Nikki Kinzer has dedicated her career to fostering improved living systems, transitioning from retail management and human resources to professional organizing, where she discovered her vocation in aiding individuals with ADHD. She refocused her business in 2010 to cater to adults and college students with ADHD, becoming a certified coach with the ADD Coach Academy and the International Coaching Federation.
Kinzer's current venture, Take Control ADHD, offers coaching, online trainings, and fosters a global community for those seeking to understand and manage their ADHD. She also co-hosts the successful "Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast," which since its inception in 2010, has amassed over 700 episodes, millions of downloads, and a vibrant Discord community for listener engagement.
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The words you use every day are quietly shaping what you think you’re capable of. Pete and Nikki dig into a few simple language shifts that can change how you talk to yourself, and how you connect with everyone else.
If you’ve got ADHD, odds are you get a lot more done than you give yourself credit for. Pete and Nikki talk about flipping the script from deficit to appreciation, and a simple practice for actually noticing what you do.
Coach Jane Massengill joins us to talk about the harsh inner voice a lot of us with ADHD live with, and where it actually comes from. She shares a simple practice for noticing that self-talk and starting to loosen its grip.
Your brain is great at counting what you didn’t finish and terrible at noticing what you did. In the Season 32 finale, we trade the scorecard for one quieter skill — and it may be the one that carried the whole season.
You can lose six hours to the thing that grabs you and still can’t make yourself answer a two-line email. Same brain, different room — and this week Pete digs into why that gap says a lot more about your environment than it does about you.
You signed a rule about your own worth before you could even read it — and for the ADHD brain, it got written in permanent ink. This week, we read the fine print and start figuring out how to rewrite it.
“Good enough” can sound like permission or accusation — and ADHD brains often hear both. This week, Pete and Nikki untangle the difference between settling, ending, and finishing on purpose.
What are you waiting for permission to do — and who, exactly, are you waiting on? This week, we look at the permission slips ADHD adults keep stalling on, where the habit comes from, and what it takes to finally write your own.
When you’re depleted, an email isn’t an email — it’s a moral referendum. Pete and Nikki dig into why ADHD fatigue makes every productivity strategy stop working, what the research says about how much harder this hits ADHD brains, and why rest isn’t the opposite of productivity — it’s a condition for it.
“I’ll deal with it later.” We’ve all said it. And somehow, later never quite comes — but the thing on the list never quite leaves, either. Ari Tuckman returns to the show to unpack the quiet energy cost of that one little phrase, and what to do about it.