Learn and Work Smarter

Send me a message!🤓 One week you like your job, and the next week you can’t stand it. Or your job is good enough, but a business idea keeps pulling at you. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions from working professionals who are each trying to make a decision from a place of uncertainty. Question 1: What do you do when you love your job one week and want to...

Send me a message!🤓 Did you breeze through school without studying? Write papers the night before and still get glowing comments? Get called bright, gifted, a natural, and believe it? Then something changed. Maybe it was freshman year of college, maybe your first job, maybe a promotion. Suddenly everything that used to work totally tanked. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I’...

Send me a message!🤓 This episode is unlike any of the others that I've done. I basically just sat down in front of the mic and gave you a peek inside my own mental chatter. If you're keen to listen in on the wild conversations I have with myself, this one's for you. Don't worry, I don't drop the F-bomb in this episode, although that is 1,000% the energy I've been fee...

Send me a message!🤓 The thing about myths is they’re hard to get rid of. Even when we know they’re myths, we still sometimes fall for them. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I’m debunking the five note-taking myths that I have seen nearly every student I’ve worked with fall for at some point. What makes these note-taking myths so tricky is that, on the surface, they seem like...

Send me a message!🤓 Most of us know the obvious pros and cons of various work environments. If you work in an office, you have a clear separation of personal and professional life. Working remotely means you can wear your comfy pants during all your Zoom calls. And hybrid essentially means you get to do what you want. But there's a lot more to each of these work environments than meets the e...

Send me a message!🤓 Falling out of love with your job and dealing with unmotivated colleagues can make your workday long and have you questioning your career. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners who are dealing with those exact issues.  Question 1: How to make work interesting again when it's getting boring. Question 2: How to...

Send me a message!🤓 Using AI to avoid reading the book. Getting homework answers from a friend just to get the check mark. Building complex automation agents that take weeks to set up and generate data you never actually look at. These are the kinds of shortcuts that feel smart in the moment — and completely backfire every single time. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I&apos...

Send me a message!🤓 Automated AI agents that let you nap while your work is done for you, the latest project management software that promises you'll never be overwhelmed again... color-coded email inboxes with rules that drag every new message into its own folder so you'll never have to deal with another message. Ugh. These are some of the things that are sold to us as productivity str...

Send me a message!🤓 Productive people aren't productive by accident. Their ability to get the right things done on time – without burning out – is a result of a few particular actions they take every day. In this quick, strategy-packed episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I share three productive power moves of people who get things done. The power moves are for students and profes...

Send me a message!🤓 Losing focus midweek when working from home? Debating whether changing grad programs is worth it? In this Q&A episode of the podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show.  Question 1: A listener asks for strategies to maintain their focus when working from home, especially during the second half of the week. Question 2: A listener, who's a workin...

Send me a message!🤓 The Two-Minute Rule is a popular productivity strategy that's been around since the early 2000s. It can be a terrific tool for feeling less overwhelmed, moving your to-do list forward, and generally feeling more in control of school, work, and your personal life.  However, using the Two-Minute Rule in the wrong scenario can make things worse than when you started. In this...

Send me a message!🤓 Like it or not, there’s a “secret code” for how to act and what to say at school and work—and not knowing it can cost you opportunities and your reputation. Saying the right thing at meetings, responding to emails the way others expect you to, understanding how to read the room ... all of these are part of the "secret code" nobody talks about. In this episode of the...

Send me a message!🤓 Starting my own business out of absolutely nothing has been the single greatest professional accomplishment of my life. Every single day, I think about where I started and where I am now — and the journey continues to amaze me. However, it hasn’t been easy. For every breakthrough, new successful idea, and client success story, there has been a lesson that tried to knock me dow...

Send me a message!🤓 Studying for 12 hours a day? Being a serial job-quitter? In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question 1: A busy graduate student (who's also working full time) asks me for strategies for planning epic, all-day study sessions. Question 2: A working professional asks for advice about his j...

Send me a message!🤓 Ideas are only good if we remember them, am I right? Right. So why do we keep telling ourselves that we’ll remember something “later” when we never do? The idea that occurred to us in the shower? Gone. The thought we had lying in bed? Gone. The task we want to do later? Gone. In this micro strategy episode, I share a nifty little hack for how to capture these ideas when they o...

Send me a message!🤓 Productivity tools come with big promises. Planners, apps, devices, software…they can all genuinely help you get things done – and they claim to do so. BUT, the tool itself never gets you the outcome you want. I know, the irony. In this week's episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why productivity tools are useless (yes, even the ones I love and recommen...

Send me a message!🤓 Don’t get me wrong – goals are awesome to have. They can inspire hope and dreams and cool visions we have for our futures. But focusing on the outcome we want (aka our goal) never gets us the outcome we want. I know, the irony. In this week’s episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why outcome-based goals are designed to make us fail, and the mistake I see stud...

Send me a message!🤓 Come peek behind the curtain of SchoolHabits University! Every month inside my signature study skills program, I offer live coaching on Zoom so student never get stuck navigating the program, school, their courses, or anything else on their minds. In this special episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I’m sharing a Q&A call from a few months back when the calls wer...

Send me a message!🤓 In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question One: A student asks for study break ideas that will increase his focus when he returns to the work. Question Two: A professional asks for strategies for completing projects that don’t have deadlines, but that are still important to finish. What You...

Send me a message!🤓 Most people focus on due dates -- as in, this final deadline. But the due date of a project has nothing to do with you actually getting it done. Enter the DO date. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I make the case that focusing on DO dates is far more effective than wasting our energy stressing about DUE dates. In fact, DO dates make DUE dates just ... hap...

Send me a message!🤓 It’s one thing to know what to do, but it’s a whole other thing to actually DO it. This is a struggle that so many of my private clients – students and professionals – deal with. They have the information, they’ve been instructed on what to do … and yet, they still aren’t taking action. For people with ADHD, this phenomenon is even worse. There’s a reason why this is happening...

Send me a message!🤓 College can make students feel all kinds of ways: thrilled at the freedom, excited at the possibilities, and overwhelmed with the independence that's suddenly expected of them. In my conversation with board-certified psychologist Dr. Susan VanScoyoc, we talk about how to ask for help when college gets hard — and why most students (and their parents) are getting this wrong...

Send me a message!🤓 In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question One: A high school student asks for tips for actually doing the work he has tracked in his homework management system. Question Two: A young woman asks for advice about moving into adulthood when she was under-resourced as a child. What You'll...

Send me a message!🤓 People with ADHD know this situation all too well: they start a project with enthusiasm, then lose motivation and stop halfway through, and then struggle to ever restart because of the shame and embarrassment they feel about abandoning their work.  Stopping projects halfway through is hard enough. But then not knowing how to get back on track and drowning in shame is a whole o...

Send me a message!🤓 You know that feeling when you’re super busy, you have a million things to do … but you still feel behind and like you got nothing done at the end of the day? It’s not your imagination.  In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal the 5 secret (and oh so sneaky!) invisible forces that destroy productivity and keep you running on a to-do-list treadmill to no...