The ADHD Skills Lab

With ADHD, creative ideas are often the easy part. Starting one is harder. So is the project you were sure about, set down just short of finished, and the shame that follows. In this special episode of the ADHD Skills Lab, Skye Waterson shares a conversation from the ADHD Channel for Women, created by Understood.org. Host Cate Osborn talks with Adam Reid, an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, filmmaker, and producer, in front of a live studio audience. Adam didn't know he had ADHD until he ...

You finally hire people to get some time back. Then somehow you have even more to keep track of. What did you delegate? Is it getting done? What did you tell them was most important? Where is everyone actually spending their time? For ADHD business owners, growing a team can make it feel like the systems you spent years building for yourself suddenly stop working. Skye Waterson and Robert Waterson look at why. Working memory was already carrying too much when you were managing your own tasks....

You start an email, remember a purchase, open another tab, and suddenly five tasks are each 20 percent done. For adults with ADHD, working memory problems don't necessarily disappear with age. Skye Waterson and Robert Waterson unpack a 2013 meta-analysis of 38 studies on working memory in adults with ADHD. The researchers expected older adults to perform better. Instead, the review found adults with ADHD performed moderately worse on both verbal and visual working memory tasks, with age not c...

You hired help. You still find yourself taking things back on. Kara Kushnir built A Work of Heart Counseling and Wellness from a part-time practice into a fifteen-provider team. But growing the team meant learning that she couldn't keep doing everything herself. In this episode, Kara talks about the temptation to say yes to everything, the burnout that follows, and how she learned to delegate, ask for help, and build a team she trusts enough to tell her no. What We Cover Why trying to do ever...

You know what you want in the future. You still can't make yourself do the boring task today. Skye and Robbie break down the goal setting system Skye actually uses, adapted from Dan Martell's framework. It works backward from a 25-year vision to one specific goal this year, then down to one daily non-negotiable that makes that goal inevitable. They also get into what happens when you miss a day, why trying to focus on five goals at once backfires, and how immediate rewards can make the thing ...

Click the link below to see which founder type you are! https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/adhd-founder-types You 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 the Pivot Chaser. These aren't random quirks. They're recurring ways ADHD can show up as a bu...

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 happened after the initial treatment period. Together, Skye and Will unpack why the early differences...

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 service business owners build stronger cash flow and lasting profitability. In this conversation with Skye, Diane e...