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.
Systems and tools are a mess
You've got four project apps, two calendars, notes in your phone, and a process that only exists in your head. Every time you try a new tool you spend a weekend setting it up, and a month later you're back to sticky notes. If you got sick for a week, nobody else could keep things running. That's where a lot of solo owners are, neurodivergent or not.
The tool is rarely the fix. Most systems break because they were built for how someone else works, or because nobody wrote down how the business actually runs. We get your processes out of your head and into something simple enough that you, or someone you hire, will actually use.
Start with these
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.
For more, check out these Resources!
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.