On this week’s episode, we focus on the ADHD brain. Our guest is Lou, an IT specialist, who was diagnosed with severe ADHD and put on Ritalin at age 5. Today at 44, Lou has managed to build a successful business doing what he loves, create a beautiful family, and maintain a vibrant network of friends and hobbies, even despite the immense challenges posed by his “ADHD” orientation to the world. Through deep personal insight and brilliant analogies, Lou provides a compassionate understanding of what it’s like to live with ADHD, as well as tips and tricks for thriving both in spite of and because of it.

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In the second half of this two-part saga, Sandi Neiman unearths the many details and infinite aspects of the end of David's father's life. We discuss hospice, our culture’s strained relationship with death, and the painful reality of what Sandi had to face leading up to his passing. We discuss a host of topics, including body autonomy and the right to die, how our system is rigged to siphon money from patients in their final stage of life, the bastardization of Big Pharma, Sandi's grieving process, and her battle with breast cancer promptly following his death.

We touch on the remarkable advent of death doulas in our culture who do the good work of preparing those who are dying for The Last Goodbye. On the talkback, David honors his father with hilarious and touching stories about what a remarkable man his father was.

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Next guest up is Sandi Neiman. She’s a licensed marital and family therapist, previously the COO of National Seating and Mobility, a multi-billion dollar national healthcare business…and if you’ll notice her last name, she also happens to be the host's stepmother.

In this special two-part episode just in time for Father's Day, Sandi leads us through her experience of the full body contact sport that was being married to David's father, Bennett Neiman. He was afflicted with family trauma, abuse, and undiagnosed mental illness. She had a front-row seat for his rapid decline as it related to his past, and the undeniable coup de gras: my brother’s meltdown, disappearance, and tragic death. We discuss multi-generational trauma, and further dimensions of my brother’s demise including our cultural understanding of body sovereignty.

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