Hacking Your ADHD
Episodes
Understanding Nutrition and ADHD with Aleta Storch
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, this week I'm talking with Aleta Storch of Wise Heart Nutrition, a small nutrition practice made up of 3 neurodivergent-affirming dietitians...
Should we even be setting Goals?
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, as we begin to get ready to roll into the new year, we're going to be seeing a lot more about New Year's Resolutions and goal setting - but ...
Energy Drinks
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, in this week's episode, we're going to be diving into energy drinks… well, not literally, that would be sticky… and well, that amount of...
How to Perform a Weekly Review
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, this week we're talking about our weeks and how we can get more out of them with a weekly review. The idea behind a weekly review is that we...
Emotional Regulation
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, this week we're getting emotional and talking about the relationship between ADHD and our emotions. While emotional dysregulation isn't part...
Coping with your ADHD
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, this week we're talking about coping - our ability to cope with stressful situations but more specifically, how we can work on coping with...
ADHD Management: Sleep and Exercise
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All right, back on track with this series on Getting Started with ADHD Management, and this week we're going to be focusing on some of the more physic...
Three Years of Hacking Your ADHD
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacking Your ADHD just passed the three-year mark, which I'm just amazed at. Amazed with having stuck with it, amazed with how the show has grown and ...
Getting Started With Your ADHD Management Part 2
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As I was finishing up my Getting Started episode I realized that if I had been talking to someone I'd also still have a ton of questions and feel like...
Getting Started With Your ADHD Management
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the questions that I've been getting a bit more frequently recently is just trying to understand where to get started with ADHD - and I think t...
Listener Questions: Working from Home and Building Better Eating Habits
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team - thanks for sticking with me during my break and to everyone that filled out my survey a few weeks back. Your input was really incredibly ki...
Energy Management: Spiritual Energy (Rebroadcast)
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I know the term spiritual energy is going to throw a lot of people - so let's start off by getting clear on what I mean here. When I'm talking about s...
Energy Management: Emotional Energy (Rebroadcast)
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Help me out by taking my podcast survey! Emotional Energy isn't as cut and dry as physical energy - there are no emotional calories that we can track...
Energy Management: Mental Energy (Rebroadcast)
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Help me out by taking my podcast survey! Today we're going to be looking at ways that we can work on cutting down distractions and staying focused. W...
Energy Management: Physical Energy (Rebroadcast)
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before we get going here, I just want to make sure you know that I'm not a doctor, and while this episode is a lot about your health, it is not intend...
Brainworx with Alma Galvan and Bob Dietrich
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, in today's episode, I'm talking with Alma Galvan and Bob Dietrich - Alma is a neural researcher and Certified Brain Gym instructor, Bob Bob ...
Creativity and ADHD with Saman Kesh
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we've got a bit of a different episode coming your way - in this episode, I talk with award-winning director Saman Kesh. Kesh is known for his n...
Celebrating Your Wins (Rebroadcast)
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I want to start this episode off by saying that this is something I'm bad at - and not in the sense that what I do to celebrate is bad or that I'm not...
Too Much
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last few weeks, I have hit a number of points where it all just felt like too much - now there are a number of things that have contributed t...
Unconventional Organisation with Skye Rapson
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, today I'm talking with Skye Rapson of Unconventional Organisation, a New Zealand-based coaching group that specializes in online coaching. T...
The Wandering Mind and Hyperfocus (Rebroadcast)
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the thoughts I kept coming back to while working on my episode's on multitasking was what it really meant to be multitasking. I settled on usin...
The Myth of Lazy (Rebroadcast)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's episode, I talked about the Hot-Cold Empathy Gap and how it can be hard for us to really remember or predict how our state is going to ...
Why We Make Decisions We Don't Understand (Rebroadcast)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we make bad decisions in the moment? We've all done things that we regret doing right? yeah me, neither - but let's say hypothetically there wa...
ADHD, Psychology and Finance with Rick Webster of Rena-Fi
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm talking with Rick Webster of Rena-Fi - a psychology-based financial education platform. Rena-Fi provides ADHD-friendly ideas, articles, and ...
