The ADHD CEO

Full Show Notes: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-scripts-work-stop-apologizing How many times have you apologized today for something that didn't actually require an apology? “Sorry, can you repeat that?” “Sorry, I need that in writing.” “Sorry, I have one more question.” For adults with ADHD, asking for clarity can feel like admitting failure. So we apologize, overexplain, mask our strug...

Full Show notes: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-high-achievers-burnout/ You are not lazy. You are burned out from overachieving. If you are the person everybody counts on at work, the one who fixes it, stays late, and holds the whole project together, but you sit in your car for 20 minutes before you can walk inside, this episode is for you. In this episode, Alyece breaks down the 3 signs of...

Full show notes here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-professional-life-tuesday-brain/ You can run a company, lead a department, finish the assignment, and still lose an entire Tuesday to a 3 p.m. appointment. How can you be this capable and this chaotic at the same time? In episode 225, I’m talking about the cost of holding your professional life together with one impatient ADHD brain. The s...

READ THE FULL SHOW NOTES: ⁠ https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-pattern-recognition⁠ You saw the problem coming. You spoke up. Someone called it overthinking. Now it’s an emergency, and somehow you’re expected to fix it. In episode 224 of The ADHD CEO, Alyece Smith talks about ADHD pattern recognition, spotting possible problems early, and the frustration of getting brushed off until everyone nee...

Read the full Episode 223 show notes and resources: ⁠https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-at-work-measuring-wrong-things/⁠ You can solve the hardest problem in the room and still get treated like you’re bad at your job after forgetting to answer one email. Many workplaces are not measuring how well you do your job. They’re measuring how well you perform looking organized. In Episode 223 of The ADH...

FULL SHOW NOTES HERE: https://sociallyausome.com/post/everything-feels-urgent-with-adhd/ Your ADHD brain can make answering an email, fixing your website, following up with a client, paying an actual bill, and starting the brand-new idea you had 12 minutes ago feel equally urgent. They're not. And THAT might be why you're so overwhelmed. In Episode 222 of The ADHD CEO Podcast , Alyece Smit...

Full Show Notes Here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-entrepreneurs-keep-starting-over The Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sociallyausomeentrepreneurs You make the plan. You get excited. You follow it for three days. Life happens. Then somehow one missed day turns into, “Well, I guess I need a whole new system.” Sound familiar? In this episode of The ADHD CEO Podcast, Alyece S...

Full Show Notes Here: ⁠https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-vacation-couldnt-relax/⁠ What happens when you spend thousands of dollars on a vacation, leave the country, check into an all-inclusive resort, and realize your ADHD brain still cannot relax? Then comes the guilt. You should be happy. You should feel romantic. You should be taking beautiful pictures. You should return home refreshed. But...

Full show notes here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/what-to-say-to-your-boss-about-adhd-script-ep-219/ Last week I told you why your company will not support you even when supporting you is cheaper than replacing you. This week I am giving you the actual words. Not a framework. Not advocate for yourself. Sentences, in order, that you can say out loud on Monday. And it starts with the part that s...

Full show notes here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/why-companies-wont-support-adhd-employees/ What You'll Learn: The real cost of replacing an employee (and why it's higher than you think) The three wrong answers companies give and why they're wrong The Split Ledger: the structural reason accommodation never happens Four mechanics that keep the cost and the cure in different places...

Full show notes here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-overachiever-achievement-is-a-symptom-ep-217/ I want to read you a list. A TEDx talk. Two books. Two coaching certifications. A marketing agency. A nonprofit board seat. This podcast. I do not think I collected any of that because I am ambitious. I think I collected it because somewhere around age nine I figured out that being impressive w...

Full show notes here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/i-wasnt-ashamed-of-my-adhd-i-was-confused-by-it-ep-216/ Last week I promised I'd say something on this show I've never said out loud. Especially not live. So here it is. For years I didn't tell people I have ADHD, and everybody assumes that means shame. Part of that's true. But the bigger reason was this: I didn't think anyb...

Full Shownotes Here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/7-adhd-business-hacks-that-actually-work-ep-215 ⚡ TL;DR — What You'll Get From This Episode 7 ADHD business hacks built for your actual brain, not a neurotypical productivity system Why "I'll remember it later" is costing you ideas, money, and follow-through The real reason you keep abandoning offers right before they'd ha...

