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If you’re a coach with ADHD, running a business can mean asking your brain to keep track of client work, content, follow-through, and a hundred small decisions. AI can help simplify some of those moving parts, but it can also become a time sink when it adds another tool, system, or rabbit hole to manage. In this episode, I share how I use AI to retrieve details from past sessions, draft client check-ins, shape spoken brain dumps into content, and find information I can’t immediately locate. I also offer a simple way to tell whether a tool is reducing friction or adding more work—and why customizing it to fit your brain matters. What You'll Learn: How AI can help surface client commitments and details from past sessions.A proactive way to draft client check-ins from session transcripts, with consent and approved tools.How to turn spoken brain dumps into organized content while keeping your voice and ideas.A simple filter for choosing support that helps you finish the task rather than giving you more to manage.If you’re a coach with ADHD and want practical systems that fit your brain and business, book a free consult. 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you’ve been here for the conversations about work-life balance for speech pathologists, you might be wondering what the new direction means for you. I’m shifting the focus of my podcast and Facebook community toward coaches with ADHD, but that doesn’t mean SLPs need to leave. In this episode, I explain why this shift reflects the work I’m doing now and what you can expect moving forward. You’ll hear more examples from my coaching business, with the same focus on planning, follow-through, overwhelm, and running a business alongside a full personal life. This is a community update, not a lesson in leaving speech pathology or becoming a coach. What You'll Learn: Why my move from clinical work to coaching is shaping the conversations hereWhat a more direct focus on coaches with ADHD means for future episodesWhich familiar topics and practical approaches aren’t changingWhy you don’t need to be a coach or have an ADHD diagnosis to stay connectedIf you’re a coach with ADHD and want support making the business side of your work more manageable without giving it all your time, book a free consult here. 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

Planning can look productive while quietly keeping you from the work that moves your business forward. If you’re great at researching, organizing, and planning, but struggle with implementing, you’re not alone. In this episode, I explain why planning can be especially rewarding for an ADHD brain, how to tell whether or not it’s helping, and what to do when it’s keeping you stuck. Stay till the end for three practical questions that can help you stop circling the task, clarify what matters, and take action. What You'll Learn: The sneaky reasons why research and planning often feel easier than implementationThe difference between useful planning and planning that keeps you stuckHow repeatedly reconsidering decisions drains your time and mental energyA simple way to distinguish spending time from investing itThree questions to help you create a solid plan and follow through with itResources Mentioned Facebook GroupREGISTER NOW! The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less OverwhelmedIf you want help creating a business rhythm that makes the important work easier to see, start, and follow through on, book a free consult here. 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

Finding a way to work with your ADHD brain can make business tasks SO much easier, but even a strategy that leverages your strengths can fall apart if it doesn’t support the executive-function challenges that come with it. In this bonus mini-sode, I’m giving you a behind-the-scenes peek into how I created my upcoming live webinar The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed using the exact methods I’m going to be teaching in the webinar itself. This episode promises to be very meta, slightly nerdy, and super helpful. What You'll Learn: Why a strategy that fits your brain can still create a new problemThe difference between capturing an idea and actually using itHow a visible return path supports working memoryA simple way to make it easier to re-enter unfinished workThe question to ask when choosing an ADHD-friendly strategyIf you want help creating business systems that work with your brain without leaving your best ideas buried in a voice-memo graveyard, book a free consult here. Resources Mentioned The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

Unexpected time away from your business can create more than a scheduling problem. When you have ADHD, stepping away can make it harder to remember your business goals, remember where you left off, figure out where to restart, and resist the urge to cram five days of work into the day and a half you actually have. In this episode, I’m sharing the ADHD-friendly business rhythm that helped me step away without losing track of my business—or returning convinced I had to catch up on everything at once. You’ll learn how to get your priorities out of your head, decide what matters most with the time and energy you actually have, and return to the work that moves your coaching business forward. What You'll Learn: Why an unexpected interruption can strain multiple executive functioning skills at onceHow keeping your priorities visible reduces working-memory demands while you’re awayThe question to ask when you have less time and capacity than the original plan requiredWhy your most important work can be the easiest work to avoidHow to create a clearer, less overwhelming place to restartIf you want help building a business rhythm that makes it easier to pause, pivot, and find your way back without treating the interruption like a failure, book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu Resources Mentioned 157. Scheduling Curveballs (Without the Mom Guilt)158. Rescheduling Isn’t “Just Moving Things”: It’s an Executive Function Nightmare 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you've ever tried to push through a hard day by pretending your feelings were not there, this episode is for you. Today I’m talking about how to work with your feelings instead of ignoring them, judging them, or letting them run the whole show. You’ll learn a simple way to pause, name what is actually happening, and choose your next step from a more honest place. What You'll Learn: Why avoiding a feeling usually gives it more power in the backgroundHow ADHD and executive function challenges can make emotional cues easier to missA simple body scan practice to help you notice what you are actually feelingThe difference between pushing through and adjusting your capacity with intentionThree questions to ask when a big emotion is affecting your dayIf you want help building a business, schedule, and support system that works with your real capacity instead of requiring you to shove everything down and “be fine,” book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

