Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

If you’re parenting a teen, you know the challenges we’re talking about today. And whether you live with ADHD yourself or not, those challenges are made even more real if your kiddo is living with ADHD. Today on the show, we’re sharing our own lessons learned when it comes to navigating the universe of parenting teens with ADHD.The biggest lessons revolve around communication, awareness, and balance. But what are the major milestones that stand before you as a parent of a teen when it comes to getting the ADHD assessment? Preparing for college? Confronting life skills and deadlines? And, perhaps most important as a parent, how do you avoid letting your experience with school, ADHD, anxiety and more to color their experience and expectations with ADHD? (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:59) - Support the Show: Become a Patron at patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (04:23) - Partentings teens with ADHD ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This episode was a delightful accident. It started with a conversation with one of our fantastic community members, Shoshanah Blaiss, how casually mentioned that she was running late for her session with her art therapist, and ended with a connection to that very artist, learning about her work, her process, and the incredible value that comes with embracing art as a channel to connect with ourselves across the neurodiversity spectrum.Andrea Krakovsky is a teaching artist in Georgia whose work helps her clients to heal through the creative process. This week, Andrea leads us through that journey of healing through creativity — whether you believe you're creative or not — and how the physical connection with the media can help you learn about yourself while finding grounding in your ADHD, anxiety, and more.Find Andrea at andreakrakovsky.com, and don't forget to check out the Feelings Wheel! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:38) - Support the Show: Become a Patron! (04:41) - Sponsor: TextExpander is BACK! (07:36) - Introducing Andrea and Shoshanah (12:14) - What happens in Art Therapy sessions? (14:41) - Do materials equal feelings? (22:56) - Create... then throw away (26:26) - Prompts (32:46) - Children versus Adults! (36:36) - The Value of the Relationship (39:10) - Getting Started ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Rach Idowu was diagnosed with ADHD Combined Type in January 2020, just before her London ADHD clinic closed down due to the pandemic. Undaunted, she started AdultingADHD on Substack and began to document her own personal experience and the research she would go on to do about her ADHD. Since then, she has been featured in the New York Times, Inverse, and Mashable, and has been a featured panelist at Facebook, Ubisoft ComicCon London, and other organizations talking about ADHD in the workplace.Along the way, she created a series of flashcards designed to help those with ADHD and supporting ADHDers to better understand details of ADHD that reflect the research she has engaged in over the years. You can find them at ADHDTraits.com.Links & NotesSubscribe to Rach Idowu on SubstackFollow Rach Idowu on InstagramFollow Rach Idowu on Twitter (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:14) - Introducing Rach Idowu (04:20) - The Pandemic Diagnosis (12:49) - About the Newsletter (13:53) - ADHD & Work (21:35) - Opening up about the diagnosis in the interview (26:07) - Advocacy & Influencers (28:30) - Tools of the Trade (30:09) - The Flashcards ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

KC Davis is a licensed professional therapist, author, and speaker. She is the creator of the mental health platform Struggle Care, where she shares a revolutionary approach to self and home care for those dealing with mental health, physical illness, and hard seasons of life. She's with us today to talk about her role in the neurodiversity community as a TikTok influencer, how she stumbled into her favorite video community. We love KC not just for her TikTok, though. She's author of the book How to Keep House While Drowning, where she catalogs her approach to healthy living while embracing your struggles as morally neutral, not personality judgments. Her approach to living, shame, and struggle is, frankly, a breath of fresh air. Learn more about KC and her work at StruggleCare. And, of course, buy the book in your favorite format now. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:56) - Support the show! (04:49) - Welcome KC Davis (09:39) - ADHD is not your moral failure (18:59) - Cleaning and Trauma (22:11) - Neurons that fire together wire together (24:42) - ADHD Diagnosis rewrites history (35:51) - What's the big message? (47:11) - Becoming an Influencer and The Five Things ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

For the next few weeks, we’ll be talking with ADHD influencers. You might have seen them on YouTube or TikTok or Instagram talking about their experiences with ADHD — we want to talk with them about their experience leading them to become creators.Kicking off this series we welcome Matt Raekelboom. Matt’s a Toronto-based influencer predominantly on TikTok and Instagram sharing his tools and strategies around ADHD, fitness, and healthy living with his 300,000 followers. What you don’t get if you just stumble across Matt’s one-minute videos, though, is any taste of the long road he had to take to get it posted.He was an ADHD kid of the 80s, when we were wandering the wilderness of ADHD and medication, and ended up over-medicated and misunderstood. He battled substance abuse and homelessness, but regained his footing with an explosive passion for discovery of how his ADHD had played a part in all his troubles, and how it would play a part in his future successes, too.You can find Matt on Instagram and TikTok, naturally, and check out his community at Journey2ADHD.ß (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (04:22) - Introducing Matt Raekelboom (10:16) - Nikki admits she's old, doesn't follow influencers ;-) (11:25) - Matt's ADHD legacy (28:42) - How do you post video #2? Getting Over Imposter Syndrome (35:05) - Platform Choices (46:31) - A bit on meds (50:48) - Journey2ADHD ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

With hundreds of episodes of Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast, it can be dizzying to figure out how to get started. That’s why we — Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright (your fair hosts) — recorded this episode. It’s for you, new listener, a brief guide that can help you get the most out of the podcast and the fantastic ADHD community that runs through everything we do. Thanks for joining us on this ride. We hope you find what you’re looking for! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This week we’re tabulating lessons learned from our recent series on overcoming obstacles. Over the last month, we met Mallory Band dug into imposter syndrome, RSD, and ADHD. Aron Croft shared his experience through higher education when his expectations ran straight into undiagnosed inattentive ADHD. And Christina Avallone shared her perspective on thriving in a digital world and building healthy relationships with your tech.If you haven’t listened to these episodes yet, check them out in your podcast app or listen on the web right here:Imposter Syndrome, RSD & ADHD with Mallory BandWhen expectations meet your ADHD with Aron CroftThriving in a digital world with Christina Avallone (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (00:53) - Support the show: Become a Patron! Patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (02:07) - Summary Fun! (02:37) - Imposter Syndrome (08:33) - When Expectations Meet ADHD (17:05) - Thriving in a Digital World ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This week on the show we’re talking with Christina Avallone, author of Thriving in a Digital World, to discuss the pitfalls many of us face when technology starts to take over. For Christina, it started at home as she navigated the massive technological shifts as a parent to her now-grown daughters. This experience led her down a path of research and exploration into technology, how a pathological use of our tech can impact the brain, and how systems presumably designed for productivity and connection can actually cause increased distraction and disconnection. Her book is driven not by a call for technological abstinence, but for understanding. For Christina, that means raising her children safe, in her faith, and aware of the tools in their pockets to do good in the world, while understanding their perils at the same time. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:59) - Sponsor: TextExpander (07:03) - Introducing Christina Avallone (13:04) - Crossroads: Co-mingling tech and distraction (19:04) - Context Switching Challenges (22:34) - Being Present (29:13) - The FOBO-Rudeness Connundrum (32:10) - You Might have a problem with your tech if... (38:21) - Building a healthy relationship with your tech (41:08) - Learning to Learn your Technology ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Aron Croft was set up for success: Great college, high expectations from an education-centered family. Then ADHD stepped in. Aron lives with inattentive ADHD once the structures of his early education were left behind on his journey to college, the struggles set it.In fact, he struggled non-stop for 15 years before he discovered his relationship with ADHD. In spite of years of struggle, he's since built a career of his own, from finding success in major corporations to starting his own coaching practice for students with ADHD. This is a story about the conflict that exists between desire and expectation for success, and the reality of running into the brick wall of shame with a coach who has seen it from both sides. You can learn more about Aron and his work at Hidden ADHD, and make sure to check out Aron's Masterclass: "Get Sh*t Done With ADHD — Without Constant Stress and Self-Criticism (A Proven 3-Step Process)" while you're there! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (04:48) - Introducing Aron Croft (12:02) - Moving to College, Losing Structure (23:20) - Diagnosis Story (35:43) - Inattentive ADHD (39:27) - Productivity (41:38) - The Three Slogans ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Here we are. Episode one of our new podcast. This week, we're talking about how we capture ideas, how we make room for new things in our lives, and how we make sure the things we really want to do have air to grow and flourish, while the things we don't are allowed to evaporate.Along the way we talk to two of my favorite brains, Doc Anderson and Brett Terpstra.We talked to Doc some months back on The ADHD Podcast about The Hero Engine. Since then, he and I realized we have a lot of nerd stuff in common and it is in fact Doc whom I credit for the term "Vampire Projects" in this show.Brett is working on a few projects in addition to his newish gig at Oracle. Bunch is his text file automation app, and Doing is his command line activity log. We'll talk about both this week.Listener Susan wrote in with a question about creating fillable PDF forms. I go into more detail in the show this week but here are direct links to what I recommend: Adobe Creative Cloud, PDF Pen Pro from Nitro.Finally, if you’re listening to this show on the website, thank you. But if you want to get it wherever you listen to your podcasts, I recorded a video to help you out.Update: We've got the transcript of the show up now. Sorry for the delay. Click here to check it out!  (00:00) - Welcome to Placeholder ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★