Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with Adult ADHD

David A Greenwood
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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADHD is a podcast for busy professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders navigating the challenges of adult ADHD. Hosted by David Greenwood, entrepreneur, former corporate executive, author, and fellow adult with ADHD, the show explores how to succeed at work, build a business, lead people, and enjoy a more fulfilling life while working with an ADHD brain. If you're an adult with ADHD who struggles with time management, energy, executive functioning, procrastination, prioritization, focus, organization, or burnout, you'll find practical strategies and honest conversations to help you work through those challenges. Each week, David brings together ADHD experts, successful entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, and other professionals to discuss the real-world challenges of ADHD in business and the workplace. Topics covered on Overcoming Distractions include: • ADHD at Work: Managing workloads, deadlines, distractions, interruptions, and competing priorities. • ADHD Executive Functioning: Improving time management, organization, planning, task initiation, and follow-through. • ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Building systems, managing finances, delegating, making decisions, and running a business with ADHD. • ADHD Leadership: Leading teams, leveraging strengths, improving communication, and navigating executive responsibilities. • ADHD and Burnout: Managing stress, emotional regulation, overcommitment, and the demands of a busy professional life. • Thriving with Adult ADHD: Building self-awareness, confidence, better habits, and a professional and personal life that works with your brain. David draws on decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience, along with his own experience navigating life and business with ADHD. This isn't about becoming someone you're not or trying to force your brain to work like everyone else's. It's about understanding your ADHD, building practical systems, leveraging your strengths, and finding ways to work with less stress and more fulfillment. Whether you're an entrepreneur, business owner, executive, manager, or busy professional with adult ADHD, Overcoming Distractions offers practical advice and real-world perspectives to help you thrive.

  1. Oct 23

    Your Stress, Your ADHD, Your Kids: Why Nervous System Regulation Matters

    In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave talks with Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge and discusses the critical role of nervous system regulation in managing ADHD, stress, and parenting. She shares practical techniques for calming the nervous system, the impact of dysregulation on performance and relationships, and how to implement micro-moments of regulation for a healthier, more focused life. If you are a busy professional with ADHD and also a parent, you'll learn practical advice for managing stress of being in business and a parent at the same time. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min  Dave and Dr. Rosanne discuss:  Nervous system and stress response Impact of dysregulation on performance and relationships Techniques for micro-moments of regulation The science behind stress and regulation Parenting with regulation in mind The role of self-love and repair in emotional health How stress affects children and family dynamics Strategies for daily regulation practices Find out more about Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge: The Dysregulation Insider - www.drroseann.com/newsletter The Dysregulated Kid - Order NOW - www.drroseann.com/dysregulatedkid

  2. Oct 16

    The Price of Being the Person Who Always Gets It Done

    What if the very reliability that built your success is the same thing burning you out? Dave addresses a common dilemma for high-achieving adults, leaders, and entrepreneurs with ADHD. Being the reliable person who always delivers, but at the cost of personal energy, priorities, and peace of mind. While relying on urgency and effort can produce results, it is often unsustainable over the long term. Key Discussion Points: The Hidden Costs of Reliability: Overextending yourself drains strategic focus, pushes personal priorities aside, hides internal mental overload behind external success, and ties personal identity to being indispensable. Why ADHDers Get Caught in the Cycle: Factors like relying on urgency for momentum, struggling to assess capacity, seeking immediate rewards from solving problems, and serving as the default organizational safety net drive this pattern. What busy professionals with ADHD can do to take their time and energy back! How to stop being the person who does everything. But still be a reliable leader. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min

  3. Oct 10

    The Hidden Mind-Body ADHD Connection-Is Your Posture Hijacking Your Focus?

    How can shifting your physical movement and regulating your nervous system unlock greater focus, emotional calm, and clarity for busy professionals with ADHD? In this episode of Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with Adult ADHD,  Dave welcomes Beverly Atkins, founder of Posture, a mobile app featuring guided somatic audio lessons based on the Feldenkrais Method. Together, they explore how ADHD affects the nervous system and how chronic stress often manifests physically through posture, tension, and pain. Beverly shares her personal journey from corporate burnout and back pain to discovering how guided movement can downregulate a hyperactive nervous system. Beverly and Dave discuss how body-centered awareness can help tame urgency, quiet mental noise, and rewire the brain for long-term clarity. Go to https://www.pauseture.com/ Enter custom code, DAVE30, to receive a 30-day free trial. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min

  4. Oct 5

    ADHD and Workload Management: How to Recognize When You're Working Beyond Your Capacity

    What if the problem isn't that you need to manage your time better. Maybe you're consistently asking yourself to operate beyond your actual capacity? For busy professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs with adult ADHD, it's easy to confuse capability with capacity. You may be capable of taking on another client, meeting another deadline or squeezing one more responsibility into your day. But can you do it and not be exhausted? Dave discusses: What professional capacity really means, including time, energy, attention, cognitive and emotional capacity. Why adults with ADHD can find themselves consistently operating over capacity. How urgency, hyperfocus, overcommitment and difficulty saying no contribute to the problem. Practical ways to create buffers, match work to energy, delegate and establish a capacity ceiling. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min

  5. Sep 25

    Sheer Will: How a Fortune 500 CEO & U.S. Cabinet Secretary Led with Undiagnosed ADHD

