Taking Control: The Adhd Podcast

We've been piling on episodes the last 8 weeks so it's time to take a break to do a little listener email! This round we’re taking on routines, planning for adaptation and change, home exercise, separating work from personal time at home, taking breaks, clogging tasks, and more! Thanks to all who have written in — please keep 'em coming: questions@takecontroladhd.com. Links & Notes Your Daily Does of Kristin — Workouts with Pete’s Sister-in-LawPete’s Headphones: ATH-m50x (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (00:48) - Support the Show — Become a Member at Patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (05:26) - A little shouting from the mountain tops... (08:34) - Non-COVID routine adjustments (10:49) - Planning for a return to "Normal"? (17:53) - Learning flexibility (20:48) - Exercise at Home (27:08) - Strategies for separating work from personal time (31:23) - Structure for taking breaks during the day (33:35) - Embarrassment Tasks (38:04) - Creating focus space at home (42:46) - Planning (47:40) - How do you figure out w

Lisa Woodruff is a home organization expert, productivity specialist, and speaker. She has two books, The Mindset of Organization and How ADHD Affects Home Organization, which are Amazon best sellers in their categories, and as we continue our journey through ADHD and organizing, Lisa is the perfect guest to help us with a system to start the week right: The Sunday Basket.Just what is The Sunday Basket? It's a weekly appointment with your future self. It's the promise you make to manage your home and support your responsibilities. Oh, and it's a bucket... the most powerful bucket you'll own. Links & NotesOrganize365.comThe Organize365 PodcastThe Sunday Basket at Organize365 (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:19) - Support the Show: Become a Patron at Patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (02:43) - Introducing Lisa Woodruff and Organizing365 (07:54) - The Sunday Basket (21:57) - Paper (23:32) - Forming the Sunday Basket Habit (26:59) - The Digital Sunday Basket? (34:00) - GTD (41:42) - Finding Lisa ★ Suppo

This is not an episode about COVID-19. Not really.But it is about what has happened to us all at home because of our contexts right now. And one of the things we know is that putting into place some basic organizing tools can help you spruce up your home or workspace, get your co-habitants working together, and make you feel great. So this week on the show we're going back to basics as Nikki Kinzer reminds us all to do what we know, treat ourselves well, and give ourselves permission to be great no matter how the house looks! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (00:57) - Support the show: Become a Patron! (02:18) - Quick Organizing Tasks! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dr. Michelle Frank is a clinical psychologist specializing in providing diagnostic and treatment services to individuals with ADHD. Her work with clients is all about finding strengths-based approaches to learning how to live with ADHD. Last time she was here, she helped us work through shame and how it impacts relationships. As it turns out, there's more guilt, shame, and relativism in ADHD than we thought. So, she's back to help us take our understanding to the next level! She works with college students, adults, and families and the book she co-authored with Sari Solden — A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers — was released last summer. Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Follow Michelle on InstagramA Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers by Michelle Frank and Sari Solden — Amazon.com About Dr. Michelle FrankThe ADHD Podcast Masks!The Squirrel Squirre

We've been talking a lot about planning on the show and how to approach routines, breaking negative patterns, and so on over the last handful of weeks. We've heard the struggles and believe it when we tell you: We're struggling too!This week we have some thought on the hard stuff: leaning into not planning. While we likely don't have the answers to all your questions, we do have some thoughts on short term and long term planning that should go a long way toward freeing yourself from the stress and anxiety that comes with uncertainty. Forgive yourself, adjust your expectations, and face the hard stuff as it comes. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:15) - Support the Show — Become a Patron! (03:43) - Planning Through Uncertainty (07:10) - Riding Bikes versus Jumping Rope (10:40) - Short Term versus Long Term Planning (18:56) - Self-Care ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Parents are faced with an extraordinary set of new responsibilities under at-home directives around the country. Being able to work at home, if possible, and take on the additional roles of schedule-keepers, quarantine teachers, and more can be an incredible strain on the parent-child relationship.This week on the show, Dr. Marcy Caldwell joins Nikki and Pete to talk about the pillars of successful parenting, and how to maintain your reserves when you're feeling tested. She introduces us to the STOPP model, which is a comforting acronym for your own emotional regulation (S: Separate, T: Take a Breath, O: Observe yourself first, then observe what just happened, P: Perspective, P: Proceed).Links & NotesCalm: Meditation and mindfulnessFreedomADDept.org: Thriving with ADHD (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:10) - Support the show • Become a Patron! (02:36) - Introducing Marcy Caldwell (17:25) - Emotional Regulation (22:01) - Habits and Routines (27:50) - The self-care boost: STOPP Method (34:38) - Quar

