The Daily Reminder System That Actually Works for ADHD (Sharon Pope)
She stared in the mirror one night, still wearing the workout clothes she'd put on that morning, and realized she couldn't remember if she'd had a sip of water all day.
Years before being diagnosed with ADHD, Sharon Pope was successfully leading startups while privately struggling with the basics of everyday life.
So she built the tool she wished she'd had: an AI task manager that follows up like a person instead of another notification.
In this conversation, Sharon shares how that breaking point became Shelpful, why she still relies on it every day, and what she's learned about building a company around a problem she still hasn't completely solved.
What We Cover
- Why doctors dismissed her ADHD because she was "too successful"
- The night she built the first Shelpful prototype in 24 hours
- Why human accountability didn't scale into a business
- How "Mega Remind" follows up until a task actually gets done
- Why she still depends on the product she built herself
Connect With Sharon Pope
Website: https://shelpful.com
Instagram: @shelpful
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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She stared in the mirror one night, still wearing the workout clothes she'd put on that morning, and realized she couldn't remember if she'd had a sip of water all day.
Years before being diagnosed with ADHD, Sharon Pope was successfully leading startups while privately struggling with the basics of everyday life.
So she built the tool she wished she'd had: an AI task manager that follows up like a person instead of another notification.
In this conversation, Sharon shares how that breaking point became Shelpful, why she still relies on it every day, and what she's learned about building a company around a problem she still hasn't completely solved.
What We Cover
- Why doctors dismissed her ADHD because she was "too successful"
- The night she built the first Shelpful prototype in 24 hours
- Why human accountability didn't scale into a business
- How "Mega Remind" follows up until a task actually gets done
- Why she still depends on the product she built herself
Connect With Sharon Pope
Website: https://shelpful.com
Instagram: @shelpful
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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