The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
Things are starting to fall through the cracks. Not because you're not trying, but because the systems everyone recommends weren't built for a brain like yours.The ADHD Skills Lab is for business owners with ADHD whose responsibilities have grown past simple solutions. Each week, Skye Waterson and guests share research-backed strategies and real-world systems to help you reduce the chaos, make consistent progress, and stop reinventing the wheel every time life gets complex.No "just use a planner." No productivity hacks that last a week. Just honest, practical support from someone who has spent years researching, testing, and refining what actually works for adult ADHD.Skye is the founder of Unconventional Organisation, a former academic diagnosed with ADHD during her PhD, and the author of over 50 articles read by more than 250,000 people worldwide. She has worked with senior leaders, business owners, academics, and professionals navigating ADHD in high-responsibility roles, and was invited to share her research with both the Australian and New Zealand Government. 🤝 In partnership with Understood.org: https://u.org/4boG8QW 🌐 https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/ 📲 https://www.instagram.com/theadhdskillslabpodcast/
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Mar 30, 2026 • 42min
How ADHD Affects Your Nervous System with Jamie Sea.
Jamie Sea, entrepreneur and educator who built and closed two seven-figure businesses, explains how ADHD patterns and nervous system pressure shaped her work life. She discusses feeling trapped by success, why urgency and identity fuel burnout, and how nervous system awareness and subconscious rewiring guided her to close companies and rebuild with more ease.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 32min
ADHD Project Systems That Actually Help
They explore why multi-step work feels harder than single tasks and how hidden complexity overloads working memory. The conversation shows how externalizing planning with simple capture tools and trusted supports makes projects manageable. They cover practical breakdown steps, parking systems that reduce false urgency, and how assistants can hold project structure so founders can focus on execution.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 48min
Why ADHD Brains Struggle With Projects
They unpack why multi-step projects feel harder than single tasks for ADHD brains. Research on working memory, inhibition, and planning gets explained through classic tower planning tasks. They explore how unstructured complexity and sequencing demands create cognitive friction. Practical ideas highlight using external systems and breaking projects into sequenced daily steps.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 38min
Why ADHD Brains Rebel Against To-Do Lists (And What Works Instead) with Kyle Vamvouris
Kyle Vamvouris, founder of SalesThread and builder of 87 B2B sales teams, shares how he rethinks productivity for ADHD minds. He favors empty calendar space, sandbox days, rapid experimentation, and AI agents over rigid to-do lists. Conversation covers AI in sales, managing hallucinations, and using iteration and curiosity as strategic advantages.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 29min
How to Train ADHD Teams So They Actually Remember
They unpack why ADHD brains often fail at encoding new information and why boredom sabotages memory. They explain testing-style training and spaced repetition as ways to embed procedures. Practical examples cover sales scripts, SOPs, flashcards, and onboarding. They share rules for designing recalls, managing phones, and making learning multisensory and engaging.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 25min
Why ADHD Brains Forget What They Just Learned
They unpack research on why information often fails to stick for adults with ADHD. They compare learning techniques and highlight that practice testing and spaced study beat rereading. They explore why the encoding stage frequently breaks down and why verbal info can be harder than visual. They also cover how medication interacts with learning and the value of repeated recalls.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 34min
Taki Moore on ADHD: The Brain Behind a Billion-Dollar Results Business
Taki Moore, business coach who helped coaches create over $1B in client results, shares discovering ADHD in his late 40s and how a single medication moment made his mind ‘library quiet’. He talks about redesigning his business to match his brain, using systems and teammates to manage bursts and crashes, and leaning into strengths like creativity, pattern recognition, and presence.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 33min
ADHD Visual Overload: Systems That Actually Help
They explore how visual clutter and changing interfaces quietly drain focus and derail systems. They explain object recognition memory and why multi‑click tools cause people with ADHD to stop using software. Practical fixes include simpler interfaces, single‑page dashboards, spaced learning, hands‑on practice, and nesting navigation to keep tasks visible and reduce friction.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 15min
Why Software Updates Feel Harder With ADHD
They break down research on object recognition memory and why icons, folders, and layouts can suddenly feel unusable. They describe how visual complexity and UI changes create cognitive friction for ADHD brains. They cover study methods, results showing moderate recognition difficulties in young people, and how AI and interface design might lower the recognition load.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 43min
ADHD Creative Strategies with Andy J Pizza: Hard Does Not Mean Bad
Andy J. Pizza, author, illustrator, and Creative Pep Talk creator, shares his shift from winging it to building creativity on purpose. He talks about overcoming creative droughts, battling perfectionism and rejection sensitivity, using tiny daily practices, and turning collaboration friction into clearer roles. He reframes difficulty as growth, not failure.
