What happens when a furniture designer and a PhD in applied physics decides to change his life and then help others do the same? You get this week's guest, Anders Fabech Rønnau. Despite being a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and a Furniture Designer, he is now a leading ADHD Coach and ADHD Coach Trainer in Denmark , and has taught parenting programs since 2010 and ADHD Coach training since 2012. His primary focus is on ADHD, however, his methods work very well with differently wired people with Asperg...
Apr 12, 2017•23 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast OK... Brace yourself here for some seriously massive overachieving... Our guest this week (taking a deep breath,) is a marketing major at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. She received the Woolworth Award for her academic achievements as well as an award commending her working group for its business plan and presentation. When she's not studying, she works as an MTV Campus Ambassador for the Founders franchise, and is a Guest Writer for freshman-oriented online publication Fresh U...
Apr 05, 2017•23 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by ShankMinds: NYC, a day-long business mastermind conference designed for entrepreneurs with an ADHD slant. Built around the premise that the goal of any event should be to improve your business, you'll hear from world class speakers, and spend hours figuring out what's preventing your business from blowing up the way you want it. 44 spots left - It'll sell out fast! Join us: www.shankminds.com/nyc One of the most "mind-blowing" moments of ADHD is when we realize ...
Mar 29, 2017•19 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Thanks to this week's Faster Than Normal sponsor, Bouncy Bands! Bouncy Bands attach to chairs and desks so you can bounce your feet and stretch your legs while you work. Kids usually have to sit still at their desk for 5-6 hours every day in school. Bouncy Bands let kids release their extra energy, anxiety, frustration, and boredom in an appropriate way without distracting others. When students use Bouncy Bands, teachers are surprised how students can stay on task longer and they aren't as anxio...
Mar 22, 2017•20 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Another great podcast for you, and I'm thrilled to bring it to you! This week's guest is one of the people I count as not only a good friend, but a mentor who doesn't know he's a mentor. Please meet former US Navy SEAL Jack Walston. I first met Jack when I took part in his "bootcamp" program in Central Park. Two weeks, from 4:45am to 6:45am, of pure hell. Jumping jacks, pushups, running, carrying, repeat. It was brutal. So brutal, in fact, that I've since done his course 12 times. Jack is an ama...
Mar 15, 2017•25 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to those who joined us last week thanks to our wonderful conversation with Tony Robbins! We're thrilled you're here! This week's episode is all about conversation. Without conversation, you can't grow. Our guest this week believes that, as well. Larry Hagner runs The Good Dad Project, a podcast and site dedicated to helping men become the best they can possibly be - The best dads, the best husbands, the best human beings they can possibly be. ADHD plays a crucial role in our communicatio...
Mar 01, 2017•26 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Ladies and Gentlemen, WE'VE GOT TONY ROBBINS ON THE PODCAST!! I'm just over the moon here - This is such an amazing interview - Tony was gracious enough to give us close to 40 minutes of solid gold here, from the concepts of "burning your boats," why you shouldn't listen to experts, Tony's diet, how he stays fit, how he deals with uncertainty... There is so much AMAZING wisdom in this interview, I have no doubt you're going to love it! Amongst everything else Tony does, he also has a great new b...
Feb 22, 2017•36 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Sometimes, for people with ADHD, inspiration comes from the most random of places. For this week's guest, Nick Berry, it arrived in the form of a military enlistment, followed by a tour in Operation Enduring Freedom. Once out of the military, Nick used the hyper-focus from his ADHD to launch SendLift, an online service that sends handwritten thank you notes all around the world. He's a huge believer in therapy, and knows he has his ADHD to thank for his success. Best tip of the episode: The Chro...
Feb 15, 2017•21 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Let's talk success, failure, and WRESTLING!! This week's guest is Jim Harshaw Jr., a former Team USA Olympic wrestler, and someone who knows a bit about being at the top, and falling to the bottom. I'm thrilled Jim was kind enough to join us! Specifically, listen to him talking about fixing things that don't work, working on accountability, and more! Great interview here! Enjoy it! In this episode, Peter and Jim discuss: Jim's background (02:08) Improvement and Asthma (04:25) Learning from Failu...
Feb 01, 2017•22 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! This week's guest is Preston Bealle. Preston was one of the last bosses I ever had before I went out on my own back in 1998. He taught me much - specifically, he taught me to be a generalist. It never occurred to me that doing so is exactly what allows many of us to master our ADHD. Preston touches on some very scary topics in this interview...
