Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD
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...
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Rebuilding a Business with an ADHD Brain
<p >In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave talks with Scott Proposki, a high-level photographer who has shot for the White House and National Geographic. Scott shares his journey of scaling a seven-figure studio, losing it during the 2020 pandemic, and the psychological toll of that transition.</p> <p >The conversation focuses on how entrepreneurs with ADHD can pivot from seeing their condition as a liability to leveraging it as a professional asset.</p> <p >Even when it seems impossible.</p> <p >Key Discussion Topics</p> The Power of Hyper-Focus: Scott discusses how his camera acted as a "superpower," allowing him...
Reducing Time Blindness for High-Performing ADHD Professionals
<p >Why does the day disappear, even when you start with a clear plan?</p> <p >For busy professionals with ADHD, time blindness isn't a character flaw. Research points to neurobiological differences in executive function and time perception, dopamine dysregulation affecting motivation and internal timing.</p> <p >The result? Reactive weeks. Strategic thinking is squeezed out by "urgent." Constant context switching. Strained relationships.</p> <p >In this episode, Dave reframes time blocking as visual decision-making and not rigid scheduling.</p> Why high achievers with ADHD struggle with estimating time The leadership cost of operating without visual structure Using themed blocks...
Prioritization for the Real World When You Have Adult ADHD
<p >In this episode, Dave breaks down how prioritization really works for busy professionals with adult ADHD. When everything feels urgent and your to-do list never ends, it's easy to confuse motion with progress.</p> <p >This episode of Overcoming Distractions focuses on sorting tasks by importance, urgency, and, most critically, energy.</p> <p >We explore an ADHD-friendly version of the framework Must / Should / Could system to reduce overwhelm and force clarity around what actually needs to get done today.</p> <p >Key discussion points include:</p> Why everything feels urgent when you have ADHD How to identify high-impact vs...
People-Pleasing & Adult ADHD — The Hidden Cost for High-Achieving Professionals
<p >People pleasing is often seen as being helpful, reliable, or easy to work with. But for busy professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners with ADHD, it can quietly become one of the biggest drivers of burnout, overcommitment, and frustration.</p> <p >In this episode, Dave talks about how people pleasing shows up in leadership and the workplace, why it's so common in high-achieving adults with ADHD, and what it actually costs you over time.</p> <p >More importantly, Dave will explore practical ways to recognize these patterns and how to begin shifting toward healthier boundaries that support sustainable success.<...
Uncovering Emotional Dysregulation in Women with ADHD with Dr. Gilly Kahn
<p >In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave welcomes Dr. Gilly Kahn, a clinical psychologist, ADHD specialist, and author of the new book, Allow Me to Interrupt. While ADHD is often associated with external disruptions in boys, Dr. Kahn highlights how it frequently manifests internally as emotional dysregulation in women.</p> <p >The conversation dives deep into why women are often diagnosed later in life and how biological factors, specifically hormonal shifts, play a critical role in how ADHD symptoms fluctuate.</p> <p >Key Discussion Points</p> The Gender Bias in Diagnosis: Dr. Kahn discusses how current ADHD diagnostic criteria...
Stop storing everything in your ADHD brain
<p >Managing the Noise: Why Your Brain Feels So Loud</p> <p >If your brain feels like 37 open tabs that won't load, this short episode of Overcoming Distractions is for you. Designed for entrepreneurs and executives living with ADHD, we explore why your working memory is constantly overloaded and why "externalizing everything" is a biological necessity, not just a productivity tip.</p> <p >Dave shares lived experience on how to move from chronic mental noise to clarity by simply getting information out of your head and into a trusted system.</p> <p >Key Discussion Points:</p> The ADHD Mental Strainer...
Stop "Performing" and Live with Intention as an Adult ADHD
<p >In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave welcomes mindset coach and former therapist Cindi Frechette to discuss a non-traditional approach to thriving with ADHD.</p> <p >Moving beyond surface-level productivity hacks like to-do lists and timers…, Cindi introduces the Unknow Method, a framework designed for high achievers to manage mental chaos and mitigate burnout.</p> <p >Cindi shares her "lived experience" with ADHD, offering a unique perspective on how internal narratives drive behavior. Together, they explore how busy professionals can stop "performing" and start living authentically by aligning their daily actions with their deepest values.</p> <p >Key Discussion To...
Navigating the Adult ADHD Survival Mode Trap
<p >In this episode, Dave takes a "street-smart" look at a cycle many high achievers with ADHD know all too well.</p> <p >Survival mode and ADHD!</p> <p >It's that grueling state where you're constantly reacting to fires, clawing your way to Friday, and feeling emotionally depleted at home. Dave will explore why survival mode is a nervous system response rather than a personal failure, and how to shift from chaotic reaction to intentional action.</p> <p >Key Highlights:</p> Defining the Struggle: Identifying signs like constant urgency, mental exhaustion, and the "reaction vs. planning" loop. The High-Achiever Trap...
Why Vision and Values Matter for The Busy Professional with ADHD
<p >When you're driven, capable, and juggling a demanding career or business with Adult ADHD, it's easy to stay in constant motion, but still feel off, overwhelmed, or stuck in ADHD survival mode.</p> <p >And it may just be because you're not operating with your values and vision in mind.</p> <p >In this episode, Dave explores how clarifying your personal values and creating a values-driven vision of success can help you feel more fulfilled, productive, and in control, without relying on rigid systems and flirting with burnout.</p> <p >This episode is especially for ADHD brains that crave...
Managing Your Nervous System and Energy for the ADHD Professional
<p >In this episode, Dave sits down with Theresa Lear Levine, an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Master Practitioner and hypnotherapist, to explore the deep connection between the nervous system and ADHD. For high-achieving entrepreneurs and professionals, ADHD is often managed through "mechanics" Which are mission critical.</p> <p >However, Theresa explains why the nervous system is in a state of high-functioning anxiety or chronic stress for many busy professionals with ADHD. And how we can mitigate that stress.</p> <p >Key Discussion Points:</p> Reframing ADHD: Moving away from the "disorder" mindset to view ADHD as a mismatch between one's...
