The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab is a podcast for business owners with ADHD who need practical, research-backed strategies to manage chaos and make consistent progress. Host Skye Waterson, founder of Unconventional Organisation and a former academic diagnosed with ADHD, shares systems that work for adult ADHD brains. Each episode offers honest support without generic productivity hacks, drawing on Skye's extensive research and experience working with professionals in high-responsibility roles. The podcast is produced in partnership with Understood.org.
Episodes
Can Virtual Reality Actually Help With ADHD?
Most ADHD interventions only work if you actually stick with them. So what happens when the intervention is something your brain actually wants to do?Skye joins Will to unpack a systematic review of 22 studies on virtual reality interventions for ADHD. They look at surprisingly high adherence rates, what the research suggests about attention and working memory, and whether improvements inside VR a
How To Deal With Deadlines With Your ADHD Brain - Rebroadcast
You’re guessing how long things take.That guess feels reasonable.It’s just wrong, over and over again.In the last episode, we broke down why ADHD time blindness happens. This one is about what to do about it.Because the real problem isn’t planning. It’s relying on estimation at all.In this episode, Skye and Robert walk through how to replace your internal clock with systems that actually hold up i
Why Perfectionism Keeps Your Business Stuck (Even Though You're An Overachiever)
You can be successful on paper and still feel stuck.In this episode, Skye talks with entrepreneur and investor Kassidy Warren about leaving the corporate “safe path,” taking real risks, and the identity shift required to stop playing small. They unpack rejection, procrastination, reinvesting before results, and what it actually means to turn pro — especially with an ADHD brain.If you’ve built some
The 4 Types of ADHD Founders (Which One Are You?)
Click the link below to see which founder type you are!https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/adhd-founder-typesYou keep solving the same business problems, but they keep coming back in different forms.After reviewing more than a dozen research episodes on ADHD founder struggles, four recurring founder patterns emerged: the Last Minute Hero, the Overwhelmed Architect, the Vision Caster, and th
The Real Reason Your ADHD Mindset Won't Change (Mick Hawes)
You've read the books. You've tried to think your way into a better mindset. But the changes never seem to stick.In this episode, Mick Hawes shares why he believes that's because mindset isn't something you change directly. Drawing on more than 35 years coaching business owners in high-complexity industries like custom home building, he explains why your mindset is the result o
ADHD Treatment: The Shocking Results After 8 Years
You start medication or therapy, things get better, and then a few years later the old struggles creep back in. You wonder if you did something wrong.This week, Skye Waterson is joined by Will Curb from Hacking Your ADHD for a Research Recap on the MTA study, the largest and most influential ADHD treatment trial ever conducted. Nearly 580 children were followed for 8 years to understand what happe
Why "Just Start" Advice Fails With ADHD (And What Actually Works)
You've probably heard it before:"Just start.""You'll feel better once you begin.""Get rid of all distractions."If you have ADHD, you've probably also discovered that this advice often doesn't work.In this episode, Skye and Robbie unpack the dopamine transfer deficit theory and explore why ADHD brains may not receive the same anticipatory motivation
Why ADHD Owners Crash When Money Systems Change Too Fast (Diane Gardner)
If you've ever tried to overhaul your finances in one weekend only to abandon the system a few days later, you're not alone. According to Diane Gardner, that's exactly why most financial systems fail for ADHD business owners.Diane Gardner is a Mastery-Level Profit First Professional, certified tax strategist, certified cash flow strategist, and bestselling author who helps home serv
Why ADHD Was the Ultimate Survival Mechanism
Why does your ADHD feel manageable in one situation but overwhelming in another?In this episode, Skye and Robbie explore a little-known 1997 review paper that challenged the traditional view of ADHD. Instead of seeing ADHD traits as fixed deficits, the authors argued that traits like attention shifting, hyperactivity, and impulsivity can become strengths or struggles depending on the environment.T
Why Adults with ADHD Struggle with Friendships (Caroline Maguire)
You meet someone, become instant best friends, and a few months later they're gone. Then it happens again.Most ADHD advice focuses on productivity, but Caroline Maguire believes we're missing something just as important: friendship. Caroline is a certified ADHD coach and the author of Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults.In this conversation, Skye and Caroline explore why ADHD bra
