Refitting the HMS Defiance

Cameron opens fresh off teaching a class on coaching neurodivergent leaders — and the insights on impact and awareness are still buzzing. As someone who learns by teaching, he brings that energy and learning straight to the podcast, picking up the thread from last week's conversation on navigating pushback in the context of change.

This week, Cameron names something he noticed in his own tone last week: defiance. And while a little defiance can be fuel, too much of it keeps us isolated, alienates potential allies, and puts all our energy into fighting back rather than moving forward. Enter the HMS Defiance — a vessel worth refitting, not scrapping.

Cameron explores the tricky dance between acknowledging others' valid frustrations with your ADHD and not losing sight of your own experience in the process. He digs into relationship dynamics — particularly in ADHD partnerships — where the focus so often lands on the impact of ADHD on others, rather than the storm happening inside the person with ADHD. Two things can be true, and real change starts from the inside out.

The invitation this week: push your agenda forward not through anger or resentment, but by articulating your experience, advocating for support, and finding — or building — a community that sees you. Refit the ship. Choose your crew wisely. And decide what destination you're actually sailing toward.

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Episoder(51)

Pushing Back on the Tide of Tasks

The tide is relentless. It comes in twice a day, and it floods everything. Cam relays a story from a client who got caught in a frenetic scramble to prepare for houseguests and stopped to ask why she ...

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Seeking Meaning Beyond Masking

A friend listened to last week’s Over/Under ADHD model and said it reminded him of Foursquare, with him as the ball bouncing between squares. Overthinking, overdoing, underthinking, underdoing: that m...

31 Okt 23min

The Over/Under ADHD Model

Your brain isn’t stuck in one gear. It’s constantly moving. Cameron sketches a plus sign on a piece of paper (or in the sand, if you’re on a beach) and introduces a new tool: thinking and doing across...

23 Okt 26min

Developing a Meaningful Impact Mindset

You can’t hunt meaning down. It arrives when you’re present enough to receive it, and presence is exactly what ADHD makes hard. Cameron starts on the paddleboard, where seventeen geese flew straight a...

16 Okt 26min

Pick Up the Pieces

Season 2 begins. Ten weeks after the Season 1 finale, Cam is back in the seat and picking up where he left off. This episode looks at why people with ADHD keep setting down what already works while ch...

9 Okt 21min

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 10: Learning to Embrace Completion

Season One's finale, and it's a milestone: week 10 of the Ten-Week Integration Reset, episode 46, and the close of an entire arc. Cam turns his attention to a concept that's been quietly present the w...

31 Jul 25min

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 9: Looking Back with Kindness and Accuracy

Week 9, and the Ten-Week Integration Reset is coming in for a landing. Before looking ahead to the finish, Cam turns the lens backward — because for people with ADHD, looking back can go sideways fast...

17 Jul 31min

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 8: The Whole is Greater...

Week 8 of the Ten-Week Integration Reset, and Cam is living the material in real time. Facing a full day — training prep, a class to teach, a "command performance," and client sessions — he catches hi...

10 Jul 19min