Quick Wins for ADHD Moms - Short Episodes, Real Solutions for Burnout and Overwhelm

Jessica Lynn Lewis | The ADHD Mom
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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms For the ADHD mom who keeps trying and still feels behind. You've read the books. You've bought the planners. You know what you're supposed to do, and somehow the chaos is still winning. What if it was never about trying harder? This podcast is for you: the ADHD mom who is smart, capable, and completely overwhelmed anyway. Not because you're doing it wrong. Because nobody designed these systems for your brain. Every episode delivers small shifts backed by real neuroscience and conversations: fast, realistic resets for the moments when your executive function is shot, your mental load is maxed out, and mom life is winning. No complicated frameworks. Just the one small thing that actually moves you forward right now. Short episodes built for your ADHD brain. Listen in the pickup line, doing dishes, or hiding in the bathroom for five minutes of quiet. We're about designing a life that works with your brain and gives you: Permission to do life differently. Practical support for adult women with ADHD, including neurodivergent moms navigating burnout, overwhelm, executive dysfunction, and the invisible weight of doing it all with a brain that works differently than everyone else's. Learn more at theADHDmom.com

  1. 4d ago

    Stop Relying on Your Memory: Practical Productivity for ADHD Brains with Alexis Haselberger

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Memory is not a system. For ADHD brains especially, treating it like one is where things fall apart. Alexis Haselberger is a time management, productivity, and stress reduction coach with ADHD who has taught over 240,000 people to work with their brains instead of against them. Her clients include teams at Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, and Upwork. Her approach was built on a lifetime of figuring out what actually works for brains like ours. In this episode: The quick win: stop relying on memory entirely. Write down everything, every time, no exceptions Why high, medium, and low priority labels are mostly meaningless, and what to do instead The Someday/Maybe list: how to get aspirational ideas out of your head without losing them forever Why task realism (matching your list to your actual available time) changes how you feel at the end of every day How to keep your goals visible so they actually influence your decisions Why ADHD brains need to expect that systems will stop working, and why that is not a failure Good enough is not settling. It is a strategy. Alexis has a practical, honest approach that does not ask you to become a different kind of person. It asks you to build systems around the person you already are. Learn more about the podcast: Follow the ADHD Mom (Jess):  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quickwinsadhdmoms LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalynnlewis/ X: https://x.com/jesslewisvoice YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwinsADHDmoms Website: https://theadhdmom.com/ Resources Mentioned: Find Alexis at alexishaselberger.com and her free distraction action plan for ADHD brains. Website & Social Media: alexishaselberger.comInstagram: @do.more.stress.lessYouTube: youtube.com/c/domorestresslessTikTok: @do.more.stress.lessFacebook: @domorestresslessFree resources: Working Parents Survival Guide | Distraction Action PlanFor more articles and free resources for ADHD moms, visit theadhdmom.com Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  2. Sep 9

    What's Actually Driving Your Child's ADHD Symptoms (It Might Start in the Gut) with Dana Kay

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You've tried the strategies. You've read the books. You've managed the behaviors. And the chaos is still winning. What if the problem isn't the behavior at all? What if it starts somewhere else entirely? Dana Kay is the founder of the ADHD Thrive Institute, a board-certified health and nutrition practitioner, and a mom who watched her five-year-old get prescribed a fourth medication before she decided there had to be another way. Today she walks us through the gut-brain connection, what functional lab testing actually shows about ADHD kids, and the one small rule your whole family can start with today. In this episode: The quick win: the "no naked carb" rule and why blood sugar stability changes everything for ADHD brains Why 95% of serotonin and 50% of dopamine are produced in the gut, not the brain How a compromised gut sends inflammatory signals straight to the frontal lobe, the part responsible for focus, planning, and executive function What functional lab testing looks like for kids (hint: no needles) The "trash can" framework for understanding inflammatory load Why Dana is not anti-medication and why she still advocates for this approach first Dana's son went from daily meltdowns and four medications at age five to thriving at sixteen, off medication for years. More than 1,600 families have been through her method. This conversation will change how you think about what your child's body is trying to tell you. Learn more about the podcast: Follow the ADHD Mom (Jess):  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quickwinsadhdmoms LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalynnlewis/ X: https://x.com/jesslewisvoice YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwinsADHDmoms Website: https://theadhdmom.com/ Resources Mentioned: Find Dana at adhdthriveinstitute.com and on Instagram at @ADHDThriveInstitute For more articles and free resources for ADHD moms, visit theadhdmom.com Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  3. Sep 1