Does Meditation Actually Help ADHD? What Two Studies Found
Meditation is one of the most common ADHD recommendations—but what does the research actually say?In this Research Recap, Skye Waterson and William Curb examine two studies on mindfulness and ADHD. The first explores an 8-week mindfulness program for primary school children, while the second compares mindfulness with structured psychoeducation for adults with ADHD.The children's study found i
Why ADHD Founders Quit at Exactly the Right Time
Every founder with ADHD has wondered whether they quit too early. A 2024 foraging study unexpectedly suggests the opposite may sometimes be true. Researchers built an experiment expecting ADHD traits to be a disadvantage, and instead discovered the average person stayed too long.Skye and Robert explore what that means beyond the lab, why ADHD may be an advantage during the exploratory stage of ent
The Daily Reminder System That Actually Works for ADHD (Sharon Pope)
She stared in the mirror one night, still wearing the workout clothes she'd put on that morning, and realized she couldn't remember if she'd had a sip of water all day.Years before being diagnosed with ADHD, Sharon Pope was successfully leading startups while privately struggling with the basics of everyday life.So she built the tool she wished she'd had: an AI task manager tha
How to Stop Panic-Planning and Actually Lower Your ADHD Anxiety
You keep rereading the same task on your list. You know it matters. You still haven't started.If that sounds familiar, it probably isn't a motivation problem. It may be because you're treating a project like it's a task.In this episode, Skye and Robbie unpack why hidden complexity makes seemingly simple tasks feel impossible, why the ADHD brain mistakes importance for urgency,
The Real Impact of ADHD on Planning, Memory, and Time Management (Mike Legett)
If planning your week, remembering the small stuff, or keeping up with admin feels harder than the actual work, you're not imagining it.This week, Skye sits down with Mike Legett, an ADHD coach and executive functioning specialist who was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. Mike studied molecular genetics at Emory before leaving graduate school when its vague, paperwork-heavy demands became unwor
If You're Bad At Managing Your Time & Have ADHD Listen To This
Everyone says people with ADHD have "time blindness." But what does that actually mean?In this Research Recap, Skye Waterson and Will Curb review a decade of research (2012–2022) on time perception in adults with ADHD. Rather than treating time as one skill, the research separates it into three: estimating how long something will take, reproducing a duration, and managing time day to day
The Organising System That Actually Works for ADHD (Cas Aarssen)
You don't need another productivity hack. You need systems that still work when your brain doesn't.Cas Aarssen built the Clutterbug Method, hosted HGTV's Hot Mess House, and grew a global brand by stopping the fight against her ADHD and designing her home and business around how she naturally works.In this conversation, she shares the hard lessons that came from burnout, why traditi
Why Your Environment Effects Your ADHD More Than You Think
You've been told you pivot too fast. This research suggests your timing might be right.A 2024 Royal Society paper tested how long people stay in a depleting resource before moving to a new one, using a model from ecology called the marginal value theorem. The prediction was that ADHD traits would cause people to leave too soon.The data found the opposite. ADHD participants left patches closer
The High Performance Habits Of An 8 Figure ADHD Business with James Wedmore
You get bored with the offer that's working, so you go build a new one. James Wedmore has run the same program and the same live event for ten years and says that's the entire reason it grew. He explains the difference between a real "this isn't working" and a feeling that just shows up the moment things get hard. He also breaks down why he became a bottleneck in his own b
The REAL Reason ADHD Could Be Ruining Your Sleep
You're exhausted all day, then suddenly wired at 10pm. That's not random. Research suggests it's tied to a delayed circadian rhythm that's common in ADHD.In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a paper examining ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder. This isn't a list of sleep hygiene tips. It's a look at what's actually different in the ADHD body's clock
ADHD Diagnosis Criteria Explained By People Who Actually Have It Part 2
You've reread the same paragraph three times and still couldn't tell anyone what it said.Skye and Robbie return to the DSM-5 for Part 2 of their criteria breakdown, this time on criterion B: difficulty sustaining attention. They work through real examples, rereading pages, checking out of meetings, losing focus on audiobooks even at double speed, and land on why none of it happens during
