{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"NeuroSpicy At Work ","title":"Continuous Improvement, ADHD & Nonlinear Careers — with Chris Stone","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/bb23dc9a\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1743,"description":"How ADHD shapes careers, self-worth, failure cycles, and the philosophy of continuous improvement.In this episode, Duena is joined by Chris Stone — agile coach, ADHD adult, continuous improvement practitioner, and the creator of The Coaching Culture Club. Together they explore what it really means to build a life, career and identity around an ADHD brain that never stops moving.Chris shares his journey through school failures, exam panic, inconsistent performance, burnout cycles, and the constant tension between “high potential” and “self-destruct mode.” hey discuss rejection sensitivity, spirals of self-doubt, hyperfocus traps, and the way ADHD adults often oscillate between brilliance and collapse — all inside systems not built for nonlinear minds.Duena and Chris unpack:• Growing up ADHD without diagnosis • Shame, self-blame & internalised failure • The transition from burnout to clarity • ADHD career patterns: boom-and-bust productivity • Continuous improvement as a survival tool • Why ND adults struggle with traditional education & corporate systems • Agile mindsets as ND-friendly models • Identity, confidence & the fear of slowing down • What leaders need to know about ADHD workers • How community, belonging & honesty transform everythingThis is a powerful, practical conversation about ADHD as a lived experience — not a bullet list of symptoms — and how continuous improvement becomes a philosophy of survival and growth.⭐ TOPICS COVEREDADHD, adult ADHD, late diagnosis, burnout, hyperfocus, shame cycles, rejection sensitivity, career transitions, nonlinear paths, continuous improvement, agile culture, psychological safety, Human Debt, workplace trauma, identity collapse, ND coaching, self-worth, productivity, masking, ADHD overwhelm.⭐ CHAPTERS 00:00 — Intro & who is Chris Stone  \r\n02:12 — ADHD childhood, school struggles & early shame  \r\n05:40 — Burnout cycles & the double-life of ADHD adults  \r\n09:20 — Hyperfocus, overwhelm & identity collapse  \r\n12:55 —...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/XTm0p0hcsKitmGI5yjNZUArF9txT-cFUE343ls3rq8A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZWE0/ZDQ1NmFiZTUzZmMx/ODVkYTBjNzVlMmUy/YWU5NC53ZWJw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}