Bonnie Mincu joins me on this episode. Bonnie spent 23 years in a Fortune 50 corporation as a marketing manager, training manager, executive coach, and organizational development consultant. She left her consulting firm in 2000 to do similar work on her own. But, without the structure of fast-paced deadlines, she found herself floundering and avoiding her desk. This was when she discovered she has ADHD. She built her business around coaching and training individual ADHD clients. Since starting T...
Sep 12, 2017•1 hr 10 min
This Week's Episode: Rich Schramm is a seasoned technology executive, entrepreneur, and software development expert with over 25-years in information and technology. He is also the father of three kids with ADHD. Rich is putting his experience and skills to use in creating a tool to manage ADHD families, called I Got This. I Got This is an app, a community, and a mission to change the story of ADHD. In this conversation, Rich shares some of his story and his personal experiences that led to the ...
Sep 05, 2017•1 hr 14 min
This Week's Episode: James Ochoa returns to the podcast on this episode. James is a licensed professional counselor and the author of Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD. He is the founder and Director of the Life Empowerment Center in Austin, Texas. James offers action-focused counseling and executive coaching to help his clients discover ways to empower themselves in all areas of life. His passion is treating the emotional distress of ADHD so clients can build their internal w...
Aug 29, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Jo Meleca-Voigt returns to the podcast on this episode. Jo is a teacher and she last came on the podcast right after being diagnosed with ADHD and starting medication. In this conversation, you will hear Jo describe the last year of her life since we last spoke. She has had some opportunities in her professional career to advocate for students with ADHD. She shares how this has helped her in her own journey. Jo shares some of the strategies that she has implemented in the last year. Although a c...
Aug 22, 2017•1 hr 14 min
This Week's Episode: Jim Klopman is an innovator in other industries, Jim says that his brain damage, ADHD, and Dyslexia are blessings that free his mind to see tech advances before others. Jim developed the SlackBow Balanced Training System to improve and maintain his own athletic performance. Jim believes a fit human balance system is the key to maintaining physical and psychological success in all areas of life. In this conversation, you will hear Jim explain the importance of balance and the...
Aug 15, 2017•1 hr 16 min
This Week's Episode: On the 2nd Tuesday of every month, we do a live Q&A. This episode is a recording of the June Live Q&A. If you are listening to this episode the day it's released, tune into August's Live Q&A at 12:30pm at http://EricTivers.com/events. On this episode, I'm joined by Brendan Mahan. This is Brendan's third appearance on the podcast. Brendan is an ADHD coach and speaker. He is currently a special education teacher. He understands ADHD from as an insider, as well as f...
Aug 08, 2017•1 hr 40 min
Thomas Wandall joins me on this episode of ADHD reWired. Thomas is a listener of this podcast and was recently diagnosed with the inattentive presentation of ADHD. Thomas has lived in the Bay Area of California since 1995 and has a variety of interests. He enjoys mountain climbing, bike building, novel writing, painting, crisis counseling, and shoe-making. He enjoys the hands-on nature of his work. He owns a shoe-making and repair business. He also struggles with broken deadlines and unfinished ...
Aug 01, 2017•1 hr 16 min
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Jul 25, 2017•14 min
This Week's Episode: Diann Wingert is a licensed psychotherapist, master certified coach, parent of adult children with ADHD, and she has ADHD herself. After many years of "dancing with denial," she was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of sixty. Diann specializes in coaching high-functioning but under-achieving adults with ADHD. In this conversation, you will hear Diann discuss her personal history with ADHD and her recent diagnosis at the age of sixty. For years, this diagnosis didn't seem possib...
Jul 18, 2017•1 hr 10 min
This Week's Episode: Kat Hoyer is a certified life and career coach. She offers personal and professional development workshops, retreats, and coaching. After spending 15 years in corporate America, Kat found herself at a personal and professional crossroads. Through a series of unexpected detours, she found her way to help people find their own success. In this conversation, you will hear Kat share her ADHD story. You will also hear two letters that she has written to her ADHD. After losing thr...
Jul 11, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Dr. Abigail "Abi" Weissman joins me on this week's episode. Abi is a clinical psychologist who calls herself an Empowering Supporter and a Self-Love Affirmer. Abi helps people who wish they could fulfill their queer, transgender, religious, liberal, polyamorous, and/or kink selves, but hold themselves back because they are scared they will be unloved, unemployed, and rejected by their loved ones and communities. In this conversation, you will hear Abi explain the LGBTQIQA acronym and why it is s...
