The

Dopamine
Driven
Podcast

Exploring the science of motivation, performance and personal growth.

Science Backed Actionable Strategies Peak Performance Personal Growth
72 Episodes
4 min Avg length
Free Always
72 episodes
[CAREER]

Career

6 episodes
EP 053 EP 053 4 min
It Is Not Flakiness. It Is What Happens When Your Brain Runs Out of Novelty and the Job Has Not Changed.
Jul 16, 2026 4 min
EP 025 EP 025 5 min
You Didn’t Fail at Business. You Were Running It on the Wrong Operating Manual.
Jun 30, 2026 5 min
EP 050 EP 050 5 min
You’re Not Zoning Out. Five Specific Things Are Breaking in Your Brain During Every Meeting.
Jun 13, 2026 5 min
EP 023 EP 023 5 min
Meetings Are Specifically Designed to Fail ADHD Brains. Here’s the Neuroscience Proving It.
Jun 2, 2026 5 min
EP 045 EP 045 5 min
You Are Doing the Work of Three People and Still Not Getting Promoted. Here Is What Is Actually Happening.
May 26, 2026 5 min
EP 036 EP 036 4 min
You’re Not Asking for Special Treatment. You’re Asking for an Even Playing Field.
May 25, 2026 4 min
[ADHD]

ADHD

19 episodes
EP 050 EP 050 5 min
You Aren’t Failing Your Treatment. Your Brain Just Adapted.
Jul 15, 2026 5 min
EP 046 EP 046 5 min
Something Feels Off With Your Meds and You Can’t Find the Words. That’s Not You Being Difficult.
Jul 13, 2026 5 min
EP 042 EP 042 4 min
Stop Calling It Drama. What’s Actually Happening Inside Your Brain When RSD Hits.
Jul 10, 2026 4 min
EP 038 EP 038 5 min
When Someone Corrects Your Behavior, Your Brain Hears ‘You Are Wrong at the Core’
Jul 8, 2026 5 min
EP 034 EP 034 5 min
You Stopped Explaining Yourself Because You Already Decided the Verdict Was In
Jul 6, 2026 5 min
EP 030 EP 030 5 min
Is It a Bad Job or a Bad Dose? How to Run the ADHD Career Diagnostic Your Prescriber Never Runs With You
Jul 3, 2026 5 min
EP 026 EP 026 5 min
You Don’t Want to Die. You Want the Noise to Stop. There’s a Difference.
Jul 1, 2026 5 min
EP 022 EP 022 5 min
Everyone Else Seemed to Know the Script. You Were Writing It in Real Time.
Jun 29, 2026 5 min
EP 014 EP 014 5 min
The Exhaustion Was Never Depression. It Was the Cost of Performing Yourself for Twenty Years.
Jun 24, 2026 5 min
EP 010 EP 010 5 min
You Spent Decades Performing a Role You Were Never Given the Script For. That Grief Is Real.
Jun 22, 2026 5 min
EP 006 EP 006 4 min
Your Career Path Looks Like a Scribble Because the Ladder Was Never Built for Your Brain
Jun 19, 2026 4 min
EP 051 EP 051 5 min
The Guilt of the 5 AM Bedtime: Why Your Night Owl Brain Feels Like a Moral Failure
Jun 15, 2026 5 min
EP 044 EP 044 4 min
You’re Not Grieving the Past. You’re Grieving a Person Who Never Got to Exist.
Jun 12, 2026 4 min
EP 043 EP 043 5 min
You Were Never Behind. You Were Running Someone Else’s Script.
Jun 12, 2026 5 min
EP 039 EP 039 4 min
You Are Not Apologizing for Yourself. You Are Apologizing for Your Brain.
Jun 10, 2026 4 min
EP 035 EP 035 5 min
Your Daily Routine Isn’t a System. It’s a Series of Emergency Maneuvers.
Jun 8, 2026 5 min
EP 041 EP 041 6 min
Your ADHD Brain Isn’t Lazy — It’s Running on the Wrong Fuel
May 25, 2026 6 min
EP 011 EP 011 5 min
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Isn’t You Being Oversensitive. It’s Your Nervous System Misfiring.
May 13, 2026 5 min
EP 006 EP 006 4 min
Your Anger Isn’t a Temper Problem. It’s RSD You Were Never Taught to Recognize.
May 11, 2026 4 min
13 more
[BODY]

