Overclocking the ADHD Brain via Musical Energy w/ Focus At Will Founder Will Henshall

Will Henshall is a Los Angeles based tech entrepreneur, inventor and music producer. He was the founding member and main writer in the UK pop soul band Londonbeat. Their massive early 90s hit 'I've Been Thinking About You' reached #1 in the Billboard chart and was the top selling single in all major territories and won him BMI/PRS songwriter of the year. In the mid 90s, he founded San Francisco based audio tech company Rocket Network. The "DigiDelivery" media transfer system, now part of ProTools 12 Cloud collaboration, is a standard tool used everyday in pro audio production for TV, movies and music. He sold the company to Avid in 2003. His most recent start up is www.focusatwill.com, a science driven instrumental music streaming service (2m users) that helps people at work and study reduce distractions and be more productive. He holds 5 patents, and has a new one in the oven! Today we talk about how anyone who isn't boring probably has ADHD! Just kidding, sort of, enjoy! ---------- ***CORONA VIRUS EDITION*** In this episode Peter & Will Henshall discuss: :50 - Intro and welcome Will!! 3:15 - So you moved from the Musicbiz into Tech? Ref: Avid Cloud Collaboration 5:44 - About how www.focusatwill.com came to be 8:40 - Ref: Dr. Ned Hallowell Dr. Evian Gordon 13:05 - On the percentage of users that are either ADHD or ADD or other? 16:16 - Ref: Left Field Labs 18:35 - How do we continue to prove to people that this works!? On next steps for Focus At Will 21:52 - How can people find you? Write to him! [e-mail] Website: www.FocusAtWill.com Socials: @focusatwill on INSTA Twitter Facebook 22:39 - Thank you Will Henshall! And thank YOU for subscribing, reviewing and listening. Your reviews are working! Even if you've reviewed us before, would you please write even a short one for this episode? Each review that you post helps to ensure that word will continue to spread, and that we will all be able to reach & help more people! You can always reach me via [e-mail] or @petershankman on all of the socials. You can also find us at @FasterThanNormal on all of the socials. As always, leave us a comment below and please drop us a review on iTunes and of course, subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already! As you know, the more reviews we get, the more people we can reach. Help us to show the world that ADHD is a gift, not a curse! Do you know of anyone you think should be on the FTN podcast? Shoot us a note, we'd love to hear! 23:08- Faster Than Normal Podcast info & credits TRANSCRIPT: Hey guys, Peter Shankman. Welcome to another episode of Faster Than Normal. I'm thrilled that you're here, as always, we tend to make ADHD a gift, not a curse, and we want you to see that as well. You know, it's funny every once in a while, when someone asks, "Hey, can I come on your podcast?" Is it, they have a good story? And I say sure, that sounds great, and I have my assistant collect their background, and their bio and their, and their headshot and all that, and because of ADHD, I usually look at it in about four seconds before the interview. And, um, I had, I'd known about my guests and about his project called https://www.focusatwill.com/ I had known about him for a while. It's a…. it's a, it's a science driven, instrumental music streaming service with over 2 million users, it helps people work and study. It reduces distractions, and be more productive. But what I didn't know about Will Henshall, until I read his bio and literally, pardon my French lost my shit. He was the founding member and main writer of the UK pop soul band, London Beat. And if you don't remember London Beat, perhaps…. Will is going to play a little, a little clip of London Beats, their number one song that you will, you will totally remember…. that blew my mind. So at some point, at some point, Will,,, you will play? First of all, thank you for that fantastic introduction. Second of all, yeah. (plays clip of song…) I've been thinking about you too, Peter. (plays clip of song…) This was number one all over the world in the nineties. I was the guitarist and I was the white guy. I can't… oh my God. I…… I wasn't even, so, I mean, that was the thing. I looked at your picture and I'm like, wait, I can swear everyone in that group was black and I watched the video again and surely enough, there you are. We always took photographs in a way that the skin tone wasn't particularly obvious. Oh my God. I mean, I remember that sounds like it was yesterday. It's still one of my all time favorites. It's on my it's on my running mix. I'm going to go out…. I'm going out for a run after this, uh, after this interview, and ...he's pulled out the guitar, here we go. Um, yeah, for viewers at home, uh, without, people listening (plays guitar) Yeah, it's a solo, not particularly well played, cause it's early in the ...