Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

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What's Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast about?

Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright offer support, life management strategies, and time and technology tips, dedicated to anyone looking to take control while living with ADHD.

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Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast episodes:

04.18.2024
Unraveling a Tangled Web: Exploring the Intricate Relationship Between ADHD & OCD
In this episode of The ADHD Podcast, we delve into the complex and often misunderstood connection between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Joined by Dr. Roberto Olivardia, a renowned Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer at Harvard Medical...
04.11.2024
ADHD Comorbidities: The Depression/Anxiety Cocktail with Dr. Michael Felt
This week on the show, we explore the topic of comorbidity with ADHD & Executive Functioning specialist, Dr. Michael Felt. As a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine and a professor at Columbia University, Dr. Felt brings his knowledge...
04.04.2024
Positive & Negative Affect Tolerance with Dr. Dodge Rea
This week, Dr. Dodge Rea rejoins us to explore the concept of Positive Affect Tolerance—the upper limit of how good we allow ourselves to feel before self-sabotage kicks in. Drawing from his integrative approach blending traditional psychology with ancient wisdom,...
03.28.2024
ADHD & the Non-ADHD Partner with Dr. Ari Tuckman
Over the last few weeks, we have been exploring different topics related to our relationships and how we interact with others. Today, we welcome Dr. Ari Tuckman for a conversation about the relationship dynamic with one ADHD partner and one...
03.21.2024
ADHD 600
In this special 600th episode of The ADHD Podcast, Nikki and Pete reflect on the show's 14-year journey. What began as a podcast focused on organization has evolved into a what we hope is a valuable resource for the ADHD...
03.14.2024
The Invisible Tightrope: Navigating Parent/Caregiver-Child Relationships with ADHD
As we explore the intricate dance between parents, caregivers, and their children, the presence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can profoundly influence this delicate balance. Parents with ADHD may find solace in shared struggles with their ADHD children, while...
03.07.2024
ADHD & Empathy with Dr. Tamara Rosier
In this week's episode of The ADHD Podcast, hosts Pete Wright and Nikki Kinzer explore the nuances of empathy for those with ADHD. Their guest, Dr. Tamara Rosier, recently presented on "The Unexpected Downside of Empathy" at the 2023 International...
02.29.2024
Gaslighting & ADHD
The popular 1944 film Gaslight brought the insidious behavior known as "gaslighting" into the public consciousness. But what exactly is gaslighting, and what does it have to do with ADHD? We explore this in today's episode of Taking Control: The...
02.22.2024
ADHD Never Used to Be This Hard
Do you remember when you were young and carefree, coasting through school assignments at the last minute? Or social engagements flowing effortlessly from one to the next? As an adult with ADHD, those days may feel like a distant memory....
02.15.2024
Time Shielding, the Values Calendar, and the Schedule Saboteur
We're eager to please, but at what cost? For people with ADHD, saying yes to requests from others often means sabotaging our own priorities. Urgency provides a dopamine hit; the instructions are clear. Best of all, we aren't fully responsible...
02.08.2024
Everything’s On Fire. Now What?
When everything is on fire, how do you escape the flames? For people with ADHD, overwhelm can consume our days in a blazing mess of forgotten tasks, ignored priorities, and competing demands. Like a wildfire swallowing the horizon, the urgent...
02.01.2024
The ADHD Tax
The ADHD Tax is real—and it's costly. A recent poll found over half of people with ADHD lose over $1000 a year to fees, fines, and forgetfulness. We call them ADHD Taxes: late bill payments, expired food, unpaid subscriptions. Benjamin...
01.25.2024
Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
This week on Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast, Pete and Nikki explore what it means to be uncomfortable and why that's not always a bad thing. The inspiration for this topic came from Melissa reflecting on a step in the...
01.18.2024
The Antidote • A Book Talk Episode!
In "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking," you're introduced to the unconventional notion that the pursuit of happiness might actually lie down a 'negative path.' Oliver Burkeman invites you to consider embracing life's uncertainties and insecurities,...
01.11.2024
Four Thousand ADHD Weeks • A Book Talk Episode!
In his provocative book Four Thousand Weeks, author Oliver Burkeman confronts our culture's obsession with productivity and efficiency. He makes the case that with a limited lifespan of around 4,000 weeks, our pursuit of packed schedules and perfect work-life balance...
01.04.2024
ADHD and Our Mental Models for Making Decisions
