ADHD Business Coaching & Mentoring
The UPlift.
Ongoing strategic support for your sparky brain and business.
Business strategy that works with your
ADHD or sparky-brain
For women who want an experienced thinking partner to help them find clarity, make decisions, refine their strategy, implement changes and keep moving towards what matters.
Running a business asks you to make decisions, choose priorities, market your work, serve your clients and follow through on your ideas, often without anyone alongside you who understands either the business or your brain.
ADHD business coaching and mentoring brings those two worlds together. It helps you develop and act on sound business strategy in ways that reflect your strengths, capacity and how you naturally think and work.
All my work is grounded in The Rewire Method™, which combines business strategy, Self-Leadership and an ADHD-informed lens.
UPlift is how we work with that Method over time. It gives you an ongoing thinking partner as you untangle ideas, make decisions, refine your business, implement changes and respond to the real-time opportunities and wobbles that arrive as your business evolves.
You already know you're talented. That's not the problem.
You've built something real. Your clients rate you highly. You care deeply about the work you do and the difference you make.
But running the business side of things? Making choices and decisions about where to focus? Staying with an idea from inception to completion without revamping it 27 times? Some days it feels like trying to play chess on a scrabble board.
You're not doing it wrong. You’re trying to do it in ways that were never designed for your fast-moving, sparky ADHD brain, your strengths, or your natural way of working.
If any of these feel uncomfortably familiar, keep reading…
Popcorn Brain
Your notes app has seventeen half-developed concepts in it. You sat down to update your website and emerged ninety minutes later having designed an entirely new service - which feels like a brilliant idea, by the way.
The problem isn't creativity. You have that in abundance. It's knowing which idea deserves your energy and attention right now, next, later - or not at all.
Priority Pinball
You end the day tired and having done a lot, but with a quiet, nagging sense that none of it quite moved the needle. There seemed to be so many urgent things that devoured the day… and your focus shifted before momentum built.
You're not undisciplined. You're running on a brain that finds follow-through genuinely difficult, and nobody ever told you that's what was happening.
Confidence See-Saw
One day: this is brilliant and you're exactly the right person to do it. The next: a competitor's post or a sales conversation that didn’t quite land and you're wondering who the hell you think you are. Praise is Teflon. Criticism is Velcro.
The self-trust you need to charge for the value you create, to back yourself fully, and stop second-guessing every decision is so elusive, you often feel it’s all pointless.
These three things together, Popcorn Brain, Priority Pinball, Confidence See-Saw, are what I call Perpetual Potential.
This is such a common experience for women with ADHD or fast-thinking, non-linear brains in business. It’s a maddeningly frustrating (and confidence-sapping) gap between what you know you're capable of and what you're actually achieving. It is common for women with ADHD and fast-thinking, non-linear brains in business. It isn't a character flaw or evidence that you lack ambition. It often means the ways you're trying to plan, decide, market and follow through don’t reflect how you naturally think and work.
The right support helps you close that gap without demanding that you become a less sparky version of yourself in the process.
Then there are the quieter business challenges of ADHD we need to acknowledge and work through.
Popcorn Brain, Priority Pinball, and the Confidence See-Saw are the ones you probably recognise immediately. But there are others - quieter, more specific, more tied to the particular experience of running a business with a sparky brain.
The self-worth wound.
Decades of feeling too much and not enough can leave a mark. Praise can slide right off while criticism sticks, making it harder to trust your judgement, stand behind your work and charge for the value you deliver. This reality often needs more than encouragement; it needs Self-Leadership practices that help positive evidence genuinely land.
The comparison trap & the Burrs in your Fur.
You know you shouldn't compare yourself to others. And then you spend twenty minutes on a competitor's website and emerge feeling like you've achieved nothing and should probably just go and get a job. I call what clings afterwards the Burrs in your Fur - the self-doubt that sticks when you've gone too deep, derailing days, decisions and entire directions.
Quiet isolation
All the thinking, deciding and delivering can become lonely when you don't have a sounding board who understands both how you work and what it takes to build a business. The emotional load of carrying every decision alone can quietly drain the capacity and enthusiasm you need to act on them.
Time Blindness and the All or Nothing Trap
Either a project has your complete, hyperfocused attention or it seems to disappear. The moderate middle can feel like a far-off magical land, which is why I focus less on rigid consistency and more on dedication: creating ways to keep returning to what matters when your energy and attention shift.
