Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 5: Whispers of a Calling

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 5: Whispers of a Calling

Week five of the 10-Week Integration Reset asks a different kind of question: beyond managing your ADHD, beyond fending off the saboteur — what's quietly pulling you forward? In this episode, Cam explores the concept of "whispers of a calling" — the subtle signals that serve as deeper wellsprings of motivation and energy. Through client stories, he unpacks how ADHD disrupts our "control surfaces," those micro-adjustments that keep us on course — and how that disruption shows up in unexpected ways, from optimistic over-commitment to jumping straight into solving problems that weren't ours to solve. But the heart of this episode is about tuning in. When the loud noise quiets down, what do you hear? A picture of the future. A person you feel called to connect with. A place that helps you make sense of the world. Cam shares his own examples — a morning ride near UVA, a mentorship vision taking shape, a draw toward the Chesapeake Bay — as an invitation for you to start noticing what's always been whispering to you. If you haven't found your purpose yet, this episode reframes the search: start with moments of meaning, moments of connection. Purpose tends to follow.

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 4: ADHD Reveal Party!

The moment you step into practice — really step in — something shows up right on cue. Not the saboteurs this time. This week it's the ADHD reveal. And yes, it's called a party on purpose. This is not a shame spiral or a performance review. It's a reveal — pulling back the curtain and finally seeing, clearly and specifically, how your ADHD is showing up in the doing. Because it never arrives alone. Forgetfulness, distraction, avoidance, emotional reactivity — they travel together, collecting speed like a dirty snowball. One client, a coach herself, put it perfectly: "it's hard for me to pick apart what's going on." That's exactly what this week is for. Cameron maps the outside — the big signal hijack, the five-more-minutes loop, the avoider-rationalization tag team, the completion cliff — and the inside: the meaning maker, cognitive inflexibility locking into a story, the threshold between intention and action where ADHD does its most effective interference work. But the most important question isn't which of these are yours. It's how you receive that information when you see it. As evidence for the story you've always told? Or as data you can actually work with?

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 3: Stepping Into Practice

Here's what happens the moment you actually try to do the thing: ADHD shows up at the door. Not the just saboteurs this time — they came last week. This is the threshold moment, that gap between thinking and doing where ADHD does some of its best interference work. ADHD emboldened Saboteurs and we get he avoider rationalizing. The five-more-minutes loop. The conditions-aren't-quite-right perfectionism from Stickler. It's all waiting right there at the inflection point between intention and action. This week Cameron turns the spotlight on that threshold — and asks you to meet your ADHD there with curiosity and compassion, the same way you met your saboteurs last week. But first, a check-in with something worth sitting with: many of us carry a serious empathy imbalance. Plenty of compassion for others, almost none for ourselves. Cameron makes a direct request this week — try to extend to yourself even a fraction of the grace you'd offer anyone else. It matters more than it sounds. He also takes on healthy skepticism: why are we looking at emotions in a coaching model, and is Positive Intelligence just oversimplified neuroscience-lite? He doesn't dodge either question. And he walks through his own four-element example — inner space, outer space, context and lived experience, ADHD — with more honesty than strictly necessary, including a confession about the snack cabinet that may or may not get him Weight Watchers ads on YouTube. HMS Conviction is coming out of dry dock. It's time to step across the line.

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 2: Saboteur Homecoming!

Here's what happens the moment you decide to make a change or commit to a ten week program of any kind: they show up. The inner critic. The judge. The avoider, the victim, the pleaser, the hyper-achiever. Every internal character who has ever told you you've tried this before, "fat chance, buddy!" — they're coming. So this week, instead of waiting for the jump scare, Cameron throws them a party. Saboteur Homecoming! Doing so, we actually integrate these unhelpful characters into the change we want to create. Drawing on the Positive Intelligence framework and Tamara Rozier's work on malicious motivators, Cameron unpacks the nine saboteur types, how ADHD amplifies each one by quietly removing limits and intensifying their message, and why wrestling with them is exactly what they want. The goal isn't to defeat them — it's to see them coming, tag them, and start listening to what they're actually trying to tell you. Because buried inside every saboteur message is data that can be turned into intention. Cameron also shares his own saboteur trifecta in action — including a pang of test anxiety he hadn't felt in years — and why Matthew McConaughey's "persist, pivot, or concede" is easier said than done when your hyper-achiever has never once considered conceding as an option. They're coming anyway. Might as well open the door.

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 1: Making Space, Giving Grace

Week one. And it doesn't start with momentum — it starts with space. Before you can build anything new, you need to look at what's cluttering the deck. Unfinished things. Obligations that have quietly outlived their purpose. The constant low hum of stuff that's almost done but not quite. Cameron gets specific about his own list — the front porch, the training he's been grumbling about, the PT he's been skipping — and invites you to take stock of yours. This is what the integration reset is actually about: gently unraveling four elements that naturally weave together — your current context and living experience, your outer behaviors and reactions, your inner thoughts and narrative, and your ADHD — looking at each one clearly, and then reconfiguring them in a way that serves you more effectively. That's the integration. That's the reset. And the ship? It's your vehicle for navigating the map of change. Whether it's HMS Defiance, HMS Urgency, or a yellow submarine, what matters is that you're at the wheel — and choosing where you're headed. Then there's giving grace. This reset is not boot camp. It's not a hype-up. It's a deliberate choice to stop activating through adrenaline and urgency and find a different gear — one that doesn't grind you down before you've even started. You will falter around week three. That's not failure. That's where grace comes in. Get ready for Week 1!