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 500 episodes, millions of downloads, and a vibrant Discord community for listener engagement.
In the second of our series on transitions, we have Pete’s other partner-in-crime, Tommy Metz III, on the show to talk about forces of change, the trouble with transitions, and the launch of season 8 of our spiritual sister podcast, What’s That Smell Presents: All The Feelings.
We’re kicking off our series on transitions — big and small — this week on the ADHD podcast. First up: the pesky micro-transitions that plague us. Whether you struggle with waking up, taking a break for lunch, redirecting frustration when interrupted, this week just might have something for you and your ADHD!
We’re wrapping up our series on games with an exploration of failure, how we learn from it, and how practicing the embrace of failure in gaming, might just help us become more resilient practioners in that game we call life with ADHD.
We’re continuing our series on gaming and ADHD this week. So far, we’ve explored how gaming ignites creativity and can expand perspectives and horizons. But what if we told you there was a game that is designed and build expressly to aid in treatment of attention disorders? Eddie Martucci is CEO of Akili and joins us today to talk about that very game, how it works, and what it just might be able to do for you.
Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design and author of Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure. She’s interested in how games model and reveal ideologies through systems. And, incidentally, she reports she was recently diagnosed with ADHD, which makes her doubly cool in our crowd. She joins us today to talk about games and gaming and neurodiversity.
Chris Legge is a computer tech with a love of photography, game development, and creating things. He’s here with us today to talk about his game, Soft Focuses, a journaling game aimed at simulating the experiences of living as an individual with ADHD.
You (yes, you), are a gamer. You might not think it, but somewhere deep inside you is a playful puzzler playing tag on the playground, making up rules for neighborhood romps, and kicking cans down the street. This week, we’re kicking off a series of conversations on games, and why rekindling that spirit of playfulness in yourself might just be key to unlocking a new perspective on your relationship with ADHD
The results are in! When we kicked off our job series we asked you about your jobs, your red flags, the work you do, and the way you want to do it. Today, we’re going to review those results and see what we can learn from one another about the way work works for each of us.
This week on the show, we’re exploring the artifice of bureaucracy and administrative structures of traditional work, and how it can be difficult to navigate with an ADHD brain, and we have the perfect guest to help us do it: board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author, and musician, Dr. Kourosh Dini.
We’ve spent the last two weeks talking about red flags and deal breakers at work for the ADHD brain, largely fueled by comments from you—listeners and community members. This week, we’re joined by Shell Mendelson, a career coach who helps us to shape a career with ADHD.