Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, where you can learn techniques for helping your ADHD brain.
ADHD can be a struggle, but it doesn't always have to be. Join me every Monday as I explore ways that you can work with your ADHD brain to do more of the things you want to do.
If you have ADHD or someone in your life does and you want to get organized, get focused, and get motivated, then this podcast is for you.
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- AI 2
- Accessibility 1
- Accountability 10
- Addiction 3
- Adulting 4
- Advocacy 1
- Anti-Planner 1
- Autism 1
- Automation 2
- Bad Advice 5
- Behavior 3
- Belonging 1
- Body Doubling 5
- Boundaries 6
- Burnout 8
- CBT 1
- Calendar 2
- Career 1
- Citric Acid 1
- Cleaning 6
- Cognitive-Load 1
- Comedy 2
- Communication 3
- Community 4
- Comorbidity 5
- Confidence 1
- Context Switching 1
- Coping 1
- Criminal Justice 1
- Deadlines 2
- Decision Making 4
- Decision fatigue 1
- Depression 1
- Diagnosis 11
- Diet 7
- Discipline 1
- Dopamine 2
- Dysregulation 1
- ERP 1
- Education 3
- Emotional Regulation 5
- Empathy 1
- Energy 22
- Entrepreneurship 1
- Evidence-Based 1
- Executive Dysfunction 3
- Executive Function 9
- Exercise 4
- Fact-Checking 1
- Fidgeting 1
This week I'm talking with someone who has an impressive 12 years of podcasting and over 800 episodes, Eric Zimmer, is the host of The One You Feed podcast, taking the name from the parable of the two wolves inside you and asking which one grows, well, it's the one you feed. After struggling with heroin addiction and homelessness in his twenties, Zimmer became deeply interested in how people make lasting changes in their lives. Drawing on both behavioral science and his own experience with addiction and recovery, Zimmer’s work focuses on exploring behavior change, meaning, and what helps people build better lives. Zimmer is also the author of How a Little Becomes a Lot.
In our conversation, Eric and I talk about why lasting change is usually built with the small, unglamorous days after the big moment and not in the moment itself. We explore how structure can reduce the need for willpower, how it can help separate deciding from doing, and how change becomes easier when we treat it as a skill to practice rather than a test of character. And while Eric hasn't been diagnosed with ADHD himself, we still get into topics like time blindness, using tools without shame, and why a little bit of something often beats a lot of nothing.