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How I Work

408 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratings

Have you ever wondered if the worlds’ leading entrepreneurs, writers, musicians and business people construct their day differently to you? How I Work delves into the working days of some of the world’s most successful innovators. We discuss tactics, rituals and tricks they use to achieve so much more than the average person, despite having the same number of hours in the day.

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Your Favourite Tip: Laura Mae Martin - A great day starts the night before

June 23, 2022 20:00 - 9 minutes

The perfect day starts with the perfect morning routine, right? Or is that too late?  How I Work listener Jason was struggling to juggle his workload as he transitioned from primary to secondary school teaching. A new system, new spaces, and constant COVID-induced interruptions to the status quo were making it all but impossible to always be in the right place at the right time.  That is, until he heard that Laura Mae Martin, Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor, doesn’t make a plan of att...

Your Favourite Tip: Oliver Burkeman - Cut yourself some slack, write down what you’ve done

June 22, 2022 20:00 - 11 minutes

Do you have a cheerleader? Someone who’ll congratulate on the little wins, who’ll remind you that you’re doing well, encourage you to keep going? I hope so! And even if you do… I’ll bet it’s still sometimes not quite enough. After all, we’re usually our own toughest critics, and even the completely legitimate kind words of the people closest to us can’t overpower that little voice in the back of our minds: the one that says “you’re not doing enough.”  How I Work listener Melissa knows this vo...

Your Favourite Tip: Dan Pink - Plan your day according to your chronotype

June 21, 2022 20:00 - 9 minutes

If you’re into productivity, you’ve probably tried to become a “morning person”. Maybe you’ve tried it a couple of times. You set your alarm for 5am and go to sleep dreaming of pre-dawn yoga sessions and meditation, followed by some journaling and a bit of deep work before the office even opens.  And maybe it worked! But maybe it didn’t - no matter how many times you tried. If you’ve tried waking up early over and over again, and felt like a zombie over and over again, you might actually be a...

Your Favourite Tip: Sally Hepworth - Protect your time and energy with a “No List”

June 20, 2022 20:00 - 9 minutes

Working from home seemed like a pipe dream not so long ago - something for only the luckiest, wealthiest or most eccentric employees and entrepreneurs. But after the pandemic fast-tracked a worldwide shift in workplace flexibility, we’ve all been able to benefit from this revolutionary model. Or have we? How I Work listener Dia wonders if it’s all as peachy as it seems: without real, physical boundaries between our workspaces and our homes, how do we set the appropriate boundaries around our ...

Your Favourite Tip: Cal Newport - How keeping a “to discuss” list can save you hours wasted in your inbox

June 19, 2022 20:00 - 8 minutes

In the first episode of this new mini-series, How I Work listener Ruth writes in to share what she’s learned from bestselling author and computer science professor, Cal Newport.  Cal’s “To Discuss” List is his method of saving countless hours of unnecessary, unscheduled back-and-forth emailing. While it might feel easier to quickly dash off an email when you need something from a colleague, Cal implores you to think long-term, and to save the discussion for when you next meet face-to-face. Co...

Trust, leadership and taking a break from technology with Frances Frei and Anne Morriss

June 15, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes

We’re often told not to take advice blindly, and this is especially true for productivity advice. The rise-and-grind schedule might work for a Lark, but it’s a recipe for a disaster if you’re a Night Owl. Sourcing ideas from people you admire is a great start, but you need to run your own experiments to figure out which ideas actually work for you. That is, unless your partner is a chronic experimenter!  Frances Frei, a professor at Harvard Business School, doesn’t run experiments because she...

My Favourite Tip: Mia Northrop & Dinah Rowe-Roberts - Transform your smartphone from distraction to digital assistant

June 13, 2022 20:00 - 7 minutes

Most guests on How I Work will tell you to turn off your phone if you want to get work done. They’ll probably tell you to leave it out of the bedroom when it’s time to sleep, and to keep it out of reach when you’re meant to be spending quality time with friends and family.  It’s easy to forget sometimes just how useful that little super computer in your pocket can be - and that applies to life admin, too! Life Admin Hacks authors Mia Northrop and Dinah Rowe-Roberts put me onto the untapped po...

