Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

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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Aviva Nirenberg has ADHD in the family. Mom of three children with ADHD, and non-ADHD spouse of a husband with ADHD, her coaching career started with the lived experience in helping her family navigate the world while living with ADHD. Now, she's a certified ADHD and Family Coach and is one of our valued coaches here at Take Control ADHD.

This week on the show, Avivia joins us to talk about natural approaches to navigating your ADHD. No, that doesn't mean supplements and such, rather simple, straight-forward re-assessment of how you handle sleep, exercise, and nutrition — and how they work together for your body and brain.

Learn more about Aviva and her coaching with TCA. And, if you're looking for the countertop herb garden, it's Aerogarden, and here's the Amazon link to it.

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Feeling overwhelmed? Let's be honest: Probably. This week we're taking on ADHD overwhelm with coach Ian Wahlert as we deal with unplanned transitions, breaking down big thoughts, avoidance, and shut-down.

But first, we have a little follow-up from last week's show on the question of transitions. Number one, how do medications help when you're thrown by surprise transitions? Does your relationship with your meds, and all that your meds do for you, help to ease transitions — surprise and expected alike?

From there, Ian helps us navigate overwhelm, shame, avoidance, and shut-down, as we lead up to Nikki and Ian's group coaching session on this very subject!

Learn more about Ian here, and check out their group coaching session today!

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Why are transitions so hard with ADHD? Big ones, little ones, rare ones, daily ones, it seems like changing context from one to the next is like running through three feet of mud when everyone else is floating on air.

It might be your big transitions — holidays, vacations, big blocks of time. It might be little transitions — leaving for work, coming home. It might be micro-transitions — going to sleep, waking up. It might even be surprise transitions — transitions you didn't know were coming at all. Whatever the kind of transition you struggle with, you're not alone in that struggle if you're living with ADHD. This week, we're talking all about transitions, and have some tips for you to make your transitions a little bit easier.

Don't forget: It's not too late to check out ADHD Group Coaching and get yourself signed up today!

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James Ochoa is a licensed professional counselor dedicated to treating, understanding and exploring adult ADHD. He lives with ADHD himself and has long demonstrated his introspection and exploration through his work and writing. His book, Focused Forward, gifted us a whole set of new language when we talk about our relationship with ADHD and we’re thrilled he’s back to check in with us today, his SEVENTH appearance on The ADHD Podcast.

And why is he here? Because he’s devoted his work lately on using breathing to interrupt negative patterns. As James tells us, breathing is the only autonomic system in the human body which we can exert direct control over. If we’re not thinking about it, breathing just happens. But if we do think about it, we can speed it up, slow it down, even stop it for a spell. So how do you use it to teach your body some new tricks? We’ll learn from James today!

• Check out James’ Town Hall Series
• James’ Professional Trailblazing: A New Roadmap for Treating Adult ADHD
• Check out Shiny Merch!

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Dr. Lola Day is a busy mother, double-boarded physician, lifestyle strategist, and ADHD-trained life coach for ambitious women. She is a case example for people living with ADHD who want to accomplish more in their lives, tame their hyperfocus, and tune their internal engines.

But she's found that along the way, what she runs into the most with her ADHD clients is a standard of achievement defined by stress and burnout, women dedicated to results at significant cost to their health and well-being.

She believes with the right systems and strategies, all women can live wholesome, healthy, and fulfilled lives without overwhelm and without sacrificing their goals, passion, or family, and she joins us this week to talk about how she channels her work into LollieTasking!

Links & Notes

• LollieTasking
• Connect with Dr. Lola Day on Twitter

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You live with ADHD, so you know what it feels like to be stuck. But what happens when you tell an ADHD coach what you're going through? You get a whole new way to think about moving forward!

It all starts with that feeling of shame and embarrassment that comes under the weight of the tasks you feel you have not completed. That’s how this particular episode started, in fact, a set of conversations Nikki has had recently with clients feeling this same thing. 

To get to the other side of it, we journey through that shame, the language of limiting beliefs, and come out the other side with a change to how we tell the stories of ourselves. 

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