What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

You know your kid needs more support at school. You just don't know who to call, what to ask for, or which plan actually fits. Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer breaks it all down, from IEPs to 504 plans to independent educational evaluations, in language that actually makes sense.

In this episode: the real difference between an IEP and a 504, how to start the conversation with your school district, what to do if the team disagrees with you, and why collaboration almost always works better than confrontation. Dr. Ostmeyer shares from both sides, the clinical and the parental, including a second-grade teacher who changed everything by simply getting it.

First step: call your school. This episode tells you exactly what to say. Find Dr. Ostmeyer at www.beyondtheindividual.com.

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What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

Your kid isn't being dramatic. The tag really does hurt. The toothpaste really is too spicy. The gym really is too loud. Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer is a licensed psychologist, behavior analyst, and mom of two neurodivergent kids, and she is here to explain why sensory overload is so often mistaken for behavior problems and what you can actually do about it today.

In this episode: why sensory input doesn't filter the same way for ADHD brains, the difference between accommodation and skill-building, how to strengthen the tolerance muscle without starting at a hundred pounds, and when it is time to get professional support. Plus her quick win: the small system she built that gets her daughter to the bus with a time buffer every morning.

Find Dr. Ostmeyer at www.beyondtheindividual.com

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

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Your kid is smart. You know it. The teachers know it. But the homework isn't getting turned in, the meetings aren't producing answers, and you're starting to feel like you're the only one who doesn't know what to do.

You're not alone. And you're not powerless.

Lisa Richer is a neurodiversity consultant, certified in executive functioning, and mom of two neurodivergent sons. She spent years advocating for her own children before turning that lived experience into a business. In this episode, Lisa breaks down what parents of kids with ADHD actually need to know about navigating the school system: from 504 plans and IEPs to private school accommodations and what to do when you're not sure where to start.

Lisa also shares the quick win that shifted her entire week when her nervous system was running on empty - and it wasn't a productivity hack.

In this episode:

• What executive functioning actually has to do with ADHD (and why it matters for school support)
• The difference between a 504 plan and an IEP — and which one your child might need
• How private schools handle accommodations differently from public schools
• Why Lisa avoids the word "why" with her clients — and what she asks instead
• The burnout that changed everything — and what it finally gave her permission to do

Connect with Lisa:

Website: journey2bloom.com

Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn

Book chapter "Unbecoming to Become" — email Lisa directly to request a free PDF copy.

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

This episode sponsored by: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER

What does it actually mean to have ADHD as a high-achieving professional? Dr. Jennie Byrne has spent 20 years answering that question.

She's a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and mom. Her new book, ADHD in Professionals: Embracing Your Brain, is written specifically for the people who get told they're too high-functioning to have ADHD. Spoiler: that's not how it works.

In this episode, we get into the neuroscience of why task-switching is so depleting, what a real ADHD assessment should actually include, and why so many high-achieving moms are doing fine at work and falling apart at home. (There's a reason for that. It's not what you think.)

Dr. Jennie also shares a client story that will make you want to rethink one thing in your evening routine right now.

Quick win for this episode: if you keep putting off taking care of your own ADHD, frame it this way. Managing your own brain is how you become a better parent. When you're running on empty, you're teaching your kids something. Make it intentional.

Find Dr. Jennie at constellationpllc.com, on LinkedIn, and on YouTube. Her book, ADHD in Professionals: Embracing Your Brain, is available now.

Also mentioned in this show - Dr. Nerissa Bauer - Teach Me ADHD

Dr. Jennie Byrne's New Book: ADHD In Professionals: Embracing Your Brain

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

This episode sponsored by: EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER

Your body is keeping score. And it's been doing it quietly while you push through.

Sandy Martin was at the top of her game. Then everything stopped working. What she found on the other side became a framework for getting well when no one has answers for you.

In this episode, we get into:

• The three-minute humming practice that resets your nervous system and why it actually works
• Why five seconds in, five seconds out is the exact breath interval your lungs want most
• The difference between trying every supplement and fixing the actual root cause
• Why beating yourself up creates a biological cascade that makes everything harder
• How grace will get you further than consistency ever will

Sandy's quick win takes three minutes. One minute if that's all you have. And it works even if you're standing in a parking lot before school pickup.

