Episodes

Nov. 13, 2018

Dan Schawbel on Connection, Technology and Teams

Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author, partner, and research director at Future Workplace, and the founder of both Millennial Branding and WorkplaceTrends.com. His latest book is Back to Human: How Great Leaders...

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Nov. 7, 2018

Ryder Carroll on Intentionality and Designing the Future Through Trac…

Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer and author living in Brooklyn, NY. Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. Through years of tria...

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Oct. 31, 2018

CJ McClanahan on Busyness, Reflection and Defining Success

CJ McClanahan is Business coach with 12 years of experience inspiring growth, helping entrepreneurs develop systems and coaching business executives to be successful leaders. He is the host of the Success 2.0 podcast . He is ...

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Oct. 26, 2018

Jay Acunzo on Questioning Best Practices, Honing Intuition and Master…

Jay Acunzo has served as a digital media strategist at Google and held multiple leadership positions at high-growth technology companies, including HubSpot. He spent three years as VP of Brand for the venture capital firm Nex...

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Oct. 19, 2018

Julie Morgenstern on Productivity, Parenting and Progress

Julie Morgenstern is a well known expert on organization and time management. The author of five best-selling books, Morgenstern has appeared on Oprah and NBC’s The Today Show, and helped thousands of people transform their h...

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Oct. 11, 2018

Jay Baer on Word of Mouth, the 80/20 Rule and Growth

Jay Baer, CSP, CPAE has spent 25 years in digital marketing and customer experience, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 34 of the FORTUNE 500. His current firm – Convince & Convert – provides...

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Oct. 3, 2018

Daniel Clark on Focus, Sleep and Neuroscience

Daniel Clark is the CEO of Brain.fm . Brain.fm makes music to help you do what you need to do, better. The company uses a patented AI engine to generate music backed by scientific research to help listeners focus, relax, and ...

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Sept. 28, 2018

Aaron Edelheit on Resting, Recharging and Renewing

Aaron Edelheit is the Chief Strategy Officer of FLO Technologies. Since selling his company, The American Home in 2015, Aaron founded Mindset Capital, a private investment firm. Aaron has been featured in the Wall Street Jour...

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Sept. 18, 2018

Mike Mcderment on Culture, Collaboration, and Leading by Example

Mike is the Co-Founder and CEO of FreshBooks , the world’s #1 cloud accounting software for self-employed professionals. Built out of frustration after accidentally saving over an invoice, Mike spent 3.5 years growing FreshBo...

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Sept. 11, 2018

Jennie Nash on Writing, Purpose and Accountability

Jennie Nash is the founder of Author Accelerator , a book coaching service that has helped hundreds of writers complete their book projects by giving them the sustained editorial support they need. Jennie’s book coaching meth...

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Sept. 4, 2018

Ryan Mcrae on Productivity for College and University Students

Ryan McRae has had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder all of his life, but he wasn’t going to let ADHD run him down. He has worked to figure out how to take all the benefits and cancel out all the drawbacks. In this epi...

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Aug. 28, 2018

Chris Bailey on Hyperfocus, Scatterfocus and Attention

Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. Erik an...

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Aug. 21, 2018

Shawn Blanc on an 8 Week Work Cycle and Sabbaticals

Shawn Blanc is the founder of The Sweet Setup , a site that recommends the best apps for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Shawn and his team are incredibly prolific in their reviews and recommendations of mac and iOS apps, but als...

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Aug. 14, 2018

Shawn Askinosie on Career, Vocation and Meaningful Work

Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award winning chocolate factory located in Springfiel...

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Aug. 7, 2018

Jeff Goins on Clarifying Your Creative Process

Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored five books: Real Artists Don’t Starve , The Art of Work , The In-Between , Wrecked , and You Are a Write...

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July 31, 2018

Srinivas Rao on Creating Fulfilling Lifelong Creative Practices

Srinivas Rao is the creator and host of The Unmistakeable Creative Podcast where he has conducted over 700 interviews with thought leaders and people from all walks of life. He has also written multiple books including the Wa...

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July 24, 2018

Cal Newport on Doing Collaborative Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and…

Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author most recently of Deep Work , a book which argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace, and So Good They Can’t Ig...

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July 17, 2018

Rob Dionne on Getting Fit and Staying Fit With a Busy Lifestyle

Rob Dionne is an NASM (National Academy of Sport Medicine) Certified Personal Trainer, also holding advanced specialist certifications in Corrective Exercise and Performance Enhancement. Rob is a lifestyle and fitness expert ...

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July 10, 2018

David Allen on Getting Things Done for Teens (and Their Parents Too!)

David Allen is the originator of GTD. GTD is the shorthand brand for “ Getting Things Done “. GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm—instilling focus, clarity, and co...

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July 3, 2018

Jeff Sieh on Getting More Done by Working Less

Jeff Sieh is the host of the Many Pinterest Tips podcast where he is always adding testosterone, one pin at a time. In this episode, Jeff and Erik talk about the book Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less . In this c...

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June 27, 2018

Stephen Warley on Self Management, Remote Work and the Future of Work

Stephen Warley has been been self-employed for the last 17 years. He is obsessed with researching and experimenting with alternative ways of working. He is passionate about helping people work on their terms and in alignment ...

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June 20, 2018

Jon Kolko on Critiques and Creating a Culture of Creativity

Jon Kolko is a Partner at Modernist Studio , and the Founder of the Austin Center for Design . Jon is the author of six books. One of his most recent is Creative Clarity: A Practical Guide for Bringing Creative Thinking Into ...

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June 13, 2018

Benjamin Spall on Morning Routines, Evening Routines and Habits

Benjamin Spall is a writer and the founding editor of the website My Morning Routine , with co-founder Michael Xander. Their book of the same name is out now: My Morning Routine – How Successful People Start Every Day Inspire...

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June 7, 2018

Kelli Wood on Quitting, Failure and Self-Awareness

Kelli Wood is the Provost of altMBA , an online leadership and management workshop founded in 2015 by bestselling author Seth Godin. The altMBA uses digital tools like Slack, Discourse and Zoom to engage more than 100 student...

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