This week, Jeremy Nagel joins Eric on the show!  Jeremy is a neuro-spicy software developer turned startup founder who is slightly obsessed with habits!  He likes to start each day with a 2-hour morning routine and sometimes surprises colleagues by busting out a set of pushups during meetings to keep the energy high!  When he’s not working on startups, he enjoys cross-country skiing, trail-running, and cycling with his wife.  Jeremy also hosts the podcast, “Focus and Chill”, a show about productivity for neurodivergent people! 

Find more from Jeremy:

• Check out his website and app at FocusBear.io (click here!)
• Find the podcast at podcast.focusbear.io – “Focus and Chill” (click here!)
• Get in touch with Jeremy on LinkedIn (click here!)

In this episode, you’ll hear tips and discussions about:

• Micro-workouts to boost focus, mechanical multi-tasking through energy slumps & maintaining energy
• “Busy hands, quiet mind.” / Hyperfocus vs. the counterintuitive ideas of taking a break
• The benefits of actually stepping away and taking breaks 
• Ways that your room or environments affect bigger- or smaller-picture thinking
• How do you stop when the focus feels good? / “Feeling are convincing liars.” 
• Accountability, and body-doubling 
• Consistency, resiliency, the law of averages, & the importance of learning your own patterns
• Addressing and dealing with stress, stressors, and burnout through physical activity 
• Micro-workouts as a tool to manage emotional storms and dysregulation
• Exercise “snacks” and bite-sized workouts: Defining allotted times and types of workouts/movement
• Self-talk strategies when “I don’t want to!”
• How do we modify or set up our environments to be more conducive for what we want and/or need to do?
• Consistency, variations, flexibility in routines, and small actions adding up over time 
• “The more we are able to get ourselves into various routines, the less we are having to tax our executive functions to do the work we’re trying to do within those routines.” 
• “Stopping requires executive function.” 
• Helpful in-the-moment vs. helpful in the long-term, not struggling alone, and self-compassion
• When we’re doing everything right but our brain has other plans 
• Externalizing executive functioning for days when the EF-tank is low
• Having limits in place and the power of the Pause 
• Mindfulness, meditation, and dishes as a mindfulness practice 

Resources & Honorable Mentions 

• Adult Study Hall by ADHD reWired at adultstudyhall.com 
• Book: Burnout - The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle - by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA (Official Website) (Goodreads)

🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on how to join our award-winning online coaching and accountability groups! 

🌟 Interested in 1-on-1 coaching?  Learn more and get in touch with Dana Crews at www.adhdrewired.com/coach-dana-crews 

🌟 Check out the newest podcast on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network :: The ADHD Creatives Podcast with Kristin Marts, LCSW @ theadhdcreativespodcast.com 🎙️ 🎧

In this episode of ADHD reWired, Skye returns to the show! 

Skye is an ADHD coach and founder of Unconventional Organization, an international ADHD support service that provides research-backed support to adults with ADHD.  She also has years of experience working in adult education and has studied psychology, sociology, and public health.  Skye was diagnosed with ADHD as a doctoral candidate before making the decision to leave her candidature to work full time on Unconventional Organization.  

Find more from Skye:

• Check out Unconventional Organization at unconventionalorganization.com (click here)
• The ADHD Skills Lab Podcast at unconventionalorganisation.com/theadhdskillslab (official site) (Apple) (Spotify) 

In this episode, you’ll hear tips and discussions about:

• Life updates from Skye with a new addition to the family
• Accepting when routines need to be altered when life circumstances change
• Dividing different todos, transitions, and location-basing your tasks 
• Adjustments, reinforcements, and externalizing routines 
• Interruptions, picking a task back up post-interruption, and external support
• Routines to preserve executive functions, transitioning, mental shifting, and adjusting
• Movement and dopamine to support working memory
• Dialing down stimulation rather than shutting it off
• Troubleshooting and problem solving in the moment when an unexpected interruption pops up 
• Resetting, freezing, and externalized dysregulation vs. internalized emotional dysregulation
• “I have NO routines at all–where do I start?” 
• How important is knowing how long each part of a routine takes? 
• The difficulty of remembering routines and excited vs. working memory
• Remembering organically vs. being reminded and creating cues
• Googly eyes? Why not! 
• AI and smart tools for helping with routines
• “ADHD is not a skill deficit.”
• …and more! 

