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ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSPwww.adhdrewired.com
The podcast for adults with ADHD. Hear stories, learn strategies, and get great productivity tips as we talk about the real-life struggles and what it takes to achieve success. Host, Eric Tivers, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, coach and entrepreneur (with ADHD) in private practice. Eric interviews a variety of guests. Many are people just like yourself, as well professionals, entrepreneurs, and ADHD experts.
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Episodes

476 | When Potential and Opportunity Misalign with Nate

Today, Eric is joined by Nate! Nate is a program manager for the Department of Defense and a graduate student at Columbia University. He received an ADHD diagnosis in 2016 at age 24 and a bi-polar diagnosis in 2022. After better understanding his mental abilities and inabilities, he realized how incompatible he was with the person the world expected him to be. This experience has led Nate down a path to highlight the tremendous potential and value that neurodivergent individuals can bring to an ...

Mar 28, 202356 min

Special Announcement

The spring season of ADHD reWired's award-winning intensive Coaching & Accountability Groups starts in less than one week, going from March 30th through to June 8th! Want to get to know our coaches? Give episode 475 a listen where you'll hear from Kat Hoyer and even more from Kristin Marts! If you love what you hear, or if you've been on the fence for a while and you're ready to take the leap, there's still time to join us! Go to coachingrewired.com to get started with your pre-registration ...

Mar 26, 20236 min

475 | Meet The Coaches: A Coach's Journey

In this bonus non-stop episode, Eric is joined by fellow ADHD reWired Coaches: Kat Hoyer and Kristin Marts! You may have heard Kat Hoyer on the podcast before and her journey, first as a coaching group member in season 9 of ADHD reWired's Coaching & Accountability Groups, to becoming a peer mentor, now an ADHD reWired coach! Want to know more about Kat? We have ADHD reWired podcast episodes with Kat listed below! Then, we have Kristin Marts, who you may have met or heard from in our Live Q&a...

Mar 25, 202347 min

474 | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Emily Sussman

Emily Sussman joins Eric on the podcast today to talk about mindfulness and reducing stress! Emily, who is a mom and also has ADHD, has over 20 years of experience empowering others, uses mindfulness daily, and is a certified instructor in mindfulness-based stress reduction. When asked why she practices daily, Emily says, "It's like breathing! You must breathe to survive, hence: mindfulness." In this episode, you'll hear about what a "resource" room was, how Emily became an advocate, her experie...

Mar 21, 20231 hr 10 min

473 | February 2023 Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Team & ADHD reWired Coaches!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! Listen to this episode uninterrupted by ads when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon! Questions & Topics in this Episode: [00:03:16] A listener asks about helping college students with rigid thinking and flexibility [00:10:40] "Time management, project management, time-blindness and distractions are weak spots in my daily work. Where would you feel is the be...

Mar 14, 20231 hr 8 min

472 | Why the Smartest People are the Worst Learners with Ian Siegel

Today, Eric is joined by Ian Siegel, who has been doing test prep and college consulting for a decade. In that time, he has delivered some of the highest improvements on SATs and ACTs in the country, and has helped over 90% of the students he worked with get into their top-choice colleges. Ian is also the author of "School Sucks, Your Child Doesn't: The Secret to Unlocking Your Child's Untapped Potential" where he details his philosophy and illustrates the overlooked reality that every leader, t...

Mar 07, 202357 min

471 | Dream the Possible Dream with Morgan Hancock

Today, Eric is joined by Morgan Hancock who was diagnosed with ADHD at 31. She is a commercial real-estate agent, entrepreneur, U.S. Army veteran, mother of 2, a passionate advocate of the arts, and the founder of Bourbon With Heart Inc., the world's first and only arts-focused bourbon charity! In this episode, you'll hear about the different paths Morgan took - including becoming a young mother, joining the army, law school, making insect repellent, and continuing to act on her big ambitions. Y...

Feb 28, 202351 min

470 | Masterminding Finishing and Creating Processes with Janelle in the Hot Seat! (Part 2)

In part 2 of this conversation, Eric is joined by ADHD reWired Coaches Kat Hoyer and Kristin Marts! Janelle Augustin, who is also an ADHD reWired Coaching group Alumni member, also joins all of the ADHD reWired Coaches in the hot seat to figure out actionable items to keep track of multi-step tasks and not lose steam while tackling unfinished projects. ⭐ If you missed Part 1 of this conversation, go back to episode 469 to listen in from the beginning! Janelle was born in Jamaica but grew up in S...

Feb 22, 202343 min

469 | Masterminding Finishing and Creating Processes with Janelle in the Hot Seat!

In this two-part conversation, Eric is joined by ADHD reWired Coaches Kat Hoyer and Kristin Marts! Janelle Augustin, who is also an ADHD reWired Coaching group Alumni member, also joins all of the ADHD reWired Coaches in the hot seat to figure out action steps to creating and finishing processes. Not only will you be able to listen in on the process of the Mastermind, you'll also hear suggestions for managing multiple steps and tasks, reframing "done", cues to be reminded to return to unfinished...