Rejection Sensitivity
A proposal doesn't convert. A client doesn't reply. Someone unsubscribes from the newsletter you crafted with such care. Rejection sensitivity can make an ordinary business moment land like proof of everything your inner critic has been saying, making it much harder to stay visible and keep going.
The Shiny Systems Trap
The right ADHD business support doesn't hand you another system to enthusiastically embrace and quietly abandon. It helps you understand what the system needs to do for you, then create rhythms and scaffolding you can return to when novelty, energy or attention shifts.
What can change with the right ADHD business support?
I don’t believe you need someone to manage you, fix you or hand you another perfect plan.
Instead, you may need a thinking partner who can help you:
untangle your ideas and choose what genuinely deserves your attention
make decisions without endlessly circling or outsourcing your authority
refine your audience, offers, pricing, positioning and marketing as your business develops
recognise and communicate what is distinctive and valuable about your work
turn good ideas into practical, commercially useful action
work through comparison, rejection sensitivity and Confidence See-Saw moments without letting them take the reins
create rhythms, systems and support that make it easier to keep returning to what matters
That is the role UPlift plays: ongoing space to think clearly, choose intentionally and move your business forward with support right alongside you.
I know this because I am you!
I spent more than two decades running businesses while my brain did all of the above - without a framework for understanding why.
I was diagnosed with ADHD at 53, after my then-teenage daughter received her diagnosis. The recognition brought enormous relief, plenty of grief and a very belated, “Oh, so THAT'S why.”
It explained the idea avalanches. The hyperfocus rabbit holes. The energy spikes and crashes. The years of wondering whether I was simply not cut out for business when, in reality, I had been trying to work through strategies and systems that didn't fit me.
That insight changed how I work, how I lead and, most importantly, how I help my clients.
I'm Angela Raspass, strategist, ADHD business coach and mentor.
I bring together more than two decades of business strategy experience, lived ADHD insight and formal ADHD coach training through the Gold Mind Academy in the UK.
Most business coaches don't truly understand ADHD. Most ADHD coaches haven't built businesses beyond their own practice.
I sit at the intersection of both.
Here's what makes ADHD business coaching and mentoring with me different.
We begin by understanding you.
Before we leap into plans and priorities, I create your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™.
It brings together your strengths, values, business background, working style, executive functions, Self-Leadership and the patterns that help or hinder you.
Clients often tell me it is the first time they have felt accurately reflected back without judgement. It also means we can use our time well because you don't need to begin by explaining or defending how your brain works.
We work on you and the business together.
UPlift isn't ADHD support sitting separately from business strategy.
Depending on what is happening in your world, we might work on your audience, offers, pricing, intellectual property, positioning, messaging, marketing, visibility, systems or the way your whole business model fits together.
At the same time, we strengthen the Self-Leadership that helps you trust your judgement, navigate emotional wobbles, make deliberate decisions and act on what you know.
This is how the four components of The Rewire Method™ - See It, Own It, Embed It and Sustain It - come alive through ongoing coaching and mentoring.
We create a container with structure and wriggle room.
One client described needing someone who could “contain me with fuzzy barriers” and reflect things back honestly in a way her brain wouldn't simply reject and wander away from.
That is the heart of UPlift: warm and connected enough for you to feel safe and open, structured enough to hold the focus and honest enough to tell you when it is time to let something go - or when the thing you've been dismissing is actually the gold.
No generic formulas. No rigid fortnightly one-hour sessions simply because that is how coaching is usually offered. And no expectation that what you need this month will be identical to what you need in the next.
Bec Higgins
Leadership & ADHD Coach
“I signed up for a strategic planning day and three months of coaching with Angela. The planning day was incredible - her tailored assessments created space for deep clarity and creative exploration. My ADHD brain was buzzing the whole drive home! As a fellow sparky-brained soul, my biggest challenge is staying on track. Angela's follow-up sessions provided exactly the structure and accountability I needed, always arriving at just the right moment.
While I initially hesitated at the investment, I quickly realised the value far exceeded the cost. I wholeheartedly recommend Angela to sparky-brained souls who need structure to turn ideas into action. She has a unique gift for combining strategic insight with genuine empathy”.
How The UPlift ADHD Business Coaching and Mentoring Works
The four components of The Rewire Method™ weave through UPlift, but the engagement itself begins in three practical parts.
Part one: Your Spark Advantage Profile™
We begin with you.
You'll complete a series of assessments and reflections and tell me about your business, what is happening now and what you want support with.
