Attention Different | Adulting with ADHD Build an AI Assistant for Your ADHD? with Sharon Pope
Ever wish you had a personal assistant who actually gets your ADHD brain? Sharon Pope built one.
In this episode, Sharon Pope—founder of Shelpful, an AI-powered task manager designed specifically for ADHD, joins Aaron and Stephen to talk about entrepreneurship, automations, and why "stumbling to arrival" is the most honest way to describe the ADHD experience.
Shelpful is an AI task management app built by and for people with ADHD. She's also the co-host of the ADHD Founders podcast (alongside Jesse J. Anderson and Marie Nguyen), where startup founders with ADHD share the messy reality of building companies while navigating their neurodivergent brains.
✨Highlights✨
✔️ How Sharon accidentally built the perfect ADHD tool while trying to help everyone else
✔️ Why "bi-directional empathy" is an ADHD superpower (and how it drives innovation)
✔️ The secret survival strategies we're no longer embarrassed about (hello, online booking)
✔️ Why a messy kitchen is a sign of a delicious meal, and what that means for ADHD life
✔️ Breaking free from shame around the workarounds that actually help you function
✔️ The magic of ADHD conferences: interruptions welcomed and returned
"A messy kitchen is a sign of a delicious meal. It means you did the work. It means you got here somehow." — Sharon Pope
This conversation is equal parts inspiration and validation. Sharon's journey from struggling entrepreneur to trailblazing founder proves that building for your ADHD brain, not against it, is where the magic happens.
Stumble and arrive, because that's exactly how we're doing this thing called life. 💙
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We are Attention DIFFERENT not DEFICIT An advocacy and edutainment podcast centered on radical acceptance and neurodiveristy. Attention Different aims to de-stigmatize and build community by exploring the intricacies of living life and "adulting" with ADHD in the modern world. We periodically feature experts, special guests and influencers in the ADHD community.
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