What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

You went to the doctor. You said you were tired. They ran your labs. Everything came back "within range." And you still feel terrible.

Hali Laricey has heard this story so many times she built her practice around it. Hali is a Certified Functional Wellness Practitioner who helps women uncover the root causes behind the symptoms they have been told are normal. Brain fog. Exhaustion. Gut issues. The nervous system overwhelm that so many ADHD moms know from the inside out.

In this episode:

• The quick win: a deliberate, deep breath when the overwhelm starts. Count to four, hold, exhale. It is not benign. It is your nervous system getting a reset.
• The CBC with differential and three specific markers (neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes) that reveal hidden infections, viral load, and chronic inflammation most doctors don't read for.
• Why the standard lab range is built around population averages, and what optimal actually looks like.
• The gut-brain-immune axis and why ADHD symptoms get worse when the gut is depleted.
• Vitamin D's real target (eighty or above), the cofactors most supplements miss, and why a Costco bottle alone may do nothing.
• Why Hali stopped being polite about "adrenal fatigue isn't a real thing" after she found it in her own labs.

Hali's message to ADHD moms is the one we all need to hear: you are not crazy, you are not lazy, and your body has been trying to tell you something specific. This episode hands you the vocabulary to listen.

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Website: https://theadhdmom.com/

Resources Mentioned:

Find Hali at halilaricey.com. Download her Dream Labs List (add fasting insulin and ferritin) and book a personalized lab review with her.

• halilaricey.com
• Facebook: functionalwellnesswithhali
• YouTube: @FunctionalWellnesswithHali
• Instagram: @functionalwellnesswithhali
• Guest freebie: halilaricey.com/labs (Dream Labs List)

For more articles and free resources for ADHD moms, visit theadhdmom.com.

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What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

Memory is not a system. For ADHD brains especially, treating it like one is where things fall apart.

Alexis Haselberger is a time management, productivity, and stress reduction coach with ADHD who has taught over 240,000 people to work with their brains instead of against them. Her clients include teams at Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, and Upwork. Her approach was built on a lifetime of figuring out what actually works for brains like ours.

In this episode:

The quick win: stop relying on memory entirely. Write down everything, every time, no exceptions

Why high, medium, and low priority labels are mostly meaningless, and what to do instead

The Someday/Maybe list: how to get aspirational ideas out of your head without losing them forever

Why task realism (matching your list to your actual available time) changes how you feel at the end of every day

How to keep your goals visible so they actually influence your decisions

Why ADHD brains need to expect that systems will stop working, and why that is not a failure

Good enough is not settling. It is a strategy.

Alexis has a practical, honest approach that does not ask you to become a different kind of person. It asks you to build systems around the person you already are.

Learn more about the podcast:

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalynnlewis/
X: https://x.com/jesslewisvoice
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwinsADHDmoms
Website: https://theadhdmom.com/

Resources Mentioned:

Find Alexis at alexishaselberger.com and her free distraction action plan for ADHD brains.

Website & Social Media:

• alexishaselberger.com
• Instagram: @do.more.stress.less
• YouTube: youtube.com/c/domorestressless
• TikTok: @do.more.stress.less
• Facebook: @domorestressless
• Free resources: Working Parents Survival Guide | Distraction Action Plan

For more articles and free resources for ADHD moms, visit theadhdmom.com

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✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain

Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.

What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

You've tried the strategies. You've read the books. You've managed the behaviors. And the chaos is still winning.

What if the problem isn't the behavior at all? What if it starts somewhere else entirely?

Dana Kay is the founder of the ADHD Thrive Institute, a board-certified health and nutrition practitioner, and a mom who watched her five-year-old get prescribed a fourth medication before she decided there had to be another way. Today she walks us through the gut-brain connection, what functional lab testing actually shows about ADHD kids, and the one small rule your whole family can start with today.

In this episode:

The quick win: the "no naked carb" rule and why blood sugar stability changes everything for ADHD brains

Why 95% of serotonin and 50% of dopamine are produced in the gut, not the brain

How a compromised gut sends inflammatory signals straight to the frontal lobe, the part responsible for focus, planning, and executive function

What functional lab testing looks like for kids (hint: no needles)

The "trash can" framework for understanding inflammatory load

Why Dana is not anti-medication and why she still advocates for this approach first

Dana's son went from daily meltdowns and four medications at age five to thriving at sixteen, off medication for years. More than 1,600 families have been through her method. This conversation will change how you think about what your child's body is trying to tell you.

Learn more about the podcast:

Follow the ADHD Mom (Jess):
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quickwinsadhdmoms
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalynnlewis/
X: https://x.com/jesslewisvoice
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwinsADHDmoms
Website: https://theadhdmom.com/

Resources Mentioned:

Find Dana at adhdthriveinstitute.com and on Instagram at @ADHDThriveInstitute

For more articles and free resources for ADHD moms, visit theadhdmom.com

Support the show

Loved this episode? Here's your next step.

✅ Grab the Starter Bundle: Dopamine Hit List + More — click here for your free reset toolkit for the ADHD mom brain

Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.