Jun 10
This week Tracy welcomes Kamden Hainsworth to Episode #134 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Kamden lives with her husband and three (almost four) daughters in Springville, Utah. She enjoys spending time in the nearby mountains, traveling, working on home improvement projects, and serving in her community and church. Kamden worked as an educator in a variety of capacities for over ten years. She has always felt the most fulfilled helping others realize their true potential. Years after her daughter was diagnosed, Kamden received her own ADHD diagnosis at 36 years old and quickly began advocating and researching to learn how to build her new amazing life as an ADHDer. She now helps solopreneurs with ADHD find their voice and translate that into their business specifically with marketing and social media.
Kamden shares the circumstances surrounding her ADHD diagnosis, what has changed since she was diagnosed, the importance of surrounding herself with people who see and appreciate her ADHD gifts, why social media can be so challenging for the ADHD brain, the ways perfectionism and over-thinking can prevent us from posting on social media, how asking the question, “Who makes the rules about what social media needs to look like?” can help us overcome perfectionism and get started, her strategies for building your online presence one puzzle piece at a time, how determination and trusting her own creativity and problem-solving skills has led to her success, and her #1 ADHD workaround: visuals, visuals, visuals.
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"If you're ADHD, and this is Social Media is in your area of interest and genius, you're friggin brilliant at it."
- Kamden Hainsworth
"I am a huge hyper focuser that is. And I follow that. I take pride in that."
- Kamden Hainsworth
"If you're not having fun, if you're not in positive emotion, and you're on a social media platform, forget it. We need to be in positive emotion in order to make anything work."
- Kamden Hainsworth
- Kamden shares his experience with ADHD and how it led to a mental breakdown in his business.
- Kamden struggled with test anxiety, forgetfulness, and difficulty retaining information in school, but excelled in creative subjects like music and writing.
- Kamden encourages clients to embrace "good enough" and compare their social media content to a jigsaw puzzle, with each post being a single puzzle piece that contributes to the full picture.
[21:46 - 43:49] Social Media Engagement
- Kamden emphasizes the importance of honoring one's emotions and creativity when it comes to social media posting, rather than adhering to a strict schedule.
- Kamden and Tracy discusses the importance of engagement on social media, emphasizing the need to prioritize personal boundaries and values while still providing meaningful responses to followers.
- Kamden shares her experience with TikTok, mentioning that it was initially fun and easy to create content, but became more work-intensive as her business grew and she became pregnant.
- Kamden emphasizes the importance of having fun and being in a positive emotion when creating content on social media, especially for ADHD audiences.
- Kamden emphasizes the importance of visual aids for ADHD individuals, such as labeling drawers and using whiteboards, to help with organization and time management.
- Kamden shares her experience with ADHD and how she uses visual aids to stay organized, mentioning Seth Perler as a helpful resource.