Body

8 episodes
EP 049 EP 049 5 min
Your ADHD, Your Hypermobile Joints, and Your Chronic Pain Are Not Three Separate Problems
Jul 14, 2026 5 min
EP 021 EP 021 5 min
Stimming Isn’t a Behaviour Problem. It’s the Only Thing Keeping Your Nervous System Alive.
Jun 27, 2026 5 min
EP 047 EP 047 5 min
Your Birth Control Is a Neurological Variable. Here’s How to Make It Work With Your ADHD Brain.
Jun 12, 2026 5 min
EP 019 EP 019 4 min
You Started a New Pill and Your ADHD Got Worse. That’s Not a Coincidence.
Jun 1, 2026 4 min
EP 005 EP 005 5 min
Your Hormones Are Hijacking Your ADHD Every Month and Nobody Told You That Was Happening
May 28, 2026 5 min
EP 004 EP 004 5 min
Postpartum Isn’t the Baby Blues. It’s an Estrogen Cliff That Takes Your ADHD Medication With It.
May 28, 2026 5 min
EP 040 EP 040 5 min
PMDD Isn’t ‘Bad PMS.’ It’s a Separate Diagnosis That Shares a Brain With Your ADHD.
May 25, 2026 5 min
EP 037 EP 037 5 min
Your ADHD Gets Worse Every Month on the Same Days. That’s Not a Coincidence.
May 25, 2026 5 min
2 more
[RELATIONSHIPS]

Relationships

5 episodes
EP 045 EP 045 5 min
You’re Not Over-Explaining Because You’re Needy. You’re Over-Explaining Because You’ve Never Felt Safe Just Being Believed.
Jul 11, 2026 5 min
EP 017 EP 017 5 min
Your ADHD Brain Has a Point of No Return in Arguments. You Can Learn to Exit Before You Hit It.
Jun 25, 2026 5 min
EP 042 EP 042 5 min
Your ADHD Argument Is Already Over Before You Know It Started
Jun 11, 2026 5 min
EP 016 EP 016 4 min
ADHD Relationships Break Down in Slow Motion — and Both People Feel Alone in It
May 31, 2026 4 min
EP 035 EP 035 5 min
Female Friendships Feel Like a Full-Time Job When You Have ADHD. Here’s the Neuroscience of Why.
May 25, 2026 5 min
[IDENTITY]

Identity

4 episodes
EP 041 EP 041 5 min
AuDHD Means the Rule-Lover and the Rule-Breaker Are Both You — At the Same Time
Jul 9, 2026 5 min
EP 013 EP 013 4 min
The Girls Who ‘Just Needed to Apply Themselves’ and What That Actually Cost Them
Jun 23, 2026 4 min
EP 038 EP 038 5 min
You Were Told to Apply Yourself. You Were Applying Yourself Twice as Hard as Anyone Knew.
Jun 9, 2026 5 min
EP 013 EP 013 5 min
The Decade You Spent Thinking You Were Just Bad at Life
May 30, 2026 5 min
[SYSTEMS]

Systems

4 episodes
EP 037 EP 037 4 min
You Know What You Need to Do. Your Brain Just Can’t Find the Start Signal. This One Sentence Fixes That.
Jul 7, 2026 4 min
EP 009 EP 009 4 min
Your Apartment Isn’t Messy Because You’re Failing — It’s Messy Because It’s Fighting Your Brain
Jun 20, 2026 4 min
EP 033 EP 033 4 min
Your Autistic Brain Wants a Schedule. Your ADHD Brain Just Burned It Down. Here’s What Actually Works.
Jun 6, 2026 4 min
EP 009 EP 009 5 min
The Fake Deadline Trick Actually Works. Here’s the Neuroscience of Why Your Brain Falls For It Every Time.
May 29, 2026 5 min
[MONEY]

