Need Executive Dysfunction Help? You're in the Right Place.
You Aren't Broken.
The Way You Work Is.
Anyone who doesn’t fit the mainstream mold of a model worker, such as people with ADHD, Au-DHD, autism, and those with dyslexia, need unique systems to keep on track, stay accountable, and improve the experience of earning a livelihood. The default methods just don’t work for us. We won’t fit the template, and there’s little point in forcing the issue.
You deserve a support system which respects your process. This doesn’t mean adhering to a static sytem that someone else made, but taking inspiration from all of them to create a flexible scaffolding which can respond to changing environments, life circumstances, and anything else that might come up.
Let’s burn the rulebook and build a workflow that actually works for you.
Emily Breder, Executive Functioning Mentor
I help creative professionals with nonstandard working and learning styles develop systems that support momentum, self-trust, and sustainable output — without shame or hype.
What Is Executive Functioning?
Executive functioning is the set of mental skills we use to plan, prioritize, initiate, and complete tasks. It includes working memory, flexible thinking, emotional regulation, and impulse control — basically, the tools your brain uses to steer the ship.
When these skills are out of sync — whether due to ADHD, trauma, burnout, illness, or just the chaotic nature of life — it doesn’t mean you’re lazy or broken. It means the control panel needs rewiring, and most productivity advice wasn’t written for your wiring to begin with.
This is where we begin: not with fixing you, but with building a better dashboard for your mind.
Work should adapt to YOU.
This isn’t productivity advice for the perfectly organized. This is for the ones who’ve been told they’re too scattered, too sensitive, too inconsistent to succeed.
We know the truth: you’re not too much—you’ve just been trying to make progress in a system that wasn’t built for you.
Whether you’re navigating ADHD, burnout, executive dysfunction, or just a deep resistance to bullshit, we’ll help you create tools that actually match how you think and work. No shaming. No forcing. Just a steady, practical way to show up for what matters to you.
Emily's Story
I know all about executive dysfunction — from the inside and the outside.
After I got my driver’s license at 18, I misplaced it and had to get it replaced four times over the next six years. After the last time, the DMV said they’d investigate me for fraud if it happened again.
That was my wake-up call. My “forgetfulness” wasn’t quirky anymore — it was chaos.
Missed appointments. Misplaced documents. Always behind, always apologizing, always trying harder — and still getting buried.
Everyone around me seemed to manage just fine. I thought I was broken.
Over time, I stopped trying to be someone else and started building a way of working that fit me.
Getting my Scrum Master certification gave me the final structure I needed to turn that into a system — and then into a business.
I’ve run multiple businesses. Helped creatives and startups launch websites, publications, studios.
I’ve pivoted — when my health demanded it, when the world fell apart, when I had to. I’ve worked in rescue shelters, mucked stalls, studied Zen, read philosophy, cleaned up messes — inner and outer.
Now I help people like me — creative professionals with messy, powerful minds — build workflows that fit who they are now, not some idealized version they were told to chase. From structuring your week to rewiring your response to inertia, I’m here to help you stop fighting your brain and start working with it.
This isn’t self-improvement.
It’s self-respect, in action.
Why Workflow Matters
Traditional business culture assumes consistency, extroversion, and neurotypical habits. It rewards people who can conform to rigid expectations—and leaves the rest of us questioning our value when we struggle to keep up.
Before the industrial revolution turned people and work-hours into assets, people like us thrived as inventors, artisans, engineers, explorers and so much more. We survived — even excelled — by working with our instincts, not against them. The factory model wasn’t built for nonlinear minds, and it still isn’t.
Uncommon Creators exists because those expectations are broken, not you. If you live with a nonstandard lifestyle or learning style, you don’t need fixing. You need a workflow that fits.
Your work should adapt to you, not the other way around.
How We Work Together
1:1 Coaching Sessions
Get personalized support tailored to your creative life. In our one-to-one sessions, we work together to uncover roadblocks, clarify goals, and build a workflow that actually works for you.
Creative Strategy Sessions
Need help sorting out what’s next? Our strategy sessions are built for brainstorming, unsticking ideas, and seeing your next move clearly.
Accountability Partnerships
Stay on track with a dedicated accountability partner. Whether you’re building habits or finishing a project, you’re not doing it alone.
Build Your Own Tracking System
You’ll learn how to spot what’s missing, experiment with new methods, and reboot when your needs evolve. The goal isn’t to follow a trend—it’s to build something that works for the version of you who shows up today.
Zen and the Art of Shoveling Shit
Emily’s blog began as a series of essays written while working in a horse barn and practicing Zen. (Real Zen, not the yogurt commercial kind or the kind spouted by lifestyle gurus.)
Real Zen is looking into the mirror of mind very day and deliberately polishing it to see yourself more clearly, even if what you see is painful. Not hiding from the truth.
When you shovel your shit, you have to do it every day. Over time, the resistance wears down and there is a calmness and beauty in simple, humble tasks.
Begin now, come back to the present moment, not turning away from this reality, right here and now, however uncomfortable. This is where you find the strength and consistency to get shit done.
Please read the blog for advice, stories, and inspiration on how to carve your own path to the next milestone of your choice.
Read 'Emily's Blog on Substack
Tired of Trying to Work Like Someone You’re Not?
You’ve already tried their systems. You’ve already blamed yourself when they didn’t work.
Let’s do it differently this time.
I’ll help you build a way of working that’s rooted in your brain, your rhythm, and your reality.