Resources & Honorable Mentions 

• ADHD reWired Episode 449 :: Getting Tasks Done with Skye (click here) 
• Tool: reMarkable at reMarkable.com (click here)
• Check out The ADHD Creatives Podcast with ADHD reWired Coach Kristin Marts! theadhdcreativespodcast.com 

🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on how to join our award-winning online coaching and accountability groups! 

🌟 Interested in 1-on-1 coaching?  Learn more and get in touch with Dana Crews at www.adhdrewired.com/coach-dana-crews 

🌟 Check out the newest podcast on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network :: The ADHD Creatives Podcast with Kristin Marts, LCSW @ theadhdcreativespodcast.com 🎙️ 🎧

In this episode, Eric is joined by Jonathan Kidder!  Jonathan is a “kidder”, through and through - bringing comedy through character, as a puppeteer, content creator, and comedian.  His big claim to fame is as a puppet character, Busy the Bee, on Waffles + Mochi on Netflix!  The L.A. Gay Scene knows Jonathan as Miss Phoenix, The Ultimate Party Foul: Poolside Tarot Card reader by Merman Kidder, and through his party portraits he calls “Kidder-atures”, Kidder makes things fun using the power of personification and character to help him keep track of time!  

Get the full conversation and an uninterrupted listening experience when you become a Patron at $5 a more at https://www.adhdrewired.com/pateron! 

Find even more from Jonathan Kidder:

• Website :: kidderco.com (click here!)
• Instagram :: @JWKidder (click here!)
• Linkt.ee / jonathankidder :: https://linktr.ee/jonathankidder  

In this episode, you’ll hear tips and discussions about:

• ADHD, sobriety, and humor for functionality 
• Puppets, time-blindness, and underwear for each day of the week
• Using your fun, embracing colloquialisms, and addressing your inner critic 
• Experimentation to find what works for your ADHD management 
• Not taking oneself too seriously and perfectionism as the enemy of humor
• “I’m not always able to make-the-funny” and self-acceptance 
• Ways to make time physical
• Ways to keep time visual and other tools for managing time blindness
• Managing our ADHD vs. ADHD managing us 
• The importance of doing and planning what works for you 
• Closing loops, resetting, Chakras, and theme-ing your days 
• Using absurdity and connected ideas to remember things
• Themes and structuring to help with decision fatigue 

Resources & Honorable Mentions 

• Book :: Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D. (on Goodreads)
• Book :: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study - by Marian Woodman (on Goodreads)
• Video :: How to Stimulate Your Brain (DOPA Menu) - Jessica McCabe (HowToADHD) (click here)
• Video :: Trailer to Waffles + Mochi (on YouTube) (click here!)
• Video :: Pink Sweat Video Shoot (on YouTube) (click here!)
• Movie :: Death to Smoochy (trailer on YouTube)
• Movie :: The Happy Time Murders (trailer on YouTube)
• Movie :: Spaceballs (IMDB page)
• Website :: Internal Family Systems (IFS Institute) at ifs-institute.com (click here!)
• Website :: Folkmanis Puppets at folkmanis.com (click here!)
• Tool :: Time Timer Original 12” at timetimer.com (click here!)

Pithy Nibbles 

• “Humor, for me, is a version of pizzazz!”
• “Humor is about imperfection and change and being present; perfection and perfectionism is, ‘you can’t have perfection and change.’” 
• “Nobody doesn’t have an ass.” 

🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on how to join our award-winning online coaching and accountability groups! 

🌟 Interested in 1-on-1 coaching?  Learn more and get in touch with Dana Crews at www.adhdrewired.com/coach-dana-crews 

🌟 Check out the newest podcast on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network :: The ADHD Creatives Podcast with Kristin Marts, LCSW @ theadhdcreativespodcast.com 🎙️ 🎧

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A!  If you want to join us live on Zoom, go to adhdrewired.com/events to register!  You can also find bonus questions & answers from past recordings and get an uninterrupted listening experience of this show on Patreon when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more!  Check it all out at adhdrewired.com/Patreon! (click here!) 