I bring these insights together in your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™, helping you see your strengths, natural working rhythms, Spark Edge and the Spark Traps that can quietly get in the way.
You receive your profile before our strategy session so we can begin with a shared understanding of you and your business.
Part two: Your strategic foundation
In a private two-hour strategy session, we step back and look at the big picture.
We explore where you are now, what you want next, what’s creating friction and which priorities genuinely deserve your attention now, next and later. Together, we identify the direction for our coaching and mentoring so the work is anchored in your strengths, goals and circumstances rather than whichever challenge shouted loudest that morning!
This is a strategic foundation, not a plan carved into stone. UPlift gives us room to refine it as you learn, implement and respond to what unfolds.
Part three: Flexible coaching and mentoring
This is where we turn your new-found clarity into momentum.
UPlift includes a five-hour block of private support that you use in the way that best fits what you need.
You might book a short sense-check on an opportunity, a longer session to shape an important offer or proposal, or space to work through a Confidence See-Saw or rejection-sensitivity moment before it takes you and your business hostage.
I move between coaching, mentoring, strategic advice and practical direction. Sometimes you need questions that help you find your own answer. Sometimes you need a seasoned strategist to offer a perspective. Sometimes you need a thinking partner who already knows you and your business to help you decide what happens next.
Between sessions, you also have optional Voxer access. If something significant emerges, you need a sounding board for a decision, or you simply need to think aloud, you can send me a voice message and I’ll respond as soon as I can.
Support that adapts as your needs change
If you’ve recently recognised or been diagnosed with ADHD and want to better understand how it shows up in your business, we can dedicate some of your mentoring time to ADHD education, useful resources and practical ways to work with the patterns you are noticing.
After the initial UPlift engagement, you can continue with flexible five or ten hour mentoring blocks if ongoing support. There’s no need to squeeze your next chapter into an arbitrary coaching timetable.
While you’re an active UPlift client, you will also receive complimentary invitations to the monthly virtual masterclasses offered through the Business Sweet Spot Mastermind, the strategic community I co-lead with digital strategist Leanne O'Sullivan.
Do you need an ADHD Diagnosis to work with me?
No you don’t.
Some of my clients have a formal diagnosis, often received later in life. Some are exploring whether ADHD may be part of their experience. Others simply recognise themselves as sparky-brained: multiple ideas arrive quickly, their attention is captured by what’s most interesting (rather than what’s logically important)and conventional approaches to planning, focus and consistency have rarely worked for long.
What they share is the relief, and sometimes grief, of seeing their experience described accurately and realising they’re not alone or somehow failing at business.
You don't need a formal diagnosis to benefit from personalised, strengths-led business coaching that takes how you naturally think and work seriously.
If something here on this page feels deeply familiar, that’s recognition worth paying attention to.
Leanne Shelton
Founder Human Edge AI
"As a fellow Sparky Brain/ADHD’er, I knew Angela would get me without needing justification for how I jump from thing to thing. There was no judgment; rather, it was like having a light shone on my business - 'Have you thought of this? – She invited me to give my time and energy to the things that most mattered. Our mentoring time together just flew by, and I had so much more clarity. Angela gave me the bigger picture and helped me to see how to fit all the pieces together before going into the nitty-gritty.
She’s helped me to develop a great action plan which I can now take deeper – it was a fantastic experience!”.
Your investment in The UPlift: $2,995 + GST.
Your UPlift engagement includes:
your preparation, assessments and business background brief
your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™
a private two-hour strategic foundation session
five flexible hours of ADHD business coaching, mentoring and strategic support
optional Voxer access between sessions
personalised tools and resources relevant to the work we are doing
complimentary invitations to the Business Sweet Spot virtual masterclasses while you are an active client
After the initial engagement, optional five- and ten-hour mentoring blocks are available if you would like to continue working together.
bd Before we get started, I’ll send you a complimentary copy of my book, Your Next Chapter.
NEW EDITION! Now with a late-diagnosed ADHD lens and all the new understanding that delivers.
This updated edition is now infused with the sparky-brained lens and awareness I didn't have when I first wrote it - but I've lived into since my diagnosis.
“Angela has created something truly special with this updated edition of Your Next Chapter. When I first read the original book, long before Angela understood her brain through the lens of ADHD, I remember thinking, “This woman understands me.” So much of her insight spoke directly to my own experience as a late-diagnosed ADHD businesswoman. Now, with the benefit of her diagnosis and a deeper understanding of her “sparky-brained” wiring, Angela’s wisdom lands with even more clarity, compassion, and resonance”.
