The ADHD Marketeer

…helping you go from frantic to fabulous…

ADHD can feel like both a superpower 💪🏼 and a curse.☠️ If you have ADHD, you likely have endless ideas and passion—but staying focused long enough to see them through can feel impossible. I’ve been there: a graveyard of great ideas, frustration, overwhelm, and the creeping shame of another “failed” endeavor. But here’s the truth: You can be successful—not despite your ADHD—but because of it.

⛵️My Journey:

  • Diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive) at 43, while managing a business and a household with four kids. 

  • Spent years juggling tasks without fully understanding how to navigate my ADHD…and no time to figure it out. 

  • After launching my youngest off to college, I dove into a new business venture successfully—until all my unresolved ADHD symptoms smacked me in the face.

  • Realized that my fear of rejection (RSD) felt like walking around with no skin on and found myself avoiding essential tasks despite initial success.

⚓️The Turning Point: 

  • Instead of giving in and giving up, I got angry. I decided to hack my ADHD, use hyper-focus to my advantage, and stop letting ADHD symptoms dictate my level of success.

  • Now, I’m on a mission to help others with ADHD navigate the pitfalls of entrepreneurship and tap into their unique strengths.

🛟What I Offer:

  • Proven strategies to avoid common ADHD pitfalls in business.

  • Methods to harness hyper-focus and get sh$t done.

  • Support for ADHD mamas in midlife who are ready to turn their “spicy brains” into their greatest asset.

  • A blueprint for a business that’s tailor-made for our ADHD brains. This could be the last business you ever have to build. Imagine that for a minute with me…

What if you had:

✅ Repeat income month after month (Stability)

✅ A Simple business structure that’s duplicatable (Opportunity)

✅ An option to help others succeed as you do (Purpose)

✅ Ability to offer people high quality items they use daily (Sustainability)

✅ Team members who understand ADHD on a visceral level (Community)

✅ A support team with over 30 years of experience (Education & Training)

If you’re tired of letting ADHD tell your story, let’s hop on a discovery call. Shoot me a message and we’ll make it happen. Together, we can turn ADHD into your secret to success!

Top Ten Tips to go from Chaos to Clarity in your Business

1. Know Your Why: “Your why is the fundamental core of what inspires you…the spark that drives you.” ~Simon Sinek, Author of Start With Why. Yes, it’s necessary to know the what and how of your business. But the place you need to start is your WHY. This is important for anyone who is running a business. But it’s especially important for those of us with ADHD brains because we tend to struggle with motivation. We need a BIG Why that really matters to us so we can pull it out to help us get through the boring but important things that we can’t delegate or automate (more on those two later). Go ahead and go down a rabbit hole on this. It’s time well spent. If you get your why down, you’ll be miles ahead of most businesses. Here are some links to get you started:

2. Manage Your Energy, Rather than your Time: Traditional business hours don’t tend to work very well for ADHD brains. Instead, plan your work day in blocks where you have the most energy. You likely have an energy block in the morning that stretches into early afternoon and then there will be a dip in your energy. Plan for this. Do the work that requires the most focused brain work in your morning block. Use that dip in the afternoon to take a break and recharge and then come back for a late afternoon or early evening block. Bonus: to make your time-blocking even more successful, figure out what snaps you into hyperfocus and utilize that to get started. This could be gamifying a task, adding competition and accountability, or utilizing a body doubling app or service. Here are a few suggestions:

  • Focus Blocks: This a company that utilizes body-doubling and accountability to help its members hyperfocus by creating an online workspace via Zoom. It’s not cheap but it is the single most effective hyperfocus trigger I’ve ever found. They offer a seven day free trial and a 30 day money back guarantee, so check it out. It may be worth it to you. (But be sure to put it in your calendar to cancel before the 30 day mark if it’s not a fit.)

