Welcome to The Productivity Project. I’m your host, Kat Hunter, queen of lazy girl productivity and helping solo business owners craft a thriving life and business working with the hours they've got. If you’re running your business solo alongside being a parent, maybe juggling another job and trying to feed yourself/make time to wee and all those other things that come with life - this podcast is for you. Each week, I’ll share practical strategies, powerful mindset shifts, and a dump of hone ...
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The LiftOff Project with Coach Pamela | Confidence | Career | Well-being | Productivity | Happiness
Pamela Mitchell: Mentor, Author, Reinvention Coach®
I’m Pamela Mitchell, a top coach, author, and expert in individual transformation (FORTUNE magazine calls me the ‘Queen of Reinvention’), and I’m here to help you create whole-life success! In this lively, engaging podcast I bring you insightful advice, practical tips, useful tools and proven strategies, all designed to help you achieve both professional fulfillment and personal happiness. As your coach and mentor we’ll talk about the topics that matter most in helping you unleash your best ...
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My 30 Day Phone-tervention: 5 hacks to ditch the distraction and transform your focus
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I'm challenging myself to improve my productivity by changing the way I use my phone over 30 days. We’re at DAY 6 PEOPLE, day 6 and my goodness. PICK UPS ARE A THING. I’ve ALWAYS had a sneaking suspicion that my phone is a HUGE factor in WHY I’ve increasingly felt like a seagull in a chip factory when it comes to being able to focus on anything for…
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Can changing your relationship with your phone really improve your focus?
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While my jam is helping service providers simplify productivity so they can work when they want (and not when they don’t) - by day, I AM that service provider. I’m a virtual assistant specialising in content creation. My phone is, well, how I do a hay-uge proportion of my job. But as far as distractions go, our smartphones are one of THE biggest su…
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The secret productivity superpower that will completely change the way you work
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A few months in to starting my own business, I felt this niggling feeling that something just wasn’t right about the way I was able to work. How long I was able to concentrate. What I was able to do in a day. I couldn’t figure out what to do next and I wondered if I’d ever be able to concentrate for more than 10 minutes again. The Kat story had alw…
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Everything I thought I knew about productivity was a lie
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Starting your own business shines a glaring, back of your iPhone hits you in the face style spotlight onto everything you think you know about the best way to work. In the midst of all this fluffy freedom and flexibility frippery floating around on the internet, what they DON’T tell you is that running your own business or working for yourself will…
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How to eliminate distractions for GOOD (with one simple question)
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If you're a service provider, work remotely and find yourself getting distracted every 5 seconds by: - the laundry - social media - tidying the kid's rooms - eating cheese out of the bag ...listen to this week's episode. I talk about: - What's really going on when we're distracted and WHY it happens (even when we KNOW we want to get that thing done…
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How to leverage rest to achieve your goals (and how to tell when you're just procrastinating)
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Society has conditioned us to believe that rest comes after work as some sort of reward. We're constantly on the go, juggling work, family, and everything in between. And when we finally do get a chance to rest, our brains are like, "hold up, shouldn't you be doing something?" In this episode, I talk about how to break free from this cycle as a boo…
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'My week NEVER goes to plan': the 3 step time blocking method that actually works
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This week: time blocking. Whether you're a color-coding fanatic or a go-with-the-flow kind of person - more often than not, most of us find time blocking only really works for us about 50% of the time (or not at all). So do we ditch it completely? This week - I talk about: Why having a rigid schedule might be holding you back Why most of us struggl…
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The guilt episode: 'I feel like I have to use every single second of my time wisely'
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GUILT. Even just SEEING this word in big, bad, bold font brings upsome hideous feelings for me. Does it do the same for you? In this week's episode, I'm talking about guilt and productivity. - The shocking revelation I experienced about my own productivity and how I use my time - Where guilt comes from and why we feel it - How to identify if guilt …
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Motivation won't make you more productive - this will
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- Why waiting for your next burst of motivation can actually render you incredibly powerless when it comes to achieving what you want to achieve - The key to taking back your power when it comes to getting your shit done - How to be productive (even when your motivation's at an all-time low)
