The Faster Than Normal Podcast: ADD | ADHD | Health

THE ADHD SUPERPOWER WEBINAR IS THIS THURSDAY! Sign up here ! It's totally free, and is a hour chock full of the best advice from the guests of the past 45 episodes! Talk about perfect for the ADHD set - It's 45 episodes of advice, crammed into one hour, totally free! Sign up for it here ! PS: It's also awesome for all your friends who DON'T have ADHD, but just want to learn to be more productive!...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here !  So this week, I've been placed in the hotseat, since we've got the webinar coming up next week, I thought I'd give you a preview of what you'll get from it, as well as talk about some of the best tips our guests have given us in the past ten...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here !  This week's guest is Dan Harding, who managed to talk his way out of being held up at gunpoint, so who knows how he can help you? Dan discusses OCD, which is surprisingly close ADHD on the spectrum, so you're going to get a ton of useful tidb...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here !  When you have ADHD, it sometimes feels like you can't control one thing in your life, right? It's like, as soon as you put your attention into this thing over here, this other thing over there demands it from you. Hence, nothing gets done. We...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here !  You know what never ceases to amaze me about ADHD? The fact that no matter how many things are similar, there are so many differences amongst the people who use ADHD to their advantage. This week's guest, Joe Caserta, proves the same. Joe is...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here !  Imagine for a second, if you will, a man who doesn't hold back in the slightest. He works with some of the top celebrities in the world, yet doesn't have the remotest of filters on his brain, mouth, or actions. Imagine that, and multiply it b...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out here !  This week's guest is Scott Jordan, founder of the wildly popular SCOTTEVEST line of clothing! (Full disclosure, I'm on Scott's board, and he's a personal friend.) Scott is known for many things, and "holding back" isn't one of them. In this e...

The Faster Than Normal Video Course is out! 36 videos to teach you how to take back control of your attention, your time, and your life! Check it out at www.ftncourse.com ! ADHD Nation is currently THE hot book to read in the ADHD world. I've read it, and it's a very worthwhile read. I was fortunate to get the author, Alan Schwartz, on the FTN Podcast to discuss the book, his research, and give us...

This week's guest is Marina Darlow, with a fascinating discussion on how  systems can blow your ADHD up into your biggest benefit ever! In this episode, Peter and Marina discuss: Marina's back story (01:50) Shame and ADHD (04:05) Management of symptoms through systems (05:07) Key qualities of a good system (06:15) Having reminders (07:51) Conscious decision making (11:19) Limiting choices and flex...

What if everything you knew was wrong? What if you were tracking all the wrong metrics on your path to what you thought was success? Our guest today experienced that, and came out transformed for the better on the other side. Meet Mike Merriam. What really got to me about this interview was the fact that Mike wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until he was 37. Like myself, and I'm sure many of you, Mike s...

The Faster Than Normal ADHD T-Shirts are live! Grab yours before the campaign ends next week! So whenever I talk about taking ADHD meds, I call it my "expense report medication." That is, if I'm forced to take medication, it's only for things that truly won't get done otherwise - I don't take Concerta all the time, usually rarely. But occasionally, it's needed, for those things people with ADHD ju...

If I can't get the real Oprah on FTN, the next best thing is the "Oprah of China," Dominic Johnson-Hill. Meet this week's guest, and learn how he went from growing up having a truly awful fear of failure and hating everything about school, to learning to channel his ADHD into his work and projects, allowing him to become the most successful t-shirt entrepreneur in China! We've all been there - He'...

The thing I love the most about ADHD is this: I get to talk to people who went through the  exact same things as a kid, that I went through as a kid. This week's guest is no exception - Meet John Sonmez - Bullied as a kid, and turned his ADHD into a mega-power for him. A day or a week doesn't happen for John without a plan. In John's terms, "ADHD people suck at judgement calls. So I remove them."...