Full Show Notes: https://sociallyausome.com/post/did-anyone-ask-how-she-works-best-adhd-workplace-ep-214 I once spoke with a manager after she let someone go. She walked me through everything. The missed deadlines. The late arrivals. The blank stare in meetings. She had done everything by the book. Documented. Coached. Warned. I asked her one question. "Did anyone ever ask her how she works best?"...

Full show notes : https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-workplace-5-things-managers-get-wrong-ep-213/ Every day, somewhere in a corporate office, a performance review is being written about an employee who is brilliant, creative, fast, and completely exhausting to manage. The manager has no idea they are describing unaccommodated ADHD. This episode is for two audiences. If you are an employee, you...

Full show notes: ⁠https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-pattern-recognition-gift-feels-like-overthinking-ep-212/⁠ You were right. You saw it coming. You said something, and nobody believed you. And then it happened exactly the way you said it would. And instead of being trusted, you got called negative. Anxious. Too sensitive. Overthinking. This episode is about naming what's actually happening...

Full Shownotes Here: https://sociallyausome.com/episode_211 You downloaded three AI tools last month. Your follow-up email is still in your drafts.  Here's what nobody in the productivity space is saying right now: AI tools are giving ADHD entrepreneurs a brand new, socially acceptable way to stay in prep mode forever. And because it looks like work, you don't even realize it's happeni...

Full Shownotes Here: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-wired-for-more-nervous-system-performance-ian-mai-ep-210/ You've hit every quota. You've built the business. You've stood on stage. And you're still exhausted , still numbing , still feeling like it's never enough. That's not a discipline problem. That's a nervous system problem. Ian Mai spent 12 years in tech co...

FULL SHOWNOTES HERE: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-productivity-problem-flow-problem-ep-209/ Every productivity system you've tried was built for a brain you don't have. This episode reframes the whole thing — it's not a discipline problem, it's a flow access problem. Alyece walks through what Spark Times are, why activation rituals work when willpower doesn't, and how to build your busines...

FULL SHOWNOTES HERE: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-just-be-more-disciplined-worst-advice-ep-208/ You've bought 14 planners. You've time-blocked. You've eaten the frog. And by 10 am, you're done for the day. The problem isn't you ... it's that discipline was never the answer for an ADHD brain. In this episode, Alyece breaks down why dopamine is the real motivation fue...

Full Shownotes Here: sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-brain-stops-fighting-itself-ep207 You didn't fail today because you weren't trying hard enough. You failed because your ADHD brain spent the whole day doing everything except the one thing that would have moved your business forward. And the wild part? You felt productive the whole time. That's the safe-task cycle. And it's keeping...

Full ShowNotes Here: https://linkly.link/2fiwx You’re not busy. You’re avoiding. In this episode, we break down the real reason ADHD entrepreneurs stay stuck in “busy work” while the things that actually drive revenue never get done. This isn’t about discipline or better time management. This is about the task avoidance spiral, emotional safety, and the patterns quietly running your business. If y...

Full Show Notes: https://linkly.link/2e4m8 I Said Five Minutes. It's Been Four Hours. (ADHD Time Blindness) I sat down at 2pm to answer one email. I looked up and it was 6:47pm. I had reorganized my entire desktop, watched a 45-second video about how saltwater pools work, started a note titled "content ideas october" even though it was March, and looked up whether fennec foxes make g...

Full Show Notes Here: https://linkly.link/2ddDl I want to tell you about a call I paid $1,000 for. I got on. I nodded. I said "that makes so much sense" at least four times. I hung up and had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do next. Not because the coach did anything wrong. I spent the entire hour managing how I was coming across instead of actually absorbing what she said. I processed m...

Full Show Notes: https://linkly.link/2ceEB I just listened to the most-shared podcast episode of 2025 — Mel Robbins sitting down with Stanford researcher Dr. Stacy Sims to discuss how women should actually eat and exercise for energy, health, and fat loss. And it was genuinely life-changing. But the whole time I kept thinking: nobody is talking about what happens when you add an ADHD brain to this...