Integrating ADHD with Cameron Gott

Your brain isn’t stuck in one gear. It’s constantly moving.

Cameron sketches a plus sign on a piece of paper (or in the sand, if you’re on a beach) and introduces a new tool: thinking and doing across the top, over and under down the side. Four quadrants. Most of us are sure we live in one of them. We don’t. With ADHD, we’re making rounds through all four: overthinking, over-feeling, overdoing, and then underthinking, under-considering, and underdoing. Avoidance counts as doing, too.

The exercise this week is to notice your language. Cameron shares a client who “over rotates” on unfairness, another who’s late for some things but never for others (it comes down to under-considering light cycles), and a mom who overdid it the moment her son left for college. The words we choose show us which quadrant we’re in, in real time.

It’s a tool for orienting to the ADHD dilemma and quieting the inner critic with better data. And if you’re wondering, mindfulness isn’t stillness. It starts with noticing the busy brain.

The metronome has a fourth dimension. Let’s go find it.

You can’t hunt meaning down. It arrives when you’re present enough to receive it, and presence is exactly what ADHD makes hard.

Cameron starts on the paddleboard, where seventeen geese flew straight at him at eye level and split at the last second, close enough that he could hear the rustling of their feathers. Then he asks the question: why do so many of us miss moments like that?

The present can feel like a bead curtain between two rooms, with the past in one and the future in the other. The meaning maker follows us through both. Add a “three-dimensional metronome” of swinging between past and future, thoughts and actions, too much engagement and too little, and it’s no wonder holding still is hard. That isn’t a deficit. It’s a dynamic system constantly overcorrecting.

Cameron offers three moves for the week. Turn annoyance into something you care about before it hardens into grievance and an emotional sinkhole. Question the preloaded content running your decisions (“look competent,” “do more”). Check whether you need to replenish, build, or stretch.

And if your inner critic says you have nothing to pick back up from last week, it’s lying.

Season 2 begins. Ten weeks after the Season 1 finale, Cam is back in the seat and picking up where he left off. This episode looks at why people with ADHD keep setting down what already works while chasing the next thing they think they're missing, and how that search trades aliveness for a quick dopamine bump. Cam shares what meaningful impact felt like at a recent conference for coaches, why reflection and movement matter, and what's changing in Season 2: shorter episodes and one action step each week.

Season One's finale, and it's a milestone: week 10 of the Ten-Week Integration Reset, episode 46, and the close of an entire arc. Cam turns his attention to a concept that's been quietly present the whole season — completion — and the specific way ADHD makes it hard to put things down. Using the image of carrying a picnic potato from one activity to the next until it goes cold, he explores why release, more than achievement, is often the real skill: setting something down not as failure or loss, but as a way to create distance, reflect, and pull the learning forward.

Cam gets personal about the podcast itself as an exercise in this practice — 46 weeks of learning to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end, a real stretch for a mind wired to diverge rather than converge. He shares what's shifted (46 episodes down from 10 hours of prep a week to 2), what hasn't (still not "great" at it, and that's fine), and a hard-won lesson in letting good enough be good enough.

He closes with a reflection on purpose — riffing on a Norman Lear/Aristotle line about happiness as the exercise of your vital abilities — and an invitation: take the next 10 weeks, before Season Two begins October 9th, to notice what you're picking up, what you're ready to set down, and what that says about what actually matters to you.

Season Two returns October 9th.

Week 9, and the Ten-Week Integration Reset is coming in for a landing. Before looking ahead to the finish, Cam turns the lens backward — because for people with ADHD, looking back can go sideways fast: unkind, distorted, inaccurate. This episode is about developing a kinder, more accurate view of the last nine weeks.

Cam names the usual suspects who show up uninvited when we review our own history — the judge, the big-signal hunter, the meaning-maker, and a new addition: the scribe, who quietly reinforces the same tired story ("here we are again, off the rails"). Rather than banishing these characters, Cam suggests giving them a seat at the kids' table, or a spot in the sidecar — acknowledged, but not driving. In their place: discernment instead of judgment, curiosity instead of a verdict, learning more than results.

The episode moves through real reflection — patterns of committing and releasing commitment, the saboteurs that resurface in new disguises, the whispers of a calling that ADHD often obscures. And it closes with an unusually direct question worth sitting with: what's the progress you're not seeing or appreciating, simply because it doesn't look like a big, dramatic win?

