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You built something that works. Now you cannot stop working without everything feeling like it might fall apart.

Krista Mashore is a powerhouse in digital coaching. She built a $70M business after leaving real estate at her peak. She is the gold standard for fast execution and high-output growth, and her systems come directly from managing her own ADHD at scale.

We break down what burnout actually looked like behind the scenes. From selling 150+ homes a year to walking away overnight. Krista explains her “stop, snap, switch” framework, how she manages constant mental noise, and why ADHD makes fast decision-making a real advantage.

You will walk away understanding why success does not remove burnout, and what needs to change if you want to keep growing without breaking yourself.

What We Cover

• Why ADHD high performers push past burnout signals
• The moment she walked away from a $1.8M income
• How “stop, snap, switch” interrupts negative thought loops
• Why fast decision-making works with ADHD
• The real cost of building without systems

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Sorry, I Missed This.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/sorryimissedthisPS!theadhdskillslab

Connect with Krista:

YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KristaMashoreCoaching Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristamashore/ DM Krista the word BOT and she will help you find the real constraint in your business.

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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Presented by Understood.org

You’re guessing how long things take.

That guess feels reasonable.

It’s just wrong, over and over again.

In the last episode, we broke down why ADHD time blindness happens. This one is about what to do about it.

Because the real problem isn’t planning. It’s relying on estimation at all.

In this episode, Skye and Robert walk through how to replace your internal clock with systems that actually hold up in real work:

• why you can’t “get better” at estimating time
• how to use past projects instead of guessing
• how teams quietly adjust for you (and why that creates tension)
• why buffers and “extra time” don’t work
• how to build timelines that don’t collapse halfway through

If you’re tired of missing deadlines you genuinely thought were realistic, this will show you what’s actually going wrong, and what works instead.

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Sorry, I Missed This.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/sorryimissedthisPS!theadhdskillslab

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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You think it’ll take two days.

Your team knows it’s two weeks.

And after a while, they stop saying anything.

In this episode, Skye and Robert break down why ADHD founders consistently underestimate time, not because they’re overconfident or disorganized, but because their perception of time is genuinely off.

They walk through the research behind time blindness and estimation failure, and how this shows up in real businesses:

• why your timelines feel right when you set them
• why your team starts padding estimates (without telling you)
• how this quietly damages trust and reputation
• why this problem gets worse as you scale

If you’ve ever felt like you’re constantly behind - even when you’re trying to be realistic - this will explain why.

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Sorry, I Missed This.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/sorryimissedthisPS!theadhdskillslab

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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You’re funding everything yourself, and it’s quietly slowing your business down.

Not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because you’re relying on the most limited resource you have: your own cash and capacity.

Kat Weaver has helped founders raise over $70M and won 22 out of 23 pitch competitions herself. But her approach isn’t about chasing investors, it’s about using the right kind of money at the right time.

In this episode, she breaks down:

• Why self-funding creates a ceiling most founders don’t notice
• The funding options that actually make sense for service-based businesses
• Why grants are one of the most overlooked (and accessible) starting points
• How to think about money as leverage, not pressure or validation
• And how to follow through on applications without getting stuck or avoiding them

If you’ve ever felt maxed out, stuck at the same level, or like growth depends entirely on you pushing harder, this will probably hit.

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

Connect with Kat:

DM the word “GPT” on Instagram to get Kat’s free capital calculator, designed to help founders determine how much to raise and what type of capital is best for their stage: https://www.instagram.com/iamkatweaver/

Apply to work with us: https://powertopitch.com/apply/

Find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katweaver

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

We usually think of ADHD as behavioral.

But what if some of the earliest signals weren’t behavioral at all?

In this Research Recap, we break down a large population-based study examining pain-related diagnoses in children before they were diagnosed with ADHD.

Researchers looked at over 700,000 medical records to ask a simple question:

Were children later diagnosed with ADHD already showing higher rates of pain-related medical visits?

The association was clear.

The explanation is not.

No fear-based framing.

No causation claims.

No medical advice.

Just what the data actually shows — and what it doesn’t.

