{"podcast":{"title":"ADHD Essentials","slug":"adhd-essentials-727856","podcast_index_feed_id":727856,"rss_url":"https://adhdessentials.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://adhdessentials.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2365587/ADHD_Podcast_Logo_3000x3000_final.jpg","author":"Brendan Mahan","episode_count":291,"summary":"In ADHD Essentials, Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., M.S. interviews parents, teachers and experts to get their views on ADHD in childhood, and how it affects families.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T18:18:10.085030+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/adhd-essentials-727856"},"episode":{"title":"ADHD, Flexible Thinking, and Living Constitutionally with AJ Jacobs","slug":"adhd-flexible-thinking-and-living-constitutionally-with-aj-jacobs","published_at":"2024-07-29T09:29:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/adhd-essentials-727856/adhd-flexible-thinking-and-living-constitutionally-with-aj-jacobs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/adhd-essentials-727856","url":"https://adhdessentials.podbean.com/e/adhd-flexible-thinking-and-living-constitutionally-with-aj-jacobs/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9x66fdmgvap93uv7/ADHD_Essentials_Podcast_AJ_Jacobs_2_Year_of_Living_Constitutionally.mp3","summary":"In today’s episode, we talk to friend-of-the-pod, and New York Times Best-Selling author AJ Jacobs. AJ is an editor at large for Esquire, as well as a journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He’s also a fellow ADHDer. AJ talks to us about his latest book, The Year of Living Constitutionally. We discuss: How his year of living like a colonial American affected AJ’s mental health (mostly in good ways) Why flexible thinking matters and how to support it Lifestyle lessons from Benjamin Franklin And election cakes Guest Links: Learn more about AJ Jacobs and his work here: https://ajjacobs.com/ Learn More about Brendan and his work at: Learn about & Register for the The ADHD Essentials Online Parent Coaching Groups Join the ADHD Essentials Facebook Community Check out the ADHD Essentials Website Contact Brendan at brendan@ADHDessentials.com Men’s ADHD Support Group Links: Learn more about the Men’s ADHD Support Group Join the Men’s ADHD Support Group’s Facebook Community","meta_description":"In today’s episode, we talk to friend-of-the-pod, and New York Times Best-Selling author AJ Jacobs. AJ is an editor at large for Esquire, as well as a jou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2260,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/adhd-essentials-727856/episodes/adhd-flexible-thinking-and-living-constitutionally-with-aj-jacobs/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/adhd-essentials-727856/adhd-flexible-thinking-and-living-constitutionally-with-aj-jacobs.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}