Pete

[00:00:00 ]Brett: [00:00:00 ] this week’s guest is Pete Wright. Uh, podcasts are producer and photographer among many other things. I know him as the co-host of taking control of the ADHD podcast. Welcome to the show, Pete.

[00:00:13 ] Pete: [00:00:13 ] Hey, Brett, glad to be here.

[00:00:15 ] Brett: [00:00:15 ] So I, as far as your kind of day job goes, podcasts are a big part of your life. Is that fair?

[00:00:22 ] Pete: [00:00:22 ] Yeah. Big, big part. Yeah. We’ve got, I’ve got, uh, I don’t know. It’s feels like 13 shows, something like that, whether it’s whether I’m producing for myself, like our personal shows or, uh, or for clients 13, 14, somewhere in there.

[00:00:37 ] Brett: [00:00:37 ] Yeah, like a whole network’s worth.

[00:00:39 ] Pete: [00:00:39 ] Yeah. True story.fm. Uh, and that’ll be the last blog. I don’t. I promise.

[00:00:45 ] Brett: [00:00:45 ] Fair enough. Um, your, uh, your co-host on the ADHD podcast, Nikki is, uh, is scheduled to be a guest on this show as well. Um, she, she, she, her more from the, uh, [00:01:00 ] ADHD coach perspective than, than you’ll have, but

[00:01:04 ] Pete: [00:01:04 ] no, I just, I just have the ADHD. She’s the coach part and that’s, that’s why we’re, you know, we’re like the wonder twins of ADHD, podcasting. So. She’s great. She’s amazing. I, I, we’ve been doing the show for 10 years this year and, uh, it’s been the community that’s come up around. It has been just really, uh, you know, for me personally is living with ADHD and my special brand of it.

[00:01:24 ] Uh it’s the community has been incredible, um, for, for me. It’s great.

[00:01:31 ] Brett: [00:01:31 ] Yeah, for sure. Um, we have a discord for overtired and systematic and the overtired discord has. Become pretty much an ADHD conversation place. Um, yeah, no, it’s really, it’s, it’s fun to connect with, uh, people who I guess know how to live with and work with their ADHD. if you spend too much time hearing from people who are [00:02:00 ] doing nothing, but, but suffering, like it’s fun to commiserate with people as well. But it’s really exciting to get like positive feedback from people too.

[00:02:10 ] Pete: [00:02:10 ] It is, but, you know, for me, like, I really love hanging out with people who are, who are living with ADHD and people who are struggling to live with ADHD, but are trying and that, but are trying carries a lot of weight because like, that is a huge difference in the kind of people that are attracts, certainly attracted to our show and our community.

[00:02:27 ] And we’ve got the discourse over too. And, um, it it’s just so illuminating when people come and have already given up and. You see the turnaround and they recognize that they’ve given up by just dent of hanging out in the server and watching people who are doing amazing things with their ADHD. Um, so it’s, it’s really cool.

[00:02:52 ] Brett: [00:02:52 ] Well, I would say you you’ve been, uh, you’ve been a pretty successful, a good success story for ADHD [00:03:00 ] adult life. Um, what, what would you say if you had to say, uh, that there were benefits to ADHD, how would you, how would you coin that?

[00:03:12 ]Pete: [00:03:12 ] I, uh, so, um, the, when, when I can control hyper-focus. It’s definitely a benefit. You know what I mean? Like I just find, I, I, I hear this a lot in people, particularly in the sort of people who don’t have ADHD, they’re saying ADHD is a superpower and hyper-focus is a superpower. And I just, I really. I hate it.

[00:03:36 ] I hate that because like, those are people who don’t recognize that all the super power stuff is totally unregulated. Like I can’t control when I need to rip all my CD collection over a weekend. Like I can’t control, I can’t control that. And I can’t control when I’m working on a website and I forgotten to eat for 72 hours.

[00:03:57 ] Like I can’t control that and it [00:04:00 ] directly impacts my health. And we had somebody on our show who said, um, You know, who told us that, uh, ADHD is, is one of those massively under, um, uh, acknowledged conditions. Just how dangerous it is that people with ADHD have a 12 year shorter lifespan than people who.

[00:04:19 ] Or without ADHD because they don’t do things like take their medication. They don’t do things like, like, and not ADHD meds, like their heart medication. They don’t eat, they just eat cereal all the time. Like they just don’t take care of themselves because it’s it’s, their, their brain is not functioning in the, in the way that the system expects it to.

[00:04:39 ] Function and that’s what makes it just so insidious. And so, you know, in terms of silver, silver linings, I’m I like to think I’m a pretty creative guy. And, um, I struggle with context switching. I get pretty engrossed in one thing, one tool for a kind of a long time. And I really struggle with [00:05:00 ] like, Shifting it’s been, it’s taken a lot of years to kind of, uh, build the muscles to adapt, um, and, and learn to move from one thing to another without completely like losing my thread.

[00:05:11 ] But, um, generally I’m pretty creative and I, I really, I think I use my, my hyper-focused time. Well, when I find it. And, um, uh, apart from that, it’s, it’s kind of a lot of work being in the brain, you know?

[00:05:25 ] Brett: [00:05:25 ] Oh, for sure. Um, you should try combining, uh, ADHD hyper-focus with bipolar mania. That is that’s a trip.

[00:05:36 ] Pete: [00:05:36 ] Yeah, I I’m. I just I’m. I listened to some of your recent episodes now that you’re, you’re back in the, in the big chair and, uh, I’m just like God, more power to you, man. I just, your stories of what you have done to like, to, to move your brain in and around the space and time in which you live is laudable.

[00:05:59 ] Brett: [00:05:59 ] That’s very kind of, [00:06:00 ] you.

[00:06:00 ] Pete: