How Neurodivergent Entrepreneurs Can Build a Business That Works for Them
The challenges ADHD and Autistic entrepreneurs face, and how the right systems, planning, and support help you build a business that works with your brain.
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You started the business because you're good at the work. Now you spend your days on everything but the work: the invoice you haven't sent, the website that's half finished, the three tools that don't talk to each other. Revenue isn't the problem. The systems around you were built for a brain that isn't yours. A neurodivergent owner needs systems that keep running when attention doesn't, and those get built once, on purpose. Below are a book, a podcast, and a channel from people who built businesses with this brain. The first call is free.
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Free resource
Get the free Values and Strengths Workbook
The workbook I start coaching with. You figure out what actually matters to you and what you're actually good at, so you can build your life around both instead of around who you think you should be. For adults with ADHD, autism, or AuDHD, diagnosed or wondering.
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Book
Faster Than Normal
Peter Shankman
Peter Shankman built companies with ADHD, and this is his account of the routines and systems he built around his brain to do it. Focus, productivity habits, and running a business when your attention doesn't run on command. It's personal, high-energy, and anecdotal, and it frames ADHD as a superpower. Know that going in.
Podcast
Translating ADHD
Asher Collins; Dusty Chipura
Asher Collins and Dusty Chipura are ADHD coaches who have ADHD, and their show covers the condition at work, in business, and in the daily routines that hold both up. They translate, which is the right word: what's happening in the brain and what to do about it at your desk. There hasn't been a new episode in over four months. For adults with ADHD running a career or a company.
YouTube channel
ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator
Steve August
Steve August is an ADHD coach and founder, and this channel is for late-diagnosed people running businesses. Productivity shame, emotional regulation, keeping a company going when your brain won't cooperate. Some episodes are solo, some are interviews. He sells coaching alongside it, so know that going in.