Episodes

Oct. 1, 2014

Brooke MCalary on Simplicity, Rhythms and Tilting

Brooke McAlary of Slow Your Home is all about living more simply. Whether you call it simple living, or call it minimalism, living a life with less stuff gives you more time and energy for the things that are important. Her b...

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Sept. 23, 2014

Cynthia Sanchez on Pinterest as a Productivity Tool

Cynthia Sanchez is addicted to Pinterest. She started to use Pinterest in 2011, discovering things online that she would’ve never found before. She found websites and blogs that inspired her to do things, make things and even...

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Sept. 16, 2014

Jamie Masters on Work Ethic, Intense Focus and Absolute Yes

Jaime Tardy of Eventual Millionaire is not a millionaire yet, but she is debt free and is building her million by making conscious choices in life and business. She produces the Eventual Millionaire Podcast , and has written ...

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Sept. 9, 2014

Scott and Alison Stratton on Priorities and Scaling

Scott Stratten and Alison Kramer: Hosts of the ‘UnPodcast’ join me for this packed episode! None of us needs another list of what we should be doing. “TheUnPodcast” tells you what not to do first, so we can discuss what you r...

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Sept. 2, 2014

KC Procter on Parenting, Hustling and Seasons

KC Procter is a Dad, writer, coffee addict, lego fan and more. He is also a new podcaster at Dad Life Rules . In fact, I was just on episode #2! I borrowed this from the shownotes on my appearance on Dad Life Rules: Fatherhoo...

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Aug. 26, 2014

Chase Reeves on Career, Community and Comparison

Chase Reeves is one of the cofounders of Fizzle.co — honest business training for online entrepreneurs. He podcasts on The Fizzle Show — A podcast for creative entrepreneurs. He regularly contributes to The Sparkline — The bl...

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Aug. 19, 2014

Chris Bailey on Time, Energy and Attention

For exactly one year, May 1st, 2013 – May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey of ‘A Year of Productivity’ and ‘A Life of Productivity’ ran productivity experiments on himself. In this episode, he and Erik talk about some of the findings he...

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Aug. 12, 2014

Jeff Sanders on Energy, Rituals and Ideal Days

Jeff Sanders is a productivity coach, personal development junky, and avid trail runner. He has completed six competitive marathons, two 50k ultra-marathons, two half marathons, and two 200-mile team relay races. Jeff writes ...

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Aug. 9, 2014

Focus at Will Founders on Music, Distraction and Focus

Will Henshall and Jeff Straw of Focus at Will join Erik this time to talk about listening to the right kind of music to achieve better focus. Focus at Will is a new neuroscience based music service that helps you focus, reduc...

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July 24, 2014

Mike Vardy on Intention, Attention, Awareness and Focus

Mike Vardy is the Chief and founder of Productivityist, where he writes , speaks , coaches and podcasts on productivity and more. Mike and Erik cover a lot in this episode, and even mention their favorite Task Management Tool...

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June 15, 2014

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...

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May 30, 2014

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 yo...

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May 14, 2014

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 Connectio...

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May 6, 2014

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 c...

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April 29, 2014

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 se...

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April 22, 2014

Hugh Culver on Overcoming Procrastination, Dealing With Interruptions…

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 su...

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April 8, 2014

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, inc...

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April 2, 2014

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 hir...

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March 31, 2014

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, podcas...

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March 20, 2014

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 th...

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March 11, 2014

Dustin Riechmann Talks About Money, Marriage and Fitness

Dustin Riechmann is the creator of the site Engaged Marriage , where he seeks to help you live a married life you love. Dustin Riechmann is just a normal guy with a passion for marriage and life and a knack for helping others...

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Feb. 27, 2014

Jim Woods on Seasons, Hustle and Goals

Jim Woods is a Writer , Coach , and Instigator. He is the co-author of ‘Ready Aim Fire! – A Practical Guide to Making and Achieving Goals’ . The book is also co-authored by the host of this podcast, Erik Fisher . In this more...

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Feb. 17, 2014

Merlin Mann on Anxiety, Relationships and Expectations

Merlin Mann is an Independent Writer, Speaker, and Broadcaster at MerlinMann.com and Cohost of Back to Work Podcast on the 5 by 5 Podcast Network with Dan Benjamin . You can find Merlin’s previous appearance on this podcast h...

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Feb. 2, 2014

Donald Miller on Focus, Finishing and Living a Meaningful Story

Donald Miller is all about story. He is the author of several books , including multiple New York Times Best Sellers. Donald is also the founder of Storyline , an organization that helps people live better stories. He’s helpe...

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