All tagged ADHD Entrepreneur
You're setting up pricing or planning a price increase and hit the question: should you let clients pay in installments or require full payment upfront? Payment plans could make your services more accessible, but you've heard horror stories about clients who stop paying halfway through or after you've delivered everything. If you're an ADHD entrepreneur, this decision feels even more complicated because managing payment plans requires organization, follow-up, and tracking. All things your brain finds challenging. In this post, I'm breaking down the pros and cons of offering payment plans for both you and your clients, how to protect yourself including not delivering in full until you're paid, using services that pay you upfront while clients pay installments, requiring significant deposits, and being selective about who gets payment plans.
It's the third week of the month and you've booked zero new clients.
Your brain immediately goes to: the business is failing, everyone figured out you're a fraud, you should get a regular job. Then next month five new bookings in one week and suddenly you're flush with cash and convinced you've finally figured it out. If you're an ADHD entrepreneur dealing with inconsistent income, this feast or famine rollercoaster probably feels familiar. The panic when it's slow, the overspending when it's good, the catastrophizing that one slow week means everything is dying. In this post, I'm breaking down why inconsistent income hits different with ADHD and the systems that actually help: understanding your seasonal patterns, building a buffer, paying yourself consistently, and the mindset shifts that stop the anxiety spiral.
You've done the work. Delivered the service. Sent the invoice. And now? Radio silence. Or worse, a string of "I'll pay you next week" messages that turn into next month, then disappear entirely. If you have ADHD, this scenario probably triggers a special kind of hell. The anxiety. The people-pleasing voice that says "maybe they're just going through something." The RSD screaming "they hate your work and that's why they won't pay." In this post, I'm breaking down how to handle non-paying clients in a way that protects both your business and your mental health: prevention systems that work, the three-step follow-up process, when to pursue vs when to let it go, and how to manage the ADHD and RSD factor that makes this so fucking hard.
Let’s start by getting really clear on something: you’re not bad with money and you’re not broken. You’re living with an ADHD brain navigating a world of money systems and advice that weren’t designed for you. And that’s why so many traditional tools and advice fail, leaving folks with ADHD thinking it’s them. 🙁
When you become an entrepreneur, especially one who manages a business on their own, it is incredibly easy to drag that toxic thinking with you. We start measuring success by how full our calendars are, how many staff we have and how fast we scale. For a long time, I thought success was building a team, I wanted a VA, an admin, and other coaches.
The best pricing structure is the one you can actually manage on a Tuesday when your executive function is on vacation AND that starts with setting things up so there are not a lot of things you have to manage regularly!
This whole process gets way easier when you understand how your brain works and what type of workflow can minimize the time you spend on getting paid. So let me break it down and help you get clarity for how you can set yourself up for success!
