Bye,
Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the fifth Thing. I'm Amy and.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm Cat And today's quote comes from Dustin Nickerson, who
is a comedian, and he said, being a child is great.
You get upset and everyone decides it's best if you
take a nap. The dream, Oh yeah, those are the days.
I would love that if somebody, you know, banished me
up to my room.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I know. It makes me think about how my kids
just want to be grown up so bad so that
they can do whatever they want. No one's telling them
what to do. And I'm like, yeah, I would give
anything if I could have someone boss me around right now,
tell me exactly what to do and tell me to go.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
To bed and when to do it and how to
do it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, and pay for it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, I'd be like, it's bedtime, it's nine pm.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's amazing. So I got an email blast from I
don't know if it's Reformation or Reformation. Do you know
that clothing site?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And I feel like in my head, I say Reformation,
but I bet it's Reformation.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Probably sounds cooler. Well we're not cool because I was like, oh,
Reformation with the cute quote, because they had this whole
thing about linen. And the subject of the email intrigued
me because it's said, cancel your botox appointment, and I thought, what, Yeah,
I'm not doing botox. So I click on it just
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to see what in the world the clothing company is
saying about it. And they had this whole thing, wrinkles
are in. Throw away your iron, cancel your botox appointment,
save money, also water because linen. And it's this whole
thing about how linen's.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
In and linen has a lot of wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, so embrace them. Twenty twenty five, wrinkles are in.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So do you think we were ahead of that trend.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
By canceling our bowtox departments?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But also I iron my linen.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, but then it gets rinkal pointless, Yeah, it is pointless.
I don't even know where my iron is or my
ironing board because I was looking for the other day.
Cannot find it. So you know what, I use my
go to a straightener here straightener.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
As I said that, I thought to myself, Catherine, you
don't own iron, so you don't iron anything.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I steam everything, so you steam your linen?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yes, I steam my linen. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I could see how getting out the door, wanting it
to look sharp and.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Good, but then you sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, so just embrace the wrinkles everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Plus face fitness because we're doing that too. But Kat
and I both have ADHD, and sometimes we're medicated, sometimes
we're not. So today we are going to be going
over some ADHD hacks that may come in handy if
you're trying to focus and be productive. Because Kat and
I were working on a project the other day and
we were actually doing that the mirroring thing, because we
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were working together.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We were doing that accidentally too.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You know, when you have a partner alongside you, even
if they're just in the room, they don't even have
to be doing the activity, but as long as someone
else is present there with you, you're more likely to
get done what you need to get done. And I
thought these tips or hacks or whatever might be.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Helpful for all.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But before we started recording, Kat was like, I don't
really know how I feel about the word hacks. So
what do you want to call them?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't know what to say. I guess in my hat.
In my head, hack means like it like gets rid
of something like if it's a.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Like like even the word life hack. I don't know.
I have a weird relationship with it. It's not a hack.
It's just a tip of how to do something simpler.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But maybe I'm being too hard on the word hack.
Coping skills is what I think of them as sure,
because it to me, you're you still have ADHD.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
These things don't eliminate or take away the struggle. It
just helps you cope with that easier.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, So I saw a parchment paper hack for lining
a baking sheeta. To me, the hack just made it
more efficient. Like, I'm gonna use the parchment paper and
my way is a little bit more wonky. But when
I saw the hack where you get it wet and
waded up in a ball and then it lays flat
onto the baking sheets so it's not sliding all over
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the place, I'm like, Okay, still using the parchment paper,
but this hack just makes it more efficient.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That sounds difficult.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's not difficult to get it wet and then spread
it out. It's way easier than it like sliding around.
You're trying to get it to stay in place when
you're putting stuff on it, but.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You have to dry it off then you put your food.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
On the water, doesn't it doesn't hold water. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh because it's parchment paper.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Why it's a hack?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Oy?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Really, I put, I promise it doesn't make it more difficult.
So like I don't say sacks is like getting rid
of anything. It's just making it more efficient. Okay, So
I feel like that's what we're doing. That's't either here
nor there.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
We don't need to semantics.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, call it a hack, call it a tip,
caught a skill, call it a skill.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If you don't have ADHD, I feel like I do
you agree? People will get something out of these more
efficient little tips.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay. I have to defend myself because I feel like
maybe not attacking.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
When I feel like somebody might be like she's being
too hard on the word hacks.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I guess it comes from the space if I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
To a client about trying to cope or you know,
overcome something. I never am like, here's a hack that
you can I just don't use that language. That language
doesn't come to me. So when you're talking about something
in the kitchen, I guess hack it makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It goes.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But when we're talking about things with mental health, which
ADHD has to do with your mental health. In my head,
the word hack is a little bit I guess it
feels like kind of invalidating.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Let's call it tips. I don't want anybody to ever
feel invalidated with their disorder, yeah, or whatever they have going.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And I could be being too hard on this because
that's just where my brain's go from.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You're in the therapy space, So I totally respect that.
