The ADHD Skills Lab

If you have ADHD, there’s a good chance you were bullied as a kid. Almost half of children with ADHD are, which is double the rate for kids without it. For many people, it doesn’t stop there. In adulthood, bullying often goes quieter: being left out, talked about, micromanaged, or labelled “too much” or “too sensitive.” Because it’s harder to spot, a lot of adults with ADHD don’t recognise it as bullying at all.

Brooke Schnittman, MA, PCC, BCC, is an ADHD coach, coach trainer, and founder of Coaching With Brooke. She’s also the bestselling author of Activate Your ADHD Potential and host of the SuccessFULL with ADHD podcast. Skye welcomes Brooke back to talk about the Coaching With Brooke Adult ADHD Bullying Survey, a global self-report survey of adults with ADHD. They look at what respondents shared about bullying in childhood and adulthood, at work and in relationships, and how it has shaped their confidence, anxiety, and fear of speaking up.

Brooke’s main point: reclaiming agency means learning to respond on your own timeline, and choosing people you can be yourself around.

In this episode:

• How to tell bullying apart from conflict, criticism, or just a difficult relationship
• The covert forms adult bullying can take, like exclusion and gossip, and why they’re easy to miss
• What respondents shared about gender, including women reporting more bullying from family and partners
• How bullying can show up for ADHD business owners with clients, leadership, and their own teams
• How to recognise patterns, prepare responses, and set boundaries that protect you
• Why healing includes choosing relationships that support you

Find Brooke
Website: https://coachingwithbrooke.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithbrooke/
ADHD Coach Training: https://3cactivation.com
Book: https://www.coachingwithbrooke.com/activatebook

Want to grow your business with ADHD?

You can use my free focus filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for an ADHD business mentor who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

Book a call and let's assess you're business to see if you're a fit: https://tinyurl.com/book-a-call-uo

With ADHD, "just wait until later" can feel impossible. Buy it now. Switch to the fun thing now. Say it now. And when you give in to the impulse, it's easy to blame yourself for not trying harder.

In this special episode of the ADHD Skills Lab, Skye Waterson shares a conversation from the ADHD Channel for Women by http://Understood.org. Host Cate Osborn speaks with Dr. Polaris Koi, an assistant professor of practical philosophy at the University of Turku who researches ADHD, self-control, and decision-making, and has ADHD themselves.

Together, they explore why impulse control isn't just about willpower. Polaris explains how adding friction, removing temptations, and changing your environment can make impulsive actions easier to manage. They also challenge the idea that self-control works like a muscle and discuss how anxiety and self-blame can make things harder.

Cate shares her experience with compulsive shopping, while Skye reflects on the urgency of wanting something right now, even when you know waiting might be better.

No "just wait." No trying harder for the sake of it. No silver bullet.

What We Cover

• Why waiting can be so difficult with ADHD
• How adding friction can help with impulsive decisions
• What the marshmallow experiments reveal about temptation
• Why willpower isn't simply a muscle you can strengthen
• How self-blame and anxiety affect impulse control

Listen to more episodes of the ADHD Channel for Women from http://Understood.org:

https://lnk.to/adhdchannelforwomenFD!theadhdskillslab

Want to grow your business with ADHD?

You can use my free focus filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for an ADHD business mentor who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

Book a call and let's assess you're business to see if you're a fit: https://tinyurl.com/book-a-call-uo

With ADHD, you can spend three days researching a $50 purchase, finally make the decision, and still wonder if you chose wrong. Meanwhile, the important stuff isn't getting done.

Skye and Robbie Waterson unpack a 2012 study from the Journal of Attention Disorders on ADHD, decision making, and regret. The research found that higher ADHD symptom scores were linked to more maximizing, the drive to find the best possible option, and more regret afterward. They explore why trying to avoid the wrong decision can leave you feeling worse even when you make a good one, and how that same pattern can quietly stall progress in your business.

