Lauren Goldberg on Working With Your ADHD Instead of Against It, Leading Neurodivergent Teams, and When Overconfidence Is Insecurity in Disguise

Lauren Goldberg (laurengoldbergcoaching.com [http://laurengoldbergcoaching.com/], linkedin.com/in/lauren-e-goldberg/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-e-goldberg/]), a career self-discovery and leadership coach for changemakers working with their ADHD instead of against it, joins host Dan Freehling (contempusleadership.com [http://contempusleadership.com/]). Lauren explains why the ADHD label is just bad branding and what leaders can actually do to support neurodivergent team members (00:39). She unpacks internalized ableism and what it looks like to turn down the volume on the inner critic and work with your natural wiring rather than against it (03:50). Lauren and Dan explore why overconfidence and under-confidence so often come from the same place, and how to build confidence that is not rooted in self-judgment (08:33). Lauren describes the exhausting cost of masking and the freedom of embracing the unique shape that school never made room for (13:03). She also shares how she is rethinking her own inner bully and inner best friend language through the lens of parts work (20:24). The conversation turns to the new frontiers she's exploring in her practice, from nonviolent communication and decolonizing the framework to moving from canceling toward calling people in (24:03). Lauren lays out the crux of Marshall Rosenberg's nonviolent communication (29:12) and closes with book recommendations through a disability justice lens (31:58). Recommended Reading: "Nonviolent Communication" [https://bookshop.org/p/books/nonviolent-communication-a-language-of-life-life-changing-tools-for-healthy-relationships-marshall-b-rosenberg/10180253?ean=9781892005281] by Marshall B. Rosenberg, "D [https://bookshop.org/p/books/nonviolent-communication-a-language-of-life-life-changing-tools-for-healthy-relationships-marshall-b-rosenberg/10180253?ean=9781892005281]ecolonizing Nonviolent Communication" [https://www.meenadchi.com/] by Meenadchi, "Calling In: How to Start M [https://www.meenadchi.com/]aking Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel" [https://bookshop.org/p/books/calling-in-how-to-start-making-change-with-those-you-d-rather-cancel-loretta-j-ross/3628632975c0d0e8] by Loretta Ross, "The Body Is Not an Apology" [https://bookshop.org/p/books/calling-in-how-to-start-making-change-with-those-you-d-rather-cancel-loretta-j-ross/3628632975c0d0e8] by Sonya Renee Taylor, "Being [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-is-not-an-apology-second-edition-the-power-of-radical-self-love-sonya-renee-taylor/fa663e923147ae53]Heumann" [https://bookshop.org/p/books/being-heumann-an-unrepentant-memoir-of-a-disability-rights-activist-judith-heumann/15281048] by Judy Heumann, and "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice" [https://bookshop.org/p/books/care-work-dreaming-disability-justice-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/16603798] by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Show notes at forwardlookingleadership.com [http://forwardlookingleadership.com/].