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5 ways to be productive when you're feeling tired
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In this episode, I talk about something almost all of us grapple with on a regular basis - feeling tired. The reality is, most of us are in a season of life where we're showing up for each day feeling mentally drained. So with 'feeling tired' occupying a seemingly constant place in our day-to-day lives, how will we ever manage to get the shit we wa…
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How to actually live your goals in 2024 (even if you have no time)
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This week’s episode is all about how to actually make your vision board (or goals) for the year happen after the burst of 1 January 2024 motivation fades - especially if you’re short on disposable time. If you're a solo business owner with literally anything else going on in your life - but particularly if you're a mum - seriously, this episode is …
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From hating my business to actually living my 2024 goals: the one huge mindset shift that sparked change
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There’s a thing lurking in the online business owner space currently that no one really talks about. And imma talk about it. In this episode, I'm sharing how I was feeling about my business in the second half of 2023. When I first started my business in 2022, everything was dandy. I worked hard at securing clients and booked myself out fairly quick…
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Do this BEFORE you map your 2024 goals (and my confessions of 2023)
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If you're deep in setting goals and planning for 2024 or deep in avoiding setting goals and planning for 2024... listen to this episode. I'm walking you through the exact process I use to reflect on my 2023 BEFORE I even look at setting goals or planning for 2024 - including sharing actual insights and examples from my own business and life so you …
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Unpacking the mental load: a must-listen if you feel like you have too much to do
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Ready to throw your mental load in the bin? Same, said every solo business owner or service provider, ever. In today's episode, I'm zeroing in on the impact of the mental load if you're a service provider or solo business owner and taking you through a really simple but powerful evaluation exercise to help you get clarity on how much you're really …
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In the zone: 5 ways to trigger flow state productivity
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Today, we're getting into the nitty-gritty of flow state productivity. Ya know, the kind that feels almost lazy but gets you incredible results. If this sounds like something you can get behind, you're gonna want to listen to this ep, pals. In today’s episode, I'm peeling back the (tear-stained onion) layers on why traditional productivity hacks mi…
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How to leverage your natural productivity zone (and stop micro-managing your time)
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Auditing your time won't make you more productive... but this will. This week, we're talking about time auditing - and why this popular time management and productivity tool is leading you in the wrong direction when it comes to improving how productively you work. In this episode, I cover how to stop worrying about how much time you spend on the t…
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Nikki from Slow Coaching Co: how to break up with busy and grow beyond burnout
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Today's episode is a MUST listen for you if you struggle with feeling chained to your to-do list, want to break up with busy and live a life that is deeply aligned with your true values and goals. Nikki Tiedeman is the founder of Slow Coaching Co. She's a mindfulness slow life coach, on a mission to enable her clients to slow down and reconnect wit…
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Struggling to focus? Prioritise this ONE thing for epic results
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We can overcomplicate the way we manage our time and try all the productivity hacks out there, but we can often overlook the really, really simple basics that deliver us the most powerful results. Like the way we feel when it comes to our energy - THE most powerful tool we have in our arsenal when it comes to creating more time and working less. Wh…
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TRUTH: Your clients don't care how much time you spend on something
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...And WHY this belief is limiting you when it comes to your time. If you're a service provider or online business owner, it's very likely you plan out your time when it comes to serving your clients. We can spend HOURS (yes, hours) each week painstakingly planning out our calendars, adjusting time blocks, moving the time blocks around, and trackin…
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'How did I get here?' The one question that had me sobbing.
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Ever asked yourself 'how did I get here?' Me too, pals. Me too. Business owner life. Working all the hours. Side eyeing your phone. Stress typing as you charge through Coles looking for the eggs (where are they)? It can feel like a far cry from that life of free time, flexibility and frolicking on the beach with the kids 2pm on a Tuesday you'd envi…
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Work at least 5 hours less every single week and grow your business? HELL. YES.