Productivity expert Laura Mae Martin helps you “spring clean” your work habits before returning to the office

June 09, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes

**Pre-order your copy of Time Wise at amantha.com** If your job title is “Executive Productivity Advisor for Google,” you probably need a pretty refined definition of productivity, right? And Laura Mae Martin certainly does. But she says it’s equally important that every individual has their own, unique definition of productivity.  It’s all too easy to fall into “busy language”, she says. Back-to-back meetings and a three-page to-do-list might make you feel productive, but if you’re not makin...

My Favourite Tip: Lisa Leong - How a colour-coded calendar can help you both on and off the clock

June 06, 2022 20:00 - 8 minutes

You might not be surprised to find out Lisa Leong has a colour-coded calendar. She’s the host of hit ABC podcast This Working Life, after all. But what might surprise you is how her attention to diaristic detail helps her when she’s not at work. Her ABC work is orange, and the sessions working on her new book were red. But she also blocks out her e-bike commutes and social activities. Why?  For one thing, it ensures nobody schedules her into a meeting when she’s meant to be out for dinner. Bu...

Linktree co-founder Anthony Zaccaria on unicorn status, managing growth and conscious parenting

June 01, 2022 20:00 - 35 minutes

**Pre-order your copy of Time Wise at amantha.com** It’s 5am, and Linktree co-founder Anthony Zaccaria’s already up. But this isn’t some productivity-robot morning routine he’s lifted from another tech leader’s biography. He’s up because he’s got twin toddlers, and when they’re up, he’s up.  Linktree’s a global company, so any number of emails, messages and project updates have probably come through already, but Anthony’s not checking his phone. It’s his kids’ best time of the day - the only ...

My Favourite Tip: Michael Mosley - The best predictor of longevity

May 30, 2022 20:00 - 6 minutes

Do you even lift? Oh, you do? Great! But do you train for endurance too? Your heart health is super important. Oh, you do that too, amazing! How long can you stand on one leg?  Yep, you should really test how long you can stand on one leg - it’s an important measure of your fitness, which in turn is an important indicator of your health more broadly.  Author, television journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley is tired of all the conversations around resistance training and cardio, because...

Mamamia Out Loud co-hosts Mia, Holly and Jessie on prep routines, reading lists and respectful disagreement

May 25, 2022 20:00 - 49 minutes

If a mystical wizard with very specific powers and a very strange agenda cast a spell on me, dictating that I could only listen to one podcast for the rest of my life - that podcast would be Mamamia Out Loud. And based on the Apple Podcast homepage charts, I wouldn’t be alone. Mamamia Out Loud is one of Australia’s most popular podcasts, and it’s just one of many incredible woman-led shows in the Mamamia stable, which is the largest female-led podcast network on the planet.  Out Loud’s three ...

My Favourite Tip: Chris Oliver-Taylor - Why you need to smarten up

May 23, 2022 20:00 - 6 minutes

The modern office dress code is a pretty nebulous thing nowadays. Most industries have been slowly moving away from strict “business attire” for decades now. The full suit and tie gave way to the business shirt, before modern tech entrepreneurs popularised the image of a t-shirt and jeans as the uniform of the workaholic disruptor.  And that’s all before we started working from our couches!  But Chris Oliver-Taylor, the Director of Production for Netflix Australia & New Zealand, doesn’t want ...

Eric Barker on his Five-Hour Rule and deliberate work-life imbalance

May 18, 2022 20:00 - 42 minutes

**Pre-order your copy of Time Wise at amantha.com** It’s the greatest productivity debate of our time: how do we achieve work-life balance? Or maybe the real debate should be: is work-life balance even possible?  Eric Barker, the author of Barking Up the Wrong Tree and now Plays Well With Others, doesn’t think work-life balance is truly achievable. At least, not if you want the best possible results in a given field. The problem, he says, is that most of live an unbalanced life by accident.  ...