ADHD Success with MJ
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week I had the pleasure of talking with MJ Siemens from the ADHD Diversified Podcast and what a conversation we had. In it, we talk a lot about t...
Self-Diagnosis
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Self-diagnosis has become a hot-button topic in the mental health world as social media has ramped up many people's awareness of many of these conditi...
Executive Function
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Executive function is a hot topic around ADHD - and more specifically how we often have a deficit in it. One of the trickiest parts about executive fu...
Retrain Your Brain with Ben Ahrens
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm talking with Ben Ahrens the CEO and Co-founder re-origin which is a science-based, self-directed neuroplasticity training program. Ben was a...
Listener Questions: Doom Box Follow-Up
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My friend and colleague, Bob Dietrich, is interviewing me and over 40 other amazing experts on The ADHD Toolbox LIVE! This FREE video series is packed...
Success with ADHD: Finding Balance with Brendan Mahan
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm coming in with my second episode in the success with ADHD series and I'm talking with Brendan Mahan. Brendan is a dynamic ADHD/Executive...
An Even Deeper Dive Into Multitasking (rebroadcast)
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To recap from last week we learned that are there are three kinds of multitasking - Classic Multitasking where we're trying to perform more than one t...
Deep Dive Into Multitasking (rebroadcast)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're going to be deep-diving into multitasking - this is one of those topics that I frequently mention in episodes, but I've never featured...
Building Mindset and Fitness with Karen Broda
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I'm talking with Karen Broda, a Personal Trainer & Wellness Coach who helps ADHD-ers look & feel good naked! Her purpose is to...
Get Ready for Spring with Seasonal Planning
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the ideas that I've been playing with lately is how to go about my planning in a more natural way or perhaps a better phrase would be functiona...
Listener Question - Doom Boxes
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we're going to be diving into a listener question about cleaning and specifically about doom boxes - and if you don't know what...
How to Handle Low Capacity Days
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the ideas that I was presented with during the pandemic was that of surge capacity - this is the idea that we all have reserves of emotional en...
Your Brain's Not Broken with Dr. Tamara Rosier
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, I've got a real treat for you today - as I mentioned earlier in the year I'm going to try and include a few more interviews on this podcast,...
How to do Hard Things - Part 3
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All right, I'm back from my little break and we're just heading right back into the hard stuff - or at least how we can start getting it checked off o...
How To Apply What You Learn (rebroadcast)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the questions that I frequently get is how people can actually apply what they're learning - in this podcast and from all the other things we l...
Give Yourself Some Slack: Perfectly Imperfect (rebroadcast)
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the reasons that many of us have trouble giving ourselves slack is because of our internalized perfectionism - it's something that controls our...
How to do Hard Things - Part 2
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we began this series on how to do hard things and looked specifically at how we define hard things and ways that we can work through some of...
How to do Hard Things - Part 1
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite sayings from Brendan Mahan of the ADHD Essentials podcast is that ADHD is life on Hard Mode. The executive dysfunction that comes w...
The Power of Accountability with Sharon Pope of Shelpful
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I'm talking with the CEO and founder of the company Shelpful, Sharon Pope - we've all had times when we needed a little help getting...
The Dog and The Dragon
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As I'm getting ready to head into the holidays I thought I'd deliver you something a bit different in your podcast player - a story. I don't want to g...
Caffeine Deep Dive
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Trimethylxanthine is the world's most popular psychoactive drug - for many caffeine is such a ubiquitous substance that calling it a drug seems like a...
Comorbidity and Depression
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, today's episode is coming in a bit more seriously than some of my others so I just wanted to give you all a head's up. In today's episode, w...
How To Think Critically (rebroadcast)
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ADHD brain has a strange relationship with thinking. One of my biggest gripes is that it often feels like I can't ever turn my brain off. No matte...
A Question Worth Asking
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a lot of my episodes, I have touted the virtue of asking questions - this is something that is embedded deeply in my philosophy. When we engage our...
