Christina Scalera is a lawyer and serial entrepreneur. They call her "The Queen of Black Friday."

Christina has several incredible businesses under her belt, including an award-winning Shopify store. She founded and ran a successful intellectual property law firm in Georgia and Colorado. She created and co-hosted a brilliant podcast ("The Creative Empire Podcast") and now helps lawyers turn their services into products at ChristinaScalera.com.

The secret underbelly of her "overnight" success, though, is that she tried (and failed) several times to build her dream life. Standing in her way was crippling credit card debt ($78,982, if I'm not mistaken), self-doubt, anxiety, depression, and trouble with grocery shopping (among other things).

She also has ADHD. This is her story.

Learn More About Christina Scalera

• ChristinaScalera.com
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• TheContractShop.com ("What if legal stuff didn't suck?")

Two Quotes from Christina Scalera

"If you want to have a successful life or business, you have to automate everything."

"ADHD medication broke the pattern of me feeling like I was a piece of crap. It broke the cycle and the pattern."

Resources Christina Scalera Mentions in this Episode

• Kelly Newsome Georges
• The Rising Tide Society
• Perennial Seller by Ryan Holliday
• Dr. Daniel Amen's "7 Types of ADHD"
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy for ADHD
• ADHD medication
• Clickfunnels, Russell Brunson, and Julie Stoian.
• “Soap Opera Sequence”
• The Tile App

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Erin Keyes is a lawyer and the Dean of Students at the University of Minnesota Law School.

In this first episode since before the world shut down, we talk about what it means for law students and lawyers with ADHD to keep themselves healthy. We talk about why ADHD can make law school harder, how law schools can support ADHD law students, and the well-known pattern of ADHD law students falling behind and struggling to get caught back up.

We talk about how ADHD looks different in women, the panic monster and negative feedback loops, and how students are helping one another with ADHD and other mental wellness issues.

And we talk about how you slay the ADHD panic monster. Just start. Start the process of figuring out a way to figure out a way.

Learn More about Erin Keyes, JD

• The University of Minnesota Law School
• Twitter
• Email Dean Keyes

Two Quotes

"Some students struggle with how to build meaning over the course of a semester and give themselves lots of opportunities to test their understanding of information. Because you can't cram in law school."

"There is so much shame around the manifestation of ADHD in terms of the things that are left undone. The things that were started but not finished. There's a good reason why ADHD is so highly correlated with anxiety and depression. It is not just a function issue. It's also an emotional issue."

ADHD Resources in this Episode

• Professor Fred Morrison
• David Jaffe
• Jerry Organ
• Organ, Jerome M. and Jaffe, David and Bender, Katherine, "Suffering in Silence: The Survey of Law Student Well-Being and the Reluctance of Law Students to Seek Help for Substance Use and Mental Health Concerns" (September 13, 2016). Journal of Legal Education.
• Krill, Patrick R. JD, LLM; Johnson, Ryan MA; Albert, Linda MSSW, "The Prevalence of Substance Use and Other Mental Health Concerns Among American Attorneys," Journal of Addiction Medicine.
• National Task Force on Lawyer Wellbeing
• The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change
• Minnesota Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers ADHD Support Group

 JDHD | For Lawyers with ADHD

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Show notes are coming, I promise!!!