My Favourite Tip: David Williamson - The price of success in the arts

May 16, 2022 20:00 - 9 minutes

David had it pretty good. He was working in a great university. His students loved him. His peers loved him. He had plenty of friends who loved him. And then he became a successful playwright. Life couldn’t get any better! Except reaching the dizzying heights David reached in the theatre world didn’t come cheap. For most of his life, he was like anyone else. You might have the occasional tiff with a co-worker or acquaintance, but generally, you’re well-liked by the people you care about. And ...

Learning on the job - how Brian Koppelman turned his first movie into a DIY film school

May 11, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes

**Pre-order your copy of Time Wise at amantha.com** For productivity geeks like us, the professional writer can become a bit of a mystic figure. When we fantasise about finally perfecting our morning routines, finally clearing out enough time for a fruitful Deep Work session, setting up the ideal workstation - we’re often thinking about a writer.  There’s something idyllic about the idea of being a writer: it’s just you, your thoughts, and the blank page. It’s the platonic ideal of knowledge...

My Favourite Tip: Sally Hepworth - Set boundaries to protect your time

May 09, 2022 20:00 - 7 minutes

Sally Hepworth loves her fans. She loves hearing how they think about her work, and like anyone, she’s partial to a bit of praise every now and then!  However, as her following has grown over the years, the amount of people seeking pockets of her time has become overwhelming. And as a writer, Sally knows that the only way she can continue to produce great work is to protect that writing time as diligently as she can. It takes discipline, and it can be hard to turn down a conversation with a r...

Meetup CEO David Siegel teaches you to make better, faster, more purposeful decisions

May 04, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes

David Siegel’s in his third CEO role, and if all his years of experience as a leader have taught him anything, it’s that most people take too long to make a decision. The clearest example: company strategy.  When David joined Meetup, he drafted the new company strategy as quickly as possible. At first, that sounds like a pretty irresponsible treatment of such a huge part of the business… but David’s underlying reasoning reveals why we should all speed up a little bit! David teaches you to mak...

My Favourite Tip: Liane Moriarty - How simple tech tools can influence your mindset

May 02, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes

A productivity tip that’s hard to swallow for people who like productivity tips: nothing except doing the work will get the work done. You can have the cleanest calendar, the emptiest inbox and the tightest morning routine, but if you’re not sitting down and putting in the work, your “hacks” serve as little more than decoration.  Unless those tips and tricks steer you towards the right kind of deep work? Liane Moriarty, the incredibly prolific author of Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers...

BEST OF: Evernote co-founder Phil Libin on the key to making better decisions at work

April 27, 2022 20:00 - 44 minutes

**BEST OF** It’s 9:30, and you’ve got just under an hour before your next Zoom meeting. There’s already just a bit too much caffeine buzzing around your brain, and your eyes are half-crossed from the last video call. So how do you recharge and show up refreshed for that next one?  If you’re Evernote and mmhmm co-founder Phil Libin, you swim laps. Thanks to the “distributed” nature of mmhmm’s workforce, he can punctuate his work days with distinctly not-work activities. Some days, it’s laps be...

BEST OF: Make mornings magic with parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson

April 25, 2022 20:00 - 16 minutes

**BEST OF** You need to be in the office at nine, and if you want to be performing at your best, you’ll need to get in a quick workout and a nutritious breakfast. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for trying to pull an outfit together, so you’ll also need to sort that out the night before.  Oh, and you need to make sure your kids have eaten a healthy breakfast, put their school uniforms on, brushed their teeth, packed their bags, and not started an all-out war with one another before getting i...

BEST OF: Michael Bungay Stanier teaches you how to begin

April 20, 2022 20:00 - 46 minutes

**BEST OF** It wouldn’t work to try to tell the Michael Bungay Stanier story - if anyone’s a collection of stories, it’s MBS. He finished law school being sued for defamation by his professor, he was a Rhodes Scholar in his early 20s, and he’s coached Brene Brown on her own podcast.  A life and career with so many twists, turns and new directions brings with it an equally eclectic and overflowing bag of tips, tricks and mindset shifts, and Michael shares them generously.  Michael covers every...

