Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley
Kate Hanley
Finding the Throughline: Conversations about the Creative Process invites you into the minds of writers and other creatives as they open up about their process, their doubts, and what kinds of changes they’re thinking about making. The questions are mildly invasive, honestly, and the answers are unvarnished…and so refreshing! Whether your creative work is writing, painting, making music, parenting, or simply living, Finding the Throughline can help you get—and stay—inspired. Invigorated, even. For detailed show notes on each interview, visit katehanley.substack.com. And if you’d like to hear these interviews in one ad-free episode (as opposed to broken up into three shorter episodes with a few ads sprinkled in to keep the lights on), become a paid subscriber once you’re there..
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Mar 12, 2021 • 9min
Building New Habits: Avoiding the Dreaded Backslide EP: 401
There are many obstacles to creating and assimilating new habits that help us become better people. I mean, of course, otherwise we would all be walking around as the best possible version of ourselves and wouldn’t that be grand? Here's how to deal with one of the biggest obstacles: backsliding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 11, 2021 • 7min
Building New Habits: The Special Sauce for Making It Stick EP: 400
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Which means that in order to really cement in a new habit, it helps to reward yourself and savor every benefit you notice (and to refrain from beating yourself up). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 10, 2021 • 17min
Building New Habits: How to Finally Start Doing the Things that Improve Your Health EP: 399
Today I’m interviewing Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a New York City cardiologist, and author of Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart-Healthy Life. Suzanne has been on helping her patients prioritize their own health by building new habits and breaking old ones for 20 years, and shares her best tips on staying on track. (She's so great!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 9, 2021 • 7min
Building New Habits: Pro Tip for Staying on Track EP: 398
How do you actually remember to do a new habit? And hold yourself accountable for doing it even when it's inconvenient? The truth is that what you track improves, because what you focus on grows. So here's how to track your new habit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 8, 2021 • 7min
Building New Habits: The Secret to Making Things Easier for Yourself EP: 397
There is a way to make creating a new habit a lot easier and a lot less of a cognitive lift--and that is by linking the new thing you want to do to some existing habit that’s already ingrained in your brain.
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Mar 5, 2021 • 6min
Breaking Old Habits: Don’t Let Your Ego Do This To You EP: 396
Trying to become better is not a reason for feeling bad about yourself. You will mess up. You will backslide. You will completely forget. And it is OK. All you need to do is simply start again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 4, 2021 • 7min
Breaking Old Habits: Be Real About the Costs EP: 395
Today’s big idea is that because habits are so unconscious and so well-worn, it can take a really big dose of motivation to get you to take action and then to sustain that action. The good news is that I’m going to share a great motivator with you. The bad news is that it is not all that pleasant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 3, 2021 • 21min
Breaking Old Habits--Getting Off Sugar, an Interview with Dr. Daryl Gioffre EP: 394
I had the privilege of working with today’s guest, Dr. Daryl Gioffree, on his new book, Get Off Your Sugar and not only does he know his stuff, but he’s passionate about helping folks get healthy and just a really good guy. I get him to share his insights about breaking one of the toughest habits to break--and that is eating sugar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 2, 2021 • 8min
Breaking Old Habits: You Need a Plan (Plus, What to Do When That Plan Fails) EP: 393
In order to successfully outrun an already established habit, you’ve got to have a plan. Otherwise, you’re going to be winging it, and likely to run right off the road when you hit any kind of bump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 1, 2021 • 10min
Breaking Old Habits: It All Starts with This One Thing EP: 392
Habits are like icebergs--you can perceive just the tip of them, when actually most of them exist underneath the surface of your awareness. You can’t just throw some dirt and some grass seed on the tip of an iceberg and turn it into a meadow--it’s still gonna be a mountain of ice that runs deep. You need to see what's under the surface to truly change it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
