For the ones who sat in the back of the class.
Too weird for the front row. Too stubborn to stay there.
The ones who couldn't sit still. Who had ideas that didn't fit in the meeting. Who walked into a factory floor in another country at 26 and thought, I can build something out of this.
And did. Then lost it. Then built something else.
Now rebuilding again — not because they failed, but because they finally got tired of pretending the front row was where they belonged.
Ideas are free. It's your job to make them valuable.
ADHD coaches, TV writers, indie producers, guys who tried something creative and got pulled back into something sensible — and are now doing something about it.
Phillip Shatkin — 36, half-Laotian, Jewish, has ADHD, dad to a 4-year-old. Walked 120+ factories in China. Wrote a TV pilot in LA. Went through bankruptcy. Came out the other side. This isn't a podcast about ADHD. It's a podcast that happens to have ADHD in the room.
Lowercase, intimate, specific. No TED talk energy. No hustle gospel. Real conversations with real texture — the kind you'd actually want to listen to on a commute or a walk.
Success doesn't have to be soulless.
The back row was never the problem.
The problem was pretending you didn't belong there.
Coming soon.
First episodes drop when the mics are warm and the guests are ready.