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.
I need steady weekly support
You don't need a big project. You need someone in your corner every week, looking at the whole business with you, keeping the plan moving, and catching what's about to slip. Running it alone means everything depends on you remembering everything. Almost every solo owner I talk to is carrying that.
Help usually gets called in once something is already on fire. A weekly rhythm catches it while it's still small and keeps the plan from living only in your head. That's what the project management retainer is for: a weekly call, a plan we can both see, and a few flex hours a month for the work that comes out of it.
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.