Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD
David A Greenwood
Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with Adult ADHD takes a street-smart approach to managing adult ADHD. This is THE podcast for busy professional adults, including business owners, entrepreneurs, CEO's, marketing and creative professionals and even PHD's with demanding workloads.
The podcast is an excellent resource for any adult, especially individuals looking for strategies and tactics to create better circumstances in their professional lives.
If you're a small business owner with ADHD and other life responsibilities, this is the perfect podcast to help you navigate the ups and downs of business and life with ADHD.
Every week host David Greenwood, author of the book by the same name, has experts in the field of adult ADHD as well as other entrepreneurs with ADHD. Every episode is packed with solutions and methodical approaches to having a better life with ADHD.
The podcast covers productivity, navigating workloads, how to manage yourself in a chaotic work environment, and burnout. And MUCH more!
Entrepreneurs and business owners with ADHD share their insights and approaches with Dave regularly on the podcast. How did they do it and what do they need to have in place to be successful? Those answers can be found in the podcast.
There are also many episodes with just Dave, who shares his thoughts as a busy entrepreneur with ADHD. Dave Greenwood has been both an entrepreneur for decades and an executive at one of the most recognized brands in the world, doing it all with ADHD.
This is not a Q&A or a stuffy podcast. Every time you hit the download button, you'll feel like you're having a cup of coffee or a pint of your favorite beer with Dave and/for his guests.
The podcast is an excellent resource for any adult, especially individuals looking for strategies and tactics to create better circumstances in their professional lives.
If you're a small business owner with ADHD and other life responsibilities, this is the perfect podcast to help you navigate the ups and downs of business and life with ADHD.
Every week host David Greenwood, author of the book by the same name, has experts in the field of adult ADHD as well as other entrepreneurs with ADHD. Every episode is packed with solutions and methodical approaches to having a better life with ADHD.
The podcast covers productivity, navigating workloads, how to manage yourself in a chaotic work environment, and burnout. And MUCH more!
Entrepreneurs and business owners with ADHD share their insights and approaches with Dave regularly on the podcast. How did they do it and what do they need to have in place to be successful? Those answers can be found in the podcast.
There are also many episodes with just Dave, who shares his thoughts as a busy entrepreneur with ADHD. Dave Greenwood has been both an entrepreneur for decades and an executive at one of the most recognized brands in the world, doing it all with ADHD.
This is not a Q&A or a stuffy podcast. Every time you hit the download button, you'll feel like you're having a cup of coffee or a pint of your favorite beer with Dave and/for his guests.
Episodes
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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 Capacity: Are You Working Beyond What You Can Sustain?
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
When Everything Feels Urgent: How Adults With ADHD Can Minimize Constant Interruptions
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
Why Busy Adults with ADHD Need More "Focus Days" Instead of More Productivity Hacks
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.
Aug 7, 2026 • 43min
From UNILAD Founder to Advocate: Alex Partridge on How RSD Impacts Busy Professionals with ADHD
In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave interviews Alex Partridge, founder of UNILAD and LAD Bible and host of the ADHD Chatter podcast, to explore how Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) impacts adults and entrepreneurs with ADHD. The central takeaway from their discussion is that in the absence of context and clarity, the ADHD mind catastrophizes ambiguity, filling in the blanks with the worst-case scenario and severe emotional distress. They unpack the origins of RSD, the role of early childhood criticism, and how these factors drive people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, and professional burnout. Key Discussion Points: Defining RSD in Adults: How Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria extends beyond childhood into busy professionals, driving catastrophic thinking in ambiguous situations. The Impact of Ambiguity: How unsaid details or minor shifts in behavior trigger a knee-jerk reaction in the ADHD nervous system to expect rejection or disaster. Alex's Personal Journey: The story behind founding UNILAD, the legal battle over ownership, and how RSD and poor self-esteem led to signing a detrimental partnership agreement. The 20,000 Extra Rejections: How children with ADHD receive significantly more micro-rejections growing up, shaping adult struggles with burnout and people-pleasing. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: The concept of "out of sight, out of mind" regarding personal achievements, and the strategy of storing tangible evidence of success to build confidence.