We're all living day-to-day, week-to-week now. The distant future is out of our control. We know things are changing around us, the world is moving forward fluidly, and we know transition is always on the horizon... we just don't know when.What do you do when the routines you trusted are thrown into chaos? It's all about bookends and anchors. Now isn't the time to be the most productive you've ever been in your life. It's time to build new and resilient routines and patterns into your days to keep you moving, and moving forward. This week on the show, Nikki and Pete walk through the tools you need to build momentum into your life in times of chaos and feel confident that even in uncertainty, you can continue to contribute.Links & NotesADHD Study Hall (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:26) - Support The ADHD Podcast: Become a Patron! (03:41) - Routines (08:18) - Being better equipped for changes in routine (14:28) - What are you shipping? (16:22) - Accountability (19:46) - Big Rocks, Little Rocks (2

We posted a question on our Facebook page asking you how you were adjusting, what you were facing in terms of your own challenges, as we move into whatever comes next for us on this planet. Starting with what we all know: this is hard. We're hurting. We're confused. But there is a silver lining: We're all doing those things together. This week on the show, we're going to share some of those challenges faced by so many of you who responded and, more importantly, a collection of the incredible responses you offered one another in support. Links & Notes"Why You Should Ignore All That Coronovirus-Inspired Productivity Productivity Pressure" — Aisha S. Ahmad, The Chronicle of Higher Education Sawbones Episode 316: The Coronavirus Part 2 (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:08) - Support the Show • Become a Patron! (03:35) - Facing our Challenges (05:40) - Fear of Germs (14:13) - Isolation (20:06) - Online School (25:54) - Routines, productivity, and motivation ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Environmental stress can make you feel like you're in a never-ending loop. The anxiety that comes with the rapidly changing world around us and the barrage of negative news can amplify negative patterns in our thoughts and behaviors. What we need is a pattern interrupt, a set of tools that can help us to step out of the cycle and regain a sense of calm or peace.Today on the show, Dr. Dodge Rea gives us some tools to interrupt those negative patterns. He introduces a valuable resource in the work of Les Fehmi on alpha and beta brainwaves, and leads us through a meditation on open focus that can serve as your start in a practice to calm your mind and body.Links & NotesThe Open-Focused Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins About Dodge Rea (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (00:58) - Support the Show — Become a Member at Patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (02:29) - Introducing Dr. Dodge Rea (02:53) - Pattern Interrupt (05:36) - Les Fehmi's brain patterns (13:12

Continuing our conversation about the massive shift we're facing as we wade through the global shutdown, today we're talking about technology. What are you doing to make the shift? How are you communication? How are you staying productive? How are you keeping your wits about you?  This week on the show, Bob "Dr. Mac" Levitus is back with us to share what he's learned over the last few weeks in working remotely. From protocol for conducting a great video conference to just how hard he leans on his simple, analog tools to keep productive, Bob's got some great tools and recommendations for whatever level of home work you're trying to accomplish!Links & NotesDigital and Analog Tips for Life Cooped Up at Home — Bob LeVitus at houstonchronicle.comWorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com/free — Download Bob's Daily Productivity ChecklistZonebox for Pomodoro (macOS)Working Smarter for Mac Users 5-Hour Online Course — use code TakeControlADHD at checkout to save 90%!Blue Yeti NanoATR2100x USB MicrophoneLibby — Access your li

