Nov 13 2024 40 mins
Five guitar solos blasting at once. That's how business owners with ADHD might describe their daily mental experience. While everyone faces challenges in running their own business, ADHD adds an extra layer of complexity. Instead of “only” staying organized or managing their time, they have the added layer of wrestling with a brain that sees every shiny object, generates endless ideas, and sometimes makes even the simplest tasks feel overwhelming.
The real struggle? Many business owners don't even realize ADHD is behind their daily battles with focus, follow-through, and feeling perpetually scattered.
In this conversation with my husband Michael Dickey, we share how our family's understanding of ADHD began with our son's diagnosis and led to Michael's own revelation. He opens up about the moment everything changed when he started medication: the mental chaos quieted to calm classical music, allowing him to focus in ways he never could before.
And after 17 years of marriage, I witnessed a transformation in how Michael could plan his day, communicate his thoughts, and engage in deeper conversations.
As both a business coach and someone with ADHD, Michael talks about the real challenges of trying to do it all yourself, especially those tedious tasks that feel like kryptonite. He talks about building a business when your brain works differently and shares practical tips for creating systems that actually work. You'll learn what feels like a weakness might actually be your superpower…if you learn to work with it the right way.
Links & Resources:
- Get Michael’s free goal-setting course
- Join Michael’s upcoming planning retreat
- ADHD 2.0 by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey
- Succeeding with Adult ADHD by Abigail Levrini
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks