Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

Continuing our conversation about the massive shift we're facing as we wade through the global shutdown, today we're talking about technology. What are you doing to make the shift? How are you communication? How are you staying productive? How are you keeping your wits about you?  This week on the show, Bob "Dr. Mac" Levitus is back with us to share what he's learned over the last few weeks in working remotely. From protocol for conducting a great video conference to just how hard he leans on his simple, analog tools to keep productive, Bob's got some great tools and recommendations for whatever level of home work you're trying to accomplish!Links & NotesDigital and Analog Tips for Life Cooped Up at Home — Bob LeVitus at houstonchronicle.comWorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com/free — Download Bob's Daily Productivity ChecklistZonebox for Pomodoro (macOS)Working Smarter for Mac Users 5-Hour Online Course — use code TakeControlADHD at checkout to save 90%!Blue Yeti NanoATR2100x USB MicrophoneLibby — Access your library's digital booksKanopy — Stream your library's digital moviesExpressVPNTunnelBearZoom for Telemedicine (HIPPA)Doxy.MeVSeeEero — Improve your WiFi at homeNetgear Orbi — Better WiFi Everywhere (Amazon)HIPPA Covered Entities and Business Associates — HHS.govHIPPA Fast Facts for Covered Entities (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:55) - Support the show — Become a patron! (03:34) - Welcome back Bob Dr. Mac Levitus (05:23) - Even the tech columnist uses the simplest solutions! (08:35) - Bob's Worksheet (15:57) - Bob's solution for staying motivated (20:05) - How are we doing with this working from home thing? (34:13) - VPNs (37:49) - HIPPA (44:39) - Is the Internet going to break? (47:26) - Slow wifi? Upgrade your router tech (50:05) - Bob's new online course — Discount for ADHD Community Members 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

With our own emotions taxed during this time of pandemic, it's easy to misunderstand how our children are living through this same experience. These emotions of fear and uncertainty are amplified for them, and figuring out how to talk about both the disease and the isolation as unique events is becoming more critical in helping them to understand why we are living the way we are right now.This week on the show, coach and author Caroline Maguire is back to help us through these thorny issues. Her book, Why Will No One Play With Me? has already helped so many in our own community addressing social challenges for our kids. Today, we're turning the tools she outlines in the book toward living through the pandemic together.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Why Will No One Play With Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive by Caroline Maguire"5 Ways to Maintain Your Child's Social Skills Right Now" by Caroline Maguire (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:46) - Support the Show • Become a Patron! (03:25) - Introducing Caroline Maguire (04:13) - How do we talk to kids about COVID-19? (08:39) - Splitting the Fear (22:37) - Tackling School Alternatives (26:39) - Addressing College Stress The ADHD Way (34:28) - Swap Stations (37:13) - Transitions (42:12) - Getting the book 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're living through a time of crisis. The pandemic is of course the global medical crisis. But inside each of us, we're living through our own, individual crises. If you're living with ADHD, you're likely keeping an eye on the horizion ... the ADHD Storm of the Century is on us.That's why we're so lucky to have our friend James Ochoa back on the show this week. Author of Focused Forward, James joins us to talk about the emotional distress onslaught that comes with the fear and uncertainty we're living with today. We take on trauma and grief as we navigate losses behind us, and ahead, and he provides a fantastic framework for connecting meaning to our individual experiences as a form of mindful grounding through this experience.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!JamesOchoa.comListen to The Complex (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:04) - James Ochoa is back! (05:59) - Finding Neurological Balance in Crisis (10:56) - Focus Under Pressure (13:09) - Waves of Anxiety, Paradigms Shifting (14:56) - Resistance and Finding Meaning (19:40) - Isolation and RSD (21:50) - FOSO? (26:46) - Gratitude in the Face of Loss (32:58) - Grief and Trauma (41:22) - Building a Relationship With Yourself (44:19) - That one part James' wife didn't know we were podcasting... 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Telephone anxiety is its own special breed of Social Phobia. As such, it brings a raft of psychological and behavioral baggage that is not specifically part of the ADHD catalog. Throw ADHD into the mix and you have a new concoction, one that celebrates the fear of navigating the phone with the distraction and rejection sensitivity that we’ve all come to know and love.This week on the show, Nikki and Pete are kicking off a series on communication and starting with a tool that frustrates many: the phone. From addressing social phobia to building and overcoming the fear hierarchy, we’re all about building a new relationship with the phone today… and maybe even conquering your voicemail!Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!The Exposure HierarchyHow to Know If You Have a Phone PhobiaPsychologists Explain Your Phone Anxiety (and How to Get Over It)ADD and Phone AnxietyBest Visual Voicemail Apps of 2020 (01:22) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:21) - Nikki's mentalist recap (07:41) - Phone Anxiety (13:27) - The Phone Race (17:43) - Catastrophic Thinking (21:17) - ADHD Exacerbates Anxiety (26:15) - The Fear Hierarchy (32:17) - A few strategies (37:42) - The Guilt Factor 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

