The ADHD Skills Lab
Navigate each day in an ADHD-friendly way – with research-backed strategies, real-life experiences and expert advice. Each week, UO founder Skye Waterson chats with expert guests, reviews the latest ADHD research, takes your questions and offers practical support to help you move past whatever may be holding you back.
Skye Waterson is a former academic turned coach, podcast host, and founder of an international ADHD support service, Unconventional Organisation. After getting a surprise ADHD diagnosis in the first year of her PhD, Skye turned her struggles into research-based strategies. She researched and wrote over 50 articles with a combined readership of 250,000+ and then began her next phase of disseminating these strategies around the world.
After being invited to share her strategies with the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) in 2022, Skye has supported late-diagnosed healthcare professionals, professors, lawyers, reporters, fortune 500 directors, and entrepreneurs. She crafted her vision for Unconventional Organisation after realizing how few personalized ADHD strategies were available for adults following her diagnosis.
The ADHD Skills Lab
ADHD & Finances: More Than Just Impulsivity?!
Impulse spending is a product of more than just ADHD impulsivity, and we’re excited to untangle what that means!
On this week’s episode of The ADHD Skills Lab, we went looking for a research-backed financial decision-making framework—and what we found surprised us! There isn’t as much research on ADHD and financial decision making as we expected, which makes this episode feel even more special.
Curious about what’s inside?
- Discover your financial decision-making style!
- Why impulsive spending might have less to do with ADHD than you think…
- Explore the paradox of ADHD: A blessing or a curse for your career?
Thanks for being here! Until next time,
Sarah Russell (Podcast Producer)
⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode references studies that contain potentially sensitive content regarding financial distress and suicide.
References:
- Financial decision-making in a community sample of adults with and without current symptoms of ADHD
- Paradoxical career strengths and successes of ADHD adults: an evolving narrative
- ADHD, financial distress, and suicide in adulthood: A population study
- Big Five Personality Test
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