What We Cover:

• Why ADHD can turn a simple purchase into days of research and second-guessing
• How maximizers can get better outcomes but feel less satisfied with their decisions
• Why trying to avoid regret can actually create more of it
• How overthinking small decisions steals time from the work that moves your business forward
• Why setting limits on time, money, and acceptable mistakes can make decisions easier
• What the research can and cannot tell us about ADHD and decision making

Want to grow your business with ADHD?

You can use my free focus filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for an ADHD business mentor who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

Book a call and let's assess you're business to see if you're a fit: https://tinyurl.com/book-a-call-uo

If you have ADHD (and especially if you run your own business), you probably know this cycle: push hard to hit a deadline, get it done, then do the same thing next week. It works often enough that you keep relying on it, until the week it doesn’t and you’re running on nothing.

Dr. Tracey Marks is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than 25 years of clinical experience. Skye and Tracey talk about why pushing through is so hard to give up and what it costs your attention and energy over time.

Tracey’s main point: recovery only works when it matches what drained you in the first place.

In this episode:

• Why pressure you put on yourself as a business owner hits differently than pressure from a boss
• How to tell whether you’re socially or cognitively drained, and what helps each one
• Tracey’s baseline for sleep, food, and movement (including her own bedtime routine)
• How to build a small set of anxiety tools that work for you and keep them within reach

Listen in if you’ve been running low for a while and keep telling yourself it’s just a busy season.

Find Tracey
Website: https://markspsychiatry.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drtraceymarks
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtraceymarks

Want to grow your business with ADHD?

You can use my free focus filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for an ADHD business mentor who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

Book a call and let's assess you're business to see if you're a fit: https://tinyurl.com/book-a-call-uo

You're posting consistently, growing your audience, and putting hours into marketing your business. People are watching, liking, and following. But they're not buying.

Kyrus Keenan Westcott, known as The Vibe With Ky, has built an audience of more than two million across Facebook and TikTok while working full time as a director of paid media. Diagnosed with ADHD at 35, he's learned how to turn content into a business without making every post a sales pitch.

In this conversation, Ky and Skye unpack why a bigger audience doesn't automatically mean more revenue, why selling before building trust can backfire, and how Ky turns engaged followers into paying customers. He shares what he gives away for free, what he charges for, and why he refuses to rely entirely on brand deals or platform income.

They also explore how he manages a full-time job alongside his growing business, the systems that help him work with his ADHD, and why he's still cautious about giving up a stable income.

You'll learn what actually moves people from following to buying, and how to build income that doesn't depend entirely on someone else's platform.

What We Cover

• Why a bigger audience doesn't automatically mean more paying customers
• How Ky builds trust before selling, and what he gives away for free
• Turning engaged followers into customers without constant sales pitches
• Why relying on brand deals and platform revenue puts your income at risk
• How Ky manages ADHD, a full-time job, and a business with millions of followers

Connect With Kyrus Keenan Westcott

Ky (Kyrus Keenan Westcott) is a mental health advocate and host of The Vibe With Ky Podcast, which reaches nearly three million followers. Diagnosed with ADHD at 35, he uses humor and honesty to simplify conversations around mental health. He was named one of JCI USA's Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 2023 and keynoted Neuro Diversion 2026.

• Website: http://thevibewithky.com
• Social: @thevibewithky on all major platforms
• Patreon: http://patreon.com/thevibewithky
• Digital guidebooks: [link]

Want to grow your business?

You can use my prioritization filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team.

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Want to grow your business?

You can use my prioritization filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team.

Book a call and let's discuss: https://tinyurl.com/book-a-call-uo

You hired people so you wouldn't have to do everything yourself. So why are you still the one remembering every deadline, chasing every handoff, and checking whether things actually got done?

Skye Waterson and Robbie Waterson explain why delegating tasks doesn't always mean delegating the mental load, especially when you have ADHD. Research shows that working memory challenges can make tracking tasks, priorities, and deadlines harder. And when everything lives in your head or gets buried in Slack, your team ends up guessing what matters most.

Skye and Robbie share the prioritisation filter they've developed and tested over five years. It puts tasks, real deadlines, and priorities into one shared system so everyone can see what needs to happen next. They also explain why teams resist new systems, how outdated tasks keep wasting time, and how to spot when a delegation problem is actually a training or process problem.