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No, it's not MLM - it's just me, my new free guide for service providers and online business owners and YOU. Workin' less. Growing more. Every. Single. Week. HEL-LO! Last week I talked about how to stop tying your value to your time and start working less in your business right noooow. This week, I'm doing a COMPLETE walk-through of my 5 step work …
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How to work less and stop tying your value to your time (part 1)
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Because of the way we've been conditioned to think about work, we're primed to equate time worked, with dollars earned. And as long as we continue binding our time with our value, that's never going to change. But WHAT IF we really started to completely separate our value from our time, and get really strategic with how we can create that value, us…
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Breaking up with socials: 4 things that happened to my time
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Last week, I spilled my guts (or the tea if you’re reading this before you’ve had breakfast and GUTS is too confronting) about my soft breakup with… social media. *gasp* In today's episode, I'm sharing exactly what I’ve done (aka the deets of the soft socials breakup) and four things that happened to my time since I’ve let the ole’ socials down eas…
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Creating a time-rich business and my soft break-up with social media
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This week, I'm getting down and dirty (ew) with you guys: - A bit of a personal share and what's been going on with me lately - Why I'm soft-ditching social media (and what I'm doing instead) - My working mum story and why I'm obsessed with time - Creating a time-rich business - Profit versus revenue (aka quit trading all your time for money) Wanna…
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Busy all the time? 3 strategies to help you become really, really effective
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Ever felt like you're trapped in a never-ending cycle of busy, and not making meaningful progress? It’s that feeling we all have. We’re busy all the time, working all the hours, and we’re still getting to the end of the day or the end of the week feeling like what we’ve achieved looks NOTHING like what we said we were going to get done. Where did t…
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How to use mindfulness to help you work less and achieve more
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This episode will completely change the way you use your time, especially when it comes to just GETTING THE STUFF DONE that you need or want to get done. I’m not talking about just getting through task after task on your to do list, or operating in that frenzied, distractedly productive state where you’re doing lots of things (but not really feelin…
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5 truths about what one year in business is really like
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Forget time. There's a secret ingredient for getting to where you want to go, and no, it’s not (just) more coffee... It's my business birthday! Join me as I spill the tea on the highs, lows, and the nauseating rollercoaster of my first year as a solo business owner. I'm digging deep beyond the six-figure Instagram hype and sharing 5 things I've lea…
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Why It's Not About How Much Time You Have: The Shift From Busy to Impactful
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There's a common misconception that productivity equals slogging our way through a long to-do list. But what if the key to unlocking more time and achieving our goals wasn't about doing more? What if, instead, it was about doing LESS, but with more impact? As solo business owners and mums, we're so aligned to the busy trap - we have to be doing, wo…
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The new morning routine: how micro-routines can transform your time
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Remember that 5-hour morning routine you planned for yourself, filled with yoga, journaling, green juice, and a complete existential breakdown? Yeah, neither do I. Picture this: It's Monday morning. You've laid out your plans. You'll start with a sunrise jog (is it pronounced yogging?), follow it with a green smoothie, do some deep breathing, journ…
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How to set up your business like you've got your own VA (even if you don't)
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Truth bomb: if you're a solo business owner, the act of starting your business alone won't give you more time or more freedom. Yes, you can work by the pool if you want - but until you replace yourself with the systems and the tools you need to automate and streamline your business to run without you, you're not going to have the time to jump in. J…
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Where did our attention go? 5 simple strategies to master your distractions
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Our focus and attention has never felt so poor - and we're left to feel like this is our fault. The truth is, we have NEVER had such easy and on demand access to so many distractions. Plus, lots of these distractions are designed to give us instant gratification which is exactly what our brains are wired to seek. So if you're feeling like you're co…
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Episode 1: How to create more time without planners, Pomodoro or productivity apps
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Hey there! Welcome to Let's Talk About Time, the podcast dedicated to helping solo-ish business owners and entrepreneurs get hours back every single week, achieve more in less time, procrastinate less and have more FUN. I'm Kat, your host and solo-business owner slash mum to two small humans. I know what it's like to constantly feel like there's ne…
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Episode 2: How to Stop Procrastinating
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The truth about procrastination: self-confessed productivity junkies might come charging into your biz, blabbering about color-coded calendars, time blocking, and making appointments with yourself like it's the holy grail. But let's face it, when push comes to shove, that well-planned time block is as flexible as a contortionist doing yoga on a rol…
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Episode 3: How to prioritise rest (and still get sh*t done)
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Today's topic is a big one, and it's something I've been bombarded with questions about (BOMBARDED, people). We're diving into the art of prioritising rest and still getting our sh*t done. Society has conditioned us to believe that rest comes after work as some sort of reward. Honestly - that's a load of BS. We're constantly on the go, juggling wor…
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Are you ready to transform your relationship with time? Let's Talk About Time is a weekly podcast hosted by Kat Hunter, dedicated to helping solo-ish business owners and entrepreneurs get hours back every single week, achieve more in less time, procrastinate less and have more FUN. Do you constantly feel like you never have enough time? Like you’re…
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In today's 'unfiltered' chat I share with you some tough moments I've been having and practical advice (from my mom!) for how to break out of crisis mode.