Patricia Falcetta - OAM
Speaker, Trainer & Founder of Social Living Solutions
Have you found your next step?
If something on this page made you exhale a little, let’s connect and talk about it.
Book a Connection Call - we’ll work out the best next step for you.
Is UPlift the right place to begin?
Choose UPlift ADHD coaching and mentoring if you want an ongoing thinking partner to help you develop clarity, make decisions, refine your strategy, implement changes and stay connected to what matters as your business evolves.
Choose Action and Traction if you have one specific issue, decision or opportunity you want to stop circling and resolve.
Choose The REwire Intensive if you need to step back, see the whole picture and strategically recalibrate several interconnected parts of your business through concentrated, immersive work.
Choose the Business Sweet Spot Mastermind if you want strategic support, connection and shared learning within a small group of experienced businesswomen.
Still not sure? That is exactly what a Connection Call is for. We'll talk through what is happening and work out the best starting point together.
Helen McHugh
Founder Nurturing Nurses
"I’d been trying to launch my business for what felt like forever, but I just couldn’t get unstuck. I realised that, before I could focus on my business, I needed support with my ADHD. When I heard Angela on Tracy Otsuka’s podcast, I instantly felt she was the right fit.
Angela not only has extensive experience with business strategy, but she also understands ADHD firsthand and is in the recovery community. Her heart, humour, and expertise make her easy to work with, and you always feel she’s got you – even when your head is spinning.
I’m truly grateful I invested in her services; she provides incredible value and makes the journey enjoyable and impactful!”.
You may have heard me on these podcasts…
Talking about ADHD, business and self-leadership.
ADHD for Smart Ass Women (USA) - with Tracy Otsuka
The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast (UK) - with Kate Moryoussef
ADHDifference (NZ) - with Julie Legg
True Power Podcast (Australia) — with Cassandra Goodman
Click on each cover to listen to the episode.
ADHD business coaching FAQs
Common questions about working with an
ADHD Business Coach and Mentor
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ADHD business coaching and mentoring combines an understanding of how ADHD can affect the experience of running a business with practical business strategy and personalised support.
It recognises that challenges with prioritising, decision-making, emotional regulation, time, focus and follow-through don’t exist separately from decisions about your offers, pricing, positioning, marketing and growth.
My approach also includes mentoring and strategic guidance. Depending on what you need, I may help you explore your own thinking, share relevant experience, recommend a direction or help you turn an idea into something practical and commercially useful.
It isn’t therapy, medical treatment or another generic productivity system. It’s support designed around you, your sparky brain and the business you’re building.
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UPlift is designed for ADHD and sparky-brained women running service-based businesses who want an ongoing thinking partner alongside them.
You may have plenty of experience, expertise and ideas but feel overwhelmed by your options, uncertain about what matters most or frustrated by stop-start implementation. You may want to refine your offers, marketing or direction without pulling your entire business apart.
UPlift is particularly helpful when the foundations of your business are broadly sound, but you need support to develop clarity, make confident decisions, implement changes and sustain momentum as the business evolves.
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No. Some of my clients have a formal ADHD diagnosis, often received later in life. Others are exploring whether ADHD may be part of their experience or simply recognise themselves in the sparky-brained patterns I describe.
You don’t need a diagnosis to benefit from an ADHD-informed approach. What matters is that the way we work feels relevant and supportive for you.
ADHD business coaching doesn’t provide a diagnosis or replace medical or therapeutic support. If you’re seeking assessment or treatment, you’ll need to speak with an appropriately qualified health professional.
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ADHD-informed business coaching means personalising both what we work on and how we work together.
We begin by understanding your strengths, values, executive-function patterns, working rhythms and the situations that help you think and act at your best. Your Spark Advantage Profile™ gives us a deeply personalised foundation for that work.
In practice, this might mean:
making priorities more visible and decisions less taxing
using Now, Next and Later to organise competing ideas
breaking important work into more approachable actions
finding flexible ways to maintain momentum as your energy changes
planning around an average week rather than an imaginary perfect one
creating supportive accountability without rigid expectations
recognising when self-doubt, comparison or rejection sensitivity is influencing a business decision
developing systems that reduce friction rather than becoming another thing you have to maintain
The aim isn’t to make you conform to someone else’s ideal way of working. It’s to develop strategies, structures and support that work with you.