With our own emotions taxed during this time of pandemic, it's easy to misunderstand how our children are living through this same experience. These emotions of fear and uncertainty are amplified for them, and figuring out how to talk about both the disease and the isolation as unique events is becoming more critical in helping them to understand why we are living the way we are right now.This week on the show, coach and author Caroline Maguire is back to help us through these thorny issues. Her book, Why Will No One Play With Me? has already helped so many in our own community addressing social challenges for our kids. Today, we're turning the tools she outlines in the book toward living through the pandemic together.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Why Will No One Play With Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive by Caroline Maguire"5 Ways to Maintain Your Child's Social Skills Right Now" by Caroline Maguire (00:00) - Welcome to The

We're living through a time of crisis. The pandemic is of course the global medical crisis. But inside each of us, we're living through our own, individual crises. If you're living with ADHD, you're likely keeping an eye on the horizion ... the ADHD Storm of the Century is on us.That's why we're so lucky to have our friend James Ochoa back on the show this week. Author of Focused Forward, James joins us to talk about the emotional distress onslaught that comes with the fear and uncertainty we're living with today. We take on trauma and grief as we navigate losses behind us, and ahead, and he provides a fantastic framework for connecting meaning to our individual experiences as a form of mindful grounding through this experience.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!JamesOchoa.comListen to The Complex (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (00:59) - James Ochoa is back! (04:54) - Finding Neurological Balance in Crisis (09:50) - Focus Under Pressure (12:04) - Waves of Anxiety, Par

Telephone anxiety is its own special breed of Social Phobia. As such, it brings a raft of psychological and behavioral baggage that is not specifically part of the ADHD catalog. Throw ADHD into the mix and you have a new concoction, one that celebrates the fear of navigating the phone with the distraction and rejection sensitivity that we’ve all come to know and love.This week on the show, Nikki and Pete are kicking off a series on communication and starting with a tool that frustrates many: the phone. From addressing social phobia to building and overcoming the fear hierarchy, we’re all about building a new relationship with the phone today… and maybe even conquering your voicemail!Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!The Exposure HierarchyHow to Know If You Have a Phone PhobiaPsychologists Explain Your Phone Anxiety (and How to Get Over It)ADD and Phone AnxietyBest Visual Voicemail Apps of 2020 (01:22) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:16) - Nikki's mentalist recap (06:36) -

If you live with ADHD you know the precarious line that you can walk between fact and fiction. Whether you’re tempted to lie to yourself about what you’re capable of in a given time period or lie to your boss about what you’ve accomplished this week, the instinct to make those around you feel better by smoothing the edges of reality is strong. This week, we’re thrilled to have Ari Tuckman back on the show to talk about ADHD and lies, the situations that are most likely to cause you to push that button, and how to reframe your behavior and make amends if you’ve found yourself in uncomfortable, lie-inducing situations. Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBAADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship by Ari TuckmanTell Me No Lies: How to stop lying to your partner — and yourself — in the four stages of marriage by Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (00:35) - Support the Show: Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (01:38) - A m

In part 2 of our special podcast on pandemic anxiety and ADHD we’re talking about the more practical fears that crop up around this unprecedented transition: how do you work from home? That makes it sound far more simple than it is… take it from us! As two people who have been working from home for more than a decade, we know just how complicated it can be to juggle the distractions and demands of work and home when the two worlds collide. But we’re here to tell you: it can be done, and you might even find a few things to appreciate about the experience. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:37) - Taking your ADHD home (03:24) - Maintain your Schedule! (06:42) - Stay active (07:02) - Don't forget your meds (07:19) - Finding your workplace (09:29) - Accountability (11:59) - Staying Connected (12:47) - Eliminate predictable distractions (13:54) - Keep moving (14:36) - Beware of perfection (15:59) - Pete does a regrettable dance break (16:52) - Silver Lining Time Reclaimation (21:04) - The Tom Hanks Fact Che

