Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Episodes
David Sparks on Transition, Travel and the Apple Watch
03 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
David Sparks is an Orange County, California business attorney, geek, podcaster on the Mac Power Users podcast, blogger, and author who writes a...
Todd Henry on Honing Your Voice, Practice and Creative Work
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Henry is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and...
April Perry on Learning, Doing and Becoming
06 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
April Perry is a Co-Director at Power of Moms and Co-Host of Power of Moms Radio.She is the creator of the “Mind Organization for Moms” program, ...
Tony Stubblebine on the Impact of Coaching, Priorities and Grit
30 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Stubblebine is a startup nerd, human potential nerd and CEO and Founder of Coach.me. Tony has been on the show once before. You can check that e...
Mystie Winckler on Brain Dumps, Organizing Your Attitude and Your Life
23 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mystie Winckler works to provide practical & encouraging solutions for real moms living a full life. She runs the site ‘Simplified Organization’...
Joel Zaslofsky on Simplicity and Curating Your Life and Experiences
16 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Zaslofsky of The Value of Simple joins Erik to talk about the concept simplicity and curating your life and experiences. This is an episode to ...
Laura Vanderkam on Success in Career, Family and Self Investment
09 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Vanderkam is a nationally recognized writer who questions the status quo and helps her readers rediscover their true passions and beliefs in pu...
Grant Baldwin on Gaining the Confidence to Find the Work You Should Be Doing
02 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Baldwin, host of the ‘How Did You Get Into That?‘ Podcast, is a podcaster, speaker and family man. Grant has spoken at hundreds of events a...
Jessica Rhodes and Corey Coates on the Process of Creating the Podcast Producers
27 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Rhodes is the founder and President of Entrepreneur Support Services Inc. (ESS), a virtual assistant firm offering a variety of client support...
Craig Jarrow and Mike Vardy Debate the Apple Watch
12 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Jarrow – The Time Management Ninja and Mike Vardy of Productivityist debate the productivity pros and cons of the new Apple Watch. Both have ...
John Michael Morgan on Mindset, Self-Sabotage and the Grind
05 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
John Michael Morgan is the bestselling author of Brand Against The Machine, which spent 9 months atop Amazon’s Top-Rated Marketing books list and h...
Ben Elijah on Information Overload and Choosing Tools
28 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Elijah is an independent writer, speaker and coach; based in London. Ben studies how our relationship with information affects the way we live and...
Amy Lynn Andrews on Roles and Goals, Time Chunking and Information Overload
14 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Lynn Andrews shares bite-sized tips about social media and blogging. She talks about making money online, productivity, self-publishing and work...
Donald Miller on Quitting Performing and Being Honest With Yourself and Others
07 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Miller is a student of story. He’s the author of New York Times Best Sellers: “Blue Like Jazz,” “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years...
Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton on Creativity, Ideas and Execution
31 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tripp and Tyler are a sketch comedy duo most known for their hilarious and viral YouTube videos.They started creating original material in 2006, a...
Chris Brogan on Work Ethic, Batman, Motivation and Discipline
24 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Brogan returns to the show to talk about Batman. We talk about why this character means something to us, how awesome he is, why we wear Batman T...
Julie Sheranosher on Time Hacking and How You Should Look at Time
18 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Sheranosher was a Captain in the army and had absolutely no choice but to get REALLY good with time management. She found out that she had a tal...
Paul Jarvis on Creating, Freelancing, and What Work Really Is
10 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Jarvis is a web designer, best-selling author, & gentleman of adventure. Paul has a reputation as the designer whose vision and web design s...
Nick Loper of Side-Hustle Nation on Hustle
03 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Loper is the Chief Side Hustler at Side Hustle Nation. Nick used to work full-time for a giant corporation, but built his business nights and wee...
John Richard Bell on How to ‘Do Less Better’ Through Strategic Sacrifice
24 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
John Bell is a retired consumer packaged goods CEO and global strategy consultant to some of the world’s most respected blue-chip organizations. A p...
Jeff Goins on Journeys, Paths and Discovering Your Calling
21 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, son, and border collie. He has authored three other bo...
