Today’s episode is a recording from last fall about time management from a neurodivergent perspective. We are joined on the guest call by Emily Roach-Griffin, who is ADHD and gifted, and her insights resonate soundly with many of us. She is a business coach and speaker at BizBFF who loves helping business owners and those with an entrepreneurial spirit to build businesses and lives they love. Join us to hear Emily’s nuggets of wisdom about practical time management strategies!

Show Highlights:

• Journaling prompts about what’s most difficult about time management
• Why time management should be thought of as “task management”
• Why we need to unravel and untether ourselves from much of our traditional thinking about productivity and self-worth
• The importance of a toolbox of strategies, realizing that different tools may be effective on different days:
• • Tools to help with “time blindness” and time awareness, like a timer and to-do list
  • Tools to help with being on time, like an app 
  • Tools to help with tasks, like breaking large tasks into “baby tasks”
  • Tools to help prioritize tasks, like containers
• How Emily has “game-ified” her household tasks to change her perspective
• Why time management is NOT about getting more done in less time
• How to use a check-in system with your energy level to determine what is possible
• Why avoiding certain tasks might be our attempts to conceal our pain

Resources:

Connect with Emily: Biz BFF and Facebook

Why Bother: Discover the Desire for What’s Next by Jennifer Louden

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Today’s show carries a timely message for those of us who returned to work or school after the anxiety-ridden shutdown of the pandemic. As we try to move forward, many of us still face anxiety and burnout. My guest’s message of tapping into your intuition and doing things outside the box is relevant to almost everyone. Join us to learn more!

Cam Werley-Gonzales is an intuitive, living visionary, gifted embodiment expert, and intuitive unschooling catalyst. She is the owner of the Cambria Institute, a company that celebrates learning and living fully outside the proverbial education “box.” With over 25 years as an expert educator, it is Cam’s deepest conviction that while learners can engage with some success in typical schools, they are optimally served by alternate learning pathways, most notably “unschooling.” The Cambria Institute supports gifted families to embody their giftedness in all areas of life. The truth is that we get to learn, friend, work, love, parent, hobby, and enjoy all the things that come along with this intense and massively phenomenal gifted life with ease and alignment, uniquely in our own way. 

Show Highlights:

• Why Cam is intensely passionate about unschooling and her family’s unconventional life of travel and location independence as digital nomads
• How Cam opened an alternative-style brick and mortar school in Pasadena in 2019–right before the pandemic chaos began
• Why the Cambria Curated Community (CCC) was formed as a community of unschooling families
• How Cam’s personal brand of intensity means big feelings and big emotions–all the time
• How Cam’s intensity affected her in childhood with the need to hide her true self and be a people-pleaser in her family
• How Cam learned “to play the school game” really well as a kid but was traumatized, in part because of Pragmatic Language Impairment
• Differences in Pragmatic Language Impairment (PLI) and autism
• How Cam noticed communication differences the most in relationship with her spouse, who comes from a different cultural background
• How Cam learned to tone down and tune herself out in her professional career as a teacher and just follow what she was told to do
• How Cam’s intensity got out of control when she was homeschooling her oldest son
• How Cam uses her fire for good to help families learn unschooling and live intuitively
• How unschooling is defined: “Trusting that each person will intuitively be drawn to learn all the things they need to learn in their lifetime to tap into who they are as individuals so that their learning caters directly to them. The focus is on self-direction in learning.”
• How our intuition relates to our authenticity as a unique person and promotes emotional intelligence
• How Cam harnesses the power of her intensity by tuning into her happiness and joy with her life, family, and work
• Why Cam adopted the personal habit of giving herself the gift of “slow mornings” 
• How Cam helps others use their own fire by teaching people to tap into their true intuition and authenticity