“Now I Finally Know Who I Am” - John Brink on Discovering ADHD at 62

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In this episode, Thomas Helfrich interviews John Brink about his life journey and the late discovery of his ADHD at 62.

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with John Brink What does success really look like when you are eighty five years old, still building companies, competing in bodybuilding, writing books, and hosting hundreds of podcasts? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with John Brink, an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster whose life story spans war time Europe, immigration to Canada with almost nothing, decades of business building, and a late in life discovery that finally ex...

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Host: Thomas Helfrich

Guest: John Brink

Topics covered

• ADHD
• entrepreneurship
• personal discovery
• aging
• bodybuilding
• immigration

Keywords

• ADHD
• success
• entrepreneur
• bodybuilding
• immigration
• life story
• podcasting

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Places: Canada, Europe

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