The Best Way To Build Your Company Around Your ADHD Brain (With Chris Wang)
You spend years building workarounds for your own brain, then realize you could build your company the same way.Chris Wang did exactly that.As co-founder and CEO of Shimmer, an ADHD coaching platform that has delivered more than 90,000 coaching sessions, Chris was diagnosed with ADHD at 28 while building the company. Instead of treating her personal systems and her business systems as separate pro
ADHD Diagnosis Criteria Explained By People Who Actually Have It
You've read the ADHD criteria a dozen times and still aren't sure if you actually qualify.Skye and Robbie Waterson and sit down with the DSM-5 itself and read through the inattentive criteria line by line, the same list a clinician would use for an actual diagnosis. They score themselves against each one in real time, and they don't agree on most of them.The conversation covers why
Psychologist With 40,000 Hours of ADHD Clients Speaks On What Productivity Advice Gets Wrong (Ari Tuckman)
Most productivity advice for ADHD is written for people who just need a nudge. If you have ADHD, you need something more honest than that.Ari Tuckman holds a PsyD and an MBA, has authored five books on ADHD, and has spent over 40,000 hours in clinical work with adults. He co-chairs the largest ADHD conference in the US and has been quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post.In this
Why Using Anxiety To Manage Your ADHD Isn't A Good Idea
Running your business on anxiety feels like productivity. It isn't. It's a system built on urgency, and it burns out fast.Research suggests that goal-focused interventions can reduce anxiety in adults with ADHD. What they don't appear to do is meaningfully improve executive functioning. Skye and Will break down a Norwegian randomized controlled trial on goal management training, wha
Why ADHD Makes You Chase Bad Ideas (& how to stop it)
You've launched things that seemed solid, only to watch them unravel for reasons that felt obvious afterward. That's not a judgment problem. For ADHD founders, retrospective clarity comes naturally. The pre-mortem is a tool that pulls that clarity forward, to the start of a project, when fixing problems is still cheap.Skye and Robbie break down the pre-mortem method, developed by cogniti
How ADHD Pulled This Entrepreneur Out Of $600k Debt (with Galel Fajardo)
Sitting in a parking lot after leaving the bankruptcy attorney's office, $600,000 in debt written off, home gone, Galel Fajardo told himself no one would ever hire him again.Galel Fajardo is a business coach, digital marketing consultant, and fractional CMO with 23 years of entrepreneurial experience and a Master's in Performance Psychology. He specializes in helping high-performing entr
The Real Reason Structure Doesn't Stick When You Have ADHD
You've built systems before. You probably built them well. The problem wasn't creating them. The problem was maintaining them once the novelty wore off.Wednesday's episode explored why ADHD founders often struggle with operational consistency. This episode covers the structural solution.The systems integrator role sits between the ADHD founder and the rest of the business. It captur
The Hidden Burnout Nobody in Your Business Is Talking About
Your business is doing well. Momentum is real, clients are happy, and structure feels like the enemy right now. But if you turn that camera around and look past the founder, you find a stressed team running on broken systems, one sick day away from everything slowing to a stop.Research on ADHD traits and project management suggests operational effectiveness, specifically goal setting, milestone tr
Why Simple Tasks Feel So Exhausting With ADHD (with Jenna Free)
You've tried the calendars, the timers, the hacks. They work for two weeks and then stop. Jenna Free says that's not a discipline problem. It's a regulation problem.Jenna is a counselor for ADHD with ADHD, author of The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation, and has worked in-depth with over 1,000 people through her ADHD Regulation Method. Her position is direct: dysregulation is not a fi
Why 50% of People With ADHD Quit Their Medication
Why do so many people start ADHD medication... and then quietly stop within a year or two?In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a systematic literature review examining why over half of all patients discontinue or significantly reduce ADHD medication within 2 to 3 years of starting.This episode isn't about whether you should take medication.It's about something more practical: wha
Why Progress Never Feels Permanent With ADHD (Even When You Do Everything Right) Nicole Stanley
