Why 67% of Entrepreneurs Have ADHD (And How to Use Yours Strategically)📈

The counterintuitive method that turned 'scattered thinking' into strategic advantage

I was three months away from shutting down my business. 📉

💥 The Crisis That Changed Everything

I was lying on my office floor at 2 PM on a Tuesday, chronic pain radiating through my nervous system, when the reality hit: I had two choices—figure out how to make my brain and body work together, or watch everything I'd built collapse.

Three months of runway left. Two years of forcing my ADHD brain into every business guru's "proven system." Three years of my autoimmune symptoms flaring every time I tried to be the "professional" coach everyone expected.

The "hustle harder" advice that works for neurotypical entrepreneurs was literally destroying me. 📉

Every business guru's advice felt like trying to fit into clothes made for someone else's body. My ADHD brain craved stimulation while my autoimmune system demanded rest. Traditional business models triggered both executive dysfunction and physical flares. ⚡

That's when my accountant dropped the final blow: "Kate, if things don't turn around by Q4, you need to consider going back to corporate."

The thought made me physically sick. 🤢

That's when something shifted. Instead of fighting against how my brain naturally worked, I decided to lean into it completely.

🧠 The Day I Stopped Apologizing for My Brain

For two years, I'd been playing business by someone else's rules:

• Linear marketing funnels (that bored me to tears)

• Predictable content calendars (that felt like prison)

• Single-focus service offerings (when I saw connections everywhere)

• Professional corporate-speak (that made my soul die)

Meanwhile, my ADHD brain kept pulling me toward the "wrong" things:

💡 Connecting autoimmune healing with business stress
🔗 Noticing patterns between nervous system chaos and bad decisions
🎯 Hyperfocusing on visual tools that made complex concepts simple
🌐 Building systems that worked like ecosystems, not assembly lines

Every mentor told me to "pick one thing and stick to it."

I was dying inside trying to be someone I wasn't. 😵

⚡The Breakthrough That Changed Everything

Instead of fighting my pattern-seeking brain, I mapped it out visually.

I drew my business like an underwater ecosystem - different areas of expertise flowing together, feeding each other, creating something bigger than the sum of its parts. 🌊

That drawing became what I now call The Bloom Method™.

Within six months:

• My revenue doubled 📈

• My inflammation was down ✨

• Clients started saying I was the first coach who "got" how their minds worked

• I attracted entrepreneurs who'd thought they were "too scattered" for success

The difference wasn't that I got more focused. The difference was that I got strategically scattered.

🏢❌ Here's what corporate culture gets catastrophically wrong about ADHD entrepreneurs:

Traditional business wisdom treats ADHD thinking like a disorder to manage instead of a superpower to leverage.

They want us to:

• Follow their systems

• Think their way

• Suppress our natural cognitive patterns

• Become more "professional"

But here's what I've discovered after years of working with coaches, entrepreneurs, creatives, and business owners:

The most successful business builders think differently by design. 🎨

We're not broken. We're literally wired for entrepreneurship.

While they optimize existing systems, we create new categories.
While they perfect single solutions, we solve multiple problems simultaneously.
While they follow market research, we sense emerging patterns.

Your "scattered" thinking isn't a bug—it's your most valuable feature. ✨

💥 Why Your "Broken" Brain Is Actually Your Business Superpower

The data tells a different story: We're not broken; we're actually wired for entrepreneurship. 🧠

• 67% of entrepreneurs show ADHD traits (vs. 5% general population) 🚀

• ADHD brains generate 23% more innovative solutions under pressure 💡

• We identify market disruptions 18 months before neurotypical competitors 👀

🔥When Your Body Forces Business Innovation

Sometimes your biggest breakthrough comes disguised as your worst breakdown. When traditional business advice starts making you physically sick, your body is trying to tell you something important: you're fighting against your natural design instead of leveraging it.

Here's how my health crisis became the catalyst for everything that followed:

The Breaking Point 🚨

The "hustle harder" advice that works for neurotypical entrepreneurs was literally destroying me. Every productivity hack felt like forcing a square peg into a round hole. 🔨 My ADHD brain craved stimulation while my autoimmune system demanded rest. Traditional business models triggered both executive dysfunction and physical flares. ⚡

I was becoming part of the alarming trend: entrepreneurs with ADHD traits are 3x more likely to develop stress-related autoimmune conditions when forcing their brains into neurotypical business systems.

The Forced Innovation 💡

Survival mode strips away everything nonessential. I couldn't afford to work against my cognitive patterns anymore—the physical cost was too high. That's when I made the decision that transformed not just my health, but my entire business philosophy: I hired a coach who understood ADHD systems. 🎯

👉🏻 There’s other ways to work with your ADHD and nervous system, check out my article here, where I talk about how 1 person can help regulate your nervous system.

Here's what the research reveals: ADHD executives report 40% higher job satisfaction when they work WITH their cognitive patterns instead of against them. I needed someone who could help me stop fighting my brain and start leveraging it.

