The ADHD Gallery is a podcast about teaching, learning, and living with ADHD, hosted and curated by Karen Costa.
This podcast is for the ADHDers of the world. Venture through this gallery of ideas, curiosities, brain science, random hyperfocus interests, and reflections on what it’s like to live with an entire galaxy inside your head.
Fellow dopamine hunters, let’s be weird, together.
ADHDers are the creative leaders who can best guide us forward in this volatile era. Here's how to persist, even if you have not even a shred of motivation left some days.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Episode 6: Never Write Another Book
You actually don't have to write a book. There are lots of other ways to share your great work with the world. Do you really want to write that book? And if so, how do you work with the inevitable challenges of book writing.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Episode 5: Blow It All Up
Writing a book in the current volatile era is not for the faint of heart, but we ADHDers can do hard things. Here's how my book writing journey blew up, more than once, and how I kept writing.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Episode 4: Design Your Process & Structure
The goal is never to fit our ADHD brain into a neurotypical box, but to instead design systems and structures that work for our gorgeous, creative, open neurotypes. Here's how I designed my book-writing system.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Episode 3: Find a Publisher
I worked with an academic publisher for my book, but there are a lot of options for bringing your book into the world. Here's what that process looked like for me (spoiler: topsy turvy!) and how I kept writing through the ups and downs.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Episode 2: Write Your Proposal
I went the route of submitting a non-fiction book proposal directly to an academic publisher, and I'll share how to develop your proposal and persist when motivation wanes or completely vanishes.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Episode 1: Come Up With an Idea
I share how I came up with the idea for my ADHD book and how to work with ideas in general.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
8 Jan 2026
Season 2 Trailer: How to Write a Book When You Are ADHD
Welcome to the ADHD Gallery Season 2: How to Write a Book When You Are ADHD.
Visit my website (https://www.100faculty.com/the-adhd-gallery.html) for details and show transcripts.
Purchase my new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD (https://www.amazon.com/Educators-Guide-ADHD-Designing-Teaching/dp/1421453509).
1 Jun 2022
My Second Brain
In the season one finale, Karen begins by checking in on how she’s feeling to have come to the end of the recording process for this season. She then describes the concept of second brains and extended mind theory and why creating external systems can be a life-changing approach for ADHDers.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
How I Plan
Do you love getting a peek into someone’s planning process? Karen describes the planning process that took forty-two years to build, how she’s very intentional about planning in a way that supports her ADHD, and her love of the “Today” button in G-Cal.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
Meditating on ADHD
Do you have a love/hate relationship with meditation? Have you felt shame or pressure to meditate “the right way”? This episode is for you. Karen shares her long and complicated history with meditation and offers suggestions for reframing this relationship to better align with our ADHD brains.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
Various, Various
Many ADHDers don’t fit into the world’s boxes. Karen discusses her unique career path that is sometimes best described as “various, various.” She chats about the importance of work values and creating a career that works for weird and wonderful brains.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
Dropping Out
Karen tells the story of dropping out of a doctoral program, due in part to her undiagnosed and raging ADHD, and how she’s (kind of) made peace with that decision.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
The Glitchy Switch
Time to get super sciency about our ADHD! In this episode, Karen talks about Hallowell and Ratey’s description of what they call the “glitchy switch” of ADHD, which is a dysfunction between the default mode network (DMN) and the task processing network (TPN). Karen describes her experience of having a glitchy switch and how naming and noticing that helps her to recover.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
What the Heck is RSD?
Too many people have never heard of RSD, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, a common symptom of ADHD. Karen breaks down what RSD is, how understanding RSD has helped to diminish hers, and offers suggestions for providing feedback to people with RSD.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
Writing 99 Tips
Karen tells the story of publishing her book, 99 Tips, at the start of a global pandemic. She goes into detail about her writing process and how she was able to write a book alongside the gifts and challenges of ADHD.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
Anti-Fancy
Karen talks about how she’s come to embrace the realization that she’s never going to be a superuser. She’s a minimalist who likes to keep things simple and sustainable. Identifying as anti-fancy helps Karen to reduce some of the pressure and shame associated with her ADHD and to do her best work in the world.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com/) for show notes and transcripts.
31 May 2022
Because I Want To
Karen talks about how this podcast came to fruition, overcoming the fear of pushing publish, the origin story of the podcast’s name (a dream!), and what you can expect from upcoming episodes.
Visit theadhdgallery.com (http://theadhdgallery.com) for show notes and transcripts.
12 Apr 2022
The ADHD Gallery Podcast Trailer
Welcome to the ADHD Gallery! Episodes coming late spring 2022.
Episode transcripts available at www.theadhdgallery.com.
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