I'm Busy Being Awesome

Paula Engebretson runs I'm Busy Being Awesome with a tone that's closer to a patient coaching session than a typical productivity podcast. She has ADHD herself and she's a certified life coach, which is probably why the show avoids the usual trap of packaging neurotypical productivity advice in a brain-friendly wrapper. Her focus is sustainable: habits you can actually keep, planning systems that survive a bad week, task initiation strategies that work when your brain is refusing to cooperate. Episodes run anywhere from 18 to 52 minutes, come out weekly, and the archive now sits north of 350. Paula does a lot of solo episodes, which some listeners love because she gets to really unpack a topic, and others find slower-paced than interview shows. Either way her thinking is careful. She'll spend a full episode on why your shame response to a missed deadline is doing more damage than the missed deadline itself, or walk through how to rebuild a morning routine after it collapses for the fifth time this year. Practical without being preachy, and genuinely kind about the hard parts.