You're generating real revenue. But every time you open your banking app, your brain shuts down and you close it again.Nicole Stanley is the founder of Arise Financial Coaching and creator of the Money Momentum Method. Late-diagnosed with ADHD at 30, scoring in the 99th percentile for severity, she built a financial method that turned out to be designed for ADHD brains before she knew she had
How Casey Neistat Nails Productivity Advice For ADHDers
You know what your most important work is. You still spend the first four hours of the day doing everything else.Casey Neistat recently posted a video called *Navigating the Matrix* showing how he organizes his workday as a creator with ADHD. He tracks his tasks in real time, explains the system he uses to manage everything, and ends by accepting the chaos as part of the deal.Skye and Robert disag
Your ADHD Productivity Might Actually Be Perfectionism (Here's How to Tell with Dani Donovan)
You built something people love. Running the business of it is a different problem entirely.Dani Donovan is the creator of The Anti-Planner, a self-published ADHD productivity workbook that generated over $1 million in its first year and has now sold more than 115,000 copies with a 4.9-star rating. She built it without a business plan, without onboarding documents, and without a team that had done
Why ADHD Brains Hire People And Then Do It Themselves Anyway
Nobody agreed on what done looked like. The handover happened anyway. That is where it fell apart.This episode is the practical follow-up to Wednesday. Skye and Robbie walk through the specific hiring and handover process they use with ADHD founders, including what they have lost money figuring out so you do not have to.The hiring side covers why video applications and paid test projects replace i
Why ADHD Entrepreneurs Struggle With Delegating
You hired someone good. The work was fine. You still sent the late-night Slack message, redirected the task, and checked in on something that had already been handled.This episode looks at what the research suggests is actually driving that pattern. Not trust issues. Not a bad hire. A specific kind of perfectionism that shows up differently in people with ADHD.Two studies help explain it. A 2016 s
ADHD, Parenting, and the Pressure of Entrepreneurship (With Jessica Shaw)
The school sent her daughter to a desk with her head down because she could not sit still during circle time. That was the moment Jessica stopped waiting for someone else to figure it out.Jessica Shaw is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Vanity Fair. She is the host of Everyone Gets a Juice Box, Understood.org's podcast for pa
Can Pregnancy Inflammation Influence ADHD in Children? (New Study Breakdown)
Understanding why ADHD happens can feel like chasing a moving target. This study adds a biological angle most people haven't considered.We discuss a prospective study examining whether maternal inflammation during the second trimester is associated with ADHD symptoms in children later in life. Researchers measured cytokine levels in 62 pregnant women and followed up on ADHD symptoms in 68 chi
The Hidden Cost of ADHD Novelty Seeking (And How to Fix It)
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYou don’t have a lack of focus. You have too many ideas pulling it in different directions.This episode builds on Wednesday’s breakdown of ADHD novelty bias and shows you how to actually manage it without shutting it down.Because the goal isn’t to stop having ideas. It’s to stop them from constantly disrupting execution.You’ll hear how to treat novelty as inp
The ADHD Habit That Is Silently Killing Your Business
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep switching direction mid-project, and now nothing in your business is fully built.In this episode, we break down ADHD novelty bias and why new ideas don’t just feel exciting. They feel urgent, important, and hard to ignore.You’ll hear how this shows up in real businesses. The team is aligned, work has started, and then a new idea comes in. It sounds better, feels
Why ADHD Labels Can Hold You Back (with Nir Eyal)
Presented by Understood.orgGetting diagnosed with ADHD explains a lot. Then it starts explaining too much.In this episode, Nir Eyal breaks down what happens after that initial relief. When ADHD stops being useful information and starts becoming your identity.He shares how that shift can quietly limit effort, create anxiety loops, and turn every struggle into “this is just how I am.”This isn’t abou
How Negative Environments Impact Your ADHD Brain(with Brandon Smith)
Presented by Understood.orgBad environments can train ADHD entrepreneurs to second-guess themselves long after they leave those environments behind. Brandon Smith shares how years of struggling in school, standardized testing, and constant negative feedback shaped the way he saw himself, and why finding practical work completely changed how he viewed his ADHD brain.In this conversation, Brandon br
Does Bluey ACTUALLY Have ADHD?