Week 8 of the Ten-Week Integration Reset, and Cam is living the material in real time. Facing a full day — training prep, a class to teach, a "command performance," and client sessions — he catches himself reaching for his usual move: clear the deck, focus on one thing, prepare like it's everything. Instead, he tries something different, and names it: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Using his kids' waffle recipe as a guide — specifically the art of folding in egg whites, not too little, not too much — Cam explores what it looks like to integrate our best qualities into a moment rather than compartmentalizing them or leaving them out entirely. He revisits the podcast's original starting point (three intentions, two friends, one hour) and reflects on how much has shifted since week one, even as the core intention holds. There's a meditation here on identity, too: the pull to believe we have to fully transform into someone else — a "Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln" level of preparation — to show up well, when often what's needed is simply presence, listening, and trust in skills already built over decades.

It's an episode about noticing the parts we tend to hold at arm's length, and choosing, instead, to fold them back in.

When ADHD kicks us into stress mode, our focus narrows and we default to the same habitual response — the go-to move that's comfortable, automatic, and usually about 80% effective. But what happens the other 20% of the time, when that single move isn't serving us?

In this episode, Cam explores what it means to develop a "second choice" — not replacing our default response, but building a complementary option alongside it. Using the recurring metaphor of jumping ahead a few comic strip panels and wondering how we got there, he unpacks why it's so hard to trace our own decision-making in the moment, and why outside perspectives (well-meaning as they are) don't always capture what's really happening. Drawing on a story about his son's car-tuning process — sending data back and forth with a specialist to make small, precise adjustments — Cam reframes the work of integration as an iterative practice: noticing one specific habitual response, and asking, simply, "what's another way?"

He closes with an invitation to remember there's a more aware, more resourced version of yourself already available to you — and that recognizing you have a choice at all is the first step toward using it.

Some days the flight plan holds. Most days it doesn't.

In this episode, Cam explores what happens when life — and ADHD — diverts your best intentions: the reroute to Reykjavik, circling back to Sydney, the holding pattern over Dallas, the plane that never leaves the tarmac. More importantly, he explores what those moments are actually trying to tell you.

Drawing on client stories and his own Father's Day "Global Freaker" moment, Cam walks through the practice of looking back without shame — doing a little Columbo-style detective work on your own derailments to spot patterns, reimagine the scenario, and start building a different response for next time.

This episode also shares the concept of "two-factor authentication" of stepping into a new identity: how developing a practice has to come before you can trust a new version of yourself — whether that's the guy who can finally sit by a pond, the woman who discovers people see her as a thought leader, or the coach who learns that "listening partner" is a valid option.

If your ADHD makes it hard to even see your ADHD, this one's for you.

In this episode:

Week five of the 10-Week Integration Reset asks a different kind of question: beyond managing your ADHD, beyond fending off the saboteur — what's quietly pulling you forward?

In this episode, Cam explores the concept of "whispers of a calling" — the subtle signals that serve as deeper wellsprings of motivation and energy. Through client stories, he unpacks how ADHD disrupts our "control surfaces," those micro-adjustments that keep us on course — and how that disruption shows up in unexpected ways, from optimistic over-commitment to jumping straight into solving problems that weren't ours to solve.

But the heart of this episode is about tuning in. When the loud noise quiets down, what do you hear? A picture of the future. A person you feel called to connect with. A place that helps you make sense of the world. Cam shares his own examples — a morning ride near UVA, a mentorship vision taking shape, a draw toward the Chesapeake Bay — as an invitation for you to start noticing what's always been whispering to you.

If you haven't found your purpose yet, this episode reframes the search: start with moments of meaning, moments of connection. Purpose tends to follow.

The moment you step into practice — really step in — something shows up right on cue. Not the saboteurs this time. This week it's the ADHD reveal.

And yes, it's called a party on purpose. This is not a shame spiral or a performance review. It's a reveal — pulling back the curtain and finally seeing, clearly and specifically, how your ADHD is showing up in the doing. Because it never arrives alone. Forgetfulness, distraction, avoidance, emotional reactivity — they travel together, collecting speed like a dirty snowball. One client, a coach herself, put it perfectly: "it's hard for me to pick apart what's going on." That's exactly what this week is for.

Cameron maps the outside — the big signal hijack, the five-more-minutes loop, the avoider-rationalization tag team, the completion cliff — and the inside: the meaning maker, cognitive inflexibility locking into a story, the threshold between intention and action where ADHD does its most effective interference work.

But the most important question isn't which of these are yours. It's how you receive that information when you see it. As evidence for the story you've always told? Or as data you can actually work with?