About Me

Hello. My name is Heather Goldsmith.

My journey with ADHD is a long and windy road. Aren't they all? I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 16, which you could say was uncommon for a girl back in the late 1980's. My full diagnosis was dyslexia and ADD-Inattentive. I was a junior in high school. My grades were not good but more than that my self-esteem was suffering. It seemed no matter how much I studied I just did not do well on tests or papers. After high school, I went on to graduate from Northern Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications even though several teachers told me that I would not be able to attend college because of my learning difference.

Fast forward, 24 years, and I have a child who is finishing 2nd grade. Within the next two years, my son was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADD-Inattentive. ADHD is genetic and usually is found with other learning differences.

I vowed then I would research and do as much as I could so that no other child, person, or parent would go through what we have been through. I would become an advocate and tell everyone I could my story. The more I can let others know what ADHD is, how it affects others, and what you can do to live your best life with ADHD, I will.

How did I end up becoming a trained ADHD life coach?

It's funny how life takes us from one path to the next. I always have said "I'm not sure what I want to be when I grow up" I guess that has been the case until I had sessions with an ADHD life coach myself in Spring 0f 2019. After some sessions with my life coach (yes, coaches have our own coaches), she discovered my passion and desire to help others with ADHD and other learning differences. While she was helping me with other issues in my life, she casually mentioned that I should think about becoming an ADHD life coach as I would be excellent at it. I listened to her, but I was at a place in my life where I was just not ready to take on anything new. But she planted a seed. The seed was in my mind constantly growing. I started looking into different training courses. My coach would send me information about training courses every once in a while, out of the blue. Then, one day I just decided it was now or never. I really wanted this. I signed up that day with the International ADHD training center. And, as they say, the rest is history!