Jun 27, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Chris Nealy earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chris' research focused on Autism and the family. Chris currently provides office-based, nature-based, and in-home psychotherapeutic services for individuals, families, couples, and groups affected by Autism and ADHD. Chris co-owns Halcyon Mental Health in North Carolina. In this conversation, you will hear Chris, and I discuss some of the similarities of ADHD and Autism. We also consider...
Jun 20, 2017•1 hr 23 min
This week, we bring you a recorded session of a live ADHD Q&A session. The recording you will hear on this episode is from the May session. If you are listening to this episode the day it is published, Tuesday, June 13th, you can participate in the June ADHD Q&A session! It starts at 12:30pm Central. Go to EricTivers.com/events to register. Ryan McCrae joins me on this Q&A. In this conversation, you will hear Ryan, and I share our thoughts and tips on the questions that were submitte...
Jun 13, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Gabriel Villareal is a resident in counseling, soon to be a licensed practicing counselor in Virginia. He works part-time with a community agency that serves children and adolescents in crisis. He also runs his own part-time practice, specializing in ADHD. Gabriel is the host of Informed Consent, a weekly podcast for incoming clinicians. In this conversation, you will hear Gabriel talk about how he helps the people he works with find their strengths. Gabriel believes that ADHD is a gift and if h...
Jun 06, 2017•1 hr 4 min
This Week's Episode: Erik Fisher has been producing his podcast, Beyond the To-Do List for more than four years. His podcast focuses on productivity. Erik is a social media manager at Social Media Examiner. He is also a member of the ADHD tribe. In this conversation, you will hear Erik and I discuss a variety of productivity techniques and resources. We share several productivity apps that might be a fit for you and your routines. We talk about "the drug" of social media and how to keep social m...
May 30, 2017•1 hr 6 min
This Week's Episode: Anders Ronnau is a leading ADHD Coach Trainer in Denmark. He also has a PhD in Applied Physics and is a furniture designer. He has taught parent programs since 2010 and coach training since 2012. In this conversation, you will hear Anders talk about transforming ADHD from the "inside out" through cognitive enhancements and techniques like Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP. Some of the things he talks about include building rapport, mirroring, anchoring, and triggers. This is ...
May 23, 2017•1 hr 9 min
This Week's Episode: Alan Brown returns to the podcast for this episode. Alan is an ADHD Productivity Coach, best-selling author, and host of a subscription-based internet tv show and membership community. In this conversation, you will hear Alan talk about "theming." This is the idea of bringing similar activities and ideas together. Alan explains how his techniques of theming, clumping, and batching by using compartments result in feeling "not ADHD." There is a lot of shame in productivity and...
May 16, 2017•1 hr 4 min
This Week's Episode: This week, we bring you a recorded session of a live ADHD Q&A session. The recording you will hear on this episode is from the April session. Laura Curvin joins me to moderate this event. If you are listening to this episode the day it is published, Tuesday, May 9th, you can participate in the April ADHD Q&A session! It starts at 12:30pm Central. Go to EricTivers.com/events to register. In this episode, you will hear the questions that attendees submitted during this...
May 09, 2017•1 hr 8 min
This Week's Episode: Julie Reichenberger is a counselor in Denver, Colorado. She primarily works with adolescents and adults with ADHD. Julie, who has ADHD herself, found accepting her ADHD to be a real struggle. In this conversation, you will hear Julie's story of discovering she has ADHD. At a certain point, she had what she calls a "final acceptance" of her diagnosis. Some of her stories involve her not being as self-aware at younger ages. We talk about the idea of whether or not things are e...
May 02, 2017•1 hr 21 min
This Week's Episode: David Greenwood is the author of the book, Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD, which looks at ADHD through the eyes of an entrepreneur. The book shares people's stories and strategies. In this conversation, you will hear David share his story and experiences that lead to him developing self-awareness about his future and moving toward entrepreneurship. David explains how self-awareness and "owning yourself" can help lead to success. Allowing yourself to da...
