

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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Jun 15, 2014 • 46min
Farnoosh Brock on Energy, Smoothies and Focus
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 hired hubby into our company. This is her second full episode, and third appearance on the show overall. Make sure to go back and listen to her first episode, and the special 50th episode on tools she was a part of.This time, Farnoosh is back, and we talk about her new book ‘The Healthy Smoothie Bible. Make sure to grab Farnoosh’s latest book, and thank her for being on this episode!Please connect with me
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ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy
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May 30, 2014 • 55min
Brett Kelly on Evernote, Technology, Efficiency and Business
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 you. Or you can pick up Evernote Essentials and learn from the expert in an afternoon. In fact Brett used to work at Evernote until just recently.Mentioned in this episode:Evernote essentials Direct from Brett, Kindle, iBooks
File This Fetch
Eddie Smith
Macdrifter
Omnifocus 2
Macstories.net
512pixels
Chase Reeves – Fizzle
Boomerang for Gmail
Don’t forget to Tweet at Brett!Don’t forget to grab Brett’s book:Please connect with me
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The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy
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May 14, 2014 • 42min
Derek Coburn on Networking 3.0
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 Connections. Born out of Derek’s frustration with having spent thousands of fruitless hours attending traditional networking events, this book offers fresh, effective, unconventional strategies for growing and nurturing a powerful network.Mentioned in this episode:
How to Use Networking 3.0 to Make New Connections – Derek’s guest post on Jay Baer‘s Convince & Convert Blog
Contactually
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The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy
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May 6, 2014 • 42min
Alison Fallon on Building Bridges and Taking Leaps
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 chase the things that are. Allison’s book Packing Light is about just that. Inspired by the courage of a friend, and the story of The Rich Young Ruler from the Gospels, she decided to quit her full-time job, move out of her apartment, sell nearly everything she owned and spend the next six months driving across the country.On the trip I started to discover what it looked like to live life with less baggage, both in actuality, and as a metaphor..@AllyVest on @Donaldmiller's @Storyline #Productivity Schedule & how she & @dvest build bridges + take leaps. http://t.co/K0wY2nLsuN— Erik Fisher (@ErikJFisher) May 6, 2014Covered in this episode:
Allison’s book ‘Packing Light’
Overcoming Procrastination
The power of choice
Donald Miller’s Storyline Productivity Schedule
Donald Miller’s Beyond the To-Do List Episode
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Apr 29, 2014 • 1h 5min
Paul Jun on Self Mastery, Motivation and Understanding
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 self-education.Unstimulated by traditional education, Paul was motivated to study subjects that were practical to his goals and growth. He became a voracious reader and learned to used the (growing) resources available to facilitate his education. He connects the dots to improve his understanding of the subjects that elude him, while focusing on creating the kind of content that is enriching and insightful. His new book Connect the Dots is all about how to do this. 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.

Apr 22, 2014 • 36min
Hugh Culver on Overcoming Procrastination, Dealing With Interruptions and Planning Like a Pilot
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 succeed more than they ever thought possible. As a professional speaker, he challenges people to drop their stories, plan better and take action everyday to lead an effective life.Hugh was also a professional adventure guide, ironman and marathon competitor, and a university professor. Hugh now speaks, consults, and writes about creating real results and a rich life in the age of distraction. 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.

Apr 8, 2014 • 32min
Chris Brogan on The Owner’s Mind, Choices and Goals
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, including The Impact Equation, with Julien Smith. He lives in northern Massachusetts, where he frequently plays Minecraft with his kids. Make sure to listen to the first time Chris was on the show. The publish date of this episode is also Chris’s 44th Birthday. Happy Birthday Chris!Covered in this episode:
OwnerMag
Chris’s upcoming book: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
Chris’s Weekly Newsletter
The Owner’s Mind Podcast
New Business Networking Radio Podcast
Defy the Plateau Podcast
Life in the Woods Podcast
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Apr 2, 2014 • 35min
Claire Diaz-Ortiz on How to Stay Sane in an All Access, Always on Age
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 hired to lead social innovation, and where she still works today. She is also a speaker, author, blogger, and has two new books out:Greater Expectations: Succeed (and Stay Sane) in an On-Demand, All-Access, Always-On AgeHope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of RedemptionHere are some of my favorite recent posts on Claire’s blog:
How to Get Anything Done, Now.
How to Measure Productivity
Three Keys to a Successful Digital Detox
Why Email Isn’t Work. (And Why It Is.)
How Goals Can Help You Define Success
Make sure to Tweet to Claire and thank her for appearing on this episode!Please connect with me
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Check out more Noodle.mx Network shows
The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy
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Mar 31, 2014 • 37min
Tony Dilorenzo on Intentionality and Intimacy in Relationships
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, podcasters, and speakers. They specialize in helping time-crunched couples take action and enjoy the sex, love, and commitment they desire in their marriage.Being fit and healthy and the associated intimacy it brings to their relationship have helped Tony and Alisa through good times and bad. Their hiking escapades early in their marriage led them to the three highest peaks in Southern California, backpacking treks in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Death Valley, as well as fun-filled dates along the beach or resorts closer to home.Mentioned in this episode:ONE Extrordinary Marriage Episode 140 – Scheduling Sex
STOP the glorification of BUSY.Click To TweetPlease connect with me
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Follow @ErikJFisher
Check out more Noodle.mx Network shows
The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy
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Mar 20, 2014 • 46min
Chris Ducker on Delegating for Tasks, Roles and Team Building
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 the new business Virtual Staff Finder, the New Business Podcast, and his new book – Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business. He’s also released a podcast series that corresponds to the new book.In this episode, Chris and Erik cover:
The false believe that you can fill every role in a growing business
Super hero syndrome
Chris’ definition of the word Entrepreneur = To provide answers to questions and solutions to problems
Being a 16 hour a day, 7 day a week entrepreneur doesn’t make you a more successful entrepreneur.
Chris’s 3 lists:
The things you hate doing
The things you can’t do
The things you shouldn’t be doing
You need to do only the things that you are uniquely qualified to do.—@jaybaerClick To TweetIf you’re doing things other people on your team can do, you’re robbing them of opportunity.—Jay BaerClick To TweetChris’s rule for email – Never open an email more than once by:
reply or forward it
archive it
delete it
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