Episodes

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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Sept. 14, 2016

Chase Reeves on Journaling, Meditation and Mindfulness

Chase Reeves is a self proclaimed ‘creative-y type’, one of the cofounders of Fizzle.co — honest business training for online entrepreneurs. He podcasts on The Fizzle Show — A podcast for creative entrepreneurs. He regularly ...

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Sept. 6, 2016

Jason Van Orden on Habits, Impostor Syndrome and Finding Your Best Se…

Jason Van Orden helps influencers and thoughts leaders turn their expertise and ideas into courses, content and and automated systems that amplify their income and impact. In this episode, Jason talks with Erik about forming ...

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Aug. 29, 2016

Dana Byers on Automation, Minimalism and Margin

Dana Byers knows how to maintain a calm home and schedule so she can focus on what matters most to her: spending time with her family and helping others. Dana has a new book out: ‘Become Your Own Personal Assistant: How to Ha...

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Aug. 23, 2016

Jason and Jodi Womack on Teamwork, Delegation and Priorities

Jason Womack is a WILEY author, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Triathlete and more. Jodi Womack coaches women entrepreneurs on how to be seen, be heard and be hired. Together they have written Get Momentum – How ...

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Aug. 17, 2016

Carson Tate on Discovering Your Personal Productivity Style

Carson Tate is a dynamic teacher and coach known for personal transformation and simple, powerful actionable content. She is a nationally renowned expert on productivity. She is the author of Work Simply: Embracing the Power ...

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Aug. 11, 2016

Steve Dotto and Mike Vardy on Mindmapping Capture, Creation and Clari…

Steve Dotto, Mike Vardy and Erik Fisher discuss the benefits and application of Mindmapping. Mentioned in this episode: Mindmeister Mindnode iThoughts X Mind MindJet Mohio map MindMup Scrivener Scapple Meister task Asana Digi...

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July 31, 2016

Julia Roy on Work Spaces and Places, and Digital Clutter

Julia Roy is a Certified Gmail Ninja, amatuer neuroscientist, personal trainer for productivity, maker of awesome online productivity courses and lover of life hacks. Julia the host of the ‘ How We Work Now’ Podcast . Mention...

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July 24, 2016

Amir Salihefendic on Crafting Your Personal Productivity System

Amir Salihefendic is the Founder & CEO of Doist , the company behind Todoist . Doist specializes in productivity software, creating tools that simplify and organize your day. Mentioned in this episode: Task List Zero Eat That...

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July 19, 2016

Hitting Pause to Gain Perspective, Plan and Re-Commit

In a rarity up till this point on the Beyond The To-Do List Podcast, Erik takes to the mic solo. Covered in this episode: Erik talks about some health experiments he did in June, the process of that experiment, the results, a...

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July 7, 2016

Pamela Wilson on Systems, Processes and Collaboration

Pamela Wilson is the Executive VP of Educational Content at Rainmaker.fm and the director of the Copyblogger blog. She is also the owner of Big Brand System . Mentioned in this episode: Trello Zero to Book Rainmaker.fm The 12...

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June 27, 2016

Steve Dotto and Mike Vardy on Productivity in Social Media

Erik Fisher , Steve Dotto and Mike Vardy do a semi-reuglar live show on Productivity. This is an excerpt from one of our more recent shows. In this episode we cover: Why Erik deleted his Google+ sccount, Sitting down to look ...

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June 21, 2016

Rob Bell on Being Present With Rhythm, Routines and Rituals

Rob Bell is The New York Times bestselling author – his most recent book is How To Be Here . iTunes named his podcast, The RobCast , Best of 2015. He’s been profiled in The New Yorker, he’s toured with Oprah on her Life You W...

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June 18, 2016

Charles Duhigg on Peak Productivity and Becoming Smarter, Faster and …

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter at the New York Times and author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business , which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and spent more than 90 wee...

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June 9, 2016

Roger Whitney on Life Planning and Making the Right Sacrifices to Cre…

Roger Whitney is a practicing Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) helping people like walk the journey toward and into retirement. Roger is also known as the Retirement Answer Man. Roger says that retirement is not about manag...

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June 2, 2016

Joshua Becker on Paying the Proper Attention to the Right Things

Joshua Becker is on a mission to inspire others to live more by owning less. Joshua is a blogger at Becoming Minimalist and is the bestselling author of Simplify and The More of Less . In this episode Erik and Joshua discuss:...

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May 25, 2016

Planning, Executing and Re-Acclimating After Time off Work

Steve Dotto , Mike Vardy and Erik Fisher do a live Blab show on Productivity . This is an excerpt from one of our more recent shows. In this episode we cover the multiple aspects of taking a planned or unplanned break from wo...

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