Today, Eric is joined by Morgan Hancock who was diagnosed with ADHD at 31.  She is a commercial real-estate agent, entrepreneur, U.S. Army veteran, mother of 2, a passionate advocate of the arts, and the founder of Bourbon With Heart Inc., the world’s first and only arts-focused bourbon charity!

In this episode, you’ll hear about the different paths Morgan took - including becoming a young mother, joining the army, law school, making insect repellent, and continuing to act on her big ambitions.  You’ll also hear about her life as a self-professed trouble-maker, hyperfocus and risk-taking, all-or-nothing thinking, what led up to her ADHD diagnosis, and how her fearlessness and resilience led to founding her bourbon-based non-profit organization.

Learn More about Bourbon With Heart:

• Website: bourbonwithheart.org https://bourbonwithheart.org 

• Instagram: @bourbonwithheart https://www.instagram.com/bourbonwithheart/ 

• Facebook: BourbonWithHeart https://www.facebook.com/BourbonWithHeart 

Get in Touch with Morgan: 

• Instagram: @americasbestie https://www.instagram.com/americasbestie/ 

Other Questions/Topics Answered in this Episode:

• [00:01:13] Introducing Morgan

• [00:02:16] Life in school and the challenges Morgan faced

• [00:05:36] Morgan shares her optimism and desire to do big things “...even though my surroundings did not reflect that as a probability.” 

• [00:07:54] Joining the army at 18, how did Morgan navigate as a mother of a then 2-year-old son? 

• [00:09:00] What was life like for Morgan in her early 20s? 

• [00:11:16] What drove Morgan to go to law school? 

• [00:19:56] Eric asks Morgan about the catalyst that led up to her ADHD diagnosis

• [00:22:31] Morgan shares the positive effects that ADHD medication had on her life

• [00:23:56] Morgan tells us about Bourbon With Heart and Kentucky’s rich and vibrant arts culture

• [00:25:14] What’s the big “why” behind starting Bourbon With Heart? 

• [00:33:56] Eric asks Morgan about what happened during the break with an event she planned that sold out in a day. 

• [00:35:28] How did Morgan communicate her idea to others to get them on board, believe in her mission, and raise money to kick off Bourbon With Heart? 

• [00:44:10] How listeners can get in touch with Morgan, learn more about Bourbon with Heart, and closing words… 

Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network:

• adhdessentials.com with Brendan Mahan

• hackingyouradhd.com with Will Curb

• adhddiversified.ca with MJ Siemens

Registration for the Spring Season of ADHD reWired's Coaching & Accountability Groups is happening now!  Learn more about our award-winning intensive online coaching and accountability groups at coachingrewired.com! 

If you’re ready to get your ADHD reWired, that’s coachingrewired.com to start your pre-registration process so you can join us for our next spring 2023 registration event on Thursday, March 2nd at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern! 

In part 2 of this conversation, Eric is joined by ADHD reWired Coaches Kat Hoyer and Kristin Marts!  Janelle Augustin, who is also an ADHD reWired Coaching group Alumni member, also joins all of the ADHD reWired Coaches in the hot seat to figure out actionable items to keep track of multi-step tasks and not lose steam while tackling unfinished projects. 

⭐ If you missed Part 1 of this conversation, go back to episode 469 to listen in from the beginning! 

Janelle was born in Jamaica but grew up in South Florida and joins us in this episode from Tampa!  As a mom who enjoys gardening and has a love for cooking, Janelle is also an entrepreneur with her business called Nelly’s Fried Creamery, specializing in deep-fried ice cream.  

Not long after being diagnosed with ADHD at age 32, Janelle joined ADHD reWired’s Coaching & Accountability Groups and continued her support with the Alumni community.  Through the coaching groups, she developed the self-awareness she needed to learn to advocate for herself and learned what she needed for that self-advocacy. 

Questions/Topics in this Episode:

• [00:02:13] “Do you think everything needs to be finished?”