BEST OF: Fall in love with falling short - why you need to write a Failure Resume

April 18, 2022 20:00 - 15 minutes

**BEST OF** I was a competitive kid, and some classroom rivalries pushed me to better grades than I might have achieved otherwise. However, I was also a perfectionist, and any “A”s that came without a “+” beside them started to feel less like an almost-perfect achievement and more like a glaring signal that I’d missed the mark.  I hated failing, and when you combine that with believing anything less than the top spot is a loss, you have a recipe for disaster. I hid my failures, refusing to ta...

Janice Lintz teaches you how to be heard by people who don’t want to listen

April 13, 2022 20:00 - 33 minutes

Nobody hears from Janice Lintz just once. Whether she’s chasing down information on her phone bill or chasing down the Queen of England, Janice doesn’t stop until she gets what she needs, and she believes others can benefit from that kind of tenacity.  It’s reflected in a lesson Janice learned from the great civil rights activist, Vernon Jordan - don’t answer the phone until someone calls you the fourth time. If it’s not worth their time, it’s certainly not worth yours. So Janice calls again....

My Favourite Tip: Josh Piterman - Extreme rest makes for extreme recovery

April 11, 2022 20:00 - 9 minutes

If you’re trying to talk to Josh Piterman after a show… good luck. The second he’s said his farewells to his fellow castmates and crew members, he won’t utter a word until he returns to the theatre the following day.  Josh knows there’s no short-cutting recovery, and like everything else, his approach to rest is both holistic and spiritual. A healthy voice is part of a healthy body, and a healthy body needs a healthy mind and a healthy soul.  When it comes to recovery, the trick is actually w...

Dan Pink on how the “no regrets” life philosophy misses the point

April 06, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes

There’s a moment in the 2013 comedy movie We’re the Millers that points to how pervasive - and misguided - the “no regrets” life motto has become. A character proudly displays a tattoo that reads, “no rAgrets”, and even more proudly proclaims that he really doesn’t have any regrets. Not even one letter.  Bestselling author Dan Pink highlights this scene as a great metaphor for society’s almost comical underappreciation of regret. Dan is an advocate for the transformative power of looking back...

My Favourite Tip: Jamila Rizvi - Gain trust by showing vulnerability

April 04, 2022 20:00 - 6 minutes

Asking someone else for anything is a delicate enough task, but when you’re asking them to be vulnerable, it’s something else entirely. How do you make people comfortable sharing something that is, by definition, uncomfortable?  Jamila Rizvi, the bestselling author, public speaker, podcast presenter and interviewer, is no stranger to this tricky task. She’s spoken to everyone from Bill Gates to Kim Kardashian, and many of her interviews unearth incredibly touching moments. The key? Don’t ask ...

Darius Foroux on writing, investing and living like a Stoic

March 30, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes

How I Work is a product of the modern world - it’s a podcast, a format which didn’t even exist at the turn of the century, and a lot of the productivity tools and hacks are geared towards knowledge work for the digital age.  So it’s surprising to hear that Darius Foroux, himself an entrepreneur and writer taking advantage of the digital space, lives and works by the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. But Darious isn’t dogmatic - he’s equally inspired by Eastern Philosophy and employs Zen practic...

My Favourite Tip: Norman Swan - You’re not on a mission to explain

March 28, 2022 19:00 - 6 minutes

Thanks to social media, everyone’s a storyteller now. Whether you’re guiding your work to the right audience, developing your personal brand or keeping the public up-to-date on the COVID-19 situation, your job is to tell a story. If people don’t understand you, or don’t tune in, then everything else is for nought.  So how do you get better at communicating? Norman Swan, a physician, journalist, broadcaster and the host of ABC’s Coronacast, has decades of experience not just in storytelling it...

