Strategy and self-leadership for the businesswoman whose brain never really switches off…
Let me guess…
You've built something real. You're talented, have a big vision, and your clients love you.
But running the business? Growing the business? That’s so much harder - almost like you’re working from the wrong manual...
Popcorn Brain
Ideas fire constantly. You have seventeen tabs open, three notebooks on the go, and a voice message from last week you haven't listened to yet.
You start things brilliantly. Finishing them, or resisting the urge to rebuild version 3.5 from scratch, is another story.
The gap between your vision and what you’re actually achieving is so frustrating… it’s chipping away at your natural optimism and enthusiasm.
Priority Pinball
You take action. You invest genuine effort. You end the day tired, but that uneasy sense of 'did any of that actually move anything forward?' keeps prodding at you.
Urgent and interesting keep overriding what’s important. Momentum builds but then scatters. Time evaporates.
You're not a lot cause! You're not undisciplined. You're just trying to run your business with systems that were not built for the way you think and work.
Confidence See Saw
One day you're certain this is brilliant. The next, a competitor's new offer or a rough week tips you into 'who was I kidding?'
Positive feedback slides off like Teflon, criticism sticks like Velcro. You can list and celebrate your clients' wins in detail, but your own? They don’t seem to mean much…
The confidence to back yourself fully, to charge for the value you create, to say this is what makes me different, stays stubbornly out of reach.
These three create what I call Perpetual Potential.
That maddening place where you know, you absolutely know, you're capable of more. But breaking through stays just out of reach.
It's not that you're not cut out for being in business for yourself.
It's just what tends to happen when a sparky brained woman tries to run her business through systems designed for someone else's wiring.
Does that sound anything like you? Read more about how sparky-brained wiring tends to show up in business here.
I know how this feels
because I am you.
I was diagnosed with ADHD at 53, after more than two decades in business.
The recognition brought relief, grief, and a very belated 'oh, so THAT'S why.'
It explained the idea avalanches. The energy spikes and crashes. The hyperfocus rabbit holes. The endless pivots. The years of feeling like I was simultaneously too much and never quite enough.
It also explained why I'd been quietly attracting women like me, like you, throughout my business journey, without either of us having the language to name what was actually going on.
That insight changed so much. How I work. How I lead. And most importantly - how I help my clients.
I'm Angela Raspass, a Business Strategist & Self-Leadership Mentor.
I bring together decades of business strategy experience, lived ADHD insight, and formal ADHD coach training (though the Gold Mind Academy in the UK).
I work with service-based businesswomen who are ready to stop fighting their wiring and start building a business that actually works with it.
Most business coaches don't truly understand ADHD. Most ADHD coaches haven't built businesses beyond their own practice.
I sit at the intersection of both and my clients often say “working with me feels like releasing a handbrake they didn’t know was on.”
And if you're not sparky-brained or an ADHDer? You're still very welcome here. My non-sparky clients tell me that's exactly why they love working with me - because I quickly see opportunities and gaps, and make connections they hadn't yet seen.
You can borrow my belief in you until you have it for yourself...
NEW EDITION!
The guide for businesswomen ready to recalibrate
Now with updated business growth frameworks and a sparky-brained lens.
If you’ve got a quiet nudge inside – a sense that something new is calling you forward in your business – this is the book for you.
It is still very much a book is for every woman who knows something more is possible in her business and wants an honest, practical companion for the journey there.
And now it’s also for my fellow sparkies, who might be beginning to realise why the rules of business don’t seem to work…and what to try instead.
If something on this page made you think 'wow, maybe I’ve found someone who reslly does seem to get it' - that recognition is real. Trust it.
You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out.
That's what we do together.
Ready to stop fighting your brain and being so hard on yourself?
More for your sparky mind.
Ideas, insights, and the occasional naming of things you thought only happened to you.
Most women I've worked with have far more capability than they allow themselves to claim. What we call doubt or imposter syndrome often runs deeper than that - and for sparky-brained women especially, it goes somewhere very specific…