Episodes

For exactly one year, May 1st, 2013 – May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey of ‘A Year of Productivity’ and ‘A Life of Productivity’ ran productivity experiments on himself. In this episode, he and Erik talk about some of the findings he...

Jeff Sanders is a productivity coach, personal development junky, and avid trail runner. He has completed six competitive marathons, two 50k ultra-marathons, two half marathons, and two 200-mile team relay races. Jeff writes ...

Will Henshall and Jeff Straw of Focus at Will join Erik this time to talk about listening to the right kind of music to achieve better focus. Focus at Will is a new neuroscience based music service that helps you focus, reduc...

Mike Vardy is the Chief and founder of Productivityist, where he writes , speaks , coaches and podcasts on productivity and more. Mike and Erik cover a lot in this episode, and even mention their favorite Task Management Tool...

Farnoosh Brock is a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She escaped her cushy 11-year corporate career to start her own company. Today she is a speaker, author, green juice expert, Ashtanga yogini, globe trotter, and oh yeah, just...

Brett Kelly writes about technology, efficiency, business and Evernote. You can spend hours and hours of your precious free time on experimentation and trial-and-error, trying to find the best way to make Evernote work for yo...

Derek Coburn is the Co-founder of Cadre and a catalyst for connecting remarkable people. Derek is now a newly published author of Networking Is Not Working: Stop Collecting Business Cards and Start Making Meaningful Connectio...

Allison Vesterfelt quit her full time job to chase her dream of becoming a writer. Since that point she can’t help but write about what it looks like to live with less; to give up the things that aren’t important so she can c...

Paul Jun is a writer and author at Motivated Mastery . He is all about connecting the dots between subjects like mastery, psychology, technology, philosophy, culture, self-awareness, and developing an understanding through se...

Hugh Culver shows people how to work smarter and live better. As a teacher and mentor for other experts (speakers, seminar leaders, authors, and coaches) he helps entrepreneurs to serve more people, sell more products, and su...

Chris Brogan is Publisher and CEO of Owner Magazine , a business magazine helping you improve your worth by growing your capabilities and connections. He is the New York Times Bestselling author of six books and counting, inc...

Claire Diaz-Ortiz returns to the show to share tips to stay sane in an all access, always on age. Claire first visited the show to talk about The Present Principle . Claire was an early employee at Twitter , where she was hir...

Tony DiLorenzo and his wife Alisa created ONE Extraordinary Marriage to educate, entertain, encourage, and inspire people to have mind-blowing intimacy in their marriages. Tony & Alisa are experienced marriage coaches, podcas...

Chris Ducker was working 14-hour days, six days a week, spending very little time with family and working ‘in’ his business, instead of ‘on’ it and was tired in every possible way. He’s come a long way since then, creating th...

Dustin Riechmann is the creator of the site Engaged Marriage , where he seeks to help you live a married life you love. Dustin Riechmann is just a normal guy with a passion for marriage and life and a knack for helping others...

Jim Woods is a Writer , Coach , and Instigator. He is the co-author of ‘Ready Aim Fire! – A Practical Guide to Making and Achieving Goals’ . The book is also co-authored by the host of this podcast, Erik Fisher . In this more...

Merlin Mann is an Independent Writer, Speaker, and Broadcaster at MerlinMann.com and Cohost of Back to Work Podcast on the 5 by 5 Podcast Network with Dan Benjamin . You can find Merlin’s previous appearance on this podcast h...

Donald Miller is all about story. He is the author of several books , including multiple New York Times Best Sellers. Donald is also the founder of Storyline , an organization that helps people live better stories. He’s helpe...

David Sparks is an Orange County, California business attorney, geek, podcaster on the Mac Power Users podcast , blogger , and author who writes about finding the best tools, hardware, and workflows for using Apple products t...

Crystal Paine is the founder of the popular blog MoneySavingMom.com . The mission of the blog is talking about Intentional Finance, Intentional Family, and Intentional Business. Her new book Say Goodbye to Survival Mode is ai...

Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of four books including his most recent, Start: Punch Fear in the Face , Escape Average & Do Work that Matters . For 15 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the wo...

Tony Stubblebine is the CEO and Co-founder of Lift . Before that he was the founder of CrowdVine, and contributor to Wesabe, Odeo, and O’Reilly Media. Lift is an app designed to help you unlock your potential and help you rea...

New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt returns to the show to talk about his proven, five-step process to help you get clear, get motivated, and get started on the path toward achieving your most important goals. Be...

Chris LoCurto returns to the show to talk about understanding personality styles. You can listen to his previous episode here , and make sure to subscribe to his blog , podcast , and grab his personality styles video and work...