Latest Productive flourishing Podcast Episodes
Mark Drager: The Gift of Not Knowing (Episode #253)
Productive Flourishing - February 09, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [3:24] Charlie’s background and why he decided to become an entrepreneur. [9:16] It typically takes 18 months to 36 months just to figure out what you're doing as an entrepreneur. [13:13] Mark talks about his career journey from going to film school to going to a corporate comp...
Ruby Vesely & Eric Spencer: Why We Need Connection in the Workplace (Episode 252)
Productive Flourishing - January 19, 2023 21:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [2:57] Ruby and Eric discuss some of the unique delights and challenges of being part of a writing trio. [7:45] What is the bridge between this book and Morag’s book Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationship? [8:05] What are the intentional choices you can make to build ally...
Spotify Live: Do we really all have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé? (Bonus Episode)
Productive Flourishing - December 15, 2022 15:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [6:20] We are in a media environment that is saturated with messages about how much more we could be doing. [7:27] Charlie, Jenny, and Tara define capacity and what that means to them. [10:51] What are some of the things that can make working in a team overwhelming? [14:17] Wh...
Jennifer Brown: How to Be an Inclusive Leader (Episode 250)
Productive Flourishing - December 01, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [3:13] Jennifer discusses finding her voice in the workplace equality movement as a professional, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and someone who recognizes their privilege. [5:25] Jennifer talks about carrying the LGBTQ identity as a source of challenge, and using it as a veh...
Jadah Sellner: Build Your Life With L.O.V.E. (Episode 249)
Productive Flourishing - November 17, 2022 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsCan magic strike twice? As we learn in this episode, it most certainly can. Charlie welcomes Jadah Sellner, best-selling author, business coach, and the host of the Lead with Love podcast. Jadah shares wisdom from her own experience of going from the “green smoothie girl” to an anti-hustle and p...
Tara McMullin: Unpacking the Code of What Works (Episode 248)
Productive Flourishing - October 27, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [4:36] Tara talks about what led her to create the What Works book, a blend of her own personal quest to re-establish her relationship with work and goals, mixed with conversations with people who had all sorts of different relationships to productivity and goals. [6:08] In the ...
Mark Nepo: Navigating Storms of the Human Experience (Episode 247)
Productive Flourishing - October 06, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [4:17] Mark talks about the experience of almost dying from a rare form of lymphoma when he was in his 30s, and how it was the introduction to facing the unavoidable work of the friction that comes with life. [5:32] We must face what is done to us, but we are more than what has ...
Lisa Nicole Bell: How Creativity and Curiosity Can Fuel Success (Episode 246)
Productive Flourishing - September 15, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKey Takeaways: [4:54] Lisa would consider herself mentally ambidextrous. She likes structure and hard problems but also enjoys free thinking. Both these qualities help her as a storyteller and entrepreneur. [5:04] Lisa talks about deciding that she wanted more out of early retirement than sitt...
Kate Strathmann: Building Business Partnerships - Cooperative or Collective? (Episode 245)
Productive Flourishing - September 01, 2022 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIf you’ve ever wanted to do interesting projects with friends and family but traditional business ownership models didn’t feel quite right, this episode is for you. Kate Strathman is an artist, writer, and rebellious spirit. As a multidisciplinary business owner, Kate taps into each of these tra...
Esmé Wang: Keeping Momentum While Living with Disability (Episode 244)
Productive Flourishing - August 18, 2022 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsThis week, New York Times bestselling author and essayist Esmé Wang joins the show. Esmé first talks about growing up with immigrant parents, and how that shaped her ideas of accomplishments and what it meant to succeed as a creative. She details how she went on to go to Yale, became a scientist...
Tara Newman: Why You Don’t Have to Spend a Million To Make It As An Entrepreneur (Episode 243)
Productive Flourishing - July 21, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsTara Newman is the Founder and CEO of the Bold Profit Academy and host of the Bold Money Revolution. She joins the show today for a conversation about the importance of remembering why most of us start businesses and seek out entrepreneurship, how common growth strategies can lead to a lack of r...
Building a Profit First Framework, Digital Advertising, and The Journey of Entreprenuerishp with Tara Newman (Episode 243)
Productive Flourishing - July 21, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsTara Newman is the Founder and CEO of the Bold Profit Academy and host of the Bold Money Revolution. She joins the show today for a conversation about the importance of remembering why most of us start businesses and seek out entrepreneurship, how common growth strategies can lead to a lack of r...
Flow, Cooperative Technology with Steven Kotler (Episode 242)
Productive Flourishing - June 23, 2022 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsSteven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He joins the show to talk about how we can access flow and empathy during times of crisis, and how we can learn from the innovation over the pand...
Steven Kotler: Flow and Cooperative Technology (Episode 242)
Productive Flourishing - June 23, 2022 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsSteven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He joins the show to talk about how we can access flow and empathy during times of crisis, and how we can learn from the innovation over the pand...
Charlie Gilkey & Angela Wheeler: Sabbaticals and Slowbaticals (Episode 241)
Productive Flourishing - May 05, 2022 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIn this episode, Angela is back as we discuss why it’s important for founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs of all kinds to consider a sabbatical or a “slowbatical.” Just as it sounds, a slowbatical is a time to slow down, recover, and recharge from career stresses. As a society, we have r...
