I'm Busy Being Awesome - Sustainable Productivity for ADHD

Paula Engebretson is a life coach with ADHD, and her show is the rare productivity podcast that doesn't try to bully your brain into behaving like somebody else's. Episodes run short, usually under thirty minutes, which is exactly the point. She won't waste your attention on filler. What you get instead is a specific tool, a specific problem, and a specific way to try it this week. The 20-Second Rule for reducing friction around habits. Energy-based planning instead of clock-based planning. The Alastair Weekly Log for people who bounce off traditional bullet journaling. Paula talks a lot about task initiation, which is the thing nobody else seems to name correctly. It's not laziness, it's a wall, and she has a vocabulary for breaking it down. She also gets into the messier stuff, like burnout recovery, emotional regulation, and how ADHD shows up in relationships between partners with very different wiring. Her tone is warm without being saccharine, and she's honest about the fact that strategies come and go, that what worked last year might stop working, and that's normal. If you've tried the generic productivity advice and walked away feeling worse about yourself, this one is built specifically to avoid that trap. It's practical, kind, and refreshingly free of magical thinking about what ADHD brains can be talked into doing.