Survivalisms
Hard-won notes from the operational trenches.
Systems, strategy, and the occasional rant about tools that waste your time. No fluff. No gated content.
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# The $40k Invoice That Nearly Broke My Neurodivergent Business Brain It was 2 AM, and the invoice stared back at me like an accusation. Forty thousand dollars. Forty thousand dollars of work, emotion, and invisible labor that might never get paid. My coffee had gone cold hours ago. Multiple browser tabs splayed across my […]
May 2, 2026
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# How ADHD Broke Traditional Business (And Built Something Better) It was 2 AM, and I was drowning in browser tabs. Seventeen of them. Each one a potential rabbit hole, each one screaming for attention like needy toddlers at a birthday party. My brain? Absolutely wired. My productivity? Somewhere between “nuclear meltdown” and “complete system […]
April 27, 2026
# I Built an $800K Business While My Brain Was Trying to Sabotage Me It was 3 AM. Again. Scattered project files. Cold coffee. A spreadsheet that looked like linear algebra and felt like a war crime. And me? Staring into the digital abyss, knowing I was one email away from either a breakthrough or […]
April 22, 2026
# Your Business Has a Memory Problem. Don’t Build Another Checklist – Build This. It was 2 AM, and another to-do list stared back at me like a broken promise. Another system that looked perfect on paper. Another framework guaranteed to “fix” my scattered brain. Another spectacular failure waiting to happen. My ADHD brain doesn’t […]
April 9, 2026
# You Just Spent $2000 on Another Course You’ll Never Finish I have $47,382 worth of unfinished courses in my digital basement. That’s not hyperbole. I actually counted. Five years of business education, scattered across hard drives and login portals like digital breadcrumbs of shame. Some of them were truly excellent courses. And I mean […]
April 4, 2026
# I Built My Entire Business Around My ADHD Instead of Fighting It I spent almost 30 years trying to be normal. (A lot longer than that if we step out of business) 30 years of project management systems others swore by – I abandoned. Productivity apps I ghosted. Frameworks that worked for exactly 3 […]
April 4, 2026
# Your Client Portal Should Not Require a PhD in Project Management It’s 11:42 PM and I’m watching someone’s marriage dissolve in real time. Not literally. But I’m on a coaching call with Sarah, a brilliant business strategist who hasn’t had dinner with her wife in three weeks because she’s drowning in client management software […]
April 4, 2026
# Dear ChatGPT: I Love You But You’re Breaking My Client’s Business Look, I get it. ChatGPT is magic. You paste in a prompt, and suddenly you’ve got a blog post, a social strategy, or a week’s worth of emails. I’ve watched brilliant entrepreneurs light up like kids at Christmas discovering what this thing can […]
April 4, 2026
# My ADHD Brain Kept Missing Deadlines Until I Built This System It was 3 AM, and I was writing another apology email to a client. You know the one. The “slight delay” email that’s actually three weeks late. The one where you promise it’ll be done “first thing tomorrow” even though your body is […]
April 4, 2026
# You’re Solving the Wrong Automation Problem: It’s Not About Speed, It’s About Soccer Games I missed my kid’s championship game last year. – She said almost in a whisper…. “Not because I was stuck in traffic. Not because I was sick. Because I was manually sending follow-up emails to clients who’d missed their payments. […]
March 29, 2026