Presented by Understood.orgYou feel seen by something that wasn’t meant for you.Skye and Robbie explore whether Bluey reflects ADHD patterns or just captures behaviour accurately.Using DSM criteria, they break down distraction, unfinished tasks, and how patterns are identified over time.This episode sits right on the line between observation and diagnosis and shows you how to think about both.What
How To Turn ADHD Into Your Company's Biggest Asset (with Craig Ballantyne)
Presented by Understood.orgYou build a new system, follow it for a few days, then quietly stop using it.Craig Ballantyne has coached high performers across multiple industries and his approach focuses on building systems that survive real life, not perfect conditions.This conversation looks at why most systems fail for ADHD brains. Craig explains how self-awareness, environment control, and honest
ADHD Shiny Object Syndrome Is Killing Your Projects
Presented by Understood.orgYou get a new idea and immediately want to drop everything else.This episode builds on Wednesday’s research around ideation bias in ADHD. The research suggests people with ADHD prefer the idea phase and are more likely to move on before execution is complete.We break down how this creates the “never-ending pivot” and why projects keep getting abandoned halfway through.Yo
Why ADHD Brains Overbuild Before Starting
Presented by Understood.orgYou spend weeks building something before anyone ever sees it.Not because it needs to be that big. Because once you start, it keeps expanding until it feels impossible to finish.This is where minimum viable product actually matters. Not as a business concept, but as a way to stop overbuilding everything and start testing things earlier.ADHD makes it easy to over-scope, g
Why ADHD Makes You Start Too Many Projects (with Katy Weber)
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep starting new things and abandoning the ones that were working.Katy Weber is the go-to voice behind the Woman and ADHD podcast, reaching millions of listeners and building a multi-stream business from lived experience. Her approach to growth is grounded in what actually works with ADHD, not what sounds good on paper.She explains why ADHD pulls you toward new idea
Why ADHD Symptoms Might Not Be Just Genetics
You keep being told ADHD is genetic, but part of you suspects something in your environment is making it worse.In this next episode of the Research Recap Series Skye and Will (Hacking Your ADHD) discuss research on environmental exposure and ADHD-related behaviors.Together they explore what the science suggests about how certain chemicals may influence attention, impulsivity, and neurodevelopment.
