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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Episodes
168 episodes
Why Delegating Feels Emotionally Unsafe for ADHD Entrepreneurs
You hired someone good. The work was fine. You still sent the late-night Slack message, redirected the task, and checked in on something that had already been handled.This episode looks at what the research suggests is actually driving t...
ADHD, Parenting, and the Pressure of Entrepreneurship (With Jessica Shaw)
The school sent her daughter to a desk with her head down because she could not sit still during circle time. That was the moment Jessica stopped waiting for someone else to figure it out.Jessica Shaw is an award-winning journalist whose...
Can Pregnancy Inflammation Influence ADHD in Children? (New Study Breakdown)
Understanding why ADHD happens can feel like chasing a moving target. This study adds a biological angle most people haven't considered.We discuss a prospective study examining whether maternal inflammation during the second trimester is...
The Hidden Cost of ADHD Novelty Seeking (And How to Fix It)
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYou donât have a lack of focus. You have too many ideas pulling it in different directions.This episode builds on Wednesdayâs b...
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The ADHD Habit That Is Silently Killing Your Business
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep switching direction mid-project, and now nothing in your business is fully built.In this episode, we break down ADHD novelty bias and why new id...
Why ADHD Labels Can Hold You Back (with Nir Eyal)
Presented by Understood.orgGetting diagnosed with ADHD explains a lot. Then it starts explaining too much.In this episode, Nir Eyal breaks down what happens after that initial reli...
How Negative Environments Impact Your ADHD Brain(with Brandon Smith)
Presented by Understood.orgBad environments can train ADHD entrepreneurs to second-guess themselves long after they leave those environments behind. Brandon Smith shares how years of stru...
Does Bluey ACTUALLY Have ADHD?
Presented by Understood.orgYou feel seen by something that wasnât meant for you.Skye and Robbie explore whether Bluey reflects ADHD patterns or just captures behaviour accurately....
How To Turn ADHD Into Your Company's Biggest Asset (with Craig Ballantyne)
Presented by Understood.orgYou build a new system, follow it for a few days, then quietly stop using it.Craig Ballantyne has coached high performers across multiple indus...
ADHD Shiny Object Syndrome Is Killing Your Projects
Presented by Understood.orgYou get a new idea and immediately want to drop everything else.This episode builds on Wednesdayâs research around ideation bias in ADHD. The research su...
Why ADHD Brains Overbuild Before Starting
Presented by Understood.orgYou spend weeks building something before anyone ever sees it.Not because it needs to be that big. Because once you start, it keeps expanding until it fe...
Why ADHD Makes You Start Too Many Projects (with Katy Weber)
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep starting new things and abandoning the ones that were working.Katy Weber is the go-to voice behind the Woman and ADHD podcast, reaching millions...
Why ADHD Symptoms Might Not Be Just Genetics
You keep being told ADHD is genetic, but part of you suspects something in your environment is making it worse.In this next episode of the Research Recap Series Skye and Will (Hacking Your ADHD) discuss research on environmental e...
The ADHD Pattern Thatâs Killing Your Business
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep improving the idea instead of finishing the project.In Wednesdayâs breakdown, we showed why ADHD brains prefer ideation and discount future rewa...
Why Your ADHD Brain Has 62 Ideas and ZERO Finished Projects
Presented by Understood.orgYou have a good plan. But your brain keeps pulling you back into new ideas.Skye and Robbie explain why ADHD brains get stuck in ideation.This epis...
How to ACTUALLY Deal With Burnout With ADHD (with Krista Mashore)
Presented by Understood.orgYou built something that works. Now you cannot stop working without everything feeling like it might fall apart.Krista Mashore is a powerhouse in digital...
How To Deal With Deadlines With Your ADHD Brain
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYouâre guessing how long things take.That guess feels reasonable.Itâs just wrong, over and over again.In the last...
Why Your Team Doesnât Trust Your Deadlines (ADHD Time Blindness Explained)
Presented by Understood.orgYou think itâll take two days.Your team knows itâs two weeks.And after a while, they stop saying anything.In this episode, Skye and Robert ...
The Funding You Weren't Told About And ADHD Strategies to Get It (with Kat Weaver)
Presented by Understood.orgYouâre funding everything yourself, and itâs quietly slowing your business down.Not because youâre doing anything wrong, but because youâre relying on th...
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ADHD and Pain Before Diagnosis: What a 700,000-Child Study Found
We usually think of ADHD as behavioral.But what if some of the earliest signals werenât behavioral at all?In this Research Recap, we break down a large population-based study examining pain-related diagnoses in children before...
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Why Nothing Ever Feels Done With ADHD & How To Fix It
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYou approve the direction. Then change everything at the end.Wednesdayâs episode showed why ADHD planning creates late-stage co...
Why ADHD Plans Break When Teams Execute
Presented by Understood.orgThe plan made sense in your head. It falls apart when someone else runs it.This episode looks at research on prospective memory and verbal planning. The ...
Why You Know What To Do But Still Canât Start (with Eric Zimmer)
Presented by Understood.orgYou already know what needs to get done.Itâs not a knowledge problem. Itâs not a lack of ideas.But you still donât start.Instead, you overt...