Persuasion, not manipulation: Zoe Chance on how to influence for good

March 23, 2022 19:00 - 41 minutes

You’ve reached the end of yet another long Zoom call with your team when you realise… you didn’t say a word!  You’re smart, you have good ideas, and you’ve put in the work. Plus, your team and your clients respect you… So how did this happen?  According to Zoe Chance, Yale School of Management professor and author of Influence is Your Superpower, it’s because you didn’t speak up early enough. If you’re not one of the first three people to speak up in a virtual meeting, you’re unlikely to spea...

My Favourite Tip: Ronni Kahn - Save your leftovers to save the planet

March 21, 2022 19:00 - 8 minutes

Ronni Kahn does not like to hear about people throwing away their lettuce. If you compost lettuce, it takes about two weeks to decompose. If you throw it in the book, you can bump that number up to twenty-five. Sorry, twenty-five years, that is.  As the founder of food rescue charity OzHarvest, Ronni’s an expert on preventing food waste on a massive scale. But what about on the small scale?  Yep, she can help with that too.  Ronni teaches you how to salvage soggy lettuce with a hearty soup, c...

Ruth Gotian on studying the habits and mindsets of the world’s most successful people

March 16, 2022 19:00 - 40 minutes

How did the world’s most successful people get to the top? Is it genetics? Nepotism? Grit? Can we even know for sure?  Dr. Ruth Gotian believes we can, and she’s on a mission to figure it out and share it with the world. Ruth studies top performers from all walks of life, including Olympic medallists, NASA Astronauts and top academics. She’s uncovered four key traits that all high achievers share, and worked to apply them in her own life.  Ruth shares how she approaches everything from goal-s...

My Favourite Tip - Dom Price: Why Atlassian killed meetings and how they built their own tools as replacements

March 14, 2022 19:00 - 8 minutes

2022 is well underway and… yeah. We’re still doing a lot of virtual meetings. While there’s great optimism in the air around the new level of flexibility most companies are offering their workers now, virtual meetings are still pretty… average.  But let’s not blame Zoom straight away: meetings as a work practice have gone unexamined for far longer than they’ve been online. Atlassian’s Dom Price saw this, and sought a better way.  He and his team did a deep dive into what a meeting is for, and...

Focus! Why Taylor Jacobson founded Focusmate to force himself to concentrate

March 09, 2022 19:00 - 35 minutes

Have you worked with someone whose abilities were so awe-inspiring that they started to rub off on you? We’ve all had bosses, co-workers, friends or study mates whose discipline we’ve tried to tap into before.  And Taylor Jacobson founded Focusmate so he could do that forever! After excelling in college because of his carefully selected study mates, Taylor realised his tactics could be used by anyone, and for any kind of work.  He details how and why a Focusmate session works, how he uses the...

My Favourite Tip: Nicky Sparshott - Colour me productive! Why you should be colour-coding your calendar

March 07, 2022 19:00 - 10 minutes

It’s 3pm and Nicky Sparshott is ducking out of the office to go watch her kids perform at their school’s exhibition. Sweet, right? But shouldn’t it be impossible?  Nicky’s the CEO of Unilever Australia & New Zealand, and at the time of recording, was also the global CEO of T2 - how can she possibly have time in the middle of the work day for a school show?  Well, it’s the positive side she’s discovered in having an absolutely hectic work schedule. As a global CEO, she’s sometimes on virtual m...

Fresh starts, commitment devices and collaboration - changing for the better with Katy Milkman

March 02, 2022 19:00 - 44 minutes

You know what it’s like when you move house - you’re tripping over boxes for weeks, eating takeout on the floor while you wait for that new dining table to arrive, and lamenting that the rest of the world - including work - doesn’t take a pause while you get your life in order. We’ve all been there, but have you ever used that moment of chaos as the trigger to start writing a book?  It sounds insane - and as someone who’s been working on a new book for some time now, I feel certified to call ...

