Mrs Utah, Michele Weeks, joins Mark and Miah with her son Christian (9 years old and ADHD). Items up for discussion include, standing up, finding gifts, rockets, teleporters, and music. Also, does fating food make you fat?

2. New Listeners
In a world where distractions were long thought the enemy, on man befriends that foe and finds freedom
and a shiny object in Earth rock since then he has embraced the distraction and searches to help others in
the epic battle against the norm. And now distracted with Mark Patey.
Mark: Welcome again to the distracted program I’m Mark Patey here with Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah: Hey ho how are you, Yeah I’m so jetlag right now
Mark: I’m not gonna feel bad at all, You’ve been chancing all over europe
Jeremiah: Yeah not all over but 3 countries
Mark: I’m not gonna feel bad for your jetlag, I’m excited about our program today we got some great guest
which will introduce here after we get up and going first thing I wanna do is welcome our new listeners Miah
Jeremiah: We have new listeners? we didn’t loose listeners after last episode
Mark: No, Again surprisingly enough
Jeremiah: Actually you know what though last Dave was a great guest last episode it was I really enjoyed
that
Mark: That’s marked up for our win and we kept all ten listeners
Jeremiah: Or 3 and 0 and we have an undefeated season so far

3. Growth and Spread of the Program
Mark: Okay so a couple new countries have been listening regularly and so we account the country when
theres more than one I.P address and they’re tuning in to both of our programs and today we get to welcome
to whoever it is that’s listening of us in the Philippines
Jeremiah: Oh and especially this time of year
Mark: Its awesome whats this time of year in the Philippines ?
Jeremiah: its just is
Mark: And from the Ukraine and you know I don’t know anything about Ukraine and I feel bad because you
know we really should brush up on the countries when we welcome as you know get new listeners
Jeremiah: That will take doing more show prep than we did just showing down and running something down
just a piece of paper, what we need is an equal opposite
Mark: Actuall effort, Okay now its brings up the good point I was looking asome of the numbers on our show
growth over this last three weeks and I am just shock humbled and a little bit scared because I started
thinking okay this should be something I should be excited about this kind of growth and spread of the
program but what made me think is crap actually we actually got to do a lot better
Jeremiah: Don’t be scared it will be okay
Mark: Honest theres a lot of people tuning in and we should do better we can do better

4. 3 rules of the show
Jeremiah: Don’t be scared it will be okay
Mark: Honest theres a lot of people tuning in and we should do better we can do better
Jeramiah: And we will
Mark: And we will, Okay so to open the program today’s topic is finding their gifts
Jeremiah: Oh the rules,
Mark: Oh three rules of the program were always gotta go to the rules, rule number one we reserved
the right to be wrong
Jeremiah: And we never will be
Mark: But incase we are the second rule is we reserved the right to change our minds
Jeremiah: Which we do often
Mark: Because its just the only way you can learn and grow and because were smart enough to know
that were not that smart rule number three we reserved the right to offend free speech is practiced here
and always will be and we don’t intend to offend we just committed to be completely honest in how we
see things and what we feel about it and we maybe wrong we may not be but will be honest about it
Jeremiah: We don’t have the best filter between our mind and our mouth

5. Michele and Cristian Weeks
Mark: Yes, and so that’s our three rules of the show our topic today is finding their gifts and the really the
topic of the whole distracted program could be finding their gifts but our guest today which will introduced
here shortly is Michele Weeks shes Mrs. Utah and Christian Weeks her nine year old son who is adhd and
has found some of his gifts with the brain that does things differently and so we were excited to invite them
in in just a little bit but I wanna talk about the rescue so our distracted segment for the day is a rescue over
the weekend and more particularly a topic that came up as the rescue is going on a boat got stucked in
Utah lake out in the shallow areas where a lot of hunters go hide in the blinds and the tall weeds and
anyway they got stuck and as rescuers got to them and were trying to bring them in as they gotten very
wet and cold trying to get their boat out, We know there gonna be okay and I just I said you know they
were trying to drag their boat by swimming? And it brought up one of the guy starts laughing and says were
you there for the rescue five years ago? And I said what are you talkning about? He says they got a call on
the another part of the lake a canoe had sunk theres four people on aboard no life jackets they had swam
for nearly thirty minutes had got to within shouting distance of the shore where a lot of people were
hanging out on the beaches and kinda rocky dirt beaches but their hanging out there fishing and they these
people swimming and screaming and splashing

