I’m running a digital summit for ADHD adults, and you should totally come.
So first off: if you’re Autistic or AuDHD, yes, this is for you, too. And I’ll get into what this thing entails and blah blah blah in a second. First off, though, I want to tell you why I started it.
Well, actually, first, I’ll tell you some important details that you’re probably wondering about right off the bat. The event is fully digital, so you don’t even have to wear pants. It’s Friday, September 20th and Saturday, September 21st. Tickets range from $50 to $225, depending on what you want to do (lowest tier is replays-only, top tier gets live access PLUS three exclusive, hands-on workshops). We’re covering things like how to build good morning routines, organization, book publishing, advocating for yourself in therapy, showing up as yourself…all the good stuff. You can actually see a full schedule in your local time zone here.
OK so now, let’s get to the why:
See, truth is, I went through all the usual stages ADHD adults go through, including the one where I thought: “Great, now that I know I have ADHD, I can learn how to fix it. Now I can learn to do things the right way.”
If you’re here, hopefully you’ve learned at this point that the “right way” ain’t it. It doesn’t exist. The only “right” way to do anything is the way that works for you. But different brains aren’t told that. The productivity world is still catching up to that. Double what I just said if you’re a woman. And I…well, I got sick of it.
So I made Chase the Chaos.
Chase the Chaos, or CTC as I decided to refer to it, started in 2023, and it was run by just me, with a roster of speakers who were mostly friends of mine who were doing me a massive favor. All marketing was my job; all tech, speaker management, and everything else you might imagine. I didn’t care though. Because I was small, scrappy, and hungry and I wasn’t throwing away my shot (Lin-Manuel, notice me please).
This thing was going to be different. It wasn’t going to be a stuffy conference. It wasn’t going to be filled with droning talks about stuff we didn’t understand. It was going to be fun, we were going to build community from it (I even started a little Facebook group for it — you can hang there too), and best of all, it was going to be full of knowledge about how to make things work with the brain you’ve got rather than fixing it.
It went well, by the way.
This year, I’m running it with help. Maybe three of our 12 speakers know me personally. And I’m actually free enough to speak this year (I’m covering how to actually schedule self-care into your day in a way that makes sense to brains like ours). I’m not gonna lie: this thing is still not the world-changing, household-name phenomenon I’d love it to be, but I’m also ADHD, which means I’m highly impatient and in need of results RIGHT NOW. You know how it is.
SO. If you’re like us, looking for people like us, and wanting to hear about all kinds of stuff that pertains to people like us, check out our 2024 speaker schedule here and get a ticket before they disappear September 18th.
I know you’ll be glad you did.