Rory Vaden on Discipline, Procrastination and Priority Dilution
23 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Rory Vaden is the world’s leader on defining the psychology around modern day procrastination, called Priority Dilution – in fact, he coined the t...
David Allen on How Creatives Can Get Things Done With GTD
12 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
David Allen is the originator of GTD. GTD is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things Done“. GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innova...
Michael Hyatt on Permission to Dream, Limiting Beliefs and Writing a New Chapter
08 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Hyatt returns to talk more about setting goals, barriers to dreaming, limiting beliefs and writing a new chapter in your story. Michael and Er...
Brooke MCalary on Simplicity, Rhythms and Tilting
02 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Cynthia Sanchez on Pinterest as a Productivity Tool
23 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Cynthia Sanchez is addicted to Pinterest. She started to use Pinterest in 2011, discovering things online that she would’ve never found before. She ...
Jamie Masters on Work Ethic, Intense Focus and Absolute Yes
16 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
Scott and Alison Stratton on Priorities and Scaling
09 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 doi...
KC Procter on Parenting, Hustling and Seasons
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 bo...
Chase Reeves on Career, Community and Comparison
27 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chase Reeves is one of the cofounders of Fizzle.co — honest business training for online entrepreneurs. He podcasts on The Fizzle Show — A podcast...
Chris Bailey on Time, Energy and Attention
19 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
For exactly one year, May 1st, 2013 – May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey of ‘A Year of Productivity’ and ‘A Life of Productivity’ ran productivity ex...
Jeff Sanders on Energy, Rituals and Ideal Days
12 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Sanders is a productivity coach, personal development junky, and avid trail runner. He has completed six competitive marathons, two 50k ultra-...
Focus at Will Founders on Music, Distraction and Focus
09 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Mike Vardy on Intention, Attention, Awareness and Focus
24 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
Farnoosh Brock on Energy, Smoothies and Focus
15 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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, au...
Brett Kelly on Evernote, Technology, Efficiency and Business
30 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Brett Kelly writes about technology, efficiency, business and Evernote. You can spend hours and hours of your precious free time on experimentation ...
Derek Coburn on Networking 3.0
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Alison Fallon on Building Bridges and Taking Leaps
06 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 li...
Paul Jun on Self Mastery, Motivation and Understanding
29 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Jun is a writer and author at Motivated Mastery. He is all about connecting the dots between subjects like mastery, psychology, technology, philo...
Hugh Culver on Overcoming Procrastination, Dealing With Interruptions and Planning Like a Pilot
22 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Hugh Culver shows people how to work smarter and live better. As a teacher and mentor for other experts (speakers, seminar leaders, authors, and coac...
Chris Brogan on The Owner’s Mind, Choices and Goals
08 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Brogan is Publisher and CEO of Owner Magazine, a business magazine helping you improve your worth by growing your capabilities and connections....
Claire Diaz-Ortiz on How to Stay Sane in an All Access, Always on Age
02 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pres...
Tony Dilorenzo on Intentionality and Intimacy in Relationships
31 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tony DiLorenzo and his wife Alisa created ONE Extraordinary Marriage to educate, entertain, encourage, and inspire people to have mind-blowing intimac...
Chris Ducker on Delegating for Tasks, Roles and Team Building
20 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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’ i...
Dustin Riechmann Talks About Money, Marriage and Fitness
11 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jim Woods on Seasons, Hustle and Goals
27 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Merlin Mann on Anxiety, Relationships and Expectations
17 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 Networ...
Donald Miller on Focus, Finishing and Living a Meaningful Story
02 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
David Sparks on iPads, iBooks and Email
28 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
David Sparks is an Orange County, California business attorney, geek, podcaster on the Mac Power Users podcast, blogger, and author who writes about...
Crystal Paine on Priorities, Saying No, and Saying Goodbye to Survival Mode
22 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Crystal Paine is the founder of the popular blog MoneySavingMom.com. The mission of the blog is talking about Intentional Finance, Intentional Famil...
Jon Acuff on Routines, Work Spaces, and Hustle
17 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of four books including his most recent, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average & Do W...