My Favourite Tip: Maggie Beer - The art of the perfect roast chook

February 28, 2022 19:00 - 7 minutes

You wouldn’t think of roasting a chicken as a poignant metaphor for life, but when Maggie Beer talks cooking, you get words to live by.  Starting with sourcing the perfect chicken, Maggie teaches you why it’s so important to do a little research before you buy anything, and from there, gives you a step-by-step walkthrough on the whole process.  Yep, you’re getting a free masterclass from the master herself. And a damn good dinner, too.  Connect with Maggie on Twitter or Instagram You can find...

Weaponising accountability with Lifehacker editor-in-chief Jordan Calhoun

February 23, 2022 19:00 - 48 minutes

If anything immediately strikes me as a pretty bad idea, it’s an adult learning to ride a skateboard. Without the years of experience built up over a childhood spent cruising on the asphalt, stepping on a skateboard almost promises to put you on your butt. And as an adult, a skateboarding injury could have a pretty disastrous effect on your daily life. Kids bounce back pretty easily, but I know if I had to miss six weeks of workouts or couldn’t write or type for a few months, I’d be in strife...

My Favourite Tip: Meshel Laurie - Let others go first

February 21, 2022 19:00 - 5 minutes

Running late is… stressful. You worry that you’re going to get in trouble, let someone down or miss something important. Your heart rate rises, adrenaline courses through your body - and then someone wants to get in front of you on the road. Oh. My. God.  But what if it wasn’t stressful? Sounds too good to be true, right? What if it’s all in your head?  Meshel Laurie, a podcaster and author, believes it is all in your head, and that - actually - that’s a good thing. Because if it’s in your he...

Get professional about your personal life with Life Admin legends Mia Northrop and Dinah Rowe-Roberts

February 16, 2022 19:00 - 41 minutes

Life Admin. That phrase probably makes you nervous - I know it does for me. It makes me think about all the stuff I have to keep on top of: I need to remember to pay my car rego, to RSVP to that parent-teacher conference, and to book my next doctor’s appointment.  But when you think about all the things you have to get done at the office in 2022, you’re probably pretty confident, right? There’s heaps to do, but you’re a professional! You have systems and processes in place to make sure you do...

My Favourite Tip: Emily Oster - Why you should send emails to your kids

February 14, 2022 19:00 - 6 minutes

If you’re a bit of a productivity buff, you probably have some clever hacks for reducing time spent reading or sending emails. Maybe you use Superhuman, like I do, or maybe you’re a big proponent of Inbox Zero.  Either way, you’re probably not looking for, say, a How I Work episode that suggests you spend more time on email! But this is different…  The goal of true productivity, after all, is to get more meaningful work done in less time. So, what if using some work tools at home could enable...

Get a handle on your health with Michael Mosley

February 09, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes

Sometimes you have to put yourself on the line to test your assumptions. How better to know if something will work for you than to do it yourself? Michael Mosley takes this one step further than your average person, though… Like when he willingly infested his body with worms. Seriously.  TV producer, presenter, journalist, author and former doctor Michael Mosley has done all manner of weird and wonderful self-experiments in the name of science - mainly so you don’t have to! He gives his top t...

My Favourite Tip: Oliver Burkeman - Don’t start your day in productivity debt

February 07, 2022 19:00 - 8 minutes

You and I are finite beings, my friend. That’s a pretty abstract concept until you think about just how much stuff we need to get done every day. Oliver Burkeman, a journalist and author, says the amount of things we could potentially do every day is, by definition, infinite. And a finite being with an infinitely long to-do list is not a happy being.  This causes most of us to start our days feeling like we’re in “productivity debt”, and our to-do list is our ticket back to zero, back to a cl...

Lisa Leong wants you to forget work-life balance and cultivate work-life cohesion instead

February 02, 2022 19:00 - 41 minutes

You’ve tried it all. You’ve joined the 5AM club, done the morning HIIT workouts, tried the pomodoro technique, downloaded Headspace and worked at a standing desk.  But… you haven’t quite figured it out yet. Lisa Leong, host of the hit ABC radio show, This Working Life, says that’s the point. Every day is “lab day”, and the experimenting should never end.  Lisa’s job is to examine… well, jobs. She’s on a mission to understand the modern working world and how we can all make our working lives m...

