A podcast about teaching, learning, and living with ADHD
Hosted and Curated
by Karen Costa
Hosted and Curated
by Karen Costa
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Come on in.Welcome to the ADHD Gallery, a podcast about teaching, learning, and living with ADHD, hosted and curated by Karen Costa.
This podcast is for the ADHDers of the world. Venture through this gallery of ideas, curiosities, brain science, random hyperfocus interests, and reflections on what it’s like to live with an entire galaxy inside your head. Fellow dopamine hunters, let’s be weird, together. |
Season 2: How to Write a Book When
You Are ADHD
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Trailer Description: Welcome to the ADHD Gallery Season 2: How to Write a Book When You Are ADHD.
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Trailer Description: Welcome to the ADHD Gallery Season 2: How to Write a Book When You Are ADHD.
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Episode 1: Come Up With an Idea
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Episode Description: I share how I came up with the idea for my ADHD book and how to work with ideas in general.
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Episode Description: I share how I came up with the idea for my ADHD book and how to work with ideas in general.
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Episode 2: Write Your Proposal
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Episode Description: I went the route of submitting a non-fiction book proposal directly to an academic publisher, and I'll share how to develop your proposal and persist when motivation wanes or completely vanishes.
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Episode Description: I went the route of submitting a non-fiction book proposal directly to an academic publisher, and I'll share how to develop your proposal and persist when motivation wanes or completely vanishes.
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Episode 3: Find a Publisher
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Episode Description: I worked with an academic publisher for my book, but there are a lot of options for bringing your book into the world. Here's what that process looked like for me (spoiler: topsy turvy!) and how I kept writing through the ups and downs.
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Episode Description: I worked with an academic publisher for my book, but there are a lot of options for bringing your book into the world. Here's what that process looked like for me (spoiler: topsy turvy!) and how I kept writing through the ups and downs.
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Episode 4: Design Your Process & Structure
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Episode Description: The goal is never to fit our ADHD brain into a neurotypical box, but to instead design systems and structures that work for our gorgeous, creative, open neurotypes. Here's how I designed my book-writing system.
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Episode Description: The goal is never to fit our ADHD brain into a neurotypical box, but to instead design systems and structures that work for our gorgeous, creative, open neurotypes. Here's how I designed my book-writing system.
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Episode 5: Blow It All Up
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Episode Description: Writing a book in the current volatile era is not for the faint of heart, but we ADHDers can do hard things. Here's how my book writing journey blew up, more than once, and how I kept writing.
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Episode Description: Writing a book in the current volatile era is not for the faint of heart, but we ADHDers can do hard things. Here's how my book writing journey blew up, more than once, and how I kept writing.
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Episode 6: Never Write Another Book
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Episode Description: You actually don't have to write a book. There are lots of other ways to share your great work with the world. Do you really want to write that book? And if so, how do you work with the inevitable challenges of book writing.
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Episode Description: You actually don't have to write a book. There are lots of other ways to share your great work with the world. Do you really want to write that book? And if so, how do you work with the inevitable challenges of book writing.
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Episode 7: Finish Your Book
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Episode Description: ADHDers are the creative leaders who can best guide us forward in this volatile era. Here's how to persist, even if you have not even a shred of motivation left some days.
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Episode Description: ADHDers are the creative leaders who can best guide us forward in this volatile era. Here's how to persist, even if you have not even a shred of motivation left some days.
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Season 1
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Trailer Description: Welcome to the ADHD Gallery! Episodes coming late spring 2022.
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Books by Karen Costa
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Books by Karen Costa
- An Educator’s Guide to ADHD: Designing and Teaching for Student Success
- 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos (2020)
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron — a creative recovery and writing process book
- ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, MD and John J. Ratey, MD
Episode 1: Because I Want To
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Episode Description: Karen talks about how this podcast came to fruition (thank you Marlee Grace), overcoming the fear of pushing publish, the origin story of the podcast’s name (a dream!), and what you can expect from upcoming episodes.
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Episode Description: Karen talks about how this podcast came to fruition (thank you Marlee Grace), overcoming the fear of pushing publish, the origin story of the podcast’s name (a dream!), and what you can expect from upcoming episodes.
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Episode 2: Anti-Fancy
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Episode Description: Karen talks about how she’s come to embrace the realization that she’s never going to be a superuser. She’s a minimalist who likes to keep things simple and sustainable. Identifying as anti-fancy helps Karen to reduce some of the pressure and shame associated with her ADHD and to do her best work in the world.