It's season 28 and we're kicking it off with a look at how we make decisions. See, we all have models through which we see the choices before us. We decided to start this series with a look at some...
12.14.2023
Falling Back Into Your Systems
We’re having so much fun talking about planning that we’re sticking with it another week! And this time, it’s all about what happens when we fall off the wagon. How do you stand up with courage and strength and admit...
12.07.2023
Habits & Routines Vital to Planning: An ADHD Listener Q&A
We're talking about planning again and we're taking on your questions! Getting started, long-term planning, making transitions, and even AI tools are on deck for this week's show. The big topics:How do you get started planning when you haven't done...
11.30.2023
“Finished, For Now”: Planning, Overwhelm, and Motivation
Pete’s in the hot seat this week as Nikki walks through a listener question of the motivational variety. For reference, here it is: “When we have a plan of quadrant two tasks, important but not urgent, it is impossible...
11.23.2023
Why Planning Systems Fail
On this week’s show, Pete and Nikki break down how to create and implement planning systems that work with the ADHD brain. “There is not a perfect calendar, planner or task manager for ADHD,” notes Nikki. “What matters is that...
11.16.2023
Overcoming Motivation Challenges with ADHD with Dr. Tamara Rosier
In this week's episode of Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast, hosts Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright interview Dr. Tamara Rosier about motivation and ADHD. Dr. Rosier, author of "Your Brain's Not Broken," shares insights from her experiences as an ADHD...
11.09.2023
Creating a Joyful Life with ADHD
Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright aim to explore the meaning of joy, the differences between joy and happiness, and practical ways to cultivate more joy in daily life living with ADHD. This episode dives into the essence of joy,...
11.02.2023
On Optimism and Our ADHD
The world can be a tough place. We know that our ADHD doesn't make that any easier. But our health and well-being depend heavily on the worldview we cultivate in spite of our challenges. This week, we're talking about optimism,...
10.26.2023
Finding Your Community — Inside and Out — with James Ochoa
In this episode, we welcome James Ochoa, a counselor, coach, mentor, and intuitionist who has been helping adults with ADHD for over thirty years. James shares his insights on the importance of community in our ADHD journey and updates us...
10.19.2023
Wrestling “The Avoidance” with Dr. Sharon Saline
The esteemed Hall of Fame ADHD Podcast Guest and dear friend Dr. Sharon Saline graces the show once again! This week: why is it hard for ADHDers to be authentic joiners? Sharon offers her wisdom on the value of community...
10.12.2023
Normal Is ...
We come to you with a pivot today and a follow-up discussion to last week's conversation on ADHD stigma. What is normal? Why is it such a charged word? And what can we do to reprogram the world around normal...
10.05.2023
Fidgets, Function, and ADHD Community with Kody Lukens
Kody Lukens has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15, when he filed his first LLC. Now, he is the creator behind Stimagz - a successful magnetic fidget toy that was funded on Kickstarter. When Kody was first diagnosed...
09.28.2023
“I don’t wanna” is not an ADHD strategy
This week, we delve into the complex issue of emotional dysregulation, a common but often misunderstood symptom of ADHD. Emotional dysregulation refers to an impairment or inability to regulate feelings, which can lead to an overreaction to minor setbacks or...
09.21.2023
A Member Snippet: “How do you help others at transitions when you suck at it?”
We had something of a scheduling snafu this week and our guests didn’t show! Don’t worry, they’ll be back. Bun in the mean time, Nikki and Pete carried on an impromptu AMA-QA show with members in the live chat and...
09.14.2023
Macro-transitions and All The Feelings with Tommy Metz III
Buckle up for an episode packed with laughter, real talk, and maybe just a dash of existential dread. We've roped in our buddy and partner-in-podcasting-crime, Tommy Metz III, who you might recognize from that other awesome show, "What's That Smell...
09.07.2023
Transitions Treats and Dopamine Redirection with ADHD
In this episode, we're shifting gears from our prior focus on games to delve into the world of transitions, particularly from the perspective of individuals with ADHD. The first area we explore is the concept of micro transitions. These are...
08.31.2023
Embracing Failure as a Practice with ADHD
This week we're diving into the Paradox of Failure. It's something game designer Jesper Juul came up with, and it's all about how gamers are weirdly drawn to the very thing we're trying to avoid: failure. Even when a game...
08.24.2023
An Over-the-Counter Video Game for ADHD with Akili CEO Eddie Martucci
We’re continuing our series on gaming and ADHD this week. So far, we’ve explored how gaming ignites creativity and can expand perspectives and horizons. But what if we told you there was a game that is designed and build expressly...
