The ADHD Skills Lab

You meet someone, become instant best friends, and a few months later they're gone. Then it happens again.
Most ADHD advice focuses on productivity, but Caroline Maguire believes we're missing something just as important: friendship. Caroline is a certified ADHD coach and the author of Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults.
In this conversation, Skye and Caroline explore why ADHD brains often rush into friendships, why traditional friendship advice falls flat, and how to build relationships that actually last without burning yourself out.
You'll walk away with a practical way to spot unhealthy friendship patterns before they cost you another connection.
What We Cover
Why the impulsive friendship cycle happens
Why traditional friendship advice doesn't work for ADHD adults
The Ice Cream Scoop Method for balanced give-and-take
How to spot one-sided friendships early
Why interest-based activities make building friendships easier
How to slow a friendship down without ending it
Connect With Caroline Maguire
https://carolinemaguireauthor.com/
https://www.instagram.com/authorcarolinem/?hl=en
If you’re an entrepreneur with ADHD who’s tired of being asked “Why don’t you just hire/make a system/delegate?”  We’ve gotchu! 
Click here for a free copy of my 5-year-tested Focus Filter. Instant relief for work-related overwhelm.
Find out what’s holding you back. I’ll personally build you a simple plan to fix it. Click here to grab one.
Join my Focused Balanced Growth Program. If you’re tired of getting blank looks in masterminds full of neurotypical advice, this is for you. Weekly Monday Motivation sessions, plus content you can binge or dip into for strategies specific to you. Apply here.
Your Business Operations Built for Your ADHD Brain. Feel like you can never really delegate because you can’t explain how to do it? Struggling to hire someone who feels like a natural fit for your business? Let us handle it for you. We specialize in using our years of ADHD research and practical support to act as your fractional COO, handling the back-end operations in a way that feels light and keeps you focused. Learn more here.

Meditation is one of the most common ADHD recommendations—but what does the research actually say?
In this Research Recap, Skye Waterson and William Curb examine two studies on mindfulness and ADHD. The first explores an 8-week mindfulness program for primary school children, while the second compares mindfulness with structured psychoeducation for adults with ADHD.
The children's study found improvements in attention and psychological wellbeing. The adult study found something just as interesting: learning about ADHD in a structured group setting produced many of the same benefits as mindfulness.
The takeaway isn't that meditation doesn't work. It's that there are multiple evidence-based ways to engage with your ADHD—and the best approach is the one you'll actually stick with.
What We Cover:
What an 8-week mindfulness program changed for 7- to 8-year-old children
How researchers measured attention and psychological wellbeing
How mindfulness compared with psychoeducation in adults with ADHD
Where mindfulness showed unique benefits
Why understanding your ADHD and connecting with others may matter as much as the specific technique
Want more of Will's work?
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If you’re an entrepreneur with ADHD who’s tired of being asked “Why don’t you just hire/make a system/delegate?”  We’ve gotchu! 
Click here for a free copy of my 5-year-tested Focus Filter. Instant relief for work-related overwhelm.
Find out what’s holding you back. I’ll personally build you a simple plan to fix it. Click here to grab one.
Join my Focused Balanced Growth Program. If you’re tired of getting blank looks in masterminds full of neurotypical advice, this is for you. Weekly Monday Motivation sessions, plus content you can binge or dip into for strategies specific to you. Apply here.
Your Business Operations Built for Your ADHD Brain. Feel like you can never really delegate because you can’t explain how to do it? Struggling to hire someone who feels like a natural fit for your business? Let us handle it for you. We specialize in using our years of ADHD research and practical support to act as your fractional COO, handling the back-end operations in a way that feels light and keeps you focused. Learn more here.

Every founder with ADHD has wondered whether they quit too early. A 2024 foraging study unexpectedly suggests the opposite may sometimes be true. Researchers built an experiment expecting ADHD traits to be a disadvantage, and instead discovered the average person stayed too long.
Skye and Robert explore what that means beyond the lab, why ADHD may be an advantage during the exploratory stage of entrepreneurship, why pivoting is not always a flaw, and why the same trait can become either a strength or a liability depending on the environment.
What We Cover:
Why researchers expected ADHD traits to hurt performance, and what the data actually showed
How "leaving too soon" turned out to be closer to the optimal strategy
Why ADHD entrepreneurs may be overrepresented in the exploratory startup phase, but not in scaling
The real costs of pivoting for teams, and when those costs are worth paying
Why the same ADHD trait can be either a strength or a struggle depending on the environment
If you’re an entrepreneur with ADHD who’s tired of being asked “Why don’t you just hire/make a system/delegate?”  We’ve gotchu! 
Click here for a free copy of my 5-year-tested Focus Filter. Instant relief for work-related overwhelm.
Find out what’s holding you back. I’ll personally build you a simple plan to fix it. Click here to grab one.
Join my Focused Balanced Growth Program. If you’re tired of getting blank looks in masterminds full of neurotypical advice, this is for you. Weekly Monday Motivation sessions, plus content you can binge or dip into for strategies specific to you. Apply here.
Your Business Operations Built for Your ADHD Brain. Feel like you can never really delegate because you can’t explain how to do it? Struggling to hire someone who feels like a natural fit for your business? Let us handle it for you. We specialize in using our years of ADHD research and practical support to act as your fractional COO, handling the back-end operations in a way that feels light and keeps you focused. Learn more here.

She stared in the mirror one night, still wearing the workout clothes she'd put on that morning, and realized she couldn't remember if she'd had a sip of water all day.
Years before being diagnosed with ADHD, Sharon Pope was successfully leading startups while privately struggling with the basics of everyday life.
So she built the tool she wished she'd had: an AI task manager that follows up like a person instead of another notification.
In this conversation, Sharon shares how that breaking point became Shelpful, why she still relies on it every day, and what she's learned about building a company around a problem she still hasn't completely solved.
What We Cover
Why doctors dismissed her ADHD because she was "too successful"
The night she built the first Shelpful prototype in 24 hours
Why human accountability didn't scale into a business
How "Mega Remind" follows up until a task actually gets done
Why she still depends on the product she built herself
Connect With Sharon Pope
Website: https://shelpful.com
Instagram: @shelpful
If you’re an entrepreneur with ADHD who’s tired of being asked “Why don’t you just hire/make a system/delegate?”  We’ve gotchu! 
Click here for a free copy of my 5-year-tested Focus Filter. Instant relief for work-related overwhelm.
Find out what’s holding you back. I’ll personally build you a simple plan to fix it. Click here to grab one.
Join my Focused Balanced Growth Program. If you’re tired of getting blank looks in masterminds full of neurotypical advice, this is for you. Weekly Monday Motivation sessions, plus content you can binge or dip into for strategies specific to you. Apply here.
Your Business Operations Built for Your ADHD Brain. Feel like you can never really delegate because you can’t explain how to do it? Struggling to hire someone who feels like a natural fit for your business? Let us handle it for you. We specialize in using our years of ADHD research and practical support to act as your fractional COO, handling the back-end operations in a way that feels light and keeps you focused. Learn more here.

You keep rereading the same task on your list. You know it matters. You still haven't started.
If that sounds familiar, it probably isn't a motivation problem. It may be because you're treating a project like it's a task.
In this episode, Skye and Robbie unpack why hidden complexity makes seemingly simple tasks feel impossible, why the ADHD brain mistakes importance for urgency, and how giving tasks a trusted "home" can dramatically reduce overwhelm. They also share practical strategies for breaking projects into manageable steps without falling into perfectionism or all-day hyperfocus. These ideas are grounded in the episode's central insight: urgency often comes from the fear of losing the task—not the deadline itself.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why some "tasks" are actually projects in disguise
How hidden complexity leads to procrastination and overwhelm
Why breaking a project down is progress—not procrastination
The real reason everything starts to feel urgent with ADHD
How to build a system you actually trust to hold your work
What to do when you've stalled on a project and don't know how to restart
Whether you're running a business, managing a team, or simply trying to get through your to-do list, this episode will help you understand why certain tasks feel so much harder than they should—and what you can do about it.
If you’re an entrepreneur with ADHD who’s tired of being asked “Why don’t you just hire/make a system/delegate?”  We’ve gotchu! 
Click here for a free copy of my 5-year-tested Focus Filter. Instant relief for work-related overwhelm.
Find out what’s holding you back. I’ll personally build you a simple plan to fix it. Click here to grab one.
Join my Focused Balanced Growth Program. If you’re tired of getting blank looks in masterminds full of neurotypical advice, this is for you. Weekly Monday Motivation sessions, plus content you can binge or dip into for strategies specific to you. Apply here.
Your Business Operations Built for Your ADHD Brain. Feel like you can never really delegate because you can’t explain how to do it? Struggling to hire someone who feels like a natural fit for your business? Let us handle it for you. We specialize in using our years of ADHD research and practical support to act as your fractional COO, handling the back-end operations in a way that feels light and keeps you focused. Learn more here.