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled podcast to inject a couple of ideas in your path today. In this first episode, Dr. Doug Herr is back to talk about the anxiety and stress that comes with living with the unknown.This week, Dr. Doug joins Nikki and Pete to talk about our emotions, but not by belittling them or running from them or even moving through them. He approaches our emotional response to living in the world of uncertainty that comes with the pandemic by helping us understand what our emotions are, why they exist, and how we can better come to terms with our reactions this way. Dr. Doug is planning a webinar in which he teaches these techniques more deeply for next week. We encourage you to sign up to be notified — it’s free and should be incredibly helpful.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!How to manage Coronavirus Anxiety with Dr. Doug Herr (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:26) - Dr. Doug is back (05:54) - The Ideavirus (14:19) - Entitlement frustration a

Do you think you’re a terrible artist? You probably do, and that’s a limiting belief so stop saying that about yourself. That’s an episode for another day. Today we’re going to help you see yourself as something different… maybe not an artist, but certainly someone capable of having more fun taking notes, engaging in information, and learning. We’re thrilled to have Mike Rohde on the show today, the originator of the Sketchnote. New to sketchnoting? No worries! Mike walks us through what a sketchnote is, how to develop a practice and how to use sketchnoting to embrace and engage information with pen and paper and get it into your head. For Patrons, Mike will be delivering this month’s workshop live on Wednesday, March 11, at 6pm US pacific time. Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Mike Rohde’s Sketchnote Mini Workshop Presto Sketching with Ben Crothers Peachpit Press Sketchnote Video Podcast YouTube PlaylistInternational Sketchnote Camp 2020The Sketchnote TypefaceSketchnotes

Linda Walker is an ADHD Coach with a special niche: she works with entrepreneurs. If you’ve been listening to our ADHD at Work series wondering when we were going to get to the good stuff, to the budding titans of industry? Today’s your day. We talk about finding focus, figuring out what to do and when to do it, how to figure out what projects to work on and avoid burnout or disinterest along the way. It’s an incredibly broad conversation, just as the world of building independent businesses is, too. And if you’ve ever found todo lists aren’t your thing, you aren’t going to want to miss Linda’s take on the practice of list-making! Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!CoachLindaWalker.com With Time to Spare: The Ultimate Guide to Peak Performance for Entrepreneurs, Adults with ADHD and other Creative Geniuses by Linda Walker (00:58) - Support the Show on Patreon: patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (02:05) - Introducing Linda Walker (09:10) - The Roadmap (14:16) - Choice & Burnout

We’ve had so many great questions come in over our workplace ADHD series that we’re dedicating this week’s show to digging into them. We’re talking about building great systems, and why that might not be the right goal! We’re talking about relationships with your supervisor and your peers. We’re talking about rejection sensitivity and how you can move through it at work. Finally, we’re talking through what we’ve learned in our out journey transitioning out of the workplace and working from home.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!CalZonesBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm GladwellExpressVPN (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (01:10) - Support the Show! Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (03:27) - DiscordMom's Corner (06:56) - Finding the "perfect" system before you start a new job? (10:20) - How do you set up your relationship with a new supervisor for success? (12:18) - How do you get over early-job awkwardness? (15:40) - Anything else? (17:54) - First impr

Can you take on a management or leadership position with ADHD? Absolutely! Not only that, the structure of management in many organizations can be the perfect fit for the way your ADHD brain works. But, it comes with a few caveats.This week on the show, Nikki and Pete are talking about some of the considerations that go into moving into a new role. Do you tell your team? What’s it like working with an assistant? How do you build in the structures that feed your brain and inspire you creatively without creating angst in the people who report to you? Join us this week and get ready for your next big promotion!Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:28) - Support the Show (04:54) - ADHD Leadership (07:11) - Can ADHDers be Leaders? (12:05) - Working with an assistant? (16:12) - Do you tell your team? Reputation and ADHD (23:20) - Talking to your team about your ADHD (29:44) - Building structures into your team to leverage your strengths (32:58) - Creating a