I do think that these tips, though, could work for everybody.
Even if you don't have ADHD. There might be times
where you feel a little scattered, or you might have
a day where you're very unmotivated, so you could implement
one of these tips.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And I think it only makes sense to add two
with you saying that because you might benefit from one
of these tips or coping skills, doesn't also mean that
you then have ADHD.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yeah, ADHD is totally my algorithm. It's ADHD and
face fitness all the time. That is what I am
fed And the amount of people that pop up and
start to just give all the things that they do,
which I can relate to most of them, and I'm
thankful for the content and the people that are putting
it out, like I go to their page and they
legit and know what they're talking about. But I could
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see if that was just showing up for anybody and
they have like one or two of the ten listed,
they might be like, oh my gosh, I have this.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I have ADHD.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But I think you can have days again where you are,
you know, struggling acting in a way that might seem
like you have ADHD when it's not an everyday thing,
like some people are really struggling with it every single day.
And you know, I got off my meds what first
of the year, so January. Also, I'm still sober January February.
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I haven't had any alcohol, so no adderall no alcohol,
which people with ADHD, that's another thing, they have alcohol.
Oh really, that's some algorithm.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Do you ever wonder what other people's algorithms are?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, like what's yours?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Nails? Yes, they're like olive in June. Everything, it's all
nails right now, and it's all super Bowl right now.
It's Super Bowl halftime show. I was dissecting that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, it'll die down the Serena Williams and Drake.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And it's nails and Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively still yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I'm curious to see what's gonna have first time they
have to go to, Like, is Taylor Swift gonna get subpoenut.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Patrick was sending me videos that he's even into the drama.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is sending you that?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Sending it from where? I don't sending it from work
because Kat told me the other day she's never called
her husband at work before ever, not to just be like, hey,
how's it going, what's what you do in And he does.
To be clear, he is not a first responder. He
is not in the military.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He's an accountant.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He definitely has a job where you could call and
casually be like, hey, just check it in and see
how your day's going. And she was like, oh, never.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, I would call him if it was an emergency,
one hundred percent I would call him. Or don't have kids,
so there's never like, oh, I'm gonna can you do
pick up? So I have no reason to call himbout that.
My thought is, I don't like talking on the phone
in general. I'm not a chit chatter. You are a
chit chatter.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You love to talk talk talk.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
And.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Which is a beautiful trait of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Thank you, But I just either want you to text
me or voice on me, or like talk in person.
So I think that's probably why I never have the
urge to call him. Also, he's very busy, I will say,
so I don't want to annoy him.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh he's so busy that he sent you Blake Lively.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He's done that at work.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I think he said it, but he was like in
the bathroom probably.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So Anyway, again, like I said, Kat, I both have
ADHD so little. He goes back to my original point,
which was that I'm unmedicated, can you tell? And I'm
loving life and it's great. But one thing that keeps
popping up for me, and I have been taking it
because I was seeing it enough is Lion's Main. Have
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you heard of it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I've heard of it. I don't know, no correlation with
I don't. I know it's a mushroom.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh you know that. You didn't think it was. They
go to a lion and trim the maine and blend
it up into powder.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Even before I knew what it was. I don't think
I ever had that thought.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Just in case you think it's actual Lion's Main. It's not.
It is a functional mushroom and it's not from a cat.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Do you know what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
It looks kind of like white furry like a main.
Oh really, it does have that Harry that look. Oh, which,
since we talked about cats, maybe before we get into
the Lion's Main, we might need to read that email
that we got the other day about last week's podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, you should read that. I have it ready.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I wasn't sure how we're going to get into it
because I do want to be respectful of the person
and where they are in life. But I do think
that what they went through and how the person that
passed away was handling it, it may help with the
grieving process, Like beforehand, how they were able to be like,
don't grieve me in this way, like almost giving instructions
for grieving, which maybe you could think about how you
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would want me to grieve you one day?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Or why do I grieve me? Why don't want to
grieve you? Either?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, yeah, but what if I'm like, look, don't I
need you to go have fun? Take some lines made?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That would help? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It also reminds me of a million little things. Oh, Gary,
you finish watching it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I don't think I finished. That's a good question. Like,
right now, I literally can't tell you. I know that
I wouldn't watch that show because of you, but right
now I have no memory of how that show ended.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was one of the crazy not crazy, but I
mean it was a very well done TV ending. I'll
say that. I don't want to say good because there's
some sadness in it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Okay, I might have to google what happened and then
maybe my brain watch it. Well. But if I already
watched it, well.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Then you won't. You'll be like, oh, this is good,
I'm glad I'm watching it again.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Or no, what's something that I have to watch for work?
Is chiefs Aholic? It's some Chiefs fan that was robbing banks?
What in every city? He would go to every Chiefs game,
and when he was in the town that he was
in for the game, he would rob banks.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Will you get caught?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Obviously there's a documentary, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Mystery. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I haven't watched it yet, so I don't really know. Okay,
I got this email here. It is from Samantha. She
lives in Albuquerque. Hey, Amy, I went into this week
losing a friend to cancer. Also, let me preface this
real quick before we read it. Do you remember what
I said after last week's episode? Because we got multiple
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messages about last week's episode being enjoyable, funny, strange, but.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
People like that messages saying it was fun, Yeah, that
was good.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Like saying thanks, I needed the laugh whatever, that type
of vialue that energy. Do you remember what I said
to Houston whenever we finished.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yes, you said, I don't know, Houston, that might have
been weird. You might just want to put on a
best of.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And so let this just be a little thing that
even if you're not feeling confident about something, just put
it out there anyway, because what is confidence?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
What's the definition of confidence? Trying?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I said, bye, Mel Robbins. So I am thankful Houston
did that. He heard and he was like, you know what,
I'm not going to do a best of. We're gonna
hear a this. They did it, and even if one
person needed to hear it, that'd be great, but it
seems to multiple people you need to laugh. Because I
know you've got notes about it too. And it's not
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that we get a note about every episode we ever
do like sometimes I'm like, Hello.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Really good episode. Nobody compliment ay of me.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm not compliment just even asking about it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I also think that speaks to when you are yourself.
This is for everybody, but specifically you can relate this
from that experience. When you're yourself and you're authentic and
you just allow things to flow and happen, you'll be
surprised on how well received that is. Like people genuinely,
like when people are genuine, and I think in that
episode you were being interesting but also very genuine.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, thank you, Yeah, same to you. Thanks, You're like
I was the only weird one.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think I said anything weird except my person I
dated didn't where to do it, Rent, I wasn't acting
like cat.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
To be clear, I never acted like a cat. I
told my boyfriend to tell his coworker colleague. I don't
feel like it's a coworker, but colleague that I was
raised by cats.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Anyway. To be fair, you're here nor there.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Let's read the email. Hey, Amy, I went into this
week losing a friend to cancer. He fought so hard
for as long as he possibly could. Due to his condition.
He never wanted his friends or coworkers to see him
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so vulnerable. I assume it is because police officers never
want people to see them as weak. All he ever
asked for was prayers, and he tried to go into
each appointment with joy and hope in superhero references that
I never understood. When I got the news of his passing,
I was and still am heartbroken. But I remember him
prior to his diagnosis always telling me if something happens, no,
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I am okay, Please don't cry or mourn me. Remember
all the fun I had in life. He would say
things like if you cry, I will haunt you. He
had an infectious laugh and smile and brought so much
joy to my life. That said, I have followed my
normal routine and really tried hard to mourn in a
way that he would have wanted. Your fifth thing this
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week has made that so much easier. I felt so
lucky to hear you and Kat talk about Maggie's model
sister and to see you being more playful. I laughed
out loud for the whole episode. I felt so much
comfort and smiling that big If you're ever in doubt
that the random things you and Kat say or do
on the fifth thing are getting listened into. They are
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and they make people laugh. Raised by cats Lol, your
friend Samantha from Albuquerque.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I just love that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, it's such a good email. And Samantha were thinking
of you. And I know that it's hard to lose
somebody like that, and I do think it is special
that he was able to give you instructions on how
to mourn. And it doesn't make it any easier, but
the fact that you almost had this permission slip to
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live life and laugh and remember the good times, I
think helps.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, and that he did it with humor too. I
think that's sweet that if you if you mourn me,
I will haunt you.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Maybe that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Okay, not to change the subject, but we do have
to go back to the lion's main.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We were talking about that, yep, Okay, Well, I think
you're asking what it looked like, and it's like a
fluffy looks like a main, No, but like a picture
like a white.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Pomp pom like a dandelion.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Sure kind of looks like if you were to grab
like a lion's maine and hold it in your hand
like cup it and the hairs were poking out. It
kind of looked like furry. Google it, okay, just google
lion's main. But I would say, like a fluffy white
pom pom. Okay, but like a lion's main, but doesn't
look like a mushroom. No, I wouldn't see it and
think mushroom like I would think weird thing. Maybe even
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from the sea.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It looks like cauliflower. Also does look like a lion's main.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Thank you. It's been used in Chinese medicine for centuries,
so it's not anything new. But it is having a moment,
that's for sure. You know, like cottage cheese is all
the rage with protein people, is it? Yeah? I feel
like twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's not in my algorithm because I hate cottage cheese.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, that makes sense. Why you didn't know it was
like the food of the year last year?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was well that thing or you just mean like, okay, sorry,
I thought there was some like a word.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I mean, if you were to maybe ask like what
was the most like trendy food talked about item for
a recid, I don't know that we would call cottage
cheese trendy food, but like people were using it to
make pancakes and.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Patrick told me that he puts cottage cheese in his pancakes.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's a way to increase the protein out or.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I thought we were on the same page there.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, it can do both, Okay, two things can be true. Okay,
at the same time, that's true. Well, line's main is
making its way into my algorithm because a lot of
people take it for brain function, and it's in the
ADHD content that I'm constantly being given. But brain function
memory focus. That's why it's likely good for people like us,
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because we struggle with our executive function and you probably
know more about that than I do.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, it sounds like you're the one that is getting
all the content around us. You might know just as
much as me.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, but you like have a degree but not an
eighty HD But I thank you. Yeah, well, I like
to give credits due. Yeah, Like what are the little
letters you have after your name?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
LPC m HSP and that stands for Licensed Professional counselor
Mental Health.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Service provider aka therapist. That's a degree.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, with a degree, I do have to have a degree.
You have a degree, just not in therapy.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, agricultural development.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Always it was so surprising every time you say it.
Our agriculture. Look, that's why you know about lions Maine.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yes, yes, I could grow functional mushrooms potentially.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So has this I guess it's been used probably to
help with that stuff in general. And now people are saying, oh,
this is something that people with ADHD struggle with, so
why aren't we helping?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
We increasing their intake of it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So they're calling it quote unquote nature's adderall. Oh, so obviously,
you know when I saw that, I was like, click
by order, take me done me. So I've been having
it through Rise mushroom coffee. It's ry z.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Tell me about the mushroom coffee though. Does it taste
like coffee or is it just like a type of drink.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
There is a little bit of coffee in it, but
not as much coffee as I was having before, And
I will say, I don't get all jittery, I don't
have a crash. I just like it. Coffee for me though,
is an experience. I like having it in my little
mug with my milk, like I make it with my
almond milk, put a little honey in there, and that's
my me time. So this could be doing nothing it
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could be placebo. I could be thinking that it's doing
amazing things for me. But I feel like Chinese medicine,
I believe in. We've been doing it for a long
time all that, so I do think that there is
something that's happening. They say it can reduce anxiety, mood swings,
shout out. I need some of that. It lowers inflammation,
which that's a really big deal for brain function, because
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when your brain is inflamed, that can cause more problems.
So anyway, the rise mushroom coffee. That's what I've been
having daily this whole year. Actually, I just haven't talked
to about it yet.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You aren't making your little coffee drinks with your fancy
coffee thing. What fancy coffee thing do you have the
coffee machine?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Do you not have that anymore?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I lost that in the divorce, meaning when we divide
it up assets.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You gave that he took, or you got that.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I guess that sounds weird. It was his too, it's
just that that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
No longer have it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I didn't realize that his list. Yeah, and it's been
a goal to get another one because I do like
a shot of espresso, like quite honestly, I would even
maybe make the rice coffee and throw in an extra
shot on the hard days because I love my sister's coffee.
Her you always make that, and I could just do
an espresso shot and throw it in there because it's
like good quality stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So this is a little off topic, but if you
were to make coffee that wasn't the mushroom coffee, what
are you making it in right now?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Well, it's just powder and you just put a like
a heat up the milk.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I mean like, if you weren't having mushroom coffee, do
you have a coffee machine? No?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I was just buying iced coffee in a that.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Made because you loved your coffee making experience. I know, Okay,
I didn't mean to bring.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Up a sad that's okay, Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Anyway, it's over, and tell me about your ritual with
the rice coffee. That sounds fun too.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well that it has the functional mushrooms in there. So
I don't know if anybody else has tried lions made
and other things. I think it's also in my I
don't have a bar, so I can't look at the ingredients,
but I love those alpha ten bars, and I know
there's functional mushrooms in there, but I don't know if
one of the mushrooms is actually Lines Main. But it
depends on the milligrams that you're getting, right, So you
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need to get a certain amount if you're wanting to
have the benefits of whatever it is you're trying to achieve.
