Work Life Balance for Speech Pathologists: Mindful Time Management Tips for Therapists, Clinicians, & Private Practice Owners

Theresa Harp
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A podcast about coaching strategies and time management tips for busy SLPs, PTs, OTs, therapists, and private practice owners who want to feel successful in their personal and professional life at the same time. Let's take back control of your time! 

  1. 4d ago

    171. The ADHD Planning Trap: How to Stop Preparing and Start Taking Action

    Planning can look productive while quietly keeping you from the work that moves your business forward. If you’re great at researching, organizing, and planning, but struggle with implementing, you’re not alone. In this episode, I explain why planning can be especially rewarding for an ADHD brain, how to tell whether or not it’s helping, and what to do when it’s keeping you stuck. Stay till the end for three practical questions that can help you stop circling the task, clarify what matters, and take action. What You'll Learn: The sneaky reasons why research and planning often feel easier than implementationThe difference between useful planning and planning that keeps you stuckHow repeatedly reconsidering decisions drains your time and mental energyA simple way to distinguish spending time from investing itThree questions to help you create a solid plan and follow through with itResources Mentioned Facebook GroupREGISTER NOW! The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less OverwhelmedIf you want help creating a business rhythm that makes the important work easier to see, start, and follow through on, book a free consult here. 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  2. Oct 1

    BONUS: The ADHD Strategy Helping Me Build This Webinar (and How It Could Backfire)

    Finding a way to work with your ADHD brain can make business tasks SO much easier, but even a strategy that leverages your strengths can fall apart if it doesn’t support the executive-function challenges that come with it. In this bonus mini-sode, I’m giving you a behind-the-scenes peek into how I created my upcoming live webinar The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed using the exact methods I’m going to be teaching in the webinar itself. This episode promises to be very meta, slightly nerdy, and super helpful. What You'll Learn: Why a strategy that fits your brain can still create a new problemThe difference between capturing an idea and actually using itHow a visible return path supports working memoryA simple way to make it easier to re-enter unfinished workThe question to ask when choosing an ADHD-friendly strategyIf you want help creating business systems that work with your brain without leaving your best ideas buried in a voice-memo graveyard, book a free consult here. Resources Mentioned The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  3. Sep 29

    170. When Life Interrupts Your Business: How to Pause, Pivot, and Restart With ADHD

    Unexpected time away from your business can create more than a scheduling problem. When you have ADHD, stepping away can make it harder to remember your business goals, remember where you left off, figure out where to restart, and resist the urge to cram five days of work into the day and a half you actually have. In this episode, I’m sharing the ADHD-friendly business rhythm that helped me step away without losing track of my business—or returning convinced I had to catch up on everything at once. You’ll learn how to get your priorities out of your head, decide what matters most with the time and energy you actually have, and return to the work that moves your coaching business forward. What You'll Learn: Why an unexpected interruption can strain multiple executive functioning skills at onceHow keeping your priorities visible reduces working-memory demands while you’re awayThe question to ask when you have less time and capacity than the original plan requiredWhy your most important work can be the easiest work to avoidHow to create a clearer, less overwhelming place to restartIf you want help building a business rhythm that makes it easier to pause, pivot, and find your way back without treating the interruption like a failure, book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu Resources Mentioned 157. Scheduling Curveballs (Without the Mom Guilt)158. Rescheduling Isn’t “Just Moving Things”: It’s an Executive Function Nightmare 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  4. Sep 22

    169. When You Don’t Have Time to Fall Apart

    If you've ever tried to push through a hard day by pretending your feelings were not there, this episode is for you. Today I’m talking about how to work with your feelings instead of ignoring them, judging them, or letting them run the whole show. You’ll learn a simple way to pause, name what is actually happening, and choose your next step from a more honest place. What You'll Learn: Why avoiding a feeling usually gives it more power in the backgroundHow ADHD and executive function challenges can make emotional cues easier to missA simple body scan practice to help you notice what you are actually feelingThe difference between pushing through and adjusting your capacity with intentionThree questions to ask when a big emotion is affecting your dayIf you want help building a business, schedule, and support system that works with your real capacity instead of requiring you to shove everything down and “be fine,” book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  5. Sep 15