    When Your Brain Feels Like Too Much: A Therapist's Guide to Regulation, Connection, and ADHD with Emily Cox

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? When you are overwhelmed and everything feels abstract and urgent at the same time, what actually helps? The answer is a quick :30 reset. Yes, that’s it. Emily Cox is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with over ten years of experience working with neurodivergent children, teens, and families. She is also neurodivergent herself, which means when she explains what is happening in your brain, she is usually speaking from the inside out. In this episode: The quick win: physically changing your environment when you are overwhelmed, even for thirty seconds, and why it works specifically for neurodivergent brains Why direct eye contact can feel threatening to ADHD kids, and what to do instead when you need to have a real conversation with your child What EMDR actually is, how bilateral stimulation works, and why it can be especially helpful for rewiring the "I'm broken" narrative that builds up over years The window of tolerance: a concrete way to understand when your nervous system has been bumped out of its regulation zone and what brings it back What happens to ADHD teens when the scaffolding disappears and they suddenly have to figure out adult life on their own Emily works with kids as young as five and with young adults navigating the gap between structured school life and the wide open uncertainty of what comes next. Her approach is warm, practical, and refreshingly free of sitting across a couch staring at a stranger. Learn more about the podcast: Follow the ADHD Mom (Jess): Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quickwinsadhdmoms LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalynnlewis/ X: https://x.com/jesslewisvoice YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwinsADHDmoms Website: https://theadhdmom.com/ Resources Mentioned: Find Emily at larkspurtherapy.com Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  4. Aug 25

    Why Good Kids Get Bad Grades (And What Parents of ADHD Kids Need to Know) with Dr. Linda Silbert

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Your child is smart. You know it. But the grades don't show it, and nothing you've tried is working. Dr. Linda Silbert, Ph.D., has spent more than 50 years working with kids who struggle in school, raising an ADHD son of her own, and running Strong Learning Centers in New York. She has seen this story from every angle. And she has some things to say about it. In this conversation, Dr. Linda walks us through what she calls the "three shuns" every ADHD child battles: lack of motivation for non-preferred tasks, disorganization that touches everything including time, and procrastination that can look like laziness but isn't. She talks about why punishing these behaviors doesn't just fail; it actively makes things worse. And she makes the case that the school system itself, designed on an Industrial Revolution factory model, was never built for brains like your kid's. We also get into the difference between ADHD, high anxiety, and auditory processing disorder (and why they're so easy to confuse), how to use metacognition to help your child build confidence, and what Dr. Linda's dream classroom would actually look like. She also shares two books worth knowing: her newly updated "Why Good Kids Get Bad Grades" and Berticus, a hilarious novel written by her son, a TV producer with ADHD, for boys aged 9-11 who won't read anything. (My thirteen-year-old immediately wanted it.) If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe, share it with your friends, and leave a review. It helps other adhd moms find us! Learn more about the podcast: Follow the ADHD Mom (Jess):  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quickwinsadhdmoms LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalynnlewis/ X: https://x.com/jesslewisvoice YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwinsADHDmoms Website: https://theadhdmom.com/ Resources Mentioned: Dr. Linda Silbert Website: StrongLearning.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stronglearningcenter Why Good Kids Get Bad Grades by Dr. Linda Silbert and Alvin Silbert, Ed.D. Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  5. Aug 18

    ADHD-Friendly Nutrition: Design the System, Skip the Shame with Amy Jones

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Most nutrition advice falls apart for ADHD moms because it never accounts for executive function. This episode tackles that gap directly. Amy Jones, a functional nutrition practitioner, ADHD life coach, and former teacher who was diagnosed with ADHD at 45, joins Jess to talk about why food chaos is not a discipline problem. It's a physiology problem. Amy explains how skipping meals or eating inconsistently sets off a chain reaction: blood sugar drops, stress hormones rise, and suddenly you're more reactive, foggier, and closer to a meltdown. She walks through her own go-to move with her son (a cheese stick, seriously) and the simple systems she builds with clients so good nutrition doesn't require six hours of Sunday meal prep. Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  6. Aug 11

    Stop Waiting for the Perfect Monday: Sticky Habits for ADHD Moms with Monica Packer