Because there's different mushrooms for different things. I might overdose
online Lines made now that I think about it, because
in my mushroom alcohol.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That I want.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Called Little Saints now, I think it might be in
my Alpha ten bar, it's in my Rise coffee, and
then now I think gets in my Little Saints' mocktail stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Which that was good. Yeah, that was really good.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And I'm pretty sure it's Lions Main. Can you od
on it? No, not like to your death, but I
mean can.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I wonder if you can take too much that, like
it cancels out the benefits exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
If so, I need to research that and dial it
back because I want to do good things with my
Lion's Main. I mean, too much of water is harmful.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, but you're gonna have to drink a lot. You're
never going to hit that. Do you not know?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
About we for a week, hold your Wii for a week.
It was a radio bit from early two thousands where
they were giving away a Wii. Remember when We's were
very popular or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
This wasn't you right, dear? No, okay, no.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But people in radio I can't remember the station, but
they were giving away a Wii and you had to
drink water and then hold your PN and whoever could
hold it the longest one the WI. So hold your
Wi for a WI and a woman?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Oh my dang, her is this days that you're doing this?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No? Remember all the details. I don't even remember if
I finished that show you told me to watch, so
I don't remember the details of this. But I mean
too much of anything can.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Be much have a good thing, we can become a
bad thing. Yes, yes, correct?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Any who'sy That's that I'm doing over here with my
lions main If anybody else is more well versed, would
love to hear from you. You can email us four
Things with Amy Brown at gmail dot com. Or if
you have a product that you have really enjoyed, something
natural that has helped you with your adhd let us know,
and something that, oh my gosh, natural what well, this
(24:44):
just hit me. You know.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I went to the doctor today and I talked to
her about so Patrick and I are going to try
to have a baby soon, and she said, this is
not for everybody, so this is not medical advice. But
I was talking to her and she said, well, you
might want to try to not be taking your medication
while you're trying to conceive it, and definitely while you
are pregnant. Some people do and it's fine. I just
(25:06):
am not going to do that. And we were talking about, okay, well,
is there anything I can take that's not a simulant
that would be safe for whatever, versus having to just, like,
you know, not have this at all for a prolonged
who knows how long it's going to take for me
to get pregnant.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Lion's main shut up.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
She said that, no she didn't, but I thought you
said that and you were just now I forgot putting
two and two together.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
No, I'm just thinking, like, oh my gosh, this is
perfect timing that you're telling me about this, because I
want to look into it, because that is something that
did kind of scare me. If I'm going to be
trying to get pregnant for a long. If it takes
a long time, that would that's kind of scary to
not be able to take something that's been so helpful
for so long.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
We should ask her about it. Yeah, ask her what
she thinks about Lion's maine. Okay, I'm curious, like actual
doctor's advice, because.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, good it's very natural too.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh goody, she'll likely know about it. But this isn't
medical advice in any way, shape or form, but just
other things that are out there that you might be
able to take if you're trying not to take things.
When you were talking about getting pregnant on medication, it
made me think of when college. I did accutane for
about six weeks because I couldn't last. I wasn't able
to finish all the way through because why because it
(26:21):
couldn't even open my mouth to chew chat. Yes, like
the corners of my mouth were so cracked. And honestly,
I don't even really think that I needed it, and
I think it started to scare me what it was
doing to my body. And my roommates were on it too.
We were all on it. So if you came over
to our house, because each individual pill was behind like
a little.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Little I had. I had it. It was like the firf rated.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, is that the word.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It was like the foil with the then.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You heard the pill out with the little card that
you would have to pop out. Every single pill was
covered with a little pregnant person with a circle and
a line through it to remind you do not get
pregnant on this drug, which that wasn't a problem for
any of us anyway at that time in our.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Life, but you had to have.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
If you came over to our apartment, you'd be like,
what the heck are y'all on?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Because there was.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
This little those little pieces of paper with like the
pregnant lady in the circle line through it all over
our house. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I took that twice. It was hard because I also
had chapped lips and stuff like that. But it wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I mean, I was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I just think I was responsible enough to like do
the things to take care. Yeah, probably wasn't drinking water,
Probably really danks rizing. Oh yeah, I definitely didn't drink.
They said don't drink because you're liver. But that's why
I'm doing dry February is because I've already gone four weeks,
and did I tell you how? They say going six weeks,
giving your liver a break for six weeks is life
(27:44):
changing for it. Like your liver's like thank you. They're
like your liver's like wow, I feel amazing. You have
a whole new liver. I've completely turned over.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
What is that word? Turned over? This gonna be the
word of the week when it turns a new leaf,
like I've completely.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, turnover, rejuvenated, rejuvenated. I think that's rejuvenation.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Maybe that's a rejuve, reformation, reformation.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, okay, so something else that is totally natural and
drug free. Are our tips.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Our brain natural and drug free.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
So Cat, we'll go back and forth. If you've got
five to share, Cat, you go first.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So the first one is the five four three two
one focus reset.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And these tips are for focus and productivity, right.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yes, so first one five four three two one focus reset.