Listener Questions - Procrastination and Taking Breaks
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team this week I'm jumping on some listener questions - if you'd like to leave your own question for me to answer on the air just head over to Hac...
How To Give Yourself Some Slack (rebroadcast)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Often when I think about productivity I envision something like a well-oiled machine - everything fits together, everything has its place and when it ...
Taking Breaks (rebroadcast)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that one of the biggest hurdles from ADHD is starting, but paradoxically one of our other hurdles is stopping. Sometimes it feels like we'...
Lagging Indicators (rebroadcast)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most important aspects of planning is knowing where you've been and this typically comes from some kind of review process. The reason for t...
Coaching for your Brain with Dr. Norrine Russell
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I am talking with Dr. Norrine Russell of Russell Coaching - Dr. Russell has a Pd.D. from Bowling Green State University with a focus on psyc...
Waiting for Inspiration
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the easiest ways for procrastination to creep into our lives is through the thought that we just need to wait to do something until we feel lik...
How to Find a Therapist (rebroadcast)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm bringing back an episode from the archives while I'm working on getting some new content put together. One of the hardest aspects for m...
How to Plan Your Day
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While working on the last episode on laziness, one of the themes that came up was how we can become paralyzed when we don't know what our next step is...
The Myth of Lazy
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's episode, I talked about the Hot-Cold Empathy Gap and how it can be hard for us to really remember or predict how our state is going to ...
Why We Make Decisions We Don't Understand
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we make bad decisions in the moment? We've all done things that we regret doing right? yeah me, neither - but let's say hypothetically there wa...
The Trap of Low Quality Leisure Time
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, good news, I am finally over Covid - it took me a bit longer than I would have liked but I'm healthy again and ready to get back at things. ...
The Wall of Awful with Brendan Mahan (rebroadcast)
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've all got things that we think we should be able to just do - for example, I've had on my to-do list for weeks to make a phone call to the bank - ...
Building Gratitude (rebroadcast)
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the hottest trends to come out of the self-help world over the last few years is gratitude. And it's no surprise, gratitude has been found to b...
How To Save Time with Sequencing (rebroadcast)
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sequencing is all about the order in which we do things. Sometimes it seems like it doesn't matter what comes first, but also try putting your pants o...
Personal Energy Management (rebroadcast)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hey team, I'm going to be taking a little time off in August and I thought that I'd dredge up a few episodes from the archives. Today we're going to b...
Celebrating Your Wins
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I want to start this episode off by saying that this is something I'm bad at - and not in the sense that what I do to celebrate is bad or that I'm not...
Meeting Yourself Where You're At
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we've been working on goals one place I want us to take a step back on and think about is meeting ourselves where we are. As we get going with our ...
When to Quit (rebroadcast)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first thing we've got to understand is that when we ask, when should I quit? We're also asking, when should I persevere? And they often serve as t...
Five Frameworks to Build Powerful Goals
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week dove into how goals work and the science behind them - now we're going to be taking all of that and looking at how we can better create our ...
Freshening Up Your Goals
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue to think about our fresh start one clear area that we're going to hit is that of, well what should we even be focusing on. That's where...
Fresh Start: The Deep Clean
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things I never quite got a grasp on is seasons... I mean I grew up in Hawaii and we basically had hot and not quite as hot. But this comes ...
Get Going With A Fresh Start
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In just one more month we're going to be coming up on the halfway point of 2021 — I know, I have no idea how it got here either. But with this mark ...
The Happiness at Work Business with Will Henshall of Focus@Will
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, I continue my conversation with Will Henshall, CEO of the music service Focus@Will In this part of the interview we talk about...
Using Music to Create Focus with Will Henshall
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever I sit down to do some serious writing I always make sure to have something to listen to - music is often a key piece of how I keep myself eng...
Habit Challenge: Obey Your Thirst
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're going to be talking about a chemical that is responsible for countless deaths worldwide every year - a chemical so ubiquitous that it can ...