In this Q&A, you’ll hear tips and discussions about:

• Navigating around responses and emotions, family dynamics during the holidays, and discussions around ADHD and neurodivergence
• Overestimating our capacity to get things done and avoiding / overcoming burnout
• Time management, energy management, and reframing expectations 
• A strategy for remembering to actually stop your timer when time-tracking
• Tools/strategies to help with overwhelm, and the role of acceptance and community
• Using a camera and grid system to organize and declutter a room
• Emotional regulation practices / A.I. tools and services
• Intervening to taking breaks even when you “don’t feel tired” and making decisions on a drained brain
• Cramming for deadlines and zeroing in on sources of procrastination 
• Hybrid planning and the importance of experimentation 
• Scope creep, saying no, learning our tendencies, and having a “parking lot” for our ideas

Resources & Honorable Mentions

• Book: Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab (on Goodreads) (Official website)
• Book: 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam (on Goodreads) (Official website)
• Book: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life by Marilee G. Adams (on Goodreads)
• Book: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (on Goodreaads) (Official website)
• Website: GoodInside - Dr. Becky (at https://www.goodinside.com)
• Instagram: Nedra Tawwab @nedratawwab (click here!) (Author of “Set Boundaries, Find Peace”) 
• YouTube Video: How to Give Your Brain the Stimulation it Needs (a.k.a. a DOPA Menu!) with Jessica from HowToADHD (click here!)
• Adult Study Hall by ADHD reWired at adultstudyhall.com
• App: Otter.ai https://otter.ai 

Quotable Remembrances

• “You’re not the jack-ass whisperer” - Brene Brown 
• “You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.” - The Minimalists (Joshua Fields Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus) 
• “Novelty is great, but be wise about how you use it.” 
• “If we don’t have an accurate picture of what’s going on in our macro life, how can we even begin to know what needs to change?”
• “If you can’t change it, you can change the way you think about it.” 
• “Am I overcomplicating this?” 
• “If you don’t know where your boundary is first, you are likely to scope-creep.” 

🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on how to join our award-winning online coaching and accountability groups! 

🌟 Interested in 1-on-1 coaching?  Learn more and get in touch with Dana Crews at www.adhdrewired.com/coach-dana-crews 

🌟 Check out the newest podcast on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network :: The ADHD Creatives Podcast with Kristin Marts, LCSW @ theadhdcreativespodcast.com 🎙️ 🎧

Our 35th season of ADHD reWired's Coaching and Accountability Groups are coming up fast!  This winter season begins next week on Thursday, January 11th, 2024! 

Don't miss your chance to join - go now to coachingrewired.com to find this season's schedule and all the details, and to get your name on our interest list, so you can join one of our upcoming final registration events:

• Tuesday, January 9th (immediately following the Live Q&A); or 
• Wednesday, January 10th at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern

If those times don't work for you, you can even schedule a 1-on-1 with Eric, coach Kristin or coach Brian, or another member of the ADHD reWired team, who will help you get all the information you'll need to get registered! 

Growth happens here.  Start the new year by starting with you - go now to coachingrewired.com! 

This week, ADHD reWired Coaches Eric Tivers, Kristin Marts, and Brian Entler get together for the first ever round-table discussion!  You’ll hear stories about troubles and tips for how coaches manage their own transitions, how each person leverages the tools in their ADHD toolbelts, the role of novelty, thriving in a crisis, how different times of day affect each coach, and more!  

Send your suggestions and ideas of what you’d like to hear from the coaches in future Coaches Round Table episodes to support@adhdrewired.com with the subject line, “Round Table” 

You can hear more from Brian, Kristin, and other past guests in all of our recordings of our monthly Live Q&As!  Find show notes to this episode and all past episodes adhdrewired.com/podcast!  

More notes on this amazing episode coming soon!  In the meantime, checkout these resources mentioned on today’s show! 

• Podcast :: ADHD reWired Episode #342 - Transitions, Balancing Work, and Relations - with Adison Smith (click here!)
• Podcast :: ADHD reWired Episode #429 - Growth Cycles with Brian Entler (click here!)
• Podcast :: ADHD reWired Episode #514 - Introducing: The ADHD Creatives Podcast with Kristin Marts (click here!)
• Book :: The One Thing by Gary W. Kellar and Jay Papasan (Official Website) (Goodreads)
• ADHD reWired Coaching :: About Coach Kristin Marts at https://www.adhdrewired.com/coach-kristin-marts (click here!) 
• ADHD reWired Coaching :: About Brian Entler at https://www.adhdrewired.com/coach-brian-entler (click here!)
• Join our award-winning Coaching & Accountability Groups at coachingrewired.com 
• If you love the show and want to support our work, consider becoming a Patron at adhdrewired.com/Patreon 

🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on how to join our award-winning online coaching and accountability groups! 

🌟 Interested in 1-on-1 coaching?  Learn more and get in touch with Dana Crews at www.adhdrewired.com/coach-dana-crews 

🌟 Check out the newest podcast on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network :: The ADHD Creatives Podcast with Kristin Marts, LCSW @ theadhdcreativespodcast.com 🎙️ 🎧