    How can a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis reshape our understanding of executive leadership and personal success? In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave interviews Carlos Gutierrez, author of Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path. Gutierrez, the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce and former CEO of the Kellogg Company, shares his journey of rising through corporate and government ranks before receiving an ADHD diagnosis at age 65. The conversation highlights how unaddressed executive skill gaps can be balanced by leveraging personal strengths, intuition, and strategic delegation. Executive Leadership With ADHD Leveraging Core Strengths: Gutierrez discusses utilizing macro-level pattern recognition, public speaking, and rapid decision-making while relying on dedicated team members to manage detail-heavy operations and administrative logistics. The Role of Self-Awareness: The value of identifying personal blind spots, such as procrastination and impulsivity, to avoid ill-fitting tasks and build complementary teams. Channeling Hyperfocus and Drive: How turning high-engagement tasks into sources of deep focus allowed Gutierrez to progress from selling cereal out of a van to leading major organizations. Cultivating Optimism and Reframing Failure: Strategies for leaders with ADHD to celebrate achievements, manage internal stress, and project confidence to their teams despite continuous challenges. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min

  6. Sep 21

    When Everything Feels Urgent: How Adults With ADHD Can Minimize Constant Interruptions

    What if everything doesn't actually need your attention right now…but your ADHD brain is making it feel that way? If you are a business owner with ADHD, busy executive or leader, the challenge isn't knowing how to prioritize; it's that your brain experiences almost everything as urgent simultaneously. In this episode, Dave will explore why immediate demands hijack our focus, the hidden costs of living in perpetual fire-fighting mode, and practical tools to take back control of your workday. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min  ADHD and Urgency in the workplace. Why ADHD Amplifies Urgency: How time blindness, the pull of immediate stimulation, and emotional discomfort trick your brain into treating every task like a top-priority emergency. The High Cost of Urgency Mode: How constant reactivity leads to decision fatigue, endless context switching, burnout, and becoming your company's default "emergency response system." Creating Systems Outside Your Brain: Using structured categories to eliminate the fatigue of making repeated prioritization decisions. Protecting Uninterrupted Focus: Why block-scheduling, boundary-setting, and pre-defining what truly constitutes a "real emergency" are essential for strategic work.

  7. Sep 11

    How to Avoid The ADHD Tax in Your Business-Work With Less Stress and More Fulfillment

    What if the recurring problems in your career or business aren't a sign that you need to work harder, but a sign that you need a better system? For busy professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs with ADHD, constantly remembering, rescuing, reorganizing, and starting over can create an "ADHD tax" in time, energy, money, and mental bandwidth. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min In this episode, Dave explores questions to help you: Identify where you're paying the ADHD tax in your business. Turn recurring problems into simple systems Reduce mental load by externalizing information Automate, delegate, or eliminate unnecessary work Stop relying so heavily on memory Find opportunities for a 1% improvement The goal isn't a perfect system. It's creating a little more ease, control, and space for what matters.

  8. Sep 2

    Brilliant Brains, Hidden Struggles- Decoding ADHD and Hormones for Professional Women

    How does ADHD manifest uniquely in women across their lifespan, and why are so many high-achieving professionals being missed or misdiagnosed? In this episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave talks with Dr. Jolene Brighten, naturopathic endocrinologist, nutrition scientist, and author of "ADHD and Women" to unpack the often-overlooked nuances of neurodivergence in female professionals. Dr. Brighten shares her insights as a late-diagnosed "AuDHDer," explaining how hormonal shifts, cultural expectations, and internalized hyperactivity create distinct challenges for women in business, health, and daily life. **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min Dr. Jolene and Dave Discuss: The Entrepreneurial Advantage: Why ADHD brains excel at creativity and problem-solving, yet often struggle within rigid corporate structures. The Diagnosis Gap: How up to 75% of women reach adulthood undiagnosed, often receiving their diagnosis during perimenopause when changing hormones amplify symptoms. Hormones & Executive Function: The impact of fluctuating estrogen and progesterone across the menstrual cycle, including the connection to premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Masking & Internalized Hyperactivity: Why female ADHD presents as internal restlessness, overthinking, and burnout rather than overt physical hyperactivity. Find Dr. Brighten on her website: https://drbrighten.com/

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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADHD is a podcast for busy professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders navigating the challenges of adult ADHD. Hosted by David Greenwood, entrepreneur, former corporate executive, author, and fellow adult with ADHD, the show explores how to succeed at work, build a business, lead people, and enjoy a more fulfilling life while working with an ADHD brain. If you're an adult with ADHD who struggles with time management, energy, executive functioning, procrastination, prioritization, focus, organization, or burnout, you'll find practical strategies and honest conversations to help you work through those challenges. Each week, David brings together ADHD experts, successful entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, and other professionals to discuss the real-world challenges of ADHD in business and the workplace. Topics covered on Overcoming Distractions include: • ADHD at Work: Managing workloads, deadlines, distractions, interruptions, and competing priorities. • ADHD Executive Functioning: Improving time management, organization, planning, task initiation, and follow-through. • ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Building systems, managing finances, delegating, making decisions, and running a business with ADHD. • ADHD Leadership: Leading teams, leveraging strengths, improving communication, and navigating executive responsibilities. • ADHD and Burnout: Managing stress, emotional regulation, overcommitment, and the demands of a busy professional life. • Thriving with Adult ADHD: Building self-awareness, confidence, better habits, and a professional and personal life that works with your brain. David draws on decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience, along with his own experience navigating life and business with ADHD. This isn't about becoming someone you're not or trying to force your brain to work like everyone else's. It's about understanding your ADHD, building practical systems, leveraging your strengths, and finding ways to work with less stress and more fulfillment. Whether you're an entrepreneur, business owner, executive, manager, or busy professional with adult ADHD, Overcoming Distractions offers practical advice and real-world perspectives to help you thrive.

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