Crafting Your ADHD Survival Kit with Maddy De Gabriele (Rebroadcast)
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Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Hey team! This week we're chatting with Maddie DiGabrielli, an Australian science communicator who's turned her personal journey with ADHD into a mission to help others. Through her adult ADHD starter kit and corporate workshops, Maddie breaks down ADHD management into bite-sized, easily digestible pieces. In this episode, we dive into the specific tools that can become part of your everyday toolkit for managing your ADHD. We discuss timers, headphones, pillboxes, blankets, and more. Yeah. If you've been wanting an episode that goes into the actual tools that I and many others use in their day-to-day ADHD life, then this is the episode, Maddie Brings the Goods.
If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hackingyouradh.com slash 181. I also wanted to let you know about the hacking your ADHD newsletter Eddie and All Distractions. And that's what this newsletter is all about. The things that have caught my interest over the past week that I think also might be interesting to you. In it I bring you the top things of the week that have caught my attention from the world of ADHD and beyond. If that sounds like something you'd like in your inbox, just head over to hackingyour ADHD.com slash newsletter and sign in. Alright, keep on listening to find out what goes into an ADHD toolkit.
You emailed me originally to talk about this ADHD toolkit idea to help people get into managing their ADHD. So can you tell me a little bit more about that idea? Cause I think that's something that people like, I want to start managing my ADHD, but I don't know where to start.
Absolutely. I was really excited and interested to hear you talk about the idea of a toolkit to manage your ADHD because that's an idea that I've really landed on myself over the last few years. Like quite a few of your listeners, I imagine. I was diagnosed as an adult, so I was twenty nine when I was diagnosed and I was diagnosed with ADHD because I was having problems with my ADHD.
Mm-hmm.
Almost by definition, you only get diagnosed with ADHD if you are struggling with symptoms of ADHD.
Yeah.
And for me, obviously getting proper medical care or medication for me personally has been a real game changer and there's a whole range of medical therapies that I've worked with with professionals that have been really life-changing. But I found that I still had all these really practical, logistical, organizational challenges in my life that didn't need medical solutions or didn't necessarily have medical solutions, but I still needed support and help. And once I knew I had ADHD, I found I could actually start identifying gradually and through quite a little trial and error tools that were ADHD appropriate that helped me with all these different areas of my life. And at the time I found myself really wishing that I didn't have to find this out through trial and error.
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5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:50
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What is the ADHD survival toolkit and why do we need it?
4:50–10:51
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How did Maddy’s diagnosis shape her approach to building a toolkit?
10:51–36:54
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Why do traditional sleep‑hygiene routines fail for ADHD brains?
36:54–38:12
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How can sleep headphones and a treadmill walk improve bedtime for ADHD?
38:12–41:54
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