This is best for when you're overwhelmed, when you're having
task paralysis brain fog. Basically, when your brain is stuck,
you can use your own sensus to ground yourself. So
you do five things you can see, four things you
can touch, three things you can hear, two things you
(29:04):
can smell and.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Then one deep breath. I love that just skill in general.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I love this too. I feel like I read an
article a while back in the New York Times about
this for anxiety, and my sister and I were talking
about I think that's why I remember specifically is New
York Times. You're like sharing the article and she was
having a lot of anxiety at the time, and it
was a way for her to completely reset.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And this is good too. I use this with clients
a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
It's good for grounding in general, when you're feeling dissociative
or yeah, just overwhelmed, for anybody, because it forces you
to focus on the present versus all of the external stimuli.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So boom comes in handy even if you don't have ADHD.
Second hack is the body doubling trick. This is best
for getting through tasks that you avoid, which is kind
of what Kat and I were talking about earlier. Are mirroring.
So people call it mirroring, some people call it body doubling,
but it's you working alongside someone else, even if they're
doing something unrelated, like they just have to be there.
(30:08):
And this can be a real person but Guess what,
even if you have someone virtually there with you, it
can work as well. So even if you've got someone
on FaceTime or zoom get this, I was reading about it.
It could even work if you were watching a YouTube
video or something like someone else that you're watching because
(30:30):
it feels like there's someone there with you, Like, just
take your compute, you've got a bunch of clothes to
hang up, take your computer in your closet, and watch
someone on YouTube, which coming soon you're gonna be able
to watch a me incount on YouTube, so you can
take us everyhe you go. We'll be your body double.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, Wait, I thought you meant something different. That's why
I made that face. That makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I thought you were saying, like, watch a YouTube video
of somebody doing work.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
No, I mean, and really it's not supposed to be
like of us doing our podcast. It should be a
YouTube video of someone do there. If you like, you
can look up study with me videos and it will
be someone on YouTube studying. Okay, and they'll study with you.
Have you seen those funny jokes of like I'm going
to read this book for as long as this candle
(31:15):
is burning or I'm going to study for as long
as this candle burns. And you light the candle and
then they find a way to casually get it blown out.
Then they shut their book and it blows out, and
they're like, Okay, I.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Guess that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I'm done studying. Why body doubling works is our brains
struggle with self motivation. But we thrive when there's accountability,
external accountability. We thrive. We thrive with the deadline.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
We thrive with something to somewhere. I will be there.
If not, I don't know if I'll show up. Yeah, yeah, okay.
So third hack is the ten minute.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Third tip I prefer to calumn tips, I really do.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Third coping skill is the ten minute rule for procrastination,
and this is best for starting tasks that you dread
or just in general, starting tasks that feels.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Big or hard or overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And basically what you do is you just put a
timer and say I have ten minutes to do this.
You could make it fifteen minutes, you can make it
twenty minutes, but ten minutes is an easy number that
I think people can think in their mind, oh, that'll
be over really soon. So set a timer you can
either put a playlist on that's ten minutes. You can
actually just set a timer. You can do anything like that,
(32:40):
And most of the time when you do this, you'll
end up going longer.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I do this when I clean.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I'll say I'm just going to clean the counters and
the mirror in the bathroom. That'll take me like what,
fifteen minutes, and then I end up like scrubbing the floors.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, like a lot of times, That's what I've found.
When I do my timer things, I'll go longer.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's because it's hard, and I assume that you feel
the same way. When I'm looking at the wholeness of
a task, it often feels like too big to even start,
like I'll never finish it, so I don't even want
to start it.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
But if I just start it, then it starts to
break down.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
What are your thoughts on trusting yourself, because sometimes if
we say I'm only going to do this ten minutes
and then you keep going, it's like the next time
you do that, you're like, oh, but last time I
said I was only going to do it ten minutes,
I kept going and it was like thirty. So I
don't trust myself and then that becomes the whole thing.
