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Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast
Welcome to the Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast. This is the show for you if you’re an adult with ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms and you need help. Do you feel like your symptoms are holding you back from reaching your full potential? Are you frustrated, unmotivated and overwhelmed?
Many people aren’t aware that ADHD coaching is even an option. Perhaps you are newly diagnosed, or not diagnosed, but you check all the boxes and you’re finding it difficult to cope in certain areas of your life. Host, Mande John and ADHD coach, is here to help. Each week, you’ll get solutions and practical advice to navigate ADHD symptoms and live a productive life.
On the podcast, you’ll hear from coaches and clients who share real-world applications, tools, and resources that you can apply to your own life. We can be creatives, entrepreneurs, or multi-passionate people, and not know how to organize our ideas, or even how to take action on them. With Mande John as your guide in the area of ADHD coaching, she’ll show you how to transform your life when you apply the tools to help you be more focused, less overwhelmed, and be a person that commits and stays the course. Are you ready for a life-changing experience? Let’s go!
Episodes
142 episodes
Ep 140: What Does an ADHD Coach Actually Do? What a Coaching Session Looks Like
You know you need to use your calendar. You know breaking big projects into smaller steps helps. You've probably heard a hundred times that routines are good for ADHD.But knowing all of that doesn't mean you're actually doing it. That ga...
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Ep 139: Why Am I So Inconsistent With ADHD? Why You Can Do It One Day and Not the Next
Have you ever gotten a ton done one day, and then a day or two later you couldn't get started on the exact same thing? It's so frustrating, because you know you can do it. You already did it.In this episode, I talk about why performance ...
Ep 138 - ADHD Energy Reset
Coach Mande John got on a coaching call last week feeling mentally and physically exhausted - a high-energy new puppy, big projects in motion, and the sense that everything was taking more out of her than she had to give. She got off that call ...
Ep 137 - How to Get Big Projects Done With ADHD (Without the Overwhelm)
Big projects can feel especially heavy with ADHD — not because you can't do hard things, but because a "big project" usually isn't one task. It's 20 to 100 of them, and a lot of those steps aren't even visible until you've finished the ones bef...
Ep 136 - Do I Have ADHD? Adult ADHD Signs, Symptoms, and When to Get Evaluated
Have you ever read about ADHD and thought, "That's me" - then immediately talked yourself out of it because "doesn't everybody do that sometimes"? This episode is for you.Coach Mande John separates ordinary distraction - the kind driven ...
Ep 135 - Is ADHD Really a Superpower? What Faster Than Normal Gets Right
Is ADHD really a superpower? Coach Mande John has mixed feelings about that word - and this episode explains why.Using Peter Shankman's book Faster Than Normal as a jumping-off point, Mande explores the real strengths that often...
Ep 134 - REBROADCAST How To Create a Great Week
This week's episode is a rebroadcast of a fan-favorite: How to Create a Great Week. Coach Mande revisits her go-to process for ADHD weekly planning — one that goes way beyond typical time management advice.Before diving back in, Mande sh...
Ep 133 - REBROADCAST You Know What to Do, So Why Aren’t You Doing It?
You know exactly what to do. So why aren't you doing it?This gap between what you know and what you do is called the knowing-doing gap. And for those of us with ADHD, it's not just frustrating - it's painful....
Ep 132 - REBROADCAST ADHD Time Management: The System That Finally Worked for Me
🎯 REBROADCAST This important episode is back because it deserves another listen."You cannot fit what's important to you into the cracks of time that you have."In this episode, Mande breaks down her personal time management ...
Ep 131 - The Busy ADHD Brain: How Constant Input Is Stealing Your Focus
You're not short on information. You're buried in it. And if you're a professional or entrepreneur with ADHD, you probably take in information all day long- messages, email, podcasts, saved posts - and it's all useful. That's exactly what makes...
Ep 130 - High-Performing With ADHD: Why Success Still Feels So Hard
Can you handle a massive project with a million moving parts, but still can't answer one simple email for three weeks? You might already be a high performer — and this episode is for you. Coach Mande John speaks directly to AD...
