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Parts of this episode contain discussion about addiction and/or substance abuse. If you or someone you know is dealing with addiction or substance abuse, there is help: Substance Abuse National Helpline 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

How’s your phone? Good? You might just have it in your hand right now, right? Well, if you’re in the camp that feels your phone behavior is getting in the way of, you know, living your life, the community comes to the rescue today.

Along the way, Pete has a bit of a rant on using the word "Addiction" when describing our use of technology. Yes, he feels strongly about it. No, he's not an Addiction expert. But he does have some people who are experts who are as frustrated as he is about the use of the word. Our collective hope today, though, is that you hear a different perspective that might give you a new lens through which to view your own use of technology without reducing your agency when it comes to getting it under control.

Special thanks to Matt Raekelboom for giving us permission to use the audio from one of his TikTok videos in this week's show. You can check out our last episode with Matt here, and if you don't have a social media issue you're trying to get under control, visit his Insta here.

Links & Notes

• The Social Dilemma
• Reeder
• What is RSS?
• One Sec App
• News Feed Eradicator
• Amazon Kindle
• Day One Journal

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Is this the year to work harder, get tougher, and go further? Maybe, for you, it is. We’re not here to judge. But if you’ve struggled with traditional resolutions and using the new year momentum to make significant change in your life, then we’re here to present an alternative. 

Emily Ladau shared her perspective on FUN goals as an alternative to SMART goals on Mastodon (link) pointing to her full piece on WaPo. How well does her perspective as a disability rights advocate translate to the neurodiverse? Turns out... pretty well. Listen in and see for yourself! 

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Not everyone is a cook, but we all deal with food at some point or another. And if you’re frustrated with how your ADHD brain functions when it runs headlong into meal planning, this week’s episode is for you. 

We talk about the importance of the recipe reset and the power of cleaning out the system in favor of meals you actually eat. We talk about how important it is to think of meal planning as the organizing system that it is. Plus, we offer a few new apps that might meet your needs for organizing and scheduling your mealtime fun!

Links & Notes

• Download the TCA Meal Planning PDF
• Plan to Eat
• Mela (iOS, iPadOS, macOS)
• Paprika Recipe Manager (iOS, macOS, Android, Windows)

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Discord Mom Melissa Bacheler is here! And she brings a ... what's that? A GAME SHOW pitting Pete and Nikki against one another to the bitter end? Plus questions from listeners about focus and tab overload and what we would do at the end of the world! Join us for our very last episode of 2022!

Along the way, we answer YOUR questions: what’s the value of coaching for ADHD? What do you do when your tabs are overloading your browsers? What do you do if the electrical grid fails? How do you focus at work? How do you overcome test stress in college? What does it take to settle on task AND project management tools? CAKE OR PIE?? These are huge questions that merit serious reflection and we’re taking them on today. 

Thanks to TextExpander for once again sponsoring this show!

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Ok, let's get this out of the way: We're big fans of You Need a Budget. Like, huge fans. Massive, life-changing kind of product fans. So you can imagine that we're a bit beside ourselves this week.

See, for someone who has had struggles with money in the past, discovering a tool that has the capacity to rewire your brain around budgeting and spending is a pretty big deal™. That's YNAB, a budgeting tool like no other. Even better, while the team had not intention to make a budgeting tool that can work for folks with ADHD brains, for a lot of us, they did just that.

Jesse Mecham is the Founder of YNAB and personal finance expert. He hosts the You Need A Budget Podcast, the Beginning Balance Podcast and is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of the book of the same name, You Need A Budget. The Smart Money Mama herself, Chelsea Brennan, introduced us to YNAB in 2020 and the tool quickly landed at the top of our list of favorite, life-changing services, so Jesse is here not only as a budgeting guy we think you might like to meet, but because we are legit fans.

YNAB isn't a sponsor of this show, but we encourage you to visit right away and sign up for their 34-day free trial and see how it works for you.

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David DeWitt is a Certified Financial Planner living with ADHD and joins us today to walk through some of the challenges of building — and sticking to — a holiday budget with ADHD.

But that's not really the whole story. David takes us on a tour down history lane. It's a tour that starts — and ends, actually — with the concepts around envelope budgeting, a classic in the budgeting universe that focuses on categories and cash. Well, we're note using cash anymore, but the idea of building your budget in a way that allows you to track what you spend, when you spend it, and keep your credit intact is central to budgeting for the ADHD brain.

And that helps us to figure out where our impulsivity is taking hold, where it might not be healthy, and where it might be costing us a bunch of money. And when is that important? When our patented hyper-generosity is on edge: The holidays.

• DeWitt Capital Management
• ADHD Money Talk with David DeWitt
• 'The ugly truth behind your fancy rewards credit card' — Emily Stewart, Vox

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This week, in our third episode of our Techvember series, we're revisiting picks from digital episodes of the past. We started last week with email, followed up with work apps and tools, and now we're going home with a review of past recommendations for apps and gear that will automate your home and get you into shape!

