Creating a Joyful Life with ADHD
Last week we dove into the wonderful world of optimism. This week, optimism's constant partner: Joy! Nikki is going to give us some tools to employ joy and happiness to retune negative and self-sabotaging thoughts that can drag behind us with ADHD.
On Optimism and Our ADHD
The world can be a tough place. We know that our ADHD doesn't make that any easier. But our health and well-being depend heavily on the worldview we cultivate in spite of our challenges. This week, we're talking about optimism, how we find it, and how we make it a practice in the face of struggle.
Finding Your Community — Inside and Out — with James Ochoa
This week, we welcome James Ochoa, a counselor, coach, mentor, and intuitionist who has been helping adults with ADHD for over thirty years. James shares his insights on the importance of your internal and external support group for your ADHD journey.
Wrestling “The Avoidance” with Dr. Sharon Saline
The greatest soldier in the war against stinkin’ thinkin’ is back! It’s Dr. Sharon Saline! The award-winning author joins us as we continue our journey through the power of community in our ADHD journey with an exploration of avoidance and how to beat social anxiety.
Normal Is…
We come to you with a pivot today and a follow-up discussion to last week's conversation on ADHD stigma. What is normal? Why is it such a charged word? And what can we do to reprogram the world around normal to represent any point on the vast neurodiversity spectrum?
Fidgets, Function, and ADHD Community with Kody Lukens
We're talking with entrepreneur Kody Lukens about his own diagnosis, search for community, and driving passion behind his effort to create tools for the neurodivergent brain.
“I don’t wanna” is not an ADHD strategy
Get ready to dive into the oh-so-fascinating world of emotional dysregulation and ADHD in our upcoming podcast. We'll explore the science behind our reactions, how it impacts our daily lives, and how mastering the art of separating our emotions from our actions can lead to profound personal growth.
A Member Snippet: “How do you help others at transitions when you suck at it?”
We had something of a scheduling snafu this week, and our guests didn’t show! Don’t worry, they’ll be back. Bun in the meantime, Nikki and Pete carried on an impromptu AMA-QA show with members in the live chat, and we decided to share a piece of it with you.
Macro-transitions and All The Feelings with Tommy Metz III
In the second of our series on transitions, we have Pete's other partner-in-crime, Tommy Metz III, on the show to talk about forces of change, the trouble with transitions, and the launch of season 8 of our spiritual sister podcast, What's That Smell Presents: All The Feelings.
Transitions Treats and Dopamine Redirection with ADHD
We’re kicking off our series on transitions — big and small — this week on the ADHD podcast. First up: the pesky micro-transitions that plague us. Whether you struggle with waking up, taking a break for lunch, redirecting frustration when interrupted, this week just might have something for you and your ADHD!
Embracing Failure as a Practice with ADHD
We’re wrapping up our series on games with an exploration of failure, how we learn from it, and how practicing the embrace of failure in gaming, might just help us become more resilient practioners in that game we call life with ADHD.
An Over-the-Counter Video Game for ADHD with Akili CEO Eddie Martucci
We’re continuing our series on gaming and ADHD this week. So far, we’ve explored how gaming ignites creativity and can expand perspectives and horizons. But what if we told you there was a game that is designed and build expressly to aid in treatment of attention disorders? Eddie Martucci is CEO of Akili and joins us today to talk about that very game, how it works, and what it just might be able to do for you.
Decoding the World of Games with Professor Colleen Macklin
Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design and author of Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure. She’s interested in how games model and reveal ideologies through systems. And, incidentally, she reports she was recently diagnosed with ADHD, which makes her doubly cool in our crowd. She joins us today to talk about games and gaming and neurodiversity.
The ADHD Table Top Role Playing Game Experience with Chris Legge
Chris Legge is a computer tech with a love of photography, game development, and creating things. He’s here with us today to talk about his game, Soft Focuses, a journaling game aimed at simulating the experiences of living as an individual with ADHD.
Turning ADHD Daily Life into a Game Worth Playing
You (yes, you), are a gamer. You might not think it, but somewhere deep inside you is a playful puzzler playing tag on the playground, making up rules for neighborhood romps, and kicking cans down the street. This week, we’re kicking off a series of conversations on games, and why rekindling that spirit of playfulness in yourself might just be key to unlocking a new perspective on your relationship with ADHD
Placeholder 10: Unboxing Potential: Nikki’s Sketchy Awakening to the Apple Pencil
It’s been sitting on her shelf for two years, but today, we tear the shrink-wrap. Nikki Kinzer unboxes her dusty Apple Pencil 2 and puts it to work on her iPad for the very first time.
The 2023 ADHD Podcast Job Survey Review
The results are in! When we kicked off our job series we asked you about your jobs, your red flags, the work you do, and the way you want to do it. Today, we're going to review those results and see what we can learn from one another about the way work works for each of us.
When ADHD Meets the Artificial Structures of Work with Dr. Kourosh Dini
This week on the show, we're exploring the artifice of bureaucracy and administrative structures of traditional work, and how it can be difficult to navigate with an ADHD brain, and we have the perfect guest to help us do it: board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author, and musician, Dr. Kourosh Dini.
Shaping the ADHD Career with Shell Mendelson
We've spent the last two weeks talking about red flags and deal breakers at work for the ADHD brain, largely fueled by comments from you—listeners and community members. This week, we're joined by Shell Mendelson, a career coach who helps us to shape a career with ADHD.
ADHD Deal Breakers at Work!
This week, we’re continuing our job series and talking about deal breakers — those things that you see or experience in your job or on the job hunt that you simply can’t or won’t tolerate. We asked our listeners to weigh in on the topic again this week, and it turns out they had a lot to say.