ADHD Business Coaching & Mentoring
The UPlift.
Structured support for a sparky brain.
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.
The 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, create 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 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 less obvious business challenges of ADHD 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 more tied to the particular experience of running a business with a sparky brain.
Bright Shiny Options Syndrome
Popcorn Brain is the ideas you generate. Bright Shiny Options are the ones that come looking for you: the collaboration, the course, the new market, the invitation that sounds too good to miss. Every one feels genuinely worth pursuing, so you say yes, and your focus keeps getting pulled sideways from the work that would actually build momentum.
The Surge and Stall experience
When something captures your attention, hyperfocus mode can kick in, and time blindness means the hours simply vanish. The inevitable energy crash is hard, but you try to push on regardless, can’t, and then tend to berate yourself for it. That’s why I focus less on rigid consistency and more on dedication: making it easier to keep returning to what matters.
Chameleon Mode
You’re brilliant at reading people and giving them what they need. So your services, your messaging and even your pricing can reshape themselves around every client, colleague and expert opinion. It might seem like flexibility and a “client centred approach”, but over time, you lose track of which version of your business is actually yours, and what you’d build if no one was watching.
The Systems Gap
Building systems is a boring behind-the-scenes job, and a sparky brain runs on interest, not importance, so the system rarely gets built. Or you find a new tool or solution and set it up with real enthusiasm, then quietly abandon it three weeks later... Or you had a system that worked well at some stage, but was squished when your business grew and needs changed. Either way, there’s a gap where your support should be.
The Validation Loop
You do know your own mind, but you just don’t quite trust it because of past experiences and judgment from others. So before a decision feels safe, you run it past a friend, a peer, or one more expert. Each opinion feels like due diligence, but it adds another voice to the noise in your head, and the decision you’d already made keeps getting questioned and changed.
The self-worth wound
This sits underneath it all because decades of feeling too much and not enough can leave a mark. It makes it harder to trust your judgement, stand behind your work and charge for the value you deliver, however much evidence you’ve collected along the way. This means you need more than encouragement - Self-Leadership practices will help evidence of your talent and the value of your work genuinely land and integrate into your sense of self.
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’ll benefit from 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
reshape your clients, distinctive approach, business model, services, pricing, positioning and messaging, and marketing as your business evolves
back yourself and trust the value you deliver
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 The UPlift plays: ongoing space to think clearly, choose intentionally and move your business forward with support right alongside you.
I know this because I’ve felt it.
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 that 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, executive functions, inner critic, business background 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 clients, distinctive approach, business model, services, pricing, positioning, messaging or marketing or a specific project or opportunity.
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 steps of The REwire Method™ - See It, Own It, Shape 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.
I will never offer you generic formulas, I don’t insist on rigid fortnightly one-hour sessions, and I have zero expectations that what you needed last month will be the same today!
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 steps of The REwire Method™ weave through The UPlift, but the engagement itself begins in three practical parts.
Part one: Your Spark Advantage Profile™
We begin with you.
You'll complete a business background and a number of quick online assessments.
I bring the insights from these together in your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™, helping you see your Spark Zone and Spark Edge and the Spark Traps that can get in the way of your progress and growth.
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 half day (four-hour) strategy session, online or in person on Sydney’s Northern Beaches (online, we split it into two shorter sessions), 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.
You leave with a succinct summary of your decisions and priorities.
This is our strategic foundation, not a plan carved into stone. The 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.
The UPlift includes six hours of private support across the following 12 weeks you use in the way that best fits what you need. We book your first session before your strategy session ends, so the momentum doesn’t stall.
You might need 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. So much of running a business happens in what I call Quiet Isolation, with every decision and every wobble worked through inside your own head. So if something significant emerges, you need a sounding board for a decision, or you simply need to think aloud, send me a voice message and I’ll respond as soon as I can - usually within 24 hours.
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 you’d like ongoing support. There’s no need to squeeze your next chapter in business into an arbitrary coaching timetable.
While you’re an active UPlift client, you will also receive complimentary invitations to the virtual masterclasses offered through the Business Sweet Spot Mastermind, the mastermind and 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:
$3,500 + GST or three monthly payments of $1,200 +GST.