Sabbaticals and Slowbaticals (Episode 241)
Productive Flourishing - May 05, 2022 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIn this episode, Angela is back as we discuss why it’s important for founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs of all kinds to consider a sabbatical or a “slowbatical.” Just as it sounds, a slowbatical is a time to slow down, recover, and recharge from career stresses. As a society, we have r...
Create More Free Time (Episode 240)
Productive Flourishing - March 31, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIn this episode, Jenny Blake joins Charlie on the show to talk about free time and how systems can help us create more of it in our busy lives. The real goal of effective systems is to help us do our best work, free up our energy, and pursue what matters to us. Jenny and Charlie discuss what kee...
Jenny Blake: Create More Free Time (Episode 240)
Productive Flourishing - March 31, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIn this episode, Jenny Blake joins Charlie on the show to talk about free time and how systems can help us create more of it in our busy lives. The real goal of effective systems is to help us do our best work, free up our energy, and pursue what matters to us. Jenny and Charlie discuss what kee...
Putting Together the Start Finishing Field Guide (Episode 239)
Productive Flourishing - February 10, 2022 15:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIn this episode, Productive Flourishing team members Cory Huff, Steve Arensberg, and Maghan Haggerty join Charlie on the show to talk about the Start Finishing Field Guide, the workbook version of Charlie's best selling book, Start Finishing. In this behind-the-scenes chat with some team members...
The Road to Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury (Episode 238)
Productive Flourishing - December 30, 2021 18:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsIn this episode, Angela joins Charlie on the show after a long hiatus to talk about her concussion rehabilitation process and what she has been going through since July when she experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Angela has been going through an intensive rehabilitation program, and it...
Ashley Zuberi: How to Create a Spiritual Practice (Episode 237)
Productive Flourishing - December 02, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsAshley Zuberi, yoga teacher, author, and former teammate of Team Productive Flourishing, joins Charlie on the show to discuss how we can reframe yoga, spiritual practices, and mindfulness so that we can integrate them into our days and make them work for us. Spiritual practices and philosophy ar...
How to Create a Spiritual Practice (Episode 237)
Productive Flourishing - December 02, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsAshley Zuberi, yoga teacher, author, and former teammate of Team Productive Flourishing, joins Charlie on the show to discuss how we can reframe yoga, spiritual practices, and mindfulness so that we can integrate them into our days and make them work for us. Spiritual practices and philosophy ar...
Tracking Wonder (Episode 236)
Productive Flourishing - November 18, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsJeffrey Davis, branding consultant, repeat guest, and author of the new book, Tracking Wonder, joins Charlie on the show to discuss how we can reconcile productivity and wonder. Our culture’s obsession with productivity has a bias against wonder and yet wonder is essential for our creativity, sa...
Jeffrey Davis: Reconciling Productivity and Wonder (Episode 236)
Productive Flourishing - November 18, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsJeffrey Davis, branding consultant, repeat guest, and author of the new book, Tracking Wonder, joins Charlie on the show to discuss how we can reconcile productivity and wonder. Our culture’s obsession with productivity has a bias against wonder and yet wonder is essential for our creativity, sa...
Pam Slim: The Ecosystem Model of Business (Episode 235)
Productive Flourishing - October 28, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsPam Slim, business coach, speaker, and author of the new book The Widest Net, joins Charlie on the show to discuss how building your business from an ecosystem paradigm instead of an empire paradigm changes everything — from how you do marketing to your approach to partnerships. They discuss the...
The Ecosystem Model of Business (Episode 235)
Productive Flourishing - October 28, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsPam Slim, business coach, speaker, and author of the new book The Widest Net, joins Charlie on the show to discuss how building your business from an ecosystem paradigm instead of an empire paradigm changes everything — from how you do marketing to your approach to partnerships. They discuss the...
Kristoffer Carter: Creating Conscious Life and Leadership (Episode 234)
Productive Flourishing - September 30, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKC Carter, meditation teacher, executive coach, and author, joins Charlie on the show to discuss the four permissions that will help us live a fuller life and be great leaders. They touch on how some of these permissions are sneakily radical, and KC’s process of setting aside the time to make hi...
Permission to Glow (Episode 234)
Productive Flourishing - September 30, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsKC Carter, meditation teacher, executive coach, and author, joins Charlie on the show to discuss the four permissions that will help us live a fuller life and be great leaders. They touch on how some of these permissions are sneakily radical, and KC’s process of setting aside the time to make hi...
Andrea Owen: Unlearning in Order to Speak Our Minds (Episode 233)
Productive Flourishing - August 26, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsAndrea Owen returns to the show to talk about her new book, Make Some Noise. She and Charlie talk about the unlearning we all need to do to be able to speak our minds, with a specific focus on how challenging this is to do for women, and why. They also discuss the importance of unlearning throug...
Unlearning in Order to Speak Our Minds (Episode 233)
Productive Flourishing - August 26, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsAndrea Owen returns to the show to talk about her new book, Make Some Noise. She and Charlie talk about the unlearning we all need to do to be able to speak our minds, with a specific focus on how challenging this is to do for women, and why. They also discuss the importance of unlearning throug...
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