The Circle of the Panda Podcast

Endee Coaching Collective - Michelle Cates and Gentry Hamrick

JD Ross

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In this episode of the Circle of the Panda podcast, JD sits down with Gentry Hamrick and Michelle Cates, the co‑founders of Endee Coaching Collective, a neurodivergent‑led coaching business serving ADHD and autistic clients and their families. They discuss why traditional therapy alone often isn’t enough, how “in‑the‑moment” situational coaching and body‑doubling can turn everyday challenges—like cleaning a room or getting through a grocery store—into manageable wins, and why working with someone’s brain instead of against it changes everything.

You’ll hear how Gentry’s lifelong ADHD experience and clinical background led to a new business model where clients choose coaches who share similar lived experience, and can even work with more than one coach to cover different needs like daily life skills, micro‑enterprise, job coaching, or athlete‑focused support. They also explain how Endee wraps around the whole family, offers fully virtual global services, and creates a genuinely safe, non‑masking space built on the belief that “your brain is not the problem—we just need better elevators, not more stairs.”