6. Recent rescue
Mark: about in the water they are drowning rats and its panic and chaos the first rescuer shows up on the
scene and this is the guy who I’m talking to at this recent rescue and he shows up and he looks out their and
he sees one of the girls pulling a guy under water and shes fighting and then he pushes her away hes starts to
go under he pops up starts vomitting up lake water and hes thinking these guys are there is no way they gonna
make it to the shore and theres no way were gonna make it to them and started to go around and incidentally
he for a living manages water the water flows down the rivers and helps manage the lake levels that’s his jobs
and he says our water this Utah lake is down seven and a half feet and so he pull this truck all the way to the
edge of the shore line as he could he got on his megaphone turned it to full blast pipe his sirene a couple time
and then speaks loudly to the microphone and says stand up and it went dead quit and all four of them stood
up and they were only up to their necks in the water these four were going to die because they didn’t think
they could stand up and I think that lesson is true in everything in life if you don’t believe you can stand up or if
you don’t make an effort to truly stand up the results were devastating you give up you pull other with you, It’s
terrifying honestly
Jeremiah: And I look at it with adhd and sometimes in the perception of the franticness of adhd in tyring to deal
with either your business partner your spouse or child you get caught up of all the emotions sometimes it just
takes a deep breath and just to try a different tactic that is simple and you realize it does not have to be so
hard sometimes you just need to stand up.

7. Never get Panic
Mark: And when your focusing on the chaos you’ll never be able to stand up and that’s what really
happening everybody on the shore was focused on the chaos there was people that could have swam out
and assisted which would have been a foolish to say up that probably got drag under as well but they were
all focused on the chaos and it took somebody from the outside with the different perspective a little extra
piece of knowledge about the situation to be able to give input enough to say you can stand up, And they
walk out of the shore and now they were hypothermic they were It had medical concern issues but they
were all fine
Jeremiah: If that was me I will said I was just kidding I knew it I could stand up the whole time, told you
Mark: And I mean how tragic had they gone down for the rescuers to go out there and find them and be
standing there going they could all stood up
Jeremiah: Well my wife did a triathlon in that lake this year and when she was training and she will get
tired out in the lake she will just stand up
Mark: And I’m sure other people swimmers are going wait this is true?, Its look the lake is one of the
largest lakes in the nation and its only 12 feet deep.
Jeremiah: Just different perspective

8. Different Perspectives
Mark: And lot of parts you can stand up and so yeah your right different perspective and so the message
today is stand up and were gonna talk about an individual who has been standing up and his mom whose
been standing up and run on the flatform of helping those with adhd find their gifts and Michele welcome
to the program and Christian were so glad you could be here with us, Michele why you don’t tell us about
why you decided to get into the pageant scene and then to pick adhd as the flatform to run off
Michele: Well I’ve been in the pageant scene because you do have a voice as Mrs. Utah I do have people
that will listen to me and I have really seen how Christian has grown after he found his gift of writing and
singing music when Christian was about four years old he had speech problems and I take him to speech
theraphy and speech theraphy private speech theraphy school speech theraphy and he said Mama is there
something wrong with me? I go to all this speech theraphy I go to all this theraphy so then we decided
instead of additional speech theraphy out of school we go take singing lessons and soon hes started
singing he started writing his own music and he started out with space bath and once hes found his gift of
music his self esteem blossomed and he found his gift to give to the rest of the world
Mark: You know Christian I can relate when I was your age I was in speech theraphy coz I coudnt say my
R’s I couldn’t say Mark , Yeah Er I couldn’t say that I would say Malk

9. Self Work Change
Christian: That’s easy you just go like errrr
Mark: I agree but it wasn’t easy at that time but its easy now because I got over it and Michele I love how you
brought up the self work change because for me that’s what its all about it doesn’t matter what kind of classes
and courses and what treatments or therapies or pills or non of it matters if they don’t come out in the end
with a high sense of self worth and value and believe in themselves if they don’t believe in themselves they’ll
never stand up and that’s what its about and that the real the whole messaging with adhd in finding their gifts
coz I haven’t meet anyone yet that doesn’t have a gift anyone with adhd they just need to look for it and
often they already know what it is they just haven’t work to magnify it
Michele: And I think in todays society at least in America you know were so focused on reading and writing
and not focused on the arts and the arts is really what is advancing our society through our computers I mean
if you don’t think outside of the box you would never think that we could do this time or we could have this
little computers walking with our hands it takes an individual like Christian and like yourself to think differently
and say you know I really think that we could talk to somebody around the world on my little phone face to
face and that’s what so gifted about this adhd kids as they got this imagination that can really help our society
Mark: And it runs you know Miah before you got here Christian and I and Michele were kinda taking a tour of
the tso and he was looking at the different aircraft and started talking about rockets didn’t you Christian

10. The gift of music
Christian: Everyone if you are cool you are
Mark: I agree am I cool? Awesome and I’ll pay you later
Jeremiah: Am I as cool as Mark?
Christian: Everyone is cool as everyone
Mark: Alright from the mouth of babes everybody just cool as everyone, everyone is of equal value and so the
thing I wanted to talk about Michele that you triggered on was this ability this gift to see outside and see
farther and you talked about Christians gift of music and we got a cd here I went to his website which is
christianweeks.com and watched some of these little music videos he put together and I see the music gift
but was amazing to me and Christian what amazed me was how quickly you platch on the rockets and jet
engines and talked about going to outer space and building rocket suits and helmets that could help you go
into outer space and his mind went so far so quickly and that’s a gift that ability to think so far and the sad
thing is often people will look at that and say now whoa whoa keep it realistic keep it in perspective your not
gonna build a jet pack that flies you to outer space and I wanna say why not why wouldn’t we build a jet
pack that would fly to outer space? It was ridiculous to think that anyone could build a computer that could
do complex math problems without it being as big as a warehouse and were carrying around our cellphones
in our back pockets that are more powerful than all the computers that sent us to the moon and back

11. Teleporters
Michele: I agree it is pretty fascinating how our mind expands and why do you we have to kept cars why
not have a rocket shoes to take us from one place to another like Christian was saying earlier
Mark: Christian you wanna build rockets?
Christian: Well most likely the scientist out there, they’re cool but they really need to build a teleporters
you know
Mark: Okay there you go as a perfect example of why not build a teleporters whats unrealistic about that
other than our own ability to wrap our heads around it and I say that in a very serious way and I know
Miah we have listeners are going oh common Mark teleporters? And I’m like yeah why the heck not who
decided how big our box or how small our box that we need to live in should be your right Christian why
not build a teleporter that’s a lot easier to a rockets to an earth planet
Jeremiah: Hey Christian I have a question for you I’m really intrigue by I was looking at so Christian has
an album out called my imagination and Michele whats the website that people can check out his stuff on
Michele: Its christianweeks.com
Jeremiah: And that’s weeks right? So Christian tell me about a song you have that’s called ninja’s are the
coolest because I could not agree more

12. Ninjas versus Beast
Mark: Oh oh oh, okay ninja’s are the coolest but the one I ilke was ninja’s versus beast
Christian: Ninja’s are the coolest are before ninja’s are the beast its just ninjas are the beast is one than ninjas
go to war and ninjas are the coolest is when there being cool
Jeremiah: Christian when you write explain to me whats its like when you write a song
Christian: Its awesome your brain like says do a song in my head and I in my heart leads me in my ways
Mark: I love it you know we talked about and we talked about in our shows before and least I think we have it
could have been be poster pre show conversation we talked about a creativity in the adhd mind which is almost
like a split personality its not a split personality but its like a creative sub concious that’s always working to
solve problems and its always thinking about something and I believe that’s why those of us with adhd have
such a hard time doing only one thing at a time because our brain really does run two tracks at once and I
think Christian your mind has that gift where your mind saying hey you could do this you could do that and
then you said you follow your heart
Christian: It’s the easiest way
Mark: I agree I love it
Jeremiah: The wisdom

