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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What happens when “pushing through” stops working — and the version of yourself you built around that ability starts to slip away? This week Dr. Kathleen Nadeau joins us to talk about the grief that doesn’t always get named, and what’s possible on the other side of it.
What if forgetting isn’t a failure — it’s just how your brain is designed to work? Dr. Daniella Karidi returns to open our new series on ADHD and aging with a reframe that makes everything else click into place.
You’ve been calling them friends before they’ve earned it — and that’s where the hurt comes from. Caroline Maguire is here to rewrite the whole friendship map.
It’s not the fights that wear a relationship down — it’s the million quiet moments where you keep missing each other. Dr. Dodge Rea returns to explore why shame calcifies faster in ADHD relationships, and what it takes to stay both intact and in touch.
You’ve tried connecting tasks to meaning and designing your environment—but what happens when you’re still stuck? James Ochoa helps us understand what’s really happening beneath the surface when motivation strategies aren’t enough.
When your emotional tank is empty, your ADHD brain doesn’t need a five-step plan—it needs a reset. Join us as we explore why depletion makes emotions harder to manage and share sensory-based strategies that actually work when you can’t regulate yet.
Pete and Nikki kick off the new season by naming the thing nobody wants to put on a vision board: the post-holiday crash.
For our Season 31 finale, DiscordMom Melissa takes over hosting duties and puts us through a no-stakes quiz show filled with nostalgia, chaos, and confessions we absolutely can’t take back. It’s the most fun way possible to close out the season—and maybe the most honest we’ve ever been on-mic.
Motivation doesn’t start with logic — it starts with emotion, and ADHD brains need a different kind of spark to get moving. In this episode, Nikki and Pete explore how emotional planning can help you finally start the tasks you’ve been avoiding.
ADHD doesn’t disappear with age, but it often goes undiagnosed in older generations—showing up as clutter, chaos, and family frustration. Jami Shapiro helps us understand how to support neurodivergent brains through downsizing, retirement, and major life changes.