When every email, post, household detail, and business decision feels equally important, your brain spends real energy on things that may not actually matter to you. For an ADHD brain, that can mean more decisions, emotional dysregulation, and mental tabs than your day has room for. In this episode, I break down why caring less is not the same as becoming careless and how your core values and needs can help you choose where your attention goes. You’ll leave with a practical exercise for deciding what deserves your capacity and what can be downgraded, simplified, or removed from the list entirely. What You'll Learn: Why every worry, decision, and invisible standard has an executive-function costThe question to ask when something is taking up more brain space than it deservesHow your values and needs can help you separate what matters from what merely affects how you think you’re being perceivedA simple way to create your own “not everything deserves my executive function” listWhat to do when your ADHD brain treats every task like a five-alarm fireIf you want help deciding what deserves your capacity and creating systems that work with your brain, business, and real life, book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu Resources Mentioned How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD — free training: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s_ov8LNsQm-n8V6WmoCjXg The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you have ever looked at perfectly reasonable business advice and thought, “Cool, but how exactly am I supposed to make that work in my actual life?” this episode is for you. I’m sharing why I’m talking more directly to coaches with ADHD, and why this work matters to me personally. Before I had the language for ADHD and executive functioning, I thought my struggles were mostly about being a busy mom, running a business, managing a household, and trying to keep all the plates somewhere near the air. In this episode, I’m sharing how understanding executive functioning changed the way I saw my own business, why the usual strategies can stop working when life gets more complex, and why coaches need support that is built for how their brains actually work. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss my upcoming free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  What You'll Learn in Today's Episode: Why traditional business and productivity advice can be hard to apply when ADHD is part of the pictureHow coping strategies can work for a while, until life and business add more complexityThe difference between blaming yourself and understanding the executive functioning breakdownWhy understanding ADHD can help you solve the right problem instead of trying to force the wrong systemWhy this conversation is especially important for coaches who are building businesses while managing their own brains, clients, households, and actual human lives 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you’re a business owner with ADHD and you keep thinking, “I know what I’m supposed to do, so why am I not doing it?” or “I’m following all the strategies from all the experts, but it’s just not working,” I get it. You’re the reason I recorded this episode. I’m talking about why so much traditional business and productivity advice falls apart for ADHD brains, especially when you’re running a business, managing a home, raising a family, and trying not to lose your mind in the process. I’m sharing six questions to help you figure out where the strategy is breaking down and how to make it smaller, more visible, and more realistic for your actual life and your actual brain. What You'll Learn: Why knowing what to do and consistently doing it are not the same thingHow generic advice like “batch your content” or “just time block” can create more shame than follow-throughWhat questions to ask when a strategy keeps not workingHow to lower the decision load so tasks feel easier to startWhy planning for transitions matters just as much as planning the task itself🗓️ If you want help building business strategies that work with your ADHD brain, your real schedule, and the life you actually have (not the neurotypical, Pinterest-esque life you see while scrolling the socials), schedule a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu ‼️ Want to join my upcoming webinar, Build a Coaching Business That Works With Your ADHD Brain on Tuesday, September 15th at 2 PM ET? Add your name to the list and I'll send you the details! Mentioned in This Episode:  Snipd - The Podcast App for Knowledge Seekers 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you’ve ever tried to make a change in your personal life, your career, or your small business and felt like nothing was actually changing, this episode is for you. I’m talking about why your brain may miss the early signs that something is working, especially when the result you want has not fully shown up yet.  A lot of us are looking for big, in-your-face proof before we trust that something is working, but the early evidence is usually much quieter than that. This episode will help you notice tiny changes that are already happening before you decide it’s not working, start over, or quit altogether.  What You'll Learn: Why “nothing is working” can feel like a fact when it is actually a thoughtHow ADHD and executive functioning challenges can make small changes harder to noticeWhat to ask yourself before you quit, restart, or decide you are bad at consistencyHow to look for evidence that something is beginning to workA simple way to notice small shifts without turning it into a whole new project 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