The ADHD Pattern That’s Killing Your Business
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep improving the idea instead of finishing the project.In Wednesday’s breakdown, we showed why ADHD brains prefer ideation and discount future rewards. Today is about building around that.This episode gives you three systems. A written decision log. A structured ideation window. And a clear threshold for when changes are allowed.These systems help you move from “th
Why Your ADHD Brain Has 62 Ideas and ZERO Finished Projects
Presented by Understood.orgYou have a good plan. But your brain keeps pulling you back into new ideas.Skye and Robbie explain why ADHD brains get stuck in ideation.This episode connects real-world behavior to research. ADHD brains perform well in divergent thinking. But they also prefer it. And they value immediate rewards over delayed ones.That combination makes finishing harder than starting.Wha
How to ACTUALLY Deal With Burnout With ADHD (with Krista Mashore)
Presented by Understood.orgYou built something that works. Now you cannot stop working without everything feeling like it might fall apart.Krista Mashore is a powerhouse in digital coaching. She built a $70M business after leaving real estate at her peak. She is the gold standard for fast execution and high-output growth, and her systems come directly from managing her own ADHD at scale.We break d
How To Deal With Deadlines With Your ADHD Brain
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYou’re guessing how long things take.That guess feels reasonable.It’s just wrong, over and over again.In the last episode, we broke down why ADHD time blindness happens. This one is about what to do about it.Because the real problem isn’t planning. It’s relying on estimation at all.In this episode, Skye and Robert walk through how to replace your internal clo
Why Your Team Doesn’t Trust Your Deadlines (ADHD Time Blindness Explained)
Presented by Understood.orgYou think it’ll take two days.Your team knows it’s two weeks.And after a while, they stop saying anything.In this episode, Skye and Robert break down why ADHD founders consistently underestimate time, not because they’re overconfident or disorganized, but because their perception of time is genuinely off.They walk through the research behind time blindness and estimation
The Funding You Weren't Told About And ADHD Strategies to Get It (with Kat Weaver)
Presented by Understood.orgYou’re funding everything yourself, and it’s quietly slowing your business down.Not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because you’re relying on the most limited resource you have: your own cash and capacity.Kat Weaver has helped founders raise over $70M and won 22 out of 23 pitch competitions herself. But her approach isn’t about chasing investors, it’s about usin
ADHD and Pain Before Diagnosis: What a 700,000-Child Study Found
We usually think of ADHD as behavioral.But what if some of the earliest signals weren’t behavioral at all?In this Research Recap, we break down a large population-based study examining pain-related diagnoses in children before they were diagnosed with ADHD.Researchers looked at over 700,000 medical records to ask a simple question:Were children later diagnosed with ADHD already showing higher rate
Why Nothing Ever Feels Done With ADHD & How To Fix It
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYou approve the direction. Then change everything at the end.Wednesday’s episode showed why ADHD planning creates late-stage corrections. This episode shows how to stop that pattern.Skye and Robbie break down a system built around checkpoints, prototypes, and early feedback. The goal is not better briefs. The goal is catching problems when they’re still cheap
Why ADHD Plans Break When Teams Execute
Presented by Understood.orgThe plan made sense in your head. It falls apart when someone else runs it.This episode looks at research on prospective memory and verbal planning. The findings suggest ADHD impacts how plans are built, not just remembered.Skye and Robbie explain why this creates a gap between intention and execution. And why teams end up producing something that feels “close, but not r
Why You Know What To Do But Still Can’t Start (with Eric Zimmer)
Presented by Understood.orgYou already know what needs to get done.It’s not a knowledge problem. It’s not a lack of ideas.But you still don’t start.Instead, you overthink it, wait to feel ready, or tell yourself you’ll do it later, again.Eric Zimmer is the creator of The One You Feed, an award-winning podcast with 50M+ downloads and 800+ conversations on behavior change. He is the go-to voice on s
Why You Always End Up Rushing Last Minute And How To Fix It
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep setting deadlines and somehow everything still ends up happening at the last minute.You plan ahead. You move things around. You even set earlier deadlines.And it still compresses into a final push.This episode explains why that keeps happening and what to change.We build on Wednesday’s breakdown of time blindness and show why most deadline strategies fail over t
Why Deadlines Don’t Feel Real With ADHD