If you live with ADHD you know the precarious line that you can walk between fact and fiction. Whether you’re tempted to lie to yourself about what you’re capable of in a given time period or lie to your boss about what you’ve accomplished this week, the instinct to make those around you feel better by smoothing the edges of reality is strong. This week, we’re thrilled to have Ari Tuckman back on the show to talk about ADHD and lies, the situations that are most likely to cause you to push that button, and how to reframe your behavior and make amends if you’ve found yourself in uncomfortable, lie-inducing situations. Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBAADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship by Ari TuckmanTell Me No Lies: How to stop lying to your partner — and yourself — in the four stages of marriage by Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:40) - Support the Show: Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (02:44) - A message from the future with Nikki! Group Coaching is OPEN! (04:54) - Introducing Ari Tuckman (06:17) - Thinking about "people who lie" (10:12) - The ADHD-lie-pile-on (11:46) - What happens when you're lying? (12:53) - Cultures of mistruth (15:41) - Lying as a social contract (19:26) - Lies at work (22:53) - Rehabilitation (27:09) - Little white lies (29:04) - Radical Candor (30:34) - Developing an integrity practice (33:35) - Lies and fight or flight? (34:40) - Trust-inducing behavior (38:00) - Recommendations 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In part 2 of our special podcast on pandemic anxiety and ADHD we’re talking about the more practical fears that crop up around this unprecedented transition: how do you work from home? That makes it sound far more simple than it is… take it from us! As two people who have been working from home for more than a decade, we know just how complicated it can be to juggle the distractions and demands of work and home when the two worlds collide. But we’re here to tell you: it can be done, and you might even find a few things to appreciate about the experience. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:43) - Taking your ADHD home (04:29) - Maintain your Schedule! (07:48) - Stay active (08:08) - Don't forget your meds (08:24) - Finding your workplace (10:35) - Accountability (13:05) - Staying Connected (13:53) - Eliminate predictable distractions (15:00) - Keep moving (15:42) - Beware of perfection (17:05) - Pete does a regrettable dance break (17:58) - Silver Lining Time Reclaimation (22:09) - The Tom Hanks Fact Check 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled podcast to inject a couple of ideas in your path today. In this first episode, Dr. Doug Herr is back to talk about the anxiety and stress that comes with living with the unknown.This week, Dr. Doug joins Nikki and Pete to talk about our emotions, but not by belittling them or running from them or even moving through them. He approaches our emotional response to living in the world of uncertainty that comes with the pandemic by helping us understand what our emotions are, why they exist, and how we can better come to terms with our reactions this way. Dr. Doug is planning a webinar in which he teaches these techniques more deeply for next week. We encourage you to sign up to be notified — it’s free and should be incredibly helpful.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!How to manage Coronavirus Anxiety with Dr. Doug Herr (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:31) - Dr. Doug is back (07:00) - The Ideavirus (15:24) - Entitlement frustration and fear (18:30) - Finding fulfillment (23:24) - Trusting information (25:34) - Doug's Webinar: ChangeTimeIsNow.com/corona (27:12) - Taking care of yourself is taking care of others (33:19) - Stopping runaway thoughts 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Do you think you’re a terrible artist? You probably do, and that’s a limiting belief so stop saying that about yourself. That’s an episode for another day. Today we’re going to help you see yourself as something different… maybe not an artist, but certainly someone capable of having more fun taking notes, engaging in information, and learning. We’re thrilled to have Mike Rohde on the show today, the originator of the Sketchnote. New to sketchnoting? No worries! Mike walks us through what a sketchnote is, how to develop a practice and how to use sketchnoting to embrace and engage information with pen and paper and get it into your head. For Patrons, Mike will be delivering this month’s workshop live on Wednesday, March 11, at 6pm US pacific time. Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Mike Rohde’s Sketchnote Mini Workshop Presto Sketching with Ben Crothers Peachpit Press Sketchnote Video Podcast YouTube PlaylistInternational Sketchnote Camp 2020The Sketchnote TypefaceSketchnotes Flickr Collection Sketchnote Army Slack Channel (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:31) - Support the Show: Join The ADHD Community (03:38) - An Interruption... (05:37) - Introducing Mike Rohde (08:06) - What is Sketchnoting? (17:53) - Can you engage the Mental Cache with ADHD? (28:09) - Practice (36:23) - The Sketchnote Ideabook Kickstarter (38:29) - The Sketchnote Toolset (45:44) - More resources (50:26) - The Sketchnote Army 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Linda Walker is an ADHD Coach with a special niche: she works with entrepreneurs. If you’ve been listening to our ADHD at Work series wondering when we were going to get to the good stuff, to the budding titans of industry? Today’s your day. We talk about finding focus, figuring out what to do and when to do it, how to figure out what projects to work on and avoid burnout or disinterest along the way. It’s an incredibly broad conversation, just as the world of building independent businesses is, too. And if you’ve ever found todo lists aren’t your thing, you aren’t going to want to miss Linda’s take on the practice of list-making! Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!CoachLindaWalker.com With Time to Spare: The Ultimate Guide to Peak Performance for Entrepreneurs, Adults with ADHD and other Creative Geniuses by Linda Walker (00:58) - Support the Show on Patreon: patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (03:10) - Introducing Linda Walker (10:15) - The Roadmap (15:21) - Choice & Burnout (17:03) - Focus and Finding your Energy Zones (24:21) - Planning: "Todo lists don't work" (35:18) - Figuring out what to do... and when (39:58) - Finding balance between work and home (42:57) - Metering ADHD "Enthusiasm" with WOOP (47:35) - Finding Inspiration and Imposter Syndrome (52:26) - Transitioning from Full-time to Your Own Business 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We’ve had so many great questions come in over our workplace ADHD series that we’re dedicating this week’s show to digging into them. We’re talking about building great systems, and why that might not be the right goal! We’re talking about relationships with your supervisor and your peers. We’re talking about rejection sensitivity and how you can move through it at work. Finally, we’re talking through what we’ve learned in our out journey transitioning out of the workplace and working from home.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!CalZonesBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm GladwellExpressVPN (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (02:15) - Support the Show! Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (04:32) - DiscordMom's Corner (08:01) - Finding the "perfect" system before you start a new job? (11:25) - How do you set up your relationship with a new supervisor for success? (13:23) - How do you get over early-job awkwardness? (16:45) - Anything else? (18:59) - First impressions? (24:25) - Working from home 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★