Episode 5

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11th Nov 2024

Why Knowing Your Executive Function Profile is Essential for ADHD and Daily Success

ADHD Coach Katherine Sanders

Welcome to another insightful episode of ADHD Powerful Possibilities! Today, Katherine explores the essential yet often misunderstood realm of executive function profiles. Understanding how your brain manages tasks, impulses, and emotional regulation isn't just about ADHD; it's a key to thriving in all areas of life.

🧡 Episode Highlights:

What is an Executive Function Profile? Learn how everyone has a unique profile and why understanding it can help smooth daily life.
Beyond ADHD: How executive function impacts everyone, not just those with ADHD, and how to leverage this knowledge for productivity and well-being.
Common Challenges: Dive into real-life struggles like time awareness, impulse control, and emotional regulation.
Practical Tools: Katherine shares a couple of her favourite tools, including OneSec for impulse control, visual timers, and a downloadable Tracking Sheet to help you assess your profile.

Whether you're navigating ADHD or simply want a better handle on life's demands, this episode equips you with tools for clarity, confidence, and control.

🔔 Be sure to leave a review if you found this episode helpful, and don't forget to subscribe for more empowering insights. Stay curious, stay powerful, and take care of yourself!

Connect with Katherine here:

OneSec App – Delay access to social media and build better impulse control.
Executive Function Tracking Sheet – Download this to track and understand your executive functions over a week.
Function Junction Course – A streamlined course designed to help you create a custom executive function profile and plan practical strategies.

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ADHD Powerful Possibilities: New and Late Diagnosis & Beyond

Embracing the Reality Revolution: ADHD strategies, support and research in friendly, easy to understand PG rated episodes

Welcome to ADHD Powerful Possibilities - Here we embrace the reality of ADHD and open the door WIDE to authentic growth and success. This isn't (oh no) another ADHD podcast – it's a revolution in how we approach neurodivergence, social rules and how you can live a meaning-full life for yourself.

🌟 The ADHD Reality Revolution 🌟

Forget empty promises and quick fixes. Here, we go DEEP into the real, sometimes messy, always fascinating world of ADHD. Whether you're newly diagnosed, late-diagnosed, or supporting someone with ADHD, this podcast is your guide to navigating life's challenges with honesty, realism, and self-compassion.

💡 What Sets Us Apart? 💡

1. No Sugar-Coating: We tackle ADHD challenges head-on, acknowledging the struggles while uncovering the hidden strengths you've been ignoring.
2. Evidence-Based Insights: Blending neuroscience, positive psychology, and real-life experience to give you practical, actionable strategies.
3. Anti-Toxic Productivity: We reject hustle culture and embrace sustainable, ADHD-friendly approaches to success, knowing that we are all in need of more support, more rest and more FUN.
4. Inclusive Focus: From teens to adults, women in perimenopause to entrepreneurs – we cover the full spectrum of ADHD experiences.

🎙️ Your Host: Katherine 🎙️

I'm Katherine, your certified ADHD coach and fellow traveller on this neurodivergent journey. Diagnosed with ADHD and Autism in my 40s, I bring over 400 hours of professional training and 20 years of entrepreneurial experience to our conversations. Clients call me the "ADHD nerd version of their favorite aunty" (or mum) – a title I wear with pride!

📚 What to Expect 📚

- Weekly episodes unpacking crucial ADHD topics: from executive function to emotional regulation, time management to shame and resilience.
- Occasional experts, offering diverse perspectives on thriving with ADHD.
- Practical tips and strategies tailored for the ADHD brain.
- Short, fluff-free, and PG-rated content – perfect for listening anytime, anywhere.

🌈 The ADHD Powerful Possibilities Promise 🌈

We won't promise overnight transformations or one-size-fits-all solutions. You know that they don't work, because you've already spent enough money on them and still feel stuck.

Instead, we offer:
- A judgment-free space to explore your unique ADHD journey.
- Tools to cultivate self-awareness, autonomy, and agency.
- Strategies to reframe "accountability" and embrace possibility thinking.
- A supportive community where your experiences are validated and celebrated.

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Remember, your ADHD journey is unique. Here, we go beyond saying that - we celebrate it. Welcome to your ADHD Reality Revolution!

About your host

Katherine Sanders