Presented by Understood.orgDeadlines exist right up until they don’t.You can see it on the calendar. You know it’s coming. You’ve even thought about it a few times.Then suddenly it’s urgent and everything else gets dropped while you scramble to catch up.This episode explains why that keeps happening.We break down what research shows about ADHD and time perception, and why this isn’t just poor plan
How ADHD Affects Your Nervous System with Jamie Sea
Presented by Understood.orgJamie Sea built two seven-figure businesses.From the outside, everything looked successful. But behind the scenes, the pressure, urgency and burnout were becoming impossible to ignore.In this episode of ADHD Skills Lab, Skye talks with Jamie Sea, entrepreneur, educator and host of The Jamie Sea Show about the moment she realized the businesses she built no longer fit the
ADHD Project Systems That Actually Help
Presented by Understood.orgYou know how to do the work. But when a task is actually a project, you have to figure out the steps again every time you come back to it.On Wednesday we looked at the research behind this problem. ADHD planning challenges often show up when the brain has to manage the structure of a project internally.This episode looks at the practical solution.Instead of trying to car
Why ADHD Brains Struggle With Projects
Presented by Understood.orgYou can handle individual tasks all day. But the moment something becomes a project, everything slows down.Research into ADHD executive functioning suggests the difference often comes down to planning demands, not motivation or intelligence.In this episode, Skye and Robbie break down what these experiments reveal about ADHD and why complex projects require building a seq
Why ADHD Brains Rebel Against To-Do Lists (And What Works Instead) with Kyle Vamvouris
Presented by Understood.orgYou make a to-do list.Then you avoid it all day.For many ADHD professionals, the problem isn’t motivation, it’s how the workday is structured.In this conversation, Skye speaks with Kyle Vamvouris, founder of SalesThread and the strategist behind 87 B2B sales teams, about how he actually works.Instead of rigid productivity systems, Kyle relies on open calendar space, rapi
How to Train ADHD Teams So They Actually Remember
Presented by Understood.orgMany adults with ADHD feel like they have to repeat the same instructions again and again.You explain a process to your team, everyone nods, and a week later it feels like no one remembers what they learned.Earlier this week on ADHD Skills Lab, Skye and Robbie explored research on why ADHD brains often struggle during the encoding stage of learning. When information isn’
Why ADHD Brains Forget What They Just Learned
Presented by Understood.orgMany adults with ADHD feel like they have a bad memory.You learn something in a meeting or training session, but a few days later it feels like the information has disappeared.In this episode of ADHD Skills Lab, Skye and Robbie break down research on memory and ADHD. They explore how information gets encoded into long-term memory and why this stage of learning often brea
Taki Moore on ADHD: The Brain Behind a Billion-Dollar Results Business
Presented by Understood.orgYou start a business for freedom.Then one day you realize the business no longer fits the way your brain works.Taki Moore is often called the business coach’s favorite business coach. Through his Million Dollar Coach community he has helped thousands of coaches grow their businesses and create more than $1 billion in client results.Along with that success was something h
ADHD Visual Overload: Systems That Actually Help
Many adults with ADHD struggle with tools that seem simple at first but quickly become overwhelming. Dashboards full of icons, systems that require too many clicks, and constantly changing interfaces can quietly drain focus.In this episode of ADHD Skills Lab, Skye and Robbie explore practical ADHD work systems that reduce visual overload and make digital tools easier to navigate.Earlier this week,
Why Software Updates Feel Harder With ADHD
Why does a simple software update suddenly make everything feel impossible to use?In this Research Recap, Skye and Robbie break down a meta-analysis examining object recognition memory in ADHD.Object recognition memory helps your brain recognize visual information like icons, folders, faces, and layouts. It’s what allows you to quickly identify the right button in a menu or remember where somethin
ADHD Creative Strategies with Andy J Pizza: Hard Does Not Mean Bad
When creative work gets hard, most people with ADHD assume something’s wrong.Wrong idea.Wrong project.Wrong career.In this conversation, Andy J. Pizza (author, illustrator, and host of Creative Pep Talk) breaks down the moment his work completely dried up — and why that crisis forced him to stop winging it and start creating strategically.We talk about perfectionism, rejection sensitivity, creativ
Are You More Likely to Succeed in Business if You Have ADHD?
Business owner with ADHD wanting operational clarity and focus? Click here to book a session with Skye.https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com for a operational clarity session!More adults with ADHD start businesses than the general population.But here’s the part nobody talks about:Research shows ADHD is positively linked to entrepreneurial attitudes and startup behavior…and negatively linked t
What Does Atomoxetine Actually Do To Your ADHD Brain?
