The ADHD Skills Lab

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• Why Your ADHD Brain Resists Structure & How to Fix It For Good 05.06.2026 40min

  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 captures ideas, filters priorities, protects the team from constant pivots, and builds the documentation that turns ...
• The Hidden Burnout Nobody in Your Business Is Talking About 03.06.2026 33min

  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 tracking, and resource allocation, drops measurably when ADHD traits are present. The mediating fa...
• Why Simple Tasks Turn Into Emotional Overload (with Jenna Free) 01.06.2026 30min

  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 fixed trait of the ADHD brain. It is a learned response to a lifetime of friction. And it is the reason every oth...
• The Truth About Why People Quit ADHD Medication 31.05.2026 14min

  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: what the data actually found about why people stop, where expert assumptions conflict with what patients re...
• Why Progress Never Feels Permanent With ADHD (Even When You Do Everything Right) 29.05.2026 30min

  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 one. She crossed $250,000 in revenue last year and has helped clients save an average of $40,000 ann...
• How Casey Neistat Nails Productivity Advice For ADHDers 27.05.2026 36min

  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 disagree with that conclusion. In this standalone episode, they break down the hidden problem und...
• How ADHD Perfectionism Disguises Itself as Productivity (Dani Donovan) 25.05.2026 38min

  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 any of this before. In this conversation, Dani explains how a single ADHD comic from 2018 nearl...
• Why ADHD Brains Hire People And Then Do It Themselves Anyway 22.05.2026 40min

  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 interviews, how to write a role description that filters for initiative rather than compliance, ...
• Why ADHD Entrepreneurs Struggle With Delegating 20.05.2026 38min

  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 study found perfectionism was the most common cognitive distortion in adults formally diagnosed ...
• ADHD, Parenting, and the Pressure of Entrepreneurship (With Jessica Shaw) 18.05.2026 31min

  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 parents raising neurodivergent kids. She is also a mom of two teens who think differently, and someone ...
• Can Pregnancy Inflammation Influence ADHD in Children? (New Study Breakdown) 17.05.2026 9min

  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 children using teacher and parent reports. The study suggests there is an association between those infl...
• The Hidden Cost of ADHD Novelty Seeking (And How to Fix It) 15.05.2026 34min

  Description: Presented by Understood.org You 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 input instead of immediate action, how to capture ideas so they stop feeling urgent, and how to...
• The ADHD Habit That Is Silently Killing Your Business 13.05.2026 37min

  Presented by Understood.org You 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 right, and within days everything shifts. Six months later, you’ve got multiple half-built pr...
• Why ADHD Labels Can Hold You Back (with Nir Eyal) 11.05.2026 44min

  Presented by Understood.org Getting 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 about ignoring ADHD. It’s about understanding the difference between what’s real and what you’ve ...
• How Negative Environments Impact Your ADHD Brain(with Brandon Smith) 08.05.2026 40min

  Presented by Understood.org Bad 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 breaks down how environment affects confidence, self-trust, business growth, and leadership. He a...
• Does Bluey ACTUALLY Have ADHD? 06.05.2026 38min

  Presented by Understood.org You 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 We Cover: Where observation stops and diagnosis startsWhy realistic behaviour can feel diag...
• How To Turn ADHD Into Your Company's Biggest Asset (with Craig Ballantyne) 04.05.2026 45min

  Presented by Understood.org You 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 constraints matter more than motivation. You will leave with a different way to think abo...
• ADHD Shiny Object Syndrome Is Killing Your Projects 01.05.2026 33min

  Presented by Understood.org You 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. You’ll learn how to use minimum viable product thinking to actually finish things, even if your...
• Why ADHD Brains Overbuild Before Starting 29.04.2026 39min

  Presented by Understood.org You 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, get pulled into the wrong details, and delay real feedback. So instead of finding out what wor...
• Why ADHD Makes You Start Too Many Projects (with Katy Weber) 27.04.2026 41min

  Presented by Understood.org You 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 ideas, how pivoting too early kills momentum, and what changed when she stopped rebuilding from sc...