ADHD clarity, with practical edges.
Hacking Your ADHD is a measured mental-health show about making ADHD less abstract and more manageable. William Kerb and his guests connect research, practical frameworks, and personal experience to everyday problems like time, friendship, anxiety, and routines.
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Hacking Your ADHD is a grounded guide to the practical consequences of living with ADHD as an adult. The show is built around a simple editorial habit: define the problem carefully, test it against research or experience, then ask what can actually change. That patience matters. ADHD is treated neither as a punchline nor as a total explanation for everything. William Kerb brings the conversation back to tools, tactics, and daily friction, but the tone is less productivity theater than careful sense-making. Recent research recap episodes with Skye Watterson show the format at its clearest. A paper on adult time perception becomes a discussion of time estimation, time reproduction, and time management, with the useful admission that time is not one single skill. A study on anxiety and goal-focused cognitive remediation becomes a more cautious conversation about executive function, goal-focused intervention, and who research participants actually represent. The show is comfortable with caveats. It also knows when lived experience is the point. Conversations about neurodivergent friendship examine proximity, shared interest, rejection histories, and low-pressure social contact as practical mechanics rather than vague encouragement. The episode with Brooke Schnittman connects bullying, masking, chronic criticism, and reciprocal support, naming how ADHD traits can be misread by other people before turning toward safer relationships. Other guest episodes stretch the frame into loneliness, alcohol addiction, intimacy, communication, and accountability systems. Those topics can be heavy, but the show usually handles them with a calm, explanatory rhythm. It does not promise a cure. In fact, some of its sharpest moments come from saying plainly that ADHD still affects functioning, and that compassion works better when paired with responsibility. The show also gives space to common public claims, such as artificial food coloring and ADHD symptoms, while distinguishing parent reports, teacher reports, and weak evidence. That makes it useful for listeners who want more than tips but do not want academic distance. The result is a show that feels literate, humane, and usable. It suits people who want language for their struggles, but also want systems that can survive real life.
Made for: Adults with ADHD, neurodivergent families, and people close to them who want careful explanations paired with workable daily strategies. It also suits listeners who prefer nuance over quick fixes.
What sets it apart: The show stands out for translating ADHD research and practical ideas into plain, concrete implications without flattening the complexity. Its interviews stay warm while still making room for caveats, evidence quality, and personal responsibility.
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, where you can learn techniques for helping your ADHD brain. ADHD can be a struggle, but it doesn't always have to be. Join me every Monday as I explore ways that you can work with your ADHD brain to do more of the things you want to do. If you have ADHD or someone in your life does and you want to get organized, get focused and get motivated then this podcast is for you.
A crisis plan beats another fantasy schedule when your ADHD brain calls the meeting.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured look at why parent reports and teacher ratings can diverge on ADHD diets.
The episode handles artificial food colorings as a cautious ADHD question, not a rule for every household. In the data it reviews, children who had been getting lots of artificial food colors were placed on a color-free diet.
A grounded conversation about ADHD, responsibility, and relationship-supporting systems.
Hacking Your ADHD turns The ADHD Field Guide for Adults into a clear, practical conversation about how ADHD can shape daily life, especially in intimacy, relationships, communication, and time.
A measured review of how CBT, ADHD scores, and brain connectivity moved together in one adult study.
Research feels more concrete when the question is whether CBT can show up not just in ADHD symptoms, but in the brain's own patterns. This review follows a study of adults with ADHD in China, all diagnosed in childhood, currently unmedicated, and without prior psychotropic…
A steady, practical look at why manageable tasks can still feel impossible, and how planning can make them easier to meet.
Breaking a task into smaller pieces can sound like the obvious fix, right up until nothing happens anyway. William Kerb's conversation with Vanessa Goralkin, an occupational therapist and ADHD coach, sits with that gap between knowing what to do and being able to start, framing…
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.
A conversation with Alyece Smith about why people with ADHD feel they need to earn rest and how to build sustainable systems.
Vanessa Goralkin, an occupational therapist for 30 years, explains why ADHD strategies that work for a while suddenly stop.
A study of 84 adults with ADHD found none had ever taken medication, a detail Skye Watterson calls 'wild'.
William Kerb interviews Chris Wang about ADHD-friendly goal setting, the power of community, and process-oriented goal setting.
William Kerb interviews occupational therapist Vanessa Gorelkin about how ADHD affects task initiation and emotional regulation, and shares strategies like task breakdown and crisis planning.
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William Kerb and Skye Waterson recap the narrative review "Evaluating Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD, a review of current methods and issues," a 21-page paper.
Skye and William discuss a research review on time perception deficits in adults with ADHD, covering time estimation, reproduction, and management.
William Kerb interviews Caroline Maguire about building friendship skills for neurodivergent adults, covering practical frameworks like the ice cream scoop method and the importance of third places.
William Kerb explores how to make life with ADHD feel less like an uphill battle by simplifying routines and harnessing small changes.
On Hacking Your ADHD, William Kerb interviews ADHD coach and author Brooke Schnittman about her self-selected survey of 162 adults who identified as having ADHD and reported bullying across childhood and adulthood.
This episode discusses a research paper on whether goal-focused cognitive remediation can improve anxiety and executive function in adults with ADHD.
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William Kerb of Hacking Your ADHD examines why focus can feel impossible during major stress, using his mother’s sudden death and the continuing demands of childcare, meals, laundry, and work as concrete examples.
Hacking Your ADHD host William Kerb interviews Kate Osborne and Eric Goud about The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, a book designed for neurodivergent adults, including people diagnosed later in life.
On Hacking Your ADHD, William Kerb interviews Dani Donovan about The Anti-Planner, a toolbox of strategies created after she repeatedly abandoned $60-$70 daily planners by March.
Nick Jonsson discusses his journey through loneliness, denial, and alcohol addiction, and how vulnerability and connection are essential for recovery, with relevance to adults with ADHD.