Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with Adult ADHD
David A Greenwood
Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADHD is a podcast for busy professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders navigating the challenges of adult ADHD.
Hosted by David Greenwood, entrepreneur, former corporate executive, author, and fellow adult with ADHD, the show explores how to succeed at work, build a business, lead people, and enjoy a more fulfilling life while working with an ADHD brain.
If you're an adult with ADHD who struggles with time management, energy, executive functioning, procrastination, prioritization, focus, organization, or burnout, you'll find practical strategies and honest conversations to help you work through those challenges.
Each week, David brings together ADHD experts, successful entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, and other professionals to discuss the real-world challenges of ADHD in business and the workplace.
Topics covered on Overcoming Distractions include:
• ADHD at Work: Managing workloads, deadlines, distractions, interruptions, and competing priorities.
• ADHD Executive Functioning: Improving time management, organization, planning, task initiation, and follow-through.
• ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Building systems, managing finances, delegating, making decisions, and running a business with ADHD.
• ADHD Leadership: Leading teams, leveraging strengths, improving communication, and navigating executive responsibilities.
• ADHD and Burnout: Managing stress, emotional regulation, overcommitment, and the demands of a busy professional life.
• Thriving with Adult ADHD: Building self-awareness, confidence, better habits, and a professional and personal life that works with your brain.
David draws on decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience, along with his own experience navigating life and business with ADHD.
This isn't about becoming someone you're not or trying to force your brain to work like everyone else's. It's about understanding your ADHD, building practical systems, leveraging your strengths, and finding ways to work with less stress and more fulfillment.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, business owner, executive, manager, or busy professional with adult ADHD, Overcoming Distractions offers practical advice and real-world perspectives to help you thrive.
Hosted by David Greenwood, entrepreneur, former corporate executive, author, and fellow adult with ADHD, the show explores how to succeed at work, build a business, lead people, and enjoy a more fulfilling life while working with an ADHD brain.
If you're an adult with ADHD who struggles with time management, energy, executive functioning, procrastination, prioritization, focus, organization, or burnout, you'll find practical strategies and honest conversations to help you work through those challenges.
Each week, David brings together ADHD experts, successful entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, and other professionals to discuss the real-world challenges of ADHD in business and the workplace.
Topics covered on Overcoming Distractions include:
• ADHD at Work: Managing workloads, deadlines, distractions, interruptions, and competing priorities.
• ADHD Executive Functioning: Improving time management, organization, planning, task initiation, and follow-through.
• ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Building systems, managing finances, delegating, making decisions, and running a business with ADHD.
• ADHD Leadership: Leading teams, leveraging strengths, improving communication, and navigating executive responsibilities.
• ADHD and Burnout: Managing stress, emotional regulation, overcommitment, and the demands of a busy professional life.
• Thriving with Adult ADHD: Building self-awareness, confidence, better habits, and a professional and personal life that works with your brain.
David draws on decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience, along with his own experience navigating life and business with ADHD.
This isn't about becoming someone you're not or trying to force your brain to work like everyone else's. It's about understanding your ADHD, building practical systems, leveraging your strengths, and finding ways to work with less stress and more fulfillment.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, business owner, executive, manager, or busy professional with adult ADHD, Overcoming Distractions offers practical advice and real-world perspectives to help you thrive.
Episodes
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Oct 23, 2026 • 42min
Your Stress, Your ADHD, Your Kids: Why Nervous System Regulation Matters
Roseann Capanna-Hodge, licensed therapist, school psychologist, and nervous-system regulation expert, explores the hidden link between ADHD, stress, parenting, and performance. They discuss why dysregulation can derail focus, how children absorb caregivers’ stress, breaking family reactivity cycles, and simple micro-moments that support calmer leadership, stronger relationships, and daily emotional balance.
Oct 16, 2026 • 28min
The Price of Being the Person Who Always Gets It Done
Always being the one who delivers can quietly lead to burnout, especially for high-achieving adults with ADHD. This conversation explores the hidden costs of overcommitment, urgency-driven work, and becoming everyone’s safety net. It also covers delegation, systems, capacity checks, and protecting time for strategic priorities without sacrificing reliability.
Oct 10, 2026 • 40min
The Hidden Mind-Body ADHD Connection-Is Your Posture Hijacking Your Focus?
Beverly Atkins, Feldenkrais practitioner and founder of Pauseture, explores the hidden connection between ADHD, posture, pain, and nervous-system regulation. They discuss how gentle, guided movement can quiet mental noise, ease physical tension, support sleep, and improve focus. The conversation also examines neuroplasticity, sustainable regulation practices, and changing ingrained patterns without losing your identity.
Oct 5, 2026 • 29min
ADHD and Workload Management: How to Recognize When You're Working Beyond Your Capacity
Are you truly too busy, or routinely working beyond what your ADHD brain can sustain? This conversation explores the difference between capability and capacity, including energy, attention, emotions, recovery, and cognitive load. It also examines urgency, hyperfocus, overcommitment, difficulty saying no, realistic planning, energy-based scheduling, delegation, and boundaries that protect against burnout.
Sep 25, 2026 • 37min
Sheer Will: How a Fortune 500 CEO & U.S. Cabinet Secretary Led with Undiagnosed ADHD
Carlos Gutierrez, former Kellogg CEO and 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, shares his journey from selling cereal out of a van to leading major organizations, all before discovering his ADHD at 65. He discusses big-picture thinking, delegation, intuition, hyperfocus, risk-taking, public speaking, and the relationships that helped him navigate disorganization and leadership challenges.
Sep 21, 2026 • 24min
ADHD and Prioritization: How to Stop Treating Every Task Like an Emergency
Why can every email, deadline, and message feel like a five-alarm fire? Explore how ADHD-driven time blindness, stimulation seeking, and emotional urgency fuel constant interruptions, task switching, and burnout. The conversation covers practical ways to separate importance from urgency, protect focused work, set interruption boundaries, and define what truly counts as an emergency.
Sep 11, 2026 • 25min
How to Avoid The ADHD Tax in Your Business-Work With Less Stress and More Fulfillment
Recurring business problems may not require more effort, but better systems. Explore the hidden ADHD tax of missed deadlines, lost information, constant rescues, and mental overload. Discover ways to replace memory with reliable tools, streamline outdated processes, delegate or automate repetitive work, and create small improvements that bring more ease and control.
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Sep 2, 2026 • 36min
Brilliant Brains, Hidden Struggles- Decoding ADHD and Hormones for Professional Women
Dr. Jolene Brighten, a naturopathic endocrinologist and author specializing in women’s hormones and neurodivergence, explores why ADHD is so often missed in high-achieving women. They discuss internalized hyperactivity, masking, burnout, entrepreneurial strengths, menstrual-cycle changes, PMDD, and the powerful role of hormones during perimenopause.
Aug 21, 2026 • 38min
Overcoming the Wall of Awful- Peak Performance Strategies for the ADHD Brain
Brendan Mahan, ADHD coach and author of Overcoming the Wall of Awful, explains his Wall of Awful idea and practical frameworks. He explores why high achievers freeze on tasks, how uncertainty and fear build emotional barriers, and offers strategies like soothing, climbing, or avoiding to get past those blocks. He also discusses applying these approaches to lead and support others.
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Aug 14, 2026 • 23min
ADHD at Work: Why Uninterrupted Focus Time Matters for Busy Professionals
They argue that the real problem for adults with ADHD is not willpower but lack of long, uninterrupted time. You hear why context switching and constant notifications destroy momentum. The idea of batching work into dedicated focus days is presented as a practical strategy. Practical tips include setting predictable availability, training your team, and preparing energy and plans to make deep work possible.
