{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Focus Trap","title":"205: Focus on our Guest - J. Nichole Smith!","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3425,"description":"What if the way you’ve been doing it “wrong” is actually the way that works for you?\n\nIn this episode of The Focus Trap, Amy and Casey welcome their first guest, J. Nichole Smith, for a conversation that starts with a five-page Word document and somehow ends up spanning late-diagnosed neurodivergence, business, community, self-trust, and what happens when you finally have language for the way your brain has been working all along.\n\nNic shares the story behind the Instagram reel that caught Amy’s attention: a frustrating attempt to sign her kids up for a holiday camp, followed by an email that immediately made her wonder whether the problem was the system, or whether she was just being difficult. Amy recognizes that question immediately. It’s part of what originally brought her to Casey: needing someone who could help sort out what actually needed reframing and what was, in fact, just ridiculous.\n\nCasey brings that same question into business and learning: when something creates friction, how much energy should you spend trying to make yourself do it “the right way,” and when do you trust the evidence that another way might work better? That leads into experimentation, tiny workarounds, ignoring advice that doesn’t fit, and one of the simplest ideas in the episode: fucking trust yourself.\n\nThey also talk about:\n\n* Why successful people aren’t necessarily evidence that a system works for everyone\n* What late neurodivergence diagnosis can explain without actually changing who you are\n* Why more information may not be what overwhelmed business owners need\n* Building community instead of collecting more courses and strategies\n* Joy, color, and creating room for difficult conversations\n* Why the things that feel easy to one person can be genuinely hard for someone else\n* Treating your business like an experiment instead of your baby\n* The “above, around, and below” support every business owner needs\n* Why buying back your time can matter more than doing everything...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i9-t6bWJUqtrhE7cw5SbHysIc3-qKUQLGJnjtYCHCGA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iOGI5/NDA3NDdhOGVmNjRj/MmZmNmU2NjQ4Nzdk/ZGRlNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}