You can connect with Sandy here:

bioEDGE Longevity Summit https://bioedgelongevity.com/

Living Well. Longer. Together

bioEDGE Decoder https://bioedgedecoder.com/ Your body sends signals long before problems show up as diagnoses. bioEDGE Decoder helps you notice which systems may be involved and why, so you are not left guessing where to start.

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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bioedgelongevity

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

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You've been white-knuckling your way through life. Heather Simco did too. For decades.

Before the coaching, before the sobriety, before the clarity, Heather was a high-achieving woman building an empire in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world, running at a hundred miles an hour, and quietly falling apart on the inside. Undiagnosed ADHD. Alcohol as a coping mechanism. A life held together by overcompensation and sheer will.

Then a car accident took away the last thing she was using to hold it all together.

What came next is the part nobody talks about. Not just getting sober. The actual work of figuring out who you are when the titles, the goals, and the coping mechanisms are gone.

Heather is now a transformation coach with 12 years of sobriety, a 21-year-old daughter with ADHD, and a front-row seat to what it actually looks like to build systems that work for a brain like yours. She calls herself the chaos coordinator, and she means it.

In this episode, we get into:

• Why the first thing Heather does with every overwhelmed mom is a time inventory
• The difference between extremes that feel comfortable and balance that actually works
• How she raised an ADHD daughter without starting with medication, and what that taught her about self-awareness
• The guardrail metaphor that will completely change how you think about getting off track
• Why one tiny system, done consistently, builds more than a hundred new strategies ever will

Heather's quick win at the top of this episode is simple. It costs nothing. And it takes five minutes the night before.

Connect with Heather at heathersimco.com or find her everywhere at @HeatherSimco. If a three-day reset in Naples, Florida sounds like exactly what you need, get on her retreat waitlist now.

Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is built for the mom who looks like she has it together and is quietly exhausted. If that's you, you're in the right place.

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

This Episode is sponsored by Focusaur:

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If you are surrounded by half-done projects and hating yourself for it, this episode is for you.

Perfectionism is one of the most common cognitive distortions in women with ADHD. It is a symptom, not a character flaw. And there is actual neuroscience behind why your ADHD brain crashes at 80 percent done and cannot cross the finish line.

In this episode I walk you through the four doors into ADHD perfectionism (armor, the procrastination loop, RSD, and all-or-nothing thinking), the dopamine reward pathway dysfunction that causes the 80 percent crash, and exactly why "just lower your standards" is the wrong advice.

Then I give you The 70% Drop. A simple, concrete move you can do today to retrain your brain, ship one half-done thing, and start breaking the shame cycle.

What we cover:

• Why perfectionism is an ADHD symptom, not a flaw
• Dr. William Dodson on RSD (and why 99% of us have it)
• The 80% dopamine crash, explained
• How all-or-nothing thinking traps ADHD moms
• The 70% Drop, step by step

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

This Episode is sponsored by Focusaur:

EXPLORE FOCUSAUR ON KICKSTARTER

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/focusaur/focusaur-the-ai-focus-console-for-deep-work-and-habits?ref=7lobq3

You have tried the planners. The apps. The habit trackers. The YouTube tutorials. The color-coded systems, the minimalist ones, the digital ones, and the paper ones.

And nothing has stuck.

In this episode of Quick Wins for ADHD Moms, Jess breaks down exactly why -- and it has nothing to do with discipline. Those tools were built for brains with consistent dopamine. Yours doesn't have that. The problem was never you. The problem was the design.

You'll learn:

• The neuroscience behind why every new system feels exciting at first and dies within weeks
• Why the planner in the drawer might as well not exist -- and what ADHD object permanence actually means
• Why the setup was the dopamine hit (and what to do about that)
• The One-Surface System: one principle, any format, and why it works when everything else hasn't

You do not need more discipline. You need a different design.

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✅ Grab the Dopamine Hit List — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain

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Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn Voiceover work: jessicalewisvoice.com

Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.