Most advice about mess assumes it's a discipline problem. Beatrice Tokayer's work starts somewhere else: your nervous system.

Beatrice is an interior designer and founder of Sensorize Your Space. She began adapting her son's environment after his ADHD, sensory processing, and dyslexia diagnoses — and found small design changes did more for his sleep and hyperactivity than she expected.

She and Christine talk through overstimulated versus understimulated brains, why clutter is rarely about being disorganized, and how a "messy zone" can protect the calm of an entire home, plus low-cost ways to think about lighting, color, and layout.

Beatrice's fix is smaller than you'd expect: one zone, ten minutes a day, everything with a home.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:20 Beatrice's path in

04:00 Senses and peace

07:00 Two brain types

09:30 Clutter, not decisions

15:00 Zones for mess

20:00 Movement and outdoors

28:00 Masking as a kid

33:00 Sensory and family

40:00 Home office tips

48:00 Decluttering, not minimalism

58:00 Working with Beatrice

1:05:00 Find Beatrice

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Sensorize Your Space: Website · Instagram

BRT Interior Design: brtinteriordesign.com

Redesign Your Home the ADHD-Friendly Way (course): sensorize.samcart.com/products/redesign-your-home-the-adhd-friendly-way

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Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Lucas LeFevre nearly let a season of quiet discontent talk him into ending his marriage. Instead, he started writing.

Lucas founded Holy Work, a journaling practice for people who feel mentally overwhelmed, emotionally numb, or spiritually disconnected. He tells Christine the story behind it: a breaking point on a run in 2010, an unfiltered letter to his wife, and a daily writing habit that, over years, rebuilt his marriage and his sense of direction. The conversation moves through neuroplasticity, Chip Dodd's framework of eight core feelings, and why self-awareness, the single most important leadership trait, is also one of the hardest to teach.

Lucas's exercise is simple enough to try tonight: fifteen minutes, one minute of silence, ten minutes of unfiltered writing, then two questions about what you wrote. No pressure to get it right the first time.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:25 Who Lucas is

04:00 The letter

07:00 Daily writing habit

11:00 Writing vs. rumination

14:00 Neuroplasticity explained

20:00 External vs. internal

22:00 Anxiety, then and now

25:00 Eight core feelings

33:00 Hardest trait to teach

40:00 Try it yourself

44:00 Find Lucas

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Holy Work: holywork.com

Lucas: Instagram · Holy Work Podcast on Spotify

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Think Time®: Website · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Not everything that looks like ADHD is ADHD. Dr. Joseph Andrews spends his career helping other clinicians tell the difference.

Dr. Andrews is a board-certified psychiatrist and the founder of Collaborating Psychiatrist, where he consults with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other mental health providers on ADHD evaluations.

He and Christine walk through what he calls the hierarchy of the inattentive syndrome: the substances, medical causes, and psychiatric causes to rule out before landing on ADHD as the explanation. You'll hear why cannabis use is one of the most underrecognized causes of attention problems, why undiagnosed sleep apnea can look exactly like ADHD, and why getting the diagnosis wrong, especially with bipolar disorder, can make treatment worse instead of better.

Worth a full listen before your next appointment, especially if a diagnosis has never quite sat right.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:00 More than a checklist

07:00 Hierarchy of causes

09:00 Cannabis and attention

11:00 Sleep apnea

14:00 Vitamins and minerals

20:00 Finding this specialty

26:00 Working with clinicians

29:00 Autism, bipolar, trauma

32:00 Missing bipolar disorder

34:00 Find Dr. Andrews

Listen & connect

Via Clinic (patient care, MD & PA): viaclinic.us

Collaborating Psychiatrist (for clinicians): collaboratingpsychiatrist.com

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Nicole Santiago has one question she asks every parent who calls her: what made you pick up the phone today?

Nicole founded Family ADDventures, working as an advocate, therapist, and coach for neurodivergent kids and families. She and Christine talk parental burnout, structure, and navigating public, private, and homeschool, plus a device that turns "get regulated" into something a nine-year-old can see.