DescriptionBusiness owner with ADHD wanting operational clarity and focus? Click here to book a session with Skye.https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com for a operational clarity session!Why does focus feel like forcing a rusty machine to start… instead of flipping a switch?In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a randomized placebo-controlled study examining how brain networks behave di
Why Perfectionism Keeps Your Business Stuck (Even Though You're An Overachiever) - Kassidy Warren
You can be successful on paper and still feel stuck.In this episode, Skye talks with entrepreneur and investor Kassidy Warren about leaving the corporate “safe path,” taking real risks, and the identity shift required to stop playing small. They unpack rejection, procrastination, reinvesting before results, and what it actually means to turn pro — especially with an ADHD brain.If you’ve built some
ADHD, Leadership, and the Identity Shift That Changes Everything (Adam Tasker)
“I wasn’t failing. I just wasn’t growing.”Adam Tasker had the career. The family. Three kids. Responsibility handled.But privately, he knew he was drifting.After being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, following his sons’ diagnoses, he began to look at how he was operating. Not just as a father, but as a leader. At home. In business. With himself.In this conversation, Skye and Adam unpack:What actu
Think Your ADHD Isn’t “Bad Enough”? The Data Says It Still Matters
Looking for The Business Visibility Workshop?Click here for details:https://unconventionalorganisation.circle.so/checkout/the-business-visibility-workshop-wednesday-feb-18thYou don’t need a formal ADHD diagnosis for ADHD traits to affect your health, finances, or well-being.In this Research Recap, Skye and Will break down a study on subclinical ADHD - ADHD traits that fall below the diagnostic thr
Selling With ADHD: Confidence Without the Sleaze or Burnout (with Wes Schaeffer)
If sales feels heavy, awkward, or mentally exhausting, it’s probably not because you’re bad at it.It’s more likely because you’ve been trying to sell using advice that relies on pressure, performance, or rigid systems - the exact things that make ADHD brains freeze, overthink, or avoid the conversation altogether.In this episode, Skye sits down with Wes Schaeffer (The Sales Whisperer) to talk abou
ADHD Isn’t Just in Your Head - Apparently It’s in Your Gut Too
A lot of people with ADHD deal with physical symptoms they’ve never talked about - or never thought were connected.This episode looks at what the research actually shows about ADHD and gut issues, and where the line is between association, speculation, and overreach.ADHD usually gets framed around focus, motivation, and productivity. But growing research suggests it may also be linked to very real
If Accounting Makes Your ADHD Brain Shut Down, Listen to This (with Joe Dunaway)
If the word accounting makes your attention disappear, this episode is for you.Skye sits down with Joe Dunaway - founder of Vici Financial, accountant, business owner, and ADHDer - to talk about why so many ADHD entrepreneurs avoid their numbers, and how to understand them without overcomplicating things or forcing yourself into systems you won’t maintain.This isn’t about becoming good at accounti
You Weren’t ‘Too Much’. You Were an ADHD Kid in School
Looking for the Bottleneck Reset Workshop?Click here for details:https://unconventionalorganisation.circle.so/checkout/bottleneck-reset-workshop-wednesday-jan-21stKids with ADHD are not just more likely to struggle academically. They are more visible, more misunderstood, and often less liked by peers and teachers.In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a study on ADHD, social status, and bull
I Thought My Memory Was Failing - Then I Realized I Had ADHD (Tiana Sutton)
Looking for the Bottleneck Reset Workshop? Click here for details:https://unconventionalorganisation.circle.so/checkout/bottleneck-reset-workshop-wednesday-jan-21stGrowing a business is hard.Doing it with ADHD - while raising five kids - can make you feel like your brain is actively working against you.In this episode, Skye talks with Tiana Sutton, a fitness instructor, community builder, and moth
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