I'm Tom Collins
Founder of Get Traction

London. 45 years old. Divorced, two children, getting remarried.
I built a drinks company from nothing in a small office without a window, and grew it to £5 million. I pitched Whitbread, raised finance, scaled the business—and burned through my marriage in the process.
Then everything fell apart. I got divorced, left the company, and had to start building from the ground up. Then came the question I couldn't stop asking: Who am I? Did ADHD cause all this? Did I do this?
My partner was the one who saw it first. She'd been doing quiet research on her own, trying to understand the man she loved. She asked me to take an ADHD test. Even then, I minimised it. The test came back strongly positive. That was the beginning of a long journey.
I was lying in the sea, floating, looking up at the sky. Everything was calm and quiet. That's when I realised the noise could stop. I didn't even realise it was noisy.
I rebuilt. Slowly. I got into high-ticket sales and redesigned a client's offer that took £250,000 in seven days. I repeated it three times. That proved my brain still worked. It just needed to swing left-handed.
Now I'm training as an ADHD coach, because the thing I'm best at isn't closing deals—it's helping people see that their brain isn't broken. It's just been batting in the wrong hand.