Putting the Hyper in Hypersensitivity
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With ADHD we often have trouble filtering things out - we can't ignore the hum of the air conditioner, we can't ignore the scratchy tag on the back of...
Tweaking Your Habits for Better Results (rebroadcast)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're going to be exploring the power of habit and how small changes to our routines can have a big impact. One of the easiest ways we can h...
Rationalization and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (rebroadcast)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Resistance is the embodiment of the I don't wanna's - the part of us that keeps us from doing our work - or anything for that matter. And a big part o...
A Nudge in the Right Direction (rebroadcast)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Making the right choices isn't always easy - we've got so many options of what we can do and when I'm tired I don't want to weigh all my options. It w...
The Wandering Mind and Hyperfocus
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the thoughts I kept coming back to while working on my episode's on multitasking was what it really meant to be multitasking. I settled on usin...
Multitasking Deep Dive Part 2
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To recap from last week we learned that are there are three kinds of multitasking - Classic Multitasking where we're trying to perform more than one t...
A Deep Dive Into Multitasking
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're going to be deep-diving into multitasking - this is one of those topics that I frequently mention in episodes, but I've never featured...
How To Apply What You Learn
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the questions that I frequently get is how people can actually apply what they're learning - in this podcast and from all the other things we l...
Understanding the ADHD Subtypes
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to understanding our ADHD it can be a bit of a minefield to navigate - one of our most pernicious problems is that often we're never rea...
Building Your Touchstones | Listener Q&A
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All right everyone, we've got another listener Q&A episode coming your way today with questions looking at ways we can declutter our phones, re-esta...
Digital Declutter: Tabs, Tabs, And more Tabs
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did you think I was all done with tabs last week... well I wasn't because there's actually a ton we can still talk about. Tabs are one of those small ...
Digital Declutter: Too Many Tabs
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago I asked around on Facebook the number of tabs that my friends had open at the time. Answers I got included: 500 on their phone and 20 ...
Decluttering Your Digital Life
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all have an idea of what clutter is - it's just all that stuff. It's that frustrating feeling when you can't find something just because there are ...
Masquerading As Adults
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
#Adulting Now there's something a lot of us can relate to - or relate to the idea that adulting is something we sometimes do, but being an adult is no...
The Surprising Magic of Setting a Deadline
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When I was in school, I always wanted to be the kind of student who able to finish a project well before it needed to be turned in. I loved the idea t...
Breaking Down the ONE Thing (rebroadcast)
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I am going to be going over the book The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan - I was introduced to this book by Eric Tive...
Among Us
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last year there was a surge in the popularity of the game Among Us - 1000's of people jumped on to be funny little scientists running around there spa...
On The Razors Edge
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Occam's Razor is a philosophical rule (and that's rule in a very soft sense) that we can use to help us with problem solving. In philosophy a razor is...
Lagging Indicators
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm going to be diving into some more aspects of planning in the coming months - I know, shouldn't I have done this before the end of the year? Well I...
Top 5 ADHD Tips
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey there team, we're nearly at the end of 2020 and I thought I'd deliver a bit of a shorter episode this week focusing on some of the strategies that...
Sequencing
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sequencing is all about the order in which we do things. Sometimes it seems like it doesn't matter what comes first, but also try putting your pants o...
Even More Automations
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the reason that automations is such a ripe topic is that it can help in almost all areas of our life - this week we're going to focus more o...
More Automations to Make Your Life Easier
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we're going to focus on the money side of things and go into how we can use automation for our shopping and then also how we ca...
Automating Your ADHD Life
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the paradoxes of ADHD is how much work we can get done when we're interested in something... but then how little we get done when something is ...
Fighting Resistance (Rebroadcast)
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sit...
Cleaning House (Rebroadcast)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'd say I have a love-hate relationship with cleaning, but that implies that there is a part of me that loves cleaning. There isn't. I like having cle...
One Year of Podcasting: Interview with Kari Gormley
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's a little bit different - today you're going to be hearing an interview I had with my friend Kari Gormley - now I say interview with a bit ...