Thrive With ADHD Summit
Day 3 - ADHD Anxiety Relief
Below you can watch the Thrive With ADHD Summit for Day 3 featuring:
When ADHD Turns Restless Energy Into Brilliant Ideas That Die In Notebooks
Jesse J. AndersonViral ADHD Educator With a Global Audience Across Instagram & YT Reaching Millions

Description

Jesse talks about ADHD creativity with humor and honesty, making every ADHD adult feel seen. He explores the rush of new ideas and the sting of watching them die half-finished, asking why restless energy fuels creativity but hinders follow-through, how to rescue your best ideas before they fade, and what it takes to finally bring one vision across the finish line.


You’re Not Behind in Life, You’ve Just Been Building a Career on the Wrong Operating System
Caren MagillADHD Business Coach & YouTuber With 6+ Million Views, Host of 'The ADHD-Friendly Show'

Description

Caren has a way of speaking that makes you lean in and not miss a word, and she tackles one of the most painful lies ADHD adults carry: “I’m not smart enough.” She dives into the questions you’ve likely asked yourself a thousand times but never aloud—why being scattered feels like stupidity, why every small mistake seems like proof you’ll never measure up, and what could change if you finally recognized your intelligence for what it truly is.


The Hidden Tax Of ADHD Where Emotional Labor Eats Entire Days You Never Get Back
Brooke SchnittmanICF & Board-Certified Life Coach Helping Thousands Through 20+ Years of Experience

Description

You don’t lose time because you’re lazy. You lose it because invisible emotional labor steals your entire day. Planning, worrying, repairing, over-explaining - it all adds up until you’ve spent hours without moving an inch. Brooke Schnittman reveals why productivity hacks fail when emotional drain goes unaddressed, uncovers the everyday “time leaks” that silently steal your hours, and shares simple shifts that can buy back whole days you thought were lost forever.


How ADHD Brains Can Turn Crushing Boredom Into the Engine of Wild Success
Nik HobreckerFounder of 'ADHD Vision' & One of the Internet’s Leading ADHD Voices With 50+ Million Views

Description

ADHD boredom isn’t just dull, it’s unbearable. But what feels like torture can actually become fuel. In this session, Nik shows us how boredom, reimagined, can flip into the most powerful source of energy an ADHD brain has. He explores what happens in the gap between knowing what you want and taking action, how boredom can drive both chaos and success, and how to design an “ignition switch” in your environment to trigger action on demand.


This Is Why Every ‘Hack’ Fails: You’re Treating Motivation, When the Problem Is Friction
Eric WhittingtonFounder of 'Life Actuator', Reaching 500K+ Subscribers and 70+ Million Views Worldwide

Description

Eric doesn’t believe in Pinterest-perfect systems. He’s all about what works in real life: messy days, forgotten tasks, half-finished projects. His practical, encouraging approach helps you ask why most “organization hacks” fall apart for ADHD brains, what makes one small tweak stick when bigger systems fail, and how to design habits you’ll actually use when life gets chaotic.


The Real ADHD Struggle Isn’t Distraction, It’s Pretending You’re Fine With Dead-End Work
Meredith CarderADDCA-Trained ADHD Coach & CEO of 'Hummingbird ADHD' With Nearly 200K Subs

Description

Meredith knows ADHD adults don’t lose battles on the big stuff - they get stuck in the boring grind: emails, bills, chores. She makes even those mind-numbing tasks doable by showing how to trick your brain into momentum. In this session, she explores why your brain shuts down when things feel repetitive, which simple hacks make boring tasks easier to start and finish, and how to stop wasting energy fighting boredom and redirect it into action.


Productivity Doesn’t Work For ADHD Unless You Design For Your Worst Self First
Dr. Ari TuckmanExpert Psychologist Serving as Conference Committee Co-Chair for CHADD

Description

Dr. Ari doesn’t romanticize productivity. He’s blunt, grounded, and refreshingly realistic: if your systems only work on a good day, they’re not systems. He flips the script by asking why “perfect” routines collapse the moment life gets messy, what happens when you plan for inconsistency instead of resisting it, and how much further you could go if you stopped chasing perfection altogether.


Why ADHD Entrepreneurs Walk Away From “Safe” Jobs and Never Look Back Again
Patrick CasaleAuDHD Mental Health & Addiction Therapist, Host of 2 Top Podcasts With Millions of Listeners

Description

Patrick doesn’t romanticize entrepreneurship—he lives it. He explains why many ADHD adults leave “safe” jobs, even when it seems reckless, and explores why stability can feel suffocating, what drives the leap into entrepreneurship, and how to build a business that energizes your brain rather than exhausting it.


The Two Devastating Paths An Understimulated Brain Takes To Feel Something Anything At All
Dr. Trish LeighDouble-PhD Cognitive Neuroscientist & Brain Health Coach Specializing in Addiction

Description

Dr. Trish has a way of explaining brain science that feels like she’s describing your daily life. She shows how an understimulated ADHD brain will do anything (sometimes dangerous things) just to feel alive again. She explores why boredom drives ADHD brains toward self-destructive choices, the two main paths an understimulated brain takes to escape the void, and how to give your brain the stimulation it needs without derailing your life.