But maybe if it's just you give yourself permission to
(33:36):
go with the flow, and if you want to stop,
you stop, and if you want to keep going, keep going.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I don't think that that comes into play because
when I keep going, when I told myself I'm only
going to do it for ten minutes, it's not like,
oh I have to keep doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
It's not like a feeling of dread.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's like, oh, I actually am enjoying getting this test
and it's not so bad. So I guess in my head,
if I'm thinking why did that last time, it doesn't
feel negative.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I think I'm just thinking about that because I've had
to work to like trust trust YOURSELFLF.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, and like, well, you have permission to change your mind,
right right, So just because you did it once doesn't
mean you're going to do it every time. And I
think trusting yourself is also trusting that if I change
my mind, I'm allow myself to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's just being breezy, breezy and easy and fun. I'm breezy, yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Breezy, that's me.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So our brains they tend to freeze up sometimes and
things feel really big. But I like the ten minute
thing because it makes it more bite size.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
All right, for the skill.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
The first step only rule. Now, this is best for
executive dysfunction when you don't really know where to start,
So like when a task feels overwhelming, identify just the
first step, not the whole thing, just step one. So
like an example might be instead of clean the kitchen,
(34:58):
you might say, okay, I'm I'm just gonna put one
dish in the sink. Step one, dish in the sink,
Step two, rinse the dish. Step three, put the dish
in the dish water, and then you'll pick up momentum
and your brain will start to do things naturally. But
sometimes there's just that getting started. We get frozen for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I feel like when that happens, because it's similar to
the ten minute when we start to do the task.
When you start to get into it, your body remembers, oh,
this feels good to get this done, so it wants
to keep doing that. And I think we struggle with
because dopamine it's not the feel good near our transmitter,
it's what it's associated with that, But really it is
(35:41):
it helps with motivation because it helps you remember that
it feels good. But we lack that sometimes, so we
forget that that thing feels good, so we don't create
these habits. But once we get in it, then we
get that hit of dopamine. I'm like, oh, this does
feel good.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That makes me think about making my bed first thing
in the morning. That's become a habit. Yeah, that feels
really good. Yeah, and it's like step one. I know
this is something that feels good and it's a great
way to start my day.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yes, okay, So I have the fifth and final tip
skill hack ready.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
About every time we've changed to something else, so for
the final one, it's a tip skill hack.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
We're combining them off.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
This is the task pairing and basically it's habit stacking
if you're familiar with that. So this is best for
remembering things and staying consistent. I think this is so
helpful for me personally because I am one of the
most forgetful people that you will ever meet. And what
you do is you just pair something that you need
to do with something that you already do daily. So
(36:44):
the example of this would be taking your medication while
you are making your coffee. If you make your coffee
every day, and that's just a habit you've already started.
Then you pair that with something that you need to do,
like take your medicine, do your skincare. While listening to
a podcas stretch why brushing your teeth.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Which sounds done it, I've done it.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
What kind of stretches do you do? You name it.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I've been doing a lot of post exercises lately, and
I do them kind of. While I'm brushing my teeth,
I go over half moon to the right, and then
I'm brushing with my other hand, and then I switch hands.
Sometimes I'll brush my non dominant hand to exercise that
part of my brain. Interesting, it's more challenging. Although a
(37:29):
wee bit ambidextros. So it's not that I was gonna
say you are a cheater. It just doesn't feel natural
because I do most things with my right hand, so
if I switch it up and try to brush with
my left hand, it just feels different. Yeah, and it
is good, like fires and wires, different things than the brain.
But I've done squats while I heat food up, brush
(37:49):
my teeth, stuff like that, which makes me think of
Aaron Andrews back in the day. Remember when that peeping
Tom pervert guy. She's probably top of mind because the
super Bowl just happened too. But do you remember when
someone put cameras in her hotel room and was spying
on her and she was getting ready and she didn't
have clothes on. She was doing her hair and about
to get dressed, and like while she was doing her hair,
(38:09):
I mean, she has a very busy day, and that's
what sometimes people have to do if they want to
get some squats in.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Was that what she was doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Horrible, Yeah, very terrible. And what's sad is that I
think that happens more than we know.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I know, if like I mean, and she was a
well known person and still is. So that's just terrifying itself.
Like if someone just has a video of me from
somewhere a dressing room, a public bathroom something whatever, if
they're keeping to themselves, I hate that they have it,
but like just please don't put it on, you know,
(38:44):
like I don't want you to have it, like ew,
you're disgusting and you know you don't want to know,
like the hell either, don't ever realize Oh that's Amy
from the Bobby Bone Show. I'm going to send it
into the Bobby Bone's mail bag, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
God or something. No, then they would get arrested. They're
not going to do it. Yeah, true, I think you're safe. True. Well,
so there you go.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Boom five tips, tricks, skills, sacks, and just a message
to anybody that does have an ADHD brain and something
that I continue to tell myself during the season, like,
I'm not broken at all. I'm just wired differently, different,
not better, not worse, and I'm trying to lean in
(39:28):
to the different ways that work for me. Embrace them,
invite them in, make a little home for them at
the table, feed them, brush their teeth, give them water,
stretch them, give them cute little socks like Cat has
on from Amazon. Cat does, she has on the cutest
(39:53):
socks and she's like, oh, yeah, they're from Amazon, and
I like link them.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Did I not get these socks from you? Not like
take these from you?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
But I thought, oh maybe no, you had these kinds
of socks from somewhere else, And I said, I can
find those on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I got omit our Ritzia.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
So I paid way too much, yep. I And you're right.
