EP 170: Why ‘More Discipline’ Isn’t the Answer When Your Brain Feels Like Chaos Ft ADHD Coach Alannah Aiken
If consistency feels impossible, if guilt creeps in when you rest, or if business advice never quite seems to fit this episode is for you.
Introduction:
In this special conversation, Jessica sits down with ADHD coach Alannah Aiken to explore how neurodivergent women can build businesses that honour their brains instead of fighting them.
This is about unlearning guilt, rewriting success, and creating supportive structures that work with your cycles and energy.
Introducing Alannah Aiken:
Alannah is an ADHD coach who is on a mission to support people with ADHD to find their new normal, and turn the chaos into clarity. She wears the hat of a coach, mentor and educator, helping individuals with ADHD to understand, support and embrace their ADHD and their unique brains, energy and capacity. Together, let's rewrite the narrative and learn to ditch the shame that can come from a life of undiagnosed ADHD.
Connect with Alannah:
Instagram and TikTok: @adhd.with.alannah
Key Takeaways:
How masking and internalised hyperactivity show up in adult women with ADHD
The shame cycle of comparing yourself to neurotypical productivity standards
Why your energy is cyclical—and how to work with it
The power of rest, systems, and compassion when you feel like you’re falling behind
Letting go of perfectionism to build a business around your real capacity
Reflection Questions:
Where am I expecting myself to operate like everyone else?
What would shift if I built my business around my cycles and my brain?
Where can I release guilt around doing things differently?
If this spoke to you, share your takeaways with Jessica and Alannah on Instagram. Let us know what resonated.
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