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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You already know how to tune in to everyone else. Dr. Dodge Rea returns to talk about the much harder skill of staying with yourself while you do it.
You can rest all weekend and still come back empty — and it usually has nothing to do with how many hours you got. This week we get into the four different kinds of recovery, why they can’t substitute for each other, and how to figure out which one your brain is actually asking for.
You know the math doesn’t work, and you still can’t say no. This week, Nikki and Pete get into where the “but I have to” reflex comes from, what it’s protecting, and why disappointing someone today might be the kindest thing on your list.
Shame does its best work in the space between where you are and where you think you should be. Season 33 opens on the gap trap, and on the unimpressive little move that gets you out of it.
“I can’t focus” is too big to fix. Pete and Nikki put on their detective hats to break an ADHD challenge down to the actual roadblock, so you can solve the real problem instead of blaming the whole thing on ADHD.
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.