Apr 25, 2017•58 min
This Week's Episode: Rick Green returns to this podcast on this episode. Rick created the ground-breaking website TotallyADD.com. He's also responsible for two PBS documentaries on adult ADD, ADD and Loving It?! and ADD and Mastering It! These documentaries were very well received. Rick is a former Physics teacher and became a full-time comedian with The Frantics, The Red Green Show, and History Bites. In this conversation, you will hear Rick talk about the sacrifices he's made and the struggles...
Apr 18, 2017•1 hr 34 min
This Week's Episode: This week, we bring you a recorded session of a live ADHD Q&A session. The recording you will hear on this episode is from the March session. Nisha Subramanian joins me to moderate this event. If you are listening to this episode the day it is published, Tuesday, April 11th, you can participate in the April ADHD Q&A session! It starts at 12:30pm Central. Go to EricTivers.com/events to register. On this episode, you will hear a variety of questions that we received fo...
Apr 11, 2017•1 hr
This Week's Episode: This week, I'm joined by Ana Gillon. Ana is a mother, wife, and project coordinator. She has been on a meandering journey of self-understanding since she was diagnosed with ADHD five years ago. A self-proclaimed "wandering creative," Ana was part of a recent ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability group. In this conversation, you will hear Ana tell her ADHD story. She talks about ADHD and the idea of giving your ADHD a job. Ana explains how the ADHD reWired Coaching and Acc...
Apr 03, 2017•1 hr 15 min
This Week's Episode: This week, I'm joined by award-winning podcaster, Kevin Allison. Kevin is the host of the story-telling podcast, Risk! This is a podcast where people tell true stories they never thought they would share in front of an audience. Kevin is also part of the sketch comedy troupe, The State. Considering he is the host of a wildly successful podcast on storytelling, you are going to hear Kevin tell some parts of his story. Kevin has always seen himself as a creative type that is "...
Mar 28, 2017•1 hr 5 min
This Week's Episode: Nicole joins me on this episode of ADHD reWired. Nicole is a mom of two with a background in sales. Nicole has been a member of our most recent ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group. In this discussion, Nicole shares her ADHD story with us. She has an entertaining story of how she first realized she has ADHD. Nicole shares a lot with us in the conversation. You will hear how she views the role that ADHD plays in her life, she reads a letter she wrote to her ADHD, an...
Mar 21, 2017•1 hr 7 min
This Week's Episode: This week, we bring you a recorded session of our ADHD Q&A session. The recording you will hear on this episode is from the February session. Nisha Subramanian joins me to moderate this event. We field several questions on ADHD, task management, and organization. We talk about avoiding social media distractions, setting goals, controlling emotions and anger management, accountability, and much more. If you're listening to this episode the day it is released (Tuesday, Mar...
Mar 14, 2017•1 hr 11 min
This Week's Episode: Best-selling author, blogger, speaker, and friend Stephanie Sarkis returns to the podcast on this episode. Recently, one of Stephanie's blog posts went viral, and she was interviewed on CNN. This article was on "gaslighting." She joins me on this episode to discuss this topic and the issues surrounding it. In this conversation, we use Stephanie's blog piece on gaslighting to jump into a discussion on the current political environment. We talk about how the current climate is...
Mar 07, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Help With Organizing with Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright This Week's Episode: I'd like to thank Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright from coming on the podcast this week. I'd also like to thank Nikki and Pete for having me on their show. This episode was recorded live on Facebook. If you'd like to be notified of future live Facebook broadcasts, like our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ADHDreWired/. Nikki Kinzer is a blogger, online course creator, professional and certified ADHD coach, and co-ho...
Feb 28, 2017•1 hr 6 min
I'm joined on this episode of ADHD reWired by Eric Light. Eric was diagnosed with ADHD as a child but did not take the diagnosis seriously until recently. Eric emailed me that he was interested in sharing his story and I'm excited to let him share his story. In this conversation, you will hear Eric tell his personal story. Eric was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of ten. Eric story involves mental and physical abuse and self-medication. Now that he is receiving counseling and appropriate medicati...
Feb 21, 2017•1 hr 19 min
This Week's Episode: Returning to join me on the podcast again is Dr. Roberto Olivardia. Dr. Olivardia is a clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. He maintains a private practice in Massachusetts. Dr. Olivardia specializes in ADHD, OCD, Bipolar Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, personality disorders and eating disorders. He joins me to talk about Dyslexia on this episode. In this discussion, you will hear Roberto describe what Dyslexia is like for someone that has it. He ...
Feb 14, 2017•58 min
