

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
Conversations with productivity experts, authors, and creatives on how to implement productivity strategies in both your professional and personal life. The goal as you listen is to help you gain perspective, practical knowledge, and productivity insights for living a whole life that goes Beyond The To-Do List.
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Aug 17, 2016 • 31min
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 of Your Personal Productivity Style. Make sure to take her Productivity Style Assessment!In this episode, Carson talks with Erik about how to discover your personal productivity style.Mentioned in this episode:
Asana
Trello
Evernote
Pomodoro method
Four Productivity styles: Prioritizer, Planner, Arranger, Visualizer
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Aug 11, 2016 • 29min
Steve Dotto and Mike Vardy on Mindmapping Capture, Creation and Clarity
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
DigiSpoke
Trello
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Aug 1, 2016 • 37min
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.Mentioned in this episode:
How We Work Now
Tool Candy
Digital Sanity
Hazel
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Jul 25, 2016 • 37min
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 Frog!
iaWriter
Evernote
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Jul 19, 2016 • 34min
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, and what he is doing moving forwasrd. Also covered is Erik’s trip to Chicago for Podcast Movement, and the insights gained from that visit. If you pay attention, you will also notice that Erik went a little ‘Roman Mars‘ on this episode. Maybe that had something to do with the subject of this podcast episode, or the fact that Erik met him, or kept crossing paths with him at the conference.Mentioned in this episode:
Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Shake Shack – You must go, if you’ve never been. If you’ve been, you need no convincing.
Clark Buckner
Blake Stratton
Jeff Sanders – 5AM Miracle
Podcast Junkies – Interview with Erik Fisher and Harry Duran
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Jul 7, 2016 • 36min
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 Week Year
Big Brand System
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Jun 27, 2016 • 60min
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 at your social accounts and ask yourself “What am I using this for?”, Signal vs. Noise, The biggest ROI from which social networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 21, 2016 • 38min
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 Want Tour, and in 2011 Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People In The World. He has a regular show at Largo, the legendary music and comedy club in West Hollywood and is currently touring his How To Be Here Experience around the world.In this conversation, Rob and Erik talk about how to gain the proper perspective and awareness of ‘being here now’ through practicing rituals, routines, rhythms and taking a sabbath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 18, 2016 • 33min
Charles Duhigg on Peak Productivity and Becoming Smarter, Faster and Better
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 weeks on New York Times’ best-seller lists. His new book is Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 9, 2016 • 41min
Roger Whitney on Life Planning and Making the Right Sacrifices to Create the Life You Want
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 managing money, it’s about managing time.Make sure to continue this conversation with Roger over on his Podcast!Also, make sure to listen to the episode on life planning with Michael Hyatt! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.