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Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright offer support, life management strategies, and time and technology tips, dedicated to anyone looking to take control while living with ADHD.
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- Yesterday38 min
Saying the Hard Thing in Real Time
Ever leave a conversation and realize, somewhere on the way to the car, exactly what you should have said? There’s a French term for that feeling, and ADHD brains know it intimately.This week, we explore why saying the hard thing in real time is so difficult with ADHD, from the blurt-or-freeze problem to the research on variable reaction time and emotional dysregulation that makes it make sense. We get into how pace gets used against slower processors in an argument, and how to claim the room you need without walking out.Then the practical side: naming your state, five “slow sentences” to keep in your back pocket, the Gottman rule for taking a real break, and a trimmed-down version of DBT’s DEAR MAN that you can actually remember when it counts.Links & NotesSupport the Show on PatreonDig into the podcast Shownotes DatabaseKofler et al. 2013, reaction time variability meta-analysisAnker, Ogrim & Heir 2022 summaryShaw et al. 2014, emotion dysregulation in ADHDBen-Dor Cohen et al. 2023, J. Attention DisordersGottman: flooding and breaksGottman: repair attemptsLieberman et al. 2007, affect labeling and ScienceDaily write-upDEAR MAN overviewWordorigins: l’esprit de l’escalier - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - Saying the Hard Thing - Asserting Your Slow-Downs - DEAR MAN... ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- 3 days ago10 min
The Age of Agents • Placeholder
I once printed my computer’s contacts onto paper sized to fit my Franklin Quest binder. I loved that binder enough to make a computer work for it. Keeping the system current was practically a hobby, which was convenient because it required quite a lot of my participation.Decades later, I still enjoy arranging software. I have less enthusiasm for remembering to check every place I’ve put something important. The personal AI agents I’ve been using can carry an assignment between conversations, with ongoing checks where I’ve set them up. That has started to change my working day. I can teach them what matters, correct a misunderstanding, and find that the next round of help reflects what I’ve explained. So far, the useful work has substantially outweighed the mistakes. I’m getting things finished that I’d been putting off.This public edition is a taste of Placeholder, our member-supported show about the tools we use while we wait for something better. Join us on Patreon for the full episode and to help keep The ADHD Podcast going. I’d be glad to have you there. - Welcome to Placeholder - The Fancy Binder - The Things We're Handing Over - Introducing Muse - Become a Supporter at Patreon.com/theadhdpodcast ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- 1 weeks ago52 min
Receiving Help Without Losing Yourself with James and Jules Ochoa
We’ve talked plenty about asking for help. This week, James Ochoa and his son Jules join us to take on the other half: what happens when someone actually helps you, and why that can feel so much harder.Jules has spent the past year rebuilding James’s practice from the inside, which means James has been on the receiving end of a lot of help he didn’t ask for. In this conversation, we explore why unrequested help can feel like an accusation, where the imposter voice comes from, and how to tell the difference between gratitude and the debt ledger so many of us carry. Jules shares what he’s learned about how to help someone with ADHD without triggering the walls, and James is remarkably open about how much of this still gets him, 30 years into the work.Plus, Jules calls his dad out live on air, and it goes about how you’d expect.Links & Notes11Q Your ADHD, the free yearly reflection tool from James and The Life Empowerment CenterThe Complex, the audio drama Jules wrote and produced with JamesSupport the Show on PatreonDig into the podcast Shownotes Database - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - Become a Patron! - Receiving Help with James and Jules Ochoa - What Happens to the ADHD Brain on Receiving Help? - "If I ask for help... it means I can't do it." - The Ledger - How do you open up to help? - Learn More ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- 2 weeks ago52 min
Reading, Audiobooks, and the ADHD Comprehension Problem with Misty Stinnett
Most of us have a stack of self-help books we fully intend to get to. Our friend Misty Stinnett, co-host of Go Help Yourself, has read hundreds of them for her show, and she joins us to talk about reading when your attention has its own plans. Misty is quick to say she isn’t an ADHD expert, but she has years of practice getting through a book she’ll have to explain on a microphone a week later, and plenty of what she’s learned carries over for the rest of us.Her favorite permission slip is that the book works for you. You aren’t on the clock for it. If one idea sticks and changes how you see something, the book did its job, even at 500 pages. Knowing what’s at stake for you before you open a book helps. So does putting it down without guilt when it stops connecting. There’s room for the slow road too: visiting a hard book a paragraph at a time on the days that’s all your brain will give.The members version includes the pre-show, with a face-blindness mystery thriller recommendation and the origin story of “bless the baby.” The after-show is packed with listener questions: whether to reread, how to remember what you heard in the car, why a single paragraph can wear you out, and the old guilt some of us carry about reading for fun. It ends with a book recommendation that brings us full circle. Join us patreon.com/theadhdpodcast and see what you’re missing! Plus get the companion guide, Let the Book Work for You, with reflection questions and reframes for the thoughts that keep a book stuck on the nightstand. Grab the guide right here.Links & NotesGo Help YourselfThe Visit with Kourosh Dini, MDFour Thousand Weeks by Oliver BurkemanReading Without Eye Movements (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2025)Support the Show on PatreonDig into the podcast Shownotes Database - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - Introducing Misty Stinnett - Learning to Read Self-Help - Chunking - The Visit - Audiobooks - How do you know the book is GREAT ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- 4 weeks ago46 min