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Episode Description: Karen talks about how she’s come to embrace the realization that she’s never going to be a superuser. She’s a minimalist who likes to keep things simple and sustainable. Identifying as anti-fancy helps Karen to reduce some of the pressure and shame associated with her ADHD and to do her best work in the world.
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Episode 3: Writing 99 Tips
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Episode Description: Karen tells the story of publishing her book, 99 Tips, at the start of a global pandemic. She goes into detail about her writing process and how she was able to write a book alongside the gifts and challenges of ADHD.
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Episode Description: Karen tells the story of publishing her book, 99 Tips, at the start of a global pandemic. She goes into detail about her writing process and how she was able to write a book alongside the gifts and challenges of ADHD.
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Episode 4: What the Heck is RSD?
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Episode Description: Too many people have never heard of RSD, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, a common symptom of ADHD. Karen breaks down what RSD is, how understanding RSD has helped to diminish hers, and offers suggestions for providing feedback to people with RSD.
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Episode Description: Too many people have never heard of RSD, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, a common symptom of ADHD. Karen breaks down what RSD is, how understanding RSD has helped to diminish hers, and offers suggestions for providing feedback to people with RSD.
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- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (WebMD)
- How ADHD Ignites Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (ADDitude)
Episode 5: The Glitchy Switch
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Episode Description: Time to get super sciency about our ADHD! In this episode, Karen talks about Hallowell and Ratey’s description of what they call the “glitchy switch” of ADHD, which is a dysfunction between the default mode network (DMN) and the task processing network (TPN). Karen describes her experience of having a glitchy switch and how naming and noticing that helps her to recover.
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Episode Description: Time to get super sciency about our ADHD! In this episode, Karen talks about Hallowell and Ratey’s description of what they call the “glitchy switch” of ADHD, which is a dysfunction between the default mode network (DMN) and the task processing network (TPN). Karen describes her experience of having a glitchy switch and how naming and noticing that helps her to recover.
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Episode 6: Dropping Out
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Episode Description: Karen tells the story of dropping out of a doctoral program, due in part to her undiagnosed and raging ADHD, and how she’s (kind of) made peace with that decision.
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Episode Description: Karen tells the story of dropping out of a doctoral program, due in part to her undiagnosed and raging ADHD, and how she’s (kind of) made peace with that decision.
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Episode 7: Various, Various
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Episode Description: Many ADHDers don’t fit into the world's boxes. Karen discusses her unique career path that is sometimes best described as “various, various.” She chats about the importance of work values and creating a career that works for weird and wonderful brains.
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Episode Description: Many ADHDers don’t fit into the world's boxes. Karen discusses her unique career path that is sometimes best described as “various, various.” She chats about the importance of work values and creating a career that works for weird and wonderful brains.
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Episode 8: Meditating on ADHD
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Episode Description: Do you have a love/hate relationship with meditation? Have you felt shame or pressure to meditate “the right way”? This episode is for you. Karen shares her long and complicated history with meditation and offers suggestions for reframing this relationship to better align with our ADHD brains.
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Episode Description: Do you have a love/hate relationship with meditation? Have you felt shame or pressure to meditate “the right way”? This episode is for you. Karen shares her long and complicated history with meditation and offers suggestions for reframing this relationship to better align with our ADHD brains.
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Episode 9: How I Plan
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Episode Description: Do you love getting a peek into someone’s planning process? Karen describes the planning process that took forty-two years to build, how she’s very intentional about planning in a way that supports her ADHD, and her love of the “Today” button in G-Cal.
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Episode Description: Do you love getting a peek into someone’s planning process? Karen describes the planning process that took forty-two years to build, how she’s very intentional about planning in a way that supports her ADHD, and her love of the “Today” button in G-Cal.
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Episode 10: My Second Brain
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Episode Description: In the season one finale, Karen begins by checking in on how she’s feeling to have come to the end of the recording process for this season. She then describes the concept of second brains and extended mind theory and why creating external systems can be a life-changing approach for ADHDers.
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Episode Description: In the season one finale, Karen begins by checking in on how she’s feeling to have come to the end of the recording process for this season. She then describes the concept of second brains and extended mind theory and why creating external systems can be a life-changing approach for ADHDers.
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