Are my thoughts clear? Is my mind quiet? Am I open to my essential nature (found in all of us) which is resilience, compassion, and love? And it's not found in our very human experience of thought and thinking. It's in that quiet space. It is in that quiet space that most of our most beloved athletes win championships and break records.

Simon Mundie is a lover of sport. Especially tennis. He has interviewed some of the greatest tennis players of all time. Recently I had the honor of (from across the pond) sitting down with Simon Mundie, host of the brilliant podcast Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond. Simon is also a critically acclaimed presenter for BBC TV and Radio 4's Today Program. Simon shares many touching examples of the fearless competitive wisdom in the athletes he interviews and how this precise discovery rests within all of us, right here, right now, no matter the circumstance.

In today's podcast I had the pleasure to speak with the brilliant transformational coach, Siobhan Friel, on how the mind really works (what they didn't teach us), and why we often forget that we are making it all up.

ADHD is a paradox of opposite abilities and behaviors that resonate at more intense levels than in those who do not have ADHD. Paradox is the coexistence of seemingly contradictory qualities or phases. One major paradox in a person with an ADHD neurotype is the inability to focus due to periphery noise. Periphery noise can interfere with the ability to carry on a conversation, get important work done, or follow direction in a person with ADHD. This can strain relationships (work and interpersonal) and lead to us feeling constantly exhausted and misunderstood by our frustrated peers. Peripheral noise is kryptonite to a person with ADHD. Sniffles and coughs are like bird calls in an aviary. Sniffles evolve into snuffles in my ADHD brain like blows in a steel foundry. To make matters worse the noise can sometimes be louder and more disruptive than your neighbor's car alarm going off in the middle of the night. It's not only disruptive it can be painful to a person with ADHD. Understanding how the speedy ADHD mind works is not only helpful to a person with ADHD but to our co-workers and the people (who care about us) to practice patience, compassion and make accommodations when the noise in our head is disruptive.

In this episode I had the unique opportunity to speak with a very special human. His name is Daniel Jackson, a gifted spirit guide and intuitive coach. Daniel shares how we can polish the lens of the heart, mind, and soul from the wisdom of our ancestors beyond the veil. It was truly an honor to listen to Daniel share his wisdom and experiences channeling spirit. You don't want to miss this episode!

In this episode I had the unique opportunity to speak with Scott Gazzoli, successful entrepreneur, Brooklynite, and host of the Causing the Effect podcast, a top 25 mindset podcast on Apple. Scott takes us on a colorful journey from growing up as a young kid inside the mafia to recreating himself over and over again until he found real success and contentment not just financially but in his heart, mind, and soul.

Mya is a brilliant coach and shaman from Queensland, Australia who helps her clients awaken from their dogmatic slumbers. Mya utilizes her shamanic gifts to help her clients see beyond the noise of their limiting beliefs and conditioning.

In this episode I share the microphone with my very first guest, my dear friend and fellow podcaster Bobby Couto of the Bobby Couto Show and the Disgruntled American Podcast. It's a feel good and engaging conversation between two friends on two different coasts. We share our personal experiences on mental health and how we both "experience" a rapidly changing world through the lens of generation x.

In today's episode I had the unique opportunity to speak with Matt Roberts, aka, "The Psychological Performance Coach," on how to experience more of what every human being wants more of (clarity of mind and wellbeing) and why we often (innocently) look in the wrong place for it.

In this podcast we explore the nature of labels and the behavioral conditioning that humans innocently experience when diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, OCD and other related "disorders" and how to see beyond the stigma attached to the label.

A typical ADHD adult experiences life more intensely than neurotypicals. The ADHD nervous system wants to be engaged in something interesting and challenging. Attention is never "deficit." It's always excessive, constantly occupied with internal engagements. When people with ADHD aren't not present and in a state of flow they have many things rattling around in their minds all at once. Past, present, and future are never separate and distinct. When we see the illusory nature of this "neuro-experience" called ADHD we are better equipped to be the silent observer of the frenetic system which allows us to get less "sucked in" to it.

