I am thrilled to share some exciting news: I recently earned the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation! It has been a long time coming…
This milestone is more than just a title. It’s more than adding letters to the “acronym alphabet soup” at the end of my title. This achievement represents years of training, mentorship, and hundreds of hours of coaching practice. The PCC credential is recognized around the world as a mark of excellence in coaching. For me, it also reflects something deeply personal: the commitment I have made to empowering adults like me with ADHD and other invisible disabilities to make tangible progress for lasting change.
Coaching isn’t a job. It isn’t even a career! For me, coaching is a calling. The work I do is so much more than “Hacks”, “Hot Takes”, or “Best Practices” around things like productivity or time management. Being a Certified ADHD life coach is about helping people build confidence, overcome challenges, and create a rhythm that works for their unique brain. Coaching gives people who have struggled silently for years a safe place for their voices to be heard, and a sacred space where their journey and struggle matter. That is why I developed the Conquer Your ADHD™ System, and it is why I keep learning, refining, and growing as a coach – so that my clients (and anyone else in the world with non-apparent disabilities) know that they are not alone. That their story matters. To provide a beacon of light for those who are utterly hopeless, and feel trapped in the dark.
One lesson that I’ve had to re-learn along my PCC path is that my journey will be far from perfect. This is actually great news, because I have learned that “Perfect” tends to be the enemy of “Progress”, which continues to shape my approach to how perfectionism often traps ADHDers in cycles of stress and hesitation. In Breaking Through ADHD Perfectionism: ADHD-Friendly Strategies, I wrote about how progress matters more than flawless execution, and shared ways to move forward even when perfection feels impossible. (This is something that I had to remind myself of countless times during my journey towards PCC.)
As many of us know all too well, another of “the usual suspects” when it comes to ADHD symptoms is time blindness: that sense of losing track of minutes or hours until the day is over before it started. While I always knew that reaching PCC status was important, it was hard to make it URGENT enough to plan it into my day. That’s why, in Here’s How to Stop ADHD Time Blindness from Ruining Your Day, I shared strategies to regain a sense of balance and flow, to work on the things that will make you grow. These everyday tools are some of the “rungs” on the homemade ladder I used to get myself out of the holes I’ve dug myself out of. If I am going to embody the level of coaching capabilities necessary for the more in-depth coaching work of a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) that I undertake with clients, then I need to be able to practice what I preach!
The truth is, earning my PCC credential is not just about me. It is about the clients who have trusted me with their stories, the colleagues who have encouraged me, and the community that has rallied around this mission of driving the Inclusion Revolution. Together, we are proving that ADHD and neurodiversity belong in the conversation about leadership, inclusion, and success.
I am deeply grateful for the chance to celebrate this achievement with you. And I am even more excited about what comes next – for me, for you, for all of us.