If this named something you've felt but never said, sit with that. You're not failing. You may just be overloaded.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:30 The grandparent question

09:00 Parent's self-work matters

12:00 Structure reduces anxiety

15:00 Burnout and fatigue

20:00 Relationship over outcome

33:00 Seven years in

44:00 Heart-brain coherence

53:00 IEPs and advocacy

1:03:00 The 80/20 rule

1:08:00 What matters most

1:11:00 Find Nicole

Listen & connect

Family ADDventures (book a free strategy call): familyaddventures.com

Family ADDventures website

Give Grace, Reject Shame ebook by Nicole Santiago

Edumatch (school-matching tool): ignitestudentpotential.base44.app

Nicole: Instagram · Facebook · TikTok
Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn
Think Time: Website · Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn
Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Clarity, not hard work. That was the discovery Christine almost missed.

She remembers one night early in motherhood: head on the pillow, not just discouraged, defeated. She'd worked from sunrise to bedtime two days straight and still hadn't touched the things that actually mattered. The obvious conclusion, that she just wasn't a hard worker, didn't hold up. She ruled it out. What she found instead, eventually, was that hard work was never the missing ingredient: clarity was.

In this episode, Christine explains the science behind that shift: the reticular activating system, your brain's built-in filter, and why feeding it a clear image does more than any amount of grit ever could.

If you're moving fast but somehow still stuck, this is worth the full listen. The fix was never more effort. It was seeing more clearly.

Timestamps
00:00 The young mom story
02:00 Hard work wasn't it
04:00 Clarity was missing
06:08 The brain's filter
09:00 Feeding your brain images
11:50 Distractions and decision fatigue
15:00 Fog versus clarity
18:04 Where clarity leads

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This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Cortisol and adrenaline were the only two ingredients Christine knew how to run on for 35 years.

In this episode, Christine and Bekah walk through the full Think Time framework: Dream, Decide, Do, Review, and why the membership calls actually start with review, not dreaming.

They talk about what stress and overwhelm look like when someone first joins, why the process is intentionally shame-free, and how the size of your planning window changes how much time you spend dreaming versus doing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at what a weekly Think Time call is actually like.

That cortisol and adrenaline cocktail is a pattern worth naming for yourself, and the fix Christine points to isn't a life overhaul, just five minutes of review before you plan anything ahead.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:20 Cortisol and adrenaline

02:00 Stress when joining

06:00 Review, not dreaming

09:00 The dream phase

11:30 Decide and agency

14:00 The do phase

17:00 Bigger windows, more dreaming

19:00 Skipping the stages

21:00 What's coming next

Listen & connect

Join the Membership: think-time-u.teachable.com

Join the Membership

10% off a Neuroplanner

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Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Christine still remembers the moment a graduate school professor asked her to stay after class. "Christine, why are you always late?" She didn't have an answer. She'd read every book on time management and organization. She knew what to do. She just couldn't do it, not even at her own wedding, where she showed up with wet nail polish and a latte in hand.

Traditional productivity advice assumes a straight line: wake up early, time block, force the focus. That's not how the ADHD brain works, and pushing harder was never going to be the fix. In this episode, Christine walks through the full NeuroPlanning™ framework she built instead: Love Your Design first, then Dream, Decide, Do, Review. Dream engages your brain's built-in filter, the reticular activating system. Decide is about choosing between good, better, and best, not good and bad. Do means working with your energy and rhythms instead of against them. Review is where gratitude and consistent, honest reflection build real momentum.

You don't need more discipline to make this work. You need a dream, and a structure built around how your brain actually operates.

One simple way to try it tonight: grab a sheet of paper before bed. Dream, decide, do, review. See what shifts.

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome, and the hook

01:30 Always running late

04:00 Cortisol and adrenaline

06:30 Why productivity fails ADHD

08:30 The dream comes first

11:00 Engaging your filter

13:30 Good, better, best

15:30 The do phase

18:00 Review and gratitude

20:00 Knowing vs. doing

22:00 One action step

24:00 Sign-off

Listen & connect

Free training — "Why can't I find a planner that works for me?": think-time.com/podcast/

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Think Time®: Website · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Christine sits down with Bekah, who has used Think Time for almost six years and now coaches the weekly membership calls, to talk about the first layer of the Dream, Decide, Do, Review framework: drawing your dreams. It sounds simple. It also tends to meet resistance before it meets results. They talk about why putting a dream on paper, in color, works differently than just deciding to do something, what it looks like when a dream takes years to draw before it happens, and how to start when you don't yet know what you want.

A dream that's been sitting in the back of your mind for years doesn't need a plan yet, just a pencil and one honest answer to Christine's prompt: if there were no obstacles, what is wild success for you?

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome Bekah

02:14 Dream and draw

04:33 Pen to paper

06:51 Think Time Membership

09:14 The time timer

11:40 Resistance to drawing

14:05 Prescriptive, yet personal

16:16 Open-handed leadership

18:35 Helping buried dreams

20:45 What's coming next

23:12 Sign-off

Listen & connect

Watch. the Free training — "Why can't I find a planner that works for me?"

Join the Membership (Bekah's link): think-time-u.teachable.com

10% off a Neuroplanner (Bekah's link): think-time-live-your-dreams.myshopify.com/discount/bekah

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Eleven years ago, Christine was standing in a messy garage in Dallas with three kids under four and undiagnosed ADHD. What she did next, before organizing anything, changed the entire trajectory of her career.

Instead of diving straight into the mess, she paused and drew what she wanted the garage to look like: shelves, labeled bins, and order to the chaos. For the first time in her life, she finished a complex, multi-step project without getting pulled off course. Nothing else had changed, not her circumstances, not her brain, not her medication. Just the drawing.

In this solo episode, Christine walks through why she thinks this works: images and sensory associations are the first language of the brain. It’s faster and easier to process an image, and using a pause plus creative thinking engages different and deeper circuits of the brain than using words alone, closer to the parts that actually make decisions. Christine believes that many productivity struggles may stem from misaligned planning systems rather than laziness or a lack of discipline.

This is also where NeuroPlanning™ comes from. Love Your Design, then Dream, Decide, Do, Review, built from one Saturday morning and a garage that finally made sense.

Timestamps

Timestamps
00:00 Welcome
02:23 Eleven years ago in Dallas...
04:20 The seminary class that started it
06:40 The garage, finished at last
08:59 Free training
11:24 Visual brain
13:42 Draw, then do
16:07 Not a character flaw
18:31 Visualization research
20:51 Lean into strengths
23:14 How to draw your dreams
25:37 Think Time is born
28:00 Sign-off

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Free training — "Why can't I find a planner that works for me?": think-time.com/podcast/

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube · Amazon Music · Deezer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

If you're a brilliant, creative leader with ADHD who knows you're made for more—and you're looking for a way to unlock that potential without sacrificing your peace—this podcast is for you.

You don't need another productivity hack.

You need a holistic planning system that works with your brain instead of against it.

Hosted by Christine Howe—licensed professional counselor, creator of NeuroPlanning™, founder of Think Time®, and designer of the first Whole-Brain Neuroplanning™—this podcast helps visionary leaders harness the strengths of the ADHD mind to build extraordinary lives with peace, not pressure.

Each week, Christine combines neuroscience, psychology, leadership, creativity, and practical planning strategies through conversations with leading experts and thought-provoking solo episodes.

You'll learn how to:

• Harness your hyperfocus to work for you instead of against you.
• Design dream routines & rejuvenating rhythms you will love to follow.
• Reduce overwhelm and mental clutter.
• Increase clarity, creativity, and confidence.
• Lead with greater purpose, presence, and peace.

At the heart of every episode is the NeuroPlanning™ Method:

Love Your Design.

Then: Dream. Decide. Do. Review.

This whole-brain framework helps you stop reacting to life and start creating it intentionally.

If you're ready to stop forcing yourself into systems that don't fit and start planning in the native, creative language of your brain, you're in the right place.

Discover how your goal achievement can be faster and easier as you

Take time to Think Time®.

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Think Time®: think-time.com · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

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