My Favourite Tip: Holly Ransom - Everything starts with your energy

January 31, 2022 19:00 - 7 minutes

It’s 3:30 in the afternoon and you’re pumping Red Bulls. You’ve just had a long, very cerebral meeting, and now you’ve gotta back it up with some pretty intellectually demanding writing work. But you’re exhausted.  Holly Ransom, Fulbright Scholar and author of The Leading Edge, wants you to find a different way to perk up when you’re running low on energy. The Red Bulls, the half-litre cups of coffee and the sugary snacks might feel like they’re working, but they’re really just numbing the si...

BEST OF: Bigger is better, and other misconceptions about networks with Marissa King

January 26, 2022 19:00 - 42 minutes

**BEST OF 2021** Before you click ‘add’ on another vaguely familiar face on LinkedIn - not so fast!  But the larger your social or professional network, the larger your influence, right? Organisational psychologist Marissa King says… not always. A professor of organisational behaviour at the Yale School of Management, Marissa has studied social networks, social influence and team dynamics for the past fifteen years. She’s developed a deep understanding of how they evolve and why it’s so impor...

BEST OF: Career advice from the world's most successful leaders

January 24, 2022 19:00 - 7 minutes

**BEST OF 2021** What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?  A great piece of advice can be life changing. It can set you on a whole new trajectory, land you a new job, or even prompt you to make a big career change. Group Managing Director of Coca-Cola Amatil, and self-described overachiever Alison Watkins shares how to make sure the advice you receive is right for you.  Global leader in innovation Scott D Anthony wants you to flirt with possible career moves through advice and curiosity. ...

BEST OF: Radio legend Christian O’Connell on coping strategies that beat red wine

January 19, 2022 19:00 - 44 minutes

**BEST OF 2021** It’s 4:27AM. That’s right. Not 4:25, not 4:30, but exactly 4:27. When you’re a veteran breakfast radio host like Christian O’Connell, you calculate your latest possible wakeup time to the second.  Once he’s out the door, it’s a 20 to 30-minute commute, but it’s one he really enjoys. It’s the only time in a pretty hectic workday he has completely to himself. After that, it’s 15 minutes of solitude and total silence in the studio so Christian can focus on the one word that’s go...

BEST OF: Cool tools for time management

January 17, 2022 19:00 - 8 minutes

**BEST OF 2021** Are you looking for ways to save time?There are plenty of tools out there to help streamline your work processes, but how do you know which ones work best? Find out what websites are causing you too many minutes of distraction, and learn how to batch check your emails rather than becoming a slave to the inbox.  Website time tracker Rooster, time calculator Erik Rood, and email client Tempo are the three tools that help me get more out of my week. I’ll explain how I use them a...

BEST OF: Work less, achieve more, with Greg McKeown

January 12, 2022 19:00 - 39 minutes

**BEST OF 2021** A tip just for you - you’re doing too much, friend. You’re probably conditioned to think the harder you work, the better the results...  And you might have even hit burnout once or twice along the way.  Leadership and business strategist Greg McKeown wants you to fight against that conditioning.  Instead of wondering “How can I work harder to get more done?”, Greg wants you to ask yourself “How can I make this easier AND get the best results?”. But can you genuinely take fewe...

Guests

Amanda Palmer
4 Episodes
Rachel Botsman
4 Episodes
Adam Grant
3 Episodes
Cal Newport
2 Episodes
Darren Murph
2 Episodes
Adam Alter
1 Episode
BJ Fogg
1 Episode
Chase Jarvis
1 Episode
Chris Guillebeau
1 Episode
Daniel Pink
1 Episode
Laura Vanderkam
1 Episode
Nancy Duarte
1 Episode
Nigel Marsh
1 Episode
Nir Eyal
1 Episode
Scott Young
1 Episode
Tony Nash
1 Episode
Zoe Chance
1 Episode

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