Ep 129 - ADHD Rebuilding Self-Trust with ADHD: How to Come Back After Setbacks
If a goal falls apart and your brain immediately says "see, I knew I couldn't trust myself" — this episode is about breaking that cycle.Coach Mande John explores one of the most painful, least-discussed parts of ADHD: what happens to you...
Ep 128 - Success with ADHD: Why You're Not Failing, You're Just Using the Wrong System
Do you look at your unfinished projects, abandoned systems, and half-followed-through plans as proof that you're falling short of your potential?In this episode, Coach Mande John challenges that story. The problem usually isn't disciplin...
Ep 127 - ADHD and the Someday Trap: Stop Waiting for the Perfect Time
We all have a "someday" list — the things we keep telling ourselves we'll get to once life calms down, once we're more confident, once we finally get our act together. But what if that perfect time never actually comes?In this episode, C...
Ep 126 - Feeling Good for ADHD: Executive Function Meets Mind Management
Today we're talking about Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns — the book that changed my life in my 20s, and one I've gifted over 100 times. It's not just for depression and anxiety; the concepts in it are now central to how I coach people...
Ep 125 - Executive Function Series #10 Goal Sustainability Finish What You Start
Starting goals isn't the problem for ADHD brains — sustaining them is. The excitement fades, life gets busy, and suddenly we're asking ourselves why we can never stay consistent. Sound familiar?In this episode of the executive...
Ep 124 - 6 Things to Stop Saying Today to Feel Better With ADHD
There are six words and phrases that ADHDers use every single day — and they're quietly making your ADHD worse. Not because they're bad words, but because every time you say them, you're reinforcing shame, overwhelm, and limitation without even...
Ep 123 - ADHD Negative Thought Loops and How To Question Them
Does your brain have a story it loves to prove?"I'm behind." "I never finish anything." "I can't stay consistent." "I'm not disciplined."For ADHD brains, these thoughts don't just show up - they collect evidence. Your brain scans ...
Ep 122 - ADHD, Hyperfocus, Procrastination and the Work That Actually Matters
Have you ever been incredibly busy - cleaning, answering emails, reorganizing your to-do list - and still somehow avoided the one thing that mattered most?That's not laziness. That's procrastination wearing a productivity costume....
Ep 121 - ADHD Emotional Regulation: From Spiral to Self-Compassion
Are your feelings so raw lately that even small things feel like the weight of the world? Do you spiral from "this is hard" to "I can't handle my life" in about three seconds? What if the problem isn't that you have too many feelings - it's tha...
Ep 120 - Atomic Habits for ADHD: How to Build Habits That Actually Stick
Are you exhausted from trying to build habits that never stick? Do you know exactly what you should be doing but still struggle to follow through consistently? What if the problem isn't that you lack discipline - it's that traditional habit-bui...
Ep 119: Standards, Not Shame: The ADHD Way to Reach Your Potential
Are you exhausted from the cycle of setting a standard, missing it once, and labeling yourself a failure? Do you push harder in unsustainable ways or quit completely when shame shows up? What if the problem isn't that you lack discipline - it's...
Ep 118: ADHD Productivity When You’re Exhausted - A Better Way
Are you exhausted from trying to keep everything going - even when you have nothing left? Do you push through until you crash, or shut down completely when overwhelmed? What if there's a better way to navigate ADHD productivity when you're runn...
Ep 117: Executive Function Skill #9 Impulse Control
In this eye-opening episode of our executive function series, I reveal the truth about impulse control - and why hitting snooze, interrupting people, or buying things you didn't plan to isn't about willpower or character flaws. Your brain just ...
Ep 116: Meditations for Mortals Explained for ADHD Brains
Have you been putting your life on hold — waiting until things calm down, waiting until you're caught up, waiting until you finally "have it together"? What if the wait is the problem? In this episode, Coach Mande breaks down the most powerful ...