ADHD Coach Katherine Sanders
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ADHD coaching without the willpower lecture.
ADHD Powerful Possibilities treats executive function problems as design challenges rather than character flaws. Catherine Sanders blends coaching language, research references, and lived neurodivergent experience into practical guidance for adult ADHD.
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ADHD Powerful Possibilities is built around one steady question: what actually helps when ADHD knowledge has not translated into action. The show is practical and patient. Catherine Sanders speaks as an ADHD coach with her own ADHD and autism diagnoses, using that perspective to reduce shame while staying focused on usable change. The central concern is adult life with executive dysfunction. Tasks become hard not only because they are boring, but because they are ambiguous, distant, poorly cued, emotionally loaded, or dependent on a burst of motivation that will not reliably arrive. The show keeps returning to those details. A sticky note stops working. A planner loses novelty. A future goal sounds faint beside the louder demand of the present moment. Instead of treating those failures as evidence of weak character, the show frames them as signals about context, design, and support. Its coaching advice favors small experiments. Environments can prompt behavior. Pre-decided responses can reduce pressure at the point of performance. Clearer cues can beat vague intentions. The show also spends time with the emotional side of ADHD: uncertainty, self-acceptance, masking, friendship, and the painful question of where ADHD ends and personality begins. It is not presented as therapy or medical treatment. That boundary is named repeatedly, and the episodes stay in a coaching lane of education, reflection, and strategy. Guest conversations widen the scope. Caroline Maguire brings friendship skills and the difference between adaptation and masking into focus. Dr. Kathleen Nadeau discusses older adults with ADHD, retirement, gender expectations, diagnosis, and the power of peer support. The show suits people who are tired of being told to simply try harder. It is especially strong for late-diagnosed adults, self-employed people, overwhelmed planners, and anyone who has collected ADHD knowledge without finding a sustainable way to use it. Its best moments turn a stuck pattern into something visible. Then they ask what can be changed around it.
Made for: Late-diagnosed ADHD adults, neurodivergent adults, and people struggling with executive function, procrastination, ambiguity, friendship, uncertainty, or follow-through. It especially suits listeners who want coaching-style strategies grounded in real daily life.
What sets it apart: The show treats ADHD management as environmental and cognitive design, not a test of motivation. Catherine Sanders combines research references, lived experience, and gentle coaching into practical reframes that avoid hype.
Finally, an ADHD podcast that skips 'superpower' chat and toxic productivity to get real about what's going on and what actually works. If you're tired of empty promises and quick fixes, you've found your home. I'm Katherine, a certified ADHD coach (PCC, ACCG) diagnosed with ADHD and Autism in my early 40s. With 400+ hours of professional training and 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, I bring evidence-based strategies and the honest conversations you've been searching for. My clients call me the "ADHD nerd version of their favourite aunty" – and I'm here for it. What you'll get: - Weekly episodes tackling executive function ch...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Catherine Sanders makes ADHD management tangible by tracing where intentions fail and showing how external supports can change what happens next.
Catherine Sanders turns familiar ADHD frustrations into design problems that can be examined and changed. Solo coaching episodes connect procrastination, fading novelty and difficulty with uncertainty to specific moments when attention slips or a task loses its pull.
Catherine Sanders turns the moment your clever new system stops working into a redesign brief.
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Catherine Sanders makes a familiar habit feel concrete: change the cue, not just the intention.
Although Catherine Sanders stays on a familiar point, she makes it feel less like self help and more like a design problem: new systems feel easy at first, then novelty fades, urgency slips, and people drift back to old habits.
ADHD follow-through gets reframed as an environment problem, not a willpower test.
Build Your Environment Not Your Willpower treats ADHD follow-through as an environment problem rather than a test of grit. Catherine Sanders makes a clear case for external cues, implementation intention, and a point-of-performance approach, arguing that a physical prompt can do…
A grounded look at friendship, masking, and the social costs of late ADHD realization.
Caroline Maguire frames friendship as a practical skill, moving from her earlier work with children who get left out to a new book for neurodivergent adults.
A calm, mostly persuasive case for making peace with uncertainty in ADHD life.
Coach Catherine spends this hour tracing uncertainty through the experience of a later-in-life ADHD diagnosis, and the episode treats that tight hold on the future as something learned over time.
A measured conversation on later-life ADHD, retirement, and the relief of being understood.
The episode follows Dr. Kathleen Nadeau and ADHD Coach Catherine as they talk through older adults with ADHD, retirement, and the relief that can come when a lifelong pattern is finally named.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Care, culture, and the choices shaping Black women's lives.
Root-cause health, explained plainly.
Hope, tested in real conversation.
BBC comedy Motherland gives Catherine Sanders a frame for explaining why household logistics can overwhelm ADHD working memory.
Catherine Sanders, an ADHD coach diagnosed with ADHD and autism in her early 40s, looks at the novelty trap that makes new systems feel powerful right up until they stop working.
Catherine Sanders opens by challenging a familiar habit.
The host welcomes Caroline Maguire and links her earlier book for kids to her newer one for neurodivergent adults.
This episode explores how ambiguity in simple tasks can cause difficulties for people with ADHD, offering insights from a coach's perspective.
ADHD Coach Catherine explores why people with ADHD struggle to act on what they know they should do, offering insights into bridging the gap between knowledge and action.
Coach Catherine opens from a sunny Edinburgh and turns to uncertainty.
ADHD Coach Catherine talks with Dr.
This episode explores distinguishing between ADHD traits and personality, focusing on self-acceptance, self-compassion, and strategies for dealing with people who don't believe in ADHD.
This episode explores how individuals with ADHD experience and understand time differently, focusing on scientific research and practical strategies rather than just productivity tips.
This episode explores ADHD and food, focusing on meal planning strategies and executive function, with a recap on neurotransmitters and discussions on hydration and supplements.
This episode explores the connection between ADHD and shame, explaining why shame is particularly challenging for people with ADHD and offering practical strategies to overcome it.