Start Here: What Are Brain Friendly Systems

What do you do when you've built a beautiful system, used it for two weeks, and quietly abandoned it, again? In this first episode of Brain Friendly Systems, Aga Gajownik unpacks her own "systems graveyard," fifteen years of color-coded trackers, bullet journals, and morning routines that worked until they didn't, and the realisation that the problem was never discipline.

Aga introduces the three patterns she sees most often in neurodivergent professionals and leaders: the high-performance mask, the shame spiral around systems, and the executive function cliff. Then she walks through the BASICS Model, her six-pillar framework (Body, Autopilot, Security, Important People, Consciousness, Surroundings) for mapping where the friction actually is before trying to fix anything.

This is the front door to the show. Start here.