13. The Simplicity
Mark: No and the simplicity you know he can say it three words and we have to talk about it for three or
four thirty minutes not get the point all the way across
Jeremiah: You know the phrase brevity is the soul of wit you know the simplicity I love it, And Michele I’m
curious to know at what was the process like for you as a parent maybe I should back this question up a
little bit and kinda give some perspective so how would you suggest the parents out there who have kids
that had adhd had kids that’s have hard time really hard time focusing you know more than just normal
kids have hard time focusing but what can parents do to help themselves pick a different perspective at
their children coz I believe that’s a lot where the challenge is lied
Mark: And before you answer that I’m gonna add a second part because its two part, What do you do as a
parent to help a child through that and then what do you as a parent to help yourself through that
Jeremiah: That’s what I getting at right

14. Childresn are Gift
Michele: What I’ve truly believed is that children are gift to us and they come through us but they’re not part
of us they are born with their own personalities and anybody that’s a mom or father that has different kids
you will see that they all came from you know two individuals but their all different so they all have their own
game plan when they come into this earth now as a parent my job is not project my game plan unto the kids
but to see what their unique game plan is and go with that so with Christian he is so creative and fun and
loving and he has so many other attributes that I do not have that I hadn’t really take the plan from him I
had to say oh okay Christian your creative you learned through singing you creates song you like to dress up
and when you dress up you write a new song because that’s who you are that’s your character that day and
as a parent what we have to do is just to remove ourselves and see what their game plan is and help support
their plan
Jeremiah: So you, Go ahead Mark

15. School programs
Mark: No, I can say is what a great message for educators as well because in our education system we have
such a rigid structure and game plan that’s so perfectly built for 93% of the population an awakening or
awareness that everybody needs their own game plan I’m not talking about just adhd buteverybody lets talk
about all children need to have that freedom and I think your right Michele I think through the arts is one of
the best ways that we gonna see that happen but and okay slight distraction here have you or it is just me or
it seem like a lot of arts programs are disappearing in schools I mean I’ve seen schools now their not having
wood shop anymore their dropping out metal shop their losing some of their dance programs and it just
scares me to death where the kids going to learned to think and be create if its not through some of this kind
of programs
Jeremiah:Right, and I think a lot of those programs and a lot of those activities are you talking about are
valuable to people and kids with adhd because they brought a lot of variables like math is very structured
right?
Mark: Yeah theres one right way to do it or maybe a couple
Jeremiah: Right, theres one right way now but who knows that will change as coz math is a science and
seems to change but I think with arts with crafts that using your hands like welding whatever it is a lot of
variables

16. Christians Creativity
Mark: And the process before you actually with welding their creating their thinking of what I’m gonna do
what I love about arts is when your given blank piece of clay and told do what ever you want with it or in the
metal shop say come up with an idea but sadly I see my kids now and the little bit of the programs they have
left its more of with this clay make a ball with this kit of metal make a toolbox and this is the shape and size
dimentions and I think this is what frustrates me so much with what I see coming in the work force this days
theres so many kids with this great long education that know how to do what their told but don’t know how to
think and create
Michele: What I’m curious about listening to Christian this morning is when you think of math he could think of
math and music or if you wanna create a teleporter how can we use math to help us create rocket shoes or
teleporters or math is a great science and it can lead to a lot of creative things but what we have to help
Christian and other kids is to show how math can help our imaginations grow and we can create rockets to fly
up to space because we know certain math figures really bring math alive through Christian’s through
creativity
Mark: Through creativity

17. Fun, Building, Creative
Mark: Heres a simple example of what I think were all talking about here when someone tells me whats 5 8
plus three quarters I just wanna pull my hair out to think about pulling out a piece of paper and writing down
5 over you know and to think about doing that like that but if I’m building a shed to hold something in my
backyard and I need to know fifty six and five eights plus twelve and three quarters its suddenly easy and fun
and done in my head because I’m creating something because I’m engaged that fun building creative of the
brain and I see that the math actually results in an outcome that I want and that I’m hyper focus on and the
adhd hyper focus kind o f trait and when you can engage all the skills and tools we learn at school and engage
them with the creativity that were all born with we gonna find a lot more all the success with adhd or so I
think that’s ten times more important
Michele: And that’s like with Christian when he had problems pronuncing with R’s with you do very well now
right bun
Michele: We did singing coz it brought up to life or if you have or the child has trouble focusing instead of
something you do karate coz it brings it to life Christian had trouble reading things of the blackboard so
instead of justy you know having him looking at the blackboard and Christian do that we did piano and its
then all of the sudden he learned tracking and he was able to make music so yeah and he wrote space bear
and space bath

