The ADHD Skills Lab

Sitting in a parking lot after leaving the bankruptcy attorney's office, $600,000 in debt written off, home gone, Galel Fajardo told himself no one would ever hire him again.
Galel Fajardo is a business coach, digital marketing consultant, and fractional CMO with 23 years of entrepreneurial experience and a Master's in Performance Psychology. He specializes in helping high-performing entrepreneurs, especially those with ADHD, whose businesses look successful from the outside and feel like a prison from the inside. His clients have doubled their revenue, with one scaling from $2.5M to $10.1M in three years, not by working harder, but by building the right structure first. He coaches from the only credential that actually matters: he has lived every problem he teaches.
What he learned through that experience, his ADHD diagnosis, and years of coaching shapes how he thinks about execution, delegation, and the internal stories that stall growth.
This episode covers the specific frameworks Galel uses in his own business and with his clients.
What We Cover:
Why the systems that work in your 20s tend to fail once a business reaches real complexity and what to replace them with
How Galel uses AI as a ruthless critic rather than a yes-machine to pressure-test ideas before committing resources
The structural reason ADHD brains are strong activators but need an external check to finish and execute
Why transparency about ADHD with your team tends to improve delegation rather than undermine authority
How Galel identifies the belief underneath an activation problem and works with clients to shift it
Connect With Galel Fajardo Website: https://www.galel.com
 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 built systems before. You probably built them well. The problem wasn't creating them. The problem was maintaining them once the novelty wore off.
Wednesday's episode explored why ADHD founders often struggle with operational consistency. This episode covers the structural solution.
The systems integrator role sits between the ADHD founder and the rest of the business. It captures ideas, filters priorities, protects the team from constant pivots, and builds the documentation that turns founder insight into repeatable execution.
Skye and Robbie break down the four functions of the role, how it differs from an EA or COO, how it scales as a business grows, and the hiring mistakes that cause founders to recreate the same bottlenecks they're trying to solve.
What We Cover
The four functions of a systems integrator and how they differ from a standard EA or COO role
How raw creative output gets processed through pre-agreed prioritization filters before it reaches the team
Why the role acts as a gravitational buffer against novelty-seeking attention wells pulling the team off course
How the role scales from solopreneur to COO-led team
The three hiring mistakes ADHD founders make when trying to solve the structural problem
 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/

Your business is doing well. Momentum is real, clients are happy, and structure feels like the enemy right now. But if you turn that camera around and look past the founder, you find a stressed team running on broken systems, one sick day away from everything slowing to a stop.
Research on ADHD traits and project management suggests operational effectiveness, specifically goal setting, milestone tracking, and resource allocation, drops measurably when ADHD traits are present. The mediating factor is not inability. It is role stress: the compounding weight of having more tasks than your brain can hold and no clear sense of what matters most.
This episode breaks down what the research found and what it means for ADHD founders building a team. Friday covers the practical response.
What We Cover
Why teammates rated people with higher ADHD traits lower on operational effectiveness, including goal clarity, milestone mapping, and resource allocation
What role stress is and why the research found it significantly mediates the relationship between ADHD and project management performance
Why the disorganization doesn't stay at the founder level. It cascades onto the team below.
How the creative strengths in ADHD are real, and why the research suggests they need a specific kind of support to work
Why entrepreneurship gives ADHD founders a structural option that teachers, nurses, and academics never get
 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 tried the calendars, the timers, the hacks. They work for two weeks and then stop. Jenna Free says that's not a discipline problem. It's a regulation problem.
Jenna is a counselor for ADHD with ADHD, author of The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation, and has worked in-depth with over 1,000 people through her ADHD Regulation Method. Her position is direct: dysregulation is not a fixed trait of the ADHD brain. It is a learned response to a lifetime of friction. And it is the reason every other system eventually fails.
We cover her three-level regulation framework, why she skips meditation and breathing exercises entirely, how dysregulated beliefs quietly block delegation and visibility in your business, and what physical signs most ADHD business owners have normalized as just a Tuesday.
What We Cover
Why regulation has to come before any other system or tool
The three levels Jenna works on: nervous system, thoughts and beliefs, behavior
Why negative self-talk and urgency feel like they work, and what they actually cost you
How dysregulation shows up as delegation avoidance and RSD in business
The first practical step to start noticing and interrupting dysregulation today
Connect With Jenna Free 
Book Title: THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO ADHD REGULATION: The Secret to Finding Balance, Getting Things Done, and Enjoying

Social Media Links & Show Notes:
TikTok: @adhdwithjennafree ; www.tiktok.com/@adhdwithjennafree
Instagram: @adhdwithjennafree ; www.instagram.com/adhdwithjennafree
Podcast: ADHD with Jenna Free; https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/adhd-with-jenna-free/id1801356817
Website: https://www.adhdwithjennafree.com/

Here is the link for the free PDF I mentioned www.adhdwithjennafree.com/adhdguide
 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/

Why do so many people start ADHD medication... and then quietly stop within a year or two?
In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a systematic literature review examining why over half of all patients discontinue or significantly reduce ADHD medication within 2 to 3 years of starting.
This episode isn't about whether you should take medication.
It's about something more practical: what the data actually found about why people stop, where expert assumptions conflict with what patients reported, and how access barriers, drug holidays, and whether someone chose treatment for themselves all appear to shape long-term adherence.
If you've ever let a refill lapse and told yourself you'd sort it later, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar.
What we cover:
Why over half of patients discontinue ADHD medication within 2 to 3 years, and what the data found as the top reasons
The gap between what experts assumed drove discontinuation and what patients actually reported
How drug holidays, sometimes recommended by doctors, complicated how researchers tracked real adherence
Why access barriers like pharmacy friction, moving states, and losing a prescriber show up as a real factor
What the research suggests about people who sought treatment themselves versus those pushed into it
Want more of Will's work? Go check out HackingYourADHD.com or subscribe to his YouTube channel.
 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/