    168. Not Everything Deserves Your Executive Function: An ADHD-Friendly Filter for What Matters

    When every email, post, household detail, and business decision feels equally important, your brain spends real energy on things that may not actually matter to you. For an ADHD brain, that can mean more decisions, emotional dysregulation, and mental tabs than your day has room for. In this episode, I break down why caring less is not the same as becoming careless and how your core values and needs can help you choose where your attention goes. You’ll leave with a practical exercise for deciding what deserves your capacity and what can be downgraded, simplified, or removed from the list entirely. What You'll Learn: Why every worry, decision, and invisible standard has an executive-function costThe question to ask when something is taking up more brain space than it deservesHow your values and needs can help you separate what matters from what merely affects how you think you’re being perceivedA simple way to create your own “not everything deserves my executive function” listWhat to do when your ADHD brain treats every task like a five-alarm fireIf you want help deciding what deserves your capacity and creating systems that work with your brain, business, and real life, book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu Resources Mentioned How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD — free training: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s_ov8LNsQm-n8V6WmoCjXg The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  6. Sep 9

    BONUS: Why I’m Bringing ADHD Support to Coaches

    If you have ever looked at perfectly reasonable business advice and thought, “Cool, but how exactly am I supposed to make that work in my actual life?” this episode is for you. I’m sharing why I’m talking more directly to coaches with ADHD, and why this work matters to me personally. Before I had the language for ADHD and executive functioning, I thought my struggles were mostly about being a busy mom, running a business, managing a household, and trying to keep all the plates somewhere near the air. In this episode, I’m sharing how understanding executive functioning changed the way I saw my own business, why the usual strategies can stop working when life gets more complex, and why coaches need support that is built for how their brains actually work. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss my upcoming free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  What You'll Learn in Today's Episode: Why traditional business and productivity advice can be hard to apply when ADHD is part of the pictureHow coping strategies can work for a while, until life and business add more complexityThe difference between blaming yourself and understanding the executive functioning breakdownWhy understanding ADHD can help you solve the right problem instead of trying to force the wrong systemWhy this conversation is especially important for coaches who are building businesses while managing their own brains, clients, households, and actual human lives 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  7. Sep 8

    167. When Business Advice Doesn’t Work With Your ADHD Brain

    If you’re a business owner with ADHD and you keep thinking, “I know what I’m supposed to do, so why am I not doing it?” or “I’m following all the strategies from all the experts, but it’s just not working,” I get it. You’re the reason I recorded this episode. I’m talking about why so much traditional business and productivity advice falls apart for ADHD brains, especially when you’re running a business, managing a home, raising a family, and trying not to lose your mind in the process. I’m sharing six questions to help you figure out where the strategy is breaking down and how to make it smaller, more visible, and more realistic for your actual life and your actual brain. What You'll Learn: Why knowing what to do and consistently doing it are not the same thingHow generic advice like “batch your content” or “just time block” can create more shame than follow-throughWhat questions to ask when a strategy keeps not workingHow to lower the decision load so tasks feel easier to startWhy planning for transitions matters just as much as planning the task itself🗓️ If you want help building business strategies that work with your ADHD brain, your real schedule, and the life you actually have (not the neurotypical, Pinterest-esque life you see while scrolling the socials), schedule a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu ‼️ Want to join my upcoming webinar, Build a Coaching Business That Works With Your ADHD Brain on Tuesday, September 15th at 2 PM ET? Add your name to the list and I'll send you the details! Mentioned in This Episode:  Snipd - The Podcast App for Knowledge Seekers 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  8. Sep 1

    166. Before You Decide It’s Not Working

    If you’ve ever tried to make a change in your personal life, your career, or your small business and felt like nothing was actually changing, this episode is for you. I’m talking about why your brain may miss the early signs that something is working, especially when the result you want has not fully shown up yet.  A lot of us are looking for big, in-your-face proof before we trust that something is working, but the early evidence is usually much quieter than that. This episode will help you notice tiny changes that are already happening before you decide it’s not working, start over, or quit altogether.  What You'll Learn: Why “nothing is working” can feel like a fact when it is actually a thoughtHow ADHD and executive functioning challenges can make small changes harder to noticeWhat to ask yourself before you quit, restart, or decide you are bad at consistencyHow to look for evidence that something is beginning to workA simple way to notice small shifts without turning it into a whole new project 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 10/13/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

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