The AuDHD Boss: Neurodiversity at Work with Brett Whitmarsh

How Hyperfixations Built My Career

Can you take a special interest or hyperfixation and turn it into a job? I never intended to become a vice president. It happened accidentally. When I look back at my c

My AuDHD Masked Persona Helped Me Succeed at Work—Now I Can’t Let It Go

My AuDHD masked persona helped me succeed at work. The problem is, the more successful that persona became, the more I leaned into it—and now I’m trying to figure out how

What AuDHD Masking Feels Like in My Body

There's a certain tension that comes up. A wall. An invisible force field around my body, my brain, my mind, that I can't move past no matter how much I want to. That's

My Boss Doesn't Believe ADHD Is Real | Dr. Bowen Marshall

A viewer sent in a question that a lot of neurodivergent professionals are sitting with right now. Their boss doesn't believe ADHD is real, and they suspect that boss mig

How to Process a Layoff When You're Autistic or Have ADHD

Processing a layoff is different when you're autistic or have ADHD. Brett Whitmarsh, host of The AuDHD Boss, shares what he learned in the ten months after his own layoff

Building a Neuroinclusive Workplace: Accommodations vs. Adjustments | Isabel Fields

Isabel Fields, ESG Manager at Hearst, helped build the company's first Neurodiversity at Hearst hiring program from the ground up. In six months, Hearst had a fully runni

ADHD, Autism, and the Case for Self-Employment

Self-employed with ADHD or autism? For a lot of people, it's not a lifestyle choice, it's the only option left when a corporate job stops working. Brett talks with Liora

Why Autistic and ADHDers Get Called Unlikeable at Work | Dr. Bowen Marshall

Have you ever gotten the feedback that you're unlikeable at work? For a lot of neurodivergent professionals, that label arrives while you're already burning significant c

I Was More Nervous to Come Out as Autistic at Work Than I Was Coming Out Bisexual

I was more nervous to tell people at work I was autistic than I was coming out bisexual. That's not a punchline. It tells you something about how similar these two journe

Why Being Too Good at Your Job Backfires When You're Neurodivergent | Dr. Bowen Marshall

"Don't be too good at your job." That line from Dr. Bowen Marshall hit nearly a million views on Instagram. So we came back to respond to your comments. For neurodiverge

Inside the Autistic Workforce: A New National Survey on Masking, Managers, and What Actually Helps

A new national survey from NEXT for AUTISM puts hard data on what autistic and AuDHD employees have been describing for years — and the findings challenge most of what wo

Dr. Ludmila Praslova on The Canary Code: Why Neurodivergent People Sense Workplace Problems First

Most workplace advice was built for neurotypical brains. Dr. Ludmila Praslova's The Canary Code was built for the rest of us. Brett sits down with Dr. Praslova — organiz

Late Diagnosis ADHD at Work: How to Figure Out What You Need and Whether to Disclose | Dr. Bowen Marshall

Getting a diagnosis as an adult can feel like an answer. Then you're sitting with that information, years into a career, with no real roadmap for what comes next. You don

Why Neurodivergent Adults Struggle to Make Friends (And What to Do About It) | Caroline Maguire

Making friends as a neurodivergent adult is harder than anyone tells you — and there are real, brain-based reasons why. This isn't a willpower problem or a personality fl

You Got Promoted. Now What? AuDHD Leadership, Unspoken Rules, and the Masking Tax | Dr. Bowen Marshall

Getting promoted because you're good at your job is the easy part. Most AuDHD professionals find out quickly that the role they were promoted into requires skills nobody

10 AuDHD Workplace Accommodations: What to Ask For and How to Say It

Most neurodivergent employees don't know what accommodations they can ask for — and without that, the process stalls before it starts. In this episode, I walk through th

Disclosing Your ADHD or Autism Diagnosis at Work: What HR Actually Needs to Know

If you're neurodivergent and considering a workplace accommodation request, disclosure is probably the thing stopping you. Do you have to tell HR you're autistic or have

What Emotional Flooding Feels Like for Me at Work

In this episode, I’m talking about emotional flooding at work and what it feels like for me as someone with ADHD and autism. I share how misunderstanding, conflict, maski

Purity Culture Recovery: Shame, Deconstruction, and Autistic Masking (w/ Erica Smith)

Purity culture. High control religion. Autistic masking. In this episode, Brett (The AuDHD Boss) gets vulnerable about growing up in a fundamentalist evangelical environm

Adult ADHD, Finally Explained (with Cate Osborn + Erik Gude)

What was that moment you thought, “Oh… I think I have ADHD”? In this episode, I’m joined by Cate Osborn (Catieosaurus) and Erik Gude (Hey Gude)—the authors of The ADHD F