Productivity

  • Search & Replace S04E10: Karin Andrea Stephan

    Search & Replace S04E10: Karin Andrea Stephan

    Karin Andrea Stephan shares her journey from burnout to balance, and learn how incorporating simple, actionable tools into your daily routine can significantly improve your mental well-being and productivity.

  • Search & Replace S04E02: Roozbeh Khoshniat

    Search & Replace S04E02: Roozbeh Khoshniat

    Roozbeh Khoshniat’s journey through the complex world of ADHD and mental health challenges is both harrowing and inspiring.

  • Search & Replace S03E07: Ruksana Hussain

    Search & Replace S03E07: Ruksana Hussain

    Ruksana Hussain is a writer and journalist who faced numerous challenges in her career. Determined to explore her options, she took on multiple part-time jobs, freelanced, and became a features generalist, writing about various topics. However, the constant hustle and lack of focus took a toll on her health, leading to a six-month recovery period.…

  • Search & Replace S02E07: Kori Tomelden

    Search & Replace S02E07: Kori Tomelden

    Kori Tomelden thought of herself as a typical mom raising two neurodivergent daughters in upstate New York. However, the more she learned about neurodivergence surrounding her daughters, the more she questioned her own identity. Then, an official diagnosis revealed that Kori is also neurodivergent, having Autism and ADHD herself. Kori embraced the diagnosis and decided…

  • Search & Replace Episode S01E23: Shaunta Grimes

    Search & Replace Episode S01E23: Shaunta Grimes

    Despite her best efforts, novelist Shaunta Grimes admits she’s not a great employee – she just can’t enjoy working for someone else. It took her many interesting jobs that weren’t a good match before she created her own space. Her own community, Ninja Writers, allows her to write and teach writing. Find out how it…

  • Search & Replace Episode S01E14: August Birch

    Search & Replace Episode S01E14: August Birch

    Author August Birch is constantly looking for and coming up with new ideas to write about. As a professional idea generator, that can be hard to keep track of in your head. August solves that problem by keeping a “Squirrel Notebook” to help him access the idea-generating part of his brain – he keeps all…

  • Search & Replace Episode S01E11: Marianne D’Alessandro

    Search & Replace Episode S01E11: Marianne D’Alessandro

    Keeping track of all your work is tough enough when you’ve only got one boss, Marianne D’Alessandro has dozens. She’s a virtual assistant, a job that’s all about helping people be more productive. Being stifled by task management overwhelm simply isn’t an option for Marianne or her clients – she needs all of her outstanding…

  • Search & Replace Episode S01E10: Erin Breeden

    Search & Replace Episode S01E10: Erin Breeden

    Erin Breeden’s spent the last two decades working in public relations — a field that’s notorious for demanding hours. After launching her own successful boutique firm, Blue Tide Creative, Erin started to realize that her business was taking a little more out of her than even she expected. Special Guest: Erin Breeden.

  • Search & Replace Episode S01E02: Nick Darlington

    Search & Replace Episode S01E02: Nick Darlington

    South African writer and business consultant Nick Darlington tells us about the Pomodoro Technique, named for a tomato-shaped kitchen timer.

  • Search & Replace Episode S01E01: Melissa Alam

    Search & Replace Episode S01E01: Melissa Alam

    Melissa Alam took the extreme step of removing email from her phone entirely. However, she tells us getting more productive time during her workday wasn’t her original goal.

  • We broke the 10K hours threshold without breaking me.

    We broke the 10K hours threshold without breaking me.

    Every year has been 2820 Press’ best year ever on just about every metric. However, the end of 2017 nearly broke me. Here’s what we did about it. Christopher Wink warned me this would happen. Back in 2016, we recorded an episode of my podcast and he told me about the challenges he faced when…