Feb 21, 20231 hr 2 min

468 | January 2023 Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Team & ADHD reWired Coaches!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! If you want to join us every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 10:30am Pacific / 1:30pm Eastern, go to adhdrewired.com/events to register so you can jump in live on zoom to ask your ADHD-related questions and interact with other listeners! Hear all the questions in the full ad-free version of this episode when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon Questions & Topics...

Feb 14, 20231 hr 9 min

467 | To Leverage Our Strengths & Own Our Challenges with Marina Piscolish

Marina Piscolish joins Eric on the podcast this week to talk about leveraging strengths and owning the challenges. Marina is the president and founder of Mapping Change LLC, a small consulting business born of her passion for harnessing the transformative power of conflict to create positive changes for individuals, teams, and organizations. Being born in rural Pennsylvania as a coal-miner's daughter and a grandchild of immigrants provided helpful preparation for her work, especially in Hawaii a...

Feb 07, 20231 hr

466 | Resilience and Coaching with Coach Jamie Walsh

⭐️ Registration for the Spring Season of Coaching & Accountability Groups is happening now! Go to coachingrewired.com to get your name added to our spring interest list and start your preregistration process! Our next registration event is on Thursday, February 2nd at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern. That's coachingrewired.com to get started! - - - In this episode, Eric is joined by Jamie Walsh. Jamie is a husband, father of 4, and business owner with ADHD. Before coaching, he worked in higher ed...

Jan 31, 20231 hr 11 min

465 | Creating Order from Chaos: An AuDHD Story with Shane Thrapp

This week, Eric is joined by Shane Thrapp, a certified ADHD, life, relationship and career coach! Through his business, Creating Order from Chaos, Shane has helped hundreds of people find their paths through the chaos of life with ADHD and find their order and purpose. With both an ADHD and autism diagnosis, he is the operations director for The Non-Profit Men's ADHD Support Group, a board member for the Inattentive ADHD Coalition, and a public speaker who works to be a voice and advocate for ad...

Jan 24, 20231 hr 7 min

464 | The Power of Questions with Javier Amor

In this episode, Javier Amor joins Eric from New York City! Javier is a real-estate broker and is also an Alumni Community member of ADHD reWired's Coaching and Accountability Groups. Today, Javier shares his journey through chronic pain, managing Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), and self-advocacy. You'll also hear how a curious mindset and the power of questions changed Javier's life, and also how asking better questions led to saving his father's life. Other Questions/Topics Answered in this Epis...

Jan 17, 202343 min

463 | December 2022 Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Team & ADHD reWired Coaches!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! Hear all the questions in the full ad-free version of this episode when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon Questions & Topics in this Episode: [00:03:41] "I was wondering if someone knows about an already existing group for business owners who have ADHD." [00:05:02] A listener asks about setting and following through with their intentions as they are in the...

Jan 10, 202356 min

462 | Sex Work, Burnout, and Boundaries with Jessica Smith

In this episode, Eric is joined by Jessica Smith. Jessica was 'accidentally' diagnosed with ADHD at age 25. At age 27, she became a sex worker - specifically an independent webcam model. A combination of creativity, tenacity, and luck helped her to grow a successful business and became one of the top webcam models on her cam site. After spending 5 years in the industry, she unintentionally retired due to social and performance burnout. Jessica attributes a large part of her entrepreneurial succe...

Jan 02, 202352 min

461 | Why Treat ADHD? with Ryan Sultan, MD

This week, Eric is joined by Dr. Ryan Sultan, a mental health physician, therapist and researcher at Columbia University. ADHD is a major area of Dr. Sultan's expertise both in his medical practice and in research. In this episode, you'll hear Eric and Dr. Ryan discuss why it's important to treat ADHD, the nuances of research, his reasons for getting into the ADHD space, and whether or not ADHD is underdiagnosed or overdiagnosed. Find out more about Dr. Ryan Sultan at https://www.integrativepsyc...

Dec 27, 202255 min

460 | Hustle Culture & Toxic Productivity with Brittany Berger

This week, Eric is joined by Brittany Berger, the founder of WorkBrighter.co, a digital media company and community that helps disabled, chronically-ill, mentally-ill, and neurodivergent creatives better balance between work, play, and rest, so they can burnout less. She started Work Brighter after 5 years working at a high-stress startup that prioritized hustle, growth, and scaling over health. As a "multiply-disabled" human, her body eventually had enough of the constant burnout cycle. Now tha...

Dec 20, 202255 min

Special Announcement!

Registration for our 31st season of ADHD reWired's award winning online video-based coaching and accountability groups is happening now! 2023 is just around the corner, so if you're done with feeling overwhelmed and want to launch into the new year with new and shiny tools made for your ADHD brain so you can live with intention and create actionable steps to finally get started on the things that matter to you, then this is the group you've been looking for. Go to coachingrewired.com to add your...

Dec 17, 202211 min

459 | November 2022 Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Team + ADHD reWired Coaches!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! And get the full ad-free version of this episode when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon! Questions & Topics in this Episode: [00:02:12] How have you learned how to accept your ADHD? [00:11:56] How do you keep yourself from comparing your progress and productivity with that of your neurotypical colleagues, especially those who are high-achieving? [00:26:54]...