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Much conventional business advice focuses primarily on what the business needs: a clearer offer, better positioning, stronger marketing, more consistent action or a plan for growth.
Those things matter—but the strategy also needs to fit the woman expected to carry it out.
I bring together business strategy, Self-Leadership and an ADHD-informed lens through The REwire Method™. We consider your commercial goals alongside your strengths, values, capacity, working rhythms and sparky-brained patterns.
That means we aren’t simply creating a clever strategy. We’re creating one you can believe in, act on and remain dedicated to without continually working against yourself.
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ADHD coaches can provide valuable support with executive functioning, emotional regulation, self-understanding and everyday life. What they may not necessarily offer is extensive experience in business strategy, positioning, pricing, offers and marketing.
I bring more than two decades of business strategy and business ownership experience together with lived ADHD insight and formal ADHD-informed coach training.
This allows me to move between coaching, mentoring and strategic consulting according to what you need. Sometimes you need space to find your own answer. Sometimes you want to draw on my experience. And sometimes you need someone to look at the business, spot what you can’t see from inside it and recommend a practical way forward.
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The work is personalised around what’s happening in your business and what matters most to you.
We might work on:
evaluating and prioritising your ideas
deciding what deserves your attention now, next or later
refining your audience, services or offers
reviewing your pricing and delivery model
strengthening your positioning and messaging
developing marketing and visibility approaches that feel like you
articulating your intellectual property or distinctive approach
making a decision you’ve been circling
working through comparison, self-doubt or rejection sensitivity
creating systems, boundaries and rhythms that protect your capacity
turning strategic decisions into practical action
sustaining momentum when novelty or energy fades
These pieces often overlap, which is why having an ongoing thinking partner who understands both you and your business can be so valuable.
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Very—which is quite deliberate.
UPlift includes a five-hour block of coaching and mentoring time that you can use in different session lengths according to what you need.
You might book a short session to sense-check an opportunity or make a decision, a longer session to develop an offer or work through a strategic issue, or something in between. You also have optional Voxer access between sessions for the moments when you need to think out loud or get some timely perspective.
You aren’t locked into identical one-hour appointments simply because that’s how coaching has traditionally been packaged. The structure gives us continuity while leaving room to respond to the real-time needs of you and your business.
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You can expect a warm, honest and deeply personalised strategic partnership.
We begin with your Spark Advantage Profile™ and a two-hour strategy session so I can understand you, your business, what matters now and where the friction lies. From there, we use your flexible coaching and mentoring time to refine ideas, make decisions, implement changes and respond to the challenges and opportunities that emerge.
I’ll listen closely, reflect what I see, ask questions that sharpen your thinking and gently challenge you when that will serve you. I’ll also share practical recommendations, tools and strategic direction when you need more than another interesting conversation.
You won’t receive a generic formula or an action plan designed for an imaginary perfect week. We’ll develop approaches that reflect your goals, strengths, capacity and how you think and work best.
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Some shifts can happen quickly. Being accurately understood, seeing a pattern clearly or finally making a decision you’ve been circling can create immediate relief and momentum.
Other changes take longer. Refining an offer, strengthening your positioning, developing a new marketing rhythm or building greater self-trust happens through thoughtful decisions and repeated practice.
The pace also depends on what we’re working on, your available capacity and what is happening elsewhere in your life and business. I can’t responsibly promise instant transformation or a particular financial result—my crystal ball remains disappointingly unreliable.
What I can offer is focused support to help you find clarity, make better-fitting decisions and keep moving the work forward without measuring progress against somebody else’s timeline.
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The investment in UPlift is $2,995 plus GST.
This includes your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™, a two-hour virtual strategy session, five hours of flexible coaching and mentoring support and optional Voxer access between sessions.
Every engagement begins with a complimentary Connection Call so we can talk about what’s happening, what you need and whether UPlift is the right fit.
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Choose UPlift ADHD business coaching and mentoring when your business foundations are broadly sound and you want ongoing support to develop clarity, refine ideas, make decisions, implement changes and sustain momentum over time.
Choose The REwire Intensive when several interconnected parts of your business need to be reconsidered together. Your business model, offers, pricing, positioning or marketing may no longer fit—or may never have properly come together—and you need to step back and see the whole picture through an immersive strategic recalibration.
Sometimes the REwire Intensive provides the substantial reset and UPlift provides ongoing support afterwards. If you’re unsure which starting point fits your situation, that’s exactly what a Connection Call is for. We’ll work it out together.