Quick Wins for ADHD Moms - Short Episodes, Real Solutions for Burnout and Overwhelm

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  Stop Relying on Your Memory: Practical Productivity for ADHD Brains with Alexis Haselberger 15.09.2026 38min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Memory is not a system. For ADHD brains especially, treating it like one is where things fall apart. Alexis Haselberger is a time management, productivity, and stress reduction coach with ADHD who has taught over 240,000 people to work with their brains instead of against them. Her clients include teams at Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, and Upwork. Her approach was built on a lifetime of figuring out what actually works for brains like ours. In t...
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  What's Actually Driving Your Child's ADHD Symptoms (It Might Start in the Gut) with Dana Kay 09.09.2026 34min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You've tried the strategies. You've read the books. You've managed the behaviors. And the chaos is still winning. What if the problem isn't the behavior at all? What if it starts somewhere else entirely? Dana Kay is the founder of the ADHD Thrive Institute, a board-certified health and nutrition practitioner, and a mom who watched her five-year-old get prescribed a fourth medication before she decided there had to be another way. Today she walks us th...
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  When Your Brain Feels Like Too Much: A Therapist's Guide to Regulation, Connection, and ADHD with Emily Cox 01.09.2026 22min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? When you are overwhelmed and everything feels abstract and urgent at the same time, what actually helps? The answer is a quick :30 reset. Yes, that’s it. Emily Cox is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with over ten years of experience working with neurodivergent children, teens, and families. She is also neurodivergent herself, which means when she explains what is happening in your brain, she is usually speaking from the inside out. In this...
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  Why Good Kids Get Bad Grades (And What Parents of ADHD Kids Need to Know) with Dr. Linda Silbert 25.08.2026 40min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Your child is smart. You know it. But the grades don't show it, and nothing you've tried is working. Dr. Linda Silbert, Ph.D., has spent more than 50 years working with kids who struggle in school, raising an ADHD son of her own, and running Strong Learning Centers in New York. She has seen this story from every angle. And she has some things to say about it. In this conversation, Dr. Linda walks us through what she calls the "three shuns" every ADHD ...
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  ADHD-Friendly Nutrition: Design the System, Skip the Shame with Amy Jones 18.08.2026 41min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Most nutrition advice falls apart for ADHD moms because it never accounts for executive function. This episode tackles that gap directly. Amy Jones, a functional nutrition practitioner, ADHD life coach, and former teacher who was diagnosed with ADHD at 45, joins Jess to talk about why food chaos is not a discipline problem. It's a physiology problem. Amy explains how skipping meals or eating inconsistently sets off a chain reaction: blood sugar drops,...
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  Stop Waiting for the Perfect Monday: Sticky Habits for ADHD Moms with Monica Packer 11.08.2026 28min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You know what habit you want. You just keep waiting for the right conditions to start it. Monday. After the holidays. When things calm down. When you finally feel ready. Monica Packer is a recovering perfectionist, certified habits and identity coach, and host of the top-rated podcast About Progress. She is also a mom of five currently managing a gas leak, a dying car, and three-hour play rehearsals five nights a week... and somehow, her habits are ho...
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  ADHD Perfectionism Isn't What You Think: How to Stop Waiting and Just Start, with Monica Packer 04.08.2026 25min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You know exactly what you need to do. You just can't make yourself start. Monica Packer knows why -- and it's not what you think. Monica is a recovering perfectionist, habits and identity coach, and host of the top-rated podcast About Progress. She's also a mom of five -- three of them with ADHD -- and a decade into unlearning a version of success that nearly cost her everything. In this episode: The quick win: when a task feels too big, do something ...
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  Why Your Child Keeps Running to the Pantry (It's Not About Food) with Kamy Moussavi 14.07.2026 28min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Your child comes home from school and heads straight for the pantry. You tell them to stop. They do it again tomorrow. And the day after that. Kamy Moussavi spent most of his life in that pantry. He grew up overweight, cycled through every diet program his mom could find, and still could not figure out why food had such a hold on him -- even after he became an engineer, ran marathons, and built a startup. The answer turned out to have nothing to do wi...
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  What Kids with ADHD Actually Need at School (And Why Most Environments Get It Wrong) with Antoinette Elliott 08.07.2026 24min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? If your child has ADHD, you have probably wrestled with whether the school they're in is actually built for them. Antoinette Elliott has spent over 20 years in childcare, and her answer is a practical one: most aren't, but they don't have to be. Antoinette is the founder of All Our Children Elite Childcare Academy in Georgia, a nature-based, extended-hour childcare program that intentionally includes children with ADHD, autism, and other learning diff...
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  Stop Scheduling Time. Start Scheduling Tasks with Dr. Kailey Buller 23.06.2026 22min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You sit down to work for two hours. An hour later you have rewritten your to-do list, checked your phone, and made coffee. The work is not done. Dr. Kailey Buller is back with a quick win that fits how the ADHD brain actually works. Stop scheduling time. Start scheduling tasks. Block an afternoon for "finish two pages and the one-page PDF," not "work from one to four." You already do this with errands without thinking about it. Apply it on purpose to ...