We didn't take on these picks in this particular order, but this should be everything we dropped in the conversation this week!

• A few old Smart Home tools: 
  • SmartThings by Samsung
  • AT&T Digital Life - Wemo smart plugs, switches, and dimmers by Belkin
  • Google Nest
  • Smart Garage Doors by Smart Home
  • Kēvo Smart Lock by Kwikset
  • Wi-Fi Smart Lock by August 
• Apple Home App
• Zigbee
• Z-Wave
• Introducing Matter
• Phillips Hue
• Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium

Health & Fitness

• Lose It app (Pete and Nikki rec)
• Apple Health
• Withings wireless scale
• Day One app
• The Mindfulness Bell
• Productive
• Coach.me
• Runtastic
• Runkeeper
• Zombies, Run!
• MyFitnessPal
• LoseIt!

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This week, in our second episode of our Techvember series, we're revisiting picks from digital episodes of the past. We started last week with email, so of course we have to follow up a bit on that. From there, though, we dig straight into recommendations around work.

We didn't take on these picks in this particular order, but this should be everything we dropped in the conversation this week!

• Email Followup
  • Susanne's recommendations on Gmail Filters
• Email Clients
  • Gmail
    • Gmail Search Operators
    • Yahoo! search operators
  • Spark Mail
  • Edison Mail
  • Airmail
  • Mailbird
  • Hey.com
  • Outlook by Microsoft
  • The Email Purge (Members Only — Patreon Member Posts Link)
  • Zoom Mail and Calendar
• Todo & Time
  • Fantastical & CardHop
  • Things 3
  • Omnifocus
  • Todoist
  • Rescue Time
  • Time Sink
  • Timing
  • Timery
  • Toggl
• Files
  • Hazel (macOS)
  • File Juggler (Windows)
• Notes
  • Obsidian
  • DEVONThink
  • Evernote
  • Notability
  • GoodNotes
  • Apple Pencil/iPad
  • Pencil by FiftyThree (Now available as Paper and Paste)
    • FiftyThree bought by WeTransfer in 2018
      • Paper
      • Paste
• Text Manipulation
  • TextExpander
  • PhraseExpander
  • Phrase Express
  • Breevy
  • aText
  • Typinator
  • Typeit4Me
• Launchers
  • Alfred
  • Raycast
  • Launchbar
  • Keypirinha
• Sharpening the ol' Saw 
  • Lumosity
  • Alto’s Adventure
• Pete's Professional Lineup
  • Logic Pro Studio
  • Final Cut
  • Audio Hijack
  • Loopback
  • Opal C1 4k Webcam
    • Backup: Logitech Brio Ultra HD
• Pete's Menubar Lineup
  • Fantastical with Next Appointment
  • Cardhop
  • Cleanshot X
  • Magnet window manager
  • Express VPN
  • Dropbox
  • SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba “Superior Sound Control for Mac
  • Bartender: To organize apps running in the background in the menubar
  • Alfred
  • Pastebot
  • Hazel
  • Rocket MacOS: slack-style emoji-picker across the whole system
  • Backblaze
  • CleanMyMac
  • SetApp
  • Script Menu
  • TextExpander
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Accessibility Shortcuts
  • Todoist
  • 1Password
  • Raycast
  • Stage Manager
  • Toggle
  • Parcel MacOS

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We haven't talked about email specifically in a while, but we've heard you talking about it plenty. It's still an issue that causes overwhelm and stress — whether you have what you see as too many email messages in your inboxes, or you just don't have a strategy for managing work outside of your email client. This week on the show, we're taking on email for 2022, how it stacks up with other work management tools, Inbox Zero, GTD™, email bankruptcy and more. Along the way, we mention Gmail, Outlook, Spark Mail, Todoist, and DEVONThink, but none of these are specific endorsements — the most important thing we can offer in this show is a set of suggestions for helping you to hopefully see email in a new way, reduce stress, and get back to life.

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Our ADHD can feel like a weight on our backs. But what happens to you when you stop, take stock, and celebrate what is going right?

This week on the show, TCA Coach Lynn Warner joins us to discuss celebrating our Wins with ADHD. But it's not just about knowing that cakes come on birthdays. Today's lessons are about retuning your brain, training yourself to see the wins around you — big and small — and finding ways to reward yourself appropriately. This means learning new language, and seeing the world with fresh, more positive eyes.

Learn more about Lynn at TCA.

As a bit of follow-up this week, we answer a few listener questions that were originally addressed to dietitian Nicole DeMasi Malcher. Listen to the show for details, but here's the handy list of snacks we reference on the show. Thanks Nicole!

1. peanut butter sandwich or any sandwich with meat - choosing whole wheat bread will help to keep you fuller longer
2. yogurt or cottage cheese & fruit
3. pita/bread and hummus
4. tuna & crackers
5. protein bar
6. deli meat roll-ups
7. dates and peanut butter
8. roasted edamame or chickpeas
9. smoothie made with both fruit + protein
10. leftovers! (just not leftover chips!)

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