Jan 25, 2017•23 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast THE ADHD SUPERPOWER WEBINAR IS THIS THURSDAY! Sign up here ! It's totally free, and is a hour chock full of the best advice from the guests of the past 45 episodes! Talk about perfect for the ADHD set - It's 45 episodes of advice, crammed into one hour, totally free! Sign up for it here ! PS: It's also awesome for all your friends who DON'T have ADHD, but just want to learn to be more productive! Be awesome and share it here ! This week's guest is Cindy Goldrich. This is a good one, guys. It's f...
Jan 18, 2017•21 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! So this week, I've been placed in the hotseat, since we've got the webinar coming up next week, I thought I'd give you a preview of what you'll get from it, as well as talk about some of the best tips our guests have given us in the past ten months. It's been a wild ride to get here, and we couldn't be happier. Again: The Finding Your Inner ...
Jan 11, 2017•28 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! This week's guest is Dan Harding, who managed to talk his way out of being held up at gunpoint, so who knows how he can help you? Dan discusses OCD, which is surprisingly close ADHD on the spectrum, so you're going to get a ton of useful tidbits out of this episode. Added bonus: He goes by four E's: excitable, extroverted, enthusiastic, and ...
Jan 04, 2017•27 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! When you have ADHD, it sometimes feels like you can't control one thing in your life, right? It's like, as soon as you put your attention into this thing over here, this other thing over there demands it from you. Hence, nothing gets done. Well, imagine someone who's able to not only use his ADHD to make sure that never happens, but to do it...
Dec 28, 2016•21 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! You know what never ceases to amaze me about ADHD? The fact that no matter how many things are similar, there are so many differences amongst the people who use ADHD to their advantage. This week's guest, Joe Caserta, proves the same. Joe is a recognized authority, author and educator in big data and data analytics. Big data. Analytics. That...
Dec 20, 2016•21 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! Imagine for a second, if you will, a man who doesn't hold back in the slightest. He works with some of the top celebrities in the world, yet doesn't have the remotest of filters on his brain, mouth, or actions. Imagine that, and multiply it by a thousand, and you get this week's Faster Than Normal Interview, Vinnie Tortoritch. This man is le...
Dec 07, 2016•26 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here ! This week's guest is Scott Jordan, founder of the wildly popular SCOTTEVEST line of clothing! (Full disclosure, I'm on Scott's board, and he's a personal friend.) Scott is known for many things, and "holding back" isn't one of them. In this episode, Scott talks about his lovely better half, Laura, manages her ADHD. He doesn't pull punches, h...
Nov 23, 2016•22 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out at www.ftncourse.com ! ADHD Nation is currently THE hot book to read in the ADHD world. I've read it, and it's a very worthwhile read. I was fortunate to get the author, Alan Schwartz, on the FTN Podcast to discuss the book, his research, and give us his take on ADHD and the pharmaceutical industry. Don't worry, I'm not going off on a "don't take m...
Nov 16, 2016•23 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast This week's guest is Marina Darlow, with a fascinating discussion on how systems can blow your ADHD up into your biggest benefit ever! In this episode, Peter and Marina discuss: Marina's back story (01:50) Shame and ADHD (04:05) Management of symptoms through systems (05:07) Key qualities of a good system (06:15) Having reminders (07:51) Conscious decision making (11:19) Limiting choices and flexibility (12:04) When to ditch systems (13:48) Speaking at a conference (17:20) Links/Mentions Vision ...
Nov 02, 2016•21 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast What if everything you knew was wrong? What if you were tracking all the wrong metrics on your path to what you thought was success? Our guest today experienced that, and came out transformed for the better on the other side. Meet Mike Merriam. What really got to me about this interview was the fact that Mike wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until he was 37. Like myself, and I'm sure many of you, Mike spent years just assuming that he was "different in a bad way," as opposed to learning to turn his ta...
Oct 26, 2016•22 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast The Faster Than Normal ADHD T-Shirts are live! Grab yours before the campaign ends next week! So whenever I talk about taking ADHD meds, I call it my "expense report medication." That is, if I'm forced to take medication, it's only for things that truly won't get done otherwise - I don't take Concerta all the time, usually rarely. But occasionally, it's needed, for those things people with ADHD just simply don't want to do. Like expense reports. Or benefits forms. Or claims forms. That's why thi...