08.17.2023
Decoding the World of Games with Professor Colleen Macklin
Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design and author of Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure. She’s interested in how games model and reveal...
08.10.2023
The ADHD Table Top Role Playing Game Experience with Chris Legge
Chris Legge joins The ADHD Podcast to discuss his tabletop roleplaying game, Soft Focuses. Chris developed Soft Focuses as a journaling game aimed at simulating the experiences of living with ADHD. Players take on the role of someone with ADHD...
08.03.2023
Turning ADHD Daily Life into a Game Worth Playing
Living with ADHD often feels like a losing battle. Our brains desperately need dopamine to stay focused, but no matter how hard we try, there's never enough. Chores pile up, tasks go unfinished, and frustration mounts. But what if we...
06.22.2023
The 2023 ADHD Podcast Job Survey Review
We want to thank all of you who took the time to participate in our 2023 ADHD Job Survey. The 63 responses provided a wealth of insight into your experiences in the workplace. Overall, the results show that while work...
06.15.2023
When ADHD Meets the Artificial Structures of Work with Dr. Kourosh Dini
"Without time, you don't have attention; without attention, you don't have time.” This week on the show, we're exploring the artifice of bureaucracy and administrative structures of traditional work, and how it can be difficult to navigate with an ADHD...
06.08.2023
Shaping the ADHD Career with Shell Mendelson
Shell Mendelson has built her 35-year career in education and career counseling. There are a lot of career counselors, though. What makes Shell indispensable for us today is that she has ADHD herself and has spent that career helping others...
06.01.2023
ADHD Deal Breakers at Work!
This week, we’re continuing our job series and talking about deal breakers — those things that you see or experience in your job or on the job hunt that you simply can’t or won’t tolerate. We asked our listeners to...
05.25.2023
Red Flags in the Workplace
This week's episode we're talking all about red flags and warning signs in a work environment. We dig just a bit into our own stories of past jobs we've had that didn't work out so well, and looking for any...
05.18.2023
Breaking out of the 'What Do You Do?' Box
This week, we explore the age-old question, "What do you do?" and the anxiety that it can cause. What started with Nikki doing her civic duty as a potential member on a jury leads us to discuss how this question...
05.11.2023
Learning to Love Your ADHD Story with James Ochoa
Our friend James Ochoa is back! This week we're talking about the lessons you can learn from inflection points in your ADHD journey. What did you learn? What did you gain? What can come from it? We start with an...
05.04.2023
Embracing the "Yes, And..." Mentality: Overcoming Adversity with Improv Techniques with The Mandcave's Mandy Kaplan and Mandy Fabian
This week, we're exploring the transformative power of the "yes, and..." principle, a cornerstone of improv performance. This simple yet effective phrase encourages performers to not only accept but also expand upon their partners' spontaneous ideas. How can this mindset...
04.27.2023
A Self-Compassion Reflection with Nikki & Pete
We've had a terrific run looking deeply at self-compassion and ADHD over the last month. This week, we're taking a look back and reflecting on lessons learned, changes made, and opportunities ahead. Along the way, we welcome Bryan Brunelle to...
04.20.2023
Stop, Drop, and Rolling With the Punches: Self-Compassion when the World Knocks You Sideways
You have a plan. You have a vision of yourself and your performance. But what happens when plans change, or the world doesn't share your perspective on your own experience? When RSD sets in, your ability to manifest compassion for...
04.13.2023
The ADHD Self-Compassion Challenge for High Achievers with Casey Dixon
Casey Dixon is a respected Life Coach with a unique focus on science-based, innovative, collaborative coaching and advising for high achievers with ADHD or executive function challenges. So, why is Casey back with us during our series discussing self-compassion and...
04.06.2023
Self-Compassion, ADHD, and all the [Difficult] Emotions
We've been talking about ADHD and self-compassion over the last several weeks. But how do these experiences tie into other difficult emotions like anger, fear, worry, anxiety, and grief? Nikki and Pete continue the series on the show this week....
03.30.2023
Wrangling the ADHD Perfectionist with Dr. Sharon Saline
Special thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring this week's show. We've talked about parenting with her. We've talked about therapy and ADHD. But my favorite episode with Dr. Sharon Saline was all about sinking thinking and self-compassion with ADHD. So, you...
03.23.2023
Shame's Greatest Hits: Self-Compassion and ADHD
We're continuing our conversation on self-compassion and ADHD with a walk through the garden of shame. You know that garden, the one with the plants we nourish and carry with us, the blooms we sniff regularly, all laced with the...