Your brain loves you and wants to keep you safe. But just like your laptop computer at home your computer is useless without "YOU" at the controls. Especially when your brain glitches and spews out all sorts of error commands in the form of overwhelmed, scary thinking. Scary thinking when there is nothing in the present moment to be scared about. So don't worry. It’s never your fault. It happens to all of us. It is the experience we call being human. As long as you see it as 100% nonsense and temporary. As long as you see it just anxious, sped up, overwhelmed ego fueled angry thinking that 100% means nothing and will settle on its own very soon. As long as you see the glitch in the operating system, the more we see the glitchiness as normal (and very human), the less we suffer. The less we suffer the quieter we get. The quieter we get the more time we spend in a very magical space called the present moment.

When we see that our worst enemy is not your desperate circumstances but the very human tendency to getting caught up in the content of our thinking, silly beliefs, and conditioning of how life is supposed to be. Syd Banks, the brilliant Scottish mystic once said: "Everyone at this moment is mentally healthy when you look at yourself from those eyes and you look at others from those eyes the way you are changes." And you don't find it in your intellect. When our mind calms down we enter this space as Syd Banks calls it, "pure consciousness." You don't have to believe in spirituality (or practice anything), being religious to see what I am pointing to. It's always there. It's always on offer. It's built in to everyone of you. Once your thinking gets quiet we drop into the fearless now.

You can end up chasing your own tail believing that authority figures, doctors, law enforcement. the media. your family, your boss say it must be true. But it may not be "the truth." The only truth is this moment. The only real truth is relaxing into hope when we get present. The only truth is living in the feeling of possibility right now. Living in the feeling of enjoyment despite how good or bad your circumstances are. So what is true with all of you at this present moment? Because all we have is this G-d given moment right now. As Syd banks once said: "get out of the future, get out out of the past, and get over yourself."

In this episode we examine the very human tendency to get caught up in the machinery of our brain's concept driven rigid business plan of how life is supposed to be. If we follow the brain's conditioned "fear algorithm" it leads down a torturous rabbit hole called suffering. When we point more to our G-d given gift of calm and wellbeing, we see what is possible beyond our noisy brains.

Why are we hypersensitive? Who cares. It just is. It’s our neurotype. 

Maybe our hyper-reactivity sometimes is also wrapped in old conditioning or habitual thought that is never examined. It does not matter. 

We don’t behave this way all the time. We are not hypersensitive all the time. When we are not caught up in emotional reactivity we are calm. Focused. Clear. We are not ADHD all the time. When we are not ADHD we are following our own inner guidance. It’s not found in your brain. It’s in the "fearless now."

We are all blessed with an inner guidance system, an inner GPS that (if we allow it to) gently guides us down the river of life. It is pre-installed original equipment at the factory. It is in all of you. If we pay attention to it more. If we don't get distracted and caught up by the convincing noise of the monkey mind. Noise our brain innocently tries to convince us is true. Then one day we see the ridiculousness of the noise. A ridiculous brain trying to convince you to pay attention to it. Why? Because the brain thinks that the noise will keep you safe and help”

We are all blessed with an inner guidance system, an inner GPS that (if we allow it to) gently guides us down the river of life. It is pre-installed original equipment at the factory. It is in all of you. If we pay attention to it more. If we don't get distracted and caught up by the convincing noise of the monkey mind. Noise our brain innocently tries to convince us is true. Then one day we see the ridiculousness of the noise. A ridiculous brain trying to convince you to pay attention to it. Why? Because the brain thinks that the noise will keep you safe and help you survive. That is great if there is a real physical threat like a saber tooth tiger hiding lurking in the shadows and ready to pounce. The real wisdom is getting curious about the noise. Realizing it is not real. Realizing it is all made up. Once we realize this we can pay attention more to our inner wisdom and less to the noise in our heads.

The great pattern interrupter is that quiet space we all drop into naturally but don't pay enough attention to. We are just one thought away from wellbeing. We all get to see there is a quiet and conscious knowing outside of our "caught-upness" of a low mood if we spend a little more time paying attention to the quiet we are all gifted with.

In this we explore a different way of looking at ADHD.

This episode is about the anxious and catastrophic future fantasy thinking inner narrator that is running in our head sometimes and how to make peace with it.

We all have an inner narrator constantly informing us of our outside world.