We usually think of ADHD as behavioral.

But what if some of the earliest signals weren’t behavioral at all?

In this Research Recap, we break down a large population-based study examining pain-related diagnoses in children before they were diagnosed with ADHD.

Researchers looked at over 700,000 medical records to ask a simple question:

Were children later diagnosed with ADHD already showing higher rates of pain-related medical visits?

The association was clear.

The explanation is not.

No fear-based framing.

No causation claims.

No medical advice.

Just what the data actually shows — and what it doesn’t.

What We Cover

• The design of the study and why pre-diagnosis data matters
• 14% higher abdominal pain and 35% higher limb pain diagnoses before ADHD diagnosis
• The difference between experiencing more pain vs requiring more pain management
• Theories around neurodevelopment, neuroinflammation, and altered pain perception
• Why this raises important questions without changing how ADHD is diagnosed

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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You approve the direction. Then change everything at the end.

Wednesday’s episode showed why ADHD planning creates late-stage corrections. This episode shows how to stop that pattern.

Skye and Robbie break down a system built around checkpoints, prototypes, and early feedback. The goal is not better briefs. The goal is catching problems when they’re still cheap to fix.

What We Cover:

• Why late feedback is built into ADHD planning
• The 24–48 hour check-in system
• Concept reviews before real execution starts
• Why midpoint sign-off reduces last-minute changes
• How to stop teams from losing confidence

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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The plan made sense in your head. It falls apart when someone else runs it.

This episode looks at research on prospective memory and verbal planning. The findings suggest ADHD impacts how plans are built, not just remembered.

Skye and Robbie explain why this creates a gap between intention and execution. And why teams end up producing something that feels “close, but not right.”

Friday’s episode will focus on systems that reduce this gap.

What We Cover:

• Why ADHD affects plan formation more than recall
• How missing detail changes execution outcomes
• Why feedback often comes too late
• The role of multi-step planning in team success

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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You already know what needs to get done.

It’s not a knowledge problem. It’s not a lack of ideas.

But you still don’t start.

Instead, you overthink it, wait to feel ready, or tell yourself you’ll do it later, again.

Eric Zimmer is the creator of The One You Feed, an award-winning podcast with 50M+ downloads and 800+ conversations on behavior change. He is the go-to voice on sustainable habit change, and his work shows what actually works when willpower doesn’t.

In this episode, Eric and Skye break down why that gap between knowing and doing is so common with ADHD, and why trying to “think your way into action” usually makes it worse.

They get into:

• why motivation often shows up after you start, not before
• what’s actually happening when you feel resistance to simple tasks
• how to begin when your brain is telling you “not now”
• and a more realistic way to build momentum without relying on willpower

This isn’t about forcing yourself or waiting to feel motivated.

It’s about understanding why starting feels so hard, and what actually helps you move anyway.

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

Connect with Eric: https://www.oneyoufeed.net/ https://www.instagram.com/one_you_feed/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericzimmer/ https://www.youtube.com/@TheOneYouFeedPod How a Little Becomes a Lot (Book Page)

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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You keep setting deadlines and somehow everything still ends up happening at the last minute.

You plan ahead. You move things around. You even set earlier deadlines.

And it still compresses into a final push.

This episode explains why that keeps happening and what to change.

We build on Wednesday’s breakdown of time blindness and show why most deadline strategies fail over time, especially the fake ones you don’t really believe.

Then we walk through how to structure work so urgency shows up earlier, not just at the end.

If your projects keep turning into last minute scrambles, this will give you a way to stop repeating that pattern.

What We Cover:

• Why fake deadlines stop working after a while
• How to create real stakes earlier in a project
• What “no more changes” cutoffs actually do
• How meetings and other people make deadlines feel real

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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Deadlines exist right up until they don’t.

You can see it on the calendar. You know it’s coming. You’ve even thought about it a few times.

Then suddenly it’s urgent and everything else gets dropped while you scramble to catch up.

This episode explains why that keeps happening.

We break down what research shows about ADHD and time perception, and why this isn’t just poor planning. Future time doesn’t create pressure until it’s right in front of you, so you end up relying on last minute urgency just to get started.

If you’ve ever wondered why you only seem to move when things get critical, and why that keeps messing with your business, your team, or your stress levels, this will make that pattern make a lot more sense and set up the systems we’ll build on Friday.

What We Cover:

• Why deadlines don’t create pressure until they are close
• What research says about ADHD and time perception
• Why last minute urgency becomes the default way to work
• The gap between knowing a deadline and actually feeling it

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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Jamie Sea built two seven-figure businesses.

From the outside, everything looked successful. But behind the scenes, the pressure, urgency and burnout were becoming impossible to ignore.

In this episode of ADHD Skills Lab, Skye talks with Jamie Sea, entrepreneur, educator and host of The Jamie Sea Show about the moment she realized the businesses she built no longer fit the life she wanted.

Jamie shares what it was like to feel trapped inside success, how ADHD patterns and nervous system pressure shaped the way she worked, and why she ultimately made the difficult decision to close both companies and start again.

They explore how urgency, identity and internal pressure influence many ADHD entrepreneurs; and how learning to work with the nervous system can change the way we approach work, money and success.

What We Cover

• The moment Jamie realized success was no longer sustainable
• How ADHD urgency and pressure shape entrepreneurship
• Why high-achieving founders often hit burnout
• The role of nervous system awareness in business decisions
• What it actually looked like to close two seven-figure companies and rebuild

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here:

https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

Connect With Jamie Sea

https://thejamiesea.com/

https://instagram.com/jamieseaofficial

https://youtube.com/@jamieseaofficial

https://thejamiesea.com/mind-body-millions

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.

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You know how to do the work. But when a task is actually a project, you have to figure out the steps again every time you come back to it.

On Wednesday we looked at the research behind this problem. ADHD planning challenges often show up when the brain has to manage the structure of a project internally.

This episode looks at the practical solution.

Instead of trying to carry the whole project in your head, many ADHD entrepreneurs externalize the planning layer.

Skye and Robbie explain what that looks like in practice — including tools, capture systems, and support structures that hold the plan so your brain can focus on execution.

What We Cover

- Why projects become inefficient when the plan lives only in your head
- What externalizing executive functioning looks like in practice
- The three components of an ADHD project system: tools, structure, and support
- Why the tool matters less than the habit of capturing work outside your head
- How entrepreneurs separate planning from execution

If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.

Listen here:

https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab

P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.