• [00:05:07] Kat talks about borrowing from previous successes 

• [00:07:20] “What do you tell your child about making mistakes?”

• [00:08:32] Different ways to think about “done”  

• [00:17:19] More tool suggestions for writing / creating processes

• [00:20:42] What did ChatGPT spit out? 

• [00:23:37] A helpful acronym

• [00:34:02] Kristin talks about POPs - the Point-of-Performance

• [00:34:41] Janelle shares her action steps, commitments, & wrapping up

Other Coaching Questions from today’s episode: 

• Would you be able to prioritize the things you want/need to finish vs. the things that “would be nice” to finish? 

• If you were to say, “What’s the TOP thing right now, in your life, that you want to get to ‘done’ to earn the right to work on the next thing?” Then, “What would be that next thing?”

• What did you say to yourself when something didn’t go right?  What lessons did you learn from that? 

Other Resources & Honorable Mentions:

• Tool: Process.st https://www.process.st 

• Tool: Chat GPT https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ 

• Tool: Jasper.ai https://www.jasper.ai/ 

• Website: Fiverr https://www.fiverr.com 

• Book: E-Myth Mastery - The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World-Class Company https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81942.E_Myth_Mastery 

• Book: The E-Myth Revisited https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/81948.The_E_myth_Revisited 

Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network:

• adhdessentials.com with Brendan Mahan

• hackingyouradhd.com with Will Curb

• adhddiversified.ca with MJ Siemens

In this two-part conversation, Eric is joined by ADHD reWired Coaches Kat Hoyer and Kristin Marts!  Janelle Augustin, who is also an ADHD reWired Coaching group Alumni member, also joins all of the ADHD reWired Coaches in the hot seat to figure out action steps to creating and finishing processes.  Not only will you be able to listen in on the process of the Mastermind, you’ll also hear suggestions for managing multiple steps and tasks, reframing “done”, cues to be reminded to return to unfinished projects, and more. 

About Janelle:  Janelle was born in Jamaica but grew up in South Florida and joins us in this episode from Tampa!  As a mom who enjoys gardening and has a love for cooking, Janelle is also an entrepreneur with her business called Nelly’s Fried Creamery, specializing in deep-fried ice cream.  

Not long after being diagnosed with ADHD at age 32, Janelle joined ADHD reWired’s Coaching & Accountability Groups and continued her support with the Alumni community.  Through the coaching groups, she developed the self-awareness she needed to learn to advocate for herself and learned what she needed for that self-advocacy. 

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Questions/Topics in this Episode:

• [00:01:40] Introducing Janelle

• [00:04:45] What is a Mastermind? 

• [00:05:22] Summarizing the ADHD-related issue in the hot-seat 

• [00:08:10] Overall themes, encountering the “unfinished”, and picking a life domain

• [00:14:59] Janelle goes in depth about her previous processes of creating manuals and the ideas of “done”

• [00:17:58] Questions about master lists, time-management, and getting stuck

• [00:20:43] Suggestions on starting a process and avoiding procrasti-planning

• [00:23:32] Delegating, and how to find the “who”

• [00:30:22] Writing manuals, facing resistance, and the stories we tell ourselves

• [00:32:28] “What if it’s not good enough?”

• [00:35:27] “I’ve never been a first-draft kind of gal.” 

• [00:38:65] Janelle spit-fires a round of processes to be created 

• [00:41:56] “Where do I dump everything and how do I remember to go back to look at it and organize it?”

• [00:43:36] “It doesn’t have to be boring!” and other ways to create documentation

• [00:46:14] Managing task lists 

Other Coaching Questions from today’s episode: 

• What is the smallest domino? Meaning, what is the thing you can do first that will help knock down some of the other barriers and hurdles you may be experiencing that may not seem related, but may actually be related? 

• A project might turn into a system. How do you visualize that before getting started? 

• Do you have a master list of what you’d like to accomplish, start-to-finish? 

• How do you manage your time while working on a project?

• What are other ways to capture information, other than writing?

• Do you edit while you write?

Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network:

• adhdessentials.com with Brendan Mahan

• hackingyouradhd.com with Will Curb

• adhddiversified.ca with MJ Siemens

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Questions & Topics in this Episode:

• [00:01:11] An ADHD moment and introductions

• [00:03:54] A listener who was recently diagnosed asks about medication. 

• [00:12:14] “When a life catastrophe occurs, sometimes there is a ‘fixer’ mode - other times, there is an ‘overwhelm’ mode resulting in complete shut-down of all life-events and routines.  How does one get past the hyper-emotional devastation and back into regularity without too much loss or damage, too?” 

• [00:20:25] “How to deal with gloomy days in winter? My motivation is non-existent!”

• [00:27:40] A listener asks the panelists about their morning routines 

• [00:28:06] Will’s morning routine

• [00:29:38] Kat’s morning party

• [00:31:05] Eric’s a.m. variations 

• [00:32:26] Kristin’s “love” for mornings

• [00:38:28] Eric shares a funny morning story with his son

• [00:45:13] A listener, who has an executive function group for students, asks about accountability. 

• [00:53:34] “Please explain [...] how to get rid of ‘doom’ piles and/or boxes.”

• [01:03:49] A moment of dad… 

Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network:

• adhdessentials.com with Brendan Mahan

• hackingyouradhd.com with Will Curb

• adhddiversified.ca with MJ Siemens

Marina Piscolish joins Eric on the podcast this week to talk about leveraging strengths and owning the challenges.  Marina is the president and founder of Mapping Change LLC, a small consulting business born of her passion for harnessing the transformative power of conflict to create positive changes for individuals, teams, and organizations.

Being born in rural Pennsylvania as a coal-miner’s daughter and a grandchild of immigrants  provided helpful preparation for her work, especially in Hawaii and the broader pacific.  As she continues developing ways of working with culture, identities, sense-of-place, history, and trauma, her early struggle with her own undiagnosed ADHD was a defining influence on her career and life.

Now, Marina focuses on making creative accommodations for her ‘limitations’ and leverages  her neurodivergence as an asset for her business, her clients, and the people close to her.  

Learn more about Marina: 

• Website: Mappingchange.com
• Email: marina@mappingchange.com 

Other Questions/Topics Answered in this Episode:

• [00:03:16] Marina shares her story about how she found ADHD reWired, her experience in the coaching groups, and her life growing up in a small town with a large family, all with similar challenges. 
• [00:05:36] “Emotional pain is the distance between [...] your expectations [and] reality.” 
• [00:07:59] Marina talks about the build up of shame and being unwilling to share or get help. 
• [00:09:22] A relatable moment of overwhelm and avoiding the ‘pain of success.’ 
• [00:11:29] What’s the difference between acceptance and embracing ADHD?
• [00:14:39] “That may be true, and I’m afraid that may be true, but what do I do about where I am?” 
• [00:22:15] Eric and Marina have a discussion about “administrivia.” 
• [00:23:19] Marina shares how she became curious about her ADHD and exploring how neurodivergence is the cause of her success. 
• [00:26:01] Joy through acceptance and seeking support and assistance. 
• [00:26:26] Eric asks Marina about what she communicated when going through the process of hiring an assistant. 
• [00:30:59] Maria gives an insight that was shared with her.
• [00:41:15] A discussion about hiring and trading services in the midst of the pandemic. 
• [00:48:04] What are a couple of ideas/tips/strategies Marina has for folks with ADHD who have a tendency to be conflict-avoidant? 
• [00:52:46] Marina leaves us with her final thoughts…

Resources & Honorable Mentions:

• Go to coachingrewired.com to learn more about ADHD reWired’s Coaching & Accountability Groups! 

Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network:

• adhdessentials.com with Brendan Mahan
• hackingyouradhd.com with Will Curb
• adhddiversified.ca with MJ Siemens