Focus, Flight, and Figuring It Out: An ADHD Founder’s Journey (Carly Braker)
Skye sits down with Carly Braker, founder of Avialan Blue, to talk about building a high tech areospace engineering consultancy while navigating ADHD. Carly shares how she masked symptoms growing up, why the “real world” hit harder, and the adjustments she had to make when deep focus, sensory overwhelm, and impostor feelings collided with entrepreneurship.
What we cover:
- Why gifted kids often miss their own ADHD signs
- The crash that happens when school structure disappears
- The identity shift from employee to founder
- What it took to create stability in a high focus consulting business
- How behaviour mapping helped her create systems that actually work
Curious to see more of Carly’s work? You can find it here: https://www.avialanblue.com/adhdskillslab/
Connect with Carly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlybraker/
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
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Skye sits down with Carly Braker, founder of Avialan Blue, to talk about building a high tech areospace engineering consultancy while navigating ADHD. Carly shares how she masked symptoms growing up, why the “real world” hit harder, and the adjustments she had to make when deep focus, sensory overwhelm, and impostor feelings collided with entrepreneurship.
What we cover:
- Why gifted kids often miss their own ADHD signs
- The crash that happens when school structure disappears
- The identity shift from employee to founder
- What it took to create stability in a high focus consulting business
- How behaviour mapping helped her create systems that actually work
Curious to see more of Carly’s work? You can find it here: https://www.avialanblue.com/adhdskillslab/
Connect with Carly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlybraker/
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram - @unconventionalorganisation
Visit our website - https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/
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