Our Story.
Why I Created Mindful Misfits
By Sylvester M. Huston III, MSW, LISW-S, ADHD-CCSPI created Mindful Misfits because, in many ways, I spent a good portion of my life feeling like one.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, during a time when ADHD was not widely understood, talked about, or accepted the way it is today. There was not much language for why my brain seemed to work differently.
Instead, there were expectations about how I was supposed to focus, behave, communicate, manage emotions, stay organized, and simply keep up.
For years, I struggled to understand why things that seemed to come naturally to other people could feel so difficult for me.
ADHD did not just affect my attention. It touched nearly every part of my life, including my mental health, relationships, employment, finances, organization, emotions, and everyday life skills.
My path was anything but straight.
I switched jobs. I was fired from jobs. I tried different careers, searching for something that felt like it fit. There were plenty of moments when I wondered why I could not seem to find my place or why maintaining the life everyone else seemed to navigate so naturally felt so damn hard.
Then life changed my direction in a way I never expected.
After an impulsive motorcycle accident, I found myself at a crossroads. What could have simply been one of the hardest chapters of my life became the beginning of something completely different.
I made the decision to go back to school and pursue social work.
For the first time, so many pieces of my life began coming together.
Through education, experience, and a whole lot of self-reflection, I started understanding my own brain differently. I began recognizing that many of the things I had spent years criticizing myself for were connected to ADHD and the way I experienced the world.
Growth was not about becoming more like everyone else.
It was about understanding myself well enough to build a life that actually worked for me.
That journey became the heart behind Mindful Misfits.
I wanted to create the kind of space I wish had existed when I was younger. A place for people who have spent years feeling like they are too much, not enough, behind everyone else, or somehow standing just outside the circle.
Mindful Misfits is for the overthinkers, the dreamers, the beautifully distracted, the emotionally intense, the creative minds, the career changers, the late bloomers, and the people who are still trying to figure out where they belong.
Because I know what it feels like to struggle with things everyone else seems to make look easy.
I also know what can happen when you stop measuring yourself against a world that was not necessarily designed with your brain in mind.
At Mindful Misfits, the goal is not to make you fit into another box. It is to help you better understand yourself, develop practical tools for everyday life, strengthen your relationships, and create a life that works with your brain rather than constantly fighting against it.
Your path does not have to look like everyone else’s to be meaningful.
Mine certainly didn’t.
Sometimes the detours, wrong turns, failures, and unexpected chapters are exactly what lead us home.
Welcome to Mindful Misfits.
Different minds belong here.
From His Idea to Our Vision.
Mindful Misfits may have started with Sylvester's story, but it didn't stay a one-person vision for long.
We're husband and wife, partners in life, and now partners in building Mindful Misfits. And while our experiences with ADHD are different, those different perspectives are part of what has shaped the vision for what we want Mindful Misfits to become.
ADHD isn't something we've only encountered through our professional work. It's part of our real life—our marriage, our family, and our experience of figuring out how different people and different brains build a life together.
We've experienced the frustrations. The misunderstandings. The moments when something that seems like it should be simple somehow isn't simple at all.
We've also learned the importance of patience, empathy, humor, communication, and sometimes just admitting that the system we're using isn't working and finding another way.
Our experiences are different—and that's one of our strengths.
Sylvester knows what it feels like to navigate the world with ADHD: the challenges, the detours, the self-discovery, and eventually learning to work with his brain instead of constantly fighting against it.
Megan understands ADHD from another side—as a wife and mom, as well as through her work as a mental health counselor, educator, coach, and consultant. She understands the balance between wanting to help and needing to step back, the frustration that can exist alongside compassion, and the empathy it takes to look beyond a behavior and try to understand what's happening underneath it.
Together, we've learned that ADHD doesn't exist in isolation. It can affect relationships, families, classrooms, workplaces, routines, expectations, communication, and the systems we rely on every day.
That's part of why our vision for Mindful Misfits has grown beyond any one service.
Through therapy, ADHD coaching, professional consulting, and supervision, we want to support not only people whose brains work differently, but also the families, professionals, educators, and organizations who live, work, learn, and grow alongside them.
We don't believe the goal should always be to make the person fit the system.
Sometimes the person needs support.
Sometimes the family needs new tools.
Sometimes the professional needs a different perspective.
And sometimes the system itself needs to change.
That's what we're building together.
Meet the Misfits.
The people behind Mindful Misfits.
We're two helping professionals with different backgrounds, different approaches, and different perspectives. What we share is a belief that good support starts with understanding the person in front of you, not forcing them into a predetermined way of doing things.
Sylvester M. Huston III, MSW, LISW-S, ADHD-CCSP
Therapist • ADHD Coach • Consultant • Training Supervisor • Educator
If you’re thinking about working with me, you should know I’m a little weird, a little hippie, and definitely outside the box. My own journey with AD/HD has given me a deeper appreciation for brains that don’t always work the way the world expects them to.
Whether we’re doing therapy or coaching, I’m not going to sit quietly and nod at you for an hour. I’m real, I use humor, I’ll challenge you when you need it, and I want our work together to feel like a genuine conversation where you can actually be yourself.
Bring the chaos, the overthinking, the big ideas, and all the beautifully weird parts of yourself. We’ll work together to understand your brain, find what actually works for you, and create a life that feels a little more peaceful and a whole lot more like yours.
Megan Huston, LPCC, LMHC, ADHD-CCSP
Therapist • ADHD Coach • Consultant • Educator
I have always been drawn to the space where people and systems meet.
My professional path has taken me through mental health counseling, higher education, teaching, student support, and organizational work. While those roles may look different on paper, the common thread has always been helping people better understand themselves while navigating environments that don't always make room for individual differences.
At Mindful Misfits, I bring that experience together through therapy, ADHD coaching, consulting, and education. My approach is warm, direct, collaborative, and practical. I want the people I work with to feel understood—but I also want them to leave with something they can actually use.
I don't believe growth is about becoming a different version of yourself. I'm much more interested in helping you understand what works for you, what doesn't, and what might need to change along the way.