Tony Stubblebine on the Habit of Making Habits
13 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Stubblebine is the CEO and Co-founder of Lift. Before that he was the founder of CrowdVine, and contributor to Wesabe, Odeo, and O’Reilly Med...
Michael Hyatt on Making This Your Best Year Ever
31 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt returns to the show to talk about his proven, five-step process to help you get clear, get motivat...
Chris Locurto on Communicating Between Different Personalities
19 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chris LoCurto returns to the show to talk about understanding personality styles. You can listen to his previous episode here, and make sure to subscr...
Ray Edwards on Focus, Progress and Deadlines
27 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Edwards is an author, speaker, copywriter, and fellow-podcaster on his successful podcast ‘The Ray Edwards Show’. Ray has many creative insi...
Andy Andrews on Wisdom, Knowledge and Perspective
01 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Andrews is an American author and corporate speaker, known for his 2002 bestselling book The Traveler’s Gift. He has written over 20 books and...
Todd Henry on Creativity, Productivity and Passion
23 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Henry, author of The Accidental Creative and the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams be proli...
Mari Smith on Scaling, Engaging and Connecting on Social Media
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mari Smith is one of the world’s leading social media strategists and widely recognized as THE top Facebook marketing expert in the world. She is au...
Baratunde Thurston Talks About Unplugging and Taking 25 Days off Social Media
31 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Baratunde Thurston is the CEO, co-founder, and hashtagger-in-chief of Cultivated Wit. He wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black and s...
Laura Vanderkam on What Successful People Do Before Breakfast, at Work, and on the Weekend
25 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Vanderkam is a nationally recognized writer who questions the status quo and helps her readers rediscover their true passions and beliefs in pur...
Susan Baroncini-Moe Talks About Designing Your Work Style
21 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Baroncini-Moe is the founder and CEO of Business in Blue Jeans, a business and marketing consulting firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has...
Jeff Goins on Waiting, Calling, Creativity and ‘The In-Between’
14 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Goins is a writer, and a second time guest of the show. You can find listen to his first appearance almost a year ago here. His new book The In...
Daniel and Vanessa Hayes on Routines, Priorities, and Simplicity
12 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Vanessa Hayes of SimpleLifeTogether.com join us this week to talk about lifestyle design. We touch on routines, priorities, simplicity and oth...
Justin Wise on Slump Recovery, Inbox Zero and ADHD
23 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Wise is content marketing practitioner living in Des Moines. He helps people and organizations tell their stories online. He started the podca...
Jocelyn Glei on Creative Work, Progress and Managing Your Day-to-Day
03 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jocelyn K. Glei is the Editor-in-Chief of 99U.com, Behance’s effort to provide the “missing curriculum” for making ideas happen. 99U has won t...
Robert D. Smith on Motivation, Defeating Fear, and Doing the Work
28 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Robert D. Smith has managed and overseen the career of Andy Andrews, a three-time New York Times best-selling author and in-demand speaker. He has...
John Lee Dumas on Batching, Launching, and High Volume Content Creation
21 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John Dumas is the creator and host of the extremely popular podcast Entrepreneur on Fire inspiring people daily. John has interviewed a number of p...
Merlin Mann on Getting Things Done, Opportunity Cost and Sunk Cost Fallacy
14 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 wi...
Mike Vardy on Doing Less Productivity and Being More Productive
09 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker and podcaster on productivity. His main site is Productivityist.com. He’s given talks on productivity and technolo...
Bryan Allain on the What, Why, and How of Building Tribes and Pursuing Your Dream
01 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Allain is a blog coach, author, humor writer and mammal. He also created and organized the Killer Tribes conferences in Nashville in 2012 and At...
Crystal Paine on Stewardship, Goals, and Discipline
25 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Crystal Paine created MoneySavingMom.com in order to showcase ebooks, workbooks, seminars, and other materials challenge people to live beyond the sta...
Chris Locurto on Leadership, Balanced Living, and Being There for Hurting Team Members
18 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Locurto, formerly one of Dave Ramsey’s key leaders over the past 12 years, Chris served as the Vice President of Live Events. Together, Chris...