Meet Dr. Jim Poole. He's this week's guest, and he runs a wonderful company called FastBraiin , which has centers around the country that focus on helping children, students, and parents understand that ADHD is a gift, not a curse. (Sort of like a walk-in version of this podcast!) The best part about FastBraiin? It's deliberately misspelled, because Jim has ADHD and mistyped the domain when he bou...

Not often we get a TV star on Faster Than Normal! Meet Ryan Zamo, star of Amazon's " Backstabber ." One of the hardest things anyone has to deal with in life is rejection - Now imagine having ADHD, and having to deal with rejection in a million different ways. "Was it because of this? Or this? Or maybe this?" Ryan has amazing stories about how he handles rejection, and as importantly, how he stays...

Let me tell you about Rachel Cotton. Other than the half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwich on foccacia bread that's strangely taking up half her headshot, she's one of the most hyper-focused people I've ever met. Possibly even more than me, and that is saying a LOT. Also, she loves Daft Punk. My kind of woman. But, she proves a point - Having a faster brain really DOES mean we can do anything...

If you're an entrepreneur, and you've never heard of the EOFire Podcast, you're probably not an entrepreneur. John Lee Dumas launched a podcast in 2012 focused on the entrepreneurial journey, and by 2015, the revenue from it allowed him to move his family to Puerto Rico and live the life he wants to live - And yes - He credits his ADHD for it. He's a brilliant entrepreneur, who has used the Faster...

Happy last day of August, live from Shanghai! Hope you're having a great week! This week's guest is Elliot Weissbluth, the CEO of Hightower Advisors.  Elliott was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was a young boy, and much like those with ADHD, he learned to change his brain to use his gift to his advantage. It seems to have worked, as Hightower currently has something like $36 billion dollars under...

A big welcome this week to all who found us in today's Wall Street Journal article on the benefits of getting up super-early! So glad to have you! Fun podcast this week - We're talking to Kirsten Milliken, author of the book PlayDHD - Her premise is very simple: As adults, we don't get enough playtime. Playtime is key and essential to mitigating the negatives of ADHD (without medication,) and allo...

This week on Faster Than Normal, we speak with Elaine Taylor-Klaus, who runs the website Impact ADHD. Elaine is a coach, working specifically with parents and kids with ADHD. She's got some wonderful advice for the parents in the audience, and as a bonus, it works for all of us! Enjoy this episode! In this episode, Peter and Elaine discuss: How Elaine discovered that she has ADHD (01:20) The Impac...

As a welcome to all our new listeners who found us from our wonderful interview last week with Seth Godin, I thought it might be a good time to flip it up a bit, and let you learn a little more about me, your host. For the past six months, I've been interviewing successful people with ADHD every day, but very few of you know my story. Perhaps now is the right time to change that. Also, I'd like to...

I literally can't even right now. I present to you an interview with Seth Godin. Yes. THE Seth Godin. He's on the Faster Than Normal Podcast this week, opening up about his ADHD, talking all about how he's made his life the unbelievable success that it is, and how he's used his ADHD to his advantage. Seth Godin! I mean, this man has done for the online world what Dr. Jonas Salk did for vaccines, a...

I'll be honest... When a dentist reached out to me and said he should be on the podcast, I didn't really get it. But then, I talked to Dr. Roger Lucas. Not only is he using ADHD to make his practice one of the top practices in his area, but he's also learned a thing or two about running a business, being married with ADHD, managing people, and yes - even how what you eat, and how you take care of...

Parents: Ever wonder what would happen if you parented "without a filter?" Well, you'd become this week's guest, Rachel Figueroa. Rachel is known for many things, including being the voice behind the famous "El Bloombito" Twitter account that took New York City by storm during the Bloomberg years. Additionally, she's a home-schooling mom to her four-year-old daughter, an avid animal rights activis...

You know what I love? I love emails that start with "Hi, Peter, I should be on your podcast. I have ADHD, and served ten years in a federal prison." This week, we talk to Mark-John Clifford, ADHD and convicted white-collar felon, who shares his story, and it's an amazing one at that. Let alone reading like something out of the TV show White Collar, prison life is beyond rigid, yet Mark learned how...