They do look like that. They look exactly like them,
but don't tell me how much you paid.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I won't, but I'll link them and then you can
buy them. Okay, we'll send me the link.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I'll put them in the show notes, okay, along with
the Rites coffee, because you can also get that one
on Amazon. But I don't.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I do know.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Well, Amazon has a subscription, but Rise has a subscription too,
and I think you say more if you sign up
for that, but I don't know. I haven't subscribed yet.
I'm not totally candid. But you know what, I'll do
a lot of to a lot of things that I'm
trying lately. I subscribe so that I get the discount
and then you can sl it and then I can't
sl I duh. But some stuff, if I end up
liking it, then.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I had to stop doing that because I always see
this is the ADHD thing. I have to realize that
this is not something that I'm capable of doing. In
the season of my life. Every time there's a free trial,
I'm like, oh, I'll just remember to cancel it. Not
one time have I ever canceled on time. I always
end up paying for the subscription. So I'm gonna not
(41:09):
encourage myself to do that I can help.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Okay, I think my list is too long of things
that I'm.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
How do you see what you're subscribed to?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Oh, you can go on your phone or I go
on shop that's just like or not shot my but
it's the purple app.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Shop Shop shot shop. What is that shot pay shot pay?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I don't know, but surely people know what we're talking about,
Like when you check out it's purple. You can use
Apple pay or you can use shop pay.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Shop.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
I don't think it's shot pay.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I swear it is and on my phone right now,
so I would.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Shot pay whatever. You know, it's the purple lenk. I
love when they have that because I have everything entered
and with that one shop pay you can enter codes.
So if there's a discount code, you can do that.
If you do Apple.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Pay, you can't take the disco code away exactly. I
was having that struggle yesterday. I was trying to buy
some olive and jud nail punch, and it kept taking
my discind of a way, and I got so frustrated.
Finally I was like, I just I'm not going to
get it, and so then Patrick just took the phone
and he ordered it.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Not through Apple Pay. But what kind of cahoots are
we in with Apple pay or yeah, like who are
they in business with the non code people?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
But I don't understand why you can't put the code
in and then pay Apple pay, but it kept taking
it away.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Well, it should be like when you click on the
purple one the.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Shop, you can add the code. You go and it.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Takes you and it's like, hey, do you want to
add a code? Boom, It's easy, it does it. It's
all simple inside wherever it takes you. If you go
to Apple Pay, it just takes takes you to the
Apple Pay and then there's no option to add a code.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, who do we need to call? Apple pay? Guy?
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Who is Tim Cook?
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Kick there?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I think it's Tim Cook, like he don't know that
he's like the CEO after Steve Jobs died. I do
you know there's another founder with Steve Jobs? Oh, Steve
Wozniak Wozniak or Wozniak, one of those.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And then there was.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Another guy too, but I think he sold his shares
to the Steves, maybe because he's like, I'm gonna get
out and it was before it took offt Oh, you
know that.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Guy is sad.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yeah, but you know what, I think if I ended
up making as much, I'd probably be like, you know what, dude,
here's some money, here's a little and maybe they did that.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
I don't know. Some of those people can be a
little selfish. Yeah, but well, we'll call Tim kick.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
And we'll ask, Okay, Kat, where can people find you
on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (43:45):
At Kat van Buren.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
And I am at Radio Amy and Kat and I
are well at least one day closer to making our announcement.
We're working on it TVD can't wait. Wish we could
say something, but I don't know. I'll just leaving these
little easter as spoil it. So we're not gonna spoil it.
But we do want to say that we're very very
(44:09):
very very excited about it. And I think that our
friend Samantha and Albuquerque, she's gonna be excited. At least
there's one person.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Hey, that's all that matters. One person.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
We're gonna we got it all right. Hit us up
four things at Amy around at gmail dot com. But
a hint will be that that will not be our
email anymore for much longer. Mike drop bye or something
like that, Bye say bye bye, say bye bye bye. Oh,
(44:41):
that's why you're looking at me. Okay, have the day
you need to have.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Bye,
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