205 // Master the Mundane: Thriving as a Mom with ADHD - with Amy Marie Hann

If you’re a mom with ADHD (or parenting kids with ADHD), daily life can feel like constant overcommitment, burnout, and chaos. But what if instead of pushing harder, you learned to strategically parent your brain?

In this conversation, I’m joined by Amy Marie Hann—author of Master the Mundane: How to Manage Your Life, Home, and Family as a Mom with ADHD which comes out September 10, 2025. Diagnosed at five with ADHD and raising three neurodivergent kids, Amy brings both lived experience and practical strategies for building rhythms that actually work for the ADHD brain.

Together we talk about:

• The differences between the boredom zone, depletion zone, ADHD burnout, and activation zone—and how to recognize which one you’re in
• Why urgency feels motivating but creates unnecessary chaos in everyday life (and what to do instead)
• What “executive function capacity” is, and how to “budget” it like a bank account
• How to use the Daily 3 to keep life moving even on burnout or low-energy days
• A realistic plan for balancing novelty with capacity so you don’t overcommit
• How to ditch “rage decluttering” and instead create sustainable habits for your home

If you’ve ever felt like your ADHD brain is working against you, this episode will help you see that it’s not broken - it just needs the right strategies and support to thrive.

 

About Amy:
Amy Marie Hann is the author of Master the Mundane: How to Manage Your Life, Home, and Family as a Mom with ADHD. Diagnosed with ADHD at age five, she’s now a mom of three, a foster and adoptive parent, and a homeschooling mom who has navigated life with ADHD alongside her husband, kids, dad, and sister. Amy believes the ADHD brain is uniquely designed to bring good to the world—and that the greatest gift moms can give their ADHD kids is modeling what it looks like to thrive.

Resources Mentioned:

Connect with Amy on her website, Instagram, and pre-order her new book (so you can get all the fun free gifts!)

Learn more about the Master the Mundane Course + Community

Related Episodes:

Episode 124: The Rise of ADHD in Women and How to Be More Productive When Focus is a Challenge - with Alicia Cohen

Episode 192: Get (and Stay) Organized as a Mom with ADHD - with Jaclyn Paul

Episode 199: You’re Not Failing! How Moms with ADHD Need to Approach Decluttering Differently - with Stacey Hutson and Stephanie Sprenger from The Mother Plus Podcast

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