Money

5 episodes
EP 033 EP 033 5 min
Your Budget Assumes You Get Paid the Same Amount Every Month. That’s Why It Keeps Falling Apart.
Jul 4, 2026 5 min
EP 005 EP 005 5 min
You Missed a Payment, Felt Like a Failure, and Never Opened the Bill Again. That’s a Loop, Not a Character Flaw.
Jun 18, 2026 5 min
EP 029 EP 029 5 min
ADHD Brains Are Overrepresented in Debt. This Is the Neurological Reason Why.
Jun 4, 2026 5 min
EP 049 EP 049 4 min
Impulse Spending Is Not a Character Flaw. It’s Your Brain Seeking Dopamine With Your Credit Card.
May 27, 2026 4 min
EP 042 EP 042 5 min
The ADHD Tax Is Real and It’s Draining Your Bank Account, Energy, and Time Every Single Week
May 25, 2026 5 min
[ENERGY]

Energy

3 episodes
EP 029 EP 029 5 min
The Data on Why Hustle Culture Breaks ADHD Brains in a Specific Way (and Why Rest Won’t Fix It)
Jul 2, 2026 5 min
EP 026 EP 026 5 min
You Are Exhausted Because Your Brain Is Running a Second Job You Never Signed Up For
Jun 3, 2026 5 min
EP 042 EP 042 5 min
You’re Not Lazy. Both Your Nervous Systems Just Crashed at the Same Time.
May 25, 2026 5 min
[WOMEN & ADHD]

Women & ADHD

3 episodes
EP 018 EP 018 5 min
Your ADHD Medication Didn’t Stop Working. Your Estrogen Did.
Jun 26, 2026 5 min
EP 030 EP 030 5 min
You’re Not an Empath. You’re Hypervigilant. And Your Nervous System Has Been Working Overtime Since Childhood.
May 22, 2026 5 min
EP 020 EP 020 5 min
You Sat in That Evaluation Room and Realized It Was Also About You
May 18, 2026 5 min
[AUDHD]

AuDHD

3 episodes
EP 034 EP 034 5 min
Your Meltdowns and Your Impulsivity Are Having a Fight and Neither One Is Winning
Jun 5, 2026 5 min
EP 048 EP 048 5 min
The AuDHD Double Bind: When Your Autism Masks Your ADHD and Your ADHD Blows Your Autism Mask
May 27, 2026 5 min
EP 010 EP 010 5 min
Your Brain Wants to Shut Down AND Speed Up at the Same Time — That’s AuDHD
May 12, 2026 5 min
[LATE DISCOVERY]

Late Discovery

1 episode
EP 020 EP 020 5 min
You Finally Know Why. Now You Have to Figure Out Who.
Jun 1, 2026 5 min
[LIFE SYSTEMS]

Life Systems

3 episodes
EP 010 EP 010 5 min
If Your Whole Life System Depends on Not Having a Bad Week, It’s Not a System
May 29, 2026 5 min
EP 025 EP 025 5 min
Your Perfect System Works for Two Weeks. Then Your Brain Kills It. Here’s the Neuroscience.
May 20, 2026 5 min
EP 013 EP 013 5 min
Your Body Clock Is Not Broken. It Just Runs Three Hours Late.
May 17, 2026 5 min
[RELATIONSHIPS & ADHD]

Relationships & ADHD

2 episodes
EP 006 EP 006 5 min
You’re Rejecting Yourself Before Anyone Else Gets the Chance. That’s What RSD Actually Does.
May 26, 2026 5 min
EP 005 EP 005 5 min
RSD and Friendships: Why Making and Keeping Friends Feels Riskier With ADHD
May 5, 2026 5 min
[THE SCIENCE]

The Science

3 episodes
EP 012 EP 012 5 min
Your Brain Has a Bouncer Who Hates You: The ADHD Reticular Activating System Explained
May 15, 2026 5 min
EP 004 EP 004 5 min
ADHD Perfectionism: Why the Brain That Cannot Finish Anything Demands It Be Perfect
May 10, 2026 5 min
EP 008 EP 008 5 min
ADHD and Anxiety Almost Always Travel Together. Here’s Why That Changes Everything About Treatment.
May 9, 2026 5 min
[TACTICAL PROCEDURES]

Tactical Procedures

2 episodes
EP 002 EP 002 5 min
The ADHD Dopamine Menu: How to Stop Waiting for Motivation and Build It Instead
May 3, 2026 5 min
EP 007 EP 007 5 min
Your Executive Function Isn’t Broken. It’s Just Starving for the Right Input.
Apr 28, 2026 5 min
[GENERAL]

General

1 episode
EP 009 EP 009 5 min
The ADHD Masking Tax: What Suppressing Your ADHD Costs You
Apr 24, 2026 5 min
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