Your calendar might say your week is fine, but don’t trust it. Why? Because your calendar can show the appointments, sessions, practices, and school events while completely ignoring the driving time, transition time, dinner situation, decision fatigue, documentation, parent emails, and all the tiny invisible tasks required to make the week actually work. In this bonus episode, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes calendar moment that made my head hurt and why it connects directly to Monday’s Fall Rhythm Reset workshop. If your week looks technically doable on paper but your brain and body are already bracing for impact, this episode will help you see what your schedule is really carrying, and why one small rhythm shift may be more useful than trying to become a whole new person by Tuesday. What You'll Learn: Why your calendar does not always tell the whole storyWhat invisible work may be making your week feel heavier than it looksHow to tell the difference between a time management problem and a capacity problemWhy “technically it fits” is not the same thing as “this is sustainable”A simple way to start looking for one realistic rhythm shift instead of overhauling your entire lifeIf your fall schedule already feels packed, or if your calendar looks doable but your nervous system is giving it a hard no, join me for The Fall Rhythm Reset. It’s a free live workshop for SLP private practice owners who want a calmer weekly rhythm that supports their business, their family life, and their actual capacity. Bring the real week, not the cute pretend one. Sign up now: https://theresaharp.myflodesk.com/fallworkshop 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

The 92507 conversation has a lot of SLPs feeling worried, frustrated, and understandably on edge. But in this episode, I’m talking about something deeper than reimbursement cuts: the scarcity mindset, martyrdom, and anti-investment culture that have been sitting under the surface in our field for a long time. This is not an episode telling you to stop advocating or ignore what is happening. It’s an invitation to look at how we talk about money, charging, rest, boundaries, and our own expertise. Why? Because if we keep fighting external threats while reinforcing the same old internal culture, we’re going to keep recreating the same problems with different packaging.  What You’ll Learn: Why the 92507 chaos is revealing a deeper issue in the SLP fieldThe contradiction between wanting SLPs to be paid more and criticizing colleagues who charge for their expertiseHow scarcity thinking shows up in money, time, rest, boundaries, and business decisionsQuestions to ask yourself if you want to lead differently instead of waiting for the field to change first If you’re feeling called out and you’re ready to stop running your private practice from scarcity, resentment, or “I’ll just figure it out myself” mode, book a free consult: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu. We’ll look at what’s actually happening in your schedule, business, boundaries, and mindset so you can grow without sacrificing your time, energy, and sanity. Resources Mentioned: Fix SLP — https://fixslp.com/ 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

Sometimes the thought that keeps looping in your brain is not just annoying background noise. Sometimes it brings shame with it...the kind that makes you want to hide, avoid, procrastinate, or pretend the thing is not actually bothering you. In this episode, I’m talking about how to recognize when a frequent flyer thought has turned into a shame spiral, why shame can keep you stuck, and what to do when avoiding the thing starts costing more than facing it. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Why shame often makes you want to hide instead of take actionThe difference between guilt and shame, and why that difference mattersHow a repeated thought can affect your confidence, relationships, business, and executive functioningWhat to do when a thought gives you that pit-in-your-stomach feelingA simple first step for taking the power out of shameIf shame has been running the show around money, boundaries, capacity, follow-through, or the parts of your business you would rather not look directly in the eye, you do not have to figure it out alone. Book a free consult, and we can talk through what’s going on and how coaching can help you build a practical plan that actually fits your brain, your business, and your real life: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you’ve been stuck thinking some version of “I’m so overwhelmed” on repeat, this episode is for you. I’m sharing a simple 6‑question framework that helps you stop arguing with the thought and start getting strategic about it. We’ll look at what the thought is costing you, what it might be doing for you (yes, really), and how to decide whether you need a circumstance change, a mindset change, or both. It’s practical, a little confronting, and surprisingly clarifying. What You’ll Learn:  • The 6 questions that break a “frequent flyer thought” loop • How to spot the hidden payoff that keeps a thought pattern alive • Cost/benefit of the thought vs. cost/benefit of the situation (and why both matter) • The difference between changing your schedule and changing your thinking • How to use “cost of change vs. cost of staying the same” to create momentum If you liked this episode, be sure to check out:  🎙️ Ep. 153: The Thought Loop That’s Running Your Life (and you don’t even notice it)  🎙️ Ep. 162: How to Stop Recurring Negative Thoughts From Running Your Life 💥 Coming Soon! Topic-based episode guide (episodes organized by topic) 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

If you have a thought that shows up in your brain over and over, day after day, this episode is for you. I’m calling these frequent flyer thoughts: recurring thought loops that steal brain space and kick off a shame spiral before you even realize what happened. In this episode, I’ll show you how to treat these thoughts as information (not a verdict) and use one simple question to get your power back. What You’ll Learn: What a “frequent flyer thought” is and how to spot yours quicklyWhy recurring thoughts feel so heavy and how they quietly shape self-conceptThe agency question that stops the spiral: change the circumstance vs. change the thoughtA 60-second cost/benefit check to decide what to do nextHow to take action from empowerment (not punishment) if you choose to change the situation 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 11/17/2026 @ NOON pm ET for my free training: The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it.  To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Time Management for ADHD Coaches on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.