Real World Productivity

Joining me for this episode is Andrew Hartman, a seasoned operations leader and the founder of Time Boss, to uncover his insights into optimizing productivity. With experience working with clients, teams, and more, Andrew developed his own systems that he shares freely with others. Drawing from his experience as both a founder and fractional COO for an IT provider, Andrew emphasizes the importance...

Joining me this time on the Productivity Podcast is Dr. Don Davis, author, and established coach & consultant for businesses in the healthcare and life sciences industries. A big proponent of daily routines and time blocking, Dr. Don starts off his day by meditating and journaling to close out the previous day and prepare for what’s coming. While it may sound weird to you to close a day in the...

Joining me today is David Salib, Associate Product Manager at Lyft and a man with many cool side-products...one of them being Momento, a podcast app that I’ve been using a lot lately (check out more on the app in these videos here and here ). As usual, I asked him about his daily routine. Like many of the guests of the Real World Productivity Podcast, David’s days begin with an early visit to the...

In this episode of the Real World Productivity Podcast, I interviewed Jeroen Corthout, CEO and Co-founder of the CRM system Salesflare . Before founding Salesflare, Jeroen worked for several companies and started many others that weren't long-term successful before settling into Salesflare and beginning the long-term push for success. We covered a lot of areas, and on top of those, Joeren shared a...

Joining me this episode is Pauline Malubay, Small Business Operations Expert, & Business Growth Strategist. I like to start these podcast episodes by asking about morning routines. Although it may vary, Pauline says that she can't start her day without coffee (and I totally agree!), following this comes reading, and 5-minute meditation using the Shine app . Meditation has been a constant these...

Joining me this week is Neha Naik; Entrepreneur & Founder of RecruitGyan and several other businesses. We covered a lot of ground in our conversation - including Neha’s daily routine with the importance of doing what matters first: Exercise Family Daily Planning Neha’s also a strong believer in balance - having started several businesses, built teams, and helping run the family she knows the i...

Joining me this week is Sydney Wong; Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of VenturX, and author of “How to have a good day.” We talked about her daily routine - she has very specific routines for both her mornings and evenings and these involve things like setting the most important tasks for the day, weighted blankets , and bubble baths! (She is the second guest to mention bubble baths so I’m gonna hav...

Joining me this week is Robby Slaughter, workflow and productivity expert. With a background in technology and mathematics, Robby discovered that he liked best helping people overcome their problems rather than finding a solution to the problems themselves. One of the things that he focuses on is not only the “how” of productivity (that next cool to-do list that claims to help you master everythin...

Joining me this week is Zeb Evans, founder, and CEO of ClickUp. Being an entrepreneur from an early age, Zeb taught himself how to code, dropped out of college, and created a social media firm. A lot of frustration from productivity software at the time was what inspired Zeb to create ClickUp. If you haven’t heard of it, ClickUp is a project management & productivity app I’ve been using for th...

Joining me this week is Dr. Frank Buck, productivity speaker, author, and time management coach. His efforts towards being an organized person began back in his high school years and went on through his college years and his almost 30 years in the public education system, and now beyond. Even though Frank has been going mostly paperless and managing his organization digitally since 2001, he still...

Joining me this week is Randy Clark, leadership trainer, and Amazon best-selling leadership author. Over the last 30 years, Randy has helped a lot of companies and managers improve their leadership with his training; much of it based on mistakes he made in management. He shared a lot of valuable content during our talk that can help just about anyone...not everyone in a managerial position knows h...

Joining me this week is Joseph DiRoma, head of The Successful Male North America and someone with almost two decades of experience in the hospitality industry and helping developing others. A good and productive day can be achieved with routines, and Joseph shared with me what he calls the CAMPV routine: C = Contemplation A = Affirmations M = Meditation P = Perspiration V = Visualization He made s...

