Author: Mike Liss

Coach Mike Liss, Esq. has practiced law for 28 years and has coached people part-time for the past 6.  He now focuses his coaching practice on ADHDers who are in recovery, like himself. Mike’s life has certainly not been linear.  He grew up in Queens an underachiever who scored well on standardized tests, who managed to get into law school by LSAT alone.  “Super-bright but doesn’t apply himself” is what they said.  A brilliant trial lawyer from the start, Mike has won enormous verdicts and helped a lot of clients.  But, Mike has always wondered what else is out there, and what his life was about. He raised his kids as a single parent from when they were little.  He side-tracked into culinary school and professional kitchens for a while.  He did a lot of personal growth work and coached for years, but still felt like he didn’t fit in with most adults, most lawyers and the world in general. The pandemic’s initial isolation put Mike in a bad mindset, feeling pretty disempowered and anxious. One day, while hiking and listening to a podcast about reducing anxiety, he figured something out—he has ADHD (which he knew nothing about) and that also meant he was addicted to a medicine that was making all of his problems a lot worse.  He detoxed and entered the world of recovery. Mike is committed to coaching much more than he lawyers.  He wants to work with people in recovery who have ADHD.  It’s what he loves and what makes him at home with himself. Mike is a believer and student of both the evolutionary theory of ADHD and of developmental-trauma theories of chronic anxiety.  He lives in Boca Raton, Florida and is happy to meet in person with South Florida clients.  He loves working with clients outdoors, even if they do so over devices.  He’s a life-long outdoorsman, who hikes, fishes and wanders with and within animals regularly. He is married and his two children are now adults.