ADHD Big Brother - ADHD and Depression Solutions, Laughter, and Thoughts
Adult ADHD and Depression can be sucktastic! Let's have a laugh or two while we work to get on the other end of our unique skull spaghetti. Nominated for best male host in the 2024 Podcasters Peoples Choice Awards, and currently a top 2% global podcast! Subscribe to the ADHD Big Brother podcast if you want short, entertaining episodes, delivered weekly, that will nudge you forward on managing those adult ADHD symptoms. Do any of these debilitate you: I have no motivation to do boring things. I can't get started! I have choice paralysis. I have so much self-loathing. I have a million unfinished projects. I have no time management skills. If so, I can help. My name is Russ Jones, I'm a former actor/comedian and a current ADHD Big Brother. I am diagnosed with ADHD and Depressive Disorder. My mission is to help adults wiith ADHD who struggle in the way that I did, and still do, with managing their ADHD and Depression symptoms. I'm trained in integrative wellness coaching and have education and years of experience in ADHD specific coaching. My view is that this process is most effective through community. Visit adhdbigbrother.circle.so to learn about our growing community of adults with ADHD who are all getting our sh^t together...together! It's ADHD Coaching by Community!
Episodes
Sharing some insights and tips from our month on Organization and declutter for us adults with ADHD!
Here are the links to things I mentioned in the podcast:
I said I'd do it, so I gotta do it, and this is me externalizing my accountability to ensure I create a free webinar for you on accountability! Click here to RSVP!
Book your free 30 minute zoom chat with Russ
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We've been getting organized this month, and today I wanted to talk about how I work on decluttering my brain! From the disorganized mental mess of to-do's to the ruminating nonsense of my RSD...let's discuss.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Take Antonia's Survey!
Antonia Bowring is writing a new book, and YOU can help! The book is entitled "Leading with ADHD: The Profound, Practical, and Physical Journey" an...
Megs is back!
Megs Crawford is the host of the Organizing an ADHD Brain podcast, professional organizer, and coach. She has dedicated her career to empowering women to understand their unique brains and create a more organized and peaceful life. She is phenomenal, and today she is talking with me about the emotional side of organizing with some great insights about our nervous system. Give a listen!
Mentioned in the podcast:
This month we are all about organizing and decluttering! Who's in? Let's get decluttered together!
Mentioned in this episode:
Megs organization concepts workshop
Learn more about Megs Crawford, her own community, and ways she can help you!
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🎯 Tired of just learning and ready to start doing?
We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
We discuss impulsive spending, solopreneurship, and Tina helps me figure out my own next steps on my financial journey. Tina Mathams is always amazing and her knowledge of finances is top shelf!
Tina Matham Links:
Pre-order her book "ADHD Money" on Amazon
Get Tina's Google Sheet Templates
Her Instagram: @theadhdaccountant
And here's her linktree with all her other exciting things, including her Fa...
If you have read all the books, listened to the podcasts, watched the YouTube videos, and taken the courses, and you still aren't doing the work...here ya go. Do this. Then do it again. Then do it again. Then do it again. Then....
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We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
If meaningful progress s...
Super excited to get to talk with writing coach Carolyne Whelan on this episode. If you are new to Carolyne, see her bio information below. And yes, I butchered her last name even though I heard her say it! My brain is fun. Carolyne has forgiven me for my flub...you should, too! :)
Here are the links mentioned in the show!
Carolyne's Website: www.carolynewhelan.com
Carolynes freebie mentioned in the show
If you haven't listened to last week's episode with the amazing Tina Mathams, that's a great starting point to the conversation this month about finances. We going deeper than "what's your budget software/app". This week let's talk about the assignment she gave us and dig into the differences between learning, and doing.
And please, please, please, send me your book recommendations. The book on f...
This month we are all about the finances! Today's guest is the PERFECT person to kick it off for us.
Tina's Bio:
Tina Mathams is an accountant, ADHD financial educator, author and host of the ADHD Money and Finance podcast. After discovering her own ADHD, she combined her expertise with her lived experience to help neurodivergent individuals manage their finances. Through her online platforms, she provides practical strate...
The most profound aspect of this month's focus on routines has been the implementation of a morning and an evening routine. How did you do? Have you been following along? Have you taken a thwack at these crucial routines for adults with ADHD?
If not, I challenge you this week to attempt a "this" (You'll know when you listen to the episode)
Mentioned in the podcast:
What a wonderful conversation with the one and only William Curb of the top ADHD podcast "Hacking Your ADHD". We cover his time as a professional frisbee manager, his podcast, grabber-reach tools, routines and much more!
William's Links:
Get his newsletter "Any and All Distractions"
Subscribe to his YouTube Channel
@hackingyouradhd on the other socials!
More abou...
We are continuing the month talking about routines! Here are a couple of suggestions on ways to build routines for all you adults with ADHD!
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We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
If meaningful progress still feels out of reach, if doing the work still eludes you, this is your solution!
Here’s wha...
January was about the big goals!
February is all about the routines to get there!
It all begins with the morning and evening routine. How are yours? What are yours?
Mentioned in this episode:
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We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
If meaningful progress still feels ...
Let's finish the goal setting, big picture, January situation with a talk about the Wheel of Life.
If the 10 days for $10 is still happening, you can find it down below.... come see what award winning ADHD support looks like!
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We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
If meaningful prog...
We made a big goal!
Now what?
Chunk it down
Ok, but how?
Chunkercize it!
That makes no sense.
Let's explore how an ADHD person, with a tornado of thoughts, can break a goal down and successfully forward on it.
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We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
If meaningfu...
January is supposed to be about setting big goals, and setting our year up right. I am unfortunately not able to put out an episode about goal setting when the fires are burning out here.
Mentioned in the episode, ways to help:
Baby2Baby
World Central Kitchen
LAUSD Education Emergency Relief Fund
Apply for disaster assistance
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What a great way to kick of 2025 - a productive conversation with one of ADHD's finest: Alan P. Brown. He's here to teach us some awesome big yearly goal strategies. I have already begun implementing what he talked about on the podcast.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Freebie: www.addcrusher.com/25easy
Visit www.ADDCrusher.com for more about Alan
Email Alan: abrown(at)addcrusher.com
If you wish ...
It's the end of the year! Let's talk about what happened and what's to come, and I am going to read a speech and honor one of our awesome community members who has achieved the unthinkable with ADHD! Have a listen!
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We’ve all watched the videos, read the books, binged the podcasts...
If meaningful progress still ...
Happy Holidays!
What's a taskfirmation, you ask? It's a made up word is helping me on my journey to that glorious affirmation of "I love myself" or "I am worthy of love" or "I am capable of doing difficult things"
Mentioned in the podcast: Take this short, anonymous, 5-7 minute long survey to help me help you in 2025! Here's the link to take the survey
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I got to talk to THE Trina Haynes of My Lady ADHD! What an amazing human. You probably already know this amazing writer/creator/ADHD advocate from her popular Instagram. We discussed ADHD burnout and a really cool way to anticipate it and plan ahead. Great takeaways on this one.
And here are all the links mentioned in the show:
Trina on Instagram: @myladyadhd
Trina's website: www.myladyadhd.com
Her Subst...
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