Joining me on this podcast episode is Corey Carter, who has been managing people for more than 20 years and recently has been helping entrepreneurs simultaneously increase sales, traffic, and visibility through JV partnerships and more. Sometimes, while helping others grow, improve and develop, we neglect those that are next to us. With Cory frequently travelling for work and having kids at home,...

Laura Rike, the Rogue Pinterest Powerhouse, and content marketing expert joined me for a great discussion about Pinterest, teams, and repurposing content. Seriously - if you do any sort of online content, please listen to this episode...you’re going to get a valuable idea, guaranteed. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I think of Pinterest I don’t think of minimal work for hundreds of thousands...

Kris Ward, author of Win The Hour, Win The Day , joined me for a great look at how important teams are to growing as an entrepreneur and business and why it’s not as hard as you think to grow your own “A-Team”. Most of us, myself included, have had our ups and downs when getting started with a team but Kris really boils it down to a few areas that you need to consider before jumping in - and make...

Joining me on this episode is Grant Bledsoe, owner of 3 Oaks Capital - a capital management firm that he founded in 2014. Grant makes use of many practical devices to stay productive and manage his time well, including automations from tools like Zapier that let him connect his software tools in order to spend more time focused on what matters - his clients and their results. But it’s not all tact...

Amy Donaldson, real estate trainer with a strong background in sales and business development, joined me to discuss productivity from the point of view of a real estate agent and showed how many of these “issues” can apply to the rest of us - both the problems and the solutions. We touched on several areas, including finding and understanding your Most Important Task - but also knowing what that m...

Joining me on this podcast episode is Angela Kristen Taylor, an integrative productivity expert. We went into several topics surrounding the main issues that we all face in terms of life, productivity, and managing everything that that entails. Angie is no stranger to chaos and finding her way out - through her own experiences she has found the frameworks that work (pun intended!) and helped many...

Joining me for this podcast episode is founder, or Papa Bear, of Bonjoro - Matt Barnett! As usual, we covered a lot of ground in this discussion but it did center around remote teams with the ups and downs that come with a truly worldwide operation. Matt and his team are located in Australia, London, the Philippines, the United States, and other locations - he’s learned both the good and bad that...

Tiago Forte, author, speaker, teacher, and productivity expert, joined me for this episode of the Real World Productivity podcast to cover a wide range of topics where we covered everything from mindset shifts needed for increased productivity to the tools he uses on a daily basis (his “stack”). If you’re serious about increasing your knowledge base, easing your access to valuable information now...

Rob Gelb, co-founder of Kindaba, BriefingRoom, and more joined me for a great conversation about team building, remote work, and how effective communication is so important for everyone inside an organization - it’s not just a personal relationship skill...and what you can do to improve it in your business. There’s a lot more than just communication in this episode - check it out! Check out the fu...

Jonathan Cronstedt, or JCron, joined me for a look into his priorities, the importance of mentorship and learning, as well as a look at why an on-site team makes sense for him and Kajabi. We covered a lot of ground in the 30 minutes of the podcast recording - if you’re interested in how JCron, or someone at his level, organizes himself and where he places his time and energy to get the most out of...

Ben Dell of MissingLettr and HeySummit joined me, Adam Moody, on the Real World Productivity Podcast to share with Productivity Academy podcast listeners more about his background as a web agency and the move into Saas development. His background has given him some unique insights and the ability to create some amazing tools (I’m a paying user of MissingLettr and recommend it for anyone doing writ...

In this Real World Productivity Podcast episode Manuel Bruschi, CEO of Timeular , joins us to talk about Timeular, how important physical activity is, team building - and remote teams specifically, automation, and so much more. This is a great episode with a lot of topics - be sure to listen if you’re interested in hearing how a CEO that took an idea from concept to Kickstarter to growth stage has...

Kamil Rudnicki of Timecamp.com joined me for a great episode about time management and the importance of tracking time - especially for managers and business owners. While we talked at length about time tracking we also dove into several other interesting topics such as balancing high productivity and performance with downtime and what you can do in those times where you’re lacking motivation or e...