Your UPlift engagement includes:
Preparation, assessments and business background brief - a fabulous reflection experience!
Your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™
A private four-hour strategic foundation session
A succinct summary of your decisions and priorities
Six flexible hours of ADHD business coaching, mentoring and strategic support - recordings, session summaries and full transcripts can be provided through Fathom, the AI Meeting Notetaker I use.
Optional Voxer access between sessions
Personalised ADHD-friendly tools and resources from my library
Complimentary invitations to the Business Sweet Spot virtual masterclasses while you are an active client
A copy of the revised and updated version of my book, Your Next Chapter
After the initial engagement, optional five and ten-hour mentoring blocks are available if you’d like to continue working together.
NEW EDITION! Now updated through the lens of my late-in-life ADHD diagnosis and the new understanding that delivered.
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
Is The UPlift the right place to begin?
For most women, yes. Choose The UPlift if you want a thinking partner to help you get clear, make decisions, reshape what isn’t working and keep moving as your business evolves.
If you have one specific issue, decision or opportunity you want to stop circling, Action & Traction is a single strategy session.
Still not sure? That’s exactly what a Connection Call is for. We'll talk through what’s 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 services, 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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The UPlift is designed for ADHD and sparky-brained women running service-based businesses who want an experienced 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 reshape your services, marketing or direction without pulling your entire business apart.
The UPlift is particularly helpful when you know something needs to shift but can’t yet see clearly what, or how to stay dedicated to it once you’ve decided.
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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 your neurodivergence sits at the heart of the what and how of our work, woven into decisions and choices, not as an afterthought.
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 timelines to organise competing ideas
breaking big goals into smaller tasks to help create traction
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 simple, personalised systems that reduce friction rather than becoming another thing you have to maintain
The aim isn’t to make you conform to “business as usual” practices. It’s to develop strategies, structures and support that work with and for your uniquely sparky self.
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A lot of conventional business advice focuses primarily on what the business needs: a clearer service suite, better positioning, stronger marketing, more consistent action or a plan for growth.
Those things are important of course, but strategy also needs to fit the woman expected to make it happen.
I bring together business strategy, Self-Leadership and an ADHD-informed lens through The REwire Method™. We look at 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 provide valuable support with executive functioning, emotional regulation, self-understanding and everyday life. What they may not necessarily offer is deep experience in business strategy, positioning, pricing, services 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, meeting you where you’re at and providing what you most need in that moment.
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 from the outside, spot what you can’t see from the inside 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 deliberate.
The UPlift includes a six-hour block of coaching and mentoring time that you can use in different session lengths according to what you need.
You aren’t locked into regular one-hour appointments simply because that’s how coaching has traditionally been packaged.
You might book a short 15-minute session to sense-check an opportunity or make a decision, a longer 60 or 90 minute session to develop or reshape one of your services 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 input.
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 half-day (four hour) in-person or online 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.
*In person strategy sessions usually take place in Bayview on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and online strategy sessions on Zoom are broken into two-hour blocks with a break for both of our brains! -
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 a service, 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 - I’m yet to find a reliable crystal ball!
What I can offer is focused support to help you find clarity, make better-fitting decisions and keep moving towards your goals without measuring your progress against anybody else’s timeline.
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The investment in The UPlift is $3,500 plus GST, or three monthly payments of $1,200 plus GST.
This includes your personalised Spark Advantage Profile™, the half day (4 hour) hour strategy session, six hours of flexible coaching and mentoring support across 12 weeks 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 The UPlift is the right fit.
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Yes. Action & Traction is a single 90-minute strategy session, followed by two weeks of Voxer support, for the one decision, opportunity or stuck point that’s taking up too much room in your head.
It suits you if your business is broadly working but something specific has you circling: whether to raise your prices, how to shape a new service, which of three ideas deserves your energy, or how to respond to an opportunity that’s just landed.
We work through it together, you leave with a clear decision and next steps, and the Voxer support helps you act on it while the momentum’s still there.
It’s $595 + GST, and you can book it directly online here.