Episodes

May 16, 2017

Allison Schaaf on Batch Processing, Decision Fatigue and Efficiency

Allison Schaaf is a food, nutrition & culinary expert and founder of Prep Dish, a subscription-based gluten-free and paleo meal plan service. Allison has helped people achieve their nutrition goals for over fifteen years and h...

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May 9, 2017

Rob Hatch on Ownership, Systems and Discipline

Rob Hatch is the President and co-founder of Owner Media Group Inc. He is the author of three courses, including one of our most popular course on productivity, Work Like You’re On Vacation. He is also an executive coach and ...

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May 2, 2017

Claire Diaz-Ortiz on Being Mentored and Mentoring Others

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an author , speaker, and entrepreneur who has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. She was an early employee at Twitter, and has been on the show three times before:...

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April 25, 2017

Leslie Samuel on Productivity vs. Distraction on Social Media

Leslie Samuel is the owner of Become A Blogger and the host of the Learning With Leslie podcast, where he helps people create their own blogging experience by taking advantage of the technology we have today. He is the head o...

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April 19, 2017

Amy Blankson on Attention and Intention While Using Technology

Amy Blankson is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between positive psychology and technology. Amy is dedicated to discovering how we can leverage the many technological advances, apps and gadgets, in a way ...

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April 12, 2017

Cal Newport on Distractions, Focus and Deep Work

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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March 31, 2017

Cesar Abeid and Dustin Hartzler on Balancing Home, Family and Work

Cesar Abeid is a Project Management Professional, author of Project Management for You , professional speaker, business coach and consultant, and entrepreneur. He is also a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. This is Cesar’s 2n...

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March 21, 2017

Mark Timm on Ownership and Leadership and Family

Mark Timm is most importantly the CEO of his own family, as well as the President and CEO of Ziglar Family. Erik and Mark talk about something everyone struggles with these days: Work Life Balance. Make sure to take this F RE...

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Feb. 28, 2017

Amber de la Garza on Priorities, Daily Planning and Time Blocking

Amber De La Garza works with business owners who are ready to transform the way they work so they can reduce stress, maximize time, and grow their business. Amber joins Erik in this episode to talk about conflicting prioritie...

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Feb. 22, 2017

Todd Bushong on Remote Working With Intentionality, Starting and Fini…

This week Erik is joined again by his long time friend Todd Bushong to talk more about the pitfalls and strategy remote working. On the last episode they talked about ‘The Productivity Pub Crawl’ . Learn more about your ad ch...

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Feb. 14, 2017

Todd Bushong on Remote Working and 'The Productivity Pub Crawl'

This week Erik is joined by his long time friend Todd Bushong to talk about remote working, working from anywhere, and the idea of a ‘Productivity Pub Crawl’. They walk through how they came up with the idea, how they planned...

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Feb. 8, 2017

Dave Delaney on Networking Productivity Online and Offline

Dave Delaney is a recognized leader, consultant and keynote speaker on digital marketing, social media strategy, and business networking. His book, New Business Networking , is available from Pearson Publishing. Dave has been...

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Jan. 31, 2017

Laura Mcclellan on Being a Productive Woman

Laura McClellan is a wife, mom, lawyer, writer and host of The Productive Woman podcast. She joins Erik on this episode to talk about tips, tricks, tools and have to have a proper perspective on productivity. Mentioned in thi...

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Jan. 24, 2017

Erik Fisher on Minimalism, Being Intentional and Present

In this episode, Erik talks through the three words he has chosen for this year, and his perspective on the whole process of choosing three words. Chris Brogan is the originator of this method. Mentioned in this episode: Hitt...

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Jan. 1, 2017

Ryan Mcrae on New Years Resolutions, Progress, Consistency and Change

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. Discover wh...

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Dec. 27, 2016

Erik Fisher on Chronotypes, Screens, Exercise and More

This episode is the third part in a three part series on sleep. Erik Fisher, host of the show goes on a solo walk around the neighborhood to cover what he has learned from the last two episodes on sleep, as well as a follow u...

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Dec. 19, 2016

Shawn Stevenson on Caffeine and Screen Curfews to Get Better Sleep

Shawn Stevenson is an author of Sleep Smarter: 21 Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success . He is also the creator of The Model Health Show , featured as the #1 Health podcast in the c...

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Dec. 6, 2016

Dr. Michael Brues on Chronotypes, Timing and Rhythms

Michael J. Breus, Ph.D. , is a Clinical Psychologist and both a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Michael joins Erik in this episode to talk about discov...

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Oct. 29, 2016

Nick Snapp on Agreements, Expectations and Hacking Your Work Environm…

Nick Snapp is an entrepreneur who uses project management and continuous improvement methodology in coaching overwhelmed entrepreneurs to remove bottlenecks, save time and increase profitability. He is obsessed about helping ...

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Oct. 26, 2016

Jonathan Fields on Vitality, Connection and Contribution

Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, serial entrepreneur, growth strategist and award-winning author. He currently runs mission-driven media and education venture, Good Life Project®, where he and his team lead a global communi...

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Oct. 17, 2016

Srinivas Rao on Consistency, Comparison, the Resistance and Focus

Srinivas Rao is the creator and host of The Unmistakeable Creative Podcast where he has conducted over 600 interviews with thought leaders and people from all walks of life. He has also written multiple books including the Wa...

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Oct. 5, 2016

Mike Vardy on Competition, Overwhelm and Priorities

Mike Vardy is a husband, father, writer, productivity strategist, and the founder of Productivityist . Mike has been on this podcast more than any other guest! This episode is part one of a two part conversation between Mike ...

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Sept. 29, 2016

Jeff Sieh on Seasons, Rhythms and Change

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, Erik and Jeff talk about working on the internet, spending time offline, using time intentio...

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Sept. 20, 2016

Laura Roeder on Personal Pivoting, Delegation and Distraction

Laura Roeder is the founder of Edgar , a tool that instead of publishing your social media updates just once and throwing them away, carefully catalogues them in a library that you build over time. In this episode we talk abo...

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