ADHD Big Brother - ADHD and Depression Solutions, Laughter, and Thoughts
Russ Jones
Adult ADHD and Depression can be sucktastic! Let's have a laugh or two while we work to get on the other end of our unique skull spaghetti. Nominated for best male host in the 2024 Podcasters Peoples Choice Awards, and currently a top 2% global podcast! Subscribe to the ADHD Big Brother podcast if you want short, entertaining episodes, delivered weekly, that will nudge you forward on managing those adult ADHD symptoms. If you are stuck. If you have no motivation to do boring things. If you can't get started! If you have choice paralysis. If you live with craptastical self-loathing, have a million unfinished projects, and no time management skills. If that's you... I can help. My name is Russ Jones, I'm a former actor/comedian and a current ADHD Big Brother. I am diagnosed with ADHD and Depressive Disorder. My mission is to help adults with ADHD who struggle in the way that I did with managing their ADHD and Depression symptoms. You know, like a good big brother would. I'm trained in integrative wellness coaching and have education and years of experience in ADHD specific coaching. Visit https://www.adhdbigbrother.com to learn how I'm helping adults with ADHD get unstuck, gain confidence in their ability to be consistent, and ultimately learn how to coach themselves. We can do hard things!
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Mar 25, 2024 • 13min
133 - Crafting Your ADHD Way To Get Started On Things
Getting started on crappy tasks can be very difficult, like trying to push open a concrete door. Let's discuss how to get that door open!Got 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Mar 18, 2024 • 11min
132 - Are We Doing The Brain Dump Wrong?
Every time I sit down to do a brain dump, to get everything out of my head like a good adult with ADHD...EVERY TIME I do that, my thoughts run and hide. Let's discuss a possible rethinking about our thinking about brain dumping...Mentioned in the podcast:ADHD Big Brother Community Free Sign upGot 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Mar 11, 2024 • 14min
131 - Dopamine Daydreaming and Taskfirmations
This week I started exploring barriers to doing tasks, and I ended up talking about affirmations, taskfirmations, dopamine and a new thing to try to get more in alignment with the ideal vision we have of ourselves. Reach out via the links below and let me know what you think!Got 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Mar 4, 2024 • 14min
130 - Planning and Getting Started
All it takes is the littlest thing to impede my world and my ability to get started on things can become derailed. Today I'm going to talk about the 4 things that I do when those times hit and I have no motivation or ability to get started. What do you do to get started? Reach out and let me know!Got 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Feb 26, 2024 • 17min
129 - Inhibiting Behavior and Support Systems
The past week has bee fraught with fraughtiness. What do we do when the rug gets pulled out from underneath us? How to we stop ourselves from acting impulsively and making things worse? That's on the agenda for today....Got 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Feb 19, 2024 • 24min
128 - Schedule Dread
Oh, that nasty schedule dread...when that internal time system screams at me because I only gave myself 45 minutes to work on a project, but I need more time! It's gonna take longer, and I won't want to stop! Let's have a chat about it.Also on the podcast today was podcast buddy Meredith Hackwith Edwards from the amazing podcast Meredith For Real: the curious introvertYou can find her episode 208 - Trigger Warnings: Making Us Fragile or Helping Us Heal by clicking hereGot 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Feb 12, 2024 • 18min
127 - If It's Not Gonna Be Perfect, I Don't Want To Do It
Can you relate to that frustration when we know what greatness might look like and we are unable to get there immediately, or now, or we might fail first...not fun. Let's talk about it!Mentioned in the podcast: Mental Health in Tech Podcast Additional places to find episodeYouTubeApple PodcastsEpisode 108 with Antonia BowringAntonia's Book "Coach Yourself" on AmazonGot 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Feb 5, 2024 • 17min
126 - Stress Management and Some Depression Stuff
Exploring stress management insights, proactive strategies, and daily self-care routines for ADHD and depression. Tips on exercise, meditation, and social engagement to alleviate stress and prevent depressive symptoms. Encouragement for small daily acts of self-care and connection within the podcast community.
Jan 29, 2024 • 16min
125 - Ruminating Thoughts and a Hornet Metaphor
God I love metaphors! They make everything so clear to me. This week I've been riddled with extra helpings of ruminating thoughts, so what better time to talk about.Today I go into what I do to get on the other end of my ruminatings, my intrusive thoughts...when I get stuck inside my head and can't seem to pull away. What do you do to get on the other end of your ruminating thoughts? Here's the link to my No Haircut Healthy Lifestyle Change pictures.Got 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
Jan 22, 2024 • 18min
124 - Iterating and the Sand Castle Art Metaphor
We get all excited about doing a thing, a project, a goal, and at the first sign of tension, we quit. Sometimes that's just the natural order of things for us. But what if it's actually something we'd like to keep doing? What then? Let's talk about that. Got 5 minutes? Help me learn how to best support you by taking the ADHDBB Survey. Here's the link to my short survey. Thanks! 👉 Click here to join ADHDBB with 60+ other ADHD adults! Interested in getting unstuck, gaining confidence, and consistency? Book a free chat with Russ and let's explore if/how I can help! Get my FREE PDF for instant un-stuck-ification when you get my newsletter. My Ready S.E.T. Go method will get you started when getting started is unstartable. Click here for the free PDF. Click here to get the 8 essential ADHD Big Brother episodes delivered straight to your inbox! 📬