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  Your ADHD Story Has More Power Than You Think with Jakara and Shanta 09.06.2026 27min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Most ADHD families are navigating a system that was never designed with them in mind. Diagnosis wait times stretch into months. The national conversation around ADHD is getting louder, but the people most affected by it are rarely the ones in the room when decisions get made. Today I'm joined by Jakara Eason, Executive Director of Mindful Choices for ADHD, and Dr. Shanta Whitaker, Chief Science Officer at Mindful Choices. Their organization was born o...
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  The ADHD Mom’s Guide to 504s, IEPs, and What to Say Next with Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer 02.06.2026 27min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You know your kid needs more support at school. You just don't know who to call, what to ask for, or which plan actually fits. Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer breaks it all down, from IEPs to 504 plans to independent educational evaluations, in language that actually makes sense. In this episode: the real difference between an IEP and a 504, how to start the conversation with your school district, what to do if the team disagrees with you, and why collaboration ...
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  Why Is My Kid So Sensitive to Sounds, Textures, and Smells? ADHD and Sensory Overload Explained with Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer 27.05.2026 31min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Your kid isn't being dramatic. The tag really does hurt. The toothpaste really is too spicy. The gym really is too loud. Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer is a licensed psychologist, behavior analyst, and mom of two neurodivergent kids, and she is here to explain why sensory overload is so often mistaken for behavior problems and what you can actually do about it today. In this episode: why sensory input doesn't filter the same way for ADHD brains, the difference ...
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  How to Advocate for Your Neurodivergent Child at School (Without Burning Out) | Lisa Richer 19.05.2026 46min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? This episode sponsored by: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER Your kid is smart. You know it. The teachers know it. But the homework isn't getting turned in, the meetings aren't producing answers, and you're starting to feel like you're the only one who doesn't know what to do. You're not alone. And you're not powerless. Lisa Richer is a neurodiversity consultant, certified in executive functioning, and mom of two neurodivergent sons. She spent years a...
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  The Neuroscience of ADHD in Professional Women with Dr. Jennie Byrne 12.05.2026 40min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? This episode sponsored by: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER What does it actually mean to have ADHD as a high-achieving professional? Dr. Jennie Byrne has spent 20 years answering that question. She's a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and mom. Her new book, ADHD in Professionals: Embracing Your Brain, is written specifically for the people who get told they're too high-functioning to have ADHD. Spoiler: that's not how it works. In this episode, we get ...
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  Stop Adding. Start Subtracting. The Real Secret to Better Health with Sandy Martin 05.05.2026 27min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? This episode sponsored by: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER Your body is keeping score. And it's been doing it quietly while you push through. Sandy Martin was at the top of her game. Then everything stopped working. What she found on the other side became a framework for getting well when no one has answers for you. In this episode, we get into: The three-minute humming practice that resets your nervous system and why it actually worksWhy five ...
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  Breaking Free from Burnout: ADHD, Sobriety, and Finding Balance with Heather Simco 28.04.2026 27min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? This Episode is sponsored by Focusaur: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/focusaur/focusaur-the-ai-focus-console-for-deep-work-and-habits?ref=7lobq3 You've been white-knuckling your way through life. Heather Simco did too. For decades. Before the coaching, before the sobriety, before the clarity, Heather was a high-achieving woman building an empire in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world, running at a hundred miles ...
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  ADHD and Perfectionism: Why "Good Enough" Doesn't Compute (and What to Do About It) 21.04.2026 18min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? This Episode is sponsored by Focusaur: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/focusaur/focusaur-the-ai-focus-console-for-deep-work-and-habits?ref=7lobq3 If you are surrounded by half-done projects and hating yourself for it, this episode is for you. Perfectionism is one of the most common cognitive distortions in women with ADHD. It is a symptom, not a character flaw. And there is actual neuroscience behind why yo...
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  Why Planners, Apps, and Systems Never Stick for Me Until This 14.04.2026 17min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? This Episode is sponsored by Focusaur: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/focusaur/focusaur-the-ai-focus-console-for-deep-work-and-habits?ref=7lobq3 You have tried the planners. The apps. The habit trackers. The YouTube tutorials. The color-coded systems, the minimalist ones, the digital ones, and the paper ones. And nothing has stuck. In this episode of Quick Wins for ADHD Moms, Jess breaks down exactly why -...
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  Why Am I So Exhausted All the Time? ADHD Fatigue Explained for Moms | 038 07.04.2026 14min

  What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You slept. You had coffee. Objectively, life isn't that hard. So why does it feel like you're moving through wet concrete by 2pm? In this episode of Quick Wins for ADHD Moms, Jess breaks down the real reason ADHD moms are always exhausted -- and it has nothing to do with how hard you're trying. You'll learn: Why ADHD brains burn more energy on normal tasks than most people's brains do on hard onesThe circadian rhythm finding that explains why you can ...