The ADHD Skills Lab
Things are starting to fall through the cracks.
Not because you're not trying, but because the systems everyone recommends weren't built for a brain like yours.
The ADHD Skills Lab is for business owners with ADHD whose responsibilities have grown past simple solutions. Each week, Skye Waterson and guests share research-backed strategies and real-world systems to help you reduce the chaos, make consistent progress, and stop reinventing the wheel every time life gets complex.
No "just use a planner." No productivity hacks that last a week. Just honest, practical support from someone who has spent years researching, testing, and refining what actually works for adult ADHD.
Skye is the founder of Unconventional Organisation, a former academic diagnosed with ADHD during her PhD, and the author of over 50 articles read by more than 250,000 people worldwide. She has worked with senior leaders, business owners, academics, and professionals navigating ADHD in high-responsibility roles, and was invited to share her research with both the Australian and New Zealand Government.
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The ADHD Skills Lab
ADHD Creative Strategies with Andy J Pizza: Hard Does Not Mean Bad
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When creative work gets hard, most people with ADHD assume something’s wrong.
Wrong idea.
Wrong project.
Wrong career.
In this conversation, Andy J. Pizza (author, illustrator, and host of Creative Pep Talk) breaks down the moment his work completely dried up — and why that crisis forced him to stop winging it and start creating strategically.
We talk about perfectionism, rejection sensitivity, creative droughts, collaboration fights, and the uncomfortable shift from “I hope this works” to “I’m building this on purpose.”
This isn’t about hacks or hustle.
It’s about understanding that hard and bad are not the same thing — and sometimes the difficulty is the point.
What We Cover
- Why “hard” is often a sign of growth, not failure
- The shift from exploratory creativity to strategic authorship
- How perfectionism and RSD quietly stall creative output
- Rebuilding after a six-month career drought
- Why collaboration feels like conflict (and why that’s normal)
Connect with Andy: on his website or follow him on Instagram @andyjpizza
P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.