I’m Hema Priya, an ADHD entrepreneur who’s started over 50 businesses and abandoned more than 30.
For years, I felt crushed by guilt, drowning in impulsive decisions and course overload.
But everything changed when I learned to pause.
If you’re constantly chasing new ideas but rarely seeing them through, this is for you.
You’ll hear real talk on ADHD, business guilt, and the small shift that saved my sanity and my bank account.
This message matters because we’re not broken, we just need a different rhythm. Let’s take one conscious step at a time, together.
Transcript
Hello, everyone. I’m Hema Priya, and welcome to my channel.
Today, I’m going to talk about something that every one of us, every one of the ADHD entrepreneurs who are hearing this podcast will know this, the guilt of abandoned businesses.
I have the most horrid guilt because I have abandoned more than 30 businesses until now. I have created more than 50 businesses, and in that, I would have abandoned 30 businesses.
And every time I think of that, I feel so guilty of have wasted my time, resources, money, even my talent, and also the guilt of buying courses to learn for that particular business.
I would have bought literally thousands of dollars in money for so many coaching programs.
And, this was a continuous process for me. Every throughout my life for the last ten years, there was not even one month wherein I was not in a coaching program for something. So that’s why the coaching industry is actually, blooming now.
Right? So we are all we want to learn, learn, learn. And as an ADHD entrepreneur, the learning comes naturally.
We want to embed so much of the content, so much of the knowledge. We want to implement those knowledge into successful businesses, become a success, and create fame, money, and so many things.
But, sadly, those don’t even last for a month or so. This has been with me for the last ten years. And when I think back, I can totally feel the guilt, the feeling that, oh my god.
I have wasted so much money and resources. But when I asked in a group, I I found out that I was not alone.
There are thousands and thousands of ADHD entrepreneurs who are going through the same struggle again and again.
We go through it again and again, but still we don’t learn it. Because why? That’s how our bay brain is wired. We can’t do anything about it.
And what we can do is embrace it. And whenever the feeling or the impulse comes to buy courses, take a second. Ground yourself. Take a sleep. Decide it tomorrow.
I know that was the most difficult decision I had ever done. I mean, postponing a decision to tomorrow to whether to buy or not the course or whether to start or not a business, that was the most difficult decision.
But believe me, it worked like magic because the dopamine hit that we get now and the dopamine hit tomorrow might not be the same. The intensity might vary, and what you thought was an excellent idea today will not look like an excellent idea tomorrow. So it was the most difficultest thing to wire my brain to postpone the decision for a day.
Just for a day. Just sleep overnight and then sleep on it. That’s why people tell sleep on it. Sleep on it. If you still feel that you want to start the business, if you want to start, join the course, then go ahead and do it because I strongly think the universe wants us to do it, and that’s why our brain is making us to do it.
So just go with the flow and do what your differently wired brain tells you. But sometimes, take a pause. Take a breath. Stop for some time. Listen to your brain.
I know it is very, very difficult. When we are in a hyperfocus, it’s very, very difficult to take a pause to stop our brain from thinking to postpone the decision. But we need to do it because, otherwise, we lose a lot of money. We have already lost a lot of money. Right?
So I wouldn’t definitely want you to lose more money. This is a very, very difficult step. But believe me, once you do it and the next day when you think that this is not a good idea, you will feel so relieved. You will see feel so free. You will feel so empowered.
You will feel so lively. Okay. I have gotten over my hyperfocus ADHD impulse. That is like you have to celebrate when you do it because I celebrated. And still, it’s I’m practicing it.
I’m not an expert in it. There are times when my hyperfocus doesn’t even allow me to think anything at all. But I am trying to inculcate this into my practice, and whenever a hyperfocus hits and makes me to start a business, our simple business is not something, a digital PDF. Okay. Go and do the PDF.
But if you want to start an elaborate ecommerce business, invest thousands in stock, then take a breath. Stop, pause, sleep on it, and then decide. This is what has worked for me, and it’ll definitely work for you, but not the first time. It takes a lot of attempts. But don’t worry.
We will get there. This is how our ADHD brains work. So don’t ever apologize for your ADHD mind or brain because this is how we are wired. We will function like this. We are taking conscious positive steps to overcome our limitations, liabilities, disabilities, whatever you call it.
But one step at a time, and don’t force yourself to it because it will make the situation more worse. So if you want more help in any of this, I’m always available at www.hemapriya.com. Reach out to me, and I’ll be there to help you. Thank you.