What's Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast about?

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Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast episodes:

Unraveling a Tangled Web: Exploring the Intricate Relationship Between ADHD & OCD

ADHD Comorbidities: The Depression/Anxiety Cocktail with Dr. Michael Felt

Positive & Negative Affect Tolerance with Dr. Dodge Rea

ADHD & the Non-ADHD Partner with Dr. Ari Tuckman

ADHD 600

The Invisible Tightrope: Navigating Parent/Caregiver-Child Relationships with ADHD

ADHD & Empathy with Dr. Tamara Rosier

Gaslighting & ADHD

ADHD Never Used to Be This Hard

Time Shielding, the Values Calendar, and the Schedule Saboteur

Everything’s On Fire. Now What?

The ADHD Tax

Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

The Antidote • A Book Talk Episode!

Four Thousand ADHD Weeks • A Book Talk Episode!

ADHD and Our Mental Models for Making Decisions

Falling Back Into Your Systems

Habits & Routines Vital to Planning: An ADHD Listener Q&A

“Finished, For Now”: Planning, Overwhelm, and Motivation

Why Planning Systems Fail

Overcoming Motivation Challenges with ADHD with Dr. Tamara Rosier

Creating a Joyful Life with ADHD

On Optimism and Our ADHD

Finding Your Community — Inside and Out — with James Ochoa

Wrestling “The Avoidance” with Dr. Sharon Saline

Normal Is ...

Fidgets, Function, and ADHD Community with Kody Lukens

“I don’t wanna” is not an ADHD strategy

A Member Snippet: “How do you help others at transitions when you suck at it?”

Macro-transitions and All The Feelings with Tommy Metz III

Transitions Treats and Dopamine Redirection with ADHD

Embracing Failure as a Practice with ADHD

An Over-the-Counter Video Game for ADHD with Akili CEO Eddie Martucci

Decoding the World of Games with Professor Colleen Macklin

The ADHD Table Top Role Playing Game Experience with Chris Legge

Turning ADHD Daily Life into a Game Worth Playing

The 2023 ADHD Podcast Job Survey Review

When ADHD Meets the Artificial Structures of Work with Dr. Kourosh Dini

Shaping the ADHD Career with Shell Mendelson

ADHD Deal Breakers at Work!

Red Flags in the Workplace

Breaking out of the 'What Do You Do?' Box

Learning to Love Your ADHD Story with James Ochoa

Embracing the "Yes, And..." Mentality: Overcoming Adversity with Improv Techniques with The Mandcave's Mandy Kaplan and Mandy Fabian

A Self-Compassion Reflection with Nikki & Pete

Stop, Drop, and Rolling With the Punches: Self-Compassion when the World Knocks You Sideways

The ADHD Self-Compassion Challenge for High Achievers with Casey Dixon

Self-Compassion, ADHD, and all the [Difficult] Emotions

Wrangling the ADHD Perfectionist with Dr. Sharon Saline

Shame's Greatest Hits: Self-Compassion and ADHD