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You know what habit you want. You just keep waiting for the right conditions to start it. Monday. After the holidays. When things calm down. When you finally feel ready. Monica Packer is a recovering perfectionist, certified habits and identity coach, and host of the top-rated podcast About Progress. She is also a mom of five currently managing a gas leak, a dying car, and three-hour play rehearsals five nights a week... and somehow, her habits are holding. In this episode: The quick win: before deciding what habit you want, identify the time of day you need more support and name how you want to feel during that time; the feeling points you to the right habit. Why the self-help world's approach to habits was designed to make you fail and what consistency actually means. The Do Something List: a yearly practice that has nothing to do with goals and everything to do with remembering who you are. Why bad habits are helpers in disguise, and why shaming yourself out of them does not work. The baseline habit: how to design your habits to flex with your season instead of collapse under it. Monica's book Sticky Habits: A Woman's Guide to Reclaim Happiness, Ditch Perfectionism, and Create Habits That Last is publishing Fall 2026. This episode is the practical companion to everything she teaches. Find Monica at aboutprogress.com and pre-order Sticky Habits at stickyhabitsbook.com. For more articles and free resources for ADHD moms, visit theadhdmom.com. Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  7. Aug 4

    ADHD Perfectionism Isn't What You Think: How to Stop Waiting and Just Start, with Monica Packer

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? You know exactly what you need to do. You just can't make yourself start. Monica Packer knows why -- and it's not what you think. Monica is a recovering perfectionist, habits and identity coach, and host of the top-rated podcast About Progress. She's also a mom of five -- three of them with ADHD -- and a decade into unlearning a version of success that nearly cost her everything. In this episode: The quick win: when a task feels too big, do something to start -- and give yourself permission to stop there The real definition of perfectionism: not tidiness or drive, but placing your identity on your outcomes Why perfectionism can look like overachieving or like doing nothing at all -- and why both are the same trap Shame versus compassion, and why shame is the voice convincing you that you can't change How to start noticing where that harsh inner voice actually came from Monica's book Sticky Habits: A Woman's Guide to Reclaim Happiness, Ditch Perfectionism, and Create Habits That Last is publishing Fall 2026. This is part one of a two-part conversation -- part two gets practical with the habits she built once she understood all of this. Find Monica at aboutprogress.com and pre-order Sticky Habits at stickyhabitsbook.com. Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

  8. Jul 14

    Why Your Child Keeps Running to the Pantry (It's Not About Food) with Kamy Moussavi

    What is your biggest challenge with ADHD? Your child comes home from school and heads straight for the pantry. You tell them to stop. They do it again tomorrow. And the day after that. Kamy Moussavi spent most of his life in that pantry. He grew up overweight, cycled through every diet program his mom could find, and still could not figure out why food had such a hold on him -- even after he became an engineer, ran marathons, and built a startup. The answer turned out to have nothing to do with willpower. Kamy is the founder of Step Together, a family-centered program that helps parents understand what is actually driving their child's relationship with food -- and why changing the home environment, not the child, is where real change begins. In this episode: The quick win: when your child runs to the pantry after school, they are looking for dopamine -- try a hug first and see what happens Why food becomes the default coping mechanism for ADHD brains, and why it makes complete neurological sense The role of alexithymia -- emotional blindness -- in ADHD and how it keeps people stuck in cycles they cannot see Why parents often discover midway through Kamy's program that their child's weight is not actually the core problem The Titanic metaphor: why small shifts in trajectory matter more than dramatic interventions, especially with younger kids How ADHD is the first three letters of addiction -- and what that means for how we protect our kids Every person on Kamy's team has personally struggled with childhood weight. This conversation will change how you see the pantry. Find Kamy at steptogether.us Support the show Loved this episode? Here's your next step. ✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms For the ADHD mom who keeps trying and still feels behind. You've read the books. You've bought the planners. You know what you're supposed to do, and somehow the chaos is still winning. What if it was never about trying harder? This podcast is for you: the ADHD mom who is smart, capable, and completely overwhelmed anyway. Not because you're doing it wrong. Because nobody designed these systems for your brain. Every episode delivers small shifts backed by real neuroscience and conversations: fast, realistic resets for the moments when your executive function is shot, your mental load is maxed out, and mom life is winning. No complicated frameworks. Just the one small thing that actually moves you forward right now. Short episodes built for your ADHD brain. Listen in the pickup line, doing dishes, or hiding in the bathroom for five minutes of quiet. We're about designing a life that works with your brain and gives you: Permission to do life differently. Practical support for adult women with ADHD, including neurodivergent moms navigating burnout, overwhelm, executive dysfunction, and the invisible weight of doing it all with a brain that works differently than everyone else's. Learn more at theADHDmom.com

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