Corporate Christie
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Because no matter how much we pretend to separate work from life, the truth is—what happens at home shows up in your leadership. And what happens at work echoes into your relationships, your health, your self-worth.
I’m your black-sheep corporate sister, here to blend workplace insight with real-life healing. Expect raw, relatable episodes on what it actually takes to reclaim your time, your energy, your peace—and your career.
Whether you’re trying to learn how to drive employee engagement, lead more effectively, or stop shrinking in systems that weren’t built for you—this show will help you come back to yourself and build a life you’re proud to lead.
Corporate Christie
#51 - Ian Mai: ADHD, Going off Adderall, and the Messy Middle: Healing from Trauma and Burnout
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I sit down with ADHD & self-mastery coach Ian Mai just days after coming off Adderall for the first time in over 10 years.
This episode isn’t about bashing medication (it helped me — until it didn’t). It’s about coming home to yourself. It’s about getting real with the patterns beneath our hyper-productivity. And it’s about the terrifying, necessary, beautiful work of finding yourself again after pushing so hard.
We go way beyond dopamine and planners, and dive into:
- The deeper reasons we can’t focus or follow through
- What impulsivity is trying to protect
- Why medication helps — but might be masking deeper wounds
- The trauma hiding inside our “high performance”
- ADHD, shame, systems, and how we learned to abandon ourselves
- Emotional safety, breathwork, and body-based healing
- The loneliness (and power) of doing life differently
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- @corporatechristie