The goal isn't another complicated productivity system. It's a business where work keeps moving without you having to remember and chase everything.

What We Cover:

• Why delegating tasks doesn't automatically remove the mental load
• Why even a great assistant needs a shared system to work from
• How Slack handoffs lose priority and turn into constant follow-ups
• Why teams resist new task systems and how shared visibility helps
• How one prioritised list shows everyone what needs to happen next
• How to spot outdated tasks, training gaps, and work that's taking too long

Want to grow your business?

You can use my prioritization filter to manage overwhelm and organize yourself and your team: https://tinyurl.com/focus-filter

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team.

Book a call and let's discuss: https://tinyurl.com/book-a-call-uo

With ADHD, creative ideas are often the easy part. Starting one is harder. So is the project you were sure about, set down just short of finished, and the shame that follows.

In this special episode of the ADHD Skills Lab, Skye Waterson shares a conversation from the ADHD Channel for Women, created by http://Understood.org. Host Cate Osborn talks with Adam Reid, an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, filmmaker, and producer, in front of a live studio audience. Adam didn't know he had ADHD until he was around 45.

Their conversation explores ADHD and creativity, and what happens between having an idea and finishing it. Adam explains how he gives himself permission to start, to be bad at something, and to let an idea become nothing. He describes getting close to the end of a first draft and losing all interest in looking at it again. He talks about putting work away to age instead of automatically calling it a failure, and how pieces of old projects have sometimes found their way back into his creative life years later.

Cate brings the harder questions. The frustration of choosing one interest while others wait. The difference between creative potential and finished work. The reality of responsibilities, and the fact that making room for creativity is easier for some people than others. Adam also talks about understanding his strengths, finding people and environments that support how he works, and learning that his worth isn't determined by what he creates.

Skye also shares how Adam's experience reminded her of stepping away from academia after her master's degree, spending a year making art and working in a bakery, before returning to complete her PhD.

No hustle.

No pressure to turn every idea into an achievement.

No need to prove your worth through what you produce.

What We Cover

• Why starting can be the hardest part, and how Adam gives himself permission to begin
• Why Adam thinks of ideas as seeds rather than children to protect
• What happens when interest fades before a project is finished
• How strengths, supportive people, and the right environments influence creativity
• Late ADHD diagnosis, masking, and separating self-worth from creative output

Want to hear more?

Listen to more episodes of the ADHD Channel for Women from http://Understood.org:

https://lnk.to/adhdchannelforwomenFD!theadhdskillslab

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

With ADHD, a quick client callback runs long, you lose track of time, and the work you meant to do is still sitting there. Dr. Jessica McCarthy stopped taking those calls.

Dr. McCarthy is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist, and the founder and clinical director of Elements Psychological Services, a two-location assessment and therapy practice in New Jersey. She has ADHD and runs the practice around it.

She walks Skye through what she handed off, what she kept, and the one test she applies to every task. She also shares the automated billing mistake that told her whole practice she had changed her name before she was ready to say why.

What We Cover

• Her test for any task: if it takes too much time, it gets handed off or it does not get done
• Why call backs were one of the first things to go
• Why digital records are harder on ADHD working memory than a stack of paper
• What went wrong when an automated system ran exactly as designed
• The part of her marketing she is still not willing to hand over

Connect With Dr. Jessica McCarthy

@dr.jessica.mccarthy

@elements_psych

Dr. McCarthy is a licensed clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist, specializing in neuropsychological and psychoeducational assessments and cognitive-behavioral therapy for children through adults. She focuses on neurodivergent populations, including ADHD, autism, and learning differences, and conducts medically-driven assessments for conditions like TBI, stroke, and dementia. Dr. McCarthy uses evidence-based behavior therapies such as ACT and CBT, and enjoys working with young adults and women of all ages navigating life transitions. Her approach emphasizes understanding the brain-behavior relationship and providing actionable recommendations for patients and families. She has worked in schools, medical settings, and private practice, offering a wide range of specialty care. Dr. McCarthy is also a recognized speaker and media contributor on topics related to neuropsychology and mental health.