Dec 13, 20221 hr 11 min

458 | 5 Success-Stopping Emotions with Rahti Gorfien

This week, Eric is joined by Rahti Gorfien of Creative Calling Coaching! Rahti has coached independent creative professionals, including actors, writers, artists, filmmakers, and tech developers, who are scattered and overwhelmed. She helps her clients break the cycle of isolation, irregular income, and irregular hours, by taking a more structured and entrepreneurial approach to their careers based on their unique strengths and neurological makeup. In this episode, you'll hear about Rahti's jour...

Dec 06, 20221 hr 4 min

457 | What's Your Relationship with Feedback? with Chris Wang

This week, Eric is joined by Chris Wang, the cofounder and CEO of Shimmer, an ADHD startup offering bite-sized coaching to individuals with ADHD! Chris is an entrepreneur, social-impact advocate, angel investor, growth consultant, and forever tinkerer. She believes strongly that business should be used as a force for good, and that positive impact not only isn't the enemy of profit, but is a catalyst. This thesis underpins every decision she makes, especially when it comes to the communities she...

Nov 29, 20221 hr 6 min

456 | Stop Putting Others First with ADHD Physician Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh

This week, Eric is joined by Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh, also known as Dr. D, a family-medicine physician, clinic medical director, and chief medical officer. Dr. D is also the founder of OverAchieve Life Coaching. Prior to discovering coaching, Diana typically had 200 charts open and a "graveyard" of unfinished projects. Now, she's on a mission to empower healthcare professionals to create simple systems that support their zone-of-genius and reclaim their freedom of time as her clients learn t...

Nov 22, 202256 min

455 | Is Minimalism Realistic with ADHD? with Robyn Buchanan

The Annual International Conference on ADHD is this week! Join virtually or in person in Dallas, Texas! Listeners of ADHD reWired can get 15% off your registration at https://adhdrewired.com/adhdcon2022! Or use the promo code adhdrewiredadhdcon2022 at checkout! - - - This week, Eric is joined by Robyn Buchanan, a mom of two teenage boys and partner to an ADHD husband. Robyn is also a registered nurse, life and focus coach, and YouTube creator who is an advocate for people with ADHD and neurodive...

Nov 15, 20221 hr 2 min

454 | October 2022 Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Team + ADHD reWired Coaches!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! Go to adhdrewired.com/events to register so you can join us on Zoom and ask your questions live! And get the full and ad-free version of this episode when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon! Questions & Topics in this Episode: [00:04:58] "What are your tips for taking yourself out of hyperfocus?" [00:08:24] Tips on managing overwhelm, to-do lists, and cues ...

Nov 08, 202255 min

453 | Find What Works for You with Marie Ng

It's not too late to get registered for the Annual International Conference on ADHD! You can join virtually or in-person in Dallas, Texas! Listeners of ADHD reWired can get 15% off their registration by going to adhdrewired.com/adhdcon2022 or use the promo code adhdrewiredadhdcon2022 at checkout! This week, Eric is joined by Marie Ng, the solo-founder of Llama Life! Marie has worn many hats, including experience in advertising, working in corporate environments, teaching herself how to code, and...

Nov 01, 20221 hr 4 min

452 | Overcoming Burnout with David Greenwood

Returning to the podcast is David Greenwood, the author of Overcoming Burnout: Real Life Strategies for Burnout, Recovery, and Prevention. He is also the author of Overcoming Distraction: Thriving with Adult ADHD and hosts the ADHD podcast called "Overcoming Distractions." Learn more about David Greenwood at https://overcomingdistractions.com Find his books Overcoming Burnout and Overcoming Distraction at https://overcomingburnout.net Hear David Greenwood previously on ADHD reWired on episode #1...

Oct 25, 202254 min

451 | Bending your Business to Your ADHD with Mike Lekies

The Annual International Conference on ADHD is coming soon! Join virtually or in person in Dallas, Texas! Then, listeners of ADHD reWired can get 15% off your registration at https://adhdrewired.com/adhdcon2022! Eric is joined by Mike Lekies, who has been a business coach and sales trainer for 15 years and runs a business together with his non-ADHD but not-neurotypical wife. He has 25 years of experience in sales and was diagnosed with ADHD at age 43, which turned his life upside down. Mike is a...

Oct 18, 202253 min

450 | September 2022 Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Team + ADHD reWired Coaches!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! And get the ad-free version of this episode with some extras from this Q&A when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon! If you're looking for a full-immersion experience with ADHD, the 2022 International Conference on ADHD is coming up from November 17th to November 19th in Dallas, Texas! Get 15% off the CHADD Conference 2022 here: https://www.adhdrewired.com/a...

Oct 11, 20221 hr 5 min

449 | Getting Tasks Done with Skye Rapson

In this episode, Eric is joined by Skye Rapson from New Zealand! Skye is a mom and an academic with over 7 years experience working in adult education. She has studied in various fields, including psychology, sociology, and public health, and is now a doctoral candidate in population health. After getting diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her doctorate, she has since dedicated time to researching and disseminating ADHD studies, focusing on supporting others with strength-based neurodiverse-fri...

Oct 04, 202255 min
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