Dave Delaney on Building Your Network Before You Need It
15 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Delaney is recognized leader and speaker on digital marketing, social media strategy, and community enthusiasm. Moving to Nashville in 2007, he c...
Jon Acuff on Rescuing Time, Hustle, and Escaping Average
01 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Punch fear in the face. Escape average. Do work that matters. So begins the new book from Wall Street Journal best-selling author Jon Acuff, and it’...
Farnoosh Brock on Focus, Traveling, and the Effects of Health on Productivity
29 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Farnoosh Brock was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. After leaving Iran at 11 and living in Turkey for 3 years, she moved to the United States. She stu...
Derek Webb Talks About Creative Talent, Artistry, Business and Technology
02 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Webb started his music career over 20 years ago as a founding member of the Texas-based folk/rock band Caedmon’s Call. After 10 years, Derek l...
Christin Taylor on Shipwrecks, Seasons and Writing
25 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Christin Taylor is the author of Shipwrecked in L.A.: Finding Purpose in a Life Adrift.Most people encounter at least one “shipwreck” during the...
Craig Jarrow on Time Management, Email, and Motivation
19 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Jarrow is the Time Management Ninja, and has been blogging about time management, Productivity, technology for the last 3 1/2 years.Covered in...
Augusto Pinaud on Saying No and Saving Minutes Instead of Hours
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Augusto Pinaud is a writer, a best selling author in the US, UK, Germany, Spain and France. In another life he was a Lawyer in recovery and a former ...
Alli Worthington on How Failure Primes the Pump for Success
15 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Alli Worthington is one of the most recognized names in social media and the Lifestyle-blogger community.She is the founder and publisher of Blissfull...
Anne Bogel Shares About Work/Life Blending Instead of Balance
07 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Bogel is a blogger at Modern Mrs. Darcy and author of Work Shift: How to Create a Better Blend of Work, Life, and FamilyCovered in this episode:T...
David Allen Shares Getting Things Done Obstacles and Secrets
29 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
David Allen is the originator of GTD, and founder of David Allen Co. GTD is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things Done,” the groundbreaking wor...
Claire Diaz-Ortiz on Starting Your Morning Out Right and the Present Principle
21 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Diaz-Ortiz leads social innovation at Twitter, where she has worked since 2009. She wrote Twitter for Good: Change the World one Tweet at a Tim...
Christine Peel-Malkoff on Collaborating With Different Productivity and Creativity Styles
16 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Peel-Malkoff is much more than just a supporter of the crazy adventures of her comedian filmmaker Mark Malkoff (NOT Mark’s assistant!) She...
Jay Baer on How Productivity Is More Perspiration Than Inspiration
09 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Baer is a hype-free, social media and content strategist, speaker, and author. He founded Convince & Convert in 2008. This is the fifth market...
Chris Brogan on the Impact Equation and Getting More Done
01 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Brogan is CEO and president of Human Business Works, New York Times Bestselling co-author of The Impact Equation, and Trust Agents, and solo ...
Pat Flynn on How Failures Help You Reach Your Goals
25 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Getting laid off was the best thing that ever happened to Pat Flynn. Without his 9 to 5 job holding him back, he’s been able to earn more money and ...
Dan Miller on Intentional Use of Time and Five Year Goals
16 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Miller is the author of the widely acclaimed 48 Days To The Work You Love, No More Dreaded Mondays and Wisdom Meets Passion. He hosts a weekly pod...
Dana Byers on Key Insights to Minimalism
25 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Byers is the President of BlueDoor.tv, which she co-founded with her husband in Europe in 2007. As the community Pastor for LifeChurch.tv Chur...
Jeff Goins on How to Claim Your Identity, Stop Stalling and Start Doing
18 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Goins, author, blogger, and speaker joins me this week. Jeff speaks on a variety of topics including writing and storytelling, as well as marketi...
Mark Malkoff on Work Ethic and Workflows
11 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Malkoff is a comedian, writer, and filmmaker who formerly worked for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.His most famous exploits are: Visited ...
Michael Hyatt on the Importance of Morning Routines, Scheduling and Journaling
04 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’m joined by Michael Hyatt, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of Platform: Get Noticed in a No...