The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
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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.
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S1E176 The Truth About ADHD and Anxiety (And What the Research Actually Says)
P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the…
S1E175 Why ADHD Makes You Chase Bad Ideas (& how to stop it)
You've launched things that seemed solid, only to watch them unravel for reasons that felt obvious afterward. That's not a judgment problem. For ADHD founders, retrospective clarity comes naturally.…
S1E174 How ADHD Pulled This Entrepreneur Out Of $600k Debt (with Galel Fajardo)
Sitting in a parking lot after leaving the bankruptcy attorney's office, $600,000 in debt written off, home gone, Galel Fajardo told himself no one would ever hire him again.Galel Fajardo is a…
S1E173 The Real Reason Structure Doesn't Stick When You Have ADHD
You've built systems before. You probably built them well. The problem wasn't creating them. The problem was maintaining them once the novelty wore off.Wednesday's episode explored why ADHD founders…
S1E172 The Hidden Burnout Nobody in Your Business Is Talking About
Your business is doing well. Momentum is real, clients are happy, and structure feels like the enemy right now. But if you turn that camera around and look past the founder, you find a stressed team…
S1E171 Why Simple Tasks Feel So Exhausting With ADHD (with Jenna Free)
You've tried the calendars, the timers, the hacks. They work for two weeks and then stop. Jenna Free says that's not a discipline problem. It's a regulation problem.Jenna is a counselor for ADHD with…
S1E170 Why 50% of People With ADHD Quit Their Medication
Why do so many people start ADHD medication... and then quietly stop within a year or two?In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a systematic literature review examining why over half of all…
S1E169 Why Progress Never Feels Permanent With ADHD (Even When You Do Everything Right)
You're generating real revenue. But every time you open your banking app, your brain shuts down and you close it again.Nicole Stanley is the founder of Arise Financial Coaching and creator of the…
S1E168 How Casey Neistat Nails Productivity Advice For ADHDers
You know what your most important work is. You still spend the first four hours of the day doing everything else.Casey Neistat recently posted a video called *Navigating the Matrix* showing how he…
S1E167 How ADHD Perfectionism Disguises Itself as Productivity (Dani Donovan)
You built something people love. Running the business of it is a different problem entirely.Dani Donovan is the creator of The Anti-Planner, a self-published ADHD productivity workbook that generated…
S1E166 Why ADHD Brains Hire People And Then Do It Themselves Anyway
Nobody agreed on what done looked like. The handover happened anyway. That is where it fell apart.This episode is the practical follow-up to Wednesday. Skye and Robbie walk through the specific…
S1E165 Why ADHD Entrepreneurs Struggle With Delegating
You hired someone good. The work was fine. You still sent the late-night Slack message, redirected the task, and checked in on something that had already been handled.This episode looks at what the…
S1E164 ADHD, Parenting, and the Pressure of Entrepreneurship (With Jessica Shaw)
The school sent her daughter to a desk with her head down because she could not sit still during circle time. That was the moment Jessica stopped waiting for someone else to figure it out.Jessica…
S1E163 Can Pregnancy Inflammation Influence ADHD in Children? (New Study Breakdown)
Understanding why ADHD happens can feel like chasing a moving target. This study adds a biological angle most people haven't considered.We discuss a prospective study examining whether maternal…
S1E162 The Hidden Cost of ADHD Novelty Seeking (And How to Fix It)
Description:Presented by Understood.orgYou don’t have a lack of focus. You have too many ideas pulling it in different directions.This episode builds on Wednesday’s breakdown of ADHD novelty bias and…
S1E161 The ADHD Habit That Is Silently Killing Your Business
Presented by Understood.orgYou keep switching direction mid-project, and now nothing in your business is fully built.In this episode, we break down ADHD novelty bias and why new ideas don’t just feel…
S1E160 Why ADHD Labels Can Hold You Back (with Nir Eyal)
Presented by Understood.orgGetting diagnosed with ADHD explains a lot. Then it starts explaining too much.In this episode, Nir Eyal breaks down what happens after that initial relief. When ADHD stops…
S1E159 How Negative Environments Impact Your ADHD Brain(with Brandon Smith)
Presented by Understood.orgBad environments can train ADHD entrepreneurs to second-guess themselves long after they leave those environments behind. Brandon Smith shares how years of struggling in…
S1E158 Does Bluey ACTUALLY Have ADHD?
Presented by Understood.orgYou feel seen by something that wasn’t meant for you.Skye and Robbie explore whether Bluey reflects ADHD patterns or just captures behaviour accurately.Using DSM criteria,…
S1E157 How To Turn ADHD Into Your Company's Biggest Asset (with Craig Ballantyne)
Presented by Understood.orgYou build a new system, follow it for a few days, then quietly stop using it.Craig Ballantyne has coached high performers across multiple industries and his approach…
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