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You finally hire people to get some time back. Then somehow you have even more to keep track of.

What did you delegate? Is it getting done? What did you tell them was most important? Where is everyone actually spending their time?

For ADHD business owners, growing a team can make it feel like the systems you spent years building for yourself suddenly stop working.

Skye Waterson and Robert Waterson look at why. Working memory was already carrying too much when you were managing your own tasks. Now you're trying to keep track of other people's work too, and hiring one highly organized person or adding more AI doesn't necessarily solve the problem.

This episode is about why getting tasks out of your head becomes even more important once you're leading a team, and why your personal productivity system eventually needs to become a shared one.

Next episode, Skye and Robert get into exactly how to build that shared system.

What We Cover:

• Why the systems that worked when it was just you can break down once you have a team
• Why ADHD leaders can lose track of tasks after they've delegated them
• How hiring an organized person can help without solving the underlying problem
• Why AI and automation can become more things you have to remember and monitor
• Why one shared system lets you see priorities without constantly chasing your team

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You are working every spare minute, and the business still is not growing the way it should.

Amy Marie Hann spent 10 years hustling in a sales business that never really scaled. She worked constantly, burned out, and eventually realized that more effort was not going to fix the way the business was built.

Amy is the creator of Master the Mundane, a book and membership community for mothers with ADHD. In this conversation, she explains why people with ADHD can stay with the wrong thing for too long, how slowing down brought back her clarity, and why she built her next business around the life she actually wanted to live.

She also shares why she grew her team and then deliberately made it smaller, how she uses numbers to keep new ideas and emotions from driving business decisions, and where AI genuinely helps her without replacing her own thinking.

You will hear what changed when Amy stopped measuring progress by how hard she was working and started building a business she could actually sustain.

What We Cover

• Why ADHD hustle can create a lot of activity without creating growth
• Why sticking with the wrong thing too long can be a bigger problem than quitting too soon
• How slowing down gave Amy more clarity and creativity
• Why Amy grew her team, then deliberately went lean again
• How tracking numbers helps separate good decisions from rejection sensitivity and new ideas

Connect With Amy Marie Hann

Website: https://www.amymariehann.com/

Instagram: @amymariehann

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You start an email, remember a purchase, open another tab, and suddenly five tasks are each 20 percent done. For adults with ADHD, working memory problems don't necessarily disappear with age.

Skye Waterson and Robert Waterson unpack a 2013 meta-analysis of 38 studies on working memory in adults with ADHD. The researchers expected older adults to perform better. Instead, the review found adults with ADHD performed moderately worse on both verbal and visual working memory tasks, with age not changing the overall picture.

Then Skye and Robert get practical: how to stop relying on your head to hold everything. They cover one central place for tasks, low-friction capture, redundant reminders, recording tools, and physical cues you can't ignore.

The goal isn't to remember harder. It's to build a system that means you don't have to.

Want Skye's prioritization filter? DM me “prioritize” and she'll send it to you for free.

What We Cover:

• What 38 studies reveal about working memory in adults with ADHD, and why age didn't change the picture
• Why every task needs one central, ranked location instead of scattered notes
• How redundant reminders and physical cues help when working memory fails
• Why a five-minute post-meeting dictation can catch what AI summaries miss

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

Rejection sensitive dysphoria gets talked about constantly in ADHD spaces, but there isn't much research behind it yet.

In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a small study that tried to measure what happens when people with ADHD symptoms experience social exclusion. Using a deliberately unfair ball-tossing game, researchers compared how rejected participants said they felt with changes in their heart rate and blood pressure.

The results didn't line up the way researchers expected. This isn't proof that RSD is or isn't real. It's a look at what one study found, where the results got messy, and why measuring rejection sensitivity is more complicated than it sounds.

Want more of Will's work? Visit http://hackingyouradhd.com/ or subscribe on YouTube.