  • ADHD Energy Management: End the Battle of Burnout & Exhaustion- This video by ADHD life coach, Caren Magill, is a great place to start binge watching her videos learning more about how you gain and lose energy. (15 min.)

  • Rise Energy & Sleep Tracker App- There are plenty of sleep trackers out there but what I like about Rise is that it gives me a visual of my energy peaks and dips throughout the day so it really helps me plan my day based on my energy. This app has a free trial but after that there is a subscription charge so maybe check it out for the trial and see if it’s helpful.

3. Make a Master Brain-Dump List Weekly: You may need to update this daily but I find that making a master list at least once a week helps to move all the clutter from my brain to an actionable list. This list is just what it sounds like…you take all the things that are zooming around in your brain and get them down onto a list. Just pour it all out. If you get stuck, listen to music for a bit and then get back to it. Or grab a snack or a glass of water and then get back to it. It may take a while to knock it all loose. But eventually you’ll have a list of all the things you need to do during the week. Once you get it all down, you’ll need to do two more things. One, scan your list for projects and break those down into single tasks. Then, the dreaded prioritization. I say this because prioritizing is extremely difficult for most people with ADHD. If you struggle with this part, pull in a friend or family member who is non-judgemental and willing to help you. For more help, check out my BrainDump post where I break this down in greater detail.

4. Identify your Superpowers: What are you really good at? What are the elements of your business that you can lose track of time while doing? What things make you feel more alive? Identifying your strengths is important for several reasons. First, so you can make sure you have time in your daily blocks to work on the things you enjoy doing. This will give you more energy to do the things you don’t enjoy as much. Second, you want to try not to delegate the tasks that actually give you energy. And lastly, post your strengths on your office wall where you’ll see them. When you’re feeling frustrated and not getting where you want to be as quickly as you’d like to, it will help you to remind yourself of the things you’re great at doing.

5. Get Support for your Kryptonite Tasks: Make a list of the things you need to do for your business that you truly dislike doing. I can’t promise you’ll be able to take all those off your plate but you can certainly take a good look at them and decide if some can be delegated or automated. The bottom line is that if you hate doing something, your ADHD brain is exquisitely talented at avoiding it. But at the same time, your inner critic is well trained in berating you for not getting it done. So we need to face those things we don’t want to do and figure out how to make them more palatable. Once you’ve made your list, look at each item and determine if there’s a way to automate it. If so, put some time to automate it on your brain dump list for this week. If not, can you delegate it? Is there someone in your company or your life who’s gifted at that kind of task? If so, work out a plan to delegate it…maybe there’s something that person hates to do that you love. Suggest a swap. And lastly, if you can’t automate it or delegate it, you’re going to have to figure out a way to do it. See if you can gamify it, make it more fun, or stack it with a habit you already have. If none of those are a possibility, you’ll have to hold your nose and just make it happen. But be sure to sandwich it between two tasks you enjoy so you’ll have some dopamine for the task.

6. Use Timers Copiously: Stop telling yourself you’re going to remember and accept that fact that your ADHD brain struggles with time. What you think will take five minutes could take 30. And the task you’ve been dreading and feeling like it will take hours might only take 45 mins. We don’t have a great sense of time so timers are our best friend and they are not just for remembering to take cookies out of the oven (although you most definitely need to set a timer for that!) Most people have a timer or alarm function right on their phones. Use the voice feature on your phone, or on Alexa, to set a timer whenever you have to remember to do anything. Got a call at 2pm? Set a timer for 1:55pm so you have time to transition from whatever you were focusing on into what you need for your call. Do you forget to eat when you’re in hyperfocus? Set an alarm to remind yourself to grab a snack and some water. Need to take a break and chill for a bit? Set a timer so you can truly relax and don’t have to watch the clock.

  • The Pomodoro Technique: This is a great way to utilize timers to rev up your hyperfocus and get more work done. The website has loads of helpful info on it and I believe there are apps you can use as well.

