Intel Report 8.22.22
TO: CEOs, Leaders, and spiritual entrepreneurs who (think they) have ADHD
From: yours truly
RE: INTEL REPORT - ADHD + Spiritual Entrepreneurship
My name is Robyn but let me be frank
As I've shifted my company's focus to the intersection of peak performance, spiritual intelligence, and ADHD, I've noticed a couple of things I wanted to share with you.
Here's my take on the good, the better and what's next when it comes to ADHD resources for spiritual CEOs, leaders and entrepreneurs.
1. First, the good.
I love that there's are FB groups dedicated to ADHD + women entrepreneurs For instance, ADHD Female Entrepreneurs Community).
The founder, Jessi Romero, has created a safe, engaged free community plus offers paid groups that support women entrepreneurs with ADHD, as well.
Take note: with +12K members (wow!), chances are good that there are accomplished leaders with ADHD in the group who tend to scroll and read, but not post. I suspect this because the vast majority of the posts I see are from those who seem to be at an earlier stage of business development/just getting started.
The podcast episodes!
I loved listening to Denies Duffield-Thomas who published an episode about her own ADHD journey.
Christina the Channel offered a whole new perspective on ADHD that's super-relevant to spiritual entrepreneurs.
Kristen Carder - the mindset coach for ADHD - has a totally cool and relevant podcast that I'm just wrapping my brain around (Ig: @I.have.adhd.podcast)
And on my own Mindset Rx, I've been interviewing accomplished spiritual entrepreneurs who have wonderful perspectives on ADHD + business success. You can listen to these interviews on iTunes (or where ever you listen to your podcasts)
2. The better.
Oh jeeze!
Over on the 'gram - there are a ton of amazeballs ADHD coaches and experts who crank out educational + inspirational content on topics like: money blindness, nutrition, behavioral hacks for procrastination, time blindness etc, biohacks for anxiety, focus, brain fog, and more.
Some of my favorite smart people to follow and learn from on instagram include:
Becca King, ADHD Nutritionist - talks all things food, nutrition, and solutions to wonky eating that often accompanies ADHD
Sasha Hamdani, MD (Ig: @thepsychdoctormd) - she's a Kansas psychiatrist who focuses on ADHD + intelligence and her reels are
Deniz Perry (Ig: @dt.perry) - is an engineer + ADHD who provides amazing research-based info to help us understand our ADHD. And I'm immensely grateful for the cutting edge info!
3. What's next?
In the spirit of being a contribution to the ADHD + spiritual entrepreneurship space, here are a couple of things I've noticed.
:: The vast majority of the comments and questions I've seen from participants on these leaders' content and FB groups come from struggle bunnies who clearly aren't leading themselves. (e.g., a quick google search of their questions provides miles of information making the questions unnecessary and often repetitive).
:: If you're a leader with ADHD and you decide to do a deep dive, you'll quickly realize that most of these communities aren't geared for you - unless there's a way to be in a leadership role - to be a contributor rather than a consumer of information.
::Business tip: If you're leading one of those groups/accounts - there's an enormous opportunity to shift the conversation to access and engage accomplished leaders who have the money and the internal motivation to invest at high levels and get the results you know you can provide (without a lot of hand-holding).
Personally, I've grown bored of sifting through the comments to find someone (beside the leader) who's extending the conversation or looking at things in a new way.
Bottom line: There is room for content, community and contribution for and by *leaders who happen to have ADHD* but whose sole focus isn't symptom relief or productivity hacks.
Bottomline:
Here's my Divine Rx for thriving as as a CEO, leader, or spiritual entrepreneur with ADHD:
1. do your inner work
:: heal the traumas around feeling different or broken or weird,
:: explore and understand yourself as a multifaceted, intuitive + intelligent person with a statistically unique personality.
To accomplish both of these, do this:
:: get to know your personality* so that it becomes as familiar to you as your face when you look in the mirror. The actualization codes to the next level of your greatness are stored inside of your personality (and chances are quite good that ADHD symptoms are standing in the gap). I can help you do that <right here>
Understanding your personality will help you get why you've felt so different/weird your whole life.
It's really quite liberating and will do wonders for any lingering imposter syndrome or low self-worth.
2. Do energy work on yourself.
My colleague Christina Rice once observed that energy work is the new mindset work. And I believe this is the case for spiritual entrepreneurs with ADHD, too. Energetic hygiene is now as necessary as washing your hands and brushing your teeth.
And finally…
I believe that the more we take steps to normalize neurodiversity, particularly ADHD, in leadership, the faster we'll calibrate to the new frequencies of creativity, intuition and innovation. (read: the faster we'll shift into creating the new world for ourselves and others!)
Best,
Robyn
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