Hacking Your ADHD

How to Handle Low Capacity Days (Rebroadcast)

27 Mar 2023

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...

The Joy of Saying No with Natalie Lue

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week I'm talking with Natalie Lue about her book, The Joy of Saying No. Natalie is the author of the popular relationship and self-este...

Using Our Tools

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week we're going to be talking about using our tools but, more specifically, getting back into the habit after we've stopped using them...

Cleaning, Organizing, and Decluttering w/Roxie Martin

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week I'm talking with one of my favorite people Roxie Martin - I got to know Roxie back when I was doing ADDmin work for the ADHD reWir...

Daylight Saving & Circadian Rhythms

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week we're going to be talking about the upcoming change to Daylight Saving Time in the US - but don't worry, if you're not one of thos...

Burnout and Boundaries w/Skye Rapson

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team - this week I'm bringing you a conversation I had with Skye Rapson about burnout and boundaries. Skye is the founder of Unconventional Organi...

Slowing Down: Activation Energy

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, we're back at it for another episode about slowing down, but this time we're looking at activation energy, which is the idea we're going to ...

Slowing Down: Task Management (Memory)

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week we're going to keep up our discussion of slowing down, but we're going to be focusing on memory - well, kind of. With ADHD, it can...

Slowing Down: Time Management

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week we're going to be talking about slowing down. One of the worst parts of ADHD is that we often feel like we have to do all of the t...

Important But Not Urgent (IBNU)

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I've been thinking about the phrase, "I want to hit the ground running," and how that's kind of how many of us try and start the year. I know that's h...

What's life like without ADHD?

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week we have another listener question: Hi there. I just wanted to say thank you so much. I was riding my bike while listening to your ...

2023

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, Happy New Year! I'm excited to get going into 2023, but I also don't want to just be doing everything by the seat of my pants, so it's time ...

Fresh Start: The Deep Clean (Rebroadcast)

02 Jan 2023

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 ...

Listener Questions: Loose Ends

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hey team, this week we've got a listener question: "My name is Mike and I have a question about wrapping things up. I have a really difficult time on ...

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 ...