Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.

I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast episode number 175.

I am medicated, I am caffeinated, and I'm ready to roll.

Come one, come all, today is part two of so you want to be an ADHD coach, where I am dishing all of my thoughts and some grievances on the coaching industry,

and telling you all about the coach training program that I created for adults with ADHD who want to learn how to coach adults with ADHD.

If you're interested in this topic, but you didn't listen to last week's episode, you kind of need to, okay?

It's going to give you a lot of context. I give so much info, I spell a lot of beans, so go check out that episode first, and then come back here for part two.

If you thought last week's episode was spicy, today's episode is going to be straight up fire, and if that's the kind of thing that makes you excited, and you want to hear me say things like,

not everyone is meant to be a coach, and not everyone who becomes a coach makes money. Well, buckle up because this episode is going to let you right up.

But if you don't give a flying F about coaching or the coaching industry, don't panic, we'll get back to our regularly scheduled programming in just a few weeks.

As I said last episode, I have no intention whatsoever of turning the I have ADHD podcast into a podcast about coaching or on how to coach or ADHD coaching or anything like that. No, no, no, no, no.

But I did want to take just three episodes and tell you all of my thoughts and invite you to join my coach training program if you feel that it aligns with you and your values and what you want for your future.

So I'll give you a brief recap of last week's episode. First, I love coaching in the coaching industry, but I also see a lot of red flags. I've distanced myself from many of my former mentors, and I would like to just wrap to the way that I see things going so that we can build this industry on ethics and values, at least to the extent that that's possible.

Next, I create a coach training program specifically for adults with ADHD who want to learn how to coach adults with ADHD. Unlike many coach training programs out there, it's set up for the neurodivergent brain to succeed.

And I implemented that training program with 20 focus members, and the program itself was a huge success. 95% of the people I trained passed their evaluations and have spent an average of 60 hours coaching over the last six months, which is pretty, pretty awesome.

Next, while I know I could sell a lot more spots, if I opened this up to the public and sent you to a sales page, I believe that the most ethical way for me to proceed with this training is to offer it exclusively to members of my focus coaching community, and I will give a lot more information on that later.

Lastly, even though I experienced massive amounts of imposter syndrome as I talk to you and know that you are hearing me say like, I am qualified to put this training program out into the world. I have spent a long time building up my evidence bank for, yeah, it makes sense that I would create a training program for adults with ADHD who want to coach adults with ADHD because I am uniquely qualified to do so.

I have an extensive background working with neurodivergent learners, and I've dedicated many, many, many, many hours to setting ADHD. I have thousands of coaching hours under my belt and have an evidence bank of over a thousand adults with ADHD who have been helped by my teaching and my coaching methodology.

Methodologies. It's hard word to say. So as we get into the meat of today's podcast, I'm going to segue here and say, speaking of coaching methodologies, it's important that I make it clear here that I'm not training people in the modality that I learned from the school that I certified with.

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