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How to Live a Fully Engaged Life with Special Guest Thomas M. Sterner
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Today’s topic is How to Live a Fully Engaged Life. To help me talk about this, I spoke with Tom Sterner, author of Fully Engaged and The Practicing Mind, which help you to develop focus and discipline in your life.
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ENCORE: What You Need to Know About Financing Your Reinvention with special guest Jean Chatzky
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We welcome NBC News Financial Editor Jean Chatzky to ‘The LiftOff Project’ to tackle one of the biggest questions that we all ask ourselves before undergoing a reinvention, “How will I afford it?” Jean shares what you need to know in order to finance your reinvention and avoid the kind of stress that could derail your plans.…
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ENCORE: The Secret to Successful Wealth-Building with special guest Linda P. Jones
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America's wealth mentor Linda P. Jones joins me this week to with the keys to establishing true affluence. A multi-millionaire by the age of 39, Linda shares advice on breaking through your mental barriers, driving away fear and feelings of unworthiness, plus a creative (and unique!) way to use affirmations to achieve your wealth goals.…
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In today’s episode I talk to you, unfiltered, about the lessons that I've learned from that type of moment in our lives where things just get thrown at us and we're like, "Oh my God, how do I deal?"
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A Real-Life Reinvention Story with special guest Markus Grindel
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This week, I am sharing an interview, a real-life reinvention story that I had about a month ago with Markus Grindel. He is an international business executive and a serial re-inventor. In fact, Markus and I worked together. We're longtime friends, and he likes to say that he was my first reinvention client, which I find highly amusing, but it's tr…
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I am thrilled to be back! It was lovely to take a break from creating podcast episodes over the month of August. The opportunity of taking this kind of break allowed me to take a step back and provide a space for reinvention. We are on a reinvention journey and the podcast is changing! Tune in to hear more.…
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ENCORE: Smart Strategies for Building Genuine Confidence
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Want to feel anchored in self-confidence? This episode is for you! In Tales From the Coaching Front I give you the low-down about an erroneous belief that zaps your inner power and how to overcome it. And in Ask Coach Pamela I share a useful strategy that helps you make progress in your reinvention, even during the busiest times.…
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ENCORE: How to Exploit the Genuine Power of Jealousy
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Time for a new perspective on a challenging emotion! In Tales from the Coaching Front, I share how you can harness the energy behind that little green-eyed monster and turn it into a superpower for magic in your life. And in Ask Coach Pamela, I give you the inside scoop on the three biggest mistakes most job seekers make, and specific tips for how …
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ENCORE: How to Accomplish Your Goals Without Relying on Willpower
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In Tales From the Coaching Front, I share my secret strategy for how you can accomplish your goals in life without relying on willpower. (It works for both personal and career goals!) And in Ask Coach Pamela I outline a reinvention plan for listener Nikki who, by wondering if it’s time to pursue her passion, asks that perennial question “What shoul…
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ENCORE: Why Ambiguity Can Be Good For You
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Today’s eye-opening topic is how our brain’s natural aversion to uncertainty can cause us to take the familiar—yet riskier—path. In Tales From the Coaching Front. I focus on useful strategies to overcome that roadblock so you can maximize your opportunities in career reinvention. And in Ask Coach Pamela, I answer a question from two separate client…
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The topic of 'cerebral congestion' is fresh on my mind this week as I share some interesting research about how downtime is required for healthy brain functioning and optimal productivity.
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