In the UK we have The Dragons Den, but I think in the US, there's a similar programme called Shark Tank, and one of the well known sharks is a woman called Barbara Corcoran. Now, obviously, I don't know Barbara's story, as well as I know her UK equivalents, but apparently, Corcoran failed her way through school. Dyslexic, restless, one of the children that the teachers wrote off, and by her own account she had twenty jobs before she turned 23.. any of this sounding familiar? Then she started a real estate company with a $1,000 loan and a boyfriend who told her she'd never make it without him. Wrong. She built The Corcoran Group into one of New York's biggest real estate firms, sold it for $66 million, and became one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank. She wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until she was an adult. Not as a teenager struggling in class, not as a young founder hustling her first listings, but well after the business was already built. But here's the bit I think matters most 🤔 Barbara doesn't talk about ADHD like something she had to overcome, but talks about it more like it's the fuel that drives her. The risk-taking, the fast decisions, the refusal to sit still and wait, none of this was her overcoming her brain, but was merely her brain, doing exactly what it does, finally pointed at something that fit. It kind of goes back to one of my previous posts, reaffirming the whole point of the care label, not the worn one. Nobody ever needed to see "ADHD" stitched on the outside for her to succeed. She just needed to stop trying to operate like everyone else's brain — and start building around her own. If you would like to read more about Barbara's story, and some other inspiring entrepreneurs who think differently, then click here 👈 And here's a question for you, where in your life are you still trying to force your brain into someone else's system, and what would it look like to build around it instead?

I've been away because I tried to do too many things all at once, and as a result, I crashed. Just to say, these were not bad things. Just normal stuff, life stuff, business stuff, everything all in one go, but now I know it was too many things. And if you're ND, you'll know exactly what that means. It's not that you stopped caring. It's just that your brain reaches that moment where it hits capacity, and the only way forward is to go dark. Most people can't explain it, but most of us have felt it, without ever knowing what to call it, but now you do.. 👇 That's cognitive overload. And for neurodivergent brains it doesn't just slow you down, it shuts you down completely. So here's what happened to me. Three businesses. Too many plates. All spinning. None of them properly. And the moment I recognised the pattern, that "chasing the next shiny thing was the reason that the current thing got difficult, confusing, frustrating, annoying, I knew that I had to make a decision. So, this is what I've done. One thing. Right now. NeuThinking. Not forever. Just for now. Has anyone else hit the ND shutdown, and if you have, what brought you back?

Evening all, hope you’re all well. It’s Friday night, and as usual, I’m sat in the cricket club, my daughter is at training, and even though I’m surrounded by other families, their children, and the club staff, it’s always the place where ironically, I get the most work done. Even though it’s noisy, busy, lots of distractions around, this is usually where I do my best work, and is one of the environments where my brain works best. I dont know if I’m different, or if other people think the same, but the hustle and bustle becomes white noise for me, almost calming my senses, whereas give me a silent room, and I find it extremely unsettling. Since I got here an hour ago, I’ve already explored setting up a digital product which I can sell on Gumroad, as part of my coaching framework. I have also set up a plan to bring in 5 new clients, who are looking for a coach for three months, in order to find a bit of balance, which will also hopefully help as part of my university qualification completion. Lastly, I have planned my entire weeks worth of content for next week, and have even brought in a new YouTube client who is needing an editor and channel marketer. What are your plans this weekend ?.. What are you planning to achieve in the coming weeks ? Let me know below.

In addition to this stat, 45% of C-suite executives and 32% of senior management do so as well. The further up you look, the more of us there are. What is interesting is that these are often the same brains that the teachers wrote off. It's the same kids who were told to sit still, pay attention, try harder, and the same people handed systems that didn't fit and told them that the problem was not the system, it was them. But then they left the system. They thought about what they really wanted, how it could work for them, how they could approach it differently, and then they built the whole thing anyway. The refusal to accept the default. The ability to see what everyone else walked past. The resilience you only build when nothing was ever designed for you. That's not a disorder. That's an edge. Sound familiar?

I want to ask you something, and I'd love to hear your honest answer in the comments. Have you ever had a moment — completely unplanned, almost accidental, where something stopped you in your tracks and made you think "Why couldn't I do that?" 🤔 For me it was hearing a piece of music from another room, and after following the sound, what I saw on screen made me think "how hard could that actually be?" Eighteen months later I was working on one of the highest-profile productions the BBC had to offer. As a former landscaper, with no computer experience beyond invoicing, no plan, no contacts, and no relevant expereince, all I had was acuriosity, a willingness to learn differently, and, if I'm honest, an arrogant fact that I had no other option. I know now, that the accident that ended my business turned out to be the redirect I didn't know I needed, so here's what I'm genuinely curious about ? Has a setback, a redundancy, an accident, or an unexpected life event ever forced you into something that turned out to be better than what you'd lost? Did you see it coming? Did you fight it at first? And what was the moment it shifted from feeling like an ending to feeling like a beginning? Drop it in the comments. These are the stories that actually help people who are sitting in the middle of their own uncertainty right now.