The ADHD Skills Lab

You've reread the same paragraph three times and still couldn't tell anyone what it said.
Skye and Robbie return to the DSM-5 for Part 2 of their criteria breakdown, this time on criterion B: difficulty sustaining attention. They work through real examples, rereading pages, checking out of meetings, losing focus on audiobooks even at double speed, and land on why none of it happens during a good movie or video game.
The conversation distinguishes between attention that drifts because a task is boring and attention that locks in because something is stimulating, and why that distinction matters more than effort or discipline. If you've ever wondered why you can sit through eight hours of a game but not eight minutes of a report, this explains the mechanism.
What We Cover:
Why criterion B shows up in reading, meetings, and lectures specifically
Why audiobooks don't solve the problem, even at 2x speed
Why games and gripping movies don't trigger the same drift
The difference between voluntary distraction and involuntary attention loss
Why removing stimulation (a quiet room) often backfires
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You spend years building workarounds for your own brain, then realize you could build your company the same way.
Chris Wang did exactly that.
As co-founder and CEO of Shimmer, an ADHD coaching platform that has delivered more than 90,000 coaching sessions, Chris was diagnosed with ADHD at 28 while building the company. Instead of treating her personal systems and her business systems as separate problems, she applied the same coaching frameworks, structure, automation, and strength-based development directly to how Shimmer operates.
In this conversation, Chris shares what that looked like in practice: what she automated, what stayed human, how she structured fundraising as an ADHD founder, and why she stopped trying to build the company differently than she was learning to manage herself.
Connect With Chris Wang
Chris is on instagram: @adhd.christal and you can learn more about Shimmer at www.shimmer.care
What We Cover
Why Chris applied her ADHD coaching framework to company operations
The automation that removed admin work for coaches
How she decides what should stay human and what should be automated
Her fundraising system for managing outreach, follow-ups, and rejection
Why strength-based delegation changed how her team works
How personal ADHD systems became Shimmer's operating model
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You've read the ADHD criteria a dozen times and still aren't sure if you actually qualify.
Skye and Robbie Waterson and sit down with the DSM-5 itself and read through the inattentive criteria line by line, the same list a clinician would use for an actual diagnosis. They score themselves against each one in real time, and they don't agree on most of them.
The conversation covers why the criteria were written for children and then loosely translated for adults, why "close attention to detail" means something different for someone who triple checks every payment versus someone who doesn't notice errors at all, and why your own family's version of "normal" can hide a pattern you've had your whole life. Skye also explains the difference between primarily inattentive, primarily hyperactive, and combined type, and why subclinical scores still matter even if you never meet the full six-symptom threshold.
If you've ever wondered whether you "really" have ADHD or just relate to some of it, this episode shows you exactly what's being measured and why that question is harder to answer than it sounds.
What We Cover:
The actual nine inattentive criteria from the DSM-5, read directly from the manual
Why the same criterion can apply to one person and not the other, even with shared ADHD
How the criteria shift between children and adults
Why family normal can mask a lifelong pattern
The difference between subclinical and clinical, and why it still matters
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Most productivity advice for ADHD is written for people who just need a nudge. If you have ADHD, you need something more honest than that.
Ari Tuckman holds a PsyD and an MBA, has authored five books on ADHD, and has spent over 40,000 hours in clinical work with adults. He co-chairs the largest ADHD conference in the US and has been quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post.
In this conversation, Ari breaks down what productivity actually means for ADHD brains, why "don't get in trouble" is not a good enough goal, and how business owners can use external structure and the right people to focus on where they add the most value.
Connect With Ari Tuckman:  www.DrAriTuckman.com.
What We Cover
Why simplistic productivity advice fails ADHD adults and what to look for instead
The difference between managing ADHD to survive versus building a life worth having
How to hire an assistant who will act as external executive function, not just a scheduler
The role of reputation-building when ADHD makes consistency hard
Ari's "things lead to things" principle and how it applies to business growth
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Running your business on anxiety feels like productivity. It isn't. It's a system built on urgency, and it burns out fast.
Research suggests that goal-focused interventions can reduce anxiety in adults with ADHD. What they don't appear to do is meaningfully improve executive functioning. Skye and Will break down a Norwegian randomized controlled trial on goal management training, what it found, and why that gap between feeling less anxious and actually getting more done matters for how you run your work.
What We Cover
Why using anxiety as a task manager is a direct path to burnout
What the research found about goal management training and anxiety reduction
Why the study's results showed little change in executive functioning despite structured intervention
The difference between reducing mental load and building systems that improve output
What's missing from most ADHD support frameworks when it comes to actual mechanics
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 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/