The Real ROI 📈

Having a coach wasn't about motivation or accountability—it was about cognitive outsourcing. Someone who could see my blind spots, translate my scattered brilliance into strategic action, and most importantly, help me architect business systems that worked WITH my brain instead of against it. 🧠

I don't run my business without a coach anymore. Not because I can't, but because the ROI of cognitive partnership is too valuable to ignore. When your brain works differently, going it alone isn't just harder—it's unsustainable. 🎪

The Unexpected Advantage ✨

That crisis forced me to develop The Bloom Method™—business strategies specifically designed for ADHD minds and bodies that need different approaches. What started as personal survival became my competitive edge. Now I help other ADHD leaders avoid the crash-and-burn cycle that nearly took me out. 🌱

My breakdown wasn't a business failure—it was my ADHD brain forcing me to innovate or die. That crisis became my greatest competitive advantage. ✨

🤔 What moment in your business journey forced you to completely reimagine how you work? How did accommodating your "limitations" actually reveal new strengths?

🚀 The Anti-Corporate Advantage

Here's what nobody talks about: Your inability to fit into corporate structures is your biggest entrepreneurial asset.

💎 Your Different Brain, Your Business Advantage

The same patterns that made you feel "wrong" in corporate environments make you exactly right for entrepreneurship.

Your "scattered" attention sees opportunities others miss. 👀
Your "inconsistent" energy creates content that feels human. 🤖❌
Your "impulsive" decisions often turn out to be intuitive genius. 💡
Your "emotional" responses help you build businesses that serve real human needs.❤️

The world doesn't need another cookie-cutter business. It needs what only your unique brain can create. 💎

This realization led me to develop a completely different approach to business building - one designed specifically for minds that think in connections rather than linear steps.

The Bloom Method™ maps your business like your brain actually works:

✅ Visual and spatial (not text-heavy lists)

✅ Interconnected systems (not isolated strategies)

✅ Energy-based planning (honoring your nervous system)

✅ Multiple intention streams (leveraging your natural multifaceted thinking)

✅ Flexible frameworks (that bend without breaking)

Because trying to force your brilliant, connection-making brain into neurotypical business boxes is like trying to put the ocean into a swimming pool. 🙄

🌱From Surviving to Thriving ➡️🌳

Three years ago, I was months away from giving up on my entrepreneurial dreams.

Today, I work with founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs who were told their brains work "wrong" for business - and I help them architect success that works with their cognitive patterns, not against them.

The transformation isn't about fixing your brain. It's about designing a business that lets your brain do what it does best.

Because your health IS your biggest business asset. 💪

And your ADHD patterns aren't bugs in your entrepreneurial operating system - they're features.

🔮 What's Next for Your Business?

If you're tired of trying to build your business the "right" way when it feels completely wrong for your brain...

If you're ready to discover how your "scattered" thinking is actually your strategic advantage in disguise...

If you want to create a business that amplifies your natural patterns instead of fighting them...

🎯 Start with the Business Health Reset™ Quiz here.

In 10 minutes, you'll discover:

• Your top 2 Vitality Root Drivers as an entrepreneur 🌱

• Where your unique brain patterns create maximum energy and impact ⚡

• Which business activities fuel vs. drain your nervous system 🔋

• How to build a business that actually feels good to run 😊

Your brain works differently. Make that your business superpower. 🦸‍♀️

🎯 Then Try on Your Strategic ADHD Advantage Action Plan

Here's your 3-week roadmap to strategic success:

Week 1: Map Your Business Ecosystem 🌊 Just like I drew my business as an underwater ecosystem, create your visual map:

• Grab a large piece of paper or digital canvas

• Draw circles for each area of your expertise/services

• Connect them with arrows showing how they feed each other

• Identify which connections feel most energizing vs. draining

• Look for the multiplier effect - where combining two services creates something more valuable than either alone (like how my autoimmune healing knowledge + business strategy created The Bloom Method™)

Week 2: Identify Your Hyperfocus Profit Zones 🟢 Your ADHD brain's hyperfocus is your secret weapon when strategically deployed:

• Track your energy for one week: What activities make you lose track of time?

• Note which hyperfocus sessions generate the most revenue/impact

• Identify patterns: What conditions trigger your most profitable focus states?

• Schedule your highest-value work during your natural hyperfocus windows

• Protect these zones fiercely - they're your competitive advantage

Week 3: Design One ADHD-Friendly System 🔧 Pick your biggest business pain point and redesign it for your brain:

• Choose one system that currently drains your energy

• Apply the "ecosystem thinking" - how can this connect to multiple outcomes?

• Build in variety and flexibility (rigid systems break ADHD brains)

• Create visual cues and reminders that work with your processing style

• Test for one week, then iterate based on what actually works

Bonus: The Cognitive Partnership Audit 🤝

• List the business tasks that drain vs. energize you

• Identify what you need cognitive support with (like I did with coaching)

• Consider where strategic partnership could 10x your natural strengths

👉🏻⭐️ The Goal: By week 3, you'll have one concrete example of how working WITH your ADHD patterns creates better business results than fighting against them. 🫶🏼

Your brain works differently. Make that your strategic advantage. 🚀

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With gratitude + strategy, Kate 🙏🏻