18. Graviteted mind
Mark: You know Christian I love how your mind really gravitated towards I mean today were at the tso and
so you kind cant help but think of aerospace But I noticed on your book the very first not your book your cd
the very first song is spacebear which you started singing about going to the moon and today you’ve been
talking about rockets and rockets shoes and rocket back packs and teleporters and I cant wait to see where
this kid goes I mean let this you know Christian do what the best thing in the world to do is ask questions this
one your curios about something ask people never be shy and when you wanna know how something works
to say hey how is that work and how come and why and you have so much fun because what that will do is
help you learn what you need to do so you could build up a rocket .
Christian: Or you could like build of like the tallest building in the world,if you just put all your imagination
togethere.
Mark: I agree
Michele:Christian got a question for you, so if you where gonna give kids advice like your self how whould
you advice them to find their gifts?
Christian:Easy,the structural gland says find your gift and you’ll be a happy grown up.
Michele:So if you find your gifts as a kid you’ll be a happy grown up?
Christian:yah

19. Need to Find your gifts
Mark:I agree, and I think that’s a great way to end this segment of the show is look recognize and create
something do something to remind you that you really need to find your gifts and if you find your gifts that’s
where happiness is found as we grow up in the world is so consume with all the different distractions that
make us happy real happiness comes from within comes from pullin that creative genius that we all have
inside and chasing it to the mood that’s Christian.
Jeremiah:By the way I have to call out a little flash or brilliant as saw in Christian I don’t know if anyone else
caught it.I wasn’t here when you took him around to the hungry down stairs and show him the jet but he
came in here in to studio and theres a picture of Marks family on the wall and where talking about in this is
20 minutes after the downstairs looking to the planes and where all talking about something unrelated to that
portrait and Christian interrupt to us in the midlle of it total distracted said oh is that your family and he was
counting them and he made the co relation of how many in your family and how many seats where in the jet
and he got he nailed the numbers of seats in your jet and many people you had in your family

20. Pieces of the Puzzle
Mark: I’m so glad you brought that up because your right and it’s a trait I talk about in addict and
millionares and it’s a trait we will talk about a lot the adhd mind must connect things it lives to connect
seemingly random unconnectable things and this is aperfect example where his touring at tso and
twenty minutes later is counting pictures at my family photo and talking about how they fit in the
airplane
Jeremiah: In the middle of the conversation we were having with him by his music
Mark: And someone will look at that and go don’t interrupt the conversation about the music and its like
no no no let him interrupt because his mind is putting two pieces of the puzzle together and that’s the
genius in adhd that really is the genius that so often is misunderstood and its like don’t stop the
distraction the distraction actually is connected to something and quit often its something brilliant and
this is such a great simple example so Miah I’m glad you brought that up I noticed that when he brought
that up and I was grinnin and smiling inside on my he has the that gift he has that adhd gift that we
talked about and I’m glad you brought that up
Jeremiah: And may I also say that he has a great equal opposite in Michele to help highlight those

21. Equal Opposite
Mark: Oh Michele you really are you are textbook equal opposite and I know the book just came out and I’m
sure you havent had a chance to read it but you gonna read about equal opposites and you gonna see you
and you are such a shining example of what an equal opposite really is to adhd’r and I love it
Michele: Christian gives so much joy to my life I mean he really is perfect the way he is he is just my perfext
son because he introduces me to the light side of the world his light hearted his loving he sees the joy in
things he can tell when someone is sad and goes up and gives them a hug and the key to Christian is let him
be Christian help him read and write so he can do whatever he wants in the world but not to change him just
to let him bloosom and grow and let him just be Christian
Mark: I love it and your love for him is obvious and I commend you and if we have a hero tribute which we
didnt put together for segment of the program, Our hero tribute would be to you Michele you’re a hero yeah
hero tribute. Okay Christian and Michele we wanna thank you so much for being on the program and joining
us its so valuable Christian you’ve been wonderful you’ve been a great guest
Christian: Thanks and you guys are awesome
Mark: Ows we thanks, I didn’t even pay him for that one I pay him for the earlier ones but that was a freebie
Jeremiah: I went from as cool as you to awesome at the end of the podcast

22. Uneducated
Mark: He just needed to get to know you Miah okay and you two I wouldn’t mind if you stay around in
the studio here for us with just a little bit coz I wanna talk to you after the program and Miah lets
continue with our last segment and I think one of my funniest segments uneducated tell our new
listeners what the uneducated concept is all about
Jeremiah: Well is about to uneducate you all in that fattening food does not make you fat
Mark: Well yeah because the statement is you know fattening food makes you fat and the reality is
uneducated is where we take things that weve been told that’s true and we try to debanked them for
everyones benefit so the uneducated segement is fattening food makes you fat and its not true Miah
over eating makes you fat
Jeremiah: Yes, so I was just in europe with our friend David Nielson not Dave Nielson form last week
but another friend of ours and we were in this grocery store and after like three or four days and were
looking around and we noticed that everyone in europe are thin
Mark: I mean theres an ocassional heavier set but not compared to the fatties here in America
Jeremiah: And were looking around and said Dave do you noticed that theres no diet drinks or diet
food everyone around

23. Fatty foods
Mark: No, there is pastries everywhere cream and butter and sugar and glazings on top of everything
Jeremiah: Right but the key is first of all I think that they take twelve hours to eat dinner
Mark: My mind is hung up on the fact that I said all the fatties in America send your hate mail to Marks
fake email at adhdgift.com but the reallity is we are the fattiest nation on the planet and were the one
that’s more than anyone else hyper focus on weight lose and being thin and its are problem is we
consumed too damn much
Jeremiah: Its portion size I think its really really portion size and I believe theres something to do with
preservatives and chemical and things like that
Mark: Absolutely but its calories in and calories out fattening food doesn’t make you fat you can eat it if
you want over eating makes you fat
Michele: Do you want to be super sized?
Mark: I don’t wanna be super sized have you seen my wife? She is a very attractive woman the last thing I
want is people looking at me and looking at her and going yup he must be rich

24. What Makes you fat?
Jeremiah: That don’t make sense
Mark: That don’t up right there that don’t right
Jeremiah: I may get a shot there
Mark: So fattening food makes you fat totally not true we just been uneducated over eating makes you fat lazy
lifestyle makes you fat its not what you stick in you its how much of it you stick in you. Ladies and gentlemen
that is the end of our distracted program today please share us with your friends listen to the old podcast and
old programs that are available and Miah anything else are we wrapping up that easily
Jeremiah: Come friend us on facebook
Mark: Yeah please do friend us on facebook and follow myself on twitter I’m a horrible twitter person but I’m
gonna try to do better but my twitter is @apateymark
Jeremiah: I wish you were as good as horrible what is below horrible?
Mark: Me miah
Jeremiah: Theres Mark Horrindous horrible

25. Reaching out through social media
Mark: But I’m gonna try because I said @pateymark on twitter I’m gonna make an honest effort to
actually tweet every now and then you can also oh this is I think one of the most important things because
I really would like to get this more active than it is and we love the people who have called in but call us
and leave a message call 855 that’s a toll free number and cellphone this days that probably doesn’t
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Answering machine: Welcome to the distracted program leave a brief message or a question if we can
tackle the subject matter next show
Mark: And at that point we were dismissed you guys are horrible what your doing for the world is terrible
Jeremiah: I’m a fat Canadian and I hate you, That’s our callback from our last show
Mark: Okay so you could have been luckily

26. The next Guest
Jeremiah: I’m glad I’m not going into politics
Mark: You may someday
Jeremiah: That’s how you do add gift
Mark: So please call in our program like us on facebook follow us on twitter that’s the end of the distracted
program our next week episode actually truly the guest if he flies in as scheduled to join our program its
gonna be amazing I wont say his name just because you never know but the plan is hell be landing right
here at our airport to come see us at the tso and do a podcast with us and this would be huge if its not
him we will
Jeremiah: It will be someone bigger
Mark: It will be someone even bigger it will be Oprah for sure okay it wont be Oprah
Jeremiah: The O
Mark: That’s it Thanks again for joining our program will catch you next week god bless back there see
you bye