The ADHD Skills Lab

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Most productivity advice for ADHD is written for people who just need a nudge. If you have ADHD, you need something more honest than that.
Ari Tuckman holds a PsyD and an MBA, has authored five books on ADHD, and has spent over 40,000 hours in clinical work with adults. He co-chairs the largest ADHD conference in the US and has been quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post.
In this conversation, Ari breaks down what productivity actually means for ADHD brains, why "don't get in trouble" is not a good enough goal, and how business owners can use external structure and the right people to focus on where they add the most value.
Connect With Ari Tuckman:  www.DrAriTuckman.com.
What We Cover
Why simplistic productivity advice fails ADHD adults and what to look for instead
The difference between managing ADHD to survive versus building a life worth having
How to hire an assistant who will act as external executive function, not just a scheduler
The role of reputation-building when ADHD makes consistency hard
Ari's "things lead to things" principle and how it applies to business growth
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Running your business on anxiety feels like productivity. It isn't. It's a system built on urgency, and it burns out fast.
Research suggests that goal-focused interventions can reduce anxiety in adults with ADHD. What they don't appear to do is meaningfully improve executive functioning. Skye and Will break down a Norwegian randomized controlled trial on goal management training, what it found, and why that gap between feeling less anxious and actually getting more done matters for how you run your work.
What We Cover
Why using anxiety as a task manager is a direct path to burnout
What the research found about goal management training and anxiety reduction
Why the study's results showed little change in executive functioning despite structured intervention
The difference between reducing mental load and building systems that improve output
What's missing from most ADHD support frameworks when it comes to actual mechanics
Want more of Will's work? Visit HackingYourADHD.com or subscribe on YouTube.
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You've launched things that seemed solid, only to watch them unravel for reasons that felt obvious afterward. That's not a judgment problem. For ADHD founders, retrospective clarity comes naturally. The pre-mortem is a tool that pulls that clarity forward, to the start of a project, when fixing problems is still cheap.
Skye and Robbie break down the pre-mortem method, developed by cognitive psychologist Gary Klein and later popularized by Daniel Kahneman, and explain why it fits ADHD-wired brains in particular. ADHD founders tend to communicate broad vision without the full set of dependencies, leaving teams misaligned and triggering micromanagement loops. They're also prone to hyperfocused tunneling in the wrong direction. The pre-mortem interrupts both patterns before they cost you.
They also cover how to use it as a minimum viable test. Before a prototype, before a hire, before a pivot, spend an afternoon stress-testing the idea. Sometimes the right output is: don't do this.
What We Cover
Why ADHD founders naturally access retrospective clarity, and how to use it at project start instead of after the fact
How incomplete vision communication creates micromanagement loops, and what the pre-mortem does to close that gap
The novelty bias and hyperfocus tunneling problem, and why planning for failure acts as a directional check
How to run a pre-mortem solo, with a team, or with AI, including a specific reverse prompting approach
Why a half-day pre-mortem with AI or a mentor counts as your minimum viable test before any build
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Sitting in a parking lot after leaving the bankruptcy attorney's office, $600,000 in debt written off, home gone, Galel Fajardo told himself no one would ever hire him again.
Galel Fajardo is a business coach, digital marketing consultant, and fractional CMO with 23 years of entrepreneurial experience and a Master's in Performance Psychology. He specializes in helping high-performing entrepreneurs, especially those with ADHD, whose businesses look successful from the outside and feel like a prison from the inside. His clients have doubled their revenue, with one scaling from $2.5M to $10.1M in three years, not by working harder, but by building the right structure first. He coaches from the only credential that actually matters: he has lived every problem he teaches.
What he learned through that experience, his ADHD diagnosis, and years of coaching shapes how he thinks about execution, delegation, and the internal stories that stall growth.
This episode covers the specific frameworks Galel uses in his own business and with his clients.
What We Cover:
Why the systems that work in your 20s tend to fail once a business reaches real complexity and what to replace them with
How Galel uses AI as a ruthless critic rather than a yes-machine to pressure-test ideas before committing resources
The structural reason ADHD brains are strong activators but need an external check to finish and execute
Why transparency about ADHD with your team tends to improve delegation rather than undermine authority
How Galel identifies the belief underneath an activation problem and works with clients to shift it
Connect With Galel Fajardo Website: https://www.galel.com
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/