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William Curb
mobile.com welcome to hacking your ADHD. I'm your host William Curb and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics and best practices with your ADHD brain. Hey team. This week I'm talking with ADHD coach Shane Thrapp, but more specifically, today we're going to be diving into a service called Focus101, which is a free body doubling site designed to help you get the most out of your work time. Now, funny story, I'm actually recording this While working on Focus 101 to help make sure I get this done. In this episode, we'll be getting into exactly what body doubling is and how it can be incredibly helpful for completing those tasks that are hard for us to follow through on on our own. We also talk about a number of other tools that can be used in conjunction with body doubling, such as the Pomodoro Technique alarms using our calendars and ways to break tasks into smaller pieces. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that@hackingyouradhd.com 160 alright. Keep on listening to find out how body doubling can be an effective means to follow through on those tasks that are just so hard to do.
I'm here with Shane Thrapp and it is great to have you here. You want to give a little introduction of yourself and we can talk a little bit about Focus 101.
Shane Thrapp
Yeah, as you said, my name is Shane Thrapp. I'm an ADHD life coach. I also help run a men's ADHD support group called the Men's ADHD Support Group and I am the operations director for them.
William Curb
All right, so we decided to have this show to talk about Focus 101, which is a accountability platform.
Shane Thrapp
It's kind of a combination of a tool called a Focus Mate. It's a body doubling for all intents and purposes, but it's growing into a tool that's going to kind of combine the best aspects of Zoom and Focus Mate and other tools that are out there like building accountability groups and things like that and bring it all into one cohesive all in one tool. It includes things like Pomodoro technique that's integrated into the system itself. You don't have to have some external tool. It includes white noises, cafe sounds where you can have like an ambiance sound in the background. And there's also public rooms where a group of people can get together and essentially like Flow Club, have a moderated session where everybody kind of talks about what they're going to be doing and works on it throughout the thing muted or unmuted. And then they take breaks and things along those lines and then everybody's be able to discuss afterwards what all they got done. And so that accountability really helps people, especially neurodivergent people who have a tendency to hyper focus and get locked into something for a long amount of time to be able to split it up and be able to have those breaks that they need so that their brain doesn't get burnt out.
William Curb
Awesome. Can we first start with like a
definition of body doubling? Cause I'm sure some people have not because that's a fairly recent term from what I understand.
Shane Thrapp
Yeah, absolutely. Body doubling is the practice of working either virtually or in person with another person in place with where you're working on your task and they may be working on their task. And the goal is to help each other with accountability and getting the tasks done. And helping with reducing how much distraction can be involved. Typically, if it's virtually both, people are muted. They're working on their own things. They talk about what they're going to work on at first, and at the end of it, they check in with each other and they say, oh, hey, congratulations. And we give each other that dopamine rush that we need when we know that we did a good job. Because somebody, even a stranger telling us that is really helpful.
William Curb
Well, and it's one of those things where when I hear about body doubling and even like just thinking about doing it, I go, why would I work more if another person's there? Like, I'm the same distractions and all that kind of stuff. And yet when I actually do body doubling and I get so much more done, it's one of those things where it's like, I heard this works and it works. That's kind of frustrating because we have
Shane Thrapp
adhd and like a lot of people with adhd, we need external tools. This means external accountability. And having another person there puts that pressure on us to do the work that we said that we were going to do. And that helps us reduce the likelihood that we're going to go get distracted doing something else. How many times have you had a friend that, you know, said, hey, I'm going to come over, and you look at your house and all of a sudden you realize, oh, crap. And you just start doing that, like one hour, just like super deep clean of the entire house or even like
William Curb
the really superficial top level clean so they don't know what you really live.
Shane Thrapp
Like that's still cleaning. Yeah, you know, you're still doing the work, but because of that pressure of that person coming over, you're holding yourself accountable to getting the thing done, which is that little hump that we need to get over the starting of work that we want to get done. And then we find ourselves just hitting that momentum and then riding it through. And then by the time they get here, most of our areas that need to be seen are clean.
William Curb
So I got to play around with the service a little bit. And it is like you sign up for a time. And I found it much easier to like now suddenly this project, my initial one was just to go through my email and it was so much easier to go through my email because it was on my calendar then. Cause I'm meeting with this person, this is what I'm going to do. I know when I started I didn't feel like doing it, but I still was able to get through doing it, because it's on my calendar. If I'm not there, that person's just. I don't want to just, like, super inconvenience this person. Like, hey, I'm going to be here and then not show up.
Shane Thrapp
So Christian Rat, the CEO of Focus101, designed a system based on cognitive behavioral therapy practices, and he built the system to utilize our natural tendencies to people, please. Because, again, oh, no, I don't want to just, like, leave this person hanging. This is an appointment that I have to go to. And for a lot of us to have that appointment, anxiety like that really drills us down into, okay, I gotta be there. Yeah. And so it's helpful. And here's the thing. The goal isn't to be perfect. Y' all hear me say this a lot. If you listen to any of my other podcasts, the goal isn't to be perfect. The goal is to do it more often than we don't. And when we have these accountability tools in place, it helps us do it more often than we don't. By having that external tool, like using the calendar and everything and setting it up and adding it to our calendar, we see it. Especially if we're putting all the other tools, like actually looking at our calendar and using alarms to get those things done. Building our task list, it helps us kind of organize our days a little bit more effectively instead of just being paralyzed about, what am I going to do today? Well, you've already set it up, so now you just do those things at that time.
William Curb
And I also think there's also that nice thing of, like, at the end, you're gonna be like, hey, this is what I got done, which kind of keeps me in my seat the whole time. I can't just, like, peace out early because I got bored.
Shane Thrapp
Yeah. The person is there. They're expecting you to discuss with them what you got done. The thing I love about body doubling is that you can do it for essentially anything that you want to get done. Got it clean. All right, cool. Set it up on your phone. Put your phone in the kitchen. Clean your kitchen.
William Curb
Yeah.
Shane Thrapp
And when you come back and you have that discussion and the person tells you, great job, or that's awesome. If y' all are cheering each other on. What we're doing is we're actually locking in that. That thought process that I got this done, and we actually look at a clean kitchen and can feel accomplished.
William Curb
Yeah.
Shane Thrapp
Because sometimes out of sight, out of mind actually even means ignoring our accomplishments. And at the end of the day, we sit here and look back at our day and we. I didn't get anything done. Ignoring the fact that we did get a lot of stuff done, especially like house husbands, house spouses and things like that, when, like, we are getting through so much different things, but they're all tiny things that we don't see the overall whole. And having that recognition helps us with that.
William Curb
Yeah, I think. I know. Personally, I have a lot of trouble with acknowledging accomplishments. You know, like, if I clean the kitchen well, that's what I was supposed to do. It's supposed to be clean. So I wouldn't necessarily give myself that kind of celebration. But if my friend cleaned the kitchen, I'm like, hey, great job. My wife is, you know, doing the dishes. I'm like, hey, thank you for doing the dishes. I appreciate that. But I don't tend to do that for myself. So that is like, a really nice external piece.
Shane Thrapp
This is one of those things where cognitive behavioral therapy comes back into play. Because Dr. Ned Hallowell talks about recognition, response, euphoria. It's the exact opposite of rejection, sensitivity, and dysphoria. It is the external recognition of the work that we do and having that really helps us. Because just, like, we feel really shitty when we feel like we're getting rejected by somebody. We gotta remember the emotional dysregulation has two sides of the coin. There is the positive emotions and there's the negative emotions. And if we can lean on the positive emotions and put more experiences in our life that compound on that, which means having external sources of affirmations from people around us, even if they are strangers, then we're able to put pressure on ourselves in good ways, and we're able to seek those good affirmations and not fear the rejection so much.
William Curb
Yeah, absolutely. Going back to the beginning, too. So we were talking about some of the other pieces that are integrated here. So we have things like the white noise. And specifically, I'm also thinking about the pomodoro technique, which I'm sure some people also don't know about.
Shane Thrapp
The pomodoro technique is where we essentially just split our time up in different phases. We have our working time. The initial thing is 25 minutes. And then there's a break time where we take five minutes to just kind of honestly blow off steam, pick up our phone, surf the net, go use the bathroom, go grab a snack, go do something, go for a walk. Anything that you can do to kind of break up your timeframe so that you're able to get the rest that you need and then come back fresh minded and start back up that Pomodoro technique you usually do in blocks, like I said earlier, 25, 5, 25. But you can also do 35, 7, 35 or you can do 40, 10, 40. And at the end of that time there's a lot less likelihood of you feeling so burned out because you're giving yourself the rest time. And instead of us hyper focusing so hard on something that we eventually burn ourselves out, that's detrimental. And yes, I hear a bunch of y' all out there going right now, but if I hit that flow, any kind of interruption is just going to completely throw me off. This is why body doubling is so important because you still have to get back into that task and it is much healthier for us to get the rest that we need in between those breaks. And if we have that accountability factor, we can get back into the task easier.
William Curb
Yeah, and I think there's hyper focused. Absolutely a double edged sword. We are drawing more heavily from our future resources and our current resources, but also the like. Pomodoro technique is a tool that we don't always have to be using for everything. Like if I'm doing writing, it might be better for me to take a longer go at doing things because that's better for how my brain works. But if I'm answering emails, I want the shorter blocks. It makes it a lot easier to get through everything.
Shane Thrapp
And that's the key, is recognizing that doing our passions, those things that we really enjoy, that's what we want to save our mental energy for. And those things that we don't like doing, we want to break it up so that we are using our mental energy in effective and efficient manners. And that's the trick. That right there is recognizing those different types of energy expenditures that we want to use.
William Curb
Because I often think about this earlier this week where I'm like, I just have this little bit of work I need to do and if I do it now, I could do something fun in the afternoon, but I'm having a mental block doing it right now and it wasn't actually worth forcing myself to do at that minute. What was better was to go, okay, I'm going to have lunch first, I'm going to take a bit of a break, then I will do the work and I can still do the thing in the afternoon because otherwise I'm just going to sit there procrastinating, doing nothing. And it's being mindful of how I'm using my time.
Shane Thrapp
That decision paralysis. It can really be a huge time suck for us. But if we are planning for that, yes, I hear all you people sitting here talking about, I don't like structure. Okay, look, we have to have structure. This helps us with that. It stacks multiple motivational factors in place. We have an appointment. We are working with a person. We are adding affirmations to it. We have specific tasks that we need to get done. We have blocked off the time. All of these different factors all play into allowing us to be more productive, you know, just for that hour or two hours or three hours that we use it per day.
William Curb
Yeah, and I think that's also another great point is that we don't need to do this eight hours a day. Like, I know I personally have gotten very much into the idea that like you're supposed to have an eight hour workday. Let's do these techniques for eight hours. And that also leads to burnout, apparently 100%.
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Hiking Companion 1
Awkward time to ask this, but. Hey, did you download the trail map?
Hiking Companion 2
Yeah. No, I don't need to.
Hiking Companion 1
I don't understand. You're trusting your signal out here.
Hiking Companion 2
I'm trusting T Mobile. They have the best network and if we end up in bumtots nowhere, well, we've got T satellite for backup.
Shane Thrapp
Whoa.
Hiking Companion 1
I don't trust my carrier that much.
Hiking Companion 2
We'll just use your phone as a flashlight.
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Shane Thrapp
Visit t mobile.com the average office worker does 3 and a half, 4 hours of work a day in an 8 hour period. Especially in our capitalistic society. Look at, oh, I'm supposed to work nine to five. Well are you? You know, because when we have adhd we have to look at our actual time that we spend doing what and what we like doing at certain times. I'm super administrative between 9 and 12. All my administrative work I'm really good at doing during that time. I know that my meds are going to kind of start wearing off around that time anyways. I know that there's a number of different factors that are gonna be in play it. Not just that I have to go pick up my kids at 2:30. You know, I just used a lot of mental energy. I need to go for a walk, I need to spend time outside, I need to do a few other things. And then from 4 to 6 I'm productive again. But then from 8 to 10 I'm super creative. So kind of focusing my timeframes about when I'm actually productive in the way that I want to be productive around those natural inclinations that I have allows me again to be much more effective. Now I don't work all those times, y', all, but I know that if I have something creative like I want to do some creative writing, I know that 8pm to 10pm at night is my creative time and it's really useful for me to do that.
William Curb
Yeah, because we also have different flows of energy throughout the day. We're not going to always feel a drive to be doing things. And so I've been sick this last week. Pushing through the sickness is not necessarily the best thing for me. And I'm going to be getting a lot less done. But if I can like focus my energy maybe one or two hours where I feel like I have more energy and can do things, then when I'm feeling much more down, I can actually let myself rest.
Shane Thrapp
It's really overwhelming when we look at this task list and we don't have any kind of structure about when we're going to do it. And then we start getting falling into that decision paralysis that we talked about earlier. We're causing overwhelm if we then get to the end of our day and we haven't actually done anything that was on our task list. Now we're sitting here starting to be down on our ourselves feeling a lot of shame and things of that nature that's more overwhelming. And the more that we do have these issues of overwhelm. The more injury we're kind of doing to our brain, it's heightened amygdala responses and it's heightened feelings of shame and it's heightened feelings of, you know, activating our past trauma and stuff like that. And this can cause us to then start hitting burnout faster. Burnout is when stress and frustration and overwhelming feelings is kind of stacking on top of us. So for those of y' all who really aren't really understanding the severity of it, I compare overwhelm to kind of like pulling your hamstring or doing like some very serious to your knee. And if you keep trying to run on that knee or if you keep trying to run on that leg that's got a slight fracture to it, it's going to get significantly worse. And burnout is whenever your ACL tears and your leg is literally just flopping around and it's severely injured or like a broken knee or something serious, that's what's happening in your mind. You want to manage your life so that you're not doing that to yourself constantly. If you are dealing with burnout, rest, go see a therapist, go see your doctor. Make sure you have the medications that you need. Make sure you're managing your stress and frustration. We want to prevent the injury from this point going forward. And it's constantly going through that cycle of things like that. Yeah.
William Curb
And I also think it's important to mention that burnout is a chronic condition and taking like a one week vacation will not fix it. It is because you consistently have too much on your plate. It's really easy to be like, oh, yeah, if I just rest and I'll be better. It's like, no, it's. The conditions you're in right now are. Cause are gonna. If you don't change those, you're gonna get me right back where you are. And probably quicker than last time.
Shane Thrapp
Right. Again, if we look at an injury, if you have a busted ACL and you go back out and you're playing Frisbee again, guess what's going to happen if you keep trying to twist on that ACL. This is why using tools like Focus101 is so important, is so that we are putting that structure in place in our lives so that we are able to manage our time, our frustration, our stress, and our emotions more effectively and get the things that we need to get done done in a much more effective way.
William Curb
Yeah. It's not all about just willpower and pushing things through, because willpower Sucks. I know that as much as I want to be like, I can just do things when I want to, it doesn't work like that for me.
Shane Thrapp
No. I've been on medication for a few years now. I go to therapy every day. I'm an ADHD coach. I should be 100% fully healed and cured. No. My life is just as fucked up as other people's lives. I am able to be more effective in my life just because I do it more often than I don't. And that's the key, is recognizing that incremental change is the only way that we move forward. And putting in place those external tools allows us to make incremental change happen and be more consistent and we're able to be more persistent in the work that we need to get done.
William Curb
Yeah, I remember this is making me think of before I started doing stuff about ADHD management. I would go to coffee shops to work because I didn't want to be there. And I knew that, okay, I'm going to do my work, and when I finish, I can go home and do whatever I want. But it's the fact, it's like, okay, I'm here now. I might as well be doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Sometimes I won't be, but it's just, you know, nice to be to get out to do that. And then that worked for a while, and it was less effective over time. And then when I found out these, like, things about accountability, I'm like, oh, that's what I was doing unconsciously. And the reason it's not working is because I've, you know, kind of figured out the system and I'm not reporting to anyone else. I'm not accountable to anyone else. It doesn't matter to anyone that I'm at the coffee shop, but it is going to matter to my body double partner if I'm not there.
Shane Thrapp
And we have to look at those things that actually do motivate people with ADHD income. Right. Interesting, novel challenges that have urgency and follow our passions. That urgency is one of those things that we can put in place that can mitigate the need for novel and interesting. If we have a deadline that we know that we need to meet, and we've scheduled out our focus 101 times to work on that thing up to that deadline, then we're able to sit here and really take the decision paralysis off the table and turn it into, I'm going to do it or I'm not going to do it. And that decision is Significantly easier when we're not looking at all the different ways that it can fail.
William Curb
Yep.
Shane Thrapp
And so if we simplify the decision making process, we can actually find ourselves able to get through a large number of different tasks that at first look super overwhelming, but then as we get started, we ride that momentum all the way through them.
William Curb
Yeah, absolutely. It's that planning ahead piece that we often don't want to do with adhd, but it's so important for us to be doing because if we're not planning ahead, it's never going to get on our calendar. And if it's not on our calendar, we're probably not going to get to it. And that's so vital for those long term projects that are more than just a one off task because like, okay, say I want to write a book. I can't just rely on my motivation for when I want to write to get that done because that's not consistent enough for finishing a long term project like that.
Shane Thrapp
Yeah, I told my wife the other day, she was like, hey, we have this thing that we're going to do tomorrow night. I was like, is it on the calendar? She's like, no. I said, then it doesn't exist. And she's like, I'll put it on the calendar and I'll send you the invite. Okay, thank you. Yeah, you know, we actually have to have that conversation with ourselves. And this is what I love about Focus 101. Christian has this thing in place where when you initially sign up, it sends you an email and it reminds you to put it on your calendar, which is key. And then there's a reminder about one hour before you've got this coming up. And then there's an email that goes out says this person's joined a thing. Well, it's very hard to ignore those kinds of things unless you just literally have all of your emails turned off. But then that goes back to what I was saying earlier. We have to kind of respect those tools that we put in place. Our alarms, our email notifications, whatever tools that we have, we have to put those things in place so that we are able to be more effective. That's where a lot of people really struggle is paying attention to those emails that they're getting. It is important for us to have those and then at least make sure that we are looking at them at regular times of the day. And if that means that you need to have Alexa or Siri telling you to look at them like I do, that would be a good idea to have that in Place, if not those tools. If you're really paranoid, it's too late to be paranoid. I will say it's also really good to have a verbal component of telling you what you should do, which is why I lean on Alexa and Siri so that they are actually telling me to do the thing, not just an alarm going off. Didi, Didi, Didi. Hey, Shane, it's time for you to do your task, your calendar, and check your daily activities that you need to get done.
Hiking Companion 1
Cool.
Shane Thrapp
Make a decision. I'm going to do it or I'm not.
William Curb
Yeah. An important distinction is that you can decide that, hey, I'm not going to do this now, because there are reasons to not do things sometimes. This week, I had to choose to not do a number of things because I was sick. There are some things I shouldn't record when my voice is coming out like this, and I'm like, I'm not going to record a podcast like that.
Shane Thrapp
Absolutely.
William Curb
I was like, I'll have to make sure that I'm, like, physically able to talk today.
Which was great, because I can.
It doesn't have to be like, if I feel bad, that's a good reason. I don't want to be giving, like, hey, just don't do things when you don't feel like it. But I also want to be like, if you're gonna do a bad job because you feel bad, don't do the thing.
Shane Thrapp
Yeah. That's your body saying, hey, you should rest.
William Curb
Yeah. It's just funny trying to find, like, the balance of, like. Yeah. Cause, you know, like, as we're saying, this tool, like, gives us this ability, that little push. Be like, hey, I do want to do this thing. But we also need to respect our own body cues.
Shane Thrapp
And having this tool can kind of remind us that I'm not feeling too great today. So maybe I'm not going to do these tasks, like speaking on a podcast or something like that. But I'm still able to type, I'm still able to write. I'm still able to do these other things. So I'll just take these things off my task list and focus on these things instead. And so it's just kind of another external tool to remind us that we can also direct our mental energies towards things that we can do when other parts of our lives, we can't.
William Curb
Is there any final thoughts you'd like to leave the audience with?
Shane Thrapp
Yeah. A lot of y' all may have heard us sitting here talking about this, and y' all are just like, oh, it's another tool I have to pay for. Here's the thing about focus101.com it's free. It will never not be free. This is not one of those things where you go like focusmate, you can only go to three sessions a week because you know you're limited on the free plan to so many. This isn't like Flow Club where it's a 14 day trial. It is free. This is why I want to help support this guy because his whole mindset is I want to provide this tool and I don't want to charge people for it because it's a labor of love. And even in the future, as we're kind of moving forward with this tool, the goal is still to make it affordable. Even if you do wind up using a premium tier. But it's going to be like a small base price and then you can buy him a coffee. You can just donate to the organization and you can do that even on the free tier. You can go ahead and give this guy a little bit of money to show appreciation for the work that he's doing. And that's all he really cares about. What he wants and why he built this platform is to give people, especially neurodivergent people, a tool that allows them to be able to go to one place, find people who are like them, find people who are looking for accountability and work with those people and start developing productivity systems that they need.
William Curb
Yeah, that sounds pretty good. All right. And if people want to find out more about you, you do some excellent coaching that I have gone through. So people want to find out more about you, where should they go?
Shane Thrapp
Go to www.creatingorderfromkaos.com. you can set up an appointment there, do a free discovery session, see if I'm worth your time, and then just move forward working with me as a coach. You can also find me at the men's ADHD support group on Facebook. Come check us out. If you're a man with ADHD or autism and you want to find a support network, we're here for you.
William Curb
Awesome.
Well, thanks so much for coming on the show. I think people really appreciate it.
Shane Thrapp
Thank you very much.
William Curb
Thanks to Shane for coming on the show.
If you'd like to check out more
of Shane's work, you can find his coaching over@creating orderfromchaos.com or his community work@mensadhdsupportgroup.org and of course, if you'd like to do some body doubling of your own, be sure to go check out focus101.com before you go though, let's do a quick rundown of today's top tips. 1. Body doubling is a technique where we work with the presence of another person, even virtually, to help provide accountability. It can be effective at keeping us on track, reducing distractions, and help provide motivation to stay on task. 2. We can make body doubling even more effective when we use tools like Pomodoros, alarms, reminders, and breaking our tasks down into smaller pieces. I also personally find the aspect of scheduling a particular time to do a task to be an especially important aspect of body doubling. 3. As we discussed in the episode, Focus101 is a free online tool for ADHD productivity, combining features like body doubling, Pomodoros, and accountability groups. So that's a great place to go do it, but there are plenty of other options as well. That's it. Thanks for listening. I'd love to hear what you thought of this episode. Feel free to connect with me over@hackingyouradhd.com contact if you'd like links or to read this episode's transcript, you can go to the show notes page@hackingyouradhd.com 151 if you'd like to support the show, the best way to do so is to tell someone about it, especially if you think a particular episode would resonate with them. Just click the Share button on your podcast player. Or you can consider supporting me on Patreon. Just go to hackingyouradhd.com Patreon to find out more. For your moment of death. I accidentally said Shirley today instead of Siri. Now my phone is stuck on airplane mode.
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Hiking Companion 1
Awkward time to ask this, but hey, did you download the trail map?
Hiking Companion 2
Yeah, no, I don't need to.
William Curb
I don't understand.
Hiking Companion 1
You're trusting your signal out here.
Hiking Companion 2
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Host: William Curb
Guest: Shane Thrapp (ADHD Coach, Ops Director of Men's ADHD Support Group)
Date: July 20, 2026
In this lively and practical episode, William Curb sits down with ADHD coach Shane Thrapp to discuss strategies for enhancing focus, productivity, and accountability for people with ADHD. The spotlight is on the free productivity service Focus101—a platform inspired by body doubling principles and designed for neurodivergent users. The conversation covers what body doubling is, why it works, how to maximize it with tools like the Pomodoro Technique and alarms, and practical guidance for working within (not against) the rhythms of the ADHD brain. Listeners get actionable advice on leveraging external tools and structures instead of relying solely on willpower.
Timestamps: 01:21–04:53
What Is Focus101?
What Is Body Doubling?
Why Does Body Doubling Work?
Timestamps: 04:53–10:53
External Tools & Scheduling
Celebrating Accomplishment
Positive Recognition
Timestamps: 10:53–14:21
Pomodoro Technique
Structure and Flexibility
Emotional Impact
Timestamps: 15:57–19:54
Realistic Work Expectations
Recognizing and Preventing Burnout
Timestamps: 21:13–26:17
Unconscious vs. Conscious Accountability
Motivational Triggers for ADHD
Task Planning for Long-Term Goals
Technology as Support
Permission to Decline
Timestamps: 26:53–28:24
Truly Free and Inclusive
ADHD Coaching and Support Communities
For the full transcript or more, visit the episode’s page at hackingyouradhd.com/160.
(All timestamps are approximate. Episode content summarized; advertisements, intros, and non-content sections omitted.)