Plant Yourself in the Right Garden: Environment as Strategy
Last season, Dr. Kathleen Nadeau described a lot of ADHD struggle as a planting problem, and we've been thinking about it a bunch. This episode is about environment, and how much of what gets blamed on ADHD comes down to where you are and who you're with. We break it into what we're calling the three gardens: the right job, the right room and the right people.A lot of the classic willpower research is shakier than its reputation. The marshmallow test turned out to say more about kids' home lives than anyone expected. The idea that sugar refuels your self-control ran into trouble when people who only rinsed with sugar water did just as well as people who drank it. If you've been telling yourself you need to try harder, we’ve got you.There's a coffee shop where a book got written, and a college move-in where getting a few pictures on the wall was what finally eased the overwhelm. If you're wondering whether your job still fits, there's a useful question in here: is this still working for me? Asking it that way leaves room for the job to have changed, so you don't have to start from the assumption that you failed.The members version includes the pre-show, where we catch up on our kids' new college apartments and John Green's new novel. The after-show has the story of how Pete's mom's rose garden ended up in the Smithsonian, plus headphone advice for anyone stuck in an open-plan office. It also has a live demo of FocusFlight, an app that turns a work session into a pretend flight.Links & NotesSupport the Show on PatreonDig into the podcast Shownotes Database - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - Support the Show on Patreon! - Environment as Strategy - The Three Gardens ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- Oct 1, 202639 min
The Unreliable Narrator: Self-Observation for ADHD
You'd swear you sent that email. You can picture yourself writing it. And then you find it, unsent, still marked unread.This week, Pete and Nikki borrow the literary idea of the unreliable narrator to explore why ADHD makes us shaky witnesses to our own lives. They look at how working memory, time blindness, and mood bend the story we tell ourselves, and at research showing how far self-assessment can drift from the record. Then they turn to practical ways to get a clearer picture: asking the people around you what they see (RSD and all), capturing moments while they're fresh, and letting the data you already generate tell you what you actually accomplished. Along the way, Nikki shares how coaching helps clients notice their own patterns, and why a log should help you see instead of grading you.Links & NotesAccuracy of Self-Evaluation in Adults with ADHD: Evidence from a Driving Study, the 2005 Knouse, Bagwell, Barkley, and Murphy study Pete discussesThe Fragile Dance of Memory and ADHD with Dr. Daniella Karidi, one of the three episodes referencedADHDtime, Daniella Karidi's coaching practiceJoin our Patreon communityJoin the Discord - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - Patreon! - The Unreliable Narrator - Moods - "Just Notice" - Feedback and RSD - Feedback and Grading ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- Sep 24, 202625 min
The “Fine” Mask
You say it a dozen times a day. Somebody asks how you're doing, and before you've had a chance to check, you've already said you're … fine.In this conversation, we pick up a thread from our earlier episode with Dr. Sharon Saline on masking and follow it somewhere much smaller. Not the protective mask you choose in a hard moment, but the everyday one that's been on so long you've lost the off switch. We talk about what the gap between the performance and the truth actually costs you in energy and loneliness, why nobody offers help to someone who looks fine, and what happens when you say it to the people at home who genuinely want to know.We also get practical about lowering it: how to pick one safe moment, how to resist the urge to reassure everyone that it's all going to be okay, and why your body usually notices you're performing before you do. Plus get the companion worksheet, Where Am I Wearing Fine?, to help you spot your own pattern.Links & NotesSupport the Show on PatreonDig into the podcast Shownotes Database - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - Support the Show on Patreon - We're All Fine Here - What does it look like when fine cracks? - Reflection Questions ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- Sep 17, 202640 min
Approach Motivation, Round Two with Ari Tuckman, PsyD
Are you doing the thing because of what you'll get, or because of what you're afraid of? Both get the task done. Only one of them is sustainable.This week, Dr. Ari Tuckman returns to talk about approach and avoidance, and why so many of us have only ever learned to start the second engine. We get into why avoidance works just well enough to become a habit, why "not as bad" is a ceiling rather than a goal, and what actually changes in a life that runs more on what you're moving toward.Along the way: the difference between shame and embarrassment and why it matters more than it sounds, what to do at 8 a.m. on a Monday when everything on the list feels equally urgent, and the case for disappointing people early instead of late.Links & NotesGet the “3 Reasons” Prioritization Worksheet Right Here!ADHD & Marriage: Learn to thrive in your relationship with Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA; Rachel Ban, LICSW; and Melissa Orlov!Support the Show on PatreonDig into the podcast Shownotes Database - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast - About the Show - Introducing Ari Tuckman - The question of shame - Approach Motivation - Approach versus Avoidance - Find Ari ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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