Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. ADHD Superpowers – A Paramedic’s Rescue Mission with Skylar Duran. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode, we’re joined by Skylar Duran, a paramedic firefighter and technical rescue team member for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

This extraordinary interview highlights how our ADHD traits, often experienced merely as challenges, can become life-saving superpowers.

Skylar recounts his harrowing and remarkable rescue mission during San Diego’s recent flooding events, describing how his ADHD “wiring” may have contributed to his ability to perform during a very stressful situation. 

He’ll also discuss what it was like growing up with ADHD, his experience with learning a musical instrument, and what’s been most helpful from the tips and practices we discuss on this podcast.

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Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

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Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. ADHD Success Story – From Recovery to Prosperity with Lauren Regan This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode, we’re joined by educator and ADHD coach, Lauren Regan. 

We’ll explore her remarkable journey, from growing up in a low-income neighborhood, getting her college degree, going through addiction recovery, getting diagnosed with ADHD later in life, to finally thriving and giving back through her award-winning work at a university and being an ADHD coach.

In this interview Lauren discusses which practices support her in staying balanced, focused, and keeping with her routines, even when life is challenging. 

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Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

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Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Our 10 Year Anniversary! This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

If you can believe it, our little podcast is celebrating it’s 10 Year Anniversary! It’s been a truly remarkable journey connecting with all of you. The community that grew up around this podcast spans the globe.

Today’s episode maps out where we’ve come from and shares a little bit about what’s coming next.

We recently reviewed our statistics and it’s quite unbelievable — our podcast has over 40,000 subscribers and has been downloaded well over 1.7 million times! Wow!

From the book’s inception, to starting the podcast with Bahman in 2015, it all began very organically and was truly a homegrown effort. Our community, however, has been the greatest gift in this entire endeavor.

The goal was to provide an alternative approach to looking at adult ADHD — not as a disorder, but as a very specific neurological type.

To celebrate, we have some truly extraordinary interviews coming up. We’ll be speaking with members of our community who have achieved remarkable results by integrating the topics we discuss on the podcast. These are people from around the world — artists, teachers, emergency responders, ADHD coaches, and more — who have powerful stories to share.

We hope you enjoy this podcast episode, and we’re looking forward to celebrating with you over the next few months.

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Navigating Uncertainty as a Neurodivergent Person. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

Dealing with uncertainty can be immensely triggering — inducing anxiety, challenges with focus, and ultimately distracting us from what actually needs to get done.

Uncertainty can manifest as disturbing world events, family health issues, financial fears, work setbacks… The list goes on and on.

And, our brain does not like uncertainty.

In this episode we’ll explore practical techniques for navigating uncertainty — getting ourselves out of the spin of tunnel vision, into greater emotional regulation, perhaps even finding real well-being in the face of external chaos.

We may not be able to change the external in the moment, but we can fortify our nervous system to be more calm, even in the midst of uncertain outcomes.

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Brainwaves, ADHD, and Biohacking. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode, we’ll do a deep dive into the neuroscience of brainwaves and ADHD.

We’ll cover a vast array of neuroenhancement strategies, from neurofeedback, binaural beats, exercise, nutrition, meditation, breathwork, and much more.

This episode comes with a free PDF cheatsheet displaying each brainwave type, what it feels like to be in it, and the various strategies to attain it.

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Episode photo credit: Pawel Czerwinski

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Life Visioning Exercises: Part 2. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode we’ll cover part 2 of the Life Visioning exercises mapped out in the book The Drummer and the Great Mountain. We’ll continue our discussion on how to approach goal setting from an ADHD-friendly perspective, including some references to rock climbing, Alex Honnold, and Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard’s book “Let My People Go Surfing.”

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

Episode photo credit: Kyle Doll

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Life Visioning Exercises: Part 1. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

Happy 2025!

Taking a bit of time at the beginning of the year to do some Life Visioning work can be extremely fruitful. And, this can be an overwhelming task for many of us. In this episode we’ll cover part 1 of the Life Visioning exercises mapped out in the book The Drummer and the Great Mountain.

We’ll cover:

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Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

Episode photo credit: Stainless Images

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. How to Feel Safe. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

No matter who you are, we all have a very deep and profound desire to feel safe, peaceful, and secure.

In this episode, we’ll discuss how to hack your brain into feeling safe. The anxiety and fear mechanism is ancient, and has kept the human race alive so we could be here in this moment. However, this primal part of our brain, when subjected to the modern world, often detects physical threats where there aren’t any, leading to a constant and low level feeling of anxiety. This can reduce our mental capacity and lead us into distraction, often shrinking our world and masking those positive opportunities that are available to us.

Specifically, we’ll discuss:

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

Episode photo credit: Alexandru Zdrobău

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Why Tracking Works. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode, we’ll discuss why the process of “tracking” is so valuable. This episode also comes with what we’re calling the “Ultimate Tracking Sheet” and how to use it. Specifically, we’ll discuss:

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Top 10 Things I’ve Learned from Life Coaching. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode, I share my top 10 insights from my life coaching practice. Having started as a coach in 2007, I may be able to provide a bit of perspective on what an effective support system can look like. I’ll offer a few insights into what it looks like to work with our particular wiring over the span of many years. What can change? What can’t? Which actions can make the biggest difference in the long run? Specifically, I’ll discuss:

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>> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

Outro voice over by Lauren Regan. 

Intro and outro music by Bahman Sarram

Episode photo credit: Tomas Sobek

For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com