What We Cover

• The design of the study and why pre-diagnosis data matters
• 14% higher abdominal pain and 35% higher limb pain diagnoses before ADHD diagnosis
• The difference between experiencing more pain vs requiring more pain management
• Theories around neurodevelopment, neuroinflammation, and altered pain perception
• Why this raises important questions without changing how ADHD is diagnosed

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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You approve the direction. Then change everything at the end.

Wednesday’s episode showed why ADHD planning creates late-stage corrections. This episode shows how to stop that pattern.

Skye and Robbie break down a system built around checkpoints, prototypes, and early feedback. The goal is not better briefs. The goal is catching problems when they’re still cheap to fix.

What We Cover:

• Why late feedback is built into ADHD planning
• The 24–48 hour check-in system
• Concept reviews before real execution starts
• Why midpoint sign-off reduces last-minute changes
• How to stop teams from losing confidence

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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The plan made sense in your head. It falls apart when someone else runs it.

This episode looks at research on prospective memory and verbal planning. The findings suggest ADHD impacts how plans are built, not just remembered.

Skye and Robbie explain why this creates a gap between intention and execution. And why teams end up producing something that feels “close, but not right.”

Friday’s episode will focus on systems that reduce this gap.

What We Cover:

• Why ADHD affects plan formation more than recall
• How missing detail changes execution outcomes
• Why feedback often comes too late
• The role of multi-step planning in team success

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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You already know what needs to get done.

It’s not a knowledge problem. It’s not a lack of ideas.

But you still don’t start.

Instead, you overthink it, wait to feel ready, or tell yourself you’ll do it later, again.

Eric Zimmer is the creator of The One You Feed, an award-winning podcast with 50M+ downloads and 800+ conversations on behavior change. He is the go-to voice on sustainable habit change, and his work shows what actually works when willpower doesn’t.

In this episode, Eric and Skye break down why that gap between knowing and doing is so common with ADHD, and why trying to “think your way into action” usually makes it worse.

They get into:

• why motivation often shows up after you start, not before
• what’s actually happening when you feel resistance to simple tasks
• how to begin when your brain is telling you “not now”
• and a more realistic way to build momentum without relying on willpower

This isn’t about forcing yourself or waiting to feel motivated.

It’s about understanding why starting feels so hard, and what actually helps you move anyway.

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

Connect with Eric: https://www.oneyoufeed.net/ https://www.instagram.com/one_you_feed/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericzimmer/ https://www.youtube.com/@TheOneYouFeedPod How a Little Becomes a Lot (Book Page)

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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You keep setting deadlines and somehow everything still ends up happening at the last minute.

You plan ahead. You move things around. You even set earlier deadlines.

And it still compresses into a final push.

This episode explains why that keeps happening and what to change.

We build on Wednesday’s breakdown of time blindness and show why most deadline strategies fail over time, especially the fake ones you don’t really believe.

Then we walk through how to structure work so urgency shows up earlier, not just at the end.

If your projects keep turning into last minute scrambles, this will give you a way to stop repeating that pattern.

What We Cover:

• Why fake deadlines stop working after a while
• How to create real stakes earlier in a project
• What “no more changes” cutoffs actually do
• How meetings and other people make deadlines feel real

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye. 

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Deadlines exist right up until they don’t.

You can see it on the calendar. You know it’s coming. You’ve even thought about it a few times.

Then suddenly it’s urgent and everything else gets dropped while you scramble to catch up.

This episode explains why that keeps happening.

We break down what research shows about ADHD and time perception, and why this isn’t just poor planning. Future time doesn’t create pressure until it’s right in front of you, so you end up relying on last minute urgency just to get started.

If you’ve ever wondered why you only seem to move when things get critical, and why that keeps messing with your business, your team, or your stress levels, this will make that pattern make a lot more sense and set up the systems we’ll build on Friday.

What We Cover:

• Why deadlines don’t create pressure until they are close
• What research says about ADHD and time perception
• Why last minute urgency becomes the default way to work
• The gap between knowing a deadline and actually feeling it

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

 P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.