with host artist Miriam Schulman
ADHD and neurodiversity can often be our biggest superpower. I’ve invited best-selling author and my friend, Tracy Otsuka, to share her experience and insights on ADHD and how we can use it to our advantage.
“If you can hire those weaknesses out as soon as possible, you will be surprised at how much of a jump you will make in the things that you really want to get done” – Tracy Otsuka
In this podcast, you will…
- Discover steps you can take to thrive in your personal and professional life
- Learn the importance of knowing yourself
- Define and understand your mind on a deeper level
“You are not disordered. You are not defective. You just have a different brain that operates using a different system.” – Tracy Otsuka
Links Mentioned
📖 Artpreneur, by Miriam Schulman: The go-to handbook for artists aspiring to turn their passion into a sustainable and profitable career. This book offers inspiring stories and practical advice that empower artists to embrace a confident mindset and follow a clear path to creative and financial freedom.
🩷Tracy Otsuka: Forget hustle harder. Forget a mandatory 5 a.m. wake-up. Forget outlining your life plan in six-month, one-year, and five-year spans. Want to build a vision for your life that is unapologetically true to who you are and what you want? Here’s where you start.
Books!
About Tracy
Tracy Otsuka, JD, is a certified ADHD coach and the host of the ADHD for Smart Ass Women podcast. Over the past decade, she has empowered thousands of clients (from doctors and therapists to C-suite executives and entrepreneurs) to see their neurodivergence as a strength–not a weakness. Tracy leverages her analytical skills from being a lead counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to identify the right questions to ask her clients so they can boost their productivity, improve their finances, save failing relationships and live happier lives.
Tracy’s expertise and experience as an adult living with ADHD are regularly sought out by top tier media including Inc, Forbes, ADDitude magazine, and The Goal Digger Podcast. When she’s not sharing her thought leadership around ADHD on other platforms, she hosts her own podcast which ranks #1 in its category and has over 5 million downloads across 160 countries. She also moderates a Facebook group with nearly 100,000 members. A married mother of two, Tracy lives in Sonoma County outside of San Francisco. Her new book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women is due out in December 2023.
About the host, Miriam Schulman
In case we haven’t met yet, I’m an artist and founder of The Inspiration Place, where I help other artists learn how to profit from their passion. Through online classes, business coaching programs, and a top-ranked podcast, I’ve helped thousands of artists around the world develop their skill sets and create more time and freedom to do what they love. My signature coaching program, The Artist Incubator, helps artists go from so-so sales to sold-out collections.
After witnessing 9/11, I abandoned a lucrative hedge fund job to work on my art full time. Since then, my art and story have been featured in major publications including Forbes, What Women Create, The New York Times, Art of Man, Art Journaling magazine, Professional Artist Magazine, Igniting Creativity as well as featured on NBC’s “Parenthood” and the Amazon series “Hunters” with Al Pacino. Check out my best-selling book with HarperCollins Leadership, Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living From Your Creativity, wherever books are sold. When I’m not in the studio, I split my time between New York City and a farmhouse in the country. I’d love to invite you to check out one of my free resources for art lovers (of every passion level) at schulmanart.com/freebies
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Listener shout out of the week!
Inspiring and empowering
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This podcast motivates me to make my weird art and just go for the weirdest forms and colors. To be bold and brave with my art and take up space as an artist. I only recently picked up my art again and hadn’t really identified with it but listening to Miriam and her guests discuss what an artist is and how important it is to embrace your unique weirdness and that it’s okay to take up space and put your art out there, I felt like “yeah, I’m gonna do this!”. I feel like I’m not alone at my drawing desk but that there is a whole community out there and Miriam is sharing very valuable advice and experiences. What a wealth of knowledge and inspiration. Thank you!
Chelsea Artpreneur Studio · New York City
What’s the biggest bottleneck holding your art business back?
Maybe it feels like pricing. Maybe it’s finding the right collectors, choosing the right opportunities, or figuring out what deserves your attention next. Or maybe you can see 3 different directions your business could go, and you’re tired of guessing which one is right.
That’s what we’re working on at the Chelsea Artpreneur Studio, October 28–29 in New York City.
This isn’t a conference or another workshop where you leave with forty new ideas. I’m bringing together a small group of established artists for two days of hands-on strategy built around the actual problems you bring into the room. We’ll look at your business, figure out what’s really holding it back, make the decisions, and map out exactly what comes next.
You’ll also have a professional branding portrait session, plus plenty of time around the table with a small group of artists who take their businesses as seriously as you do.
You’ll leave knowing what’s actually holding your business back, what needs to change, and most of all, what to do next.
By application · Limited seats
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I need Tracy’s book in the worst way! I’m a smart ass raised in NJ and Detroit (extra sarcastic) AND I live in Minnesota where no one gets me!!! I’m also diagnosed with ADHD and am trying to make it work for me.