7. Catch and Release Your Side-Quests: ADHD brains are divergent. We don’t think in linear ways. One thought sparks a thousand more and we can have many, many “tabs” open in our brains at once. This doesn’t exactly foster focus. And sometimes, it’s really beneficial to just go where your agile brain wants to take you. But when you’re in the middle of a focus block to write a blog post about the fascinating world of mycellium, it’s probably not the time to lean into your curiosity about how bears hibernate. When we are working, we will always have random thoughts zooming through our brains. If you feel tempted to jump onto that thought and go for a ride, just grab a post-it note (or use a notes app) and write down what it is you’re thinking about. Then put the note aside and get back to work. Before long you will have accumulated a nice stack of post-its (use one post-it per thought). Bring those post-its to your next braindump session and include them if they still hold your interest. (Or if you’re using Focus Blocks, schedule a block each week to take care of all the random post-it thoughts. And a thank you to Sergey in the Focus Blocks room who suggested the post-it note stack to me, as Mani had suggested it to him. It works great!)

8. Schedule a Weekly Planning Session with a Treat: I’ve found the only time I’m successful at doing a regular weekly planning session is when I connect it to something I really like. For example, plan to do this session at your favorite coffee shop with your favorite treat. Even better if you can pull in a support person for this or stack it with coffee with a friend. Schedule an hour to get your planning done and plan for your friend to arrive after that. If you expect to sit at home and do an executive function heavy task like this, you will very rarely actually do it. You might have it on your calendar every week but unless you sweeten the pot your ADHD brain will avoid this task. But it’s so beneficial when you do it. Plan for 1 hour. Look over the previous week, pull out your brain dump list and update it if necessary, and get all your plans for the week onto your calendar and schedule your work blocks. Know that this is all just a plan and much of it will change. But you’ll be better able to handle those changes if you already have a plan in place. Bonus Tip: Commit to yourself to put any appointment you make onto your calendar as soon as you make it. Any time you tell yourself you’ll remember to do it later you are setting yourself up for failure. So just take the two minutes immediately to add the thing to your calendar. This habit will help you immensely.

9. Choose a Starting Place for Automation: There are so many automation apps and desktop versions available and they can all feel a little overwhelming when you scan them. These things are a bit tricky for ADHDers. We will absolutely love the results if we take the time to get it all set up. But we get easily overwhelmed at all the steps to get set up so we often download these apps and do a day or two and then give up. I want to encourage you to plan a focus time block to research automations that will help you with your workflow and start somewhere. I really like Sunsama, which I’ll link below, as a good place to start some automation for your calendar and task list. It also will track the time you spend on tasks, which is super helpful for those of us with time blindness. Learning how long certain tasks actually take helps us to get better and better at our planning. Other places we can use automation: Asking Siri or Google to set reminders for us, Paying Bills, Meal Planning, Email filters, Suscriptions for things you order regularly, etc. NOTE: this is important…as you begin to try out different apps to see what works, it’s always great when they have a free trial. Make sure you put a note in your calendar to cancel the subscription a couple days before the trial ends. And if you know it’s not a fit before that, cancel as soon as you know. Otherwise you’ll be paying a lot of ADHD tax and that is not fun. I’ll put a couple apps/software sites that I’ve heard good things about below. And in the future I’ll have a post that offers suggestions for several different kinds of automation options.

10. Learn More About ADHD: I was diagnosed with ADHD nine years ago and I took the time to learn a few important things but I didn’t do the kind of research I’ve done in the last year and I wish I had. I could have made some really helpful changes almost a decade ago. When we know better we can do better. So if you haven’t already done a good bit of learning about ADHD, set aside a little time each week to learn some more. You can check out my ADHD Toolbox section for ideas. A super easy way to start is to follow ADHD content creators on social media and podcast apps. Just doing that one thing will likely cause you to become more educated as you’ll naturally come across things you didn’t know were related to ADHD as you scroll and you’ll probably be inspired to learn more as a result.