What We Cover:

• How the Cyberball task was used to create social exclusion in a lab setting
• Why participants reported feeling excluded while the physiological data didn't show the expected response
• The unexpected drop in blood pressure and what researchers thought might explain it
• Why self-reported rejection sensitivity didn't line up neatly with ADHD measures
• How the study's small, self-selected sample limits what we can conclude
• Why this paper raises useful questions without settling whether RSD is real

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You hired help. You still find yourself taking things back on.

Kara Kushnir built A Work of Heart Counseling and Wellness from a part-time practice into a fifteen-provider team. But growing the team meant learning that she couldn't keep doing everything herself.

In this episode, Kara talks about the temptation to say yes to everything, the burnout that follows, and how she learned to delegate, ask for help, and build a team she trusts enough to tell her no.

What We Cover

• Why trying to do everything yourself is a direct route to burnout
• Why Kara still catches herself taking on work she should delegate
• How saying yes to too much led to overwhelm and depletion
• Why asking for help and knowing who to ask are skills you can build
• How transparency about her weaknesses changed the relationship with her team
• Why knowing what you're not good at is part of building a healthier business

Connect with Kara:

• A Work of Heart Counseling
• Instagram: A Work of Art Counseling
• Instagram: Taking Cara

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

ADHD treatment works. But does it keep working the same way eight years later?

In this Research Recap, Skye and Will dig into the MTA study, one of the largest and most influential ADHD treatment studies ever conducted, and what researchers found when they followed the same kids over eight years.

They unpack why the strong early treatment gains had disappeared by year eight, why medication use dropped dramatically over time, and the surprising finding that even the group still taking medication didn't maintain the same early advantage.

They also look at what happens as kids move into middle school, when organizational demands increase and strategies that worked before may no longer be enough.

Importantly, they separate what the research actually tells us from what it still can't explain.

Want more of Will's work? Visit http://HackingYourADHD.com or subscribe on YouTube.

What We Cover:

• Why the MTA study's early treatment gains had disappeared by year eight
• Why only about a third of participants were still using medication
• What the research does and doesn't tell us about stopping medication
• Why changing life demands can require changing ADHD strategies
• What the middle school research suggests about symptoms at home versus school
• Why "pills don't teach skills" matters when thinking about long-term ADHD management

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You know what you want in the future. You still can't make yourself do the boring task today.

Skye and Robbie break down the goal setting system Skye actually uses, adapted from Dan Martell's framework. It works backward from a 25-year vision to one specific goal this year, then down to one daily non-negotiable that makes that goal inevitable.

They also get into what happens when you miss a day, why trying to focus on five goals at once backfires, and how immediate rewards can make the thing you keep avoiding easier to actually do.

What We Cover:

• The full process from a 25-year vision to a daily non-negotiable
• Why your yearly goal needs to be specific and measurable
• How to choose the one priority that matters most right now
• Why five new non-negotiables at once can become zero
• How immediate rewards and recovering from missed days keep goals alive

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You know what needs doing. You have the ideas. So why is actually finishing the thing so hard?

Jason Chatfield has written and drawn the syndicated comic strip Ginger Meggs for sixteen years, writes for The New Yorker, and built a career across cartooning, comedy, and writing. But he learned he cannot rely on his brain to generate ideas and execute them at the same time.

Instead, Jason built physical systems that separate thinking from doing: external deadlines, index cards, a wall calendar, batching, and pairing difficult tasks with things he actually enjoys.

In this episode, Jason breaks down the practical systems he uses to turn ideas into finished work without relying on willpower.

What We Cover:

• Why Jason stopped planning and executing in the same block
• The index card system that makes finished work visible
• How external deadlines give his ADHD brain structure
• Why his wall calendar beats another productivity app
• How he pairs difficult tasks with things he enjoys
• The first-thing, last-thing routine that separates planning from doing
• Why it took three ADHD diagnoses before he believed it

Connect With Jason Chatfield

https://www.jasonchatfield.com/

https://www.instagram.com/newyorkcartoons/

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You built the business because you were good at the work. Nobody warned you that promoting it might be harder than doing it.

New research on neurodivergent entrepreneurs found that maintaining a social media profile was the most commonly reported self-employment challenge. Ahead of work-life balance, unpredictability, and financial pressures.

In this episode, Skye and Robert unpack why social media has become such a difficult part of running a business, what else neurodivergent entrepreneurs say they struggle with, and the support and habits they find most helpful.

What We Cover:

• Why maintaining a social media profile topped the list of challenges
• How work-life balance, unpredictability, and marketing compared
• Why peer support, professional networks, and mentorship matter
• What entrepreneurs said helped their wellbeing, from movement and sleep to boundaries

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

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Carlos Gutierrez spent 25 years rising from sales representative to CEO of Kellogg, then served as U.S. Commerce Secretary. He did it all without knowing he had ADHD.

When he was diagnosed later in life, Carlos began looking back at his career differently. The disorganization, procrastination and impulsivity he had treated as personal flaws finally had a name. So did some of the traits that helped him succeed, including intense hyperfocus, intuition and an ability to connect with people.

In this conversation, Carlos and Skye unpack the role ADHD played at the highest levels of his career, from the projects he could not stop thinking about to the support that helped him perform at his best. They also talk honestly about the cost of that drive, particularly the work that followed him home and the family time he lost along the way.

It is a fascinating look at what ADHD can actually look like at the top, and what Carlos understands about himself now that he wishes he had known earlier.

What We Cover

• Why Carlos saw his ADHD traits as personal flaws for decades
• How hyperfocus became one of his biggest career advantages
• Why the right support and structure changed how he performed
• The impact his intense focus on work had on his family life
• How ADHD shaped his intuition, empathy and leadership style
• What changed when Carlos finally learned he had ADHD

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

Waking up exhausted after eight hours of sleep isn't just bad luck. In this Research Recap, Skye and Will break down a meta-analysis on hay fever and ADHD, including the finding that people with allergies are significantly more likely to also meet the criteria for ADHD. They talk through how swollen sinuses can disrupt sleep, how that can show up as brain fog and forgetfulness, and why the researchers still can't say which condition comes first. Want more of Will's work? Visit http://HackingYourADHD.com or subscribe on YouTube.

What We Cover:

• The 1.83x risk finding from 18 studies covering 4.2 million people
• Why poor sleep from allergies can look a lot like ADHD symptoms
• The inflammation theory behind the connection
• Why correlation isn't causation, and why the finding still matters
• What researchers still don't know about the ADHD–allergy link

Want more of Will's work? Visit http://hackingyouradhd.com/ or subscribe on YouTube.

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.

You hit a growth ceiling and your first instinct is to change what you're doing, not fix how you're doing it.

Matt Verlaque has coached founders past a million in revenue and sees the same pattern over and over: something works, the novelty wears off, growth stalls, and suddenly a new marketing channel, AI tool, or strategy looks like the answer.

Matt and Skye unpack the “pivot chaser” trap, how to tell when a strategy is genuinely broken versus when you've simply gotten bored of executing it. They also dig into AI mania, the dopamine hit of learning and building new things, and why constantly chasing the next skill can quietly keep you from scaling.

Because as Matt puts it: “Beginners don't scale companies.”

What We Cover

• How to tell whether you have a strategy problem or an execution problem
• Why ADHD founders abandon the thing that was actually driving their growth
• Why skill acquisition feels productive even when it stalls your company
• The difference between “can I build this?” and “should I build this?”
• Why constantly chasing novelty keeps you a beginner

Connect With Matt Verlaque

https://mattverlaque.com/

Instagram: @mattverlaque

P.S. If you’re a founder who’s tired of the mad scramble of disorganized systems and stressful HR, and you want a business that feels as easy as plugging your headphones into an iPod shuffle, I’ve got something for you.

Want to grow your business?

My Focused Balanced Growth Program has everything you need to build consistent ADHD-friendly routines and processes to grow. Click hereto learn more.

Looking for a coach who's also an operator who'll turn your business into a finely-tuned profit and peace machine designed for your brain?

I work with one company a month as a fractional consultant and COO, learning about your business and implementing systems that allow both trust & transparency with your team. Click here to book a call and discuss.