Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast
1) Find Your Own Wind: Fuel Your Motivation through Emotion
Emotional planning sounds like one of those concepts you think you already understand — until you realize it has nothing to do with mood journaling, crystal grids, or color-coding your feelings. What ...Show More
2) Aging, ADHD, and Letting Go with Jami Shapiro
Aging with ADHD often hides in the background of our conversations, even though so many of us feel its effects every day. In this episode, we bring it forward with help from Jami Shapiro, whose work s...Show More
3) Acceptance, Avoidance, and the Tolerations Between Them
We’re revisiting a classic — and for longtime listeners, a foundational topic: the Tolerations List. These are the small, nagging things we put up with every day — the crooked picture, the squeaky doo...Show More
4) The Introvert’s Guide to Finding Your People with Ky Wescott
This week, we’re talking about what it means to be both introverted and ADHD, and how those two identities can collide—or beautifully harmonize—when you finally understand yourself. Our guest is Kyrus...Show More
5) The Cycle of Accountability: Reclaiming Presence with Dr. Nachi Felt
When Dr. Nachi Felt first joined us, he introduced two big ideas that stuck with a lot of listeners—the Cycle of Ambiguity and the Cycle of Agency. Those conversations gave language to what so many of...Show More
6) Future You is Counting On You with James Ochoa
We love to say it: “Your future self will thank you.” It’s a mantra for hopeful planning, a reminder that the effort you put in now will pay off later. But for people with ADHD, that phrase can land l...Show More
7) From Shame to Strategy: Alan Brown on Advocacy After Diagnosis
In 1992, a struggling advertising executive in Manhattan walked into his Upper East Side doctor's office with what he thought might be a revelation. His boss had just been diagnosed with ADHD, and the...Show More
8) The Art (and Imperfection) of Diagnosing ADHD with Dr. Amie DeHarpporte
Imagine this: one person spends ten minutes with their doctor, walks out with a prescription, and calls it an ADHD diagnosis. Another spends an entire day in a psychologist’s office, testing memory, a...Show More
9) Seeing Ourselves On Screen: ADHD Representation with Matthew Fox
Here's a puzzle that will stop you cold: ADHD has exploded into public consciousness. More diagnoses than ever. More research. More conversations. And yet? Turn on your television. What stares back at...Show More
10) ADHD, Emotions, and Rewriting Your Money Story with Nicole Stanley
Money is rarely just about math—it’s about stories, habits, emotions, and, for ADHDers, often a deep sense of shame. In this episode, Pete and Nikki sit down with Nicole Stanley, financial coach and f...Show More