Oct 19, 2016•18 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast If I can't get the real Oprah on FTN, the next best thing is the "Oprah of China," Dominic Johnson-Hill. Meet this week's guest, and learn how he went from growing up having a truly awful fear of failure and hating everything about school, to learning to channel his ADHD into his work and projects, allowing him to become the most successful t-shirt entrepreneur in China! We've all been there - He'll talk about how his quest for continued excitement led him to leave home and settle in China - com...
Oct 11, 2016•21 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast The thing I love the most about ADHD is this: I get to talk to people who went through the exact same things as a kid, that I went through as a kid. This week's guest is no exception - Meet John Sonmez - Bullied as a kid, and turned his ADHD into a mega-power for him. A day or a week doesn't happen for John without a plan. In John's terms, "ADHD people suck at judgement calls. So I remove them." The key: Create your plan when you're NOT in the moment - When you're NOT fueled by passion, dopamine...
Oct 05, 2016•21 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Meet Dr. Jim Poole. He's this week's guest, and he runs a wonderful company called FastBraiin , which has centers around the country that focus on helping children, students, and parents understand that ADHD is a gift, not a curse. (Sort of like a walk-in version of this podcast!) The best part about FastBraiin? It's deliberately misspelled, because Jim has ADHD and mistyped the domain when he bought it. I love that. Enjoy! In this episode, Peter and Jim discuss: Jim's story (01:16) Different ty...
Sep 28, 2016•20 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Not often we get a TV star on Faster Than Normal! Meet Ryan Zamo, star of Amazon's " Backstabber ." One of the hardest things anyone has to deal with in life is rejection - Now imagine having ADHD, and having to deal with rejection in a million different ways. "Was it because of this? Or this? Or maybe this?" Ryan has amazing stories about how he handles rejection, and as importantly, how he stays focused, stays in the zone, and of course, his amazing ability to "reset" on a moment's notice. Don...
Sep 20, 2016•18 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Let me tell you about Rachel Cotton. Other than the half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwich on foccacia bread that's strangely taking up half her headshot, she's one of the most hyper-focused people I've ever met. Possibly even more than me, and that is saying a LOT. Also, she loves Daft Punk. My kind of woman. But, she proves a point - Having a faster brain really DOES mean we can do anything. There's something to be said for having a playlist for your workouts, AND a playlist for your WORK...
Sep 13, 2016•20 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast If you're an entrepreneur, and you've never heard of the EOFire Podcast, you're probably not an entrepreneur. John Lee Dumas launched a podcast in 2012 focused on the entrepreneurial journey, and by 2015, the revenue from it allowed him to move his family to Puerto Rico and live the life he wants to live - And yes - He credits his ADHD for it. He's a brilliant entrepreneur, who has used the Faster Than Normal staples of elimination of choice and avoiding distractions to blow up his life for the ...
Sep 07, 2016•24 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Happy last day of August, live from Shanghai! Hope you're having a great week! This week's guest is Elliot Weissbluth, the CEO of Hightower Advisors. Elliott was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was a young boy, and much like those with ADHD, he learned to change his brain to use his gift to his advantage. It seems to have worked, as Hightower currently has something like $36 billion dollars under management. Elliot gives some great insight on how he runs his team, and uses his unique talents to ...
Aug 31, 2016•26 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast A big welcome this week to all who found us in today's Wall Street Journal article on the benefits of getting up super-early! So glad to have you! Fun podcast this week - We're talking to Kirsten Milliken, author of the book PlayDHD - Her premise is very simple: As adults, we don't get enough playtime. Playtime is key and essential to mitigating the negatives of ADHD (without medication,) and allowing us to truly evolve our brains to be Faster Than Normal. Now, as we all know, I'm not anti-med. ...
Aug 24, 2016•18 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Faster Than Normal, we speak with Elaine Taylor-Klaus, who runs the website Impact ADHD. Elaine is a coach, working specifically with parents and kids with ADHD. She's got some wonderful advice for the parents in the audience, and as a bonus, it works for all of us! Enjoy this episode! In this episode, Peter and Elaine discuss: How Elaine discovered that she has ADHD (01:20) The Impact ADHD website (03:58) Five